A series that gives the feeling of watching an old series
The series started well. It attracted me. I watched 10 episodes. Then I started to get bored. It gave me the impression that they gave a new presentation to an old series. Because I saw Liu Xue Yi young. I saw her a little stiff. I said I am watching the 2025 series but what happened to this one. It looked very slow. On the contrary, the female actress was very lively. It seemed like there was a mismatch. But what impressed me the most was that it was like a presentation of an old series with a new date. Ao Rui Peng seemed like he had just started acting. Even he was very young and at the beginning of his career. Of course, I am not Chinese. I do not follow from there. I am far from the events. We watch whatever is shown to us. I am only a close follower of Chinese Dramas. I watch it with pleasure. That's all. But especially the names are effective in the series we watch. I started watching the series because Liu Xue Yi and Ao Rui Peng were there. I thought such a series would be great with these actors. However, I was disappointed. Although the actors adapted to their jobs, the plot got heavier and more meaningless. Acting was not enough. Romance started, progressed, went well. As I said, it stopped after the 10th episode. There was no progress. It was like a series going back and forth. They became a fairy, an immortal, a demon, a mortal, and I got confused while watching. There was a coldness in a series that already gave the impression of being old. As a result, I couldn't stand it and stopped watching after 22 episodes.Was this review helpful to you?
Great Love Story
The story feels shallow in the beginning when the ML fell in love so easily to FL, without any in depth exploration. I think it has to do with the attachment that he grew up with red camelia since he was young, not being loved by the parents, and the strict disciplines he had to abide by. I think the story would be more solid if they explain and explore the background story better, and also tell the story why the red camelia was special compared to other floral deities surrounding the ML.The ML and FL were good-looking and their acting was good, plus beautiful soundtracks making the show enjoyable to watch. For me this is an easy watch when I can pay less attention and not have to worry about missing anything.
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Manic Pixie Girl with a self Sacrificial Streak
The story started out good, but then the finish... I disliked how it finished.First off, I have to say, I don't fall for the whole he's or she's so hot, OMG, I'm going to ignore the flaws of the drama. Not that sort I try to be fair and assess things in each category.
By far, the writing was probably the weakest, with the directing choices next, then the rest of it being stellar, but if you've read my reviews before, you can have the best costumes, the best set dressings, the best lighting, and the best actors, but the script falling short will always get to people.
In this case, I loved the premise, I loved the first part of the premise, but then the later execution failed to deliver on the first half. The female main character (who has several names) ended up sacrificing herself for the male's main interest in a "And they all die" motif.
She basically is boiled down to a literal pixie girl and a manic one that teaches him what the real world looks like, but there isn't an equal exchange, which made me feel sour about the ending.
Yes, yes, he goes and eventually sacrifices himself, too, and all of that, but I still felt like everything was rushed at the end and not enough detail was put in and mostly this was because of the excessive flashbacks, which could have been used to fill out the missing story more, because the story jumped around so much towards the end, I thought I had missed entire episodes.
I'm not quite sure if it was 100% a directing choice, or because they lost their lead actress and had to replace her suddenly, but I thought all the flashbacks made the drama suffer.
The story I was hoping for never really panned out, and I felt a little sour about the twist.
That said, the acting was really good and almost, almost pulled up the full-of-gaps storyline. But as the script couldn't quite pull out what it needed to get the arcs to complete, I felt a bit robbed about the female storyline arc. In the end it was all about the man and propping up the man, rather than them working together for a better future, which felt sour. If it had been more balanced, then I could have bought the storyline better.
That said, the costumes were gorgeous, and I was admiring them throughout—that was really good eye candy. The music was catchy in places... and if they had a better script, I would have been fully in. Not sure how much of it could be helped given what happened originally.
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A beautiful and lovely Xianxia drama
My first impression about this drama is that the setting, costumes and the cast are all beautiful, which I enjoyed watching very much because I love flowers and fairy stories. My second impression is Liu Xue Yi who portrayed his character perfectly. After knowing him from Love And Redemption, I wished to see him in a role of a great God and my dream has come true. In my point of view, Liu Xue Yi is the best actor for the God role. Other actors and actresses also played their characters well. If the story was well written and the drama was not re-made, this could be a hit. My rating is mainly for the acting of the cast and their effort to remake this beautiful and lovely drama.Was this review helpful to you?
