ShortCircuit

He's one of those people who ingratiate themselves with everyone, or at least he wants to. The people in his generation tend to sympathize with him because he should have had an honourable position anyway, if his father had any decency (which he doesn't). The fact Jin GuangShan is a lecher is part of why WWX and Jiang Cheng didn't want Jin ZiXuan as a brother-in-law (that and the way he treated YanLi before).

Meng Yao is a chameleon, he tells everyone whatever they want to hear, and had gained a lot of friends through it. But he has some - not a lot - of sincerity. When the Wen Clan destroyed Clan Recesses, killed a lot of the disciples (including LWJ and LXC's father who was living in seclusion - he's never presented in the drama, though he had been still alive til the Wen attacked), Lan XiChen was saved and protected in secret for a goodly while by Meng Yao. So LXC's loyalty is earned (these brothers tend to be straight-up believers in their friends. It's just that one of them picked the right person to trust and the other... had bad luck).

A lot of the drama is presenting brotherly relationships - from actual, blood-brothers (and sworn brothers, and adopted brothers) to soulmates (romantically or un-romantically involved). I love those parts quite a lot.

And there's a joke that the whole story is about Jin Ling's uncles, LOL (all of the main charas are somehow related and most of them turn out to be some kind of uncle to Jin Ling :D)

Actually, he IS of the Jin Clan, he's one of the Jin leader's bastards. Even MO XUANYU (WWX's present timeline's body) is one of Jin GuangShan's bastards, he fathered a lot of them, as you'll soon see. And he DID go undercover in the Wen Clan to find out their secrets, it's just that he did it for his own reasons.

The past timeline flashback isn't showing everything, just everything that happened to WWX and how his relationships with the rest of the Jianghu moved. Not what the other clans were doing and if you remember the first two eps (though not a lot was presented yet), there are a LOT of important people who survived the Sunshot Campaign but are not in the picture anymore (and that's suspicious because such people tend to survive everything and a nuclear bomb on top, in any xianxia/wuxia story. ) There's also the question of WHO and HOW did they manage to summon WWX's soul back, when he was missing for so long...

Hehehe, secrets :D

And the staring countdown, LOL, that Jin nobody (who's actually someone important in how things evolve but anyway) was desperately looking around for someone to save him hahaha~

And everyone else thinking - at least it's not me LOL.

It's not that she just hanged herself - or the way Wen Chao died - it's that WWX drove them to it. And he did it in cold-blood, which, if you think who he IS, is kind of chilling. He's not that easy-going guy who thought smuggling in some wine into the school was fun, anymore... he's turned into a killer.

It's even more gruesome in the novel - not going to spoil it since you might want to try it in the future. But there's a good reason people got to fear WWX after his Burial Mounds stint.

At this point in time LWJ is becoming desperate - he SEES how WWX is slipping and fears it'll affect him through his whole life or even kill him, and is unable to do anything about it. Anything at all. After all... he's an "outsider" now, like WWX called him. WWX also knows how to push him away, and does so because things have irremediably changed. He can't be the carefree young lord anymore, and there's a new distance between WWX and everyone else in the world.

Except YanLi. She's precious to him and the only one he can't give up in any way.

Cutting it off here, or I won't be able to not write some spoiler, LOL.

In the end the thing that does it is the Americans bombing the mountains randomly and not some amazing negotiating skills. Or anything much, rather. Oh, and also 20 million dollars because why not.

I guess it being based on a historical event they couldn't embelish much, but still, as a plot... it kind of falls flat.

No, this is danmei. There are no women between them and they basically adopt a son.

The drama even keeps some suggestive scenes, despite the censorship.

If you watch and like it, there is always the novel for the uncensored story (and a donghua, and a chibi donghua, and an audio drama, and a manhua). There are good reasons why this is one of the best known danmei love stories ever.

Oh yes it is :D

Psycho WWX, wait for it, it's worth it :D

....But the whole world will also change for all of them T_T

It's going to get a lot darker before it gets back to the present, after all, the flashback ends with WWX's death (the opening scene of the drama). All the school days' fluff was meant to cushion the fall, LOL. But there are still going to be some great moments, too, to balance it. Just be prepared for most anything that could go wrong, to go wrong.

33 is where they go back to the present. Til then it's going to be the history of why WWX became a pariah, what happened to Wen Ning and why does Jiang Cheng now hate anything related to WWX.

