ShortCircuit

The men could also use surrogacy if they really wanted babies - but I think that, despite the age difference, ChangYang already has his hands full with his QingLang baby :D

But she's not of that family, going by the reincarnation. Which begs the question on WHO exactly she is - is she the original Gu daughter who killed herself (since she does her incense stuff and knows the Imperial family), or is she the not-drowned Shen daughter (who was naive and not really worldly before the drowning). Or is she supposed to be a mix between them?

She doesn't owe the Wen Duke's family anything if she's reborn, she's protecting them because she needs their power structure BUT she's not their daughter. They cared for the original girl, not this one. All her powerplays make no sense in this POV. She's doing it because she used to do it as a Prince's wife.

But then this again makes no sense - it's been three years since she killed herself, she HAS to have known all the princes, they're not younglings. She HAS to have known the Crown Prince too (even if she didn't care much for him at the time). There's not a lot of logic into her going to test each and every one of them. Not in the drama, anyway. Maybe in the novel she forgot most of her previous life or something so that she needs to learn things anew. But the drama doesn't imply that at all. She also remembers everyone her body's original knew and the secret codes between the family (that she knew WHY?! Since the original body's conscience wasn't really smart enough to use them safely).

However you're looking at it, there are too many fails of logic in this one.

Anyway, it's pretty and there are good scenes and it moves fast (sometimes too fast). For me, TBH, the support characters and the secondary leads carry the drama. So far anyway.

In such a story I imagine the daughters would find themselves attracted to females too :D (Or at least going bi).

I know it's a typo but it's hilarious. Exactly, WHEN Shu, WHEN? :D

(I kind of think his name is WenShu indeed).

TBH I am quite certain this isn't the best of the cdramas I've ever watched. Everything is so far-fetched, things just happen with no rhyme and reason (and this a drama about a scheming bunch of people including the soon-to-be newlyweds), everyone in that Imperial Palace is prone to going missing for days (no one bats and eye), or getting attacked repeatedly at random or while going about the capital in the dead of night with no guards (because of reasons) but there's no outcry anywhere in the Palace (like AT ALL, repeatedly), things are summarily introduced and solved and on and on.

BUT it's entertaining in it's almost stupidity. There are some amazing shots and I live for the fake crossdressing bromance between Ms. Bu and Mr. Cui (I seriously think they are the best CP in the drama). There are quite a lot of pretty known actors in this one, I wonder why the writer couldn't adapt it better. Or maybe that's just how the novel nonsensically moves LOL.

I'll keep watching because it's light and easy and because of the fake bromance, I'm invested now LOL.

I don't think QingTian is joking (though I hope he doesn't do anything). Older Xu bro should hurry up and confess soonest.

Dad Xu seems set to have at least one of his sons straight LOL. It's the maker's fault anyway, they didn't ask to be born gay.

Also. Hu YiChen still the prettiest crier in any dramas I've watched lately. He's cute. I want his character to have a HEA and I don't even care who with, anymore.

Our main CP is still going strong, they're so sweet together - though now ChangYang progressed to MAIN SON and GRANDSON rank, LOL, sorry, QingLang, you've been taken over :D

TBH, it's kind of interesting but also pretty concerning that revenge vigilantism and power trip dramas are so popular everywhere. It says something about the state of mind of people around the world. Agent Kim Reactivated, Teach You a Lesson, all the Weak Hero seasons, then Study Group etc - all of them are vigilante p0rn (that I also enjoy, can't say I don't) BUT... it is probably just a matter of time until someone forgets the limit between reality and fiction and tries to do something on their own.

Then again... romcoms are failing to get attention everywhere, fantasy fusion is absent so far (waiting on The East Palace to end the funk), I guess we'll have to watch fights this hot summer.

Methinks there are either people with too much time on their hands, or there are interested parties that spur on fan-fights. For reasons.

In other news, some mud-slinging water army was just exposed the other day. I guess this is about to be linked to yet another of that kind, eventually.

I wouldn't be surprised if some of those people or their AI accounts were present on MDL too. Every time a drama is newly broadcast, there's mass down-voting on all the episodes, malicious comments on the acting of the leads, purported ~scandals brought to life in the comments section and so on and so forth. All before the drama has a chance to even properly start.

I also wouldn't doubt that where they found one, there's not a whole bunch of these kind of setups.

I should've postponed this til I could binge it... Oh well.

Anyway - the music is gorgeous. This is what caught me and dragged me in kicking and screaming (well not really.) So far, it's one of the best cBL I've ever watched.

From ep6 - wow, Hu YiChen's crying scene was so beautiful - sad and all, but this man cries so prettily. The sadist in me wants to see some more. I hope his character's lover wakes up.

PS Is there a differently-edited version than what's on GaGa? That includes different/more scenes or something? From other comments it looks like it's so...

