Xu Ni Yi Chang Bei Huan (2025)

Tragic love story with great acting by both leads

I enjoyed Ma Xiao Yu's acting in Captive Love from the Mob Boss despite his asinine character. I was pleasantly surprised when I stumbled upon this drama on Youtube. I also recently became a fan of Guo Yuxin. I watched this drama on Dailymotion since at the time of this review, there isn't a complete version of this drama in YT. This drama has similar plot to another antidote drama starring Huang Bo.

What I liked:
1. Acting - Both Ma Xiao Yu & Guo Yuxin's performances were intense and well-matched. Their dramatic scenes were heartfelt.
2. Romance - I know Guo Yu Xin does kissing scenes well based on her dramas with Zuo Ming, Ke Chun, Liang Si Wei. Damn the kissing scenes were really hot.
3. The daughter - It is so touching to see a young daughter caring for sickly mother. The child actress had meatier role in this drama and she did well.
4. ML's assistant - What is the name of actor who played ML's assistant? He is very handsome. I like his character.
5. Styling - I notice styling for Ma Xiao Yu in this drama is same as styling for Captive Love from the Mob Boss. That's great because he looks extremely handsome. FL styling was good too considering there is a time jump.

What I disliked:
1. Romance development - I wish there were more dating/bonding scenes because the romance between FL & ML were underdeveloped.
2. Ending - I am not sure what to make of the ending because of the presence of the daughter.
3. Villain - I felt the the villain arc was incomplete. Did she face any punishment for her actions?

Favourite scene
When the daughter looked for ways to pay for FL's hospital bill

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BEAUTIFUL, PASSIONATE METAMORPHOSIS

*adaptation

OTHER TITLES:
• Promise You Joy and Sorrow
• In Love, Through Pain

GENRE:
Supernatural Romance

MY SYNOPSIS:
ML has been searching endlessly for an umbraborn (bloodmoon born) woman who has a bloodmark (birthmark), because she is the only one that can save his life. He will die unless he removes his ancestral scorchbane (fire poison) curse via consummation with the umbraborn FL on the bloodmoon of New Years Eve. ...But, it will make her weak and is progressively fatal. At first, the ML is conflicted, oscillating between selfish and mean to compassionate and protective, as he plans to sacrifice the FL. His plans to trade her life for his are soon upheaved when her beautiful humanity transforms him and he falls in love with her.

REVIEW: ⚠️ SPOILERS ⚠️
I usually won't watch something with a sad ending, but I'm glad I watched this. The ending was spiritual and full of love and so it was bittersweet instead of awful. (Of course I would RATHER have a completely happy ending, which is why my rating is 7☆ instead of 8☆). Both leads and their tiny daughter did an incredible job showing raw emotion, PHENOMENAL actually. I really liked the FL's beautiful personality and expressive eyes, and I loved how much the ML transformed because of her. He was so incredibly passionate, as a person, a dad and a husband. His heartfelt 🩷 interactions with his daughter were soul-crushing. The kisses 💋 and intimacy ❤️‍🔥 with his wife were amazing. It was beyond chemistry - it was deep love 💓. The child actress is beautiful and her fervency for her mom blew.my.mind. She's incredible. It even sounded like her real voice, too, instead of the usual adult cartooned-voiceover.

The production aspect was okay but there was a lot of sloppy jumping between scenes and it felt overall rushed in several places. It had such a good storyline and script, though, that it really makes me wish the production had been higher quality, longer by an hour or so, and had a happily-ever-after ending. There was definitely a bit of ridiculousness, such as the HIPAA-style violations at the hospital and their little daughter's ability to handle adult-level arrangements as if she's a prodigy. However, I liked the overall story enough to overlook that stuff. 💗.

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