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I am at ep 5 and I have a doubt. Why when fourth master mentioned canal gang thing, chen yan yun slapped him. I mean that kind of gave me little bit red flag vibe from him as if he don't want to talk and let anyone know about this. And what exactly happened in canal gang? I didnt saw in series mentioned earlier will it be explained later? Or the rainy night where GJZ saw him killing someone is the incident this is talking about? Is ml a green flag person or grey flag. Can someone help me in clearing my confusion?

I was excited for this considering boss neoul is one of my fav cp. I loved them in boy next world and LITA. But looks like this drama is not for me. I get it that this was supposed to be fun and cringe at the same time. But for me atleast the concept lacks execution. It's way too cringe for me and the comedy is not hitting me either. Plus the plot wise all I can see till now is nothing new. It's better for me to drop this drama.

I hope I will see them in future projects where the characters or plot has more depth.

How do u know that they are homophobic?? Are they telling you? Remember some actors who actually in BL they literally are homophobic irl like the actor who played Pete in kinnporche.

Plus this series never promoted themselves as BL. I guess queerbaiting means when you are saying you are queer or LGBTQIA+ and promote the content like that but you don't get that. It's to attract the queer audience and people who supports community to increase views. But this series has never done that.

And for people who is watching this series, who told u that are homophobic? Or I can reverse the same thing and say those who don't want to see are people who don't respect straight people or have an understanding that bonding between two person can be more than just an romantic arc.

As a person who watch lot of BL dramas if I am also watching this series u want me label as homophobic??

Either u don't know what does homophobic word means or we are having different dictionary for the definition of Homophobic. Please be respectful of others choices and if you are uncomfortable please share your criticism but have a logic behind that.

Second episode was soo good. The way younger Niran was shown chasing a butterfly who is free and nature's beauty contributor and Niran who is supposed to be "Wu" who protects nature but yet surrounded by loneliness.
Then Pete discovering his birth mystery and who is he? What's beneath him?

The bond between niran and pete is just so pure. Before Niran's entry in Pete's life, Pete was just surviving doing multiple jobs and paying bills and just struggling for everything in his life. Surrounded by loneliness. When Niran said that he don't want pete to suffer and die it's like someone cares for Pete truly for the first time and he felt touched. Niran adds that excitement, adventure and purpose in Pete's life. Same goes with Niran. He has set his walls so high that he is not open to anyone enter in his life that's why whenever Pete gets friendly with him, Niran just rolls his eyes but I don't think he complain internally.

The way they said "I believe you and You believe in me" is so impactful not just on emotional level but it's a necessity for them to trust each other. Their hearts and mind need to be in sync and aligned in order to face the yao and demons. Truly deserving of tag bromance here.
Overall the plot, cinematography, acting is so good.

I know lot of people has said this series to queerbait but as long as I don't see any kind of romance arc between them like yearning for each other, tension between them, wanting more than just friends i dont think this "queerbait" thing is applicable here. I mean two people can be aligned with each other, love and care for each other, Go through life and death situations, be just like a friend or family where their souls are connected without having an romantic arc.

Oh sarcasm 😅. Sorry my bad. Then i have to watch. Because I loved the chemistry between cp in longest promise. Plus synopsis looks interesting.

I haven't watched rise of Ning. But I like the cp. I always felt Ren Min and ci sha has more chemistry in longest promise than with Xiao Zhan. Just sometimes I was not able to understand their heavy screen time because of boring plot between them. Plus I loved ren min in hold a court now.

Why? Is it too boring or is it too entertaining that I will not be able to wait for another day? 😅

How is this drama? Should I start? What should I expect from this drama?

Edit:- Thanks all who recommended me to watch this drama. Not a single sec is boring. Everything is depicted so beautifully. I am really enjoying it. I wonder why it's rating is low.

I am finding synopsis very unique. Usually in period drama it was always modern person going into past. Change history and past lover yearn and meet in present to finally be happy. This time I like the fact that a historical person went to present.

But first few min gave me the untamed vibe where both wei wuxian and kang dang sim looks like died an unjust death where they were not villian but was declared as villian. And same here ml has maintained bad guy persona. This will be an interesting watch for me. It has mystery which i am liking. I have so many questions which is a good sign that this drama has made me engaged.

My only complain here is the language she uses. I mean I get it she was first rank women in kings harem so she will think others as not equal to her. But in every 2 sentences when she was using "wench" word I didn't liked it. I really hope she stop seeing every other person as low to her. Also i just didn't liked that she was using other person facial features to determine their character. If she would have used their expression and situation instead for judgement it would be so good. But considering the setup is ik modern world i kind of get it why it was shown in this way.

Overall from first ep I am looking forward to this drama. Maybe after lovely runner this will be first kdrama that i am watching.

Qimin does have resemblance with tantaijin where both crave for love that they didn't got and at the end they both died with the hands of their most precious one.
I will not say filler episodes. But sometimes yeah for me atleast I think it is too much focused on romance. I was ol with more focus on female lead journey from being a butcher to female general just few parts I think drana haven't done justice. For eg- for me after 28-30 episode they finally started talking about female lead family background and 17 year old case which was starting and prince Changxin finally entered much later.

