COUPLE GOALS 101-EXCHANGE your one eyes with your partner.👁😭👁🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Couple goals 101... Make wontons for your partner, DON'T tell him you made it, die, come back just as a wandering soul in your final day on Earth to make him some wontons again because he MIGHT be hurting.
The Chinese title translated as "The LangYa Rankings" and it's still very much appreciated in its home country.…
I had no idea who Hu Ge is before watching this drama (I had known Wu Lei, but he was a newbie when this one was made and his role isn't particularly hard, all things considered (other than physically demanding).
So you could say I went in un-biased. And loved it.
Also, TBH, what put me off for the longest time from watching it was actually the title, that doesn't make any sense to me. Nirvana, why? In fire, why? Then again, Chinese media pick some of the most random English titles for some dramas so I dealt with it.
Like me, there were many others. Buddhism and any hints about any kind of religion in here are detterents to me, and if this turned out to be about a certain religion - or it played an important role in it - I'd probably been turned off.
Don't assume watchers are in any way religious, or practicing if they do say they are. It doesn't have much of an importance to most people... unless you let it,
How the hell do you get to pay/download this??https://www.cdbao.net/thread-1498547-1-1.htmlI want the instrumentals,…
Yup, did some Google Fu and managed to get the links. Sadly, they don't include the themes I'm desperate for (they're not in YT either). I guess maybe they'll release a second volume of BGM, if we're really really lucky... :(
YES! We are an army of many!! (I know everybody else is actually all infatuated with hostage prince TTJ, they just like to pretend they aren't, LOL. Let's leave them have their confusion for a while. :D)
How the hell do you get to pay/download this??https://www.cdbao.net/thread-1498547-1-1.htmlI want the instrumentals,…
Forum money... ooo-kay. (Strange payment method LOL). Dammit I really want that instrumental OST. I guess I'll have to wait until it comes up somewhere I can really buy it.
EDIT Okay, managed it somehow. It contains the BGM already posted on YouTube. So the new themes from the later eps are still unreleased T_T
By the way, in the last episodes a new character was introduced. White wearing lady demon. She tasted the blood…
She was in an earlier ep, too (when NBY got TTJ out and they tried to make it out of the Barren Abyss). She's some kind of nightmare demon too, IIRC.
My two cents: (not to demean the actress' work, just my opinion) She is a support/guest chara whose role didn't get cut down to nothing because there were some needed scenes that included her, and maybe she either 1. was someone Chinese watchers would know was supposed to appear (Weibo promo does wonders like that) or 2. there's some support thrown her way by her agency, for example, who insisted on her definitely appearing (I don't know if you can make such clauses to a contract, but I wouldn't wonder if there were).
Drama ending: they made a final bait-and-switch and had them separate for a bit. Then WWX is playing the flute…
If you already watched the 3-season donghua (animated version), don't miss the chibi version (pure fluff sprinkled with sugar) and the audio drama, either! This comes in a lot of packages :D
The novel has infinite more PDAs (because WWX is shameless, that's why LOL), and you can see LWJ becoming bewitched in real time :D (like we all did hahaha).
Be happy it's just mouth blood spitting. In xianxia, the trope is actually they'd bleed from ALL head orifices…
I didn't mind the flashbacks in TTEOTM LOL, I liked Ancient Devil God (and it's mostly him they're flashing to hahaha). It's an occasion to observe the fine nuances of his expressions (or lack of). I think LYX acted all his characters in this drama out of the park, as they say .
I won't blame the new drama length rules that came out when TTEOTM was airing already and mutilated it, but it's clear the first three arcs are better (from my POV, particularly the first). Support charas fell to the side through no fault of the production team, I bet they did have something planned for each of them. But they did save as much as possible, so for me, I did like it. Very much so. Then again, as I've said, what I liked best was TTJ's progress.
Usually I read danmei, though there are a few other genres in my list (that I haven't gotten to yet, LOL). But the drama didn't make me want to read the novel anyway, PRECISELY because of what the readers said was in it, in difference to the drama's plot. So I guess, at least with this one, it might be the drama does it better than the novel, even mutilated by the censorship and rules. I really don't like deus-ex-machina endings, even if they're HEA.
Hahaha, I don't have a problem watching anything with subtitles (I even watched English dramas with English subtitles - things like Outlander - because there are some with strange accents and I couldn't understand what they were saying. I'm not a native English speaker either, so accents come harder to understand for me, when hearing them. In reading, it's a different story :D)
I've also grown weary of top-rated kdramas... It's either MDL public, or a certain bias toward kdramas from some Western countries' audience that rates certain stories way too high, according to my taste. So sadly I've started postponing some of them until I'm in the mood, and it's WAY easier to just drop them if I don't like how they start. Some of the freshness is gone - did you notice the trendy thing? One year, all major kdramas are medical one, the next, all are lawyer-filled, then there's a trend about natural beauty and / or the supernatural and so on, and so forth...
