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What is off about it?
We saw it from the start that XQA is a reckless fool who will act to seek justice no matter what so he doesn't care about consequences which we can also see in ep 15. That's why he told his family to leave dafeng at the end so even if he dies in the process after defying emperor, his family don't have to bear consequences of his recklessness. I also think he quit guardians so others won't be blamed for his rebellion. He was prepared for anything and that's why we all love him. He is smart & intelligent but when it is about injustice, he will ignore all logic or strategic mindset and will act against injustice

I love that song which was used when everyone assemble to defend XQA in ep 40. Should have used that one more imo
Edit:
wait I just checked and you were talking about the same song I said lol 😂

Same
it became my favorite too

I recommend love between fairy & devil after you watch this. you will be amazed by how different Dylan wang's character is in that show and how well he played that character (his most iconic role)

You are like me then. Kdramas getting really pale for me. Only enjoyed lovely runner last year. I started watching cdramas 1.5 years ago and only watched like 10-12 shows but I am finding them more refreshing. Even if there are writing flaws, I am not bored and it's at the very least entertaining

Recently, some kdramas have started pre producing it after Netflix involvement but still not easy to change how industry works I am new to cdramas but from what I have seen, all dramas have to be pre produced because they go through censorship process (really strict and lots of restrictions). Sometimes shows never pass censorship process and remain in shelf (BL shows) and sometimes they cut out many things from the show to avoid restrictions and to get pass that's why many cdramas feel rushed at the end because of so much restrictions. Like for e. g till the end of the moon was supposed to be 70 eps but china recently made the law that dramas can't be over 40 episodes so the show ended in a disaster. Mostly xianxia genre cdramas have bad endings tbh. Guardians of the dafeng is an exception that it's last few episodes were so good otherwise majority cdramas I watched get boring in final act

Ohh nicee
I am glad you are vibing with it's humor. It's a great show
I am new to cdramas so not familiar with lead actor and actress of flourished peony but looking at some clips give me the vibe that this is more dark & mature which I usually like so I am sure I will like it as long as writing is good

Many kdramas start airing while the shooting is not done from what I hear. Some like glory or other Netflix kdramas are pre produced that's why more consistent. Pre production is really expensive and they don't want to risk by making the whole show so they air the show and see if audience liking it. if a show is good then we usually get 16-20 episodes (some popular shows like sky castle was initially going to be 16 ep but they dragged it to 20 ep after it's popularity in first half) so the quality of the script is sacrificed

it's fine haha
I understood you still

Thank you for lovely conversation and have a nice day

Yeah especially if he doesn't come back then I agree that people will be disappointed not just because he is killed but the way it's done (not showing and just telling us)

Yeah I was getting notifications of your replies

No worries
I thought you were ok with discussing but if you don't want to then that is fine too :))
I am actually starting flourished peony so hope i like it
Have a nice day 👍

I see a lot of certain female actresses fandom hating him haha

open ending and more of teaser for potential s2 (nothing is confirmed but we are hoping it will be announced soon)

I think you didn't get my point 😅
weibo is not a metric to know if a show is successful or not
when I said "data" that means viewership count, market share, advertisement/ commercial value, etc
GOTD kuyun views for today was 70 million and yunhe views 59 million
Flourished peony had 56 million yunhe views today and around 50 million kuyun views but the blossoming love is very low in the list. You can check it from here,

https://x.com/cdramacharts/status/1880976287080333572?t=aT-a2aQJXqmrTXbEms08pA&s=19

https://x.com/cdramacharts/status/1880977494645653724?t=CwnBsJ8CIISkBcWfieINbA&s=19

Hot search on weibo can be bought for marketing strategies but they don't give a drama success if viewers are less because then advertisement will be less etc. I hope I explained well. I haven't watched the show so don't think I am hater or something. Just wanted to point out that it's an underrated show rather than popular blockbuster

Ohh lol
I don't think tbl is that high in terms of data overall... but idc about the show to debate on this haha

Wait which chart showed the blossoming love ahead of GOTD??
All I see is GOTD & Flourished peony both in top 2 of all charts & data. FP definitely has the strongest start so I am sure overall it will get ahead of GOTD eventually but so far I see tbl nowhere so curious to know where you get this

Okay now that I am done with GOTD, I am finally starting this. I have a feeling that I will enjoy this

if people think it's low douban score & 10+ black hot search against the show within first 10 minutes of its premiere means everyone in China dislikes it then they will come to this conclusionThe truth is that it's viewership is highest for from the start despite releasing 1 ep per day on weekdays (mon to fri). Only flourished peony beat it for 2 days but now it's back on top. Market share is also highest 20%. Ads seconds are double the amount as compare to other shows (all time all platform legendary level advertisement). if it doesn't live up to hype then why advertisers are crazy about this show? (They have all the data ). it reached 30k+ heat index, 1.1 billion playback volume and many more achievements. The audience is majority male centric which is different from usual female audience who hype their cp etc so it doesn't have that level of social media presence as compare to Flourished peony & Moonlight mystique (high engagement but not doing that well in china). However, wang hedi acting skills was trending top 1 on weibo last week and yesterday there were 8 hot searches after the end (all praising the show). In short, it started with many controversies surrounding it. Many people called wang hedi monkey or what not for his accent and not using dubbing etc. plus, criticism of his rap and comparing the show to joy also didn't help because it raised high expectations and now those people will claim that it didn't live up to expectations. Joy of life is a next level hit and I don't think makers were expecting GOTD to reach that level. All in all, it's a masterpiece for me and I am glad that so many now are loving it