Miss the Dragon

Much too dragged out

i rarely see xianxia dramas but this particular xianxia caught my eye by the promotional posters and promising plot and i began this drama with high expectations, but ultimately — it was a disappointment.

the beginning of this drama started out well and i actually quite enjoyed it. liuying took care of the dragon king when he was injured and seeing him slowly fall in love with her sweet, gentle and innocent aura was nice to watch but after conflicts arose and he was cursed to watch her forget him and die for four lifetimes is when the drama, for me, began to lose its limerance. the FL is reborn again and the plot began to feel rushed everytime dragon king and FL met each other — the romance was much too fast paced and at times some scenes were boring as nothing exciting happened between the leads ( i found myself fast forwarding on many occasions ). if anything, it was just a repeat of dragon king’s first encounter with liuying such as the roasted chestnuts, watching fireworks, or going into the cherry blossom forest. the four lifetimes plot was insanely dragged out and i was quite shocked by that as i felt the plot had potential but the writers could’ve done more with the plot than simply making the FL get saved by the DK each time they crossed each other’s paths. it didn’t help that the acting was also not as good at times, DW was at times a little too stoic & i thought that he should have expressed more sorrow at being separated from his love and more emotion put into his expressions of devotion and loyalty to her, but alas it seems he became too absorbed in the “rough and indestructible” dragon king role. i definitely feel a little more emotion would’ve made the drama more enjoyable.

what made me continue watching this drama was the second leads — they absolutely stole the show and were much more interesting than the leads. i enjoyed their scenes and i thought their chemistry was really good which made their scenes all the more enjoyable. if i had to choose, my most preferred lifetime of the FL would be her third lifetime when she was general feng chen yue; she was an empowered, strong lead that led an army and didn’t need to rely on someone to save her — she was her own leader and i found her storyline to be much more interesting as there was even a complot from the crown prince conspiring to kill her which made the third lifetime interesting to watch, especially when general feng defeated her antagonist. it was an added bonus that she didn’t need much help from the dragon king either — we love an independent queen.

overall, i wasn’t very impressed with this drama and i wanted to like it, but i could only find more fault than good things to criticize about this drama. i understand it was a low budget drama but it was a let down from the way they promoted the drama and made it look better than it was. the ending was also unsatisfactory which made my disappointment run even deeper. this xianxia is one the least memorable dramas for me and if you’re not a fan of dragged out, repititive romances then i would overlook this drama.

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Writers have mercy on us

I just wish writers could suffer the tribulations of millions of lightning bolts right now! They are even more cruel than this unjust supposed heaven that they themselves created. After all, they are like the very villain they wrote, how much coincidence is the immortal of fate if not themselves, the script writers reserved such a terrible ending. The Chinese greatly exaggerate these tragedies. Why not their imagination can be more merciful, joyful, sweet? They owe us so much, faithful viewers, that we anxiously entwine each episode, waiting for the just redemption of these four souls.

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How Was I Supposed To Know A Little White Snake Could Talk To Me? I'm Not A Snake, I'm Dragon King!

I Am Going To Admit On July 8th, 2022 I Watched My Very 1st Chinese Drama Which Was This Drama "Miss The Dragon" I Watched A Short Where Lui Ying Found A Little White Injured Dragon, Yes I Knew He Was A Dragon, Not A Snake. That Is What Caught My Attention, And That Is What Brought Me To Want To Watch This Drama. I Didn't Even Know The Male Lead Yet, But When They Finally Showed Him He Is Cute, So Gorgeous... (My 2 Most Favorite Actors Whom I Love, And Adore So Very Much Are Wang YiBo, And Xiao Zhan. But I Have So Many More That I Love Too...) Wang HeDi The Very 1st Chinese Male Lead That I Started Liking, Whom I Now Love.
I Didn't Like The Story Line Very Much, I Hate That She Had To Live 3 Life Times... Her 2nd Life, And Being All Alone By Herself, ANNOYING!!! And Even The One Time She Remember, It Still Didn't Go As Planned. The Little Sparrow, Her Boyfriend Got The Raw End Of The Deal, Getting There Memories Taken From Them Just Because They Fell In Love, Then She Got That Meteror Mark On Her Forehead. The Girl That Played The Sparrow Girl Was So Adorable, I Though She Herself Was So Cute,, And Adorable.

