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No. Hes one of a kind, thats why theres like a dozen of us who watched this when it came out and still come to this page all the time, because we have 3rd degree xie wei burns that will never heal. We all have an understanding that if one of us finds something even sort of like SoKP we tell eachother about it here. But so far the only thing that comes close is Till the End Of The Moon, possibly Love Like The Galaxy. You can try The Double, The Smile Has Left Your Eyes, Enslaved by Love, ADream of Splendor, or Koi to Dangan, but none of them will work to fill the hole this drama leaves in your brain. At best they may temporarily distract you from it.

Usually a drama as a whole wont be kilig, but have some kilig moments in it. Iirc, ones i thought had more kilig than usual in them.... Playing House and My Fated Boy. Devil Beside You is pretty dated at this point but i think it had quite a bit of kilig.

She says it at one point that she feels like she cant fully trust her feelings for him. I dont know if youve ever had a scary run in with a man like while dating, but if you can try to imagine taking back a man who once threatened to kill you because he said hes changed..... i never would. Its a scary thought. In this lifetime he never killed her, but because of an episide of snow madness, he DOES come damn close to stabbing her. Thats in THIS life. Shes struggling with fear and trust issues, but she doesnt flat out run from him. Why. Because shes as attracted to him as she is afraid of him.

Dont think of it as her LIKING him from the outset. Think of her as being ATTRACTED to him. She doesnt like him outright because her low self esteem wont even let her entertain the possibility of him being interested in her. She considers him completely out of her league. So why would she like him consciously. That would be super presumptuous. But if ALL she felt towards him was fear, she would never keep coming back for more and making cute-pouty-face at him. The way she acts toward him isnt the way a woman acts when shes afraid and repelled by a man.

He asks her in the cave, why are you so nice to me? Think about it.

No, she will not end up with him. This drama is for red flag/possessive ML lovers. There will be forced kisses and throat grabbing (not much, but enough to turn off green flag lovers). ML is petty, jealous, controlling, addicted to painkillers, and goes kind of insane and bloodlusty when it snows. So if that sounds repellant to you, id drop this drama now before you waste another 25 hours of your life you cant ever get back.

When theres so much electrical charge between two people that just little mundane things give you butterflies... like if just their little fingers touch and youre like silent-screaming inside over it.

Im reluctant to recc it, but if youre truly terribly bored, you could try Enslaved By Love. Its absolutely not the same, its just a piece of crap, but its pretty decent for a piece of crap. Super toxic red flag angst stuff. Hot ML FL pairing, ML is a great actor.

Gaahhhhh nothing 2 watch, this is what sokp does to my brain. Now im just carpet sharking for anything that even remotely resembles xw and nothings good enough.

Sometimes hes splattered with the blood of his slain enemies.... sometimes hes just upest over walnut cake.

Any reccs ----> no

His XW performance kind of came out of nowhere, his other roles are either with him less experienced or not given good ml roles or crap production, etc.

What score did you give TPR?

Hows the actual romance part in blossoms in adversity? Is there kilig, spice, angst, fire, fluff, whats it like.

Ikr..... I went back and watched all Ling He's previous work, and ill bet they were ALL surprised at how he nailed that XW role. Maybe Bai Lu just brings out the best in her MLs, or maybe the casting director has a really sharp eye for talent, idk. But whatever the case i must haz MOAR.

My honest take on it, is that hes just not as good of an actor as Ling He. I think people who rave about him just think hes really really hawt. He is playing a similar character. But the way he plays it is very different than Ling He. I dont think his passion or badassery, anger, jealousy, rage.... are as convincing as LH. But that doesnt mean i dont think its worth watching, id definitely recc it. For me, an 8 is a good score. Its just not imo that similar of an ML.

He aint no XW, but hes allright. I like his fight scenes, hes sexy with a sword.

Did I say its worse for women? No, nowhere did I say that. Im describing the characters motivations, why she was written that way.

You say you didnt read the novel. However, even in the drama, you can see how her parents are dismissive of her as a person, and constantly cut off her opportunities in favor of her sister, and compare her unfavorably to her sister. So there are places in the drama where they make attempts to infer her backstory, though I think they could have shown it more clearly, its true.

