Fox Spirit Matchmaker: Red-Moon Pact Episode 1

QinLan’s story

After Love In Pavilion this drama continues the DongFang story through QinLan. Jin RenFeng has found them and needs her blood to repair what HuaiZhu removed from him in last drama. He now hunts her child YueChu and is as repulsive as he ever was. I am hoping this second part of story kills him off.😝 QinLan was protected by Tushan because her blood could heal the grief tree. So the DongFang family is hunted for their blood by humans and demons. HongHong wants the child for his blood but unlike RenFeng she doesn’t really want to harm him and wants him available for tree if needed. As the story progresses it is clear YueChu knows he is hunted and why. HongHong acquaints herself with him for a reward of cooked chicken and to keep tabs on him after death of his parents. I am thinking HongHong somehow prevented RenFeng from getting QinLan’s blood and if it was used for grief tree it helped keep the dark at bay while YueChu grew up to age 16. It was difficult hiding the child as Tushan rejects all humans, but she managed it and had him train near the tree so he could cultivate his divine fire. It would take him much longer but his power would be quite strong once he overcame the suppression from the grief tree. Even 16 years later RenFeng keeps his bounty hunters in place by border and parents memorial still hoping to trap YueChu. HongHong would have been successful had the wolf trader not been a blabbermouth to a pretty demon traveler. RenFeng now knows YueChu is still alive and where and his new demon blood cleanser is hoping to escape once YueChu is available. This first episode fills in QinLan’s story and continues. I am just wishing a better choice than vile Jin RenFeng.😝

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Interesting Twist To A Well-Established Concept

This drama does start off interesting. The whole older and mature protector vs. young and playful character archetype mix is pretty well-established in this genre, but this drama takes it to the next level by reversing the roles and making the female lead older and calmer than its male counterpart. It adds a refreshing twist to an alreday interesting plot-line.
The cinematography is top notch and literally makes me wish I could jump into the screen and admire Tushan's dreamily serene and vast green landscape myself.
I love the compilation of all three Tushan sisters with their own unique personalities and strengths that I can't wait to see blending into a real sister power throuple.
The so far young and playful male lead, who fled to Tushan as a young boy in order to survive and now as a grown-up (with a significant power upgrade) wants to leave the mountain, adds an intriguing and fun dyynamic to the drama's introductory episode. You can already see how much admiration he has for his beautiful protector fox spirit lady, just by the way he looks at her.
I can't wait to see how these characters grow and develope throughout the course of the story , though there is already a dark foreshadowing concering Dongfang Yuechu that leads me to believe that this drama might not have an happy ending. I guess we'll see.

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