ShortCircuit

I watched the first episodes, these things you mention (other than her being married to Prince Xin and then killing herself in order to set a trap and revenge her family) were NEVER mentioned at all.

Have you read the book and are taking this info from the novel?! Because I can promise you... they did not mention anything about her being affianced to Dr Xie before. And she never had any kind of reaction to him when she got to meet him in her reincarnated period.

Anyway.... I don't need more words to explain this drama, I need this drama to show more than tell. Because so far they've been telling us a lot of things that happened offscreen and should have mattered but they never came into play, being replaced by yet another romantic scene with a song where she's looking at rain or snow and he's looking at her for the tenth time.

Thanks for trying to explain :)

PS The CP moving around freely in the capital or around it does not warrant him being able to take a few weeks/months to go on a different county where some prefect was killed and replaced and NOBODY found out for TWO YEARS. TWO YEARS?! And they only found out because some random kid managed to escape being hunted down by rebels and tell HER?!

Like... this is ridiculous.

Like, I can't believe how badly the whole Duke Ying sideplot was executed.

So, an out-of-the-blue kid comes to appeal on his brother's behalf (we never learn what happened to the kid and his brother, either), there's a sudden fire that endangers her (like, how many times it's been now? About the 5th at least, right?), Prince Lie saves her (because of reasons, he just teleported there for a change instead of the CP doing the teleportation to save her in the last second). We find out Doctor Xie is Duke Xie's estranged son (this never came up ever before, despite the doctor being pretty present in the drama so far. And TBH, I expected a bigger presence from Gala Zhang). Then she promises him that IF he EVER needs help, she'll help him. The same day off he goes and disappears prompting her to go help him. She engineers a missing token and sidetracks into finding a hiding place where Duke Ying- never spoken of before - is hiding and being treated by Xie's estranged son that doesn't care his father is about to get arrested. (Because in his case filial piety isn't a thing since he SUSPECTS his father poisoned his mother). And so in the space of a few days we get an unknown noble connection for Dr Xie, find out more unsavoury things about the current Emperor, lose and save Dr Xie, unearth a whole conspiracy (and sideline the love story between Mr Cui and Ms Bu), investigate everything and find out that ooops this isn't the poisoner you're looking for.

In two episodes.

Not to mention the mine-and-forge plot (okay so Mr Cui and Ms Bu could admire each other's attributes - his more than hers - and then appreciate each other more etc). But XiHe and CP get to teleport to that province out of the blue (nobody told the Emperor his CP is going on a wander about AGAIN), XiHe inserts herself into guvernatorial business - like by WHAT authority?! There's no logic - and then SHE gets to decide what happens to the rescued prisoners. Because of reasons. While the CP is standing there like an idiot, being cute wallpaper (I mean he IS supposed to inherit, if he lives, that would be a perfect PR opportunity for him, what, are we supposed to believe the Emperor wouldn't use it?!)

Anyway - the most stupid plot point is CP arguing that Dr Xie's poisoned mother that we never found out about until 20 minutes before he disappeared deserves to be raised in rank post-mortem because she was chaste and demure and noble and whatnot. And the Emperor going OMG that's an AMAZING idea, why didn't we ever do that before?! Let's do that, let me give an edict about it right this minute!!

My IQ slipped 2 points on that scene alone.

Anyway. Long story short, I wanted to like this or at least enjoy some mindless fun, but it's not really fun any more...

NGL, I stayed in spite of the messy execution/plot (because they're cute) but it's became slowly kind of stale. I mean, it already feels episodic and disjointed and I bet they didn't intend for it to be so.

Something happens - gets solved (through deus-ex-machina, out-of-the-blue information that was never brought up before the moment it was needed, magical intervention of a character that never appeared before and never returns, etc) - next episode another thing happens. The other princes are basically MIA at this point, the CP is simping like no man ever simped before, she's playing ice goddess (because why?!) and all the rest of the story is meaningless and inane.

This drama had an attempt to the life of a royal at least once every two episodes and nobody ever batted an eye. They all go in and out of the Imperial Palace on a whim, nobody cares (are those eunuchs for decor or what?!) The people from the NW frontier teleport back and forth in an instant. Huge important clue into the poisoning comes and goes in two eps (that were mostly about completely different things than the poisoning).

However I tried to just not mind and turn my brain off, it's became annoying about now. There are cute scenes and he's being heroic at times and then all the rest of the support cast comes and goes but dammit... it feels empty. Completely lacking in substance.

I might continue just because I never watched a drama with this ML before, but it's going to be a struggle.

Is the book as bad?!

Slowly boiling the frog, are they.

You can take your AI-generated content and shove it.

Liked the opening. My catching point so far for this is that it has gorgeous historical costumes, usually not something I've seen in Thai BLs (also most of the men and women from 350 years ago go around half naked anyway LOL). And Gaew going into shock instead of just diving right into the isekai transmigration was on point, LOL. I mean, who wouldn't go a bit crazy over something like that?!

The main cast is gorgeous - though WTF is original Gaew's problem?! I hope the new and improved Gaew starts impressing people right and left immediately with his cutie side.

PS I thought cars were practical Faraday cages, someone inside a car struck by lightning wouldn't get electrocuted (if all doors and windows are closed). I guess we're going with the "he hit his head" (where the heck is his belt though?)

The men could also use surrogacy if they really wanted babies - but I think that, despite the age difference, ChangYang already has his hands full with his QingLang baby :D

But she's not of that family, going by the reincarnation. Which begs the question on WHO exactly she is - is she the original Gu daughter who killed herself (since she does her incense stuff and knows the Imperial family), or is she the not-drowned Shen daughter (who was naive and not really worldly before the drowning). Or is she supposed to be a mix between them?

She doesn't owe the Wen Duke's family anything if she's reborn, she's protecting them because she needs their power structure BUT she's not their daughter. They cared for the original girl, not this one. All her powerplays make no sense in this POV. She's doing it because she used to do it as a Prince's wife.

But then this again makes no sense - it's been three years since she killed herself, she HAS to have known all the princes, they're not younglings. She HAS to have known the Crown Prince too (even if she didn't care much for him at the time). There's not a lot of logic into her going to test each and every one of them. Not in the drama, anyway. Maybe in the novel she forgot most of her previous life or something so that she needs to learn things anew. But the drama doesn't imply that at all. She also remembers everyone her body's original knew and the secret codes between the family (that she knew WHY?! Since the original body's conscience wasn't really smart enough to use them safely).

However you're looking at it, there are too many fails of logic in this one.

Anyway, it's pretty and there are good scenes and it moves fast (sometimes too fast). For me, TBH, the support characters and the secondary leads carry the drama. So far anyway.

In such a story I imagine the daughters would find themselves attracted to females too :D (Or at least going bi).

I know it's a typo but it's hilarious. Exactly, WHEN Shu, WHEN? :D

(I kind of think his name is WenShu indeed).

TBH I am quite certain this isn't the best of the cdramas I've ever watched. Everything is so far-fetched, things just happen with no rhyme and reason (and this a drama about a scheming bunch of people including the soon-to-be newlyweds), everyone in that Imperial Palace is prone to going missing for days (no one bats and eye), or getting attacked repeatedly at random or while going about the capital in the dead of night with no guards (because of reasons) but there's no outcry anywhere in the Palace (like AT ALL, repeatedly), things are summarily introduced and solved and on and on.

BUT it's entertaining in it's almost stupidity. There are some amazing shots and I live for the fake crossdressing bromance between Ms. Bu and Mr. Cui (I seriously think they are the best CP in the drama). There are quite a lot of pretty known actors in this one, I wonder why the writer couldn't adapt it better. Or maybe that's just how the novel nonsensically moves LOL.

I'll keep watching because it's light and easy and because of the fake bromance, I'm invested now LOL.

I don't think QingTian is joking (though I hope he doesn't do anything). Older Xu bro should hurry up and confess soonest.

Dad Xu seems set to have at least one of his sons straight LOL. It's the maker's fault anyway, they didn't ask to be born gay.

Also. Hu YiChen still the prettiest crier in any dramas I've watched lately. He's cute. I want his character to have a HEA and I don't even care who with, anymore.

Our main CP is still going strong, they're so sweet together - though now ChangYang progressed to MAIN SON and GRANDSON rank, LOL, sorry, QingLang, you've been taken over :D

TBH, it's kind of interesting but also pretty concerning that revenge vigilantism and power trip dramas are so popular everywhere. It says something about the state of mind of people around the world. Agent Kim Reactivated, Teach You a Lesson, all the Weak Hero seasons, then Study Group etc - all of them are vigilante p0rn (that I also enjoy, can't say I don't) BUT... it is probably just a matter of time until someone forgets the limit between reality and fiction and tries to do something on their own.

Then again... romcoms are failing to get attention everywhere, fantasy fusion is absent so far (waiting on The East Palace to end the funk), I guess we'll have to watch fights this hot summer.

Methinks there are either people with too much time on their hands, or there are interested parties that spur on fan-fights. For reasons.

In other news, some mud-slinging water army was just exposed the other day. I guess this is about to be linked to yet another of that kind, eventually.

I wouldn't be surprised if some of those people or their AI accounts were present on MDL too. Every time a drama is newly broadcast, there's mass down-voting on all the episodes, malicious comments on the acting of the leads, purported ~scandals brought to life in the comments section and so on and so forth. All before the drama has a chance to even properly start.

I also wouldn't doubt that where they found one, there's not a whole bunch of these kind of setups.

I should've postponed this til I could binge it... Oh well.

Anyway - the music is gorgeous. This is what caught me and dragged me in kicking and screaming (well not really.) So far, it's one of the best cBL I've ever watched.

From ep6 - wow, Hu YiChen's crying scene was so beautiful - sad and all, but this man cries so prettily. The sadist in me wants to see some more. I hope his character's lover wakes up.

PS Is there a differently-edited version than what's on GaGa? That includes different/more scenes or something? From other comments it looks like it's so...

Err, it's quite simple - they're filming a remake of Qinglang's movie from 7 years ago and sadly it looks like the pair is following the same off-camera recipe for disaster that Qinglang and his ~ex~ followed. Only this time it's pretty clear (to the watcher at least) that the ML of the remake is scum.

I mislinked it, sorry. Re-did the link, I hope it works now for you :)

I'm freaking going to watch this drama on the basis of the ED song alone - please, anyone, how to locate this song? What's the title, who sings it? That's an unforgettable song.

ETA Nevermind, Gemini told me. Here's an unofficial YT to the ED song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXt7hop9vqs

This is one of the best one I've heard in quite a while. Such beautiful voices! It looks like the official one is sung by A Kun, an absolutely thrilling song. It's on repeat already LOL. But there's a second version sung by the leads, I have to dig it up :D

LOL, the Chinese picks were so tame :D

If they're not here yet, they'll be eventually added by someone. This is an interactive site where the fans populate the pages of content LOL.

You can try adding them yourself if you have the basic info about them :)

(Though fair warning, I have tried before and got rejected with different pages, so eventually I stopped trying. It's annoying trying to follow a format to the T and still get rejected for various reasons.)