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I also didn’t mind the amnesia plots as much in this one because of how well they were handled. The FL on some level recognized that the ML was not what she was told he was, and the plot moved right along. And later the ML was intrigued by the FL right away. It was lovely seeing them chase each other a little bit and not as much angst as I was expecting.

CDramas with no amnesia plots:
- The Prisoner of Beauty (best)
- Wonderland of Love
- The Coroner’s Diary
- Moonlight Mystique (I think? If there was one it was so minor that I forgot about it)
- Legend of the Female General
- A Journey to Love
- Destined
- Blossom
- Blossoms in Adversity
- The Rebel Princess
- The Double
- Love Like the Galaxy
- Story of Minglan
- Legend of Shen Li (❤️)

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Hey you might want change your post to include spoilers fyi. But yeah, I wish that we had more time in the modern world :( And in the mortal world. Ah well.

Unfortunately FoE isn’t on Netflix for us US folks. 😔 Just looked.

Oh my heart 💔 I can’t believe she died! Nooooooooooooo!!! Everything hurts 💔 (Episode 22). Also can we take a moment to appreciate the badass sisterhood, the fact that the ML has FRIENDS who are girls??? And they all look out for each other? And the ML is also grieving the loss of a girl friend? 😭 Dammit. Fuck fuck fuck. The ML and FL’s acting is CRUSHING me. 💔

I am not a fan of dragged out lies, miscommunication and keeping secrets *side eyes the synopsis*, so I’ll probably keep an eye on this one and see what others say about it before picking it up. Some footage I have seen of this one looks spicy 🔥

I am still enjoying this one very much despite my small issues with it. It’s super fun watching his range of acting. He’s a delight 😊

I spoiled myself about the ending and dropped the show after episode 32 I think 😂 When the leads got reunited and left that cave together. That’s the ending I’m sticking with since I don’t do sad endings 😂

Please edit your post and use the spoiler tag thank you.

From what I heard, her portrayal was pretty in line with the book. She was always considered petite and small compared to her male comrades. I found myself enjoying this a lot more after I just suspended my disbelief and went with it.

The romance is great for the most part. I would consider this a slow burn, though. The leads have quite a bit of screen time together overall and a lovely connection between them is built. I have some complaints about some parts of it. We don’t get a lot of skinship or kissing until much, much later in the show. And I think the writers dragged the keeping secrets out MUCH longer than they should have. Other than those things, they have really great chemistry and a WONDERFUL mature connection. My goodness, and the ML gives her some beautiful poetic confessions. ♥️

The SML gets super annoying and it comes to a head in the last few episodes when some serious 💩 happens due to possessiveness from the SML. Luckily it doesn’t last long at all. And if I remember correctly, the FL is pretty good about maintaining boundaries with the SML.

I heard it’s on HiTV. I had a heart attack when I realized I couldn’t watch it on Viki anymore because I was planning on watching it for the third time. I think I looked on HiTV last week and saw it there. If you guys know of other places as well let me know. it drives me nuts if I can’t access a show that I love anywhere 💔

It’s definitely preferable to me than keeping secrets, lying and not communicating in order to drag out drama 😂 TPoB is one of my favorite shows for this reason.

Yeah that was totally me with this show. It had a tight grip on me 😂

They reunite in the modern world in the last minute or two, and there seems to be a mutual recognition that they know who each other are. She recognizes him right away, and there’s a glint of recognition in the ML’s face that he recognized her too. He gave her his cute Sima Jiao smile and asked her if she knew who he was. I thought it was really sweet, but like many others wish we had a bit more episodes in the modern world.

It was a little confusing mostly due to China’s censorship of sexual scenes, which forced them to be somewhat vague about what they were showing on screen. Others who have read the novels have explained it pretty well. My understanding is that being allowed into another person’s soul manor is considered even more intimate than physical sex, and needless to say there are definitely sexual overtones to letting another person into your soul. So they hinted the first time that the soul manors were introduced that it was just a “spiritual cultivation”, meaning that the Sima Jiao and Tingyan were temporarily in a spiritual location when she first entered into his soul manor, which was a very intimate act by her and Sima Jiao. I guess it was kind of like sex of the minds. They also seemed to have engaged in sex within this spiritual realm that first time with him being shirtless and making sexual jokes lol. But yeah, Chinese censorship made this scene a bit unclear. Dual Cultivation takes place when two people go into each other’s soul manors and have physical sex at the same time. That definitely happened later when she was injured.

I am in the early episode 20s so far and I have been starting to get over the cute lovesick puppy vibes and ready for stuff of more substance. I know it’s coming soon, but I see what you guys mean. I think it would have helped having more sensual / adult blood sharing or scenes with fiery sexual tension to balance the innocent puppy dog vibes. We got some of the latter so far, yeah, but not enough of it in my opinion. It has kinda felt like a mostly childish romance stuck in the infatuation phase for too long. I am more disappointed by the lack of blood sharing, though. After we got that first time in bed with her neck (🔥🔥🔥), I was excited thinking we would be getting more of that.

Yeah! I get all the nostalgic feels when I see him in dramas nowadays! ❤️

Oooo sorry- Romance of the Tiger and Rose 😊

The costumes in this extra scene were GORGEOUS 😍! They’re such beautiful people.