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To all fans of XZ: if someone has sent you a private message like this:

“Hello my dear friend 👋 I'm Xiao Zhan and I want to thank you for accepting my friend request and welcome to my private MDL account. I’m here to appreciate all the amazing fans who support me. Your kindness means a lot. If you don’t mind sharing, I’d love to know your real name and where you’re from. Sending you my warm regards. ❤️”

please be cautious. There isn’t even a 0.00001% chance that this is the real Xiao Zhan. Either the person has an identity crisis, or they are hunting for naive fans.

Be careful. Do not share your real personal information. First they’ll ask for your name, then a little more, and eventually your email address, or perhaps something that could turn out to be dangerous for you.

The real Xiao Zhan would never speak like this.

I wish him all the best.

It’s not a rule, but more of a pattern: in BL dramas, two actors star together, one becomes super popular, and the other runs into some kind of misfortune. Addicted, Guardian, The Untamed, and Word of Honor are the best examples.

If an actor is clean, like Xiao Zhan, they can recover thanks to their fans. But if there’s any kind of scandal — even a small one, but clearly their fault — things can get really difficult. An actor involved in a moral scandal is a risk for any production, so now that the C-ent industry is struggling and many actors are out of work, directors and producers prefer to choose someone safer rather than a potential grenade — sure, it might explode and make a lot of noise, but it can also cause damage, especially to those standing nearby.

I’m not saying that’s the case with him — it’s just that the situation feels familiar.

I’m actually watching something right now. Maybe that’s the reason?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4mpl_AvLZg

I usually watch Kill Me, Heal Me once a year. Every time, I’m just as moved and amused. That drama is pure perfection. And Ji Sung in it? Wow, just wow!

Wow, I hate this drama, really, but to go as far as claiming that Ji Sung isn’t well-known or isn’t a good actor? Sure, beauty is subjective, but he’s an award-winning actor for Best Actor. He’s outstanding and versatile—it’s just that this role is weak (in my opinion). This drama is bad for me, and it is for you too, but I suspect you’re not Korean and don’t have a deep understanding of their mentality or real tastes. Ji Sung is one of the most respected and beloved actors in the world of K-dramas and among global audiences—as evidenced by the numerous positive comments on this forum praising him above all. I’m not Korean, I’ve never been to Korea, I’m European, and Ji Sung has been my favorite Korean actor for years. I give every drama of his a chance. So, with all due respect to you, don’t insult an actor you know nothing about.

The script is way below average. The dialogues are stiff and generic, as if they were written by AI. Zero stakes. The editing is way below average. The music is below average—it’s not tragic, it doesn’t give me a headache, it’s just nothing. I painfully watched five episodes, there was one somewhat interesting scene, and I already don’t remember it. The drama is horribly boring. Even Ji Sung can’t save it because his character is simply unbearable. I can’t watch this. I dropped it.

You said: “Many fans of Esther Yu and He Yu also said on Facebook groups that Yang Mi and Xiao Zhan didn’t deserve the awards at all, since those flop dramas shouldn’t be recognized.”
And you are absolutely right — that is what fans of Esther Yu and He Yu said. It is their biased opinion. Everyone has the right to their own. I don’t understand why you come to a page dedicated to another actor and start arguments. Love whoever you want, and let others love whoever they want. Is that really so difficult?

No, it isn't.

it's spoiler

it's spoiler

I don’t, thank you. In every drama there’s always at least one overly zealous fan. I’m used to it. But I’m grateful for the defense and for the concern :)

Please refrain from insulting others. I can see that in your world there is no room for opinions different from your own, but that does not mean you are allowed to make personal attacks against anyone. Expressing a negative opinion about a fictional production (which, in my case, amounts to “I don’t like this drama, I don’t enjoy it, I think the protagonist is poorly written”) does not entitle you to personal attacks—neither against me nor against people who try to defend freedom of speech. Please respect others.

And for your information, I wrote one negative comment about this drama; I am not spamming the topic. But thank you—you encouraged me to leave a very constructive negative review, where I will most likely focus on the fact that the drama lacks a basic element: stakes. The guy most likely traveled back in time and does whatever he wants. Okay, that’s someone’s creative vision. But what is he risking if he fails? What are the consequences? Or is there a reward if he succeeds? There is nothing. So why should I care about him, or about his mission—which is… what exactly? The drama does not establish that. You can say his goal is to fix the past, but will his actions have real consequences, will they change the future, or is it just—well, exactly what?

Did I say even a single insulting word toward you or another user? No. So why, instead of addressing my arguments like others who like this drama, are you attacking me and those who defend freedom of speech?

There is no single production that will appeal to everyone. Tough luck that we have different tastes. But that really does not justify attacking me or demanding that I delete a comment that does not violate MDL’s rules. This platform exists to exchange opinions about dramas. It is not a site exclusively for fans of a given production.

Thank you, and I would like to inform you that I do not intend to engage in further discussions with you. However, I will comment on this drama whenever I feel like it, because this is a right granted to me—and to all of us—by this platform.

We don't know Jun-U's story. It may turn out that he comes from a really poor background and that this job is actually a matter of life and death for him. He has repeatedly said that they should also care about themselves. He may know desperation better than their clients. I think every character in this drama is written with real depth, so Jun-U also has his own sad story.

One does not exclude the other :)

You're welcome. Enjoy watching.

Huh? Say it in a way I can understand.

You either like a drama or you don’t. What does that have to do with my real life, other than the fact that I don’t like drama in my real life?

Did you mean: "It's a drama, not real life"?

I really don’t like this drama. For now I’m watching it because Ji Sung is one of my favorite actors and I like two of the supporting characters, but the drama just doesn’t click with me. I understand that a judge who went back in time might feel untouchable, and maybe he truly still believes he’s in purgatory and has to fix his mistakes in order to move on, but to me he’s completely psychologically unrealistic. Maybe that’s the point—maybe the whole charm is that he’s an egocentric lunatic who pisses all over the system—but it just doesn’t work for me. On top of that, the court and the law are treated as if the script were written by a high schooler who’s seen three low-quality legal dramas and thought they could write courtroom trials. For some people this might be the drama’s biggest appeal; for me, it isn’t.

I almost dropped it in first episode. I'm glad I didn't.

It's so bad, that actualy good. Just kidding. It's just bad.