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Mae-il Mae-il
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Dramas 👍
Jumping in to the #EYDC2025 with Day 9: Watch any older dramas in 2025?

The oldest drama I watched and finished was my rewatch of #SheWasPretty (2015). Since it wasn’t old when I watched it the first time I’m actually struggling to publish this post rn 👵
December 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
We had two carts at the fauxbidden palace but only one for Hong Kong street, so we kept taking turns on squishing someone in the kid seat up front lol
December 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Is there audio? This guy was the most impressive. He was quizzing people on idioms, and then busted out a whole litany of them that sounded more like a rap
December 9, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Hengdian Studios has a 1-to-1 replica of the Forbidden Palace

But at the Fauxbidden Palace, you can rent golf carts to zoom around on and there are people dressed up as court members playing games with the guests!
December 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
We took these photos that night and only realized later that we were photobombed by the jiangshi!
December 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
While driving our golf cart around Hongkong Street, we actually ran into our tour guide! He had left us hours earlier when he dropped us off at dinner. We had wondered why he didn’t want to eat with us! Turns out his wife and in-laws had come down to play with him too.
December 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
This guy dressed as a jiangshi (Chinese hopping vampir/zombie) at the Hongkong Street and he would run up to people and get shrieks and laughs out of them. He was a hoot
December 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
We stayed in Wuzhen the night before their major theater festival. Too bad!

We all went to get foot massages and my guy was chatty. He was telling us all about the past festivals and he handed me his phone to scroll through all the douyin (the og TikTok) clips from last year
December 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
One of my friends was on the hunt for brocade for her daughter, who quilts. There is so much silk to find, especially in silk town in Hangzhou, but she was looking for a particular, thicker style that took us the better part of the morning to find
December 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
One of the highlights of our trip was an amazing dinner in a private room at the zoo in Hangzhou. The food was delicious and the presentation was next-level. And they had a musician who came in to play pipa and guqin, and a woman who came in to dance
December 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Which drama is this from again?? 🤔 🤔 🤔

Jk I TOOK THIS PICTURE MYSELF!

When my friends and I were trying to find it, we confused the hell out of our tour guide: “So which Palace has the famous hallway? You know, the one with the really tall walls for shooting arrows at people?”
December 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
September 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Dancer?

The FL in #TwentyAgain dreamed of becoming a dancer before she got trapped in a marriage with a worthless pos. She goes back to school, rediscovers herself and her love for dancing, and finds people who lover her for HER and it’s beautiful.

#dramajobchallenge
September 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I’ve kept this image in my phone since I watched the episode of #ADreamWithinADream where the dad says it to his daughter

And I keep thinking back on it. It cuts through to the truth so succinctly

Particularly relevant today: it’s why you can’t “debate” someone who is coming in bad faith
September 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Hmmm I love #ChengYi enough to give this a shot, but his new drama #TheJourneyOfLegend (airs Tomorrow!!) seems a bit like Immortal Ascension’s “cultivate, take down foe, cultivate, take down bigger foe” story telling. Anyone have insight?
September 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Christina Ricci has always been my idol
September 9, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Relatable.
September 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Our not-so-scholar general practicing the four scholarly arts with Jin’an is utter perfection. No notes.

#ShadowLove ep 14
September 6, 2025 at 4:43 AM
September 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
My brain doesn’t agree with this take but my heart kinda does lol. I love miscommunication (when done well) and misunderstandings in my dramas. I want my dramas to put the characters through the wringer, and me by proxy

(OP has comments locked so I’m just snagging a pic of their post)
August 31, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Loved #HeadOverHeels! Such a fun school-shaman story that took a unique approach .. the FL doesn’t struggle with her shamanism, the 2ML is in love the FL but that doesn’t stop him from making all the right decisions (save one that he does for good reason), the antagonist is redeemed but not forgiven
August 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
will be harmed by the corruption.

“…And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains…”
August 27, 2025 at 6:27 AM
👏 You’re a regular Johnny Cage
August 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This truly is a game of telephone, so many school district bans of different things out there, and so much mucking up the works

Here’s what I think the banning is referring to (this time… there have been so many other school districts and books too)

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
August 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The absolute unfairness in the world that stacks one side of the scale with decency and honor, and the other side with money and unfathomable greed truly wounds me.
August 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM