Pupusa

Xie Xiao exists for three reasons:
-To make Lu Yi look good
-To make Lu Yi jealous and reveal how he really feels
-Comic relief

Seriously, Xie Xiao is not part of the love triangle, he's just a third wheel. The part where Jin Xia keep ogling Lu Yi while Xie Xiao desperately tries to get her attention is just hilarious.

Thanks :) Hope you're working through your withdrawal of this series. I am too!

You hit the nail on the head. That's really going out of their way to hate on a series. Makes you wonder...

I'd love to see them team up again in a Chinese adaption of AC's The Secret Adversary. They would be perfect as Tommy and Tuppence.

It won't happen, but one can dream.

I like it that they portrayed the gay couple as people with real feelings. This is a much more progressive show than most Cdrama, and that's a good thing.

Censorship is an unpredictable beast :)

Yep, the man is more armored than a tank. There are so many fantastical elements in this series that I've sort of accepted it.

They don't get together officially until the very end. But before that there's plenty of flirting, touchy feely stuff, and even a stolen kiss.

I haven't seen Vengo before this, either. He's ultra masculine, even with the pasty makeup they put on him.

The English sub on HBO max is impressive.

Yep. MusicalVeggies explains it best in her thread here: https://kisskh.at/discussions/bumrung-sombat/33012-spoiler-helpful-summary-of-the-re-incarnation-setup-in-bpoop-phaeh-saniwat

Definitely bittersweet, because Date lost Kade 500 years later (present day) and had to spend the rest of that lifetime as a monk. Also Kade never got to see her mother and grandmother again.

Finally, someone calls out this irredeemable show for what it is. This is why I couldn't get into lakorns. Although they do have a few little gems.

Totally agree with you on the Candyland colors. Huang Yao Shi's flute looked like it's made out of silicon instead of jade.

Love your thoughts on the ending. This is the only wuxia series that made me cry.

The brilliance of NIF cannot be described in a few short sentences. That said, I'd love to see people try ;)

Great point about Zhou Zhirou. She's a female Yue Buqun. By making her nicer, they ruined the character and the irony of the story.

9.1 is an accurate rating for this one, I think. People judged it as a whole. It's like a Dickens classic, takes a while to build.

Sorry, it takes 20+ episodes for the story to get going. But after that, it's totally worth it

Well said! I couldn't even even to finish this drama.

It's very popular and was Google's 3rd most searched TV show in the world (2018). It's famous on an international level, once you look outside of mydramalist.

Right. I noticed that when Kade visited, Mali's second son was just baby. Two years later, when Phaulkon was taken away for execution, the son was still a baby!

Maybe we watched it too many time... so much fun.