I officially give up understanding

Was reading an article on dramabeans about Kim Su Hyun's increased popularity after Dream High and came across this phrase:

"he was that good [to make her think he was dubbed by a professional] — better, even, than some of the cast’s idol singers, I thought."

There are multiple pages of comments agreeing with that statement.

And all I could do was boggle. Sure, looks and charisma are subjective, but vocal quality is much less so.

And Kim Su Hyun? Kim Su Hyun? As a great singer - wanted by companies for his singing, praised by dramabeans and commenters as better than professionals? Have I fallen into some parallel universe? I literally laughed when I read that.

I have nothing against KSH. He's a talented, hard-working guy and deserves his success. He was certainly the best actor out of the young cast and, while his looks aren't my thing (too young!), I can certainly see why people find him attractive.

But singer? Singer? Heck no. Sure, he's not bad for an amateur. He's actually amazingly, shockingly good, for one. Key phrase being "for an amateur." To compare him to Wooyoung, IU, Eunjung or Suzy is pretty much insane! (Taec being a rapper and not a singer, I'd give it a "fair enough" pass). I don't follow kpop and first found out about these people's existence from the drama, so I am no offended idol fangirl. I just find this beyond bizarre.

In fact, my biggest problem with Sam Dong ending up as K was my suspension of disbelief - the guy clearly can't dance much (when he replaced Wooyoung in that solo, I cringed), his singing isn't up to par with his castmates', and he doesn't have that raw on-stage charisma that the idols in the cast actualy do - that charisma is a large chunk of why they are picked to be idols!

Now, I don't have a problem with that being a fact of life, as KSH is an actor not a member of 2PM. His job is to act, which he does excellently and better than all 2PM members combined, I suspect. But to buy him as super-idol K (out of all those kids!) required quite a suspension of disbelief on my part. And to believe he's good enough to be a professional singer/idol without further extensive training and is better than his idol castmates at it - I am sorry. I can't. My disbelief stretches only so far.

OK, enough of my blabber. Proof is in the pudding, as they say. Here's a vocal 'battle' between Wooyoung and KSH. Compare the singing skills between them, please:

And here is a "real" singing superstar, Lee Seung Chul, doing the same song:

Case closed.

I officially give up understanding

Was reading an article on dramabeans about Kim Su Hyun's increased popularity after Dream High and came across this phrase:

"he was that good [to make her think he was dubbed by a professional] — better, even, than some of the cast’s idol singers, I thought."

There are multiple pages of comments agreeing with that statement.

And all I could do was boggle. Sure, looks and charisma are subjective, but vocal quality is much less so.

And Kim Su Hyun? Kim Su Hyun? As a great singer - wanted by companies for his singing, praised by dramabeans and commenters as better than professionals? Have I fallen into some parallel universe? I literally laughed when I read that.

I have nothing against KSH. He's a talented, hard-working guy and deserves his success. He was certainly the best actor out of the young cast and, while his looks aren't my thing (too young!), I can certainly see why people find him attractive.

But singer? Singer? Heck no. Sure, he's not bad for an amateur. He's actually amazingly, shockingly good, for one. Key phrase being "for an amateur." To compare him to Wooyoung, IU, Eunjung or Suzy is pretty much insane! (Taec being a rapper and not a singer, I'd give it a "fair enough" pass). I don't follow kpop and first found out about these people's existence from the drama, so I am no offended idol fangirl. I just find this beyond bizarre.

In fact, my biggest problem with Sam Dong ending up as K was my suspension of disbelief - the guy clearly can't dance much (when he replaced Wooyoung in that solo, I cringed), his singing isn't up to par with his castmates', and he doesn't have that raw on-stage charisma that the idols in the cast actualy do - that charisma is a large chunk of why they are picked to be idols!

