I am sure Yu Shuxin and Wang Yixu definitely have some affinity with each other!How do they end up creating such…
I looked up some of their bts and interviews after watching their first colab ''Moonlight'' and they have a fun relationship, love their friendship and how she makes DYX laugh a lot 🤩
Checked this out because I wanted a light, no-brainer watch and also, I really like Cheng Yu Feng, however I agree with the other commenter... definitely not his best drama - he seems uninterested and bored af in this role ahahaha, I got the impression that his role is such a chore for him lmao, especially the first half of the show (it would've been fine is this was the first time I've seen him, but I've seen him on his other projects and he always slayed his roles, idk what happened here) Maybe that is why I saw no chemistry in the interaction between the leads, which is bizarre because they have really fire kisses 🔥🔥🔥 but other than them kisses, zero connection, I don't know how to explain it, it's like they were two colleagues chatting at the office in the morning over coffee about boring work stuff ahahahah....
Other than that, it was quite entertaining, I loved the plot and the concept of this drama. It had many things that I liked, putting aside the batshit crazy emperor, it actually had zero toxicity in the relationship, quite a green flag ML, likeable FL, no annoying 2FL with zero self-respecct - instead she was pretty helpful, and I thought it will end with the leads meeting in the modern world, but it was vice-versa lol
Haha, decided to re-watch this while waiting for the episodes of LGIEF to drop and it's still one of my favorites. The humour in this is priceless, and the bromance on the ML and his bestie is the beeeest 🤩
Checked out this drama because I've literally ran out of things to watch lol and went in with pretty low expectations because of so many negative reviews. Tbh, it was not that bad. It wasn't an exceptional drama, but it wasn't terrible either. It was your average costume drama about the multiple realms with the familiar formula, that we've seen a thousand times, and will probably see again, including: - mandatory life and death tribulations that our leads have to go through; - clueless and overly naive and gullible leads; - repetitive misunderstandings over the dumbest things and when given a chance to explain the dang explanations get stuck in the throat or someone interrupts grrr; - infinite dragging filler scenes and flashbacks to explain the things we literally saw a few episodes back, yet for some reason the writers think we suffer from memory loss; - the famous ''I'm gonna hurt you to protect you, and I'll explain it later, but oops, I ended up killing you, and when you reincarnated again I still decided to act by myself and not tell you sh*t'' trope; - the ''righteous'' individuals with the superiority complex being the true villains of the story; - and many others that I don't recall at the moment.
Of course it had its good parts, I LOVED the friendship of the main crew and sisterhood of the FL & SFL, as well as the powerful comeback of our FL with a no nonsense attitude and low-key pettiness, especially for the ML, very satisfying to watch. I felt bad for the ML tbh, but still, part of me was glad she acted the way she acted, call me petty 😁
What surprised me more than anything though is the unified hate towards the ML, lmao I think it's the first time everyone bashes the ML, usually the FL always gets all the hate, bruh, that was unexpected. I had to turn off the timed comments on Viki from time to time because I got tired of people complaining about his looks, his costumes, about his acting every 5 minutes literally the whole 40 episodes, the level of toxicity is ridiculous! I understand that this probably comes from Lusi's fanbase - that were expecting another project similar to LLTG maybe, or they just got mad she wasn't paired with another famous actor of their liking, idk...everyone has their opinion which I'm cool with, but when things get outright disrespectful, it's not cool anymore...like why watch something you clearly have a problem with and feel the need to complain about it the whole length of the drama? THAT is something I'll never understand. While I do consider that this is quite a repetitive role for ZLS, oh well, no one is allergic to money I guess, and it's not like this is a tantalising or disgraceful project so y'all haters need to relax. It is my first time seeing the actor who plays the ML, but I wouldn't say he is a bad choice, I think he, along with the majority of the cast, gave very good performances and embodied their roles perfectly. I have no problem with the actor at all, but I wasn't a fan of his character, kind of spineless imo, but it's not the worst out there, I've seen way more toxic MLs (which did not get even the tenth part of this hate btw lol). Granted I enjoyed the stories of other supporting characters way more, like the Nether World and Ghost King dudes, the SML and the Eagle bestie etc, but all in all, it did not take away from the story, but made it better by giving more dimension and personality to the supporting characters. Will I watch it again? Nope. Did it need to be 40 ep long? Hell no!