You gave some reasons why you didnt like the way the FL was written, we are discussing those reasons, and now you say were not addressing your reasons. Were not just blathering about stuff from thin air, were responding to points you yourself brought up. Im confused how responding to those points is now not addressing your issue, when theyre the points you brought up in the first place....?

when you say "it took 32 episodes b4 she finally understood mls intentions"....

In the novel, her parents were shit. She has a shit father. Women who grow up with shit fathers, have a lower core self esteem than women who had good fathers. It just is what it is, and its a fact of psychology.

Now... ZZhe is "safe". Hes EASY. Sure, hes an ivory tower of virtue that she feels she has to work hard to deserve. In that sense hes not easy. But he is completely guileless, whereas she is manipulative and calculating by nature. In this sense, for her, the ML is controllable. Hes EASY.

When she meets her equal, her match, someone who deserves her, and who she deserves, her low self esteem will not allow her to think he might like her. She sets her sights too low, she does it unconsciously.

This is why it takes her 32 episodes for it to sink into her damaged psyche that he actually wants her. He has to attack her with lust for her to see the reality of his feelings. She would never in a million years assume someone like him could want someone like her.

When they meet in the first life, here she is the empress and what does she do, she begs him and throws herself at him. As the viewer, you can feel his disgust. Because shes ruined any relationship they could have by immediately debasing herself in front of him. What she is battling here, is the low self esteem her shit parents gave her. She learns her true worth by the end of the drama.

In her first life, she judges herself as evil. Thats is because she is a good person! What do we see her do thats so evil? Kill kids? Torture people? No. She is just insensitive to other peoples feelings when they get in the way of her goal, which is to show her parents up. This is her motivation behind her choices in her first life.... her parents told her in words and actions that she was nothing, so she became the biggest 'something' there is, the muthafukkin empress! Whos the nobody now, mom and dad!? When she proves to them and herself that yes she IS consequential as a person, enough that she could be empress, its a hollow victory because she won it by becoming everything her shit parents taught her to be. Because her true self is good, she dies unsatisfied and ashamed. The second chance is to learn grace, and not be controlled by her parents and their shittines, but to discover her true self.

The Double. It was a good drama, i gave it an 8, but it WAS NOT A ROMANCE.
I got nothin to watch either. Im rewatching undercover affair, and after that ???

So good i cant even remember! :P

I agree with all that shit you said basically. I did catch the bonus episode too, just finished it a few minutes ago! <3.

Im on the last few episodes of the double rn, and youre right. It kicks the shit out of anything korea has put out in the last year.

Woke is critical race theory / third wave feminism propaganda which is incentivised by globalist organizations such as the WEF, who give businesses rankings based on their ability to integrate DEI values into their practices. China supresses religious and intellectual freedom, and has organ harvesting programs and death vans for dissenters. And while i never divulge my age, i grew up wearing moon boots, watching flinstones on saturday morning, and cruising the neighborhood on a dukes of hazzard tricycle, and im still slightly upset that mom never bought me a cabbage patch kid.

Whats really happening is that youre not understanding what im saying. What im saying, is that people dislike woke propaganda so much that theyd rather watch shows made by a dictatorial communist regime, than watch all this woke crap. Because china may have death vans, yes.... but they dont randomly insert black actors in historical sagas or insert gratuitous subplots into their stories about gay acceptance and institutionalized racism when its got nothing to do with the actual plot. THATS how much people hate woke crap in their shows, that theyd actually unironically rather watch entertainment created by a country that organ harvests from its prisoners and commits cultural genocide on people it finds pesky, than watch woke infested shows. Because woke is just THAT repugnant to many people. Every business that gets infected with woke, eventually goes broke. Case in point, budweiser and john deere. Thats why companies like microsoft are now ending their DEI programs completely to distance themselves from wokeness. And if korean entertainment wants to go woke, they gonna FAFO for themselves what happens to businesses who do that.

What, iyo, was the best one as far as chemistry, id be curious to check it out to see what i think of it.

Quod erat demonstrandum.