Sad. I still hope they revert the slide into Westernized consumption production, but I am not too optimistic about it.
At the end of ep 50 lanzhan and weiying separated and took different path weiying want explore the world, but…
Drama ending: they made a final bait-and-switch and had them separate for a bit. Then WWX is playing the flute one day near Cloud Recesses and LWJ calls out his name. When WWX is turning to the man calling his name, you see that smile - that's his lovey-dovey smile, reserved only for LWJ.
Novel ending: they never separated and actually the final scene is a papapa scene, LOL. WWX provokes LWJ into a kiss then things... happen. That's where the infamous "everyday means everyday" quote stems from :D
(Do read the novel if you liked the story, it's very good. And it includes all the scenes the censorship made them remove).
In the drama, the reason for the separation was that WWX is still pretty much a pariah (since he's doing demonic cultivation) among the "orthodox" sects, and LWJ just got promoted to become the leader of the sects in place of Jin GuangYao / Meng Yao. That is, he would kind of find a way to fill the gap instead of letting anyone else *cough* Nie HuaiSang *cough* take that position. So they couldn't stay together THEN. But they get back together anyway.
Hahaha, Jin Ling and the Lan Clan juniors start going on night hunts for monsters WITH WEN NING LOL, so Jiang Cheng is VERY much fuming because of it. But he doesn't put a stop to it either. He knows what's right and wrong and it's his manner of redeeming past mistakes. And yeah, don't worry... most of the time, it's WWX taking them on adventures, LOL.
(Try reading the extras - I'd recommend From Dusk till Dawn, where WWX has a talk with LWJ about the juniors and Jin Ling's night hunting prowess LOL). Also be warned all the extras are NSFW 18+ LOL.
I just want to say here dont blame me... You should come to watch with us BFTB guys. This is a balm for our broken…
I really did try it, didn't make it past the first ep. But I like Neo Hu, maybe I'll try again some other time. (Definitely will wait for the end though, at least. I mean, burned once, shame on me... burned twice... Never trusting Youku again, LOL).
If this drama change name to other name beside word nirvana than the rate would drop so much. I think buddhism…
The Chinese title translated as "The LangYa Rankings" and it's still very much appreciated in its home country. It's not the title that does it. This is really a good drama.
Be happy it's just mouth blood spitting. In xianxia, the trope is actually they'd bleed from ALL head orifices…
Heads up: my tastes in drama (and books) go like this: character's progress>>>plot>soundtrack>special effects (if necessary)>production (everything else)> what's left.
So I'll rate high if I like how the character changes / acts according to their own persona (and it's shown, not told, I don't like directors to lead me by the hand and explain everything, LOL, I want to see for myself). A good plot and a good OST are also great. But I fall for the charas, not the action.
Not all dramas are for everybody. There are some I THINK I might enjoy - but don't, and some that come as total surprises. Oh No! Here Comes Trouble is one of them - that's one of the best short dramas I've ever watched - I highly recommend it :)
Lucky you for speaking Mandarin and Cantonese, I have to rely on TLs, LOL, and some of them can be hit or miss (basically everything MangoTV put out hahaha.)
Kdramas are also hit or miss... And now that Western streamers got into the pie, the things I've liked about kdramas in the past have been changing, and IMHO, not for the good. Luckily China has started putting out better dramas than before consistently (not all are great, but plenty of them are very good) and so I can move on, if needed :D
3 
Naaaah, CWN has this down, pat.
Bonus (I'm loving this bonus): LYX is CWN hahaha.
So you could say I went in un-biased. And loved it.
Also, TBH, what put me off for the longest time from watching it was actually the title, that doesn't make any sense to me. Nirvana, why? In fire, why? Then again, Chinese media pick some of the most random English titles for some dramas so I dealt with it.
Like me, there were many others. Buddhism and any hints about any kind of religion in here are detterents to me, and if this turned out to be about a certain religion - or it played an important role in it - I'd probably been turned off.
Don't assume watchers are in any way religious, or practicing if they do say they are. It doesn't have much of an importance to most people... unless you let it,
EDIT Okay, managed it somehow. It contains the BGM already posted on YouTube. So the new themes from the later eps are still unreleased T_T
My two cents: (not to demean the actress' work, just my opinion) She is a support/guest chara whose role didn't get cut down to nothing because there were some needed scenes that included her, and maybe she either 1. was someone Chinese watchers would know was supposed to appear (Weibo promo does wonders like that) or 2. there's some support thrown her way by her agency, for example, who insisted on her definitely appearing (I don't know if you can make such clauses to a contract, but I wouldn't wonder if there were).
https://www.cdbao.net/thread-1498547-1-1.html
I want the instrumentals, but