#ji bozai

[alipeeps]

Ming Yi, look closely. I'm the one in front of you. It can only be me.

[saaraofthesand]

I love them sm

[wastedwaterpotential]

jbz: i have a friend that-

bu xiu: you have other friends???

yOu kNoW oThEr mEn?

[mingoooossii]

bonus...😔

LOVE IN THE CLOUDS 入青云 (2025) text posts (1/?)

[peachblossomdream]

By the purity of my intent. May your feelings be stirred true. Radiant deity who subdues evil! We die together! We live together!

What if I say, instead of you protecting me, why don't we protect each other? Xun Ming mentioned Heartbond Array in the Illusory Realm. Ancient tomes also said that it could seal netherbeasts. To use the array, the spellcasters must be one of mind and one of heart. If not, they will be caught in self-immolation. And it's precisely due to this high risk that no one has practiced it since then. If that's what we have to do, then it's not that complicated. After all, we are of the same mind.

Love in the Clouds 入青云 2025

[thedramaholic]

the way he looks at her and smiles

[dramashutup]

HMH was right; in this drama, JBZ talks more than MY does

MY does too, but she doesn't say things she actually wants to say, it's like she's always hiding them because of her upbringing and how she needs to be hidden as a Crown Prince

This isn't something that's done a lot in dramas, I think, where the male lead leads the conversation about emotions more than the female lead

After that time in the pool when she said that she's always afraid to confront herself, it's like JBZ picked up that that's how MY ticks; that it's harder for her to be honest with her feelings

It's nice. Women are as diverse as all male too, and we're not all as stereotypical as all that

[mrinafria]

Some of the things I particularly liked in Love in the Clouds:

1. They kept some of the iconic parts in the drama. Despite the deviations from the novel in how they take place, some key moments in the novel that stuck with me actually made it to the drama, such as the burning of Ji Bozai’s residential area by Mingyi/Twenty-seven, MingZai birth secret, Mingyi rejecting Zaizai's proposal multiple times until he's drunk and being an absolute baby about it. It was interesting to see a different take on the same story.

2. Ji Bozai and Mingyi (and curtains). I understand they couldn't follow the novel because of censorship. Physical intimacy was a big part of MingZai relationship in the novel: they never shied away from it because unlike the drama, novel Bozai truly played the philanderer part to the T, including sleeping around. For Mingyi too, it started off as a means to an end for her to get the antidote so she never really put much thought into it there. I knew for sure they couldn't show the same dynamic but was worried they'd completely get rid of it all. Curtains or no curtains (lmao) I'm glad they successfully managed to toe that line between what will or won't fly on tv. Too bad some things got cut but I'm surprised at whatever finally made it to screen. Add to that, it was a pleasure to see how they tried staying true to the og characters without doing a lot of the other things the og characters did--they're both great at pretending around people, Mingyi's life doesn't revolve around some man but she loves him dearly regardless, Ji Bozai maybe a feared warrior but he practically kisses the ground Mingyi walks on and so on--so I didn't find myself lamenting ruthless butchering of characters this time.

3. Ming Yi. I LOVE how they kept the core essence of Mingyi the same even though changes were made in the drama. She is proud, strong, self-dependent, cautious, loyal, a fighter and a born leader, and yet at the same time she has deep-rooted abandonment issues, craves for love, and is a girl's girl you could trust your life with. Drama Mingyi is slightly more softened imo which I enjoyed very much too. Lu Yuxiao has done a commendable job portraying all the layers and nuances to her character. I love when character assassinations aren't a thing in adaptations T__T

4. Ji Bozai. There are very very few fictional pieces where I love both the leads equally, and this is one of those. Ji Bozai in the drama is quite different from the one in the novel, but similar to Mingyi, most of his prominent traits are there in LITC. He is manipulative, scheming, vulnerable, distrusting, easily jealous and openly biased toward Mingyi. The novel JBZ does so many blunders romantically I couldn't even blame Mingyi for rejecting his marriage proposal over and over again lol. At the end of the day, both versions of him showed the same level of longing, pain, love, respect and devotion for his equal, his only one, his wife, his Mingyi. Hou Minghao nailed Ji Bozai period.

5. Overall adaptation. See I try not to expect any adaptation to do justice to original source material because there are many factors (especially for cdramas) that affect a drama, unlike a novel. I usually (if not forcefully lol) go into a drama adaptation thinking that as long as they get some of these main things right, I'm good. That's the case for LITC too. Is it 100% true to the novel? No. There are massive changes made (I mean novel Situ Ling was never an evil mastermind to begin with) But is it still one of my favorite adaptations? Yes. Will I go back to rewatch it? Most likely yes (and I rarely do this). I love how the casting for this is absolutely top-notch; the plot is exciting, the execution is solid, the wardrobe is a visual treat, the chemistry is incredible, and the acting by both the leads and the supporting cast significantly enhances the storytelling. While we don't get old couple MingZai just chilling around as their kids go on like in the novel, we do get a very proper, very well written happy ending--one that left me with a lot of giddy warm happy feelings (and some sadness because it ended 😭). It's a 10/10 for me.

Too bad c-ent likes to sleep on existing chemistry because these two are fire and ice at the same time and in the most glorious, most fascinating sort of way.