They really said: "Let's keep the leads apart for half of the drama, because who cares about them anyway?"... Like seriously, they haven’t had a single scene together lasting more than five minutes in the last 14 episodes(!!!) lol They fkd up so bad with our leads. It's just sad 🥲
And let’s be honest, we’re not getting any real development in the last 7 eps either. The stove’s gone cold, even if they try to light it again. Also we've got no time for them, because the writers favorite season is slowly coming: ✨ the mass execution arc. ✨ Time to kill everyone off, yay!
Let the hunger games begin and don't forget, our beloved screen-hog Jing Ting is still on the loose to take the remaining screen time and of course, everyone's lives. But hey, they’re the ones who spared this mass murderer, so I guess they had it coming. Lovely. Just lovely.
The writers basically demoted the leads to glorified cameos and said fk to their romance. Who needs romance, when we can have FL's spider brother incest subplot and poor ML literally running on his last 2% battery life? Stunning writing choices all around. Bravo! 👏
Yeah sorry, but I have to rant: Like, seriously... they should delete romance for this drama 😭 While 2nd leads are out here getting married, flirting, living their best lives, our main leads barely share five minutes of screen time together.
This was the most anti-climatic reunion after being separated for 10 eps(!!!) I've ever seen... Didn't even make any sense for them not to acknowledge each other. The writer messed up so hard. I’m honestly just sad and exhausted at this point. And now they’re separated again?? Like… for what??
Apart from the non-existent romance for our leads, the writing and editing also became a mess. What were those random scene cuts right after they finally acknowledge each other?? They jumped scenes like it was a TikTok montage. And didn't even give us anything to compensate for the lack of the protagonists.
They robbed us of what could’ve been one of the most beautiful reunions ever. Even Yun Fei’s voice roleplay of Fu Gui and Qingtong had more emotional depth than their real reunion 😂
Also every character’s IQ dropped so bad, good people die like flies, but the villains? Immortal. Absolute cockroaches. Seriously, Jing Ting is still alive, thriving and will likely be the cause of many more deaths to come. Could've been prevented, but no, all of the leads are sooo merciful. SO FKN ANNOYING. I can't even be sad if literally everyone dies by the end, because they at fault for keeping all their enemies alive.
They ruined it. They absolutely ruined it. I just want to cry 😭😭😭😭
Ep. 12 will forever remain the highlight of the whole drama. So full of emotions and angst. The emotional core this show could have had. The wasted potential hurts so much, because this drama could’ve been so good...
I'm sad. This was the only ongoing drama, I've been enjoying a lot... now it's just frustrating to watch.
Fu Gui is peak soft energy. His voice, his manner, even his advices are all so refined and gentle it hurts. Given his past, how he grew into this gentle and calm person is honestly mind blowing. Also it's really rare to see a ML like him in genres like this.
He deserves way better than this messed up world. If the sadist writers actually give him a tragic ending, I will riot!!
Hong Ye ...lol i still think hes failure as a dad...hes not a bad man, and generally have good intentions. And…
imo he’s not a good person either. Maybe he used to be, but definitely not anymore. Yes, he’s not as evil as the others, but that doesn’t make him a good or "not bad" person. His morals are just as twisted. Maybe his past explains it, but it sure doesn’t excuse it.
Killing innocent demons already puts him on the same level as other villains. Add to that the emotional and physical abuse towards his own son, using him as a killing tool and not once acting like a father but then always pulling the “Do you even see me as a father?” card. Like, dude… either he’s your weapon or your son. I had to facepalm every single time, when he pulls the father card 🙈
And forcing his son to kill the woman he loves? Yeah not so good lol Maybe in fiction world full of humans and demons it's acceptable 😂
Are you fkn kidding me right now?! Quan Jing Ting is still alive and living his best life playing the victim? I’m sorry, but this writing is seriously driving me insane. You’re telling me they just let him walk around freely after everything he’s done... no punishment, no prison, nothing?! Did they even learn a thing?!
Meanwhile, they strip Fu Gui, who literally saves their asses, of his sword meridian and exile him to the western region forever??