The Acting And Everything Was Great, And Awesome... I've Read People Complaining That Wang HeDi Was Lifeless, With No Facial Expressions... He Is A Dragon King That Has Lived For 100's, And 100's Of Years, He's Been Tortured, And Turned Back Into A Baby Dragon. He Can't Even Be With The Girl He Wants To Be With, And He Has To Wait 3 Life Times, And Even At That, Everything Is Still Not To Expectations... So I Think His Faceless Expressions Were Perfect...

I Though That Wang HeDi, And All The Other Actors, And Actresses Did A Wonderful Job Acting. All The Roles, And Parts Played Were Portraited Very Well By All.
This Is My Most 1st Drama I Ever Watched So It Will Always Be One Of My Favorite's And When I Accidentally Come Accross It I Will Watch It, Because It Is Very Fun, Funny, And Exciting.
I Will Admit There Are A Lot Of Twists, And Turns That May Come As A Shocker At The End. Anyways If You Love Wang HeDi, And Dragons, Then Thie Is A Good Movie For You... Like I Said The Only Thing I Didn't Like Was The Story Line... Everything Else Was Great, And Wonderful!!! Even When Wang Hedi Dragon Character Was So Cool, And So Awesome!!!
I Watched All 37 Episodes In 3 Days So If That Doesn't Tell You How Addicted I Was To It, I Don't Know What Will. Just Because I Didn't Like The Story Line Doesn't Mean It Was Not A Fun, And Exciting Story, Because It Was.

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This was honestly not the best drama. It could have been better in so many ways. I don't understand why Liu Ying has to drink the tea everytime and forget the past. I also don't get why she keeps getting reincarnated. It's honestly very annoying. This show didn't put much effort into the costuming either. Every time Liu Ying got reincarnated, she would wear the same outfit. For an example, when she was Liu Ying, she only wore a yellow outfit, when she was Ah Yu, she only wore a blue one, and the same for the rest of her lives. The story was really bad at putting the Immortal of Fate as the "bad guy", honestly when he played as Jinj Guangyao in "The Untamed", you could tell he was the evil one, but in this show he just becomes evil out of nowhere. Do not recommend this show, don't waste your time on it. The beginningg was fine only if she didn't have to continue getting reincarnated.

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Romantic everlasting loves

This drama is all about love. You take it or you leave it. Dylan Wang's imposing acting makes the difference.

I came to this drama after watching "Love between fairy and devil" I was quite impressed with Dylan Wang's charisma and amazing acting. There are many similarities between the two dramas but the main difference stands in the interest of the stories themselves. In "Miss the dragon" you will soon find out that what matters the most is the relationships between main characters not the storyline itself. So you may get a little bit bored and frustrated asking : where is this drama leading me ? We have really beautiful and quality scenes but will the plot get more interesting ? What do the screenwriters aim to ? Why are they focusing on relationships rather than the plot development ? Everything is just a pretext to watch main leads characters live their love surrounded by wonderful and fairylike landscapes. It's all very romantic and beautiful. That's it.

If you don't believe in everlasting love and get bored with a man's devotion and protection, this drama is certainly not for you. 4 lives and 4 deaths for the mortal girl and always the same everlasting romantic love. When the story finally comes to an end with the real plot development it becomes really goood. Episode 34 is maybe the best one. Last episode is really great too. In the firts episodes, it was really funny to make immortal Dragon King try to understand humans and behave like them. He doesn't know how to repay Liu Ying's kindness. He reads human books such as "the legend of white snake" and try to act just like it is said in the book ! How funny that was !

This show is beautiful for the eyes but lacks intense happenings. The plot is dragging too much so it's hard to rate this drama too highly. 8 is a good compromise to congatulate the actors, the Director and pointing out the great soundtrack !

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Bad ending.

Spent many nights with this seri to find out that the ending terrible. The writer should stop writing. Go to do something else. I’m a super fan of a Chinese series. The story make so disappointed. The heaven god was not fair from the beginning till the end. I would said that I hate it. Waste my time. เรื่องนี้ดูพระเอก นางเอก พระรอง นางรองแสดงได้ดีมาก ถึงเรื่องจะเอื่อยไป ความรู้สึกเหมือนดูป่าท้อ+ปลดผนึกฯ ถึงพระเอกจะยืนหล่อๆ กว่าจะผ่านแต่ล่ะชาติ จะเท ไม่เทแล่ อุตส่าห์อดทนดูจนจบ เพื่อพบว่า สวรรค์แม่ง Suck แม่งไม่ยุติธรรม. พระเอก นางเอก ตายเฉยเลย สวรรค์ไม่ยุติธรรม บ้าบอจบแบบนี้ก้อได้รึว่ะ. โครตจะผิดหวัง ซีรี่ย์ไม่จำเปนต้องจบดี จบสวย แต่ควรจบแบบมีเหตุมีผล. อยากส่งเปลือกทุเรียนให้นักเขียน

