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After just 10-15 minutes from the 1st part I gave up, to me it is a 1/10. Hollywood v 2.0 and I left Hollywood' "arts" 2 decades ago because of disgust.

Koreans whining about it are right. What do you think, why so many western people watching Korean and Chinese dramas instead of Hollywood's? Because the asian dramas were not disgusting till nowadays to people with proper taste and desires. I have no problem with sex scenes when there is a purpose and justification of it but the opposite, I quite enjoy them, there was a time I also enjoyed soft-pornograph movies. The problem is that when it is used with no purpose apart from ruining the society' taste and values.

The problem is not the sex, the problem is that it was used with no reason, and in a humiliating way. I gave up on the series after the first minutes. There was no reason for the shaman to uncover one breast, or how disgusting was the scene with the sex SLAVES and the king licking him. Pfuh. This is excatly I turned away from Hollywood many years ago and turned towards asian movies and dramas.

Agreed, I didn't like MJTY but she was great in that too, she stole the show, was far more intresting than the FL or the main couple. I've just started to watch Blossoms in Adversity and wow, what a talented actress, that role is not easy. I swear I didn't even recognize her, was so great / different. And she is beautiful, even with a woman' eye. I hope she will get leading roles.

Absolutely amazing actress. I've just started Blossoms in Adversity, I knew I saw that girl in something else but didn't find out in which drama, turned out I saw her in two other dramas, very different roles, that's why I didn't recognize her apart from being a bit "familiar". Very talented to be able to form so well such different characters.

I've started it. I really like the story despite of being a bit naive and the supporting actors and actresses are all amazing. My only problem so far is the ML, somehow he doesn't transmit feelings. He has a kind of expression, as if he would be wondering and that is all or almost. Absolutely love the ML' sister, she is so great in that role.

Broke my heart, she should have ended with the 9 headed. :) Their chemistry was outstanding.

Interesting comment, because I first saw her with Xu Kai in the Legends then I saw her in some more dramas then I saw her with ZLH and she had very good chemistry only these two.

Me too. Then sorry, I don't think I can advise anything, if you saw that you probably saw all of the better ones. I am looking for something new, too, not even this type just new and not modern but so far I found nothing.

Should be 4 or 5 max. So far it was the worst drama of ZHL and it was not his fault. Waste of time and talent.

Less. Sorry, still so disappointed. CGI and good looking actors but with no substance, total lack of intelligent solutions and script, lack of proper editing, lack of chemistry between the leads, lack of passion and strong emotions. I couldn't feel for them, I couldn't stand with them, I couldn't live "in the drama". It was an insult to intelligence and so boring. Cheap solutions everywhere for everything. As if a machine, an AI would write and directed it based on pieces of "what peope like" put together with no connection to one piece to another. It was emotionally exceptionally empty, machine like, how a machine "imagine and translate" human emotions. Not a single character / action was believable xanxia or not. You would sacrifice your life for the other but have no passion? Then what moves you?
Compared to Story of Kunning palace, while it was not so romance focused, it was full with clever, unique solutions, even the supporting actors and their characters were very good, you could feel with them, Xie Wei as grabs back his cookies a bit infantile but absolutely loveable, the girl with the little towel mimicing it was a cat, that consuming fire level hatred coming from Xie Wei before shooting the arrow and it was just a look, expression better than 100 words. I loved everyone in that series was bad or good or grey, the plot was intelligent and entertaining and the characters also. The guy who killed the horse, I hated him but the character was perfect, beliavable, I could understand what leads his actions.
Absolute waste of talent and time.

Ashes of Love, thousand times better than this one .

Sorry but you missed the point, in the middle of a culling agenda, affecting you and me while diverting us to "enjoy movies and series" is an ongoing stuff. While I am aware, I still wish to have some happy moments, melting into a good drama or gardening or whatever.
While I highly appreciate your feelings being so nicely emotional and EMPHATIC, the world around us is highly different.
Flower of Evil was a good drama, with two very talented leads.
But please notice how we are "dumbed down".
Another little secret / discovery of mine, ZHL (and I really love him) did photos with satanic (symbolism) stuff, one eye, eye covered with a blue butterfly, clotes and make up made him to look like a woman but a man.
This is the end - for me at least - I see through of the mind altering, ruining mind control, if I ever see him again to bend to the satanist cult sacrifising himself for money and fame during a time when humanity is culled - that's the end.

