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Naah, this was some lazy plot twist. I think they realized that they wrote a conflict that was too realistic which put the characters in a real dilemma and they didnt know how to solve it...enter the 1.new villain and 2. make a selfish husband out to be a self-sacrificing hero. I wish they would stop trying so hard to make male characters so perfect and heroic and all the cliche's (Zhang Suan has also gone back to simping...) - now they've made Siling out to be unreasonable and the cliche'd bitter wife/ ex wife when in fact all that she went through was very real. To make matters worse, Bai Jiusi losing his memories makes him become even more innocent and I'm sure this will force Siling to forgive him, especially considering now they have a common enemy to fight. What a waste of great potential to resolve a conflict. But I have to say, I'm so proud of how Siling as a Goddess is so consistent, no apologies, no pulling punches. Usually, these kinds of female characters are written as villains, ... progress. Keeping my fingers crossed.

ok, now I'm sold. definitely going to check it out. Thank you for the encouragement

exactly, female characters being annoying has been made too common and I'm sick of it. If not that, then they have silly conflicts among one another over men, that truly doesnt even serve the plot. Most female characters are just written like this to be hated. makes me wonder if it's an accidental result of a patriarchal culture or CCP's way of fighting against feminism

i didnt get to watch that one past a few beginning episodes. didnt like the way the male lead was mistreating the female lead and taking advantage of her predicament- that narrative has been made too common that people dont actually expect MLs to have any respect for FLs. so sad. but thankx for the suggestion. I may just decide to cultivate some patience and give it another try

i think this is the first chinese drama that doesnt have an annoying female character.Halleluyah, finally! instead they wrote Long Yuan and Jiang bian. these two are the perfect archetypes of the annoying 'masculine' man. one is deathly annoying and wants all the attention and consideration of others, and the other is what they call 'the wall'( no emotions except anger and brutal force). I dont know if this drama is book-based but it was definitely written by a very spiritually aware woman, nothing short of a Goddess. The dialogues are not to fill the silence but to actually say something worthwhile
"why can shi-jie look out for people from the demonic sects but cant help your own junior when in trouble"-Qingyue calling out her hypocrisy
"Why can the immortals invade the mortals but not the other way round"- Siling to the heavenly emissary.
"what Qingyue wants to do (or was it where she wants to go) is her business, whether I want to go look for her or not is my business"- Zhang Suan really grew on me
I cant wait for more episodes to gush about. I thought after The Blossoming Love (Zhang Bin Bin and Sun Zhe Ni) I wouldn't have another drama to gush about but it seems there is hope for dignified female characters in costume dramas after all.
sorry not sorry about the long post...

usually in chinese costume dramas, the female characters are always in conflict with one another over some incompetent man, but in this one they support one another (even that little demon girl trying to run after her boyfriend but her mom forbade and told her to wait for him to come for her-I was like, "Yes, little girl. Your Mum knows what's up when it comes to men") . Also, in almost all cdramas, the male lead usually makes the FL go through hell for her to learn a lesson but they end up getting forgiven pretty quickly(I'm still bitter about Xiao Yao in Lost You Forever), I'm glad in this one the F lead's pain is not just conveniently thrown out of the window for the story to move forward quickly but is actually addressed cause the way JiuSi was so dismissive about the pain he made her go through saying it was just a decade made me want to rip him apart.

If i had seen the shorts of this drama on yt instead of women backstabbing each other in every other kdrama or grown women fangirling over a handsome oppa, or the worst , eveybody conquering death or supernatural s***t, I wouldnt have been so disappointed by kdramas this year.
This one has restored my hope. I'm glad the story isnt overly dramatic and its not just Lee Tang killing people and enjoying it like some a pychopath. The backstory of the detective was also an added bonus to give us a bigger villain to root against, instead of pushing the audience to support the main lead unconditionally. Good job

I'm watching the devil judge and it's one of the few kdramas i'm going to watch in this lifetime. By God,this man has some real talent!

When Li Rong said "I must be the only woman marrying the same man twice" i was like grrrl.
I'm loving how she's not immediately likeable because having lived a wholelifetime can make people question and abandon ideals and I'm glad she's not simping over the ml as some of the audience seem to faul her for.I loved the prison scene when she basically told him "why should i have to wait for you,after all I'm a princess" You go girl!

I'm so happy that they're following the book

All the best luck in your rebirth journey. You can do it😚

The two of you are too cute-the whole purpose of these rebirth stories is to inspire people to change their live from today onwards. There is no such miracle as rebirth, so why not ask yourself what future you would want to live in and how can you start reshaping your life today. Of course not everything will go as planned but its the effort of taking life into your own hands that count.

Dont they decorate with red fabric and flowers everywhere during a wedding. I thought that's what she meant.

I think the opposite. I respect any story with a war theme where the lead or people who are closest to him die. It doesnt make sense that there's both a war and a sunny happy ending for everyone-too unrealistic. (We cant expect them all to be fan xian😉

Finally going to start this. Fingers croossed

Where?

Xiao Heng battle scenes were too epic and too few

Can someone tell me which episodes Zhang Linghe appears in

This!everyone else wants to pretend he's all lovey dovey but he's just being really weird and stalkerish. If it wasnt Wu Lei, they wouldn't say that

I couldnt even finish ep 6. These wealthy people who didnt even show any signs of intelligence, just prejudice(its a wonder how they got and kept their wealth for so long). Their romance story was missing like we all hallucinated it, not to mention all the tropes that were just driving me up the wall. But the worst part for me was the fl-it seems asian dramas cant write a decent powerful female lead without punishing her. Either with family betrayal or a made up terminal illness. Just grates on my nerves. So basically she was rich and all that ....so they had to make her sick so she can find something to rely on her good boy for-nothing husband.gggrrrrrrrr😩😩😩😩