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Draggy

The story is ok but the story of the main leads are very very boring. I always fast forward or skip their parts. At least it gets better when this Liu Ying became a general then cultivator but the first two lives are pretty much a damsel in distress and weak character. Aside from that, I dont understand the point of having four lives and dragon king repeatedly being hurt for her. We all know that dragon king loves her. It would be better of lets say the Yin soul becomes stronger or what.
Qingqing and Que Qianxun is the reason I was able to watch this up to episode 30+. They are very cute and have stronger chemistry for me haha.
10 for music because I love the theme song ehhe. For the acting, I gave 8 because of Que Qianxun, Qing qing and female lead. I definitely wont rewatch

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Not fully cultivated - Had potential!

I like Bambi, believe she is a strong actress, in a sense, she always understand the assignment she's given. She's also beautiful! Dylan is handsome, and I like watching him on the screen. I couldn't understand why I just couldn't see the spark in the two. They're both beautiful and look good together! I'm only watching for them, but the love story is bland as others have said. Just what is the Dragon King fighting so hard for? What about Liu Ying was so dear to him, except that she was the first to care for him when he was injured? That development had no substance and she reincarnates over and over just to repeat without getting anywhere in the relationship. After finishing the drama, I realize Liu Ying's character isn't that fully fleshed out. She's merely a passenger in the story. Long Yan makes the decision for their love, and she's mainly unaware until the very end.

The beautiful sentiment of love separated by death and reincarnation is interesting and bittersweet. But you couldn't really feel that desperation with the main characters. It's like they were just telling us without showing us. Or the performance just fell very flat.

The second couple has more spark than the main. Deng Wei (Xue Qian Xun) is a stronger actor than Dylan Wang. I believe he was able to do his part well, overshadowing Dragon King. Qing Qing played by Pan Mei Ye is a cute and loyal character, but I can't stand her sometimes when she's on the screen too long, especially her scenes with Xue Qian Xun. She's adorable but annoyingly snobby at times.

I was looking forward to this drama from the get-go! Unfortunately, it hasn't hit any expectations. The music is dreamy, and I guess one of the elements that I really like about the drama.

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Slightly ambiguous ending

I enjoyed this drama from beginning to end. Lonely arrogant dragon demon on a path to immortality makes the mistake of trusting and befriending the power hungry manipulative immortal of fate. He meets his destiny, but experiences road block after road block, but manages to make new friends who are true to the end.

Longyan Yuchi, only surviving member of his dragon clan, is accidentally in the wrong place at the wrong time and is falsely accused of stealing a powerful ancient artifact, for which he is tried and convicted by the idiot on the heavenly emperor's throne without investigating the so called crime After a thousand years of lightening strikes, a punishment even most immortal beings could not survive, he is released and falls, injured into the mortal world. It is his lucky day as he meets a kind young woman, Luiying, who has some medical skills, who mistakes him for a small injured snake. She takes him home at the prompting of her young miss.

Grateful, he offers to marry her after he takes on his human form. He quickly realizes that it is not merely gratitude, but true love. Unaware of human, or even otherworldly relationships, he naturally makes a hash of it, but tenaciously wears her down. Unfortunately fate, or more accurately the @#0!% In charge of fate, prevents this pair from making their desires a reality until the very end, forcing these lovers to only love at a distance. Yuchi keeps his virtue to the very end, remaining by her side when ever physically possible, and protecting her from those who only want to use her soul as a power source. He has to stand by in two of her lifetimes as she marries another as circumstances make those options the only ones that will allow her to continue living a natural life span.

Eventually the conspiracy is discovered, and justice is met.

The second leads own love story is just as sweet but somewhat less heartbreaking. The bromance between the ML and SML is also sweet and hilariously funny.

Some other reviews state it is a sad ending, but I found it to be hopeful as both the leads' souls survived with the possibility of reincarnation. It just misses the mark a little on a completely satisfying happily ever after. The 6 min special implies a 5th incarnation, as the FL is addressed as Princess Liuying before she meets up with ML who complains, "What took you so long."

