#hils watches in blossom

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Hils Watches In Blossom - Ep 1

Time to start a new drama! I know nothing about this one except my beloved Liu Xueyi is in it and looks excellent. I have definitely watched drama for lesser reasons so let's go.

Oh I know him! That's Yu Mo from Immortal Samsara

There's my boy!

She pretended to be a ghost to scare away a couple of would-be grave robbers. I love her already.

Aww she works as an undertaker and is speaking so kindly to the person she's been paid to bury

Wow more evil little bastard kids. There were some in S2 of Taxi Driver as well.

Ehehe! I love her

Ooh is this a crime solving drama?

It's been a while since I watched a robes drama. I have missed all the blood spitting at any sort of injury

Of course he's swept in in dramatic lighting to save her

Ooh they know each other

Childhood friends to lovers?

HAHA! He's like 'dude I was just being dramatic I didn't expect you to actually throw it into a pond'

It's always 10 years. A nice round number.

Are they going to team up and solve crime? And prob fall in love too? Delightful.

YAY!

Now he's pretending to be cool while she does an autopsy while at the same time trying not to puke. I love this so much already

Ah, so she's the brains and he's the brawn. Love it.

Come with me if you want to live

Ooh is it Emotionally Significant Jewelry?

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Hils Watches In Blossom - Ep 21

Uh oh *grabs the popcorn*

He's fighting a whole gang of assassins when he can barely see and this is honestly the sexiest thing he has done

Oh she's talking him through the fight. I love this!

Ooh he's so freaked out that something has happened to her and he can't see that he's using her real name

Oh, good, I thought she was going to rationalise it with some more nonsense

Aww

We could do a stakeout or we could just gaze at each other

Of course Pan Yue has been bitten by extra special magical bugs

Oh no

That is just unneccessary

Of course he's wearing clothes in the bath

We are really covering all parts of the body fetishes in this scene. Wet hands, wet arms, wet abs, wet feet

I love that now that they've both been open about who she really is she's back to teasing him again

I want this job

Well there's another 11 episodes to go so I doubt either of them will keep this promise. Dramas thrive on secrets.

Aww this is sweet she's helping him map his home by counting the steps. And he seems less concerned about his blindness because he has all of her attention

I KNEW IT!!

My poor son turned himself into a stone cold killer to avenge his father's murder only to find out his father has been alive this whole time. I want to hug him 🥺

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Hils Watches In Blossom - Ep 8

Aww I thought they were going to do the Mulan thing where her injury needed to be treated and they figured out she had a different body to the person she's supposed to be. Instead another classic trope of 'we all thought I got shot but luckily I had a piece of metal in my pocket that stopped the arrow'

Pan Yue (unarmed) vs 50 dudes (armed). Well, I don't rate their chances. Also, this is hot.

I mean yes but I suspect you're not going to

Ooh excellent more whump. This drama is definitely catering to my interests

Is...is he going to keep taking his shirt off like this? Is something I need to be emotionally prepared for? I don't think I've ever seen him half naked like this in any other drama of his that I've watched

This is somehow more erotic than if they were actually having sex

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Aww he's all shy

HAHA! I was waiting for them to accidentally fall into a kiss but, nope, trope subverted! I love this!

Me too

Bit dramatic

Yes, eye disease is why he keeps seeing his dead wife

I mean that's probably a more logical conclusion to reach than 'magical face swap'

HOLY FUCKING PLOT TWIST

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Hils Watches In Blossom - Ep 6

I know nothing about this situation is normal but imagine performing an autopsy on a body that's wearing your face

She fell off a roof so I'd love to know how her organs are still all intact

Did she just gently float down off the roof and then die for an unrelated reason?

Okay, getting stabbed in the head with a needle will definitely do it

Yeah, but when you say it like that it makes you sound even more sus

She's paid for their food and now they all love her. And who can blame them

Not subtle at all. "I've paid for your food now please tell me about all the unusual murder weapons you've encountered that are definitely not related to anything I'm investigating no siree"

I love that they keep playing sinister music whenever he's on screen now. Like we've seen the opening credits multiple times now we know he's not a murderer. Whoever described this as a gothic romance is 100% correct though.

I love that she's acting like he's going to stab her with a hairpin in the middle of a store full of people

He's doing an excellent job of being creepy and sinister. Does he know she suspects him and is just fucking with her? Or is he acting totally normal and she's just imagining him being creepy and sinister?

He's like 'in case you have forgotten I'm not actually an idiot'

Well, you are being very sus

I love that he can go from sinister potential murderer to scared bunny in a heartbeat

I legit have no idea who the actual murderer is so I am enjoying seeing the clues as they are revealed

I mean maybe Pan Yue actually is the murderer. Even a blind old woman seems to think he did it

Yeah, no shit.

