The Gentle Moon Tiger

100% agreed. Korean netizens can indeed be the most cruel and extreme when it comes to their "favorite" celebrity suddenly not being perfect. I find it strange that they're not letting the said actors/singers/etc redeem themselves OR at least letting them survive in other ways.

I don't have the time to watch the drama lately, can someone briefly update me on how's it going? I haven't watched the latest two episodes. Did the plot get messy? Feel free to express your opinion!

I'm not here to say that the acting is bad, but the drama itself is missing something for me. I still plan to finish it though.

I watched this a few months ago, but I still think about the HongKong arc of this cdrama from time to time. Others dropped the drama because of it. But for me it was my favorite part. Yes, it's quite a heavy watch, but the acting, the raw emotions and the camera work portrayed that part of the story so well, it was painful but in a good way, I forgot that I was watching a fictional cdrama, I was invested in it, feeling all the emotions together with the characters. I could understand why they made the choices that they did. That said, for me it's a great drama. But it's not for everyone. So give it a try, see for yourself, you might end up loving it :)

yess, it's about to get even more interesting and absurd 🤣

same!

After finishing it I feel so confused. I'm not sure if I liked it or not. The concept is interesting, all characters have their own flaws. The ending is to be expected, considering the genre of the drama. Yeah, I think it needed more episodes, it's a bit challenging to form a clear opinion when it was that short 🤔

good for him.

celebrities are just humans too, they shouldn't be idolised and stalked constantly

if someone "loves" you to the point of madness, but uses your (and his!) own child to control you, kills people without hesitation and so on, is it really true love? Would you be able to genuinely love a person like that? I don't know how you'd answer the question, but the point is that it's very understandable why Qianqian doesn't love him.

Did Baoer have some kind of filter put on his eyes? They seemed greenish and soulless until he saw Changning, then they turned back to brown. Was it to symbolise the traumatised state that he was in?

I have a question/observation about today's episode:

me too 😔😔 I only memorize the main leads' and side characters' (who show up often or have a very unique name) names... otherwise I have to guess who they're talking about based on context

exactly!

I need them toooo, but at the same time I know that I would not get anything done if they were out, I'd just be stuck to a screen for a few days and regret watching it so fast 😩😆

I think it's for her privacy/safety

I personally like to watch while it's airing, because it's so fun to share your live reactions or read others' while we're all watching the drama at the same time! Also, you have to avoid spoilers like a ninja if you put off watching a popular drama that's airing 🥷👀

For reaaaal! I could only smile in pain during this scene, because Changning is still a little kid, can't blame her, but aaaaghhhhhhhh!!🤧🤣

I'm glad that I only allowed myself to watch ep 16-17 trailers 👀

I knowwww, I was waiting for them to come back too! They're like Chang Yu's minion squad hehe

I'm pasting this from Wikipedia ("liang" is another name for "tael"):

"Modern studies suggest that, on purchasing power parity basis, one liang of silver was worth about 4,130 yuan RMB in the early Tang dynasty, 2,065 yuan RMB in the late Tang dynasty, and 660.8 yuan RMB in the mid Ming dynasty.[citation needed] As of February 2024, the price of silver is about 254 yuan RMB/liang of 50 g."

soooo I don't know which time they're at exatctly, buuut let's count how much that would be in early Tang dynasty - one tael then was about 4130 yuan.
4130 yuan = 513 euros or 597 dollars.

multiply that by 30 and we get:
123900 yuan = 15 393 euros or 17 927 dollars

that's a lot 😳😳