There's The First Frost soon on Feb.18, even if it will be Bai Jingting playing Sang Yan, instead of Victor Ma…
mmm; you are right, thanks for correction, I was too rash in reading credits, did not even look at the pix These two girls don't even look alike, and mixing up He Ran from The Forbidden Flower with Cheng Yao from My Boss ? facepalming... I stayed up too late, so my eyes are playing tricks on me. will go for a nap asap. :)
It looks like there will be an express package released. I saw iQiyi's post for it on iQiyi Malaysia's YouTube…
There's The First Frost soon on Feb.18, even if it will be Bai Jingting playing Sang Yan, instead of Victor Ma Boqian, the funny rapper. It ought to be rather fluffy... It will be starring Zhang Ruonan too, so she will be competing against herself if The Best Thing happens on 25th 😂
Alternating heavy and light themes is a good idea. I was watching Perfect Match to balance TWOT with some fun... Not to see them in competition against each other, so I was rather pleased when both were topping charts in weekly views for their respective category (online ; TV) for the week ending last Sunday.
So next, I'll probably have to look for some differently flavored themed drama to stave off too much candy floss. Perhaps the costume thriller with Liu Shishi ; it's not a romance but not too dark either.
But TWOT is not over yet and I intend to stick with it till end, while finishing soon the Companion piece, to which I found some interesting info for the Music section, added yesterday after someone asked about the Spotify link, which I had already included but was not very well showcased.
On the way, I illustrated the composer singers and lyricists (except "Dorothy" who probably is in the crowd of Chen Xueran too, but who I did not spot decisively ; if someone knows for sure who she is, it would be nice to complete the section). I also added two representative songs with GIFs linked to MV of "the master", in addition to the modern classic song Ganlanshu (The Olive Tree) that predates Chen Xueran music (he was still in kindergarten then ;) but the song was sung even on stages, by many singers up till recent years, so it is nice to know about it). https://mydramalist.com/discussions/bai-se-gan-lan-shu/123595-shooting-location-cast-and-crew-and-more?pid=3244784&page=1#p3244784 (music section) ; I also added some more in the other sections.
But take heart, you desperate seekers. I did find it elsewhere (I am a relentless explorer of the IT jungles where cool places still survive). Try the bg extension and search. Hopefully it will still be in those archives when I get back to watch it. The download option is disabled, unfortunately, although I did not plan to use precious and costly space on disk to store it. And there's not a big demand for it on p2p platforms.
Annoyed that my Amazon Prime subscription did not get me to watch it at ease: they likely scrubbed the drama from catalogue (well I seldom use Amazon Prime for watching Chinese dramas anyway, it's ok that they deliver stuff I need on time and have free games to download to kill time).
And there are only 27 eps on YoYo but you have to use Chinese title in search box to find them + the subs are reportedly mismatched, so I did not persist in sampling the "forbidden fruit" there. If you can do with "raw" and don't plan to watch it in total, it may be an option.
I always try watch dramas on official platforms however sometimes if you can't find what your looking for, you…
Not any longer... sigh. But I found it on a similar cool site that was revived after the closure of the main "archives" platform. It is supposed to be on Viki but of course "unavailable i your region" if any has it, I will be curious and go there with VPN... It's also supposed to be on youtube but only 27 episodes out of the 40, and with mismatched subtitles to boot. Even then you have to insist and look for it on YoYo channel using Chinese title in search box ; someone wrote the subs worked better with auto translation after setting the language to swahili ! but I didn't try. And then it should be on Amazon Prime, but has apparently also been scrubbed from catalogue there. I did not even try on Youku since this was a drama that got notoriously embattled for "non kosher" contents. Although really, there's not much in my view in contents that should have warranted a witch hunt ; it was a sign of the times that several dramas were "canceled" or put firmly to back of shelves in 2020, but five years have gone by and the world changed, maybe those rules to straightjacket viewing will also change.
I did not watch it then and will try to find time for it now. Or later. Hopefully the link will still work. It looks like the download link was disabled, though. Or my trusty computer has blocked it as being "non kosher" too !!! lol The OST song by Chen Xueran brought me to Guardian.
Just like me i decided to restrain myself from watching after ep24 to save myself from being affected by the frustrations…
If you have issues and triggers from subject matter of PTSD, then this drama was not for you. Perhaps you were swayed by what some commenters disliked (coming mistakenly for lighthearted romcom or battlefields) and what some third party readers wrote about the ending, but you should remember the information that the traumatic one is an epilogue that was added, after the main narrative, so the drama production could totally dispense with it and leave it at "happy end" one way or another. You left at the "lowest point" episodes, and fled leaving a 7.5 which does not necessarily reflect the worth of the drama. Sigh. But anyone may have and is entitled to have different opinions.
Wish you will find something better to your taste, and if you prefer lighthearted comedies, then good luck : there may be some upcoming ones that will rejoice you.
It is still top among the 10 on the iQiyi list and was top among the ten most watched dramas for last week ending…
So: how did you compute Heat Index was terrible and view counts negative when you admit HI is stabilizing around 7300 at time of your writing and have no figure for real viewcount?
For your information, Heat Indexes are only considered when they are around "Highest Peak". It is totally normal they fluctuate on weekdays. See https://mydramalist.com/list/3kPQMmO4 TWOT standing is quite okay, not at all failed. Perhaps you have an agenda to distort the truth to your end...
I think this drama failed in China. The heat index keeps falling. The view count is terrible….. It's minus….
It is still top among the 10 on the iQiyi list and was top among the ten most watched dramas for last week ending Sunday. And got 300 million audience view count counted on Feb.11, 8:20 pm (see the poster in photo section). Heat index reached 8000+ on second day of airing, which was a very quick start but heat index is not the only way to evaluate popularity. One thing's sure, it is NOT a failed drama. Maybe you would like to persuade people here otherwise? How does that benefit you? And why is your watchlist empty+ page with Join Date: February 3, 2025 ?
The fact that she need to see someone else with PTSD to maybe start thinking that LZ was in such incredible pain…
I don't feel either are "at fault" : they are victims of circumstances.
She had increased tunnel vision (blocking out everything that looked irrelevant) about her relationship because of her own unacknowledged depression. She knew she had depression but hid it to herself as she couldn't accept it, not being a psychologist or having been around depression sufferers ; and even more hiding it to LZ since her principles always had been to "take care of herself" and "not burden others". It may look like selfishness but is not so easy to dismiss it as being a despicable flaw of hers.
LZ too felt she couldn't handle some information, so he concealed the full extent of his PTSD (just mentioning some symptoms in passing but not explaining his excruciatingly painful visions and nightmares. Just saying he had "headaches" and "nightmares", not more). Why would she look more into PTSD when she herself was suffering the same although in milder depression form which was narrowing her "mind focus"? (nobody told her that her depression was a form of PTSD so she did not look into it for herself, "depression" diagnosis was scary enough!) He did not act insane, so she did not want to stamp him as defective and affected by a "disorder" same as she could not really accept that she, herself, was defective and having a "disorder". She already had trouble enough with her physical eyes, and worries that she might go blind and become a burden. Coping mechanisms for her were: blocking the worst memories out and change her mind, not delve into hurtful subjects, do things such as write a narrative to make sense of her experience, go out watching places with Li Zan, eating good food, look at cartoons to escape, hugging and kissing (despite strangely not going further).
LZ knew she had these "stubborn" and "selfish" defects although he did not know about her eye condition. He too did not see the full picture... He concealed the death of Z, believing it would affect SR even more than it did himself, especially when he knew she would be torn between going and staying with her mom, and if the mom died when she was away she would blame herself for having been unfilial and too selfish about pursuing her love interest.
He was even more restrained than she was, physically, perhaps relieved that he could be allowed time to heal mentally "before marriage".
There were misunderstandings from both because of the psychological triggers that they couldn't face yet. Both were mentally ill and knew it without admitting it totally, and not looking forward to cast their love interest into the role of psychiatric help device.
LZ knew he could break down, perhaps sink into full formless psychosis, becoming as violent as the patient he tried to help in ep.26-27 and he did not want to risk SR seeing him in such a state. So he appeared selfish too in not telling her everything before he went back to Dongguo, but preferred to look selfish than to risk sending her into similar meltdown as he had experienced: he kept repeatedly viewing himself as having a hidden "abyss" in his mind which would drag her down (into it) if she knew it.
So things will change when she realizes she has looked more selfish than she thought he was, at the time when she callously sent an sms to break off with him because he chose to go and not to stay with her. She will try to redeem herself although she is too stubborn and proud to go down on her knees and ask for forgiveness. She has not known him long enough to be confident that he could forgive her. So she will start with going to Dongguo but stay apart first and inch her way back to his side since he is her only love obsession from first sight. The drama is not over though, and anything can happen in the turbulent country...
So sad that this drama is going to end tomorrow 😭😭🥺 Going to miss the Li family ❤️❤️
Oh yes. It's going to be replaced in top ten by one of the two new "star shows" but neither of these should be as light hearted as this one was. Although, for mind balm fix, aside from more angsty or slow dramas, we can still turn back to re-watch Perfect Match ?