Ewwww

He just closed his eyes to indicate he was done talking. 'I pretend I do not see' does not work in real life!

GASP

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Hils Watches In Blossom - Ep 29

A-Ze is the MVP of this drama. Going off and doing all the important research while Yang Caiwei feeds Pan Yue soup at home

Even Pan Yue would rather be doing research

I'm intrigued as to how they're going to get Pan Yue out of this fake engagement given that everyone around them is dead set on the wedding happening

Four episodes from the end is when we should be starting to wrap things up not introducing extra drama

How the hell does he know that?

I'm glad at least one person thinks the whole face swapping thing is weird

I keep thinking Pan Yue is the criminal mastermind but then it turns out he's just doing something nice for his son. OH! He's evil! Oh, wait, no he just rescued Yang Caiwei OMG IS THAT POISON? Oh, wait, it's just a healing powder for Pan Yue's injury

I love that whenever a character is in jail in a cdrama they're always in an enormous cell. I mean it's probably meant to be for multiple people but there's only ever one person in there.

I would laugh if the princess's seemingly affable brother in law was actually the criminal mastermind

I'm sure this whole illegal salt subplot is important but I just can't seem to bring myself to care about it

OMG IT ACTUALLY IS HIM!!!

If they get Pan Yue out of his fake engagement by killing the princess I will throw my fucking laptop out the window!

Ah, okay, he's not going to kill her he's just going to threaten to kill her sister.

I FUCKING KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN! With the added bullshit of Yang Caiwei now being made to look like the murderer. God, if I wasn't so close to the end I would nope out of this drama now.

Hongjoong went live while I was watching this episode. I should have watched that instead.

Yeah, I figure she'd probably stabbed herself but this is still utter bullshit

Of course she had time to impart important info before she died

Not even a kneeling in the rain scene can make me feel better

He does look good being all damp and sad, but also you can see the edges of his wig

I'm actually not quite sure what the kneeling is going to achieve. Or is he being punished for cheating on the princess?

Ah, there we go. Thank you for explaining.

Some of us like men who are pathetic. Don't judge.

Another single person in a massive jail cell

Given that Pan Yue's dad is the one who told him about all the secret plot stuff in the first place I don't know why Pan Yue doesn't just tell him who the mastermind is.

Well, that was very annoying but I only have 3 eps left so I suppose I'll push on. I'm not happy about it though.

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Hils Watches In Blossom - Ep 5

I love his suspicious face so much

Well, at least he's not beating about the bush and is just confronting her about his suspicions

God, he's so hot

Oh no who is this? My 'I'm about to have a problem' senses are tingling

Wait a pill cured his dementia? Well, I suppose in a drama where face swapping is a thing anything is possible

I know I need to stop applying logic but honestly amazed that she knew exactly where on a dark road she hid her pendant when she was half dead from exhaustion

It's been bugging me where I know him from. IT'S FUCKING JIN LING

Ehehe! He feels bad for accusing her of murder and is worried she's going to leave but is pretending not to care. This is so fun. And she still thinks he's a murderer. None of this is going the way I expected at all

Amazing! Is Yang Caiwei going to have to prove his innocence now?

He's so pretty

I feel like I've seen her in something too but, again, I can't quite place it

OH MY GOD IT'S FANG DUOBING'S MOTHER

I love that this hat doesn't disguise her at all

And her lesbian bestie is dressed as a man and doesn't look like a man at all. Gotta love the cdrama tropes

Oh no he's cute

Okay, the resident lesbian is possibly the resident bisexual

Wow her body is perfectly intact so I guess Yang Caiwei could theoretically get her face back

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Wait, what???

Okay I'm going under the cut for the next part because Stuff Is Happening and I don't want to spoil it for anyone else.

Okay, one I did not know this was a body swap drama what the actual fuck. And, two, Yang Caiwei's body just got murdered???? Well, she's not getting that back then. Holy shit.

Of course she was. And she can blame this when she doesn't know any of the stuff this person is supposed to know. Wait, so is the lead just going to be played by a completely different actress for the rest of the drama now? Wow.

All the servants are going to have to get used to the fact that their mistress is no longer psychotic

Oh shit she thinks Pan Yue murdered her!

Oh no he's all sad because his fake wife died and now he's got streaks of white in his hair from grief. I shouldn't find this hot and yet...

I'm sure that's not true but will make for delightful misunderstandings

Is she going to solve her own murder? I love this!

Well, I think we have found our resident lesbian of the drama

I love that she doesn't even question it. Yep, my bestie is now a super hot noblewoman.

