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I don’t care that he lied to his fans about how many people he’s slept with lmao. The fuck? That’s none of your business, or mine.

I'm ready for the Proi-Trai Romeo and Juliet subplot to kick off. Also I can sense we're getting close to Lin learning about Nammon, which will hopefully bring her and Pi closer together. They need to admit they like each other! There are too many annoying secondary characters buzzing around them like flies for them to keep having communication issues.

Kim Youngkwang is at least as famous in Korea as Lee Sungkyung if not more lol. Just because you don't know who he is doesn't mean he's some kind of hidden gem who's trying to break out.

Just read about this "controversy" and I'm amazed it exists at all...? He slept with someone once? OK...?

The fact he's been blackmailed and is now in trouble over the mere fact he had sex with someone once is insane to me. I hope everyone involved in manufacturing this scandal, from the person who took pictures of him in bed for blackmail to her husband to the media company that decided to release them suffers consequences. I'm not even a huge CFY fan (I did like him in Ever Night and L&P, but I'm too old to stan actors or follow their personal lives), but this is a completely unacceptable way to treat people just because they're famous. Chinese celebrity culture is so toxic.

lol wait, do you think Our Blooming Youth is an enemies-to-lovers romance? If some initial tension/distrust between the leads is your definition of enemies to lovers, there are very very few dramas without it, especially if you also want the protagonists to be star-crossed lovers who are not supposed to be together.

I know this is a minority opinion, but if there has to be a remake of a royalty romcom, I wish it was My Princess and not Goong. Goong's plot and the relationship dynamics between the leads are so dated; unless the writer majorly updates some stuff I expect it to be bland and annoying like the dozens of Boys Over Flowers remakes they keep pumping out.

This is the trashiest, most stereotypical lakorn premise I've read in ages. I will be seated.

I’ll never understand why people on this site love Pyo Yejin so much, or why they always express their love through unearned comparisons to others. She’s a pretty and talented girl, don’t get me wrong, but she’s definitely not “outperforming” the rest of the cast with her acting or her looks as people claim relentlessly in the comments of every drama she’s in.

You do realise that all three of these actors are very handsome and arguing over which one is most or least attractive is ridiculous because that's a matter of personal preference, I hope.

Well, the synopsis leaves out approximately 97% of the plot of the webnovel/manhua it's based on.

I've been missing meaty, dramatic sageuks that don't foreground romance in recent years. Politics, investigation, amnesia, great. And Seo Inguk is a charismatic actor who can do a lot with a role like that IMO. This looks really promising!

Do you think actresses should retire at 30?

Losing her husband is not an excuse for being a useless narcissistic parent who sabotages her child's life and burdens everyone around her with her unreasonable demands and tantrums.

I'm on ep. 5 and I have absolutely no sympathy for Xia Jie's mother. She's a selfish, emotionally manipulative monster to her daughter and I'm supposed to feel bad for her because her husband died? Lady, it's been over 10 years; get a fucking grip and stop suffocating your child. XJ's superiors at work are garbage too and I can't wait for her to find a way to circumvent their infuriating sexism and condescension.

Also I'm more interested in Yang Shu and Zhao Jiwei, who seem introspective and thoughtful, than in Li Dawei, who's reckless and arrogant. I hope he gets some character development quick and the other two also get their own story arcs.

The biggest news for me here is that OCN are still making/airing dramas. I thought their production department had been absorbed by tvN? This is good news if true, though, because tvN only have so many drama slots in their weekly schedule and they already make their own stuff, so I thought OCN-style crime dramas would be squeezed out. It was so nice to have a dedicated channel that would be airing 1-2 crime/action/mystery dramas at all times.

I hate this trope where the FL is too indecisive, self-sacrificial, considerate or whatever to reject the unwanted advances of some random scrub, so he becomes her boyfriend even though she has no interest in him, but she has zero consideration for the feelings of the one person she likes and can be mean to him and jerk him around without ever questioning her actions. It's such an old-school dynamic and it always makes me root against the main couple. If the protagonist doesn't actually put in any effort to be happy with the person she loves and keeps ignoring her feelings, why should I care about them?

Sounds kinda interesting and I like Kim Yoojung, but they need to get a real actor for the male lead role, jeez. Kwak Dongyeon, who was also in Love in the Moonlight, or Lee Jaewook, Yoon Chanyoung, Kim Minjae... all in her age range. Song Kang is a very handsome man, but it sounds like this role will require charisma and the ability to project a badass aura.

I know Nana's true love is Damai, but if we're not getting a cottagecore lesbian side couple from them, I really want to see her with Xiaxia. They both deserve something nice and their interactions are so natural and stress-free. Fingers crossed it happens at some point!

It’s a very languid and mature romance, which I love. The leads understand and appreciate each other, and are each other’s confidant in the village, so there’s some real emotional intimacy building up between them, but because they’re in different places in life, there’s a line between them they’re very aware of and they are careful not to cross it. Bu their feelings are slowly growing to the point where they’ll have to go for it. (This is as of episode 21.)

His character in Go Ho Squid is quite interesting and it’s another well directed drama, but sadly the FL represents the worst of cdrama (childish, annoying, clingy and delusional to the point of stalking, stupid, basically all the hits) and is impossible to care about.