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We don’t know about Season 2 yet. The plot is good and moves along briskly if you have right expectations. This is NOT a romance drama — focus is on main character’s journey to immortality and trying to stay alive in a harsh world of cultivators who are not all nice & friendly. I haven’t read the original novels or watched ongoing animated version (donghua), but still enjoying it.

Romance is very, very secondary in this drama — it’s staying true to the original novels (and in-process animated version). Realistically, we only have one main character and everyone else is a supporting person. If you want to find out what happens romance-wise much later in the novels, you can read the comments. Readers of the books gave us a lot of answers.

Apparently ML is described as plain looking in the novels, so they are using lines from the books. But given Yang Yang’s looks, the lines come across as funny 😄

I’m sure you will enjoy this! But you also have to remember that both versions (live action and donghua) are based on the novels. And if you don’t want to find out spoilers for donghua (which so far covered maybe 20% of the novels), don’t read the comments here :) And, oh, despite MDL having “romance” tag, they stuck close to novel/donghua when it comes to [lack of] romance, lol

Han Li may not end up with anyone in the live action drama but as of the original novels… you can read about that in the comments here 😉

Han Li and Nangong Wan?

There are two running gags: Li Feiyu and Oblivion Pills 😁

Oh, so she eventually becomes more important than NGW? And did you mean the second novel? I’ve only heard of two but apologize if I missed something. Thank you for all the information :)

Honestly, they are more trustworthy than typical sect members who are usually out for themselves.

Ah, fair point about the mask muffling voice (in real life; in drama it sounds the same). And I will trust you about them barely interacting in school — drama seemed to imply they knew each other better (especially since ML’s dad gave FL the sword), but maybe it was an assumption on my end.

Best comparison is to think of sects as large companies. Those companies don’t care about workers, especially low-level workers, and only care about profits and making executives happy. Han Li is like an entry-level worker who lucked into a job and now has to prove himself just to stay employed. And like any job, not all coworkers are good people.

Yes, I’m glad I’m not the only one seeing the similarities to how things are in the real world & jobs and with sects.

Thank you very much for the information! HL made the best choice given what he knew at the time and, realistically, it doesn’t sound like it’d have been possible for him to be together with her and solve the root mystery (would’ve taken too long). Still, reincarnated Mo becomes his second (?) wife or something like that, correct?

Do you mean Epiaode 22? There is no Ep. 23 yet.

She’s Moon Princess! 🌖😁

They are all thankful that person is gone and don’t want to ask any questions. Myabe he’s in a cave meditating or something 😉

It depends on your expectations. It’s not a romance drama and it’s not a very emotionally-heavy drama either. It’s like a video game come to life.

The Five Mengs are pretty nice. They would be perfect for a spin-off or a side-story.

Question for experts: is there a reason why FL didn’t recognize ML’s voice when she was blind and, similarly, ML didn’t recognize FL’s voice as that of his old schoolmate (general)? Were there some nuances we couldn’t grasp by only reading subtitles? 🤔

I was just kidding :) I don’t really think they are going to do a wedding here. But you have to admit that so, so many C-dramas have weddings 😁