You seriously can’t make this sh*t up. I can’t be the only one completely fed up with this dumb writing. I mean, we already know the Alliance is dumb af, but the writers somehow keep outdoing themselves every episode. Like, how do you create a “powerful” Alliance and make them the dumbest species on earth at the same time?!
I can’t be the only one thinking Chinese Wuxia/Xianxia writers have some serious sadist tendencies. They love torturing the good, innocent characters till their very last breath through pure agony and suffering... yet they’re so damn merciful with the villains! Those evil ones die fast, painless deaths… or worse, walk away with no punishment at all. Like those fkn Yiqi fckrs?! Also Jing Ting died way too fast for my liking ...
Balance, people. Ever heard of it? That’s why I really appreciated Fated Hearts. I vibed so hard with that whole “eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth” energy... something we barely ever get in Wuxia 🥲
After ep. 17, I'm actually starting to root for the evil tree and fox 🤣 The main villain here is 100000000% the fkn Yiqi Alliance. I think my hate alone for them would make that evil tree bloom to the fullest and keep it alive forever lol
No seriously... WTF?!?!?! I really wish Fu Gui would've just killed them. None of them deserved to be saved by him. Those monsters. Absolutely disgusting pack of ungrateful hypocrite bastards. I want them to die a miserable death. The whole fkn Alliance. I really can't comprehend those brainless monsters.
Even Fu Gui could not help a stunned laugh at their stupidity...
The Yiqi Alliance is a pack of brainless zombies, honestly much worse than any demon out there. I really hope the whole Alliance rots away by the end of the drama, except for a very few exceptions. That damn Alliance was and will always be evil, whether it’s in LIP or here. A few good people among them don’t change a thing. You can’t convince me otherwise. It’s always them who start those massacres against demons and then when the demons want revenge, they suddenly play the victims like, “Oh no, those evil demons.” 🤮
They’re so painfully brainless, it actually hurts to watch. They don’t deserve to be saved by Fu Gui and Ru Mu at all. This is one of those times I wish we had a morally grey protagonist who’d just let them deal with the consequences of their own stupidity, but I know that’s not happening here lol
I watched the first episode of Love in Pavilion just to understand Madam Yin’s grudge against Fu Gui, Hong Ye and the Yiqi Alliance, and honestly, I totally get her!!!
***spoilers of LIP***
Her entire clan and family were massacred by one of the Yiqi Alliance families just because her clan stole some wood/tree, even though they never harmed anyone. What’s even more tragic is that she wasn't even the one to seek revenge back then. It was her almost-husband, Hou Ming Hao’s character, who took vengeance for her by killing people from that Yiqi Alliance family.
Then Hong Ye and Huai Zhu came to defeat them, but instead they made some kind of deal. (And seriously, I hated how in that specific case Hong Ye didn’t show even a shred of remorse knowing what HIS Alliance had done. Instead, he basically threatened them with that so-called sacrifice deal... well, well, it seems he was always an a**hole even back then lol Just Huai Zhu had compassion and empathy towards the innocent demons, who were killed. Fu Gui comes 100% after his mother luckily.. ) So Madam Yin's husband/lover then sacrificed himself for their home, but that’s where I get confused. It seemed pretty clear he was supposed to come back after cultivating, so how did she believe he was dead and end up turning evil? Also her LIP version didn’t strike me as the type who’d go around slaughtering innocent spiders either... but well...
And knowing now what a hypocrite Hong Ye turned out to be, I couldn’t help but laugh at his self-righteous speeches in LIP in ep.1. He really thought he was morally superior to his corrupted Alliance, yet look what he became. Revenge and grudges truly are a devil’s circle.
So whether it’s here or in Love in Pavilion, it’s always the damn Yiqi Alliance starting all the chaos. Maybe they’re the real root of evil, not that so-called evil tree? lol
The Wangquan clan are awful and I really hate hypocrites like that. Except for Fei and Tingyun. Hong Ye frustrates me the most. At least the villains admit what they are. He seems to believe he’s in the right, which makes him even more exasperating. "Do you even see me as your father anymore?" WTF!!! ARE YOU FKN SERIOUS?! DO YOU EVEN SEE HIM AS YOUR SON?!?! OH GOD... I LOATHE HIM! It feels like his judgement died along with the people he cared about, so I find it hard to sympathize with him.... And I won't til the end. I won't fkn care when he will sacrifice himself or dies whatsoever. He's awful!
