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Everyone has a Story to Tell

Let me tell you my story ..lol... I know I wrote with so much enthusiasm in my last post about the drama that I recently started watching at that point of time. Now I am at the 33rd episode where the focus shifted back to 16 years later. I try to watch at least one episode per day or two if I have more time. In between train rides and boring talks, I would read the novel and I finished all of the more than 100 chapters. I actually liked how each character was fleshed out and had a story to tell.  The main protagonist, also the son of a servant, was brought up by his parents' old friend, who was also a sect leader of a well known clan. Though he was a mischievous teenager, he had a strong sense of justice and kept his promise to protecting the weak. At one crucial point, he had to leave behind his step siblings whom he loved dearly, and declared to be not of the sect anymore, as he wanted to protect the Wen clan remnants not involved in the bloody murders of his adopted pa...

Drama Addiction: The Untamed

I have these strange obsessions sometimes, like at one point I will be sooo much into certain K Pop bands and another time, with this highly popular Taiwanese drama. I would be looking forward to certain days, waiting impatiently for the episodes to be translated to English subs, refreshing like crazy. Oh well. Just when that series ended, I heard of another series that would sure to bring out the obsession again but I tried to watch some episode snippets on youtube, but it didn't stir up any feelings. I just thought the actors were good looking. But there was so much noise on my IG newsfeed about this show and so I thought I would give it another try. Okay, now I am obsessed. See lah. It's a Chinese period drama based on the popular online novel called Mo Dao Zhu Shi or Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation. It's a BL novel but the focus wasn't so much on the romantic aspects because one was quite oblivious and the other one, had a personality that was cold and al...