Any C-drama suggestions where the writer is more talented than 13 years old fanfic writer and heroes don’t jump two metres high?
(I HATED all C-dramas I watched, but costumes and actors are so pretty that I always want to give them another chance)

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    Well..
    ‘When a snail falls in love’ and ‘Love me if you dare’ not bad imo..
    one of my favest of all time – Nirvana in Fire – but heroes do jump two metres high here sometimes 🙂

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      I will probably give a try to “When a Snail falls in love”, the name already sounds interesting.
      Thanks for information about Nirvana, everyone praised it so much that I wanted to give it a try, I will never understand why heroes need to jump so high, it isn’t realistic and too weird to consider it cool.

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        The wuxia genre is a fantasy genre that only exists in China 😉 And was extremely popular the last decades because of a few good writers.

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    “Rush to the Dead Summer” is good (just don’t watch the ending), “Silent Separation” a.k.a. “My Sunshine”, “Schemes Of a Beauty”, “General and I”, “Pretty Li Hui Zhen”, “Love Me If You Dare”, “When A Snail Falls In Love”, “Scarlet Heart” (season 1 only, plz), “Ode To Joy”, “Girl In Blue”, “Autumn’s Concerto” (this one is from Taiwan, but is still a “C-drama” lol), “Queen Of SOP”, “Sunny Happiness”

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      Wow, thanks for recommendation, I’ll probably check “when a snail falls in love” and “pretty Little Hui zhen”.
      Oh and I will watch the ending of “Rush to the Dead Summer”, I have seen first episode, but the show was too shiny for my taste, now I am wondering just how bad its ending was….

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        You’re welcome!!
        The ending wasn’t “bad”, it’s just not your typical happy ending, but in the overall scheme of things and when you think about the overarching theme of the drama, it makes sense 🙂

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        I loved, loved, loved and STILL love “Pretty Li Hui Zhen”, the C-remake of Korea’s “She Was Pretty” 😊 Dare I even say that I like it more than the original Korean version? I still go back to it from time to time when I am in a drama slump have no desire to watch anything lol My Top 3 dramas I turn back to rewatch during any drama slumps:
        1. Korea’s “Marriage Contract”
        2. China’s “Pretty Li Hui Zhen”
        3. Korea’s “Save Your Last Dance for Me”

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    I haven’t watched a whole lot of C-dramas, but In Time With You (我可能不会爱你) is one of my all-time favourite dramas (Kdramas included). The second leads are a little cliched, though still understandable, but it’s really the leads and their story that’s handled in an exceptional way.

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      Thanks for recommendation, I remember people praising it when Korean version was still airing, I’ll probably see it when I get time….And I’ll jump the second lead’s parts.

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        You should try watching the second leads parts! Because they interact with the leads a lot it reveals some things about the leads that’s good to know. But if it gets annoying then yes, use the fast forward button (:

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    The problem with C-dramas is that most good Cdramas are not about love or beautiful costumes but rather about politics and history or both (from ancient history to cultural revolution, corruption, economical growth etc., they are ways ppl deal with things that happened to them, and of those not many were good). The actors are not good looking, nor do they wear fancy clothes, and I doubt there are english subs out there…..

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      This is such a depressing comment (which I partly agree with). I actually believe you when you say that good Cdrama’s often don’t have good looking actors or fancy clothes. From all Cdramas I have seen main goal is trying to make show as rich/shiny as possible, it feels like they are writing plot based on that, if the writer and director didn’t had too worry about those aspects writing would be a lot better.

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        Most cdramas that get exported are centered around good looking young ppl adressed at their fans or generally an audience between say 10 and 30. Not around plot or acting or cinematography or anything but… good looking young ppl. They make lots of money with little effort and are almost never politically incorrect (in the chinese sense of the words) like serious dramas tend to be and so have the added benefit of safety.

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