He didn't lift a freaking finger while his hypocrite clan almost killed his son, yet when the Fu Gui defended himself Hong Ye attacked him? It’s infuriating... I want to punch him so bad!!! I won't shed a single tear when he's gonna die.
Do people who watched Love In Pavillon still have sympathy for him after todays episodes? I guess I won't ever watch Love in Pavillon. I wouldn't be able to watch it knowing what kind of person he turns into.
Binge-watched the episodes over the last few days and it turned out to be such a heart-warming drama! Tbh, I agree with some of the comments, there were definitely too many “main” characters and most of them didn’t really catch my interest.
What makes me a bit sad is that my favorite couple never got to truly explore their relationship phase. It feels like the show wasted the potential of what could’ve been a truly amazing couple. They went from strangers to friends to a slow-burn couple and honestly, they had more depth and chemistry than anyone else in the story. But I guess this wasn’t meant to be a romance drama, more of a slice-of-life one.
Still, I’d absolutely recommend it for the lovely dimple couple (Le and Mai) and the people around them. Especially Le, what a green-flag man! He’s emotionally secure, so gentle and ended up being my favorite character. I also adored his whole Xu family, the mom, the dad, and everyone at the Zhen Qiang restaurant.
Honestly, the drama could’ve just focused on them and the restaurant and Mai's job. It felt so real, authentic and full of heart. I’ll admit, I skipped some of the other storylines, but I rewatched so many scenes with Le, Mai, and Le’s family.
And let’s be honest, we’re not getting any real development in the last 7 eps either. The stove’s gone cold, even if they try to light it again. Also we've got no time for them, because the writers favorite season is slowly coming: ✨ the mass execution arc. ✨ Time to kill everyone off, yay!
Let the hunger games begin and don't forget, our beloved screen-hog Jing Ting is still on the loose to take the remaining screen time and of course, everyone's lives. But hey, they’re the ones who spared this mass murderer, so I guess they had it coming. Lovely. Just lovely.
The writers basically demoted the leads to glorified cameos and said fk to their romance. Who needs romance, when we can have FL's spider brother incest subplot and poor ML literally running on his last 2% battery life? Stunning writing choices all around. Bravo! 👏
This was the most anti-climatic reunion after being separated for 10 eps(!!!) I've ever seen... Didn't even make any sense for them not to acknowledge each other. The writer messed up so hard. I’m honestly just sad and exhausted at this point. And now they’re separated again?? Like… for what??
Apart from the non-existent romance for our leads, the writing and editing also became a mess. What were those random scene cuts right after they finally acknowledge each other?? They jumped scenes like it was a TikTok montage. And didn't even give us anything to compensate for the lack of the protagonists.
They robbed us of what could’ve been one of the most beautiful reunions ever. Even Yun Fei’s voice roleplay of Fu Gui and Qingtong had more emotional depth than their real reunion 😂
Also every character’s IQ dropped so bad, good people die like flies, but the villains? Immortal. Absolute cockroaches. Seriously, Jing Ting is still alive, thriving and will likely be the cause of many more deaths to come. Could've been prevented, but no, all of the leads are sooo merciful. SO FKN ANNOYING. I can't even be sad if literally everyone dies by the end, because they at fault for keeping all their enemies alive.
They ruined it. They absolutely ruined it. I just want to cry 😭😭😭😭
Ep. 12 will forever remain the highlight of the whole drama. So full of emotions and angst. The emotional core this show could have had. The wasted potential hurts so much, because this drama could’ve been so good...
I'm sad. This was the only ongoing drama, I've been enjoying a lot... now it's just frustrating to watch.
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He deserves way better than this messed up world. If the sadist writers actually give him a tragic ending, I will riot!!
