Ep26 - wait I'm sorry what just happened, why did they just go from 4v4 to all transferring power to MC?? I'm…
This one would be theological. Basically the 4v4 fight is due to strong belief that orthodox vs inorthodox martial arts techniques are stronger. All the martial masters know they are dying so they want to pass their skills on and have XQS prove (by winning with them) that their skill is stronger so the ultimate win is theirs even if they die. (Is my understanding.) (But yes it was said before the fight that “this is the event where those masters all give you their power” so it is also a lampshade that despite destroying the GUI, despite XMM’s memory of the plot fading, the narrative is still following the key events of the original plot outlined in EP1.) 👀
Usually just the first name to be credited in the cast section. (So top billing would just mean that in the cast credits your name was at the top of the list, iirc. Second billing = your name appears second on the list, etc.)
Why doesn't Cheng Yi want to act in romance dramas anymore? Most of his recent projects are strictly Wuxia or…
Meanwhile here I am celebrating his choices because I love martial arts and romance is meh for me 😂
(Could be partly fan wars. Based on MDL comments, any FL seems to get a lot of hate if she’s not an established actress/can’t act, and if she is famous/can act then there’s tension over billing and screen time/who’s “at fault” for any misunderstandings in the drama. You’re expected to shoot lots of cute “Behind the Scenes” stuff too, with fans reacting badly if your relationship offscreen isn’t particularly close. The drama behind the scenes is likely wayyyy less for all involved without romance.)
Part way through my fourth watch though of this one. LLH is a lying liar and I love him 😂 I love this show and this main trio and crazy Beauty Qiao so much 🥰
why did she keep killing him from the very first trial theres a very big plot hole there i dont know how to explain…
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I believe the logic is something like the Heavenly Emperor agrees that she’s justified to feel anger, rage, and want to kill a lot of people because of what happened with her clan. He has no right to interfere with Free Will in the demon clan or Heavens, he can only suggest and advise unless asked to act, but he doesn’t want Bailing to kill her, and he also doesn’t want her to choose to nuke the world because then on a heavenly scale the world will be nuked. Hence offering his kid’s newly-obtained human form as a sacrifice to buy her ten lives to the mortal realm.
Because she’s bitter and angry and hates the world and herself for what everyone did, he said he would send her down to experience ten lifetimes of being able to live out that resentment (so killing a lot of people, getting power, holding grudges etc). The goal of this was to wear that anger out, and by lifetime number 10, she has been softened substantially by the 9 previous lives and subconsciously isn’t bitter to the core anymore but is a blank page good feelings can be written into to, not just bad ones, like a black page steadily more bleached white.
Sifeng, as the Emperor’s son, but also as her only surviving clan member (his mum was from the Azura clan too iirc) was basically assigned the dual fate of letting her vent her anger on someone to hurt them, but also having immense empathy for why she was like that and wanting to comfort her in every lifetime. We never meet the Crown Prince much, but we know his bird self was BFFs with her and heard her wondering why she had to kill and who she was and why no one would give her a name and why she felt so bad inside doing what she ought to. Since he hadn’t achieved human form till she was being whipped at that post, it’s probably safe to assume his dad granted him the fate of having terrible lives while loving her so that she’d eventually get emotionally attached and not want to wipe out the universe.
(As stopping the universe from being destroyed while ensuring that was a free will choice from the dude the Heavens backstabbed would have been his ultimate goal.)
That was my reading anyway! Cleverly the show nicely ends in mortal realm mode so we never see the true ending of what happens in the heavenly realm after they both die.
can someone recommend me similar dramas? I need another satisfying revenge and mastermind male lead like this.
Maybe Joy of Life? It’s not a revenge drama but there are a bunch of masterminds including the male lead, and the performance by everyone is A+. Uncle Wu in it is YZ here.
idk if you guys has notice after fugui and qing tong drift apart when he went to western regions it seems like…
Oooh, love conspiracy theories!
I got no idea what happened or what the producers were thinking LOL. I did notice they kept randomly blurring him, so I guess that'd make sense if it was a stand-in. (But y would u use a stand-in when there is CY, Mr. Producer? ;-;) From the vibe of that Demon River Festival scene that got cut, plus the vibe of how things were going generally, it feels like there was originally supposed to be some kind of arc originally of 'demons can protect humans, humans can protect demons, good power can be used to do evil, evil power can be used for good, ultimately Good and Evil all depends on your motives not your race/power source' vibe that Fugui was supposed to explore after leaving his sect, like, getting mentoring from some demons rather than just humans, which probably would have tied in better to the whole ending thing of using the power of evil to defeat evil that came outta nowhere. (On top of the 'some evil infected me' which also came outta nowhere. It felt like a plothole that Fugui had anywhere for that evil to take root in him at all tbh, and would have made way more sense if he was like 'good alone cannot defeat this evil, I must embrace both evil and good to stop this fox' hence cultivating evil inner Fugui intentionally, as opposed to Rumu being fridged for it after the 10000th time of saying 'let's leave my dad unsupervised despite what he did last time. I'm sure it'll be fine'.) But that was all cut, so we got 10 eps of plotless filler and cute/yandere OOC scenes from the supporting cast instead for 21-29.5, cuz why wouldn't you, the director, give us that instead of character development and a plot that held together and made sense? Lol.