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Good
I think this is the first xianxia for LXY as a lead bcz this was suppose to be release in 2020. FL lead is innocent childish at first life ( not like esteryu annoying character) and after she played her dark cold character which is absolutely great.she is very beautiful in simple hairstyles 30-40 episodes.This has first life ,second life, third life......come on.. I felt bored on some episodes this should be finished in ep 32 .this is combo of immortal samsara and love u seven times.bcz jinxu was child of demon and goddess born as divine later turned as demon king which is same as yinguan in Immortal samsara, but he didn't leave his love for a sake of his position in divine realm and they both have flower as a FL . eventhough FL has misunderstanding she loved him till last episodes. Some of them didn't watch special eps 41,42 and think this as bad ending. But it's not.
Finally not too bad but I watched this in 2x speed.. thankyou
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In my opinion, this drama is quite good. In terms of plot and acting, the actors are very good. I really like the chemistry of the two main actors between Liu Xueyi and Hu Yixuan. They make this story so sad about how painful it is to live a love that is always hit by obstacles from all directions, the many conflicts they go through at first did make many mistakes on each of them..then they come back together and believe that if they are together it will end well for them. it turns out that their love struggle ends well and unites as a couple in general. I really like their story, if that happens I also really look forward to their new drama project in the modern version! Was this review helpful to you?
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I would've enjoyed this in 2022
I really tried with Love Never Fails, especially for Liu Xue Yi, who I normally enjoy watching, but gawddd, I just couldn’t sit through this one. It felt messy from the start, and honestly, not even his presence could save it for me. The production didn’t have that dreamy, ethereal look that most xianxia dramas pull off. It wasn’t visually stunning at all. Had this aired back in 2022 like it was originally supposed to, I might have been more forgiving, but after all the delays and the major casting change, the whole thing just felt off.Let’s be real, Yuan Bingyan would’ve absolutely slayed as Hong Ning. She has the spunk and emotional depth that the role needed. But with all the behind-the-scenes controversy, she was replaced, and props to Hu Yi Xuan for stepping in and reshooting everything in front of green screens. That couldn’t have been easy, and she honestly did what she could with a pretty flat script. Still, I felt zero chemistry between her and Liu Xue Yi and zero chemistry with the second leads too. Like, nothing sparked. The romance, the angst, the longing? All of it just felt... meh.
The plot was your basic god-demon forbidden love + reincarnation + misunderstanding formula, which could’ve worked if the execution was better, but I couldn’t bring myself to care about anything happening on screen not the leads, not the side characters, not even the world-building. Everything felt hollow and disconnected. After a few episodes of forcing myself to keep going, I just dropped it. Disappointed, but not surprised.
So yeah—Love Never Fails failed for me.
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Boring
Love Never Fails is another stylized xianxia with no new ideas - a stoic ML, a childish FL, immortals - good, demons - bad, and so on. I didn't expect much from it, but in the very least, I expected to be entertained. That wasn't the case here.Hong Ning is a flower demon. Jin Xiu is an immortal who must restrain his feelings. She wants to be his queen and seeks immortality while he struggles with his growing feelings for her. It sounds like a promising start to an epic love story that will transcend time. Instead, I had to sit through episodes of immortal beings acting like two awkward teenagers running circles around each other with nothing much happening otherwise. The writers spent too much time trying to create a not-so-funny comedy, instead of writing an interesting plot with compelling characters. I really liked Liu Xue Yi in other dramas, like In Blossom, but here his character fell completely flat. FL was pretty forgettable too. I found nothing interesting about this drama to continue watching past episode 6. Pass.
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POOR LIU XUE YI
I felt bad for Liu Xue Yi, a talented handsome actor has to endure partnering with a new actress Hu Yi Xuan (camellia demon Hong Ning) not just bad in acting, annoying childish voice, not to mention weird hair styles. Who did her make up and hair-styling? Very sloppy, doesn't compliment her, she appears between wild nymphs and gnomes. Long wavy frizzy hair, big flat nose, raspy bang, oversize red dress. I don't who should get fired first; the actress or the hair dresser? When they met again, bound by love, trials and destiny....I am choking. It's too much a stretch.I think the only person to take good look at is Liu Xue Yi.
His character though as a reserved immortal is that kind of boring. I don't think he's looking to the FL and think 'I love this demon wholeheartedly and want to spend my immortal life with her'.....because his eyes doesn't express it. His eyes is like saying 'let's get this over with' I know I can't read his mind...but that's the expression I got.
Other actors are barely has acting skills...as far as I watch the drama. Wouldn't recommend this drama to anyone. Need to change the title to "this love should have failed". Safe your valuable time for something else better...
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