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Nooooooo! Little Leaf cannot just be gone! I refuse to accept that! I don't care about Dali, even the little demon's story was more touching than her. But give me back Little Leaf!

Little Leaf is really making the whole arc better, him being all angry about Xiao Yao spending time alone with Bing Zhu was so funny.

Yeah, I know what you mean. It can be fun to discuss theories with others, it's kinda what brought me to MDL in the first place. My imagination can at times run wild but oh well, it's still fun to theorise :)

I can't say I have much knowledge about forensics and such, so I don't really know how good the portrayal of this aspect is (and to be honest, I never really get stuck on these things), but it's nice to know it's more or less fine.

I am curious where we're going to go with this drama, too. I mean, I'm 100% guilty of being here for Luo Yunxi but I am enjoying it more than I expected so far, so I hope I don't get disappointed by the story it's going to tell :)

YES! I think Qi Sizhe doesn't even carry a gun or anything, and he just happily went into that tunnel on his own, not telling anyone where he's going. Sure, he's got plot armour but come on, the killer could have been right there lol And I was screaming like what makes you think it's a good idea man?! XD

Yeah, for me, there's just something about him that makes me suspicious, even if I can't give a very particular reason for that. Plus, staying in touch with the one person that doesn't believe that everything's over and who is involved in investigating allows him to keep an eye on any progress that's made.

Also, he appears to be a bit older than the other two, so he could as well have gotten close to them to try and use their skills and abilities. But that's just my theory, I may as well have watched too many crime shows over the years and be completely wrong about it :)

I knew it! It couldn't be as easy as the missing woman being the killer. I initially expected that some of the bones would be determined to belong to her, but it turned out to be the body parts that replaced the original ones.

And what is it with series showing people who work with corpses talking about all of that over food? lol I also wonder what's up with the guy in the restaurant, I can't imagine they had the Gao (if I didn't mix up the names) guy bring it up for no reason.

We're also meeting more and more people from Qi Sizhe's past... Would be interesting if the mastermind behind all that happened is actually the psychologist guy that we see him talk to a lot. But I guess we will see :)

Same, actually. I try not to skip too much not to lose track of the plot but the ladies arguing was just unwatchable lol

True, I kind of forgot about the scene when she asks about who the pig considers his best friend (don't worry, I don't remember all names yet either haha). She did present herself as a bit vain from the start; not like there's something wrong about caring one's appearance but she seems to take it more seriously than others. I guess we'll see how this arc ends with this character :)

I'm a bit behind, though I'm not sure how I feel to hear that it hasn't quite ended just yet lol There might be something to it, that it affects people that way. Although not all of them seem to be affected, so who knows.

And totally, little leaf is great. I really hope he sticks around even when Hong Ye is around more haha.

I just finished episode 13 and I’m already tired of this Dreamshard Immortal arc. They're all so delusional... But me not enjoying this arc much might also be because we barely get to see Hong Ye - and Hou Minghao is the main reason why I’m watching this - and Bing Zhu, who I feel may turn out to be one of the more interesting characters here. I like the Little Leaf though, it’s cute!

I’m also a bit surprised by Dali and her sudden hostility towards the FL. I thought the reason why she came there was vanity, but the turn towards being angry at Xiao Yao… It came a bit out of nowhere to me when she was actually being all nice and sweet to her in previous episodes, getting the gift and all that.

3 episodes per day is a lot, too. I struggle to keep up with this pace, especially that it's not the only on-going drama that I'm watching right now. Good thing I have a few days off ahead of me, maybe I'll be able to catch up lol

Same here! I've watched a lot of crime shows over the years and I'm definitely enjoying how this drama is handling things so far, much more than I expected to :)

When I read the synopsis, I wasn’t convinced it’s going to be my type of a drama but one thing I’ve learnt is that synopsis sometimes presents things very differently than they are actually presented in the drama. It also has Luo Yunxi in it, so it was enough to convince me to give it a try.

It was quite a ride. While I haven’t watched a whole lot of dramas, I find it amusing that it’s the first one I watched with the plot involving time travel - I probably haven’t reached for those yet, but I had somehow expected to come across more of them. That said, I have slight mixed feelings when it comes to the three timelines.

Ming Ye’s memories that the group enters were quite interesting. At first, I thought that it was amusing how all of them seem to be almost exactly opposite of who they are in their actual lives; but then it was revealed that it’s not exactly true, and especially when it comes to Ye Bingchang, it was a twist that I didn’t see coming.

Then, of course, we have the events that happened between Jing and Sheng Kingdoms, which I expected to be the main time of the drama. And for most of the time we spend in that particular point in time with the characters, I genuinely enjoyed it. There were moments when I was a bit tired of the constant back and forth between Ye Xiwu and Tantai Jin as far as their relationship was going, but it wasn’t so bad that it would ruin my enjoyment. Although there is one thing when it comes to this time that I don’t understand.

