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My son liked very much the FL lead and how she portrayed her character, and he's extremely picky

I edited my original comment to make it clearer, thank you!

Yes, for all c-dramas, there's a huge difference between Douban ratings and MDL ratings (except Word of Honor and a very few others). But I hope this drama does well in Douban, as I said below.

I'll watch it for sure, but I hope the drama will allow DW space to show off his acting so he doesn't have to go again through a miss the dragon experience...

Now I'm even more worried

2019 - Well-Intended Love - 6.6 (50k)
2021 - Historical: The Dreamlike Seal - 6.4 (only 2k)
2019 - Xianxia: The Eternal Love 2 - 6.2 (34k)
2021 - Miss Crow and Mr. Lizard - 5.5 (66k)
2020 - Well-Intended Love 2 – 5.3 (21k)
2020 - Historical: General’s Lady - 4.8 (only 5k)
2020 - Well-Dominated Love - 4.6 (8k)
2021 - Cute Programmer - 2.9 (9k)

Although he has a big pipeline of projects, I’m kind of worried about the director’s drama rating of General's Lady in douban (one of his recent historicals). Although not entirely their responsibility, directors’ performance weighs highly in the final product. In my comment below, his Douban ratings in descending order (and thousands of ratings) of recent dramas he directed:

I love your gifs 💕

You're not alone. I keep rewatching LBFAD instead of starting the next ones in my list lol

I don't know, probably to shorten it? Here are the deleted scenes including the second part of the bed scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWXemyDi_rw

Yessss! And I'm also waiting for Falling into You to end, so I can binge it without interruptions ❤️

9.0 – 7.7 – Love Like The Galaxy (2022)
8.9 – 7.9 – Love Between Fairy and devil (2022)
8.8 – 7.4 – Love and Redemption (2020)
8.7 – 7.3 – One and Only (2021)
8.7 – 5.8 – Sword Snow Stride (2021)
8.7 – 5.9 – The Long Ballad (2021)
8.7 – 5.7 – Who Rules the World (2022)
8.6 – 6.8 – Eternal Love of Dream (2020)
8.6 – 5.3 – Ancient Love Poetry (2021)
8.6 – 7.3 – The Romance of Tiger and Rose (2020)
8.6 – 8.6 – Word of Honor (2021) (571k)
8.5 – 8.0 – A dream of splendor (2022)
8.5 – 7.9 – The Imperial Coroner (2021)
8.5 – 5.8 – The Blue Whisper: Part 2 (2022)
8.4 – 5.8 – The Blue Whisper: Part 1 (2022)
8.4 – 5.7 – The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty (2020)
8.4 – 6.3 – Douluo Continent (2021)
8.4 – 5.9 – Immortal Samsara: Part 1 (2022)
8.4 – 4.8 – Novoland: Pearl Eclipse (2021)
8.4 – 5.6 – The Rebel Princess (2021)
8.4 – 6.2 – Maiden Holmes (2020)
8.3 – 5.9 – Immortal Samsara: Part 2 (2022)
8.3 – 7.8 – Ancient Detective (2020) (45k)
8.3 – 3.9 – Jun Jiu Ling (2021)
8.3 – 5.6 – The Sword and The Brocade (2021)
8.2 – 4.8 – General's Lady (2020)
8.2 – 5.1 – Qing Qing Zi Jin (2020)
8.2 – 6.3 – My Heroic Husband (2021)
8.2 – 6.3 – Luoyang (2021)
8.2 – 4.8 – In a Class of Her Own (2020)
8.2 – 5.5 – A Girl Like Me (2021)
8.2 – 4.7 – The Blooms at Ruyi Pavilion (2020)
8.2 – 7.0 – The Killer Is Also Romantic (2022)
8.1 – 5.6 – Legend of Fei (2020)
8.1 – 8.1 - The wind blows from Longxi (2022)

I took that from an online news. After your reply, I checked my Douban list, and it's not the second, but the third, so I edited my comment. The ranking is for costume dramas between 2020 and 2022 so far. There's a huge difference between chinese ratings and MDL ratings (only Word of Honor and The wind blows from Longxi are the same). In my "spoiler" below, the MDL rating is first, and Douban is second, for the top costume dramas here in MDL 2020 to 2022.

I just read this in a chinese marketing website (I'm trying to move on from this drama, no luck so far lol):
https://jingdaily.com/love-fairy-devil-niche-jewelry-dylan-wang/

Completely agree that one of the main differences is the masculinity of the ML and also the wide range of emotions he showed throughout the drama. Now that I think of it, the bland personality of many ML in costume dramas have usually disappointed me. I think the last masculine ML I saw, was Xu Kai in Ancient Love Poetry.

It's very abrupt but happy, Many people didn't like the abruptness and so they released a video with scenes from the drama, with a voice-over by the ML explaining how happy they continue to be. I read that the producer wanted a compact story. A lot of foreshadowing was one thing that hooked the audience, and the scriptwriter continued until the end: Orchid nurtured DFQC coming back under the crown she made for their wedding, implying they'll get married.

Edit: Thanks to another member, I checked my Douban list and the online news was wrong.
LBFAD is the 4th highest rated in Douban for costume dramas in the last 3 years:
1. Word of honor: 8.6 (571k ratings)
2. The wind blows from Longxi: 8.1 (only 90k)
3. A dream of splendor: 8.0 (778k))
4. Love between fairy and devil : 7.9 (559k)
5. The Imperial Coroner: 7.9 (323k)
6. Ancient Detective: 7.8 (only 45k)
7. Love like the galaxy (parts 1 &2): 7.7 (471k)

It's now the 3rd highest rated in Douban in costume dramas in the last 3 years:
1. Word of honor: 8.6 (571k ratings)
2. The wind blows from Longxi: 8.1 (90k)
3. A dream of splendor: 8.0 (778k))
4. Love between fairy and devil : 7.9 (559k)
5. The Imperial Coroner: 7.9 (323k)
6. Ancient Detective: 7.8 (45k)
7. Love like the galaxy (parts 1 &2): 7.7 (471k)

I loved him so much in Goblin, that I frequently rewatch his scenes in that drama. Excellent acting, and such gorgeous smile. Wish him lots of success!

@NaBi You made me laugh out loud!! Great reply...