I don't think any other historical drama will EVER come close to being as amazing as this one. But... does anyone…
I went to recommend something and then I looked at your list and realized you've seen most of the great ones! Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace and Queen for Seven Days are both really good (nowhere near Ming Lan level though lol) historical dramas I don't think you've seen yet.
The only drama I've seen that actually somewhat reminded me of Ming Lan was Battle of Changsha. It's set during the Republican era in China so it's totally different in that aspect, but it has the large family dynamic, great writing, and high production quality that comes with being a Daylight drama like Ming Lan is.
A cancer here and I've never seen either of those dramas. I should pick them up :). Thanks for the article, it was fun! And I'm glad you didn't go the obvious route and pick a tragedy, it seems cancers are most famous for our tears lmao.
Zheng Ye Cheng's a really great actor. I think he won't disappoint.
I don't think he really showed his range in that one. He did way better in An Oriental Odyssey and Royal Nirvana imo. I'm also just not a fan of repeat pairings, so I'm glad it's not Li Hong Yi. But everyone is entitled to their different opinions. :)
Does the romance ever pick up and how is it? I'm 7 episodes in there's been virtually nothing other than the FL gazing at him and the ML clutching that pouch she made. I wouldn't care about the romance being subtle if the story were better, but it's just not interesting to me.
Let’s be realistic here, he’s not middle age he’s mid 30’s , and age gap is far from disgusting, your…
You do realize you gave Search:WWW a 10 when the age gap in that show is 13 years, the same as the one in this show. You also gave a bunch of similar dramas high scores when they all have large age gaps as well. You seem to only think it's disgusting and creepy when the man is older.
It's a chinese drama. I think the kissing scenes are more frequent and explicit than most other c-dramas I watched.
Everyone always raves about the kisses in TEL and when I watched it, the kisses were just as mediocre as in every other c drama. Sure there are more of them, but the passion is still lacking.
I could understand not wanting to do kisses if she were young but she's 28... It just seems immature and unprofessional to me. It's a job and most of the dramas she's doing are romance. I definitely won't be watching her as a lead unless it's a drama in a different genre.
I'll suffer with you. Do you know where it's available to watch?
That's the only reason I want to watch it. She's one of my favorites. The male lead is older and not very attractive but he is an experienced and talented actor so here's hoping they have good enough chemistry for me to overlook how weird they look together haha.
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The only drama I've seen that actually somewhat reminded me of Ming Lan was Battle of Changsha. It's set during the Republican era in China so it's totally different in that aspect, but it has the large family dynamic, great writing, and high production quality that comes with being a Daylight drama like Ming Lan is.