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I hope so. I will definitely try again next week.

Similar to "Wang Yue", but in the novel (Fly to the Moon) , he seems to be less ruthless to me. I mean he still want to accomplish that end result but you also get to learn more about his past as well.

He also has a loyal servant in the novel following him all this time known as Lan Chi. I wish he was in Journey of Chongzi instead of that woman though since I love his interactions with Yue(God of Moon) in the novel.

God of Moon in the drama Song of the Moon portrayal is very different to who he is in the novel. In the novel he is a "Grey character", in the drama he wasn't.. in the novel he was alive all this time and no evil spirits controlling him like how the drama has it.

Chinese censorship has gotten even stricter throughout the years so there are censorship guidelines and process that they need to follow.

The script writer can write the story for a drama adaptation like this

The actors will do their best to play out their characters (actors should never be the one to blame since they only do their part to go with the script)

Then once they finished with the filming process comes the Editing process.

This is the final process before the drama gets review by censorship so if you see choppy editing like disconnected scenes is due to scenes being deleted to fit the censorship guideline.

At the end of the day it's in the editing process whether they are BOLD enough to test the waters and submit the drama for review.

If censorship guidelines isn't so strict and if people doing the final editing is bold enough than we may have gotten a better final product than what we were given IMO.

Was that the episode 40 ending that you watched or episode 41?

You need to watch episode 41 ending if you want a happy ending.

Unfortunately for now you have to pay to watch that ending. I did pay on wetv, but I wanted to download a copy on my end. Hopefully someone post it online to share so we can download it.

I do love the ending to episode 41 though. That's a happy ending for my favourite cp.

They have this all up on kissasian I think but I want to download episode 41 ending...

Episode 41 ending? Unfortunately can only be watched on WeTv app from what I know. I can't even screen record it sadly so I hope someone manage to share it online since I want to download that ending on my end..

They became lazier as you can notice that nowadays xianxia dramas ending is not as fulfilling like how it used to be.

This could be due to censorship has gotten stricter over the years.

And yeah we can blame censorship guidelines for that but honestly one of the things I really hate is that when the actors and actress pour their heart into acting those scenes but when it comes to the editing side of things it got deleted or never made it to the final product..

I read that even the scene that Jeremy said he likes was deleted... That's just sad...

When it comes to censorship I see that whether they are BOLD enough to do it. I mean looking at censorship side of things, Word of Honour was more bold when compared to the Untamed. So I think it's a matter of will they test the waters or not just deleting all those scenes when it comes to editing which in the end loses its emotional connection when the drama finally aired...

🤣🤣🤣 yeah I did, my original draft review was longer but in the end I have to cut out a lot so I can post the review LOL

When it comes to changes I don't mind if it's for the better, but if it's not and they changed something I love into something I don't this is when it annoys me..

After watching Journey of Chong Zi it kinda magnified how I feel and wish Song of the Moon was a more faithful adaptation to my favourite Novel (Fly to the Moon). Actually scrub the faithful part because that's not in its dictionary since it was completely changed in the drama 😭😭

If you like "Wang Yue" in the drama then I'm sure you will enjoy his spinoff novel (Fly to the Moon) where he's the ML , it's just sad that for those who can't read the novel and only watch the drama (SOTM) will never know what his character was really like in the novel.

This is one of the thing I appreciate in Journey of ChongZi is that at least through this drama they can somewhat get and understand his character in this portrayal better because in the novel (Fly to the Moon)
he's more of a "Grey" character.

P.S. Censorship always ruin a good story IMO .. I think in dramas there's a set guideline where they adapt shows on the TV there are certain things that needs to be rewritten to fit into censorship guideline... This is why I hate censorship lol

Omg WeTv is so strict... I wanted to download a copy of episode 41 on my end but , it won't even let you screen record it on their end because it's encrypted... So does that mean we can never get a copy of that special episode.... 😭😭😭

LYF killing her in her past life, needed to happen for the progress of the story into their second life. At least we saw that he really feel regret afterwards to the point that he discarded the one sword that play a part in killing her as well.

As for Wang Yue, he is related to Fly to the Moon (Novel). Which that novel drama adaptation is Song of the Moon.

Now, please do not take Song of the Moon (God of Moon portrayal) to be the same as Fly to the Moon(Novel), because in his novel spinoff where "Wang Yue" is the ML, his character is not the same as how it was portrayed in the Drama for Song of the Moon.

Simply put, Song of the Moon, is not a faithful adaptation from the original Novel. Character portrayal and Story direction was completely changed in Song of the Moon.

I will tell you for me, I love this one better than Song of the Moon (that goes to say a lot considering I love Song of the Moon before, as a spinoff from the novel).

I don't know for me, everyone is different. It's just after watching Journey of Congzi, I felt like Novel fans can at least be a little happy in comparison to Song of the Moon because for the latter, it wasn't faithful to the Novel in terms of character portrayal and character direction IN THE DRAMA(Song of the Moon)

This Ending is even better than Song of the Moon for me, I will just cry in the corner because I can't help but comparing the two.

I am only comparing these two dramas because they are Story-building in their respective novel is connected.

I get why Novel Fans to "CongZi" is upset, because I can relate that to how I feel towards Song of the Moon, but Song of the Moon Novel fans had it worse imo(because we didn't even get a little faithful adaptation in the drama at all)

[Not going to ramble on], you can give it a try, without expectations and see if this is for you or not.