Now, I don't have a problem with that being a fact of life, as KSH is an actor not a member of 2PM. His job is to act, which he does excellently and better than all 2PM members combined, I suspect. But to buy him as super-idol K (out of all those kids!) required quite a suspension of disbelief on my part. And to believe he's good enough to be a professional singer/idol without further extensive training and is better than his idol castmates at it - I am sorry. I can't. My disbelief stretches only so far.

OK, enough of my blabber. Proof is in the pudding, as they say. Here's a vocal 'battle' between Wooyoung and KSH. Compare the singing skills between them, please:

And here is a "real" singing superstar, Lee Seung Chul, doing the same song:

Case closed.

I officially give up understanding

Was reading an article on dramabeans about Kim Su Hyun's increased popularity after Dream High and came across this phrase:

"he was that good [to make her think he was dubbed by a professional] — better, even, than some of the cast’s idol singers, I thought."

There are multiple pages of comments agreeing with that statement.

And all I could do was boggle. Sure, looks and charisma are subjective, but vocal quality is much less so.

And Kim Su Hyun? Kim Su Hyun? As a great singer - wanted by companies for his singing, praised by dramabeans and commenters as better than professionals? Have I fallen into some parallel universe? I literally laughed when I read that.

I have nothing against KSH. He's a talented, hard-working guy and deserves his success. He was certainly the best actor out of the young cast and, while his looks aren't my thing (too young!), I can certainly see why people find him attractive.

But singer? Singer? Heck no. Sure, he's not bad for an amateur. He's actually amazingly, shockingly good, for one. Key phrase being "for an amateur." To compare him to Wooyoung, IU, Eunjung or Suzy is pretty much insane! (Taec being a rapper and not a singer, I'd give it a "fair enough" pass). I don't follow kpop and first found out about these people's existence from the drama, so I am no offended idol fangirl. I just find this beyond bizarre.

In fact, my biggest problem with Sam Dong ending up as K was my suspension of disbelief - the guy clearly can't dance much (when he replaced Wooyoung in that solo, I cringed), his singing isn't up to par with his castmates', and he doesn't have that raw on-stage charisma that the idols in the cast actualy do - that charisma is a large chunk of why they are picked to be idols!

Now, I don't have a problem with that being a fact of life, as KSH is an actor not a member of 2PM. His job is to act, which he does excellently and better than all 2PM members combined, I suspect. But to buy him as super-idol K (out of all those kids!) required quite a suspension of disbelief on my part. And to believe he's good enough to be a professional singer/idol without further extensive training and is better than his idol castmates at it - I am sorry. I can't. My disbelief stretches only so far.

OK, enough of my blabber. Proof is in the pudding, as they say. Here's a vocal 'battle' between Wooyoung and KSH. Compare the singing skills between them, please:

And here is a "real" singing superstar, Lee Seung Chul, doing the same song:

Case closed.

First/second episode of Four Women Conflict - there have been more cheerful funerals

In case anyone is looking for dl links, they can find them here.

Though, be warned, Ady An's faces in this post pretty much express the cheeriness quota of this.



OK, I am barely five minutes into Four Women Conflict and a newly widowed stepmother has just sold her barely pubescent stepdaughter into a brothel. I think I am going to be sick.

This is going to be cheery. Please tell me the little kid is not the heroine.

Crap, she is.

Oh, thank God her childhood love rescued her and burned her stepmom to a crisp.

You know, I may not last much with this, this looks depressing enough for me to eat my own head.



ETA: OK, that was her nightmare flashback, currently she's a maid in some house and it doesn't look too horrific, so we'll see. Except the husband fancies her and the wife's reaction is "you can do anything you like outside but don't seduce the maids inside the house." Jesus. Except he's still after her. What is it with Ady An playing characters in danger of sexual assault (The Outsiders, Autumn Concerto, now this?) And now she's ordered to be whipped by the jealous wife. Who then marries her off to some ugly moron who limps and stammers.