Killing innocent demons already puts him on the same level as other villains. Add to that the emotional and physical abuse towards his own son, using him as a killing tool and not once acting like a father but then always pulling the “Do you even see me as a father?” card. Like, dude… either he’s your weapon or your son. I had to facepalm every single time, when he pulls the father card 🙈
And forcing his son to kill the woman he loves? Yeah not so good lol Maybe in fiction world full of humans and demons it's acceptable 😂
Meanwhile, they strip Fu Gui, who literally saves their asses, of his sword meridian and exile him to the western region forever??
You seriously can’t make this sh*t up. I can’t be the only one completely fed up with this dumb writing. I mean, we already know the Alliance is dumb af, but the writers somehow keep outdoing themselves every episode. Like, how do you create a “powerful” Alliance and make them the dumbest species on earth at the same time?!
Balance, people. Ever heard of it? That’s why I really appreciated Fated Hearts. I vibed so hard with that whole “eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth” energy... something we barely ever get in Wuxia 🥲
No seriously... WTF?!?!?! I really wish Fu Gui would've just killed them. None of them deserved to be saved by him. Those monsters. Absolutely disgusting pack of ungrateful hypocrite bastards. I want them to die a miserable death. The whole fkn Alliance. I really can't comprehend those brainless monsters.
Even Fu Gui could not help a stunned laugh at their stupidity...
They’re so painfully brainless, it actually hurts to watch. They don’t deserve to be saved by Fu Gui and Ru Mu at all. This is one of those times I wish we had a morally grey protagonist who’d just let them deal with the consequences of their own stupidity, but I know that’s not happening here lol
***spoilers of LIP***
Her entire clan and family were massacred by one of the Yiqi Alliance families just because her clan stole some wood/tree, even though they never harmed anyone.
What’s even more tragic is that she wasn't even the one to seek revenge back then. It was her almost-husband, Hou Ming Hao’s character, who took vengeance for her by killing people from that Yiqi Alliance family.
Then Hong Ye and Huai Zhu came to defeat them, but instead they made some kind of deal. (And seriously, I hated how in that specific case Hong Ye didn’t show even a shred of remorse knowing what HIS Alliance had done. Instead, he basically threatened them with that so-called sacrifice deal... well, well, it seems he was always an a**hole even back then lol Just Huai Zhu had compassion and empathy towards the innocent demons, who were killed. Fu Gui comes 100% after his mother luckily.. )
So Madam Yin's husband/lover then sacrificed himself for their home, but that’s where I get confused. It seemed pretty clear he was supposed to come back after cultivating, so how did she believe he was dead and end up turning evil? Also her LIP version didn’t strike me as the type who’d go around slaughtering innocent spiders either... but well...
And knowing now what a hypocrite Hong Ye turned out to be, I couldn’t help but laugh at his self-righteous speeches in LIP in ep.1. He really thought he was morally superior to his corrupted Alliance, yet look what he became. Revenge and grudges truly are a devil’s circle.
So whether it’s here or in Love in Pavilion, it’s always the damn Yiqi Alliance starting all the chaos. Maybe they’re the real root of evil, not that so-called evil tree? lol
He didn't lift a freaking finger while his hypocrite clan almost killed his son, yet when the Fu Gui defended himself Hong Ye attacked him? It’s infuriating... I want to punch him so bad!!! I won't shed a single tear when he's gonna die.
Do people who watched Love In Pavillon still have sympathy for him after todays episodes? I guess I won't ever watch Love in Pavillon. I wouldn't be able to watch it knowing what kind of person he turns into.
What makes me a bit sad is that my favorite couple never got to truly explore their relationship phase. It feels like the show wasted the potential of what could’ve been a truly amazing couple. They went from strangers to friends to a slow-burn couple and honestly, they had more depth and chemistry than anyone else in the story. But I guess this wasn’t meant to be a romance drama, more of a slice-of-life one.
Still, I’d absolutely recommend it for the lovely dimple couple (Le and Mai) and the people around them. Especially Le, what a green-flag man! He’s emotionally secure, so gentle and ended up being my favorite character. I also adored his whole Xu family, the mom, the dad, and everyone at the Zhen Qiang restaurant.
Honestly, the drama could’ve just focused on them and the restaurant and Mai's job. It felt so real, authentic and full of heart. I’ll admit, I skipped some of the other storylines, but I rewatched so many scenes with Le, Mai, and Le’s family.