FINALLY FINISHED WITH MY REVIEW! I need to remind myself to NOT do long reviews!! When it was never intended to begin with but when I let my mind do the thinking and my hands do the typing, I just end up rambling on and on.

The whole character limit was annoying how I have to cut some of what I wanted to say in my review out (oh well, at least it's done)!

Song of the Moon Drama, where it shows Luo Ge, Lu Li, Yue(God of Moon) is the same person, but it is very different to the Novel (Fly to the Moon). In the Novel (Fly to the Moon), Yue (God of Moon), NEVER die, he's the main protagonist in that story, where he is paired of with FL (Liu Shao).

This "Wang Yue" is the same character as "Yue" (in his spinoff novel that takes place a few generations after "Cong Zi") where he is the ML.

Simply put, don't take Song of the Moon to be an accurate adaptation to the Novel "Fly to the Moon", because the drama completely changed the story direction and character portrayal

I finished the drama so I was brave enough to watch all those annoying scene without pressing it fast 😂😂

I didn't read the novel Fly to the Moon before I watched the drama. It's only half way through the drama that I wanted to check out the novel (Fly to the Moon) and then I realized how the drama adaptation completely changed from the novel, characters and story direction was changed, so when people were asking what happened in the novel , how can we tell them when the story direction was changed?

So this is why when looking at it being a Novel Fan perspective, I am really disappointed how the script writers completely deviated from the Novel in SOTM...

In the drama he didn't have much of a significant role but the attention was given to the 2nd pairing (Luo Ning and A Fu) instead 😑😑

I don't know why the script writers and the production team have to changed it which deviates from the novel but it's sad that those who never read the novel (Fly to the Moon ) will never understand that Yue(God of Moon ) is MORE than what the production team portrayed him to he in Song of the Moon!

They probably DO have a problem with depicting ML as Grey characters or something...

So this is why for me, as much as I get people disappointment in Journey of Cong Zi drama, it at least did not completely deviate from the novel the way Song of the Moon did...

So at this comparison I like Journey of Cong Zi better.

It is a disrespect to the original source material from the Novel though it Wang Yue (God of Moon ) is the author Shu Ke favourite character..

I still think this drama did better than Song of the Moon adaptation from the novel Fly to the Moon..

It was such a disaster for me being a novel fan how much they completely diverted from the novel..

Sad to be saying that because I do love SOTM drama for the positive scenes I like but still felt massively cheated with how unfaithful it is the original source material.

Looking at the comparison between the two drama adaptation, I still think this one was better.

But I get why you are upset and your criticism to this drama in your review though (have read your review in here).

I am blaming censorship and some of the lazy writing where I think it could be handled better but just didn't in the end.

In terms of ending where the main pairing is concerned I love Journey of Congzi ending better (episode 41)

I am still glad we get this version of "Wang Yue" in this drama at least.

I do love the casts though they all did an amazing job in their roles imo.

Well considering his "true" status and identity, he deserves it and people should beg him for help XD 🤣🤣

I actually came to really love his character in this drama, definitely listed as my favourite character.

I just wish the character beside him is not that woman but Lan Chi instead

They already adapted Fly to the Moon into a drama (Song of the Moon), but sadly the drama story direction and character portrayal was different to the novel (Fly to the Moon).

You know comparing this drama and SOTM at least in Journey of Cong Zi from what I know it didn't completely deviate from the novel. Sure they made changes but basing on the comparison to SOTM adaptation from its novel, this one was at least better IMO.

I'm glad I get to see this version of Wang Yue where he's more of a Grey character.

Let's just say that if they had ended on episode 40 with that ending, I would have been annoyed and pissed off, but considering they had an extended bonus episode 41 showing what happened later, I am happy with the ending for CZ and YF. All I asked for in a Happy Ending where my favourite CP is concerned is to see them alive and happily together. And I got that in episode 41, I was also touched by all the flashbacks they put in that episode as well especially a surprised scene that I thought was deleted... but you see both YF and CZ can get out of that place and go to the mortal realm fine, so looking at this aspect I think it ties in similarly to the novel ending. And I LOVE how Yin Fan calls her in an affection way 娘子 which I see it as in the context of 'wife' when he call her that (it's something subtle but I love that)!😍

The one thing about that ending I didn't quite like was how they had Wang Yue sealed... cuz that didn't make sense to me and I saw that as lazy writing...

I hated Ting Xue so much with a passion that I wanted her DEAD, wish YF killed her to be honest but that ending for her was quite fitting. Glad to see her suffer!!

And I am SO GLAD to see that Min Shixiong that old faggot DIE in the drama!!

I also love how Yin Fan blasted his Min Shixiong when that old faggot wanted to protect his granddaughter (Su Qiu) for what she did to Chong'er .... That blast and what YF said to him was satisfying though!

I did cry when YF sacrificed himself to save CZ from the demon energy in her though.. I didn't think he would do that but on the bright side for me I do like that he couldn't bring himself to want to kill her again, if one of them have to die , he rather that to be him instead of her (I find that romantic).


This is just a summarized version lol. Detailed version will be posted later in the review section (when I am off work.

I hope they have episode 41 available for download since I can watch that again and again

At least between this ending and SOTM ending, I love and prefer this ending over the drama ending for Song of the Moon. In Song of the Moon they wasted one final episode IMO which is sad seeing how the drama itself already deviated from the Novel (Fly to the Moon), poor Yue(God of Moon) in the novel was so much more than what we got adapted in the drama when they changed it (still bitter about that)😭😭😭