ShortCircuit

Oh come on iQiYi, make that 2nd season already!!

One of the MCs is Xiao TingSheng, the unrecognised son of the slain Crown Prince Lin Shu tried to rehabilitate. It's about his own family and his own sons, now adults. He does remember MCS as his own master. There are even two or three scenes re-used from the first season, and Lin Chen makes a short appearance.

I don't think most of the others remember him, though. The story isn't about him. but XTS never forgot.

Takes place in the same kingdom and dynasty as the first one, about two emperors-removed from the original. Mostly unrelated characters though - only two of them are older versions of charas in the first season (not mains). The plot flow is much different. There's a lot more romance in this than was ever in the first one. It's more about brotherhood than friendship.

Also, it has the BEST epic war scenes I've ever seen in a drama. Movie-level.

Me too. I can't even think about it without remembering what happened to LSK.

This one has been on hold for years already. I don't expect we'll see it any time soon, UNLESS (please innocent people from China who happen to have access to those files...) someone mistakenly releases it like that other one did with The Spirealm, LOL.

...I really really want to see LYX as CWN :(

I've seen the photos of their costumes and though - these looks quite a lot like TTEOTM's costumes. Went to look and what do you know, it's the same costume designer, Huang Wei.

Well, if so, expect AT LEAST amazing costumes from this drama.

Also, it's been too long without CFY, #freeCFY.

And Tencent, release freaking 2ha already...

Every now and then I miss my soft exiled prince Tantai Jin. This is one of those moments. Dammit, TTJ.

He speaks volumes with his eyes and actions. He doesn't really need words.

Not to mention all his Wei Yings are nuanced... from the one meaning "Wei Ying, baby, we've talked about this, stop being an ass and get down to sleep, it's 9PM" to "Wei Ying, ISTG if you don't stop this nonsense of demonification I'm gonna whoop your ass so hard you won't be able to sit down a week and I'll break my Everyday Means Everyday motto just because of that" to "Wei Ying, you're the softest boi to ever grace my view, I could stay here watching you all day and night (well not between 9PM and 5AM, but you know what I mean)".

And then there's the "walking a single-plank bridge with you til its dark end is not so bad"- Wei Ying.

This man speaks love.

Well, LOL, the Yin Iron is also only important in the drama, too. In the novel, WWX finds the old sword in the Xuanwu monster and keeps it in his pouch (wuxia/xianxia have these out-of-place-out-of-time items to store things, pouches or rings or whatever) until he's thrown into the Burial Mounds and has to survive it, and that's it. He remakes the sword into the Tiger Amulet and lets it refine all the dark resentful energy of the place and later on, uses it to control dark spirits. (The novel is way more horror and gruesome than the drama, BTW, if you haven't, you should read it, it's amazing - and you get 1000% more WangXian interractions. Because trust me - it's way more in the open, what's between them, than it ever comes out in the drama).

LWJ is way more useful when roaming around with WWX and not giving his uncle more dyspeptic attacks, LOL because - "wherever chaos is, that's where Lan WangJi is". He's one like Song Lan and Xiao XingChen, going out to find and erase darkness, not sitting in council meetings to tend to leaders' wounded pride. I like him just going out along on WWX's crazy adventures - because WWX is just nosy and SMART and can't sit still - and dealing with dangers to the non-JiangHu people.

Just read the novel - novel WWX and LWJ are amazing (and flawed) heroes of legend.

...And then there's the extras :D

I don't think anyone is rooting for his undoing, he's just an active contrast for the ML and that's about it - not a lot of substance to his presence, or not so far, anyway. Yeah, dating two women at the same place of work is beyond idiotic, LOL but at the same time, he managed it for at least half a year and neither of the women caught him.

The submission was stolen from her idea anyway, I don't know if he withdrew it yet, I hope so, for his good. And if he didn't, I hope she exposes him.

Wen RuoHan was never Excellency, he just did whatever he wanted because he had the power to do so. Jin GuangShan became Excellency of the newly created Alliance of Clans who worked together to bring down the Wen Clan.

LWJ only becomes Excellency in the drama, in the novel he doesn't care about it because WWX and he are busy honeymoon-ing all over the place and feeding dogfood to everybody LOL.

The position is supposed to be one of a mediator between clans and the deciding voice in whatever thing they can't really agree on. Obviously JGS never cared about it because all he wanted was the prestige. But after the Wen Clan was brought down, it was Meng Yao doing everything as a stand-in and making all the decisions until he "inherited" the position by killing his father. And he also used it to basically rule over the JiangHu and having all leaders at his beck and call, when previously he was nobody, the son of a prostitute and someone his own father called a "nothing".

A cheater getting his just rewards, I don't see a problem here at all. And did you notice how he's looking at HaeYoung? He still has cheating on his mind.

OMG, so young?! All my actual childhood is hazy, I have no real memory of myself until about 6 years of age and no structured remembrance of my primary school years... I thought everybody was about the same. 3 seems way too young to form lasting memories. Am I the one of the outliers, LOL? :D

He said he's going to have a "real" family himself, I wonder if he went to someone who adopted him and then left him behind or something...

In my country the only recognised marriage is the one legalised in the City Hall. You can choose to have or not have a religious ceremony after, but never before, and no traditions make it official without the civil act. Sometimes people wait to have a wedding party for years after they get actually married, LOL.

We have lots of common law situations, but they're not recognised by law because we also have lots of idiots who are ~afraid~ making them official would let in same-sex marriages.

On the other hand, you can divorce very easily if nothing's contested and there are no kids - just go to any legal notary and declare you're divorced and you're done (they give you a certificate of divorce and that's that).

So he was one of the orphans or children in distress the mom took over - he must've been old enough to remember his foster mom, why doesn't HaeYoung recognize him? Or the other two foster sisters?

And who's the one in Canada that's making him want to run as fast and as far away as he can?! And more important, why?!

The cheater's wife and the wedding salon employee were manifesting HARD for his presence, LOL. They had such a strong sismance, hahaha~

OMG poor Bokyu's eyes!!!! They were burning!!! Great King Sejong reborn wouldn't have been able to restore the innocence of his mind even if he de-invented hangul!! How on Earth is mom addicted to that kind of stories while the son is dragged in hell by them LOL.

Myself, I just want her taking care of the cat.

Pretty obvious, right? :D

AH is based on the AH novel. The On1y One is based on A Certain Someone by Mu Su Li. Given the only thing they have in common is the school setting, why do you think this would be a remake of AH?!

My strategy for boring dramas is to drop them and forget about them. What's yours?

It's going to be 80% school time, leave it if it's not for you. Schools typically involve teachers, students and studying so....