Err, it's quite simple - they're filming a remake of Qinglang's movie from 7 years ago and sadly it looks like the pair is following the same off-camera recipe for disaster that Qinglang and his ~ex~ followed. Only this time it's pretty clear (to the watcher at least) that the ML of the remake is scum.

I mislinked it, sorry. Re-did the link, I hope it works now for you :)

I'm freaking going to watch this drama on the basis of the ED song alone - please, anyone, how to locate this song? What's the title, who sings it? That's an unforgettable song.

ETA Nevermind, Gemini told me. Here's an unofficial YT to the ED song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXt7hop9vqs

This is one of the best one I've heard in quite a while. Such beautiful voices! It looks like the official one is sung by A Kun, an absolutely thrilling song. It's on repeat already LOL. But there's a second version sung by the leads, I have to dig it up :D

LOL, the Chinese picks were so tame :D

If they're not here yet, they'll be eventually added by someone. This is an interactive site where the fans populate the pages of content LOL.

You can try adding them yourself if you have the basic info about them :)

(Though fair warning, I have tried before and got rejected with different pages, so eventually I stopped trying. It's annoying trying to follow a format to the T and still get rejected for various reasons.)

This one.
Blazing Him.
A Winter Sun Wakes the Wind (and more, this is a way too long title LOL)
Bittersweet Love (about to air soon)

And then there's a lot more from other Asian countries too. Like

Unfold (Hong Kong)
Lost to You (Singapore)
The Prosecutor's Proposal (South Korea - go pick this one, it's a great start!!)
My Summer of You (Japan)
Knot (Thailand) is finally coming on the 30th. And there are (as usual) a lot of Thai BL already airing or almost over.

It's a glut LOL.

ETA A lot of them are on GaGa.

I know the book came out before TU (by which I mean the drama, not the novel), but I'm kind of feeling awkward looking at the leads and they (mostly Ollie at specific times) look so much like the leads of TU (I mean the actors obviously).

Like, I appreciate that they took the time and bother to make an actual full-length danmei drama, but the resemblance keeps throwing me off. Like the drama is more of a 50 Shades version of Twilight in comparison to TU, instead of its own entity.

From those who read the book (I hear Via Lactea is publishing it, I NEVER buy from them - and from Rosmei either, they SUCK with release times, and they're not cheap either...), do you get the same impression from the first ep?

Wow, this is amazing - good music, beautiful OP, great acting. I like it a whole lot. What do you mean only 10 not even half-hour long eps?! This would be an extraordinary full length series if they let it.

Also what's wrong with the timer, LOL.

I think they kind of made a very emphasized point on how filial piety and therefore family relationships is/are extremely important in an (Ancient) Chinese family. It's NOT that he sees her as directly responsible BUT her mother (presumably) "stole" the one thing that WOULD have saved his older brother and then the FL never told anyone about what she had witnessed until now. Not that she could easily do so, but until she went up the mountain, she could have tried.

He didn't send her to the mountain, he wrote her a letter of divorce. All her dowry was returned, she could have easily just gone to one of her shops or buy a house herself - she chose to return to the mountain by herself (and her splintered personalities).

It's not like he lived a rosey life before or after the tragedy of his family. I wonder why we're expecting modern times' feelings and rationals for people supposedly living however they could in danger for basically every second of their lives (and I include the FL here, obviously). After his brother - and the whole army - died, he spent his years in pain, from his wounds and from the regular torture from charlatans sent by the Dowager. So, FL came and healed him - those years were still lived as they were lived. He's not yet 30 - almost a third of his whole life was like that.

So nope, I don't think people are excusing his actions, but they ARE kind of justified. The fact that they both were living through tragedies of their own families and both were suffering doesn't delete any of their separate feelings.

Drama needs drama, it's a must.

But I can see his POV too - he still doesn't know she's a car full of clowns under that pretty face and it's because she had to survive alone on a mountain for several years with nobody in her family or the outside world ever caring for her well-being.

Those same years, he had to live with the survivor's guilt coming from being the only one who was allowed to live from the whole mess. He had to allow himself to be treated as less than a person (remember those first few eps when each and every charlatan that had the Dowager's ear could come and make him do ANYthing they cared, including being tortured in the name of repenting for his family's sins?!). He had to see his sister-in-law living like a madwoman, his nephew growing up without a father, thinking about all the thousands of men who died for no fault of their own. Thinking about the freaking edict that he DIDN'T know was real or not, but believed his brother to be telling the truth (he didn't go with them to the capital but came later, and he didn't see the edict when his brother had it). 8 years of that will twist someone's mind.

So now take one splitted schizoid beauty who's surviving by focusing on a few very precise points of revenge and redemption and one tortured, guilty-twisted survivor in defense mode - TBH, some of the sweeter parts of their romance are surprising, given the timeline so far is about 6 months. I'm buying it anyway. And the part where he twisted her being all-out for helping him into her doing it out of pity is totally justified BEFORE he finds out she's more broken than him.