ETA2: WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT???? She gets raped by her former master on her wedding night (who bullies her husband into letting him). And now she's in the bathtub scrubbing her skin off. And the raping thing turns into a systemic thing.

OK, that's it. I am out. I admire that she turns into an angry fury with spine of steel and with nothing but hatred and scorn for her husband after this but no. I can't. I really do want to see Feng Shao Feng as the guy who is hired by the jealous wife to seduce heroine but falls for her instead and they have angsty angsty love and he treasures her and trusts her and heals her with his penis love, but there is only so much misery I can take to get to that point.



I am going to get back to it when I feel like something horribly depressing. But for now, back to Sunny Happiness. I'll just have to get my FSF fix from Jade Palace Lock Heart, where there is no horribleness like this and my Ady An fix from rewatching Autumn Concerto (not The Outsiders because talk about a tragedy) or checking out Dragon Sword and Heaven Sabre.

Don't get me wrong, none of the above indicates it's a bad drama - it's well-acted, beautifully filmed and the story is not badly written. It's just more depressing than your average Russian classic novel.

First/second episode of Four Women Conflict - there have been more cheerful funerals

In case anyone is looking for dl links, they can find them here.

Though, be warned, Ady An's faces in this post pretty much express the cheeriness quota of this.



OK, I am barely five minutes into Four Women Conflict and a newly widowed stepmother has just sold her barely pubescent stepdaughter into a brothel. I think I am going to be sick.

This is going to be cheery. Please tell me the little kid is not the heroine.

Crap, she is.

Oh, thank God her childhood love rescued her and burned her stepmom to a crisp.

You know, I may not last much with this, this looks depressing enough for me to eat my own head.



ETA: OK, that was her nightmare flashback, currently she's a maid in some house and it doesn't look too horrific, so we'll see. Except the husband fancies her and the wife's reaction is "you can do anything you like outside but don't seduce the maids inside the house." Jesus. Except he's still after her. What is it with Ady An playing characters in danger of sexual assault (The Outsiders, Autumn Concerto, now this?) And now she's ordered to be whipped by the jealous wife. Who then marries her off to some ugly moron who limps and stammers.



ETA2: WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT???? She gets raped by her former master on her wedding night (who bullies her husband into letting him). And now she's in the bathtub scrubbing her skin off. And the raping thing turns into a systemic thing.

OK, that's it. I am out. I admire that she turns into an angry fury with spine of steel and with nothing but hatred and scorn for her husband after this but no. I can't. I really do want to see Feng Shao Feng as the guy who is hired by the jealous wife to seduce heroine but falls for her instead and they have angsty angsty love and he treasures her and trusts her and heals her with his penis love, but there is only so much misery I can take to get to that point.



I am going to get back to it when I feel like something horribly depressing. But for now, back to Sunny Happiness. I'll just have to get my FSF fix from Jade Palace Lock Heart, where there is no horribleness like this and my Ady An fix from rewatching Autumn Concerto (not The Outsiders because talk about a tragedy) or checking out Dragon Sword and Heaven Sabre.

Don't get me wrong, none of the above indicates it's a bad drama - it's well-acted, beautifully filmed and the story is not badly written. It's just more depressing than your average Russian classic novel.

First/second episode of Four Women Conflict - there have been more cheerful funerals

In case anyone is looking for dl links, they can find them here.

Though, be warned, Ady An's faces in this post pretty much express the cheeriness quota of this.



OK, I am barely five minutes into Four Women Conflict and a newly widowed stepmother has just sold her barely pubescent stepdaughter into a brothel. I think I am going to be sick.

This is going to be cheery. Please tell me the little kid is not the heroine.

Crap, she is.

Oh, thank God her childhood love rescued her and burned her stepmom to a crisp.

You know, I may not last much with this, this looks depressing enough for me to eat my own head.



