Cho Na

You watched all 10?

You'll be even more surprised to know in the top 10 Kdramas, 3 of them are from 2021 ;D. One of them is Hospital Playlist 2 that is also very recent.

I don't know Chinese either. Both novels are translated into English because of the popularity of the dramas. There is a bit info on Mao Ni on MDL, but this is more about him in Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Ni

Now that I'm curious about... I was about to encourage you to write a recap article on it since you love so much until I saw it's a 2015 drama. Unless you still remember about it...

Yes you're right, I don't recall there are (real) historical Cdramas that are short, unless the romcoms ones. I love Meeting You, too!

Once a week I try to clear up the oldest dramas in my PTW list, and Boss and Me is in my PTW list I have to clear up soon cos it's from 2014. Is the video quality good?

I think Hengdian Studio provides outfits and martial arts intructors, one that Korean or Japanese doesn't have.

lol... thanks for the synopsis... it sounds interesting especially about racing thing until I saw a 47 episodes business drama... argh!

What I mean with amazing bromance is the entire crew of students and teachers in the academy have very strong friendship. No bromance partner dies.

No need to pinky promise cos I watched it lol! I assure you the four main leads don't die, but a few supporting characters do. You'll feel sad of course, cos you grow to love the supporting characters too. Their bromance is AMAZING.

Yeah, I know AvenueX raves about it. I will watch it when it's done subbing. Probably it will be like Forever Love. Predictable story but unexpectedly good.

Did you read Mao Ni's novels? JOL and EN are his works ;D

Do you know from which Poirot stories the drama will based on? I read a lot of Agatha Christie's novel, one of my favorite authors. When I was a kid a read a lot of detective and adventure novels/comics and I don't understand how I changed genres to romcoms now, lol. The CoM... how's the ending? As long as they don't kill the main character I will think about it ;D.

No worries... I apologize I questioned your list. It's all subjective to the watchers. I too have dramas I rated highly that others think they're bad.

Sorry I just made that ""Historical C-drama watchers rather see flying people with supernatural powers" phrase for a fun comparison to modern dramas, but I do understand that there are differences in 'historical' Cdramas. In fact, I think in China people don't call the fantasy ones historical but costume dramas (not sure what the Chinese term is). Is that right?

Me too, I watched it!

I'm glad to hear this. Can you imagine you're a writer and they just contact you to use your novel then give you a wad of cash. Of course with a contract they have the right to change things from the novel. Later on you see the drama and things are changed not to your liking? I think I'll be upset, lol.

When I was thinking to watch JoL I actually thought I should wait for the sequel, cos I'm not good with cliffhanger ending. Couldn't wait tho! Now I'm impatiently waiting for the sequel. Not sure why took the so long? I guess they're waiting for Zhang Ruo Yun's schedule to clear up. Too bad I think Xiao Zhan may not come back cos now he's super popular means super expensive to cast, lol

Are you waiting for NIF 3? It will start filming next year I think, the same team will make it. Not sure about same casting or not, no news yet.

since you like MRIAD and waiting for the upcoming ones, maybe you and I are waiting together for MRIAD 2? It says not a sequel but same detective genre, same era, and same two leads Leon Zhang and Hu Yi Tian. Speaking of HYT, I'm looking forward to him in See You Again, also a Republican Era drama but with time traveling. HYT looks good in those Republican era suits! Let's hope the censorship doesn't mess up with this cos they usually are not kind with modern fantasy dramas...