ShortCircuit

There is no love triangle or any other love polygon but this is definitely not a romance drama. If that's your interest in it, it's not going to be very much of it. This is pretty male-centric.

Yes, they put in that rule after dramas started doing two very close together seasons to go around the 50 ep cap. But GotD debuted in 2024, so if they made it or are making it, a S2 can come as soon as December of this year, so... It all depends on if they made it already. If not, it'll take a little longer.

PS As for the 50 ep cap, I don't remember the wording, but it was about the potential for very long production periods tangling a lot of money, maybe going bankrupt and not recovering their money at all, not paying crews and actors and whatnot if that happened, etc. And then there's a limited time on Hengdian sets (free to use but need to be booked well in advance) that would stop smaller teams from ever filming there. I think that was the gist of the motivation. Or maybe they're control freaks anyway, who knows.

They should've sent me, LOL. I'm not afraid of darkness and can get a bit too curious, I would've tried that door to see if it opens, too :D Maybe pinched someone too hahaha~

It's under the title in the OP for every episode. You see that horizontal line in-between Chinese text, underneath the English title? That's the number 1 in Chinese. It's actually the same title as the book they open in the first episode, before Yang Ling wakes up in Dafeng (and that gets translated as GotD S1).

They already said this was Season 1 a few times, I don't know if they were wishful thinking or planning it as a seasonal drama. But this one was supposed to be S1 from the beginning.

I don't watch variety shows, what the hell are they even doing? Are they in complete darkness and the watchers can see what's happening but not them?

You know only the express package was released, everybody else is still on normal or VIP release and have some 5-6 eps still to go, right? That's what the spoiler tag is for...

LE They put the spoiler tag on, all's good. Thank you!

...Well then. There are always the high seas for extreme cases, just sayin'.

That's how most isekai start, and while they have the advantage of modern thinking usually (not so stuck up in period mindsets), it's not always based on their actual knowledge of modern things, unless it's them time-slinding into the past where they're still aware of the future. XQA here is just... lucky. And a brat :D And kind of fearless, TBH. And not really a strategist.

But to answer your question, they go back to the "real" world in the after credits scene in the final ep, just to set up a possible sequel. It's not a video game, though, more of a Dungeons and Dragons type of table game, LOL.

PS There are dramas and novels where the protagonist goes to the past after rebirth armed with all knowledge of their past life and trying hard to get revenge or at least escape death. That's still isekai. After you finish GotD, maybe take a look at "Blossom" (there are a lot of blossom-titled cdramas, LOL, this one's title is just that word. It's very good.

TBH, it's not even really her fault, he CAN be a bit dumb at times LOL. She tried to gently correct him a few times and he dug his heels in deeper. But don't worry, they're cute and silly together even when the reveal of true identities happens :D They actually have great chemistry - she'll have some big growth moments and she'll mature a lot, but she'll always be in love with him.

It's just that this isn't THAT type of xianxia/wuxia (where romance is the main plot), but the one with the male focus point. So even if there's romance, it's mostly sprinkled here and there - and I'm all for it, I don't really go in for romance LOL.

She's just a pampered princess, daddy's favourite, she never ever suffered for anything and lacked nothing. That's why she's annoying in the beginning.

But she gets to mature a lot during the series. I think you'll like her changing, in the end.

I also dropped EN2, but not because of WHD, LOL... the story got a bit boring and it was ALL about Sang Sang this, Sang Sang that, like Ning Que became secondary in a story that was mostly about himself in the first season. After that long chess game scene... I just couldn't take it anymore. Maybe I should go back and try again, for WHD.

Not really. The plotlines of the season mostly wrap up (not the love story) with the mysterious Supervisor who erased himself from memory taking XQA and trying to convert him. The rest of the Dafeng - and mostly the Guardians - is feeling a new wave of justice being done after the shake-up XQA gave them.

But the story was always going to be told in seasons - even under the title, in each ep, there's the mention that this was Season 1.

The ending - to me - is extremely satisfactory. Even if they never do another (though I think they will), this feels complete.

The Emperor and his younger brother (Duke Zhenbei) let power get to their heads and started looking at people as if they're ants. It's implied the whole massacre thing is actually orchestrated by the Emperor, and not his brother, though the brother would get to 2nd rank if he can break through. The sage is the second master of Dafeng, IIRC, and his pen is filled with qi. And it might be an allusion to that saying - the pen is mightier than the sword. Who knows. It's not that he's afraid of it, he's afraid of what it means - the scholars let Wei Yuan take the pen and bring it to the Imperial Study, so he's about to lose their support TOO. Because everybody else is already asking him to recognise a personal error - something no other Emperor ever did. (The Emperor is flawless.)

The nation's fortune / the royal luck belongs to the Dafeng but it should stay with the bloodline of the Emperors. Half of it was stolen by XQA's father (""the Superviser") and put inside XQA before his father used the "mystify" spell to erase himself from written history and all memory, as he later does with XQA. Because the treasure is hidden in XQA's body, the dragon and the sword take him as part of the royal bloodline.

He'll get back to her after he defeats tens of thous... errr, millions... errr, BILLIONS of enemies LOL.

The way those two went begging the soldiers for help, and the soldiers were all - ~new phone, who dis?! :D

Myself, I LOVE the part where he's unshod. A LOT. It makes him SO "him".

The Emperor in JoL also used to stay barefoot, and there's the initial intro of the evil princess in The Blue Whisper where she steps out barefoot onto a path of rose petals - WOW. Amazing visuals. There's just something about people going barefoot in costume cdramas that touches a spot, LOL.

I wanted to reccomend The Untamed, but you've seen it. Maybe try Mysterious Lotus Casebook, then?

And if you want a really-heavy hitter, Nirvana in Fire it is.

For me the verse with "all the light that these hands cannot hide" hits the hardest :D

Oh and the love song, the one with "thousands of words", it's SO cute!

His father the supervisor said it was an equivalent exchange and he had given him back the body in exchange for the removal of XQA from the Dafeng. AND XQA gave Song the alchemy book with a note about piecing back a soul...

Yes it is, in ep33, though it's mentioned before. It's Wei Yuan who explains while they're having a truth&dare game of drinking.