IN THIS DRAMA I WILL...

incoherent ramblings about stuff I'm currently hyper fixating | currently watching: A Dream Within A Dream

[shenlis-spear]

EDITS! 📚

The Legend of Shen Li x The Alchemy 🪄 The Legend of Shen Li x Guilty as Sin? 💋 The Legend of Shen Li x Cruel Summer 🌅 The Legend of Shen Li x How Did it End? 💔 A Moment but Forever x The Albatross 🕊️

[shenlis-spear]

How many times have you watched this video?

Me: YES.

[shenlis-spear]

Unhealthily obsessed with them. A Dream Within A Dream still halfway through but I already badly madly need a reunion drama, preferably modern 🥹🙏.

[shenlis-spear]

I'm just a girl begging for this drama to have a good script because C'MON you cannot waste a Tan Songyun and Liu Xueyi pairing! You just can't! It's a crime on humanity. 🙇‍♀️

I could not even care less about the visuals (I survived AMBF and made it my 2025 drama!) and I can turn a blind eye to it if this drama just delivers on the script part. MAKE IT FUN AND LOGICAL!

[hheartsdramas]

okay frens, since i am spending at least one more day recovering from sickiness and may want a diversion that’s not watching a drama…what cnovel should i try?

the only ones i’ve read are the blossoming love and mdzs.

i like angsty romances with happy endings, if that exists in cnovels. i like a fl who could kill me. i am absolutely not afraid of spice or violence. translated to english. influence me, please!

[shenlis-spear]

Recommending some of my faves off the top of my head (although not sure about the angst because I try not to go there 🥲):

1. The Pillow Book (xanxia) - the drama is ehh but the novel is soooo 😗👌! The quality of the translation is also 💯. (Angst: 85/100, happy ending)

2. Refusing to Serve Me then Off with Your Head (historical) - we have an unreliable narrator from the FL whose coping mechanism is self-loathing (and tw: self-harm) and an ML who's absolutely down bad. (Angst altho not romance related: 90/10, happy ending)

3. Sansheng, Death Exists not at the River of Oblivion (xanxia) - three lives three worlds love story of god of war and stone from hell. This one's a riot but will also make you cry. (Angst: 80/100, happy ending)

4. Our Second Master (historical) - really really short story that will never fail to make me cry. (Angst: 85/100, happy ending)

5. The Chronicle of the Oriole Island (historical) - this one doesn't have angst but it's a short mystery story but it's so so soooo GOOD! Really HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! (happy ending)

6. One Night, One Day, One Year, One Lifetime (modern) - oh this one wrecked me and by far one of the most twisted cnovel I have ever read. Also a short story but angst galore all the way to the end. (idk how to categorize the ending but I really couldn't see it end any other way for the characters).

[dramatea88]

One of the most well-written, best acted, profound xianxias I've watched in a while. Too bad you've probably not heard of it! But well, you're hearing it from me now: It's really worth watching and damn it, please watch it.

A Moment But Forever review

[dramatea88]

A Moment But Forever is one of the best xianxias in years, so I wrote a shit tonne of analysis of each episode as a result. Do read this while watching the show or after, to prevent being spoiled. It's worth it. #CDrama #CDramas #Xianxia

A Moment But Forever (念无双) recaps and analysis

[biochemjess]

I love figuring out how to summarize my Cdramas for my friends in the most deranged way possible.

Area woman realizes her aro/ace bestie actually thinks they've been dating the last 30,000 years. When she gets a boyfriend, her bestie reacts in a totally normal and rational manner...by turning everyone into a demon.

2. A white ape and tree demon break up so badly that they kill most of the cast, nearly annihilate two realms, and then fling themselves into self-sacrifice in the most dramatic way possible. Many trees were harmed.

3. STEM goddess dabbles in cult deprogramming and love with mixed results.

4. Sunshine woman falls for grumpy master, who is still obsessively pining for his deceased master, who has reincarnated into...the sunshine woman! She just didn't fully ripen in her fruit phase. They go forth and multiply. The tree was not harmed.

5. Woman travels back to her childhood to prevent her boyfriend from turning into a sexy silver fox.

[shenlis-spear]

Idk what's going on in this still but hmmmm...

