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If Blood of Youth's main lead's romance was a 1 and Prisoner of Beauty was a 10, this would be a 6. It's not smoldering "forget the plot, I could just watch these two look at each other for 40 mins and be happy" energy, but it also doesn't annoy. (It's also very much not the main focus of the plot though, what's there is very minor indeed.)

Relate 100%, it's such an entertaining ride 🥰 I would totally have binged it if I hadn't been being drip-fed at 2 eps a day (now down to 1). (not me being envious of all the lucky regions already on ep40 🤣🤣)

(I got no idea why, I've watched a few of them now and am working through more, and so far they've been so good. 🤣 Different tastes I guess or just haters trolling, either/or.)

I'm still on Ep39 cuz iQIYI is drip feeing me, but it is such a fun show, right? 🥰

As of Ep39 (which I’m up to) she’s still doing stuff so gotta wait till tomorrow to know 😅😅

Beautiful couple, beautiful death scene 😭😭

Cuz they bundled access to express unlock with the premium, now they won't get extra $$$ for offering it to us on premium. It's not a bug it's a feature LOL. WeTV probably paid extra for the exclusive right to air it first, and since it'd make sense for them to do that on every shared drama, it will probably be consistent dual platform dramas won't get it ever till they stop the bundling of express package with premium 🙃😂

😂😂😂😂

same, a truly beautiful couple 😭😭

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ahaha I love it🤭🤗

Yup. Kaiyan is truly the worst, spends his working hours killing people I like more than him (but no one I'd actually be happy to lose) and all his free time whining around complaining nobody loves him enough while running around actively harming them. Like, Kaiyan my dude, literally what did you expect? If Li Nan told you to step in front of a bus would you do it? Just because the handsome guy in the suit in your head tells you no one really cared about you because the book fridged you and that your life will be better if you mass murder some people doesn't make it true ;-; Logic, Kaiyan. Logic. It does exist so use it. ;-;

I’ve loved the two past Huanrai productions (L&R, MLC) so assuming it interests him and he’s okay keeping working with them, then I hope he takes it. 🤩

I have not seen the ending yet, but if they took a postmodernist slant on it, he’d die every time you finished the book/series and be reborn every time you opened it and went back to chapter 1, waiting to go with you again in that journey. (i got no idea I’ve not seen the ending yet.)

Nahhh, he did walk away 2 years after the crazy hate after one of his shows I believe in the past, but came back because he really loves acting and the craft. I really hope for him he can have a strong support network around him and ignore the hate and keep doing what he loves 🥰

😂 I discovered him only in MLC earlier this year and now I’m in the rabbit hole and slowly working through every other series he’s been in because he’s just that good. Agree he’s an amazingly talented actor 🥰

😂 If it’s like Princess’ Gambit, so you can point and say “clearly the problem was only age, not the writing/editin g”, except it probably backfired on them as CY was able to excel in the role despite the writing 😂😆

I feel like he likes acting too much to quit even if he did make a lot, but yeah, if he wants to retire then I hope he will have the savings to, and otherwise if he wants to keep acting forever then my hope is they’ll let him gracefully transition into support roles so I can see him for the next 30 years 😂😆

If we’re randomly gossiping and assigning blame without proof, my money on platform to blame would be on Tencent. They are the ones who are pushing to introduce an age cap on historical drama leads, and Princess’ Gambit also suffered from terrible writing and editing. Nearly the exact same style as in the 6-14 arc of “but actually they didn’t win/lose because 5 hours ago this happened” style 😆

Lmao don’t cut the music video, that song is so good despite the lack of narrative sense to have that scene at all, definitely cut the others you’ve listed out ahead of the wild swordsman theme 😂😆

We can not respond and just block them. They’re doing it for engagement and to incite fanwars, so just ignoring them will discourage them and annoy them most.

I think they mean that in a typical /wuxia quest, to some extent, it’s about levelling up— the quest is to unlock the next level up of your abilities, or cultivate your next amazing skill, with the goal of reaching the peak of possible fighting abilities. (like for the greater good or the greater evil, improving is important to the lead and also a struggle for them they only improve through overcoming difficulties or reaching near death.)

Here XQS already knows what abilities are going to be granted to him by the plot, so he isn’t stressing about how he can unleash new levels of awesome in himself as an end goal 🤣😆 Could be reading them wrong though!