Shaoyaoville

I freaking love the way they're so comfortable with e/o like the friendship is so sooo precious to me 😭 they're touchy as hell cause they're genuinely buddies but you can interpret those touchy moments as romantic and heart fluttering in peace without getting 45 shots of them with slow motion from 16 angles...the angsty sad parts in xianxias work THEE best with this kind of straight romance cause you're basically witnessing a house you've watched be built patiently and slowly brick by brick and little by little fall apart and the sadness hits the most like that 😭 [someone has watched the trailers 10 times today and can't wait for the tragedy to come]

cang lan jue = love between fairy and devil

btw can't guarantee anything for 100% since we're just 7 episodes in but if you enjoyed clj much more than other xianxias for certain reasons I think you're gonna like this a lot!! It's definitely not as visually fancy as that show but it has the story/plot characteristics that made clj very enjoyable to watch (it's a more light hearted clj to me so far)

omg I'm just too excited sorry for the overreaction but also let me add a ton of other things too:
1.The chemistry between the main leads is just so natural and adorable ^_^ the nice writing is helping it too but they're close in age and both very pretty with equally decent acting ability and it just makes the cp excellent 😭 (some older idol actors should be ashamed tbh)
2. Yan Hui very easily slipped into my all time favourite cdrama fls of all time list...restraining myself from writing an essay and spoiling so I'm just gonna cut it short and say she's very similar to woh's gu xiang and this kind of char in general works REALLY well for zhou ye!
3. I barely compliment male characters but I'M GONNA DO IT NOW CAUSE TINGYAO IS SO FUCKING LOVELY??? no toxic masculinity no noble idiocy just an emotionally damaged babygirl with a heart of gold 😭 also hmh's face is so perfect for playing a dragon lol
4. I don't think this was a particularly high budget drama and the overall production is pretty okay but some of the epic scenes had GORGEOUS shots with GORGEOUS color grading !!! can't wait to see more of this stuff coming !!
5. THE OPENING SONG AND THE ART!!!!! I'm addicted you guys

no cause same picked this up bc of zhou ye and I'm so happy about the way her char turned out here 😭 yan hui is very gu xiang coded which I live for and it's just very rare to see female characters get justice in cdramaland so I'm just shredding tears of joy rn

WHY'S NOBODY TALKING ABOUT THIS??? WHY SO UNDERRATED??
7 episodes in and I'm already obsessed 😭
can China please make more xianxias like this (and clj, the starry love etc) with no stupid sexist behind the scenes politics that waters the female chars down to make the ml look cool and has honest lovely main characters who communicate with e/o properly and are just amazing beings but also not boring and too perfect at the same time???
Also let's talk about the acting of the mains...THEY'RE SOOO YOUNG AND SO FREAKING GOOD??? Their unexpected cute chemistry 😭 the adorable slow-burn friendship to love pipeline 😭

Stop doing this for God's sake...always pitting women against eachother

THEY'RE lucky to work with a pretty talented actress

December 31st of year 2048

the title translates to "lady who beats the thorns" I'M AJKQLQPQN SHE'S FINALLY GETTING TO DO WHAT SHE'S THE MOST SLAYFUL IN

XU LU FL AND A BADASS ONE I'M GIGGLING EAR TO EAR

kind of disappointed cause I really wanted director yang yang to do another female centric historical idol drama 😭 but it's still quite badass of her to take over a very male dominated project lol

not to be a cheesy btch but I could mvrder someone for txw's dimples

good lord I CAN'T with these people...what happened to the entertainment industry just being a hobby 💀

Actually interested to see who's gonna be in here but also kinda nervous and not quite optimistic at the same time...cang yue is an amazing author but 3 of her works already got screwed up by these greedy money hungry companies so I don't really want the 4th one to get ruined too😭 Idk maybe it could be better now that it's produced by iqiyi? I just hope they don't make it male centric like the THREE fvcking times they did cause that's actually disrectful and gross...It's just very weird when you buy a FEMALE author's books which are literally famous and well received for being super FEMALE centric and focused on the FMC's journey and then make them about promoting a traffic male star :/

Sorry to break it to you but we don't care. Hope that helps.

This is rumoured to air soon again and I'm actually really scared tbh 😭 It can just go on peacefully but I can't stop thinking of the worst case scenario of mass hate comments and purposeful 1 stars on douban lmao...I want it to air but I hope bingyan does something to clear her name up a bit before now that she left her company and can speak

tbh it's just that cdramas always favor men and even main female chars tend to get overshadowed by ml so that's why I assumed what I did but I'm ALWAYS seated for complex side female characters so I'm even more excited AND hope they convey it well!! Btw what about SY and HRY's chars? Do you know anything about them?

Maybe I worded it badly but I didn't mean weak by "nice"...just that her char doesn't look at like a villain or antagonist in here lmao
Also nice and strong can in fact coexist in female characters, it's better to not put women in boxes and label them ^_^

This looks really exciting omg I LOVE all of the leads so much! SY looks adorable here😭 And btw I'm glad Sabrina's character doesn't look like a villain/antagonist here cause if that's the case it will hopefully cancel out the hatred she's gonna get from immortality fans lmao