[movielosophy]

Love in Pavilion | Young Master Wangquan Hong Ye is not to be underestimated.

[shenlis-spear]

A Moment but Forever sent me to sleep giggling while Love in Pavilion sent me to sleep crying.

This drama is not good for my mental health. Because this is literally me after 8 episodes:

[heymeowmao]

2025.04.23 - 书卷一梦 | A Dream Within A Dream - First Trailer

[shenlis-spear]

I need to this drama to be good enough for me to enjoy I AM BEGGING 🛐

It's been ages since I've liked a Li Yitong drama 😭🙏.

[shenlis-spear]

🎶 help, i'm still at the restaurant 🎶

I swear, I TRIED so hard to start watching new dramas (3 DRAMAS already with my fave people!) but my brain is still on AMBF high for some reason 😕.

Still not able to enjoy the new dramas like I was enjoying this one 😮‍💨. This is exactly like post-TLOS drama slump all over again. UGH

[thyandrawrites]

Out of context things from a xianxia drama I'm watching that I find funny because why not

- FL has a "shields you from a fatal threat with my body and dies before you, altering your brain chemistry" moment in front of the ML. This is is however ruined later by the fact that she comes back to life. Only to die before him again. At which point he's not swooning like she expected but just wary and understandably horrified

- Is It Really Stalking If You're a Goddess Trying to Save His Life and Ensuring He Lives a Long and Fulfilling Existence But Then You Accidentally Die and Resurrect In Front of Him Multiple Times and Make him Wanna Bolt

- Guy's living a psychological horror while she's in a romcom for something like 10 episodes straight

- there is a guy who, due to a bug in the heavenly code, gets tortured to near death by lightning every 49 days instead of ascending. Somehow this doesn't stop him from being the most relaxed and easygoing dude of the entire show

- all the men in this immortal clan have blue tipped eyebrows. Make up exists in their plane so this must be a fashion statement. Will update if this ever gets commented on.

- ML gets shat on by a bird at one point and this has plot relevance

- FL is the fantasy and ancient version of a modern engineer. ML, on the other hand, is an erudite who cannot solve basic math problems from a child's book

- an immortal from the same clan of the ML struggles to put together a puzzle with less than 50 pieces. Clearly the immortal education system is biased towards the arts rather than the sciences, proving they really are enlightened

- there is an accidental child acquisition arc and they almost feed it wine. Healthier solution turns out to be feeding it gold instead.

- This happens in their "oh no we're suddenly broke" arc btw

- in the same arc, a goddess gets her shit nearly totaled by a dog

- at one point, the main couple has a mini arc living in the the FL's best friend's house. The enemy who tried to assassinate the ML is also there, sharing domestic moments with them and only making it slightly awkward

[dangermousie]

Wildest thing from The Prisoner of Beauty novel that you wish they'd keep in the drama but know they won't.

Wei Shao turns into a cat

They have sex all night in flimsy tent next to cranky "keep it down" advisor

Wei Shao cuts off his first girlfriend's nose off

That don't stop her and she becomes a famous masked beauty

Wei Shao cuts off wifey's kidnapper's dick off and stuffs it in his mouth

Feet sex

I don't miss her, I am just gonna jerk off into her dress for REASONS

The line "I don't have infinite sperm" as WS reason for not taking concubines

Desks are for fucking. So is every other available sentence

"Being inside her is as satisfying as taking a city."

Wei Shao says "OK, 'nuff now my turn" about current dynasty and starts a new one

Potato swears it's a nuanced and character driven novel. Just with a lot of...we

Voting ended onApr 27, 2025

[shenlis-spear]

Somehow the "Wei Shao turns into a cat" choice is the least unhinged. The rest of the options really just went on and on...

[shenlis-spear]

A Moment but Forever x Bigger than the Whole Sky

An attempt to hopefully get this drama out of my system so I can proceed to the next one with a fresh mindset and appreciation.

I don't know why I do this to myself but this is by far the most time consuming edit I have ever done. Fun but time consuming. Ughhh I just love them too much 😔✊.

[shenlis-spear]

Rating A Moment but Forever's story a 4.5 and the overall visual a 10 is... certainly a (interesting) CHOICE...I wouldn't make but each to their own I guess?