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why the low rating!? i was about to watch..

First day of filming: May 14!

19th Floor
The Stranded
Triage
Alice in Borderland
Night Has Come
Death's Game
Sweet Home
Kingdom
Monstrous
The Guest
Hellbound
365: Repeat The Year
Dark Hole
Liar Game
Happiness
Midnight Museum

i was the same at first. but as the plot thickens, the door stories get interesting. tbh the door stories in the drama were fleshed out better than in the novel (like they gave it more impact, imo). you also wouldn't want to miss how the characters' relationship get deeper and even the side characters will show some depth you can't help but find them lovely too. at least they make the series worth watching if you really don't want the doors plot.

when xzg mentions his character he just says "NPC" censorship sucks he probably wants to about this drama so bad as it seems to be a passion project for him 😭

so it was really noticeable that guang was especially happy during the filming period, he even wanted to extend the crew for another 100 days lol. now we know why

omg it's really nice knowing this. reading global examination will hit harder now knowing that guang has read the same thing too. he should recommend us his other faves so we can read it too 😆💙

wait little guangguang reads danmeis? that's so cute! and yeah they totally fit the characters: guang as invigilator A and junjie as 001. sighs. i can only imagine.

it's called "global examination". actually the only similarities are the survival games and slow burn romance

this poster is so pretty, i must say. in bl world im used to ugly posters but this is the second time a poster made me feel things. first was a breeze of love's poster.

i miss ruan and quishi. i can't let go of these characters. it's not enough that after watching the drama, reading the novel, watching 10000 edits everyday, i found another danmei with kinda similar plot and i still see nanzhu and quishi faces in some scenes.

it's not like they can escape it tho? the door comes for them whether they like it or not. if you're a newbie, you'll be sucked into the door without even knowing. if you're an experienced who simply decided to deny the door, i guess you'll just die like how you were supposed to before the doors came into the picture.

very soon. they're done with script reading and workshop, next they will have a fitting on april 30.

my pretty girl zaozao <33 the spirealm is her first drama? she did so well. hoping for bigger projects for her

i see. thankies~

i also very much loved hikaru no go and i instantly started this upon seeing your comment! the theme is so cool and all and im fond of sports dramas sprinkled with bromance. however, after ep 2 i realized this wasn't bromance at all and i find the ml (zhangqi) quite dislikable plus an upcoming romance wit xiaohe is discouraging me to continue.

HNG is a youth drama tho just sports themed. I know some high school dramas with bromance but they aren't Chinese: Weak Hero, Racket Boys, Project S: Spike.

Hikaru No Go. The bromance is so intense here I don't consider it bromance at all but censored BL.

I gotta admit, your interpretation of the ending is the most complex one among other interpretations that I have read so far. It's so interesting and though I get the gist of it, I'm one of the majority who interpret it all was a coma dream. It's the most obvious and makes perfect sense to me, haha. After all, after being depressed over that bitter ending (no sweet), I don't care anymore right now knowing the novel ending. The only valid ending for Linlin and Nanzhu! Really wish they didn't have to insert the whole "game" plot as the original story was already fine with some twists and turns while still viewer-friendly.

Thank you for entertaining my queries. Your explanations aren't lengthy at all, I appreciate it a lot. 😊

May I ask a few questions, too? I never thought there was a second world until your explanation.

"Ling Jiushi was sucked into the door world on his first quest."

- Did the doors only exist inside the game? Can you only enter the doors if you're already inside the game? Then why was he sucked first into the door world not into the game first? So every character that we met in the main setting of the drama (2nd world), except Jiushi, are all NPCs as well (Zaozao, Mengyu, etc)? Or were their memories altered when they entered the doors that's why they had different lives inside? I really don't get why their lives are different outside the game if Lingling only purified the game.