Divine Destiny Episode 1

Has a bit of olschool campy wuxia flavor but NOT in a good way.

Warning for fans of The Untamed, this could be horror for you as Xuan Lu and Jiang Cheng are meant to be a couple here lol
I will summarise what happened in ep 1 using their names from TU (because i can't help it lol), read at your own risk!

The intro says that Jiang Cheng is the patron god of this river, one day he sat by the river and studied so hard, he manifested a river stone into a minor deity 😂
And then they hug, so random. There's too many disconnected points there. Did you read the book with the intention of manifesting a lady? Or was the stone fangirling at this good student and made a conscious choice to become a person? So they can.... study together?
OK so newly minted stone-fairy did an oopsie and set off a great imprisoned demon. Heavenly lords are mad and want to punish the fairy and river god chooses to share the punishment. LBFAD except the couple are Changheng and Xiao Lanhua haha
So CH and XH... I mean Jiang Cheng and shijie are now banished to earth for 100 lifetimes. That tracks.
And, they spent 99 lifetimes happy together but not really knowing who they are and why they are here. (They have sex too for like 1 sec and I did NOT want to see that)
In the 100th, JC remembered ooh OK I need to get back on my studies and also pick up the stone fairy on the way back to heaven.

And unfortunately (ofc), the three realms decided now is the time to have some major destabilization fun. And ofc the chaos can be solved only by JC and his stone wife according to a prophecy 😂😅 She's not yet discovered/reunited with JC in this 100th lifetime yet and now everyone's searching for her. Backstory ends.

The ACTUAL ML is narrating this story, he's a waiter at a restaurant. He dreams of becoming a cool hero just like that banished god one day. And chance oh chance, not a minute later, the god from his story (JC) appears on his doorstep and go like "bro, did a beast pass by?"
The ML is living fanboy dreams, except the ML doesn't realise this is his idol. The reason is because he imagines the god to look like himself in his head pfft.
He tries to rob the god
And JC pulverizes his shop😂. Fast story.
ML's hidden powers get activated and JC is now hurt and unconscious 💀
This show is unpredictable if nothing else lmfao

Shijie's Stone is around JC's neck
ML robs him and throws him off a cliff. What is even happening.
How dumb the ML must be, he didn't recognize the god with a magic stone from his story even when he was right at your doorstep, and now some random customers instantly recognized the stone hanging around his neck. Now he's the one getting robbed.
Everyone from 3 realms got their eyes on him now. It has not even been five minutes after this twink aquired the infamous stone. They all have radar sensors or what.

Two random jiejies with powers joined the fight to take the ML to their own places.
Here comes Angelababy, the third girl calling dibs on the ML. ML is incredibly flattered a pretty hotshot like Angelababy wants to get him😆.
At least 10 more sects came to get him.
ML is totally normal with the wild day he's having, living his dream of meeting cultivators and fairies and whatnot.
There's too much competition and they ask the ML what HE wants. That's new lol.

He picks his dream hogwarts, which is apparently the sect Angelababy is also from, and they are not planning to do anything to him but train him as a successor. How convenient (they lied, they DO want him for his supposed River-godhood)
ML keeps pretending as the lost god and starts his school life. End of ep 1.

The intro backstory is the much tried xianxia arc of gods being banished to earth, and the ML's restaurant arc is old wuxia format from like 15 yrs ago. It could've worked better better if they acted more self aware like this is an intentional homage/parody.
But instead it's just coming off sloppily written with too many clashing flavors in the pot.

Oh well, weirdly I did have some fun. But mostly because I watched on 2x, was looking through the additional TU lenses, and was narrating it. I cannot make myself rate it more than 2.5/10 tho.

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