Ye Bingchang wasn’t quite as good as innocent as we were initially led to believe - makes perfect sense given what we learn about her. And obviously, Ye Xiwu - even if the original, real Xiwu actually appeared to be a bit of a psycho - was the family favourite, fine. Why did the family seem to bully Ye Bingchang a bit, though? Not favouring someone is one thing, but I can’t help feeling like they were going a little bit too far at times, with how they didn’t seem to care about her and her wellbeing. But, perhaps, it’s just the modern reality me speaking.

And then, we have the final, or one could say original, point in time. Why we had to see Li Susu’s “present” is obvious for us to understand what it all is about but was the return to these times really necessary? Perhaps it’s because we’ve been already presented with two ‘lifetimes’ for the main characters, but I couldn’t help feeling a bit tired with it, although I obviously continued because by this point, I wanted to see how it was all going to end. And then we have Xiao Lin’s story and how he was brought back to life, and what happened later… A part of me can’t see the point of this little plot line, he may as well have stayed dead.

I don’t know, I can’t help feeling like it would be a bit better if the plot was actually resolved at the “500 years ago” point in time, and showing us “the present” would be more of a short ‘epilogue’ for the characters that we’ve been following during the drama. I can’t say I’m really satisfied with this ending because it left a lot of things open or unaddressed. If they had no intention to close the storyline, why even start it in the first place? Especially that they left the fact that Ye Qingyu was the one sitting on the throne after Tantai Jin completely unaddressed. Also, did people in the world know what actually happened (especially the immortal sects)?

Finally, is it just me, or did the dubbing not quite match with the frames and lip movements? Most of the time it was more or less alright and I do realise there were some moments when the characters were speaking in their minds, so I don’t count these, but there were some scenes in which I felt like the voice didn’t quite match with when the actor was speaking. Part of the reason why, no matter what I watch, I watch everything with original audio is because dubbing into another language makes the voice and lips not match, and it’s a bit of my pet peeve.

I did enjoy the drama in the end but I can’t say that I’m quite happy with it, either. I’m not fussy as far as endings and am usually happy to accept most of them, even if I at times wish they could be different, but I have mixed feelings here. Not a bad one, but I can definitely see ways in which it could be better.

Huh. Well, I guess I was right that it was Li Shuting after all, the hint was quite clear but I definitely didn’t see that twist coming. Both in terms of their identity and in terms of how that plot ended. Though I’m sure glad it did - I definitely prefer dismembered bodies to spiders lol

That argument between Qi Sizhe and Han Feng, though… Is it just me or Han Feng’s reaction was a bit overreacted? Honestly, he reminded me of a child throwing a temper tantrum. Like, I understand that he disagrees but that was a bit much.

This next case sure does seem interested. The woman they are looking for being the killer behind it all would be a bit too easy but who knows, maybe. I suppose we will see.

Another two good episodes, can’t wait for next ones.

Just finished episode 5 and I’m definitely properly hooked. Even if I feel like my whole skin is crawling and nearly had a heart attack when my cat rubbed itself against my leg lol

The webs and dolls are abandoned film props? That makes me feel a tiny bit better, though it’s sure not the kind of film I’d want to watch lol

It’s nice to see that, even if there is still tension, Han Feng and Qi Sizhe are able to move past it and work together on these cases. I was worried it was going to take longer, so it’s nice to see that it actually did not.

From the moment we saw the flashback saying that people will convince themselves that something is the truth mixed with the scene of the girl about to be taken by the ambulance, I had my suspicions that she will actually turn out to be the killer. It would also make sense for it to be a woman with what Qi Sizhe deducted based on the calendar with the mating and egg laying timeline.

Can’t wait for tomorrow, though I will sure be glad when this spider case is over. Why does it always have to be spiders? Why can’t they use snakes, or even scorpions, or any other kind of insects? T___T

I'm skipping it in later episodes too but in the first one, I decided to watch as I usually do with my dramas. It also doesn't quite help that the opening kinda starts with that lol I watched in a dark room just before bed but today, I've learnt my lesson and am watching right after I finish work lol

I don't know about Hong Kong police but there's plenty of this type of characters in western productions, too. We'll see how it all develops, I suppose :)

Well, episode 3 made me feel like he might come around and not be so quick to dismiss him, with how he didn't seem so unhappy that Qi Sizhe was on the crime scene like he was in case of that drug dealer. But I agree, we will see :)

I’m pretty sure Luo Yunxi could pull off just about any kind of role and I definitely enjoyed him in the period dramas I have seen him in, but there’s something about this dark, mysterious aesthetic that is very fitting for him.

