#Fateful love

[dangermousie]

I SHIP THIS ALREADY AHAHAHAHAH

[zefile]

Fateful Love EP02 (Han Ziqing, pikachu, I choose you)

[xiaolanhua]

Fateful Love 流光引 (2024) Dir. Cheng Yuan Hai – Ep. 23

[nunafilms]

FATEFUL LOVE 流光引 (2024)

[silviakundera]

18 episodes into Fateful Love, my honest raw thoughts:

It has that classic chinese drama feel - no Netflix-ification or Disney+ influences here!

It feels like a webnovel come to life on screen - you know how The Double is technically a web novel adaption, but it didn't FEEL like the novel at all? Not the case here!

Just like one of those tropey, excessive webnovels where the FL has a secret identity, outdoes everybody, has Very Special Talents™, marries a lord/prince, and there are an endless supply of bumbling, cartoonish villains who are all out to get her (for paper-thin reasons)

Hilariously fake looking props! The dagger with plastic ornaments on it and the scorpion ring really took me out. INCREDIBLE.

Battle guqin!! I unironically love wuxia that uses the qin as a weapon. 👏 👏 👏

YAAAAASSSSS blow shit up with your string instrument

Many entertaining fight scenes and some nice on-location scenery

The emperor character feels like the idea of an emperor if a 12 year old wrote it?? 🤔 He's just very absurd and his motivations are all over the place. Sometimes he is judging murder cases for some reason and sometimes he's scheming with his equally dumb and ridiculous consort. Very unserious people.

I keep having the sense that this is just like watching a mini-drama, except they put the filler back in. (If you are enjoying Fateful Love, definitely check out: "What Happened to My Princess?" and "Rise from the Ashes")

The main couple is fine. They have some chemistry and they're both likeable characters. I do enjoy the 'love after marriage' trope.

Compared to costume drama "Debit Queen", which was just quietly released by iqiyi, this one has a FL who is an adult woman who acts like an adult.

I'm enjoying FL's odd friendship with the enemy prince. Here's hoping he doesn't get weird & lovelorn about her. I prefer it as 'your mom was my shifu, now I'll be your shifu' dynamic - they should keep martial qin instructions going regardless of the larger political situation (yeah I'm at war w your husband, but have you memorized that finger position yet??)

You know you're watching classic cdrama when a female character who has been posing successfully as a man is completely exposed the moment her hair comes tumbling down, the crowd suddenly realizing 😂😂

Bottom line: this is not Nirvana in Fire or Joy of Life or Love Like The Galaxy, nor is it trying to be. It's often quite silly and it's meant to be entertaining. Don't come looking for complex characterization or clever plotting, just ask for a good time and don't think too hard about why things are happening or if it makes sense that character A would/could reasonably act like that to character B. Don't worry, be happy.

[itsmeimcathy]

i don't need context, actually - i just like where this is going

[adhamabbas]

When you love, only in time here you can decide when

Do the tracks exist?

Who can decide when to die during the day?

[whumperer-86]

I loved the whump in this drama

Fateful love Chinese drama

[xielianhua]

Zhu Xudan shares photoshoot for Fateful Love

[heymeowmao]

I know he's got to get a good stance in order to actually play the chord assassination but...

lmao!

[theboookwitch]

I genuinely love when a cdrama breaks out the battle instruments. That would be such a sick way to die. Like if I saw a flying hottie with billowing robes whip out a battle qin and start playing it at me with violent intent, I would a) fall in love and b) go blissfully into the underworld.

[dangermousie]

FL's reaction to some other woman fancying her husband is EVERYTHING.

I am genuinely adoring Fateful Love - it's no masterpiece but in a sea of recent baby sounding and baby acting FLs and MLs who look like they are a week from discovering shaving, it is SUCH a joy to get adult, highly competent, evenly matched set of protagonists.

They are trolltastic and amusing and smart and ruthless and MMMM.

[zefile]

Fateful Love EP01

[xiaolanhua]

Fateful Love 流光引 (2024) Dir. Cheng Yuan Hai – Ep. 17

[nunafilms]

Your Highness, this is my youngest daughter Han Ziqing. She's a bit nervous in your presence and has lost her composure. Please forgive her.

FATEFUL LOVE 流光引 (2024)

[silviakundera]

continuing the discourse on Fateful Love being spiritually a QSCK webnovel, walking in the grand tradition of rebirth of ill fated consort, rebirth of malicious empress, marriage of di daughter:

✔ 90% of introduced female characters are jealous of FL and viciously hate her

✔ rants from her haters frequently include complaints that she has seduced some man (despite her not making out w a single person yet in canon)

✔ relatedly, 90% of all non-blood related men are shown as being attracted to FL

✔ ML the plot has selected for the FL has financial & political power, high social status, and has multiple high-status women obsessed with obtaining him

✔ At least 1 active SA, kidnapping, blackmail, or murder plot against FL ongoing at any given time (it does not stop, just continuous revolving door of low-brow scheming & assaults)

✔ instead of Bechdel Test, call it the QSCK Test - how many conversations do characters have without ever mentioning the FL?

And hey, sometimes some frothy fun is just what we feel like! Just vibing with the tropey excess! excesssssssssssssss 🎉 🎉 🎉