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In the middle of ep29, and wtf??? Xingxian actually tried to kill the snake demon! Does she not have a shed of humanity left in her? She tried to kill the one who saved her life. What exactly is she??? I thought she at least felt grateful towards him and would leave him without harming him, but wow! This pisses me off so much!!

He would still abuse her, I guess. And probably get his family also to blame her for his disability calling her a jinx. Killing him was the best solution.

Ep28:
Your typical neighbour ajhumma who just can't stop poking her nose in people's private business. These people are so real it pisses me off every time I see one. Their audacity to feel the need to tell you when and with whom you should have s*x and make babies!

I found the ML a bit annoying today, but I'm glad that he didn't kill the snake demon. He seems a bit biased against demons, and I disagree with him this time. He said not to fight evil with more evil, but did anyone actually try to rescue the victim and report the evil to the authorities? Are there even proper laws in place to protect the weak from the evil? Husbands abusing wives was so f**king normalized back then, and heck, even now in a few countries! Though there are laws in place against domestic violence, not many people use them effectively, at least in Asian countries.

So, the TED talks that the ML gave to the Snake demon, work only when the "right" ways of fighting evil are actually in place and working efficiently. There are certain situations where you unfortunately have to take things into your own hands, when there is no help available, and Xingxian's situation was one such.

Though I understand Xingxian's emotions and empathize with her pain, I think that she is going overboard with her ambition. She got a taste of freedom and power, which she could never achieve previously while she was in a woman's body. She saw that by being in a man's body, people actually respect her. She is enjoying all the attention she is getting through her work. She also realized that she could stand up to jerks, and they actually take her seriously unlike before, because they see her as a man. Not necessarily a bad thing to enjoy attention and power, but I feel that she is over-doing it. I'm afraid she will ultimately cause trouble, and the Snake Demon will end up paying the price for it. I so hope that doesn't happen, because I like him. He is so pure and loyal, just like the cat demon.

In the middle of ep13, and her brother is continuing to piss me off, he's a dead weight. Yes, I understand that you lost the love of your life (who lived feeding off of other people's throats including kids btw), now will you please stop being a burden to everyone else?

That inn is enchanting!! I love it. I wonder if it's a real working resort or something. I'd love to visit there someday if it's real. I'm loving this cat demon arc, it's so much more interesting than the previous ones, and I'm finally starting to enjoy this series fully. I'm loving the calm enchanting vibes this series gives off sometimes. Like the mountain spirits in the starting, and now this inn. It feels like I'm watching a Japanese Iyashikei anime. Speaking of mountain spirits, I wonder if that drink the mountain spirit gave the fl in the starting, is what's helping her to see the bird spirit, which even the ml wasn't able to see.

For anyone else who is also struggling to continue with this series in the starting episodes due to its very slow pacing and bland lead characters, watch till ep10. It starts picking up pace and gets a lot more interesting. The leads also slowly shed off their one-dimensional personality and start showing depth.

In the middle of ep9 and her brother is getting on my nerves. He is so selfish and hypocritical. He says that he didn't like it when his dad told him that for two people to be together, they should match in social status. He says that for two people to be together, the most important thing is that they should love each other. Then why did he force her in the starting to get married to someone she doesn't love? Why does he call her "unfilial" for leaving their home in search of her father? She was visibly upset when being forced into getting married back then, but he used his "brother" authority to shut her up. Now again he came to force her to go back home with him, as he thinks that she is being "unfilial".

So, a girl should be "obedient" and follow customs, and she becomes "unfilial" if she doesn't, but a "man" doesn't have to? Why is he not showing the same empathy and understanding to her which he is showing to himself and his wife? I want to feel bad for him as everyone was against his marriage, but I just can't because he is so selfish and hypocritical. He cares only about himself.

As I said, I do like the mystery part, that's why I'm continuing to watch. But the leads... they're just bland. Maybe they'll change later, but as for now, I'm not liking them.

No, I'm not talking about tension, I'm talking about individual characters. The leads don't have emotional depth as compared to the rest of the cast; they are just bland as characters. They aren't portraying a range of emotions, just being serious throughout the show. The mirror demon and the dancer, though appeared for last couple of episodes, displayed so much variation and depth in their characters. But the leads are just.... the ml is always serious, the fl is always scared...

About the ptsd scenes, I'm talking from a drama viewer point of view, not about real-life scenarios. She can be scared, but they don't have to take up 2 or 3 whole episodes just to show that she is scared. They could've wrapped up her fear in half an episode, but they dragged it for so long, over-dramatizing it. There are many other dramas with similar concept - mirror demon, water demon and so on, and the characters there are scared too, but those dramas don't over-dramatize the fear or waste so much time on just 1 demon.