this is the first time i see cheng yi's drama. so far it's okay. i am not heavily impressed by the storyline nor…
You may wanna add a spoiler tag to this, since you’re listing key plot events and new viewers may be browsing the page 😅😅
(Assuming, given the general tone of this, that your goal isn’t to bash this beautiful show to deter casual viewers, in which case the lack of spoiler tags is probably intentional.) 😮💨
Maybe in 2-3 eps outta the 40 per couple, there are a couple of incidents which can be taken romantically, but majority of the time it's non-romance and none of the CP relationships gets any meaningful development beyond trust/mutual reliance.
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(Could be partly fan wars. Based on MDL comments, any FL seems to get a lot of hate if she’s not an established actress/can’t act, and if she is famous/can act then there’s tension over billing and screen time/who’s “at fault” for any misunderstandings in the drama. You’re expected to shoot lots of cute “Behind the Scenes” stuff too, with fans reacting badly if your relationship offscreen isn’t particularly close. The drama behind the scenes is likely wayyyy less for all involved without romance.)
I believe the logic is something like the Heavenly Emperor agrees that she’s justified to feel anger, rage, and want to kill a lot of people because of what happened with her clan. He has no right to interfere with Free Will in the demon clan or Heavens, he can only suggest and advise unless asked to act, but he doesn’t want Bailing to kill her, and he also doesn’t want her to choose to nuke the world because then on a heavenly scale the world will be nuked. Hence offering his kid’s newly-obtained human form as a sacrifice to buy her ten lives to the mortal realm.
Because she’s bitter and angry and hates the world and herself for what everyone did, he said he would send her down to experience ten lifetimes of being able to live out that resentment (so killing a lot of people, getting power, holding grudges etc). The goal of this was to wear that anger out, and by lifetime number 10, she has been softened substantially by the 9 previous lives and subconsciously isn’t bitter to the core anymore but is a blank page good feelings can be written into to, not just bad ones, like a black page steadily more bleached white.
Sifeng, as the Emperor’s son, but also as her only surviving clan member (his mum was from the Azura clan too iirc) was basically assigned the dual fate of letting her vent her anger on someone to hurt them, but also having immense empathy for why she was like that and wanting to comfort her in every lifetime. We never meet the Crown Prince much, but we know his bird self was BFFs with her and heard her wondering why she had to kill and who she was and why no one would give her a name and why she felt so bad inside doing what she ought to. Since he hadn’t achieved human form till she was being whipped at that post, it’s probably safe to assume his dad granted him the fate of having terrible lives while loving her so that she’d eventually get emotionally attached and not want to wipe out the universe.
(As stopping the universe from being destroyed while ensuring that was a free will choice from the dude the Heavens backstabbed would have been his ultimate goal.)
That was my reading anyway! Cleverly the show nicely ends in mortal realm mode so we never see the true ending of what happens in the heavenly realm after they both die.
I got no idea what happened or what the producers were thinking LOL. I did notice they kept randomly blurring him, so I guess that'd make sense if it was a stand-in. (But y would u use a stand-in when there is CY, Mr. Producer? ;-;) From the vibe of that Demon River Festival scene that got cut, plus the vibe of how things were going generally, it feels like there was originally supposed to be some kind of arc originally of 'demons can protect humans, humans can protect demons, good power can be used to do evil, evil power can be used for good, ultimately Good and Evil all depends on your motives not your race/power source' vibe that Fugui was supposed to explore after leaving his sect, like, getting mentoring from some demons rather than just humans, which probably would have tied in better to the whole ending thing of using the power of evil to defeat evil that came outta nowhere. (On top of the 'some evil infected me' which also came outta nowhere. It felt like a plothole that Fugui had anywhere for that evil to take root in him at all tbh, and would have made way more sense if he was like 'good alone cannot defeat this evil, I must embrace both evil and good to stop this fox' hence cultivating evil inner Fugui intentionally, as opposed to Rumu being fridged for it after the 10000th time of saying 'let's leave my dad unsupervised despite what he did last time. I'm sure it'll be fine'.) But that was all cut, so we got 10 eps of plotless filler and cute/yandere OOC scenes from the supporting cast instead for 21-29.5, cuz why wouldn't you, the director, give us that instead of character development and a plot that held together and made sense? Lol.
I will be grateful for Eps 1-12, and be grateful for the Queencard dance promo thing the cast did that one time, cuz that was cute XD
https://www.douyin.com/video/7567296654861962185
(Assuming, given the general tone of this, that your goal isn’t to bash this beautiful show to deter casual viewers, in which case the lack of spoiler tags is probably intentional.) 😮💨
Blocked.
Maybe in 2-3 eps outta the 40 per couple, there are a couple of incidents which can be taken romantically, but majority of the time it's non-romance and none of the CP relationships gets any meaningful development beyond trust/mutual reliance.