WAKE UP.

Sorry but you missed the point, in the middle of a culling agenda, affecting you and me while diverting us to "enjoy movies and series" is an ongoing stuff. While I am aware, I still wish to have some happy moments, melting into a good drama or gardening or whatever.
While I highly appreciate your feelings being so nicely emotional and EMPHATIC, the world around us is highly different.
Flower of Evil was a good drama, with two very talented leads.
But please notice how we are "dumbed down".
Another little secret / discovery of mine, ZHL (and I really love him) did photos with satanic (symbolism) stuff, one eye, eye covered with a blue butterfly, clotes and make up made him to look like a woman but a man.
This is the end - for me at least - I see through of the mind altering, ruining mind control, if I ever see him again to bend to the satanist cult sacrifising himself for money and fame during a time when humanity is culled - that's the end.

WAKE UP.

No problem, understood.

Forgive me, I can be biased, I live in the west and grew up on Hollywood (when they were able to good movies and dramas but nowadays). I turned towards Asian dramas for replacement and The Princess Man was one among the first ones I saw. While I dislike more Asian dramas then I liked (especially dramas about the present days), I found them most of the time boring and dragged but the new customs, visual stuff still hooked me. I can't recall an outstanding performance in these first dramas, except this one and maybe the acting in Bichunmoo. I came to the conclusion that Moon Chae Won is a very talented actress and the emotions she portrayed in this drama was "Oscar level" to me. It was a very complex drama, struggling between her father and love, a kind of Asian Romeo and Juliette, and she played her part very well. She is a good actress, but as I wrote somewhere, even good actresses or actors can't build a castle from sh...

Forgive me pls, but I hope for the opposite, this drama is almost overrated with a 6 given. Think about the wilder impact, people who lost interest in watching Hollywood brainwashing, propaganda and many times totally sick dramas and movies turned towards Asia for replacement. People tend to pick up dramas based on the scores it got. If this carries on like this we (at least me) won't see much difference between the two. In fact I went so bored with this one (and annoyed, too because of my high hopes for this based on both of the lead actor/actress) that I rather bingle read a book in the past 2-3 days than carried on watching. Still annoyed, so sorry for my rant and amount of comments. Nowadays people are treated by fim-makers as if we all would be either idiots or 14 years old. Tons of CGI won't help on the lack of substance.

Is it really shaming? People have a thing called charisma, aura, or name it as you wish. Even older people can have a more childish aura, who remained childish in their minds and mature people like Jing Tian, can have a mature area independently how young she looks. Her aura, charisma is an aura of a matured (in mind), beautiful, intelligent woman. I felt her off every time she tried to be cute and inexperienced. Not her fault, I guess she has an agent to pick up roles for her. Rattan was boring to me (mainly due to the long, boring parts of the supporting cast) but as long as I watched it, that fit her well, the character in City of Streamer also fit her very well. In that one she also played a younger woman, and older than the ML, but that was ok, their relationship and love was absolutely beliavable, her choices and actions as the drama unfolded were also.

Trying to find a good, older ones I haven't seen. I decided to pick up dramas based on the director rather than based on the actors. I think the director of Ashes of Love, also Story of Kunning Palace, are the closest to being my cup of tea. I saw many more from him, and they were also good enough to keep me interested, Starry Love, Blue Wishper, the pillow book of Ten Miles of Peach Blossom. I just feel so sorry for the actors.

This is - in my opinion - because the character was poorly written. He had no real personality, but true for the FL's, to. I couldn't carry on after 28th, I just lose focus and my mind went elsewhere. ZHL is handsome, true, very hot, true, has charisma, but still too less to stick in front of the monitor for 25-30 hours or so. If I want an eye-candy only a poster would do. The chemisty between them was much rather a sister-brother's or very good friends but lovers. If you want to know how they act when the chemistry and characters are good, watch the City of Streamer for Jing Tian and the Story of Kunning Palace for ZHL. This was such a waste of their time, talent and our time, too.