Krish728

Right, yes.

No, in fact, I think ML is a year or two older than FL. She calls him Bao-ge a few times. And he calls her Bao-mei a few times.

Bao-ge -- Older Maternal Male Cousin

Bao-mei -- Younger Maternal Female Cousin

Edit: And no, they are not related by blood. ML's mother was adopted by FL's mother's family.

That is sad. MDL has fake/bot/sockpuppet users problem.
A few actors/actresses fans have already created multiple bot accounts. Their only purpose is to rate high for their idol's dramas, and downvote any drama in competition (airing at the same time, one of the main leads involved in a cp with their idol, and many other reasons they can think of as competition) with their idol's drama.
I'm not sure if this drama is a victim of this scenario. But I can say this, some of the dramas rated above 8.7+ aren't even close to how good this drama is.

Done!
This drama deserves higher ratings.

Yeah, just got done with episode 22. Will have to pause now and get back to it later in the evening.

They had 279 tracks, yet they seem to use two or three tracks again and again, and sometimes they don't even fit the scene.

I envy you really, though. I also hope I don't notice these details so I can just enjoy the drama for what it is. And the drama is great. Yes, it has its flaws, every drama does, one of the flaws being the use of bgm, but the positives outweigh the negatives. Especially the story and screenplay, top notch stuff.

Yes

Background music, bgm

I didn't plan to stop watching it. As I said, I'm loving the drama, but background score is taking me out of it. I'll still continue watching it, but I hope these two directors that people oh so revere (VOS director and Fated Hearts director) take directing 101 classes again, cause I reckon they teach not to let background score feel overpowering or overused.
Some of the mistakes they make just feel very juvenile.. I've already talked about Fated Hearts director's mistakes. VOS director on this drama allowed abrupt change of one background score to another. That is so juvenile and so very Indian daily serial style.

Watched until ep 21.. loving it so far.

I guess my only complaint is overuse of background score.. to the point where they were switching between different scores abruptly, and that's taking me out of the drama.
Another drama I felt the overuse of background score so much that it took me out of the drama was Fated Hearts, but VOS is not as bad as Fated Hearts.

VOS at least lets the dialogue flow without the background score overpowering the dialogue. In Fated Hearts, characters could be seen having a random, ordinary conversation, and the background score plays so loud for no reason at all.

"#XuKai's #EightHundred is amazing! ✨
It broke into the CVB primetime daily chart the day after its broadcast, breaking Jiangsu TV's long-standing streak of not appearing on the charts.

(Jiangsu TV only has 3 dramas on the charts this year, and "Within 800 Meters" is one of them.)"

https://x.com/i/status/2057741196055711848

I believe so. I remember it being a standard number. And what I consider to be standard number of episodes in Chinese dramas are 40, 36, and 24.

PM Min calling Ian childish is the definition of "pot calling kettle black".
Dude, like aren't you even more childish? You want Huiju (and he didn't even ask her consent btw), so you plot to kill a person representing the same crown you wish to protect. You already crossed the line with your personal feelings and yet you have the audacity to lecture Ian for wanting his revenge? Irony died a million times.

He's much more worse than Daebimama and her father.

That was bound to happen sooner or later if you ask me.

If he leaves, there will be those who'll call him "ungrateful". If he stays, his own Chinese fans will probably criticize him for choosing to continue in that god awful company.

When the drama was originally announced they said 24, I think.

Understood. Fake as it may be, I still hope he leaves that god-awful company.

Gotcha!

And as I said, and will be saying in future wrt to all rumours I'll be hearing from C entertainment, take it with a grain of salt.

This was posted on April 18, and this is the first time I'm seeing it:

https://x.com/i/status/2045484748168954294

Looks like the rumours about this are making rounds in China, and Yuzheng himself has responded: https://x.com/i/status/2053692705063293110

Can anyone verify?
I can't access Weibo.

It was actually originally posted by this account: https://x.com/i/status/2053521775724503424

I'm not sure if this melon is going around in China tho. So, take it with a grain of salt.