ETA: OK, that was her nightmare flashback, currently she's a maid in some house and it doesn't look too horrific, so we'll see. Except the husband fancies her and the wife's reaction is "you can do anything you like outside but don't seduce the maids inside the house." Jesus. Except he's still after her. What is it with Ady An playing characters in danger of sexual assault (The Outsiders, Autumn Concerto, now this?) And now she's ordered to be whipped by the jealous wife. Who then marries her off to some ugly moron who limps and stammers.



ETA2: WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT???? She gets raped by her former master on her wedding night (who bullies her husband into letting him). And now she's in the bathtub scrubbing her skin off. And the raping thing turns into a systemic thing.

OK, that's it. I am out. I admire that she turns into an angry fury with spine of steel and with nothing but hatred and scorn for her husband after this but no. I can't. I really do want to see Feng Shao Feng as the guy who is hired by the jealous wife to seduce heroine but falls for her instead and they have angsty angsty love and he treasures her and trusts her and heals her with his penis love, but there is only so much misery I can take to get to that point.



I am going to get back to it when I feel like something horribly depressing. But for now, back to Sunny Happiness. I'll just have to get my FSF fix from Jade Palace Lock Heart, where there is no horribleness like this and my Ady An fix from rewatching Autumn Concerto (not The Outsiders because talk about a tragedy) or checking out Dragon Sword and Heaven Sabre.

Don't get me wrong, none of the above indicates it's a bad drama - it's well-acted, beautifully filmed and the story is not badly written. It's just more depressing than your average Russian classic novel.

What is cuter than puppies?

Seven and his OTP, that's who! Sorry, Four, I still love you and Lady Doc together but as far as shipping goes, you are now taking second place to Seven/Lady Robber.

( Here be cuteness )

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have the first ep of Thorn Birds with subs to watch.

Oh, and not related to anything, but this Buhwal song is beyond amazing. Have it. I've been listening to it non-stop for at least a dozen times.

Lee Seung Chul's voice gives me shivers. And Kim Tae Won's songs really are something else. I hope he gets better soon!

What is cuter than puppies?

Seven and his OTP, that's who! Sorry, Four, I still love you and Lady Doc together but as far as shipping goes, you are now taking second place to Seven/Lady Robber.

( Here be cuteness )

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have the first ep of Thorn Birds with subs to watch.

Oh, and not related to anything, but this Buhwal song is beyond amazing. Have it. I've been listening to it non-stop for at least a dozen times.

Lee Seung Chul's voice gives me shivers. And Kim Tae Won's songs really are something else. I hope he gets better soon!

What is cuter than puppies?

Seven and his OTP, that's who! Sorry, Four, I still love you and Lady Doc together but as far as shipping goes, you are now taking second place to Seven/Lady Robber.

( Here be cuteness )

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have the first ep of Thorn Birds with subs to watch.

Oh, and not related to anything, but this Buhwal song is beyond amazing. Have it. I've been listening to it non-stop for at least a dozen times.

Lee Seung Chul's voice gives me shivers. And Kim Tae Won's songs really are something else. I hope he gets better soon!

Wuxia fans, which drama is this?

Because I want! I want I want I want!!!!

Please, tell me it's Patriotic Knights, as I think it may be, because I own this puppy on DVD with English subs and never got around to watching it.

Wuxia fans, which drama is this?

Because I want! I want I want I want!!!!

Please, tell me it's Patriotic Knights, as I think it may be, because I own this puppy on DVD with English subs and never got around to watching it.

Wuxia fans, which drama is this?

Because I want! I want I want I want!!!!

Please, tell me it's Patriotic Knights, as I think it may be, because I own this puppy on DVD with English subs and never got around to watching it.

I am this close to making a cutesy smushed ship name for them. Must not succumb!

But, thanks to hollyxu, I have just found out that Eight and Qing Chuan, currently passing in the modern world as actors Feng Shao Feng and Yang Mi, have another drama together coming out later in the year! It is called Legend of the Tiger Amulet and, to my uncontained joy:

a. They play the angsty OTP! She lurves him but becomes someone else's concubine!
b. It's set in the Warring States era, so no Qing hairstyles. Instead, lovely hairstyles I like!

