Kaihua

With second leads, usually there is a reason why they're unqualified to be the romantic partner with regards to the thematic narrative. In this case, I feel like the narrative is setting up Eun Pyeong to be unqualified to be her partner because he doesn't understand her the way Yoon Kyum does, and seems to be primarily driven by his guilt towards having failed her family. By comparison, Yoon Kyum and La El are both victims and can project onto each other. Whether or not it will be healthy and lead to them truly understanding one another, I think time will tell. I'm just as unsure as you if La El will come out of this without destroying herself and ending up with no one.

Not at all, if you pay attention to the subtext throughout Ming Lan's scenes with the secondary love interest, it's clear that the arc with him is to showcase why he isn't a good match for her and why the male lead is - because even though the secondary lead is a perfectly nice guy, he doesn't get Ming Lan and never tries to understand her beyond his image of her. He's nice but inconsiderate towards her without realizing. If she ended up with him she could never be her true self an thus never truly happy. It's not a love triangle but an arc to serve the themes of the story.

That makes a lot of sense, I actually wondered how Xia Da was able to publish the story at the time. Xia Da seems okay, she has since moved on to making a new comic in full colour

Oh my god how did I not know about this until now? I'm a huge fan of the original comic by Xia Da and I'm so sad she'll never get to finish her work. The artwork is absolutely stunning. Hopefully I can get closure through this drama

why are you being so passive aggressive to someone who simply put their opinion out there? they didn't even say 'other people aren't allowed to like this because i don't like it', they didn't even senselessly bash it, they just said it was a let down. if their opinion isn't your cup of tea, maybe you are the one who should move on?

Thank you very much, I really appreciate it!

Ohh thank you so much!

I finally wanted to watch this but it's not available on Viki [in my country] anymore. What happened to the publishing license for Nirvana in Fire? I can't find it anywhere now.

I feel like a lot of time could have been cut from one of the last episodes to give the ending more fleshing out. I wanted to see what would happen to the other characters in the next setting (although I kind of disliked that they just keep living through migrating stories, but that's a different discussion). I especially wanted to know about Baek kyung; in his final scene, he ends up disappearing, completely alone, just like how he started. He definitely deserves it even if he's 'redeemed', but I would have liked to see him further redeeming himself in the next setting by seeing him finding his real self. Also, Haru remained almost completely a blank slate throughout the story. Now that he was free of his 'extra' writing, it would've been nice to see how he developes into a more dimensional character too. In fact, instead of seeing this 'will they won't they remember' epilogue play out, I would've liked an honest to goodness epilogue that shows how the characters are living their lives AFTER regaining their memories, and how they are enjoying their new freedom to live as they please even. That would've been more satisfying.