ShortCircuit

LOL, he showed his face there :D

Don't feed the troll. Someone who created an alt account just to diss on this drama isn't someone you can argue with, they're here just to throw dirt because their own favourites aren't doing as well.

Let them be, they're just nobodies thinking they're doing some mighty work behind a screen, LOL. Just block them and move on. (Also report all offensive comments).

OMG, there're some romantic scenes in a drama that happens to have a (little bit of ) love story. Whatever shall we do.

Oh well.

No idea. I've seen what's been written in here but I don't know if it's true or just a rumour...

"It can't be that the drama is just bad. All the watchers must be stupid!"

LOL. We're all the way into Copeland.

Are you both kidding? Did you even see the kisses? No chemistry, like... seriously?! LOL.

As for her part or importance in the plot - yes she's the love interest, but also she's the one who actually DOES something to force her father to do better. Nobody else in the imperial family even tries to, not even Huaiqing.

Haven't read the book, have no opinion on how it differs from the drama. IN the drama, though, they repeatedly underscored the sword tactics he's learned - one-strike-kill and if that doesn't work, run.

I think they did better to have him use one (and a few more when the enemy is already down) strike instead of a long series of hits that he can't sustain. Even with Shen Shu and the book's help, he's not even close in fighter ranks, so how could he brawl with such an overpowered enemy?! It took the three of them to just get the duke down. It would've been more amazing (and hard to believe) to have XQA suddenly get to 2nd rank - needed to kill the duke - so easily and for a long period.

And then Shen Shu is totally quiet for a long time (he doesn't return by the end of the season), the book is fried, XQA takes a week to barely function. Going by his normal power, that's more acceptable, IMHO.

There are seasons that weren't really planned for successful dramas - like the second season of Under the Skin, that was only hoped-for and then bam! - one day they announced it'll start airing, and it came in under a week after that.

I'm still waiting for the second season of Be Reborn, but there's still a chance for it.

And then there are some - like JoL - that are planned three seasons in advance.

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.