As much as I am here for Liu Xueyi and his tragic angst I ship these two

She's so extra I love her. 'I need to get Pan Yue on my side to prove that he killed me. I know I'll write a letter of atonement in my own blood'

Oh she didn't actually write it in blood, and Pan Yue realised that. Disappointing.

Oh this is delightful. Now both of them thinks the other is the murderer.

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Hils Watches In Blossom - Ep 2

This is giving my Mysterious Lotus Casebook vibes with them pretending to speak to a ghost to solve the murder

I see he is once again playing a snarky little shit. Excellent.

He's already so gone for her

I possibly should have checked if this has a sad ending because that sounds ominous

Gosh he's so pretty

Wow, okay, I did not see that coming. We're only on episode 2!

I'm not sure a funeral is the most auspicious location for a proposal but I appreciate the vibes

I love how easy cdramas make it to spot the villains. Wearing red, exposed leg, clearly an evil hussy who will probably try and seduce Pan Yue with her sexy wiles

Called it! And I'm not even mad that it's predictable. It's part of the fun.

Of course there will be shenanigans now that a jealous woman is involved

OOH one of Pan Yue's family servants lied to her when she was a kid and she's spent the last 10 years thinking he hates her and abandoned her when her parents died

I mean you probably could if you wanted to, which you clearly do not

I love him

Oh no

I wish to be compensated for the emotional distress this disguise is causing

Oh no but without the beard but with the hair and clothes he looks super hot. Compensation accepted.

And now he's all wet. Wow, someone was clearly listening to me.

Wet and bleeding. JFC.

Her bestie is like 'oh no I ship it'

I have no idea what is happening right now

For someone who's been called ugly and judged on her appearance for the last 10 years you'd think there'd be a bit less of the body shaming. Yes, this woman is evil and is about to kill you but still...

Uh...what the fuck?

I still have no idea what's happening but given that this is only episode 2 I'm going to assume that she's not dead

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Hils Watches In Blossom - Ep 31

Ooh she's starting to suspect that something is up

I mean your waist is so tiny it probably wouldn't hurt? Also it's medicine FFS just take it!

Please do not!

Is it bad that I'm glad there's consequences for her learning a dance in 3 days that took everyone else years?

Oh no has this just become an important plot point?

Does it? Does it really?

I've I'm ever rich I want a secret compartment in my bedroom where the mechanism to open it looks like a random innocuous ornament

Uh oh. Busted.

Oh no they really fucked up my son. SOMEONE SAVE HIM!

NO!!!!!

OMG don't scare me like that!

GOD FUCKING DAMN IT!

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Hils Watches In Blossom - Ep 15

Aww little baby Yang Caiwei wanted to marry anyone except Pan Yue. How the turntables

Again?

Holy shit I did not have iced dessert vendor lady is a secret badass martial artist on my bingo card

OH MY GOD SHE'S THE MURDERER

Holy gender fuckery!

Wait, why is there blood? Have I missed something?

I love that Pan Yue and Zhuo Lanjiang are just standing there while the suspect with vital information tries to kill her dad who also has vital information. Instead of, you know, trying to stop them before someone with aforementioned vital information ends up dead.

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Hils Watches In Blossom - Ep 12

OMG A SKIN MASK! It's like I'm watching DMBJ. I miss DMBJ :(

This looks like a video game sword. Something you would see in something like Soul Calibre

Pan Yue looks so smug about the fact that Zhuo Lanjiang shielded him with his own body? OT3? OT3.

Oh, god, the touching

Ehehe! He looks so offended. Also, have we all forgotten that his wife got murdered just 2 months ago?

Oh my god he's imagining her as a gang wife and she looks so hot

I love genre aware dramas

Ooh he's figured it out after she sung a song from their childhood to bring him out of a panic attack

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Hils Watches In Blossom - Ep 9

Okay, remember a few episodes back when I said this:

*gestures at the screen* I WAS CORRECT

HAHAHA! Fuck.

Oh she's smart! Using seemingly innocent words so that he'll know it's her and not kill Pan Yue

These two are having a very subtle conversation and everyone else in the room is all ???? at a random woman being able to talk him out of fighting so easily. I love this.

I wasn't expecting to find a new blorbo in this drama, and if I was I assumed it would be Pan Yue. He has totally come out of left field and stolen my heart and my soul.

Yeah, I'd be staring at him if he was all bathed in light like this. God.

Such a good question

Oh my god is he preparing a dowry? I mean I'm rooting for you, my dude, but I don't think it's going to go in your favour.

