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I hope it’s not too much like The Kingdom.

I’m also considering pausing this until we have an Engsub as The Mutations is out and I only have that much time to watch dramas.

Damn…I really hate Cheng Bing’s daughter…

I forgot. How did Cheng Bing know Wang Dayong used the name Shao Gang?

They’re so fun to watch when they’re drunk 🤣

Sure they do but since there’s a pin drop silence from Tencent Intl. they’re probably looking at who offers the highest bid.

At times I feel like shipping Cheng Bing with Pan Dahai 🤣 especially on Ep 16.

It is very good imo.

They couldn’t let go of the past. I feel for them and after AJtL now I have to deal with anxiety for this team too 😑 I don’t want anyone of them to die.

I think so 😂 They’re too quiet so I think there’s chaos behind the scene. Now it’s for us to wait and see which platform wins or pays the most.

I guessed as much coz international viewers’ interest in this drama is very high and it’s impossible that they don’t know this. Probably there’s a war going on right now, fighting for distribution rights. Netflix should pick this up.

Someone told me on Twitter that YeShu and Abao’s grandpa were friends and Abao was originally from a rich family that fell on hard times.

Maybe I missed details but how did Abao know Yeshu? Was it mentioned if he knew him before he requested Yeshu to mentor him?

Yes this is the version I’m watching too. The Mandarin sounds fine to me. I’d rather watch in a language I understand abt 50-60%(although I had to pause & replay many times) than 0% of Shanghainese 😅

Noooo...then I need the Mandarin version too.

I saw a clip on Weibo where WKW said viewers might think that some scenes looked overly prosperous but what he wanted to reconstruct isn't what it's accurately like back then but what people 'felt' back then. I think the backdrop of the story happened in Huanghe Road in Shanghai(I'm not sure as I just started watching but I base this on what he said) where people back then remember it as an opulent area. He and the original author talked about distorted memories of a place when you visit it then and now so I don't think creating the backdrop as accurate as it was, is a requirement in this production.

It’s good to send a feedback to WeTV to tell them what we’d like to watch because only by hearing our feedbacks would they know what intl. viewers want.

That’s true. I thought it was set a few decades earlier too but then it shows 1993 🙊 But I also don’t know how Shanghai is like in those days, and I do like what I see.

I tried to watch the beginning of Ep 1 from the link you gave me and I don’t get the Shanghainese part but they mainly spoke in standard Mandarin. So those I understand like around 60% and 10-20% guesswork. The rest I had to pause to ask someone or read/translate the sub slowly. 😮‍💨 Sounds like a lot of work, I’ll keep watching even if I don’t understand fully 🤣

Me too me too! The cinematography and WKW’s style…who can resist?