ShortCircuit

No. She was only married for 6 months before the husband passed away. They didn't have the time. The son is adopted into the family.

It works - the pain response, I mean, if you're high on adrenaline. And some people have a really high pain threshhold. It can be explained away.

Or she's also crazy, mad people don't react normally to stimuli.

I appreciated CMR better when she was just a mad reporter. I don't like her being soft, it takes away some of the raw quality of her.

So, predictions for s2 (if there's one): the profile-making prof will star in it either as mentor or a villain, maybe Bruce Wayne-wannabe's story gets to be in the focus (I just LOVE his butler, LOL, such an Alfred :D), the comissioner just kissed his whole career goodbye (he'll most probably turn out to be the main villain) and the Hulk will still be a cop reforming thugs (the thugs were cute, poor guys LOL).

I wonder which direction the webtoon went with...

Not bad, not bad at all!

Oh wow! Bruce Wayne actually isn't crazy! That's the biggest surprise this far.

Obviously there should be a second season - I wonder if they'll wait NJH out of the army until it's filmed.

One of the songs (the hard rock one) seems to be a new song by indie band Snake Chicken Soup (the song might be called Destroy). I can't find it anywhere, but it might get released once the drama ends.

https://open.spotify.com/artist/5ZvbUkbbw0B8SMap2PpPIc

Dammit, I wish I could read Korean, they have details about the OST in the end credits, but it's in Hangul *sigh*

1. She learned it for the show. She was practicing (time skipping is a must in any drama LOL).

2. The island is a trash collecting ground (most salvage, if any, ends up on its beaches. Even bodies :( )

I just might watch this only based on the impression Liu YuNing left in his meteoric presence as Mr. Mu in Wonderland of Love.

ETA The airing schedule is a nightmare though. I might wait it out first.

Yes, the other surviving grandson.

He does, then retires in favour of grown-up Xuanze. And then he takes his family to Laolan Pass :D

The dad is the one surviving brother to the assassinated emperor. The Crown Prince was also killed, leaving only his own minor son (Xuanze). The dad has the three sons (Jun, Lai and Ni) and they are after him in order of succession, if it were to change lines (from the previous main line - the dead CP to his son, to the secondary line - the dad, then one of his three sons).

Even if Li Ni wanted to become Emperor first, he'd be basically the fourth in line of succession and there would be a lot of discussion re: if he's the legal emperor or not. And he didn't want it anyway.

So when his father is crowned emperor in one of the two capitals, he basically becomes a ranking prince (but not from the legitimate wife, so he would not be very high in a succession bid.) Not that he wasn't a prince before, but as one of 17 grandsons of the former emperor, he was really really low in line and importance.

Theoretically, the oldest son from the legitimate wife is the preferred heir (so Jun) but the emeperor could still choose whoever he wanted from his own sons. Therefore Lai - the second born son of the legitimate wife - will scheme to get ahead.

Then again, they're none of them too bright bulbs, so Li Ni will eventually outshine them all.

In the drama? Yes he did.

In the novel? They never separated.

MengYao married his half-sister KNOWING she was his sister, and later on had his child killed because he was afraid that there would be some problem with him that would make people discover his secret. He doesn't deserve any pity.

Not to mention the unspeakable things he did to Mo XuanYu that led the kid to lose his mind and eventually sacrifice his body and soul to summon WWX to take revenge for himself.

I read somewhere she's working on her 4th book. I don't know if there's any truth to it - and TBH, there are SO MANY danmei out there, it's amazing. TU opened the door into web novels for me, I've read a ton since I've watched the drama :D

I'm going to make SevenSeas rich just by myself, LOL, I'm buying up everything they translate and publish - they've gone through MXTX, Meatbun, starting on Priest and even hit some extraordinary less known gems like Qiang Jin Jiu, which is one of the most amazing (AND hot!!) danmei ever. These guys are great! (Though the prices do hurt the pockets hélas!)

LOL, I like TGCF, but not as much as MDZS or SVSSS - after WWX, SQQ is the bestest shou to ever exist LOL. I can't wait until they find their courage and air the second donghua season on that, too - I've despaired of ever seeing a live adaptation...

I am picking the leads already though, LOL.

Every once in a while, I do go re-watch my favourite scenes (the snow scene, the stairs scene, the escape from the Burial Mounds, the "wi-fi located" forest scene, LOL, and so on and so forth. And by every once in a while, I mean a lot of times at random hahaha. And the soundtrack is always in my playlist.

Truly unforgettable and a danmei standard for me.

But at least now there's the second season of the TGCF donghua running, so there's some MXTX content yet :D (it has an amazing 1st ED song, too).

I thought coriander was something you eat. (No idea if I ever met the smell either LOL. I stay away from kitchens). What does it smell like?

I mean... Everyday means everyday :D

We shouldn't wait for a specific time, right? :D

Don't mind me here in the peanut gallery (or should I say melon seeds gallery considering it's a cdrama :D), I was all the way over Li Ni's side of the fence - I guess my mind works more like his when dealing with reality and less like hers.

BUT! In the end he DID get what he wished, so I call it a team win for the Shiqi Lang fans :D

That's because she's ambitious and he's not, and she STILL doesn't know what she's asking of him. He does.

They're both going to have to bend and stretch, but it's okay. It's fine when people grow up and learn together :D

Sung by a male voice: Xueran Chen's "Will You Still Remember" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpjCcdnk0UM

He has a gift for lonesome songs invoking sadness or at least distance. It reminds me of a song from Ever Night (the male version of Darkness - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juuwNU0O5gY )

And from the women's tracks, definitely Li Jiawei's An Immortal Love - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERdWT88riog&list=PLLaG0k-PXfndy3ZlkMJ1MWaggYZjbSq0D&index=4 (also sounds a bit like Farewell to Love from LBFAD - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMlFp8j0UWg )

Folk-like song (wannabe, I don't know its name, it hasn't been officially released yet): that song about the 18 bends of the river.

BGM: that amazing build-up song of slowly raising tension they kept using (again, no name yet, I hope they release it soon).

It would've been 18+ rated LOL. The whole drama would've been shut down hahaha~

Yeah, well, Li Ni is stubborn and A'Ying still doesn't realise what living in the Imperial Palace involves (for their family and kids). He is not a dreamer - he's a pragmatic, though a romantic one, LOL. And she's not a realist - she's an idealist, albeit a ruthless one.