As per my cdrama guru hollyxu, the story involves an amulet which gives its user same authority as an Emperor would have. Yang Mi steals it from her husband and gives it to her lover to help his kingdom fight off Qin. That is going to end so well.

Nothing can dethrone Hu Ge's Shangri La off first place on my "most anticipated dramas" list, but this comes close. Anyway, I hope there are subs. Because I am NOT embarking on another raw cdrama watching experience. Maybe if I repeat that enough, I will actually carry through.

( A few stills I have found )

I am this close to making a cutesy smushed ship name for them. Must not succumb!

But, thanks to hollyxu, I have just found out that Eight and Qing Chuan, currently passing in the modern world as actors Feng Shao Feng and Yang Mi, have another drama together coming out later in the year! It is called Legend of the Tiger Amulet and, to my uncontained joy:

a. They play the angsty OTP! She lurves him but becomes someone else's concubine!
b. It's set in the Warring States era, so no Qing hairstyles. Instead, lovely hairstyles I like!

As per my cdrama guru hollyxu, the story involves an amulet which gives its user same authority as an Emperor would have. Yang Mi steals it from her husband and gives it to her lover to help his kingdom fight off Qin. That is going to end so well.

Nothing can dethrone Hu Ge's Shangri La off first place on my "most anticipated dramas" list, but this comes close. Anyway, I hope there are subs. Because I am NOT embarking on another raw cdrama watching experience. Maybe if I repeat that enough, I will actually carry through.

( A few stills I have found )

I am this close to making a cutesy smushed ship name for them. Must not succumb!

But, thanks to hollyxu, I have just found out that Eight and Qing Chuan, currently passing in the modern world as actors Feng Shao Feng and Yang Mi, have another drama together coming out later in the year! It is called Legend of the Tiger Amulet and, to my uncontained joy:

a. They play the angsty OTP! She lurves him but becomes someone else's concubine!
b. It's set in the Warring States era, so no Qing hairstyles. Instead, lovely hairstyles I like!

As per my cdrama guru hollyxu, the story involves an amulet which gives its user same authority as an Emperor would have. Yang Mi steals it from her husband and gives it to her lover to help his kingdom fight off Qin. That is going to end so well.

Nothing can dethrone Hu Ge's Shangri La off first place on my "most anticipated dramas" list, but this comes close. Anyway, I hope there are subs. Because I am NOT embarking on another raw cdrama watching experience. Maybe if I repeat that enough, I will actually carry through.

( A few stills I have found )

For his next trick, he'll deflower a nun

I apologize for so many entries but I am sick at home and have little to do.

When we finally meet the hero of Four Women Conflict, he's having sex with a married woman. While being married himself, and not to her. On the grounds of a Buddhist monastery.




Jaw. Meet. Floor.

Did I mention that when we first meet heroine's childhood love as an adult, he's rescuing a bunch of women who've been captured by slavers?

Plus, ( He and heroine look at each other like this. Oh my! )

Compare and contrast.

By any laws of sanity, I should be shipping heroine with her childhood love and I do, madly, but I ship her with the hero also! I have no idea why but maybe because even though I know in real life, a playboy will just give you a bad case of STDs and will never reform, it's so satisfying to watch the whole 'playboy redeemed by/suffering for/madly in love' scenario on screen. Plus, he's about the only character who appears to have an fun in this, and God knows, poor heroine needs someone who can show her some fun and also knows what he's doing in bed, too.

Yes, I clearly lied, I said I won't watch more but I did and I am glad I stuck around, it's much less depressing now.

Have a MV:

For his next trick, he'll deflower a nun

I apologize for so many entries but I am sick at home and have little to do.