That said, Qi Sizhe, what made you think that going into that creepy cave on your own, without telling anyone where you’re going, is a good idea? I don’t even want to think about the size or the number of spiders that it had to take to create the webs inside, I may already have nightmares even without my imagination adding fuel to the fire. I would never be dragged inside a place like this even if someone offered to pay me to enter, and this episode might have just solidified that.

After three episodes, it’s nice to see the group starting to properly function like a group, Qi Sizhe included. And we’re finally getting some answers as to what happened in the past, but a lot more is probably still to come.

Looking forward to next episodes. Note to self, though - watching this before sleep is a very bad idea.

A part of me is questioning why I’m doing this to myself when I have arachnophobia and the opening was enough to make my skin crawl but oh well, Luo Yunxi on my screen is enough to make up for that.

It’s actually my first modern c-drama and it’s off to an interesting start. I only watched one episode so far and have more questions than answers, though having watched a lot of crime series over the years, I definitely have some theories and suspicions. I’m curious to see where this one is going to go.

It may partially be because he’s put in opposition to Qi Sizhe but I already don’t like that Han Feng guy. I may be completely wrong about him with how there’s a lot of story to go, but so far he’s presenting himself as the type of character in police/crime drama that tends to annoy me even they’re friendly with main characters. We’ll see where this goes but I’m pretty sure he was involved in the investigation related to the car accident we see at the start, and probably didn’t do it well, at least from Qi Sizhe’s perspective. The question on my mind at the moment is, he just didn’t do a good enough job, or he did that on purpose.

Looking forward to finding out.

The blind girl giving Xiao Yao her necklace to make her parents believe her words… How come it has not occurred to anyone that it’s a terrible idea, and the parents might think she simply found it somewhere without the girl and/or it’s the only thing left of her, even if she had the cat go as well? I understand her underestimating her father’s personality since he probably never showed this side to her, but everyone else - and Xiao Yao in particular - should have expected that kind of reaction.

Also, can we speak about how the cat appears to be happy just sitting in someone’s arms almost the whole time? I have no doubts they must have filmed all these scenes on separate occasions and all but it’s something that drew my attention as I don’t think I ever encountered one that was happy being carried the whole time. Just a silly little thing that my mind latched on lol That said, the cat scratching the girl’s father was interesting, and I enjoyed how shocked everyone was.

And, what on earth, the blind girl’s father is the one behind the murders? I didn’t take him for a good person obviously, but I haven’t seen that coming. “We must eliminate evil spirits and uphold justice” - erm… Yes, that’s exactly what you are doing man. And does nobody hear just how loud he’s screaming, or are they just pretending to be deaf? At least everything had seen light in the end.

Though… Them assembling the mirror, when they went to that spot where the shape is and one of the pieces fell into place… I guess it’ll look better when the pieces are assembled but this hologram makes me think of a giant liver lol

Bing Zhu’s sword not reacting to Hong Ye anymore… It’s almost as if Hong Ye had a whole conversation with it that one time when he saw it react to his presence. I suppose he did calm it down with his energy, so perhaps that’s the reason and it sensed what it needed to sense in that energy to stop reacting.

I also find it amusing how Xiao Yao learns about the past events from two sides, and both sides have a very different story to tell. Though, with how the human kingdom is presented so far, a part of me wonders if they haven’t deliberately modified some facts to better fit their goal and narrative. I understand the idea of revenge, being angry for past events, but taking it out on those that are actually not to blame is going a bit too far. Not that the demons aren’t doing the very same thing.

I like the little demon academia, though. It’s quite fun so far, and while I doubt we’ll see an awful lot of it, I would love it. Hell, I’d happily watch a whole drama centered on classes like this.

Looking forward to seeing what the next mini-arc is, since that’s probably how they are going to go about assembling the mirror.

An interesting start. Hou Minghao’s character getting attacked and ‘killed’ on the day of his wedding gives me some Back from the Brink vibes. A lot about his character does, actually, so I’m curious how they’re going to be different other than the obvious differences.

I can’t help finding the FL character annoying so far. I understand that she was entangled in the whole thing against her will (or at least that’s what we are led to believe) but she’s not exactly helping her cause in any way. With how it’s not uncommon for me to feel about FLs at the start of dramas, though, I hope she improves over time. I wonder if she is a reincarnation of Ning An, or is it like in Feud that she’s just pretending, I guess we’ll get an explanation eventually.

I wonder if Bing Zhu will actually end up changing his attitude over time. Especially that the real villain is likely the guy with Sauron-like hand, who we’ve seen holding the cat and taking the blind girl. I expect there’s more to Bing Zhu’s story than what we’ve seen so far because so far, I’m not quite fully convinced by his motivations.

I’m definitely looking forward to more episodes and holy, 3 episodes per day? Not complaining but makes me wonder why so many when it’s usually 1 or 2!