That awkward moment when your best friend, who turns out to be a scary sect leader and who no one else knows is your best friend, shows up to declare his love. In front of the man you were supposed to marry but who currently thinks you are dead.

This drama is insane I love it so much.

Her face! God, I can stop laughing.

Pan Yue: Not in front of my salad my court documents

Don't give part of your engagement gift to another man! That's just rude!

Survived a face swap and attempted murder but going to choke to death because of shenanigans

Now now, boys. Place nice.

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Hils Watches In Blossom - Ep 7

Two months ago????

Oh I guess it's been 2 months since the first episode.

WERE YOU???? Because I didn't see it coming

Of course there's a secret evil organisation that had the rest of Yang Caiwei's family murdered and presumably then murdered her too. It's not a cdrama without political intrigue

Maybe if you'd told him this when he started looking for her she'd still be alive

Oh fuck off! If you hadn't lied to him for 10 years then none of this would have happened

Oh that'll be how he got the scar on his abdomen that I'm definitely not still thinking about

OMG sit down! Standing up like this is not safe I don't care how cool you think it makes you look

Oh I guess we're back in present day now. That wasn't entirely clear

Aww they're on an undercover murder investigation date

I want a job that involves hitting a large drum

Are they going to make a bunch of women cage fight?

ASDFGHJKL I WAS FUCKING JOKING!

So not only are they evil but they cheat at gambling too

Gosh he's so pretty. Is she going to say something she shouldn't while she's high on laced tea?

Say? No. Do? Yes.

I see we're back to the whump this episode after a couple of episodes without any

Wow okay I wasn't expecting them to solve that so quickly

How many murders is Pan Yue going to get framed for in this drama? This is the third one and it's only episode 7!

Ooh is he starting to have a niggling suspicion that Shangguan Zhi is talking like Yang Caiwei

OOH YES HE IS

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Hils Watches In Blossom - Ep 24

Is that what they called it back then?

GASP! So shameless!

Weird is an understatement

My poor son had a nightmare. But he looks so pretty

I don't fully understand this whole ritual serial killing storyline but I did wonder if the woman they rescued was also in on it

Oh so she's the murderer and he was just covering it up

Apparently he played Wu Chen in The King's Avatar but I don't see it at all. I think it's the different hairstyle

Aww he loved her all along. I'm sorry but I'm a sucker for a deeply twisted and fucked up relationship. I watched Hannibal.

And at the opposite end of the spectrum these two are just adorable

Does everyone in this drama have a secret room in their house?

Ah, I think I see where this is going

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Hils Watches In Blossom - Ep 4

Ehehe! The dude who beat Yang Caiwei and reported Pan Yue now has to work for Pan Yue. Sweet, sweet justice. You know, because he's a magistrate now.

I love that this dude is just brazenly explaining to Pan Yue how corruption works in his new job

I knew that wouldn't go down well with Pan Yue

So someone explained last night that they've just done a face swap not a body swap. So she's still strong from hauling corpses around and digging graves but is having to pretend to be a weak noblewoman. Glad that was clarified or this scene would have been confusing

Although if they haven't swapped bodies why is no one confused that this frail woman who had so many cosmetic procedures she was half dead is suddenly fit and healthy

Ehehe

As hilarious as it is that they're both investigating each other I am looking forward to them working together properly. I wonder how long it will be before she tells him who she really is. Not for a while I shouldn't think

Okay, they've already teamed up to take down a man who was abusing his wife. Excellent. More of this please.

Is he writing down all the gifts he's being offered so he can accuse them of bribery later?

Oh, sweetie, I don't think that's who he was writing about

Oh my

Yes, I am definitely looking at the scar...

I knew he was faking being drunk!

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Hils Watches In Blossom - Ep 17

I love that Ling'er is just so happy that Shangguan Zhi is no longer abusive to her servants that she's never even questioned the dramatic change in personality. She's happy she can just speak openly now without fear of being beaten for it.

Oh, dude, you done fucked up

He about to beat your ass

So much unrequited pining in this drama, which makes me worry because often these character end up sacrificing their lives for the people they love.

That had better not be foreshadowing

Look at this good boy being brave and using his words

I don't think anyone is surprised by her response, including him, but at least he tried

I love A'Ze. 'Oh, no, our casual horse ride that I requested just happens to have brought us to the home of the girl I like and the girl you like. What a coincidence.' Pan Yue's face is amazing 😂

Dude you work in a prison. Pull yourself together.

Man realises that clerical work done by a woman is actually harder than she makes it look.

Oh, hey, it's the smoke monster from Lost

Oh it's that dude who I know from several other dramas

I love how gossip spreads and gets distorted

So many things

GDI YOU CAN'T END THERE