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THE DELIBERATIONS OVER FATE & KNOWLEDGE

As a theme-digger, let me detect for you some less obvious layers of meaning in the C-drama „Miss the Dragon.” There is more to discover & savour than meets the eye.

THE VALUE OF SCIENCE
Our times call for a redefinition of the value of the ‘certified’ facts & interpretations. The centre of the evil in this drama is a large rotunda library, run by the Heavens, calling for awe. At its centre, the Immortal of Fate is an individual of refined appearance & pleasing demeanour, responsible for attaining, storing & distributing the bulk of ‘received’ scholarly literature, but can indulge in providing evaluation or interpretation…

His visitors accept the library with utmost reverence. Qing Qing’s attitude is the opposite: she detests the written word, even though she knows that her negligence in education will deprive her of immortality. Being given “The Book of Reincarnation”, which would spare her suffering, she puts it back. Both idolatry of books & total disrespect prove wrong.

While the cunning Immortal of Fate makes a deliberate abuse of authority in source selection, the inexperienced Dragon King clings to the worst possible references out of his lack of the ability to judge their relevance or intention of authors. He follows a “bad book” & a brothel show, which almost ruin his budding relationship with Liu Ying.

PROFESSIONALISM & ETHICAL ATTITUDE
The position, independence, perception by superiors/colleagues/clients, amount of leisure determine our ethical attitude. Likewise backwards: our morality decides if our work will serve or disrupt the community.

We see it at play from the first episode, when the Immortal of Fate encourages the Dragon King to steal the Ancient Golden Armour. He does not use the imperative ‘steal’ – just toys with the hero’s anxiety & ambition. The Dragon King has already been burdened with an unjust accusation (the misappropriation of the Stone of Nuwa), leading to the Heaven’s thunderous wrath. As a recidivist, he will be doomed…

Each time we meet the Immortal of Fate, this smooth operator takes a step towards mischief. He makes grand use of Qing Qing’s obsession with appearance (her own & the handsome librarian’s) to confront her with the merciless Lord of Luofeng Pavillion, by advising her to pull at his most tender strings.

The heavenly library has a second enterprise profile, a very nasty one: a commission-house for all sorts of shady magical artefacts, poisons pushed as medicines, harmful headbands etc. To get these, a client must offer the most precious piece of their body, being even informed that the business is illegal.

The Immortal of Fate’s corruption has a form of a vicious cycle: he is armoured with unearned authority, with no surveillance from above or objection from beneath. But he is not free from unearned disregard, too: for Qing Qing he is not a suzerain but a plain librarian. Such occurrences even raise the Immortal’s contempt towards his working environment and make him indulge in exploiting the naivety of his client. He knows he can venture offering her a crucial book because she is likely to turn it down. He goes as far as to delete pages from the record on Lord of Luofeng Pavillion. He spends his entire life in the library or at courts, having no pastime, craving for none. While privately visiting the Dragon King at the pool, he is still ‘at work,’ scheming.

Lord of Luofeng Pavillion has a profession that collides with his inborn personality but corresponds to his current embittered state of mind. He feeds people Lethe (memory poison he had also taken willingly) and guides them into oblivion, genuinely believing that this is the right path away from suffering. A crack appears when Qing Qing twits her spontaneity into his ear, pleading for mercy, rekindling buried memories & instincts. Each twit enlivens the past and finally pries the cold heart open. However, Lord’s two unhealed traits guide him back dangerously close to his professional failure & private misery: the susceptibility to evil authority & the inability to communicate effectively.

Various hilarious but serious observations may be drawn from the interaction between the Dragon King & other professionals: the Immortal of Fire & the Immortal of Rain. Worth following is the insight into Ayu’s tortured state of mind, as she tries to extricate herself from the post of Goddess of Rain, imposed on her by circumstances. Facing the imminent revelation of her incompetence, ‘the loss of face,’ Ayu pleads guilty. Not to Heavens, but to common folk. Having repeatedly suffered violence at work as a merchant, she still has deep respect for her imperfect community.