I was anticipating this drama since before it aired and to be honest I almost didn’t start this when I read…
But I admit I also was a bit sidetracked by another embattled drama. That one is also topping the weekly list in the other category (webdrama), but is diametrically opposite in feelings and pace to Perfect Match feel-good show.
Since I already loved the old song by Chyi Yu and am appreciative of the not stingy OST of 12 songs there, plus the leads, and have experienced both as helper and, at a different time, sufferer some of the symptoms described, I am watching that one too, but will warn those of you who are thinking of adding it to their watch list, that it is neither a sweet sizzle and kissing love story (there are some), neither a military drama despite the tags, but a much heavier themed one, derived from a novel in which the author did a world building which is both fictional and reflecting allegorically very real situations of the past and the present. -- That one may not be everybody's idea for "light entertainment in a drama" and that's totally understandable . So, for those who stick with it, despite slow pace, sometimes disjointed feelings and triggers for those with mood swings, and for those misled by the tags and expecting something else, I have added a full illustrated Companion piece there, to describe and explain a few things, and that took me of course longer than I thought it would (despite I started it back when it started shooting!)
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These two girls don't even look alike, and mixing up He Ran from The Forbidden Flower with Cheng Yao from My Boss ? facepalming...
I stayed up too late, so my eyes are playing tricks on me. will go for a nap asap. :)
It will be starring Zhang Ruonan too, so she will be competing against herself if The Best Thing happens on 25th 😂
Alternating heavy and light themes is a good idea. I was watching Perfect Match to balance TWOT with some fun... Not to see them in competition against each other, so I was rather pleased when both were topping charts in weekly views for their respective category (online ; TV) for the week ending last Sunday.
So next, I'll probably have to look for some differently flavored themed drama to stave off too much candy floss. Perhaps the costume thriller with Liu Shishi ; it's not a romance but not too dark either.
But TWOT is not over yet and I intend to stick with it till end, while finishing soon the Companion piece, to which I found some interesting info for the Music section, added yesterday after someone asked about the Spotify link, which I had already included but was not very well showcased.
On the way, I illustrated the composer singers and lyricists (except "Dorothy" who probably is in the crowd of Chen Xueran too, but who I did not spot decisively ; if someone knows for sure who she is, it would be nice to complete the section). I also added two representative songs with GIFs linked to MV of "the master", in addition to the modern classic song Ganlanshu (The Olive Tree) that predates Chen Xueran music (he was still in kindergarten then ;) but the song was sung even on stages, by many singers up till recent years, so it is nice to know about it). https://mydramalist.com/discussions/bai-se-gan-lan-shu/123595-shooting-location-cast-and-crew-and-more?pid=3244784&page=1#p3244784 (music section) ; I also added some more in the other sections.
Annoyed that my Amazon Prime subscription did not get me to watch it at ease: they likely scrubbed the drama from catalogue (well I seldom use Amazon Prime for watching Chinese dramas anyway, it's ok that they deliver stuff I need on time and have free games to download to kill time).
And there are only 27 eps on YoYo but you have to use Chinese title in search box to find them + the subs are reportedly mismatched, so I did not persist in sampling the "forbidden fruit" there. If you can do with "raw" and don't plan to watch it in total, it may be an option.
It is supposed to be on Viki but of course "unavailable i your region" if any has it, I will be curious and go there with VPN...
It's also supposed to be on youtube but only 27 episodes out of the 40, and with mismatched subtitles to boot. Even then you have to insist and look for it on YoYo channel using Chinese title in search box ; someone wrote the subs worked better with auto translation after setting the language to swahili ! but I didn't try.
And then it should be on Amazon Prime, but has apparently also been scrubbed from catalogue there.
I did not even try on Youku since this was a drama that got notoriously embattled for "non kosher" contents.
Although really, there's not much in my view in contents that should have warranted a witch hunt ; it was a sign of the times that several dramas were "canceled" or put firmly to back of shelves in 2020, but five years have gone by and the world changed, maybe those rules to straightjacket viewing will also change.
I did not watch it then and will try to find time for it now. Or later. Hopefully the link will still work. It looks like the download link was disabled, though. Or my trusty computer has blocked it as being "non kosher" too !!! lol
The OST song by Chen Xueran brought me to Guardian.
