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I too see this aa good news and hope that we can keep going like this and that it's only the first step.

I have watched POJ ans it was quite enjoyable but as you said not fantastic. For the other ones, I have heard of them but not sure yet if I should watch. Btw I finished watching fated hearts just now and can recommend it

I don't like kissing scenes so I don't mind the censorship there but in cases like this it is rlly a pity if you think about how much better it could have been. And also thank you for explaing because I rlly thought that maybe the law has changed but these dramas being fimed outside of china makes more sense. I do hope it will change in the future and that at least those dramas that have been filmed already can air one day

There are some chinese dramas with the tags LGBTQ or Queer so I am guessing they are under the category of a short length drama and don't air the way other 40-45 mins long dramas are airing.
And I also know that BL adaptions cannot air but archives isn't a BL adaption right? It was sonetimes very obvious there have been scenes cut and also a lot of episodes were 40-45 mins and then some were suddenly 35 minutes? They could have just continued to portray them as friends or even brothers and call eachother brother but like you can hug your friends and family. I just feel like the censorship is too much and it makes me a little sad of what could have been a way more emotional and heart wrenching story than it was.

Well I do agree with what you said, there aren't that many good modern romance cdrama out there. Especially the overused tropes are annoying. It is common in other genre too (historical, xianxia...) but in some modern dramas the tropes ARE the plot and not something to move the plot forward. I do like the genre tho, that's why I was hoping to get recommendations.

I still want to ask, which dramas can you recommend outside the modern romance genre?

I don't understand the censorship and how they decide what gets cut. I saw clips of archives where they hugged and nothing else happened so why did they cut that? what's so weird about two guys hugging? If you thought the one person who was your best friend and brother who you grew up with was dead and then they are alive, isn't it a natural reaction to hug someone? And might I just ask, apparently BL isn't allowed due to censorship but I see some BL series airing and the country seems to be china. so at first I thought they were filmed somewhere else like hongkong but if it was a hongkong drama it wouldn't say china. So how does the censorship really work, some BL are allowed and a hug in a bromance drama is cut?In case you know the answer, please share it with me since I rlly don't get that part

I mean you're possibly right and I wouldn't have shared my thoughts like this if the rating was more accurate but it is just bad and I like ranting so here we are haha

But that's what I mean you have 36 episodes? So much time and yet you give us nothing? In other dramas countless scenes and episodes are cut but they thought this was a good length for a drama like this?

Anyway, I have a question, since we have a similar opinion about this drama and I'm not rlly interested in LFY right now, do you have any other modern romance recommendations?

Well I partly agree that it does what it promises and is a feel good cute romance but the problem is that it is way too long. There is no second couple or any other sub plots with other characters and the focus is solely on the main couple. And they are just so boring, the female leads acting might have been good but there was just no character growth whatsoever and she stayed mainly passive which didn't help.
And sometimes work related plots can be good too when the work is interesting, which isn't rhe case here. I did understand why the FL was working there but that wasn't her dream was it? What are her dreams, her interests, her hobbys? Noone will ever know. And what we know about thr ML is also mostly related to work or him losing his job as neurosurgeon. All they ever did was work or eat outside (and he always paid even when she had more money?) It wasn't a happy drama for me either, I might have enjoyed it more with less episodes and some other changes but not like that.
The rating is still odd, didn't watch LFY but it can't be worse than this and yet it has a worse/similar rating? (I don't remember haha)

I think I could have answered my question myself? Well anyway I started episode 1 of the mystic nine 2016 and was like "wait I saw that guy in the cast of the mystic nine that is currently airing" yeah it seems after 10 years a lot of the cast members are actually the same. My confusion was due to the fact that every drama of the main lost tomb series has different actors who play the same characters. So I assumed it would be the same for the mystic nine without checking the cast.

Yes I wish they cut some scenes of the bandit leader and the zhang guy, they didn't need that mucb screentime and the romance was cliche and weird. Instead there should have been mote scenes of ZHX and especially ZHX and ZHL together. I saw some deleted scenes and why is the censorship so strict? I understand kissing isn't allowed but they cut scenes where they just hugged? Maybe this is better for my mental health bc if they actually included more scenes of the two together and if we had more focus on that the ending would have absolutely destroyed me as I would have been much more emotionally attached to the characters. I actually like sad endings and would have prefered if they made it clear he is dead and seeing ZHL mourn ZHX and maybe tell his students storys about him in the end.

Okay so mystic nine and the mystic nine tell different storys but the same character right? I was a little worried since the name is very much the same that they cover the same material just like I think the lost tomb 1 and the drama time raiders that released last year? (Pls do correct me if I'm wrong)

Maybe I'll come back to LFY some other time. Right now idk why but not in the mood for romance dramas

Also I did say that before but yeah again I agree it's very hard for the actors to shine in this one. I just don't understand why this has such a high rating. In general I have observed that the ratings make less sense than a couple years ago.

I wanted to put spoiler tag here but it doesn't let me edit nor delete the message so it is what it is

I read some of the reviews and it was mentioned a few times people liked the first 10 episodes the least. Glad I am not the only one with the opposite opinion. What bothered me later was that everything was way too easy for the main characters, thex survived ever dangerous situation without consequences. I was still enjoying it but it did got a little repetitive and I was sad we saw less of ZHX up until the last few episodes :(

Anyways moving on, thank you for your suggestion! I will do as you said and watch the dramas you mentioned but I have one question left. so the mystic nine is the first season and mystic nine is the second season? so it takes part after the 2016 drama and is a continuation of the story or just a different story but same characters?

Don't take my comment to seriously as it's just a theory and I am new to this universe too haha

I really liked this drama, allthough I believe the first 10 episodes were the best and it went slightly downhill after that. Because why did I bawl my eyes out on episodes 9-11 ans then the later episodes I felt nothing?
Anyways I got curious about the other works that play in the same universe, I already have an idea in which order to watch it but I honestly don't care and only want to watch the best parts. So if someone could rank the dramas in the lost tomb universe from best to worst for me I would be very greatful

not sure but the zhangs all have a long time span so there could have been a time skip

Unfortunately I am really not interested in that one. Not only for the pseudo sibling storyline but also because the ml acting (SWL) hasn't stood out to me in any way as special in the two dramas of him that I have tried watching. And third my watchlist is already long enough lol

I have 5 more episodes to watch and as of now it is not a bad storyline but I absolutely can't take it serious because of the horrible disguise ngl
Now that she doesn't have to disguise herself anymore it got better but still

what's throwing me off in this drama is not that noone gets that she is a woman (men are stupid) but rather that they go like "yes the small, slim guy with high voice is absolutely the same as the taller, buffer guy with deep voice" I can overlook a lot of unrealistic things for the sake of my enjoyment but this is just too much

Other then some of the second couples scenes (they were lowkey boring and I don't like second chance romance) I rlly loved this drama and the main couple! It was so fun to watch and I laughed so much
Bonus points because I loved their jobs as an editor and author and enjoyed all the work related scenes (which is rare for me)