Jaden

It can only be described as insanity, trying the same thing over and over again expecting a better outcome. That said, literally killing all the Caos is a bit extreme even if it was logical.

I originally wanted this to be historical drama but grew to like the modern setting. However, it kept getting worse as the past was gradually revealed and I realized what was keeping me hooked was more the suspense than the quality. The historical premise (beginning of ep 1) shows a lot of potential and even the modern premise is pretty good so when everything was unknown, it's hard not to have high hopes.

The backstory is frankly, a kind of lame fantasy story. The conflict between the foxes seemed overly elaborate, not in a good way. If they were going to use such a poorly designed fantasy, they should've just stuck to a simpler love story without so many complications and it would've been great because the premise was amazing.

Sorry I just realized I am spoiling the end here, but you also have to read until the end in order to get spoiled.

Sadly, I was right, it was only great for the first 1/3. The latter part was still good, but the plotting/planning became way too elaborate, the main character eventually became some kindof Gary Stu/saint + some weaknesses thrown in to make him more realistic. He inspires people far too easily, I understand what they were going for but I wasn't sold on it (as an audience). His ability to inspire and bring people over to his side was almost magical.

I originally thought the story was going to show us that you cannot rule a kingdom while being naive and you cannot always create outcomes where everyone is happy, so for example every time the mc tried to do what was morally right and without hurting anybody, he ended up sacrificing others/making the situation worse. This is a very realistic/dark theme but it's meaningful.

However this quickly shifted into showing us that this approach to life works and that (paraphrase) "it doesn't matter if you're timid/a coward, you are only weak if you don't have a belief ", which is true to some extent but escapes a more important issue. So once the mc found his "belief", he proceeds to do everything the way he wants (creating peace/pacifying the ppl) and everything continues to work because hey plot armor. Eventually the whole thing comes crashing down because they expose his identity, but that theme was long forgotten. His demise was not emphasized to be a consequence of his actions, but rather just unfortunate circumstances and evil ppl doing evil things.

The writers didn't really follow through with what they set out to do.

This is a really good drama 1/3 into it but that's often a bad sign, the greatest cdramas tended to pick up in the last 2/3. It also has a subpar rating on chinese website, but then again Eternal Love does as well, hoping it's a similar case.

Actually I think my problem isn't so much with the reincarnation but never really liked drama with supernatural male leads in a modern setting who have lived since ancient times, such as Goblin, You who came from the stars, etc. The historical part here seems more closely entertwined so I'm keeping my hopes up.

Now that I'm actually watching it, I'm kinda liking the comedy/modern setting as well.

Barely started watching but can't help but feel this would be better off as a historical drama, it'd be really cool having a blind male lead and seeing the palace conflicts around this. The whole premise just has so much potential, but reincarnation into modern life (emphasis on modern life) has never been a good idea.

I work in software engineering as well but mostly internships so far.

I think there are some things you just have to accept about a drama like this, sure it's not realistic but it's a good way to show off the sort of the culture/environment you may see in tech startups, especially in silicon valley. The silicon valley startup archetype/stereotype can be seen as an ideal, something to strive for.

Gaming too much and being a top student was definitely ridiculous but in theory, it's not farfetched to believe that CS majors generally like to play video games.

The drama did show a part about developing a better compression algorithm or something and had a lot of keywords thrown around such as server load. Overall, it's unrealistic but they still put some work into it and the target audience isn't us anyways. I believe some real challenges of developing MMORPG are explored here, though I have no experience with it.

I'm against the incompetence of Wei Wei, being a top student and all, but everything else I can usually let it be. Who knows, maybe it's trying to show the difference between being booksmart and actually a good software engineer.

I was finding it ridiculous by episode 3-5.

Finally someone who understands my dilemma but despite all that if you can ignore/accept some of the details, the portrayal of computer science and startups isn't so bad. Maybe he just had a lot of investment money and wanted to replicate a silicon valley startup environment, which may have its advantages.

The worst part for me is Wei Wei throughout the drama had never shown competence in computer science, everything she did was incredibly basic yet people act so impressed by it, it's kinda making fun of female majors, even though there was a part trying to do the opposite.

It would've been fine if Ye Hua didn't revive and actually died. The bittersweet ending is common in these types of drama and it's not necessarily bad, it shows that in real life, sometimes tragedies do happen and sometimes people do end up making decisions that are huge setbacks to the rest of their lives but what's important is how to deal with it/own up to it and move forward.

I understand that the good ending (Ye Hua's revival) is about salvation which is also a perfectly fine approach, just wish it was demonstrated in a better way than "died, revived", you kinda feel cheated/ (emotionally) manipulated since I genuinely felt sad seeing Ye Hua die but apparently there's always a catch.

If this drama took place in the "human world" and someone died then came back to life then you would cry foul. Fantasy stories get a free pass because as viewers we have to accept whatever it throws at us since it's a world with different rules from our own.

This is one of the reasons why I dislike most fantasy drama (this is an exception).

Overall, I'm still satisfied with this ending, this is by far one of the better "good endings" I've seen.

Sorry for rambling, this is also partly for myself, to explore what I think about it.

So this is where all the drama stereotypes came from.

This is so ridiculous, are all older dramas like this?

Just saw the trailer and I can agree the male lead does not seem to fit his role. Also is this comedy?

I am disappoint.

If you treat 100 years as 1 month, the numbers should all work out. You get used to it if you've watched other fantasies like Eternal Love, 100 years is very short for a deity.

I'm tempted to watch this because of all the great osts for it, but it really doesn't look all that interesting.

I'm perfectly fine with happy ending I think it was well-deserved, but a part of me wished it was more bittersweet.

I ended up watching it, I'll admit I was wrong. The fantasy still bothered me but I took the time to understand and accept it. It's actually really similar to historical drama if you take out the fantasy elements. This is definitely better than the fantasy drama that give a bad impression of the genre.

So I just checked statistics of this compared to other top drama: Signal, Prison Playbook.

This drama has 35 (2%) ratings of 1, which most certainly come from haters, and despite that, it's still #1. The other dramas have 0.