When we finally meet the hero of Four Women Conflict, he's having sex with a married woman. While being married himself, and not to her. On the grounds of a Buddhist monastery.




Jaw. Meet. Floor.

Did I mention that when we first meet heroine's childhood love as an adult, he's rescuing a bunch of women who've been captured by slavers?

Plus, ( He and heroine look at each other like this. Oh my! )

Compare and contrast.

By any laws of sanity, I should be shipping heroine with her childhood love and I do, madly, but I ship her with the hero also! I have no idea why but maybe because even though I know in real life, a playboy will just give you a bad case of STDs and will never reform, it's so satisfying to watch the whole 'playboy redeemed by/suffering for/madly in love' scenario on screen. Plus, he's about the only character who appears to have an fun in this, and God knows, poor heroine needs someone who can show her some fun and also knows what he's doing in bed, too.

Yes, I clearly lied, I said I won't watch more but I did and I am glad I stuck around, it's much less depressing now.

Have a MV:

For his next trick, he'll deflower a nun

I apologize for so many entries but I am sick at home and have little to do.

When we finally meet the hero of Four Women Conflict, he's having sex with a married woman. While being married himself, and not to her. On the grounds of a Buddhist monastery.




Jaw. Meet. Floor.

Did I mention that when we first meet heroine's childhood love as an adult, he's rescuing a bunch of women who've been captured by slavers?

Plus, ( He and heroine look at each other like this. Oh my! )

Compare and contrast.

By any laws of sanity, I should be shipping heroine with her childhood love and I do, madly, but I ship her with the hero also! I have no idea why but maybe because even though I know in real life, a playboy will just give you a bad case of STDs and will never reform, it's so satisfying to watch the whole 'playboy redeemed by/suffering for/madly in love' scenario on screen. Plus, he's about the only character who appears to have an fun in this, and God knows, poor heroine needs someone who can show her some fun and also knows what he's doing in bed, too.

Yes, I clearly lied, I said I won't watch more but I did and I am glad I stuck around, it's much less depressing now.

Have a MV:

Somewhere, there is a Harlequin writer hopelessly pining for this plot

Best postcoital conversation ever as interpreted by moi:

Playboy: So, about that loan for my business? I mean, if you need more persuading, I can go all night.
Friend-with-benefits/his moneylender: OK, loan. Fine. You get the loan the day you seduce Du Lanyun.
Playboy: Am I supposed to know who she is? And since when are you pimping for me? Do you want a threesome or something? Are you into girl-on-girl action? Where do I sign up?
Friend-with-benefits: Look, you are the only guy with a spoken part who's not in love with Ady An. We must remedy this pronto or else the universe will be destroyed. Also, my best friend's husband is cheating on my friend with her. Yeah, Lanyun has no interest in the guy, who apparently raped her and made her life hell, but sure, let's lash out at the victim.
Playboy: I feel the sudden need of meeting a beautiful and pure woman who will redeem me and put me through hell in the name of love. Otherwise, where will this drama be?
Friend-with-benefits: I promise I won't be jealous. This isn't an ironic foreshadowing, no siree. Oh, and her first love is Mikey He. Missing Yang Mi, yet, boy?
Playboy: It's fun to see in how many dramas I can steal a woman's heart from Mikey He. I am in!
Friend-with-benefits: And speaking of "in"...the bed is right there and I was never able to resist going for seconds.
Playboy: If you close your eyes, I'll take you to heaven (actual quote, guys! Well, I suppose it's good to have self-confidence).






In other news, I am now shipping heroine's first love (Mikey He) and heroine's spunky and cool best friend. Please please make it happen, drama. He keeps rescuing her!

I am addicted to this, you guys! But I can only take this small doses so back to Young Warriors of the Yang Clan. I miss my honorable sword/spear-fighters!

