Jingyan

;D I found the info on various Chinese websites like xuehua that the animation for HOB has been officially announced, possibly for 2020-2022. No fixed date yet. As for the drama adaptation, yes!! The copyright has been bought for a lot! And based on the articles that I translated, the director is now looking into who to cast for Xie Lian,. I remember reading that they had 2 possible actors for the leads, but people don't think that they have chemistry so that's debatable. I'm still waiting for more news!! Still have no idea how they can adapt HOB since it's way more BL than The Untamed.

Personally, I liked the drama more than the novel :) If you want to read a very good novel from the same author ( which will also receive a drama adaptation and animation), I recommend Heaven's Official Blessing which is fully translated in english 244 chapters + extras. This novel is superb in details. The author improves a lot and it can be seen! And the art that fans have done is superb!

:) It depends on what you want more exactly. I don't want to spoil to much, but the novel is more gory in details because of the corpses, while the drama is more mild because of China censorship. On the other hand, I think that the actors of the drama did a really good job! Many Chinese fans said that Wei Wuxian is exactly like they wanted him to be based on the novel. You can also watch the season 1 of the animation together with the novel or the drama audio. I believe that that the animation is until the ending on the Sunshot campaign, don't remember exactly the chapter from the novel.

Regarding Huaisang...It is heavily implied in the last episode of the drama that Huaisang was the mastermind. Wei Wuxian implies that it is no coincidence that Mo Xuanyu ( the body he now possess) has used the body-sacrifice to call his soul, and that it is possible that the manuscript with the sacrifice was discovered by Mo Xuanyu because of Huaisang. All along the novel and the drama, in the present time, someone was leaving traces and guiding them to various places,such as Coffin City where Xue Yang was, and it is implied that that person has a grudge on who murdered Nie Mingjue ;D

The novel itself can be confusing because there are many small flashbacks. Many readers have said that it actually bothered them. The drama has just gone and did just one major flashback. Present time is episode 1-2 and then it's only in the past until episode 33, I believe. From episode 33 onward, only the present time and Wei Ying and Lan Zhan trying to solve the mystery of the dismembered hand (in the novel and donghua) and the sword ( in the drama).

He sure is! I mean, he may be just half-brothers with Nie Mingjue, and although he really isn't alike him in the fact that he doesn't want to cultivate using sabers ( and here I believe is also because he knows that sabers accelerate the qi deviation), he sure is ruthless in his actions, just like his brother! Too bad that there aren't that many scenes with the 2 brothers interacting because in the novel it's kinda implied that when Mingjue was approaching the qi deviation, he actually started being nasty to everyone, including burning the fan collection of Huaisang and even cutting his arm and leg when he was trying to help him..

It's a happy ending! It is slightly different from the novel since the novel is actually BL and the drama isn't, but the directors and the actors managed that just fine!

They are actually doing a short online movie!! And a 10 sec trailer is already online; the name is The Living Dead. The story though, is about Wen Ning and Shizui. I read somewhere that they planned for 2 movies, so who knows what will happen! I found the video on twitter, so here is the link, in case someone wants to watch the trailer: https://twitter.com/hashtag/%E9%99%88%E6%83%85%E4%BB%A4%E4%B9%8B%E7%94%9F%E9%AD%82?src=hash