COMMUNICATION INEFFICIENCY
Many C-dramas involve motives of amnesia to prevent a character from communicating with others, revealing crucial facts, sharing emotions. Here we have the motives of reincarnation and Lethe drink. Interestingly, Liu Ying’s every reincarnation involves a different pattern of selective, incomplete forgetting. Every lifespan leaves an imprint on her itinerary soul. Her friends are obliged each time to adhere to a different range of secrecy. Of course, with Qing Qing around, Liu Ying & her later selves quickly pick up the essence of her accumulative past. Also the Dragon King’s yearning for outspokenness allows her to peek into it.

We do not doubt that Xue Qian Xun has grown ready to confess surprisingly soon, but his sincerity is handicapped by the half-forgotten hurt, years spent at the heartless truth-pruning office. Qing Qing yearns for any sign of appreciation from him, yet her obsession with his perception of her face & intellect makes her deaf to his appraisal. His introverted attitude, enhanced by the gravity of his post, gives priority to silent musing (the content of thought). Her extroverted manner, enhanced by the habit of constant nervous pleading for herself, gives priority to chaotic vocalisation (the form of thought). That stalemate of form & content, of the willingness & inability to give & receive, can only be broken by a thunderous interference.

Worth noting is Liu Ying’s maturing openness, as she learns to refuse to reciprocate men’s favour, gently but decisively. In two lifetimes she let circumstances impose marriage, but as general Chen Yue she informs Lu Zheng about her feelings to another man, without causing excessive suffering. Then, as a small girl, she is ready to assert her worldview, aware that her sincerity puts her future at the cultivators’ sect & her immortality at stake.

CONTROL OVER FATE
When Ayu decides not to drink Lethe and vows to gain control over her fate, we might expect her to become what she wants. But it is her father and uncle who channel her fate at her rebirth as Chen Yue. Being strong and skilled in martial arts still has nothing to do with freedom of choice. The fourth incarnation gets close to it, but the heroine is made to die on the day of gaining maturity. It may mean that life is too brutal to grant full independence even to the fourfold refined personalities.

The Dragon King & his beloved remain smitten by the tides & ebbs of fate. The strongest character, the only truly friendly counsellor, eager to lend useful objects and give a helpful hand, is Xue Qian Xun, who manages to adjust the frantic torrents of fate for himself & others, but even he falls victim to the poisonous spell by the Immortal of Fate.

OBJECTIFICATION OF MEN
This serious drawback is present in all C-dramas known to me, alas. Male characters have the responsibility to provide a background for female. Here, we have a man-pillow, a walking purse, a face-canvas for drawing ridiculous patterns; even emperors are objectified as spouses or sources of admiration & promotion. Only the Immortal of Fate is the independent one who exploits, but he dies violently shortly after revealing his aim.

GLITCHES & FLAWS
The greatest flaw of this C-drama results from its greatest merit. The engagement of Deng Wei was a priceless acquisition, but placing him in a role other than the main proved disruptive. Unintentionally, this cautious placement did injustice to the rest of the cast, who are all professional, devoted & expressive to the extent required by their roles. Deng Wei is not an actor, he is a wizard.

Another flaw of this series is the amount & final affirmation of sadism. We see many facets of cruelty, the most disturbing instance being the pervert atrocity of Dongluo’s Crown Prince, rightfully punished. But in the final fight against the Immortal of Fate, the Dragon King chooses to indulge in a similar type & intensity of cruelty. This time we are forced to believe this excess is justifiable.

Preoccupied with his beloved’s affairs throughout the series, without a wider scope of concern for the world, the Dragon King turns into a rebel eager to sacrifice himself in a desperate assault against the unjust Heaven. Not the change itself but its abruptness is unconvincing and leaves enough space for doubt whether it was the hero’s deliberate act or just the ill-considered result of a momentary surge of despair, worth his regret.

One more flaw connected with psychological portrayal is how cold Liu Ying & her next selves can be. She forgets her newborn child, wandering & musing about her feelings. The child never reappears, though minor persons like Marble do. We never get to see the emperor she marries or learn about her struggle to develop a bond. Although she gets 60, we see her preserve a youthful appearance – no trace of emotional wear. Her coldness towards ‘brother’ Lu Zheng is also conspicuous.

APPEAL
Qing Qing went a long & painful way to respect her face. C-drama is this one spark of hope left to preserve dignity, creativity, modesty, true development, faith in humanity & more, to avoid the Western ‘aesthetics.’ One of the greatest threats is the indulgence in unnecessary plastic surgery & tweakments as breach of authenticity, as interference in actors’ & actresses’ integrity.

Written by a nationless spirit confined in the decaying Mid-Europe.

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