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yea but you gave guardian, my love from the star and kill me heal me all 10/10, which to me is crazy. So my point just being that this show IS really really good despite it's flaws, and I'm sure lots and lots of people gave it a 10 just because it's GOOD, not because they're anyones mass-rating fans. it deserves its score.

Everyone has different tastes, but this show has insane mass-appeal like CLOY

Xie Wei = Best ML character ever. I have seen and read so much stuff, and I'd have to wrack my brain to think of a better ML in any fiction anywhere.

I liked Mr Rochester from Jane Eyre, but Xie Wei never locked an ex wife in his attic and then neglect to tell his current gf about it. I liked Edward Cullen but his cringe factor is too high. I liked Jonathan Rhys Meyers in Dracula, but they cancelled the series early.

There is literally nothing better than Xie Wei. I wish I had known before I started SOKP that I was literally watching the best show on the face of the earth, because I would have slowed down and savored it more.

Also, Bailu not always my fave, but that role was hers. It suited her perfectly, and she also killed it.

I was not a fan of love in the clouds

my aunt only watches k-dramas. i convinced her to watch poj, and she binged it SO FAST. She was done with it in like 2-3 days and she said she really liked it a lot.

hard to figure out what to recc when you don't have anything on your watched list. I don't know what you've seen and what you haven't.

YES to all of that for me also. I also thought the tone the show took overall, made the "insane deposed emperor" scene look way way too over the top and facepalm, me and my aunt both thought that scene was too cringe to fit in that story.

It was so so good overall, i'd play it for someone who has never seen a c-drama before to show how good they can really be.

My unwanted opinion though, is that when I walk away from this drama and let it settle in my mind, the biggest thing that stands out to me about this show is Deng Kai as Qi Min, and how he just stole the show because he acted his ass off and was just so damn sexy. He has way too much charisma, and he upstaged everybody. Snow Kong was the best acting partner I've ever seen him paired up with, they had so much natural chemistry and she's a fabulous actress.

If I wanted to rewatch my fav Ling He drama, it's still SOKP. But if I wanted to rewatch my fav Deng Kai drama, it's POJ.

Tried to watch because Ryan Ren. Every minute is like torture. I made it 5 eps in and just lack the inner strength to continue. Main reason? FL
The plot and script are also terrible, and the direction is god-awful, and the styling sucks, but I might have been able to tolerate all that, were it not for the fact that I find the FL so annoying that it's almost like she was custom designed by some malevolent force to the exact specifications that would p*ss me off the most.

I envy those who enjoy watching her, because they get to watch Ryan Ren bein all sexy and I don't.

My goal is usually to try to describe a drama in such a way that it doesn't ruin the experience of going into the show blind.

It's portrayed as less than consentual because if they did the same scene and it was entirely consentual that would make FL a cheap woman. The aphrodisiac story mechanism serves the purpose of allowing the FL to have a racy scene and still not be seen as 'impure' or 'sl*tty'.

I'm not condoning it, but this is the logic of C-drama. That's why those scenes often happen the way they do.

Tysm! I am happy you had fun reading it!

tysm ;P

last one that was any good that came out was Legend of Shen Li, right?

He needs to get noticed by people who do a higher tier of drama, hopefully this role boosts his career. He keeps getting better all the time.

no lol
but that's a nice try at a strawman. youre mad because things in this world aren't the way you want them to be. but sometimes they aren't. why are you watching a red flag romance lol not gonna be a good time

got dang, i couldn't agree with you more.

omGG do NOT put oxytocin music over a dopamine romance &%#()&%()*$& ughhhhhhhh this one's hard to get into, i can't believe i'm dropping a jesse ren drama, but the settings are drab, the FL is giving nothing, the wardrobe is god awful, and the ost/bgm is STOMPING anything this drama might have had going for it right into the dust.

this is one of the worst things i've seen in a while.

my rating is negative 5, they wasted everyone's time and money casting jesse ren in something this low class and painfully amateur.

props to makeup dept tho, they did a good job.

ty for watching this for me so i don't have to, we often match in taste, so I believe you that this one is a miss for Gao Zheng. how was the FL?

it's just red-flag coded, this whole drama is. you can call it disgusting but some relationships have this as a dynamic, as unhealthy as it looks from your personal vantage. I understand, and that's why i said it's a "risky move" because if it was done on someone like you, you would get like a ptsd from it or be mortally offended or feel assaulted or what have you. It doesn't work this way for everyone in every relationship, but for a significant subset of women, it does.
He stopped when he realized she doesn't work that way.

I mean they've been together a WHILE. It's not like she's a stranger or has until then been an unwilling party.

It's still better than Goodbye My Princess

I also would like a word omg