So, in conclusion, definitely not the series of my first choice, but I watched it as background no brainer while doing other things, which was perfect, and maybe that is why I did not get so aggravated and negative about it. Pretty settings and beautiful costumes, good performance from the cast and a happy ending, cool with me.
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Maybe that is why I saw no chemistry in the interaction between the leads, which is bizarre because they have really fire kisses 🔥🔥🔥 but other than them kisses, zero connection, I don't know how to explain it, it's like they were two colleagues chatting at the office in the morning over coffee about boring work stuff ahahahah....
Other than that, it was quite entertaining, I loved the plot and the concept of this drama. It had many things that I liked, putting aside the batshit crazy emperor, it actually had zero toxicity in the relationship, quite a green flag ML, likeable FL, no annoying 2FL with zero self-respecct - instead she was pretty helpful, and I thought it will end with the leads meeting in the modern world, but it was vice-versa lol
The humour in this is priceless, and the bromance on the ML and his bestie is the beeeest 🤩
Definitely not a roses and butterflies drama lol
Tbh, it was not that bad. It wasn't an exceptional drama, but it wasn't terrible either.
It was your average costume drama about the multiple realms with the familiar formula, that we've seen a thousand times, and will probably see again, including:
- mandatory life and death tribulations that our leads have to go through;
- clueless and overly naive and gullible leads;
- repetitive misunderstandings over the dumbest things and when given a chance to explain the dang explanations get stuck in the throat or someone interrupts grrr;
- infinite dragging filler scenes and flashbacks to explain the things we literally saw a few episodes back, yet for some reason the writers think we suffer from memory loss;
- the famous ''I'm gonna hurt you to protect you, and I'll explain it later, but oops, I ended up killing you, and when you reincarnated again I still decided to act by myself and not tell you sh*t'' trope;
- the ''righteous'' individuals with the superiority complex being the true villains of the story;
- and many others that I don't recall at the moment.
Of course it had its good parts, I LOVED the friendship of the main crew and sisterhood of the FL & SFL, as well as the powerful comeback of our FL with a no nonsense attitude and low-key pettiness, especially for the ML, very satisfying to watch. I felt bad for the ML tbh, but still, part of me was glad she acted the way she acted, call me petty 😁
What surprised me more than anything though is the unified hate towards the ML, lmao I think it's the first time everyone bashes the ML, usually the FL always gets all the hate, bruh, that was unexpected. I had to turn off the timed comments on Viki from time to time because I got tired of people complaining about his looks, his costumes, about his acting every 5 minutes literally the whole 40 episodes, the level of toxicity is ridiculous!
I understand that this probably comes from Lusi's fanbase - that were expecting another project similar to LLTG maybe, or they just got mad she wasn't paired with another famous actor of their liking, idk...everyone has their opinion which I'm cool with, but when things get outright disrespectful, it's not cool anymore...like why watch something you clearly have a problem with and feel the need to complain about it the whole length of the drama? THAT is something I'll never understand. While I do consider that this is quite a repetitive role for ZLS, oh well, no one is allergic to money I guess, and it's not like this is a tantalising or disgraceful project so y'all haters need to relax.
It is my first time seeing the actor who plays the ML, but I wouldn't say he is a bad choice, I think he, along with the majority of the cast, gave very good performances and embodied their roles perfectly. I have no problem with the actor at all, but I wasn't a fan of his character, kind of spineless imo, but it's not the worst out there, I've seen way more toxic MLs (which did not get even the tenth part of this hate btw lol).
Granted I enjoyed the stories of other supporting characters way more, like the Nether World and Ghost King dudes, the SML and the Eagle bestie etc, but all in all, it did not take away from the story, but made it better by giving more dimension and personality to the supporting characters.
Will I watch it again? Nope. Did it need to be 40 ep long? Hell no!
So, in conclusion, definitely not the series of my first choice, but I watched it as background no brainer while doing other things, which was perfect, and maybe that is why I did not get so aggravated and negative about it. Pretty settings and beautiful costumes, good performance from the cast and a happy ending, cool with me.