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Watched this when I went on a 90s/early 00s school series binge. It was super cute! although I wished they cut down on the tropes a bit? The initial premise were already trope filled, then they added more, and more, I think the story and strong nostalgia would have stood out by itself.

I like the meta homages too! Both Joe Chen & Jerry Yan would have been huge part of the audience of this movie. The former being the female lead of top rated twdrama TWICE, Prince turn into Frog (2004) & Fated to Love You (2009) and later, Meteor Garden (2001) of course. The director is also the director of over half a dozen immensely popular twdrama. I think the theme song is sung by Hebe. who's part of SHE, also immensely in early 00s.

Above spoilers are pretty much correct except Wuji knew the sister wasn't her fiance. He outright called it off, but there were some excuse about how sister is sickly so they didn't want to announce it to the public (but everyone in the family knows), so sister just walks around claiming she's the fiance. If they see each other, Wuji kind of ignores her or show her courtesy but just some princess he knows.

I think he also finds out it's Fuyao because there were hints so he had suspicion. The backstory reveal comes not long after though.

YM got very lucky in her early cameos and first major roles, and she had a pretty good manager (and her own company now). Married with kids is a different image but is not harder to sell, especially as you get older. Sun Li (Zhen Huan Zhuan) and Liu Tao (Nirvana in Fire) are both married with kids. In fact, Liu Tao got explosive popularity twice (before she married in few dramas, most notably Tian Long Ba Bu 2003, and after she married with Nirvana in Fire).

It's a pretty humiliating implication though, it left an incredibly bad aftertaste for me. I rather they didn't use rape for drama and for you to care and cry for the character. (you can humiliate and powerplay without rape)

Common practice in cdrama. Historical are always dubbed, sometimes by the actors themselves. Contemporary varies, web dramas usually isn't dubbed. It has to do with wide range of accents that can take people out of a drama (especially historical. taiwanese and hk actors are almost always dubbed even in contemporary ones), not good enough acting from actors to say the lines with proper emotion, voice not fitting a particular character and noise pollution. The place where they film a lot of dramas are actually also a tourist spot and used by multiple teams, you can't air the drama just like that.

Looks like she was in Feng Qiu Huang dubbing Huo Xuan and Ze Tian Ji. I don't recognise the other works. I think they are all minor roles. She's part of a very popular/high profile dubbing group that dubs dramas (some roles) and anime (majority of the roles are from their gorup?).

happy ending. the novel had more of a chance for "tragic end" than the drama would tbh, because it had transmigration elements and the entire book was her trying to go home.

I think it's still 8 episodes for vip. it'll just be up to ep 20 instead of 16 like on TV.

Looks like it's 结爱·异客逢欢, I kind of doubt it has a translation though since it's not the a super popular book.

I didn't think it was possible to love the drama more, but reading the novel did make me love it more, despite the changes they made. It fully captured the essence of the novel and expanded it with its focus on the ensemble cast. Goddamn do I love these characters.

The first one is canon (to the drama and to the novel). There's two version because the latter was released first and let's just say it was received badly so they cut away the scene. (The director and production team actively kept tabs on Douban and posted there)

I get what you mean, especially since Yu Huai and Lin Yang are canonically friends in bookverse. (Zhou Mo in With You basically played what was suppose to be Lin Yang's role as a close friend who helps Yu Huan and he also compete with academically) The thing is, With You was written after My Huckleberry friends whereas the drama order is reverse. I digress.

It's probably just Yu Huai's actor Liu Hao Ran is too busy/expensive to do cameo on web dramas now after Nirvana in Fire II and presumably filming Novoland. Geng Geng (Tan Song Yun) cameo in a With You sequel movie that focus on Lu Xing He (it came out few months ago online) so idk what's up with her.

The characters are referenced, and more importantly, Xu Yan Liang, class 5's class monitor, the chubby guy shows up on multiple occasions. I think the schedule just didn't work out for the main characters to pop in as cameo, that or it's too expensive.

Not very much. There's what looks like one side crush for most of the drama, some light flirting between two other characters, but you get sort of romantic scenes between the two couple somewhere around episode 20. For the most part, the characters are friendly but not romantic towards each other. You can headcanon protective actions of characters but mhmm.

you are not the only one that thought of that set haha, although I haven't seen it. It make sense for that drama though because that's xianxia, whereas for this, it's just mildly confusing? wei kingdom is going to have a lot of original bits though which i'm suspicious about. The male lead was not what I expected but he grew on me...?

I watched the first two episodes. Interesting set design, SO MUCH WHITE. The pacing was faster than I expected (I skim read the first 1/4 of the novel and skipped to the end) but I guess when all the flowery description gets turned into background, that happens. I have no damn clue how this could last 50 episodes OR how they change the plot since time travel bits were removed. I'm curious, but idk if I'm curious enough to watch more.

If you can handle your regular average thriller or crime shows, this should be fine. Don't watch it full screen and watch it during the day if you need to?

Why oh why, drama. If you are going to dub Cantonese over Mandarin speakers, at least dub all of them. Why is a HK special force leader speaking Mandarin? Can you find someone who can dub with emotion too? Those dubbing took me right out of the drama. I was so ready to accept your bizzaro everyone has babelfish logic, but then you ruined it. Why not dub over Simon too?