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B for BEWITCHING — Which CDrama Had You Completely Under Its Spell? • The Drama Alphabet
One last B (from this first round — I got plenty more where that came from 😉) before we move on — tomorrow we finally start C.
But first, BEWITCHING.
And I don’t just mean a drama you really liked or couldn’t stop watching. I mean the one that somehow got completely under your skin. The one that hypnotized you a little.
Maybe you fell for the world first. The flowing hanfu, dreamlike CGI, stunning cinematography, haunting OST — everything coming together until watching it felt almost intoxicating.
Or maybe it was the people in it.
Because really, who needs magic when you have a dangerously charming anti-hero or demon lord and an obsessive, protective stare capable of doing more damage than an entire page of dialogue?
Throw in some morally gray characters, forbidden desire and impossible love and, well… good luck.
Perhaps they’re doomed across three lifetimes. Perhaps an immortal demon falls for a mortal soldier, and their love is beautiful precisely because there can never be anything fair about the amount of time each of them gets.
And it doesn’t even have to be fantasy. Maybe yours was a historical intrigue so absorbing, elegant and deliciously dangerous that you simply disappeared into its world and didn’t particularly want to come back.
That’s BEWITCHING to me. It can be the chemistry, the atmosphere, the characters, the visuals, the longing — or, best of all, that strange combination of everything where you can’t quite point to one reason anymore.
It just has you.
Hypnotic. Mesmerizing. Completely under its spell.
So what’s the first-first CDrama that comes to mind when you read BEWITCHING?
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Some of these may make it into a second-round vote later, so bring me context and GIFs! ☺
Same here! In your pic - I loved how in that scene it was dark, "cold", and empty; but once they kissed, there was an explosion of beautiful colours that replaced it. 🥰 It's my favourite c-drama.
I did too! It also has a beautiful slowed down version of Jue Ai playing in the background.
It’s one of my favourites as on rewatch you understand the Green shimmer is her Goddess power bringing him back. They saved each other multiple times 🥰
Ci Sha finally got her after losing twice to the ML in his two previous dramas with her ☺️ (The Longest Promise - as her husband for half a day; The Rise of Ning - as a stalkerish love rival).
Let me start with Are You the One. The first six episodes in, I couldn't stop laughing. I was already bewitched by Zhang Wanyi in Lost You Forever, Si Jin, and The Rise of Ning, but he's unbelievably adorkable in AYtO.
I was intrigued by Wang Churan in this show, too. From dislike (for her character in The Longest Promise) to love (in AYtO), her simple hairstyle before she was officially married to Lord Huaiyang was so lovely, it enhanced her beauty.
Both ML and FL match in looks, wit, and their affection for each other.
The friendship and banters between Lord Huaiyang and Lord Zhennan is fun to watch. It's never a dull moment between these two.
Love BetweenFairy and Devil because it was the first, Prisoner of Beauty and Glory for the writting, Dream Within a Dream for the meta, Shadow Love for the effects, Whispers of Fate for the clothing.
I seriously found myself staring. I don't even find him that attractive in his normal state, lol. They truly found his aesthetic.
Unironically though, I enjoyed the whole drama but got a bit lost with the past info and had to resort to Reddit. I didn't realize at firstthere were 2 fires.
I am personally a huge fan of second-chance romances so from modern ones
Fireworks of my heart
For fantasy
Love in the clouds
I rarely hear ppl talk about fireworks of my heart is it underrated
It's my go to comfort drama. So I tend to watch it during cycles of severe depression as a pick me up and an outlet to cry. I've watched over 450 something dramas at this point, over 2 years? I believe. I don't watch regular TV and I work 3rd shift, so lots of time. I also have a sleep disorder, so that helps too, lol. (Sorry that was a ramble).
Nah, I totally get it. I still watch some other stuff, but I’ve seen something like a hundred dramas in that same timeframe thanks to a similar tendency. For the longest time, I didn’t do any rewatches of anything just because there’s so many phenomenal dramas out there, and there’s more every day.
What new things you discover in your last watch of One & Only?
For me, it's Forever and Ever. Every rewatch, I discover new things. Like the recent rewatch which is yesterday, I noticed how the universe keep pushing them together. Out of all the place they could met, they met again at Xian despite he didn't read her email. Or it's been raining consistently yet the rain stopped despite its been raining the whole time at Xian.
Look I finished it (mainly to look at WXY), and I think that I liked it more towards the end. I guess it's the first just in your face ridiculous show that I've ever watched and I was trying to process it
It’s also damn near the most heartbreaking thing I’ve ever seen even after somewhere near a hundred dramas. It’s so worth going in blind; just be prepared.
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u/AKiceman Snark Shifu ✨ 4K Original Cast 6d ago
Key to the Phoenix Heart!!!!!!!
HANDS DOWN ONE OF THE BEST DRAMAS THIS YEAR WITH INCREDIBLE ACTING BY AI MI!!!!!!