Somewhere, there is a Harlequin writer hopelessly pining for this plot

Best postcoital conversation ever as interpreted by moi:

Playboy: So, about that loan for my business? I mean, if you need more persuading, I can go all night.
Friend-with-benefits/his moneylender: OK, loan. Fine. You get the loan the day you seduce Du Lanyun.
Playboy: Am I supposed to know who she is? And since when are you pimping for me? Do you want a threesome or something? Are you into girl-on-girl action? Where do I sign up?
Friend-with-benefits: Look, you are the only guy with a spoken part who's not in love with Ady An. We must remedy this pronto or else the universe will be destroyed. Also, my best friend's husband is cheating on my friend with her. Yeah, Lanyun has no interest in the guy, who apparently raped her and made her life hell, but sure, let's lash out at the victim.
Playboy: I feel the sudden need of meeting a beautiful and pure woman who will redeem me and put me through hell in the name of love. Otherwise, where will this drama be?
Friend-with-benefits: I promise I won't be jealous. This isn't an ironic foreshadowing, no siree. Oh, and her first love is Mikey He. Missing Yang Mi, yet, boy?
Playboy: It's fun to see in how many dramas I can steal a woman's heart from Mikey He. I am in!
Friend-with-benefits: And speaking of "in"...the bed is right there and I was never able to resist going for seconds.
Playboy: If you close your eyes, I'll take you to heaven (actual quote, guys! Well, I suppose it's good to have self-confidence).






In other news, I am now shipping heroine's first love (Mikey He) and heroine's spunky and cool best friend. Please please make it happen, drama. He keeps rescuing her!

I am addicted to this, you guys! But I can only take this small doses so back to Young Warriors of the Yang Clan. I miss my honorable sword/spear-fighters!

Somewhere, there is a Harlequin writer hopelessly pining for this plot

Best postcoital conversation ever as interpreted by moi:

Playboy: So, about that loan for my business? I mean, if you need more persuading, I can go all night.
Friend-with-benefits/his moneylender: OK, loan. Fine. You get the loan the day you seduce Du Lanyun.
Playboy: Am I supposed to know who she is? And since when are you pimping for me? Do you want a threesome or something? Are you into girl-on-girl action? Where do I sign up?
Friend-with-benefits: Look, you are the only guy with a spoken part who's not in love with Ady An. We must remedy this pronto or else the universe will be destroyed. Also, my best friend's husband is cheating on my friend with her. Yeah, Lanyun has no interest in the guy, who apparently raped her and made her life hell, but sure, let's lash out at the victim.
Playboy: I feel the sudden need of meeting a beautiful and pure woman who will redeem me and put me through hell in the name of love. Otherwise, where will this drama be?
Friend-with-benefits: I promise I won't be jealous. This isn't an ironic foreshadowing, no siree. Oh, and her first love is Mikey He. Missing Yang Mi, yet, boy?
Playboy: It's fun to see in how many dramas I can steal a woman's heart from Mikey He. I am in!
Friend-with-benefits: And speaking of "in"...the bed is right there and I was never able to resist going for seconds.
Playboy: If you close your eyes, I'll take you to heaven (actual quote, guys! Well, I suppose it's good to have self-confidence).






In other news, I am now shipping heroine's first love (Mikey He) and heroine's spunky and cool best friend. Please please make it happen, drama. He keeps rescuing her!

I am addicted to this, you guys! But I can only take this small doses so back to Young Warriors of the Yang Clan. I miss my honorable sword/spear-fighters!

Four v. Eight, the rematch. This time minus queues, time-travelling beauties and swords.

I have NO idea why I am addicted to Four Women Conflict, otherwise known as "what bad things can happen to Ady An next". Probably my reluctance to move on from the very happy place Yang Clan is at right now, even if YWotYC is about 10 times better. Hmmm.



But anyway, I am glad to inform you that Playboy has fallen hook-line-and-sinker for our heroine! We can tell this is the case by the many longing and angsty looks he casts the heroine. Just as well, as he was the only one running having fun in this miseryfest and we can't have that!

