asphyxia

imo they kind of treat him like a puppet as if they don’t want the empress dowager to see him as a threat, but he’s still kept alive so it assuming he has some power they vie for their plan

havent read novel and ik plot differs from og story, but i hope ye ying has a change of character. she seems to be the type to cause petty trouble but not be a true villain iykwim 🤔

MXY being sooo nonchalant in the beginning 😂

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i use 💋 kh

a lot of old dramas are cut/aired differently across different platforms, the same happened with mars where the og tv network had longer episodes but less total episodes

planning on trying this when it's done airing, can anyone give me their first impression, good or bad? ik not to trust the ratings nowadays bc everything starts out under 8 stars upon airing now 😭

so confused by episode 19, did she genuinely not recognize him when he wore the mask? by the snow cliff when she went to pick up the wrist protector

finally finished, so glad the ending wraps up everything nicely by showing the aftermath of each of the seven cases!! felt like such a journey, but my fave case was def the one with the grandpa and the crazy mechanisms

just finished a rewatch, omg i miss this era

translation is correct, she was just tryna shift the topic

can't believe it's over!! fave case is still the one about the wu family because it was so tragic how many woman were commodified for riches and discarded when labelled as "promiscuous". it was satisfying to see the grandpa get the bad guys down and watching LPY + XHJ walking through his mechanism plans. sooo thrilling that i need to let it marinate for a while and forget all the details so i can rewatch

MDL drama ratings have never been that representative of the full audience. Sometimes I watch a 8.6-8.7 drama, and it ends up being trash while my fav dramas end up way lower in ranking. Most criticisms ive seen have been about how there are too many "random suicides", which i kinda disagree with 😅

dailuwa + bailu reunion reminds me of moonlight mystique!! personally I prefer this drama bc I feel like case solving dramas move at a thrlilling pace, does anyone have any good detective drama recs?

EPISODE 22 HAS ME IN TEARSS NOOOO, need to take a break before continuing iomg

i feel so bad for old xiao.. he saw his own daughter being broken by this extraction system so he broke it himself to save more people😭 😭 😭 😭

the lady wang story made me so sad... she was labelled as a manipulator simply for desiring freedom and fighting for it 😭😭

I think the romance develops so much more naturally when it's a subplot.. I wish more dramas did this bc usually the flirty scenes take away from my ability to enjoy the characters individually

i did not expect to see doomed yuri omg 😭😭😭😭

it's an ancient chinese timekeeping method, one "hour" is a mistranslation because a 时辰 is a two hour period. the zi hour is like 11pm-1am roughly