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Ah sorry, I misread it and thought you meant the breakup.

Yeah, this whole "because of no reason whatsoever, I can't possibly contact you for two years, and then I will just pop out in front of you with some flowers" thing so many dramas do is just WTF.

He wasn't gone that long anyway, so it wasn't an unnecessary timeskip added on but more an excuse to have that fun video call scene.

In what way?

For me, initially not being able to tell if they have any chemistry at all made the latter stuff feel far more impactful/natural/real.
(Agree that story could have been done better and VR was underused though.)

666 medicine helps against allergies too, not just against stomach issues!!!!

Gotta be makjang-dramatic (a bit) :c

here:
Name in Your Anticipation (名为你的期待)
Yan Ren Zhong
Ending theme song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l95eIWRRvaI

there:
Still Waiting
Yan Ren Zhong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB8B7-2mOQE


more: https://wiki.d-addicts.com/Yan_Ren_Zhong

Glory has postcredits teafommercials after these episodes:
E01, E02, E03, E06, E08, E10, E11, E12, E13, E14, E16, E17, E18, E19, E20, E21, E24, E25, E26, E27, E28, E29, E30, E31, E34, E35.

- all Rong family members besides for the cousin and Wanwan do some horrible stuff, and there's no comeuppance at all

- no legal punishment for FL for staging a play in the courtroom, faking a murder, etc (she just says the resulting justice is a gift for the imperial family lol)

- in the finale, FL aids someone with getting away with murder

- at the end of the show, tea-related plotline (sourcing replacements for counterfeit tea), is completely forgotten, so is the hostile takeover one (controlling ML to control FL to control Rong family; you could argue it's defeated by the founding emperor's seal but that's not given as an explicit end for it)


7+ non-evil females:
FL's second maid Xiu Qiong, FL's godmother, FL's cousin, FL's 6th sister YunWan, ML's mentor's daughter, FL's plantation girl Yi, grandmother's attendant Yan

7+ non-evil males:
ML, scholar Bai, ML's sidekick Lang, ML's FL-assigned helper Jun Dai, FL's second sister's hubby An Cha, imperial inspector Luo, ML's mentor, various doctors and coroners

- show was best in the first third or so, where the FL's two maids were amplifying the leads' scenes

- interesting parade of short drama MLs, but their performances aren't necessarily as good as in those short dramas (there are flashes of them impressing).
they're both used obviously (as suitors for FL), as well as ones I never would have guessed, like ML's sidekick Lang or the Rong's steward Cheng.

- HMH's acting carries the show
more impressive given he was in pain for so much of the time: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTuE0zBEe7i/

- compared to other similar dramas I've seen, Glory always has a generous number of extras on screen (servants, guards, plantation workers, etc) to make the world look believable

- the many female villains aren't played by captivating actresses and they have boundless screentime, so people who easily get bored and start skipping may do just that

- in these writers' morality, there's almost no punishment for women whatsoever (so much attempted murder etc)
...dropped Perfect Match too early to say if it's the same there.

- the majority of characters are at least somewhat evil, so much that it's hard to list ten morally decent characters of each gender [I tried in the spoiler post below]

- some plotlines are forgotten I suppose

- based on other comments, it sounded like it was a "super weak ML crawling at the feet of the FL & getting beaten up by her" show, but that didn't happen.
seems this isn't Perfect Match after all.

On my scale it's a happy end, but someone else might mind that the FL essentially treats the ML as a (crucial) chess piece non-stop, even if she loves him and all.

From what I've seen, he was in pain during a lot of the filming of this show ( https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTuE0zBEe7i/ ).
In that context, the filmed material isn't bad at all. Or rather, his performance is the best of the cast in my book.

He's like the only male villain who didn't get smashed. He was lucky if anything?

You can take it as a "the FL tests the ML until the very end", if you so want.
She doesn't have feelings for anyone else, outside of the "ex-boyfriend" in the pre-story intro.

Cheng Xiao was kind of bearable in Fangs and is back to murky in here for my tastes. Doesn't help that everyone in Glory has way too much eye makeup and on her (and Neo) it has the worst effects.

A number of one-sided nothing-kisses or cheek kisses etc.
(I'm counting one of the leads kissing the other on the mouth while they are doing the standard big eyes drama stare reaction.)

Two open-mouthed "eating each other" ones, of which the first was explicit about the leads sleeping with each other.


Maybe one or two of the side couples have one or two kisses each.

HMH carries the show, at least the better parts of it.

Would you by chance remember what those scenes taken from The Untamed are? I didn't recognise any by myself (but I also wasn't looking out for it).

For me it was the typical "first few episodes are fast paced and flirty, then there is this hugely long super basic plot with super meh villains".
Not as disappointing as Kill Me Love Me in that regard, but...

Indeed, Tan'er was not even put into the sword by anyone else but kind of willed her dying self into it to save her brother.

Some of the very first things he does are, well, criminal?
White collar crimes are crimes too. Morally (and legally) bad stuff isn't limited to beating people up with sports equipment.