Basically i understood from comments and reviews that if you go with the expectation of romance, characters and entertainment u will love it. But if you expect drama to give u details about plot and political aspect it will happen much later and something u will not get ans to. Because of which u can get disappointed.

So based on your mood now u can either go with this drama or drop it if you don't like it. It's ok if some people like drama soo much and you didn't. And remember you are not the only one who feel like this. Because even I have taken long to finish this drama. Sometimes I was not in mood for romance and sometimes I found other dramas more interesting.

In this entire mess. I forgot why Jack and Dean even broke up in the first place in the beginning of drama or they haven't told it in drama. Because the entire JackDean situation is annoying me in the sense that why Jack has so much trust issues? What Dean has done that he can't give him chance when he just hugged arnold and nothing else. Now they make up but again in preview they are talking about going separate ways. Honestly in ep11 i liked only arnold tua. Because romeraffy screen time was too less to even talk about it. I got upset with the fact that Rome was acting so nonchalant when Raffy was trying to make things like before between them. But then after the kiss he melted a little bit and atleast gave Raffy a smile.

I have a genuine ques. What makes this drama so popular. I mean i am still at ep 27. So it's safe to say that I have already watched more than half of drama and yet despite having a very beautiful cinematography and the way it potray the relationships is beautiful. I am very much confused on political part. 17 years mystery never mentioned seriously after Yan Zheng encounter with FL. Prince Changxin despite being the main personality behind the whole war. I don't even know him. Why? Who? Left me unanswered. While strong FL is my fav i don't understand is it that easy to fight in front lines and kill the leader with no past experience and just being a butcher? I mean when there are generals who have much experience they are also cautious but she can kill like he is nobody. Then the famous marquis entry in capital which went viral everywhere. Why I see him marquis in name only? I mean i love that this story focuses more on FL journey and her relationship but sometimes i think marquis is here to just show his love and face to FL.

Not that this drama is bad. But for a 9.1 rating as a viewer i would expect atleast 50:50 balance in romance and politics. I would have been completely ok if this drama never mentioned about the problems and issues of political aspect and focused on romance.

Because I have been watching cdrama for a very long time . I am Little bit confused on this high rating. To me it's mediocre.When we have untamed, blossom, reset, love like a galaxy, TTEOTM where story has been written in a much better way. Is it because of romance? Or lot of people have watched this as first wuxia drama? Or it gained so much popularity because of Netflix?

If someone who sees my comment not as criticism but as a viewer who really want to understand the hype and change the perspective while watching remaining episode. Please share ur view on this.

What an episode!!! I just hope the mystery and supernatural elements will be executed like how it has set up the bar in first ep till the end. Because story line is amazing. It has unique plot.

Somewhere I feel that raffy being hurt was necessary so that he finally get the closure on his own. There was one line Rome said that sums why raffy didn't saw all red signals jack was giving " no one is stupid. Not at least in a matter like this". This is the same reason why Rome despite knowing the fact Raffy has unrequited feelings towards Jack he went for it. Same goes with Sand and Nick. They all understood very late. Ik Rome will not let Raffy chase him for years but still Raffy needs to love himself like how Rome despite having feelings for Raffy is choosing to heal himself from the pain he got in the process.

But boston kinda deserve this. He hurted nick beyond the point of repair. He says he loved nick in his way but what's the point of relationship when one person is always suffering. If nickboston would have ended together this season that would in a way mean that nick is ready to again live in hell with past trauma. Also didn't boston also wanted to pursue tua in this season? Ig it's good that nick has healed himself and in a better relationship. Atp i can only hope boston to move on with a person whom he truly love and value without him being walking red flag like season 1.

Maybe I am the rare here. But i don't want raffy to chase after rome atp. Just consider from a person's pov, if someone is always chasing after his mom validation and attention but never got any, then chase jack for 3years so that he can get one chance to be close to him only to get replacement as an ans in the end, then always trying to beat dean so as to prove that he is also someone capable and when he realised that he can never get a lead role in Jack's play and expect fair treatment towards him he lost the drive to pursue his passion. And then the only comfort person Rome says he don't want to be backup and wait for anyone rn as he is hurt in the process. Then raffy says to chase him. I mean it's too much of an effort and pain a person can handle. Not that I don't want raffyrome to be together they are the whole reason i am watching this season.but i genuinely want them to take a break from each other and heal and love themselves specially raffy and then slowly begin to win each other and be together.
Idk my heart just goes to raffy that he didn't even tried to tell anyone that he was not the person behind video leak because he knew that nobody is going to believe him. Even rome had doubts on him. Had he not clarified to Rome that he is not the person behind it with evidence. I doubt even rome would have believed him.
But ik this is not possible as this show structure is supposed to be messy and fast paced. But atleast during this chasing period i want to see even rome wants to be with raffy or atleast i don't want raffy to tire himself again.