any way you can give me a quick rundown of the "sanctions" ...? like groups I guess, big and small.

I'm confused bout the setting basically. I know they're at the Academy. Then there's a sanctuary, different states at odds with each other, etc. I always have a hard time grasping all the ones with Chinese names even as translations, if that makes sense.

I literally just started this yesterday so im still a little bit confused but thank you for this. I will come back to this later once I get deeper into it.

one question though...

so what is the land they're on called, Yue? Im on ep 7 where they start training at the academy. Are the main characters from different lands? I'm guessing all the factions you mentioned above are still within the same state/country, just different, almost political, affiliations... like ik our ML is from a no longer existing "city" right? where the friends baili ge Lin are from also.

not like a typical Xianxia where there's a million different heaven earth immortal lands etc. (im guessing they will go deeper into the demon aspect of the story soon but im not there yet).

LOL so NOT just one question haha thanks

also if it'll be more clearly explained later on pls lmk also.

Yeah okay im confused because they are VERY vague with everything. but again, I feel like almost every costume drama is like that 😅

thank you for explaining! hopefully watching more will help me clarify some things :)

Kristina:

So what is going on here? Were they lovers in the past? He is that lord Yecha and she is the divine tree or what?

Maybe they deviated greatly for this; they are connected in the novel. But the ML is suffering from a curse that makes him so drawn to the FL. And not just him, his entire clan suffers from this curse

I say maybe because the setup is similar between the novel and the drama, but it wasn't really a past life in the novel. But it seems like the drama is adapting it that way.

chipleuchips:

So that one female senior from Wuyue court who knows LXY past and real identity? Did she having important role on the novel?

Yes, Yue Cailing exists; however, her role has largely changed in the drama compared to the novel. Very few people know LXY's real identity.

She is just a minor character in the novel; funny enough, she never liked LXY and, at times, held a grudge against him.

chipleuchips:

So did you think she will be LXY ally or will have other motive? Because from drama we only get glimpses of she's like Yecha sub-ordinate or something like that. Right now after his brother died, there's no one who actually on LXY side, kinda feel bad for him.

She is most likely an ally, yeah, that's all on the drama scriptwriter 😂 they're really making him bleed and depressed. Probably making you sympathize with him more, he was more arrogant in the novel, for good reason; he was a prodigy.

CasualCDfan:

Will JLF do some chasing in the future, or will LXY continue to chase JLF like a creepy and desperate stalker for the rest of the story?

In the novel, yes, funny enough, the novel kinda takes the opposite of the drama. In the novel's early part, JLF actually questions her relationship with LXY a lot. Mainly, does he have feelings for me or not? As well as do I care that much about him?

Good to note that the novel, while xianxia, is also a coming-of-age story; the start is at 11 for JLF and 12 for LXY, and when they are in the wuyue court, they are 16-17-ish. Near the end of the novel, they are a few years older.

I would say it is 65-70% similar to the novel; most of the events, characters, and things happen as they do. Some of the context presented in the drama differs from that in the novel.

Like LXY, the brother died before the novel begins, so he doesn't do all the things he did in the drama. Which, honestly, isn't a terrible change. Cause his brother was, like, just a random name at best in the novel 😅... but we get the drama version of LXY, with that change in his backstory.