I'll have to disagree with the openness point though. Fl is open to ml, but the ml is not open to her at all. He hides a lot of secrets from her and gets angry at her at every point literally for no reason. He comes off borderline controlling; with the way he controls conversations between them, getting angry at her, every time she tries to get closer to him.

Watched till ep7, and I liked the mirror demon and his lover's acting more than the ml and fl's acting. I don't know if it's the actors, or if it's their characters that were written bland, but I find myself drowsing away whenever the leads appear. They don't have much depth in terms of emotions and are serious all the time. It's pretty boring to watch them being serious all the time.

Also, I feel like they overdid the anxiety and fear part. All that ptsd stuff with the fl felt so unnecessary. And for an "expert" demon hunter like the ml, couldn't he figure out early enough that the mirror demon could use anything reflective as a tool for transportation? I can't believe that he missed that point at the beginning, given how he's supposed to be "smart".

All in all, I like only the mystery part of the drama. I'm not able to get into the lead characters or their chemistry, as they are so bland and I just can't feel them. I wonder if this will change in later episodes.

Thanks a lot!! Are the remaining links down or blocked?

Is anyone else facing issues with kisskh? It's not working for me since yesterday. I tried all the links, but none is opening. Just showing "page took too long to respond".

Wait, why are people saying that the psychopath is the main ML? Is it confirmed? Why does he get to be the ML? He didn't help her when she asked him to help save her life by buying that pearl for a higher price, he stomped on her hands countless times, he abused her worse than an animal by tying her to a rope and pulling her along the ship in water, he was enjoying it when another moron poured blood into the ocean to lure shark towards the pearl divers, so on and so forth. So I want to ask, did the director loose his mind and forget that all these are psychopath traits? Why is she supposed to romance him? Are the writers nuts?

Ok, thank you👍!

Ok, thanks! I think I'll skip it for now then. Maybe when I feel like watching something heavy, I'll pick it up! Just want to know, is there any abuse between the leads? Or is it just conflicts?

Thanks for the summary! After reading it, I do think this is heavy on revenge and conflicts between the leads, so I think I'll skip it for now. Maybe when I feel like watching something heavy, I'll pick it up!

Can someone please tell me if this drama is heavy on revenge and politics? I just watch around 5 mins and it does seem that way. So can someone please clarify? I don't want to watch a drama heavy on revenge and politics right now. Can someone suggest me some good romance dramas which are not too heavy?

First of all, I haven't watched after ep9, so giving me any spoilers here is of no use. Secondly, you can't justify his actions based on someone else's actions. Even if the 2ML turns into a villain, does it erase off what the ML did to her till now? Does the past suddenly rewrite itself? Nothing will change the fact that the ML abused her again and again like an animal, that too after using her to get all the information he needed about that Wei envoy to capture him. And I despise him for that. Period.

Ep9:
I want the ML to die the most miserable death possible. I don't want a "happy ending" here, nope! I want him to be torn into pieces million times and be subjected to the same type of abuse he inflicted on the FL. I can't stand his violence and hypocrisy anymore. That pig cries injustice and revenge all day, but goes and frames innocent people for his crimes, and tortures and kills them. I don't see any difference between him and the ones who wronged his family. Neither do I feel any bit of sympathy for what happened to him in the past.
He is a sociopath who loves to play victim all day and abuse people for his sadistic pleasure. I don't want to see a romance between a perpetrator and a victim, I'm not into Stockholm syndrome. I dragged myself to watch till here, but I don't know if I can watch this anymore. I can't believe I even made it till here.
Edit: Also, I want to add how I find it so disgusting, that women's lives matter nothing to these people. Everybody telling the 2ML to not care about the FL's life and to let her just die in the prison is disgusting. A man's aspirations are more worth to these people than a woman's life. God forbid a man tries to protect a woman, he is deemed stupid and silly and is told to "get a grip". Yeah, coz apparently, a woman's life is not worth anything to them and can be tossed away anytime they want. This is the reason I don't watch historical cdramas of this type, where female characters matter only when it comes to romance and the rest of the time they are tossed around by the ML as they wish.

Ep 5: Not even 6 mins in and the a**hole is throwing ants on her. Please for the love of God! I barely managed to get back to watching it again after contemplating for a while whether to watch it or not, because I was put off by the ML's ruthlessness. Now I get to witness this! Don't tell me the FL is supposed to fall for this monster!!

Thanks!! I guess it's a little clear now. I think I need to watch more episodes to understand. It will take a long time for me to wrap my head around all these different parties and their motives.

I'm on episode2 and I find it so confusing, my head is aching. FL's shifu is trying to sow discord between the Pei family and the King. But isn't 2ML from the Pei family? And based on what they showed, the King likes the 2ML. So how come he is scared of him and his family? I don't understand. Is the King really trustworthy? Is he a separate party apart from ML and 2ML? How many parties are here in total? It's very confusing.