ShortCircuit

OR, (just hear me out on this), how about they don't pretend the drama involves scifi elements since it simply does not?...

Then again, this drama sure doesn't know what it wants to be anyway, so pretending to be something it's not is not that surprising. The part where it should have meaning though - if it doesn't, why would people want to spend hours of their lives on it?!

In some isekai, the original character sometimes dies before the transmigration happens (sometimes the transmigrator dies in the real world before going over, too). Other times they're still present but as spectators and have no influence over the actions of the transmigrator. In rebirth stories, they replace their old self, obviously (like in Blossom). It depends on the author's intentions.

Haven''t read GotD so I've no idea what happened to the original soul of XQA's body or with Yang Ling's body. Maybe they switched?

He DIDN'T, LOL, he told everyone in the group chat that he's Chen XunNan (a man who lives by his name, LOL!!), then he said he's actually a scholar named Xu that goes to XinNian's academy... later, when he was found with the device, he said his bro gave it to him because as a scholar he can't go do Guardian stuff, etc. They deduced No. 3 has to he XinNian based on those clues hahaha.

As for WHY XQA said it... first, because he's an annoying brat and did it for the LOLs, then because he has no idea who these people are so he's keeping his data secret :D I think that, so far, other than the cat guy master, nobody realised he's actually No. 3. Except obviously those he already told, like Wei Yuan.

She even SAID she needs to break it on his head like a brick to get his attention, so that he'd finally GEDDIT. But he DIDN'T geddit anyway LOL.

He was caught in a cycle of sorrow about his life, until he managed to break it by completely befuddling the sorcerer.

And Shen Shu's spirit is incomplete - he says someone, presumably a princess of the realm was at fault for him being splintered. It's just the hand part that is in XQA, I guess he needs to rest of the splinters before he's whole and able to return to the TianYu.

No. 3 was supposed to give her a hand and return the favour (since she helped him with the bandits). But she thinks poor XinNian is No. 3 because Xu QiAn told her so. And XinNian has zero idea about anything that's going on, LOL.

Also, TianYu sorcerers: Be certain not to leave the Dafeng before Shen Shu returns, OR ELSE.

The Dafeng Emperor: So anyway, I'll send him away to investigate the massacre in the north.

I can't even with these guys :D


Oh and before we all forget, XinNian and SiMu out-meng-ing each other, LOL. "Xinnian~~~"... "SiMu~~~" hahaha~ They're like that mini-theater of Athrun and Kira during the nakayoshi energy break attempts.

(If you haven't ever met that unskippable piece of art... here it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bStFYu5uUg )

TianuYu sorcerer: What's the meaning of life?
XQA: (Wait, let me die again, we'll talk after). Have you EVER made a tiktok video?!

No, but seriously LOL. XQA is FULL of it as always :D But, on the other hand, the whole "HELLO!! My name is Inigo Montoya!! You killed my father!!! PREPARE TO DIE!!!!!!!" skit was great :D

ETA Also, Lin'An doing puppy eyes was everything LOL.

Oh, modern used-universe cdramas :D - they do exist!

Go Ahead is a found family story (Song WeiLong is in it, he's pretty good, but the ones I LOVED were the parents), and it's a well-worn neighbourhood where most of the story happens. It got a SK remake that I tried for the first episode, but they didn't hit the right note IMHO, not for me anyway. You could take a look if you like the trope.

I Don't Want to Be Brothers With You is another found-family trope gem, and it takes place in a poor neighbourhood, I loved the slow pace and the young cast were SO cute and convincing! If you decide to look at it, watch it on Viki, the original Mango TV subs are immortals of MTL madness, LOL. Viki took it up and re-translated into a human language hahaha~

I'd also rec' another one that I really loved, particularly for the grittiness - that's Wolf Hunter (the original title was just Hunter) BUT sadly no one took it up for re-translation, and the only one available is the original Mango TV one, and they REALLY suck at English TLs. That one's a story about very hard men living at the edge of wilderness, trafficking things, among the more non-Han ethnic tribes at the borders of China. It has amazing characters and cinematography, a really thrilling story, but sadly... atrocious subs :(

If you want gritty and dirty and morally gray characters, maybe take a look at Gold Panning. It's a very harsh story about what gold does to the soul, and it has Chen FeiYu in it (he's one of the good young actors - he's also in Lighter&Princess, if you want another modern romance that's well-acted.)

They (cdramas) seriously have everything if you look close enough, and they make enough of them that there's always a good one to watch among the not-so-great ones, LOL.

I couldn't make it past the halfway point of the first ep, but I come here after each episode just for the schadenfreude. It's mesmerising to watch the trainwreck and see the comments defending this hot mess, LOL.

Can you imagine having the greenest flag among the adults (a little wilted but what can you do) being the one who actually fell for his own delusional love story and took 20 years to get revenge on her?!

Though IMHO, considering her, he did have a very lucky escape.

If jealous ex-intended BF of FL ends up saving JinWoo's career just because he likes his singing, I'll laugh myself to death.

ETA So does anyone else get "conceal, don't feel" vibes throughout the scene where they so awkwardly try to pretend they care about JinWoo's trauma? He SAYS he's not cutting so they just... let it go? (ha!)

Yeah because obviously she's working on a very limited amount of empathy and at the time it was all taken by her own guilt for the accident of her son so there was not a shred left over for the actual death of a girl in her care.

All the adults are amazingly evil in this drama.

Last two eps were way better, but I guess we're about to hit whattafuckery land (again).

Oh LOL, does he have a One-Word Spell in this one, too? I don't remember it from the first season, but after FoF, I'd recognise that stance anywhere :D

Lu Di's role in it was to be way too cute and to bring in the cats, and that's the hill I'll die on about this, LOL. (Also, Liu YiJun, the cop (the captain, not the rookie) has a main role in Guardians of the Dafeng, and he's great in it, too.)

So... more recs? (Now you've gotten hooked on cdramas, let's switch from mainland to the island? :D)

Another amazing time paradox story is the one in top of the rec list, Someday Or One Day, a Taiwanese drama about trying hard to save someone by going back in time. It gave me more of a feeling like The Girl Who Leapt Through Time instead of Reset, but it's still a pretty good and gripping (romantic) time paradox.

And one of the best supernatural but in a comedic setting dramas, that will twist your heart out and leave it out to dry is Oh No! Here Comes Trouble (still from Taiwan). It's not time paradox, but it's even more gripping than Reset, IMHO, and done amazingly well. Great (non-romantic) bromance, amazing characters, it brings out all the emotions and you end up laughing with tears in your eyes. I love that drama, LOL, does it show? :D

LOL, you went and completed it in a day! :D

Yup, this drama is pretty good and the time paradox held up very well.

Did you recognise ~Nihuang~ at all? :)

He's just a happy-go-lucky person who immediately adapts to his surroundings, he won't waste a lot of time on things he can't currently change.

ALREADY? Yes, please!

If you look at the OP, it says Season 1 under the title, LOL.