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this worked best when it was strictly about the conflict of hua ru yue and bai jiu si, as it talks about a really fragmented relationship of grief and misunderstandings, honestly i find it really hard they could have gone past all of their history to end up together but at the same time i was hoping they could, however at some point they drop us a main villain as fitting of any other xianxia and therefore a big messy fight for the finale (side note: xianxia dramas starting to make the same mistakes as the mcu: big messy cgi fights with no purpose for the finale) which kinda undermines the whole plot.

but then again removing xiao jing shan (the villain) would mean we would not get to see hong yao and his amazing visuals, with having such a small scenes and still able to stand up among the rest of the cast (honestly he looks very good but i haven’t been able to find still pics of him), even his motivations and background story makes him a compelling character and thanks to him i can almost forgive the whole mess the last episodes were.