Ending felt rushed and chaotic
Feb 2025
Lots of colourful varied characters, sub plots, and slow burn romance. Also beautiful sets, costumes and cast, which are a standard of costume fantasy C-dramas.
I enjoyed this more than I didn't. Whilst the FL character unfortunately spoke with the usual childish voice, her personality after ep.1, thankfully, was generally anything but. Yes, she had a child-like fascination and bubbly excitement for things, but she also often had a very mature and thoughtful outlook, which kept her the right side of my "you irritate me to death" line! 😅
The early episodes set scenes, build the main characters, and lay the story's foundations. There are lots of vengeful spirits and demons for the hunters to round up, once the main small group of characters eventually go off in search of a top demon, called The Resentful Woman.
Throughout the story, Miaomiao, the character who has been sucked into her favourite author's latest novel, as the villainous main supporting character, has to try and stay alive. At the same time, she has to complete tasks set by the novel's 'system', and fit into the storyline, but she also wants to change her character to a good one whilst doing so.
All the MCs carry guilt of some kind, and all find themselves becoming more and more connected to the demon they are pursuing, to save the 'world'. There are some very poignant scenes, and I especially liked Mu Sheng's back story.
It did linger far too much in certain parts, and in comparison to the build-up, I found the closing episode very rushed and chaotic.
I honestly just didn't get some aspects, at the end, at all! The twist was just a bit too much so.
However, the cast was good, I liked a lot of the characters, and it was very funny at times (especially the character Marquis Qing Yi).
The music was mixed, but I disliked some of the overpowering electric guitar riffs, which just didn't fit for me.
Not disappointed I watched it, but not as good as some I've seen recently, mainly due to the previously mentioned ending,
Lots of colourful varied characters, sub plots, and slow burn romance. Also beautiful sets, costumes and cast, which are a standard of costume fantasy C-dramas.
I enjoyed this more than I didn't. Whilst the FL character unfortunately spoke with the usual childish voice, her personality after ep.1, thankfully, was generally anything but. Yes, she had a child-like fascination and bubbly excitement for things, but she also often had a very mature and thoughtful outlook, which kept her the right side of my "you irritate me to death" line! 😅
The early episodes set scenes, build the main characters, and lay the story's foundations. There are lots of vengeful spirits and demons for the hunters to round up, once the main small group of characters eventually go off in search of a top demon, called The Resentful Woman.
Throughout the story, Miaomiao, the character who has been sucked into her favourite author's latest novel, as the villainous main supporting character, has to try and stay alive. At the same time, she has to complete tasks set by the novel's 'system', and fit into the storyline, but she also wants to change her character to a good one whilst doing so.
All the MCs carry guilt of some kind, and all find themselves becoming more and more connected to the demon they are pursuing, to save the 'world'. There are some very poignant scenes, and I especially liked Mu Sheng's back story.
It did linger far too much in certain parts, and in comparison to the build-up, I found the closing episode very rushed and chaotic.
I honestly just didn't get some aspects, at the end, at all! The twist was just a bit too much so.
However, the cast was good, I liked a lot of the characters, and it was very funny at times (especially the character Marquis Qing Yi).
The music was mixed, but I disliked some of the overpowering electric guitar riffs, which just didn't fit for me.
Not disappointed I watched it, but not as good as some I've seen recently, mainly due to the previously mentioned ending,
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