But there are still two cool links, I think. yes and one has it, look below in spoilers
https://mydramalist.com/discussions/bai-se-gan-lan-shu/123595-shooting-location-cast-and-crew-and-more?pid=3244784&page=1#p3244784
:)
https://mydramalist.com/discussions/bai-se-gan-lan-shu/123595-shooting-location-cast-and-crew-and-more
But here you are if you have no time to look for it : https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6lyWPGzk01QwFXsrk5cWsl (the complete 12 songs from OST)
Also in Discussions section, you have the MVS with Chinese, pinyin, and English lyrics compiles by Peachey Blossom : https://mydramalist.com/discussions/bai-se-gan-lan-shu/134834-the-white-olive-tree-full-ost-with-eng-subs
Enjoy!
Wish you will find something better to your taste, and if you prefer lighthearted comedies, then good luck : there may be some upcoming ones that will rejoice you.
For your information, Heat Indexes are only considered when they are around "Highest Peak". It is totally normal they fluctuate on weekdays. See
https://mydramalist.com/list/3kPQMmO4
TWOT standing is quite okay, not at all failed. Perhaps you have an agenda to distort the truth to your end...
One thing's sure, it is NOT a failed drama.
Maybe you would like to persuade people here otherwise? How does that benefit you?
And why is your watchlist empty+ page with Join Date: February 3, 2025 ?
She had increased tunnel vision (blocking out everything that looked irrelevant) about her relationship because of her own unacknowledged depression. She knew she had depression but hid it to herself as she couldn't accept it, not being a psychologist or having been around depression sufferers ; and even more hiding it to LZ since her principles always had been to "take care of herself" and "not burden others". It may look like selfishness but is not so easy to dismiss it as being a despicable flaw of hers.
LZ too felt she couldn't handle some information, so he concealed the full extent of his PTSD (just mentioning some symptoms in passing but not explaining his excruciatingly painful visions and nightmares. Just saying he had "headaches" and "nightmares", not more).
Why would she look more into PTSD when she herself was suffering the same although in milder depression form which was narrowing her "mind focus"? (nobody told her that her depression was a form of PTSD so she did not look into it for herself, "depression" diagnosis was scary enough!) He did not act insane, so she did not want to stamp him as defective and affected by a "disorder" same as she could not really accept that she, herself, was defective and having a "disorder".
She already had trouble enough with her physical eyes, and worries that she might go blind and become a burden. Coping mechanisms for her were: blocking the worst memories out and change her mind, not delve into hurtful subjects, do things such as write a narrative to make sense of her experience, go out watching places with Li Zan, eating good food, look at cartoons to escape, hugging and kissing (despite strangely not going further).
LZ knew she had these "stubborn" and "selfish" defects although he did not know about her eye condition. He too did not see the full picture... He concealed the death of Z, believing it would affect SR even more than it did himself, especially when he knew she would be torn between going and staying with her mom, and if the mom died when she was away she would blame herself for having been unfilial and too selfish about pursuing her love interest.
He was even more restrained than she was, physically, perhaps relieved that he could be allowed time to heal mentally "before marriage".
There were misunderstandings from both because of the psychological triggers that they couldn't face yet. Both were mentally ill and knew it without admitting it totally, and not looking forward to cast their love interest into the role of psychiatric help device.
LZ knew he could break down, perhaps sink into full formless psychosis, becoming as violent as the patient he tried to help in ep.26-27 and he did not want to risk SR seeing him in such a state. So he appeared selfish too in not telling her everything before he went back to Dongguo, but preferred to look selfish than to risk sending her into similar meltdown as he had experienced: he kept repeatedly viewing himself as having a hidden "abyss" in his mind which would drag her down (into it) if she knew it.
So things will change when she realizes she has looked more selfish than she thought he was, at the time when she callously sent an sms to break off with him because he chose to go and not to stay with her.
She will try to redeem herself although she is too stubborn and proud to go down on her knees and ask for forgiveness. She has not known him long enough to be confident that he could forgive her. So she will start with going to Dongguo but stay apart first and inch her way back to his side since he is her only love obsession from first sight.
The drama is not over though, and anything can happen in the turbulent country...
Since I already loved the old song by Chyi Yu and am appreciative of the not stingy OST of 12 songs there, plus the leads, and have experienced both as helper and, at a different time, sufferer some of the symptoms described, I am watching that one too, but will warn those of you who are thinking of adding it to their watch list, that it is neither a sweet sizzle and kissing love story (there are some), neither a military drama despite the tags, but a much heavier themed one, derived from a novel in which the author did a world building which is both fictional and reflecting allegorically very real situations of the past and the present. -- That one may not be everybody's idea for "light entertainment in a drama" and that's totally understandable . So, for those who stick with it, despite slow pace, sometimes disjointed feelings and triggers for those with mood swings, and for those misled by the tags and expecting something else, I have added a full illustrated Companion piece there, to describe and explain a few things, and that took me of course longer than I thought it would (despite I started it back when it started shooting!)