Anyway, I can believe that (a) beautiful (b) virtuous (c) he finds out she's tragic rape victim in need of protection (d) strong-willed and not impressed by his wiles (e) selfless is a combo that has been especially designed to appeal him. So he now goes devouring her with his angsty angsty eyes:




And he has to suffer the agonies of sleeping with his moneylender friend with benefits and pretending he is his usual playboy self even as he realizes he may be falling in love with the woman he was hired to seduce. His life is so hard. Ah, the humanity! I weep. Doesn't it make you want to console him with your tongue?



But I confess I fangirl the righteous martial artist first love more. Oh, Empy! If you only were this sexy in Jade Palace Lock Heart, I may have been more on-board with Qing Chuan's crush, a sea of corpses or not.



OK, for the sake of my self-respect, I simply must watch something else now for a bit. Off to watch Peter Ho and Hu Ge kick things in order to restore my sanity.

Four v. Eight, the rematch. This time minus queues, time-travelling beauties and swords.

I have NO idea why I am addicted to Four Women Conflict, otherwise known as "what bad things can happen to Ady An next". Probably my reluctance to move on from the very happy place Yang Clan is at right now, even if YWotYC is about 10 times better. Hmmm.



But anyway, I am glad to inform you that Playboy has fallen hook-line-and-sinker for our heroine! We can tell this is the case by the many longing and angsty looks he casts the heroine. Just as well, as he was the only one running having fun in this miseryfest and we can't have that!

Anyway, I can believe that (a) beautiful (b) virtuous (c) he finds out she's tragic rape victim in need of protection (d) strong-willed and not impressed by his wiles (e) selfless is a combo that has been especially designed to appeal him. So he now goes devouring her with his angsty angsty eyes:




And he has to suffer the agonies of sleeping with his moneylender friend with benefits and pretending he is his usual playboy self even as he realizes he may be falling in love with the woman he was hired to seduce. His life is so hard. Ah, the humanity! I weep. Doesn't it make you want to console him with your tongue?



But I confess I fangirl the righteous martial artist first love more. Oh, Empy! If you only were this sexy in Jade Palace Lock Heart, I may have been more on-board with Qing Chuan's crush, a sea of corpses or not.



OK, for the sake of my self-respect, I simply must watch something else now for a bit. Off to watch Peter Ho and Hu Ge kick things in order to restore my sanity.

Four v. Eight, the rematch. This time minus queues, time-travelling beauties and swords.

I have NO idea why I am addicted to Four Women Conflict, otherwise known as "what bad things can happen to Ady An next". Probably my reluctance to move on from the very happy place Yang Clan is at right now, even if YWotYC is about 10 times better. Hmmm.



But anyway, I am glad to inform you that Playboy has fallen hook-line-and-sinker for our heroine! We can tell this is the case by the many longing and angsty looks he casts the heroine. Just as well, as he was the only one running having fun in this miseryfest and we can't have that!

Anyway, I can believe that (a) beautiful (b) virtuous (c) he finds out she's tragic rape victim in need of protection (d) strong-willed and not impressed by his wiles (e) selfless is a combo that has been especially designed to appeal him. So he now goes devouring her with his angsty angsty eyes:




And he has to suffer the agonies of sleeping with his moneylender friend with benefits and pretending he is his usual playboy self even as he realizes he may be falling in love with the woman he was hired to seduce. His life is so hard. Ah, the humanity! I weep. Doesn't it make you want to console him with your tongue?



But I confess I fangirl the righteous martial artist first love more. Oh, Empy! If you only were this sexy in Jade Palace Lock Heart, I may have been more on-board with Qing Chuan's crush, a sea of corpses or not.



OK, for the sake of my self-respect, I simply must watch something else now for a bit. Off to watch Peter Ho and Hu Ge kick things in order to restore my sanity.