If you're past 14th, all hell's about to break loose.

He's an amazing character to love to hate, though. I highly appreciate him - and his mistress LOL.

So I had the bright idea to start this on the Halloween midnight hour LOL. Creepy but not really scary (yet).

Points in its favour so far: pretty tight plot in the first ep, let's see how it develops. I like how cheeky Thup is, LOL. And I really like the light almond-tinted eye lens. The music is good too, including the BGM - highly approved!

Points I still have doubts about: not much, really, yet. Except for the sudden forced cohabitation trope, LOL.

Anyway - ohmagerd is THAT the abandoned mall where ATEEZ filmed HALAZIA?? Because it looks a lot like it. Do they have a lot of abandoned malls in Thailand to use as film / music videos backgrounds, LOL?

PS Thai BLs should take (only) one page from NF's book and drop all seasons at once. Thirteen weeks of this will be painful.

This is so danmei that despite censorship they still end up married with kids (like in the novel).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWbvpnRaELU

(minor spoilers, out of context).

Also, this is a love story told in small touches and charged glances, between an unaware shameless tease and a very serious man who falls once and forever (even after death.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0HPlcei010

When it's over you'll ask for more. Just give it a try.

Thank you :)

I am used to deaths of lovely characters, I've watched the Wonderland of Love massacre (and cried buckets too, LOL).

That's extremely clear and helpful, thank you a lot!!

Oh, so her brother is still alive? She said (in that first half ep I had time for) her father and older brother died and her family fell from grace. Maybe she had more brothers).

Thank you!

I haven't read the novel either, sorry. So when the drama timeline starts, according to the novel, would she be in her first or her second life? (What I want to know is if she already knows how things unfold in the future or not).

And if they were defeated that means they died... does it? (That's so sad, they seem to be a bunch of cute brotherly fellas).

- at the beginning of the drama, is she already reincarnated or it didn't happen yet?

And what happens to the whole bunch of Wei brothers? Are they all going to die soon? (I saw them all as guest roles).

Trying to decide if I want to watch this, I only had time for half of the first ep and it looks good so far, but I'd like to know where it's at, in time.

Questions for the novel readers -

ETA So my questions are answered, and it looks good AND I like the FL a lot (that sword dance was mesmerising). Ding YuXi isn't bad at all either, LOL. I guess this one goes on the PTW list.

This is my fourth WYL drama and in all of them she seems to be acting almost the same - wide-eyed telegraphed emotions, not much actual feeling into it (or not that I can see), all three roles kind of ditzy damsels (I'm counting IAN as two dramas). Though in IAN she was supposed to be like that. In this one and the other (When Destiny Brings the Demon - that I haven't finished yet despite liking the ML a lot, too), she's just ditzy, clumsy, yell-ish (is that a word?), not-quite-there acting.

It sure didn't help that the time-travelling romance didn't quite mesh with the palace/revenge drama. Or that Li YunRui didn't seem to have a lot to do except fawn over her. I mean, usually in these kind of dramas, the support cast give it some weight, but instead we spent a lot of time on romcom and not enough time of any consequence with the villains. What was the need for so much time and scenes wasted on Yu Lun and when it needed details, suddenly they're flashbacks to him being already caught - and tied up in a clownish manner - and spilling out his master's most important secrets. Which, BTW, how did he even know where the secret documents were?! And they were particularly important to solving the rebellion basically in a minute.

So yeah, that was clumsily done.

The OP promised a lot of action, and it happened, but also, it pretty much never had any real consequences. Like, she sew his wound up - AWAKE - with not much prep, and after he had lost so much blood etc, and nary a fever?! Like, this IS a thousand years back right? There still are NO antibiotics, right? That ~sterilisation~ thing she did was basically a joke. At least pretend he's actually hurt, dammit. And then some days later he's back to being up and about and fighting off dozens of trained soldiers.

So I guess this was supposed to be just romcom. With some heroics so that the ML also looked good.

Oh well. It was nice while it lasted.

Best male character: Big Bro with his inferiority complex. That man knew his limits and braved them anyway.

Best female character: the Princess. That woman knew what she wanted and went about to get it. Props to her.

This is kind of forgettable, but it did help pass the time.

Dunno. I thought they might make cameos in the future timeline, but I guess that didn't happen. Maybe they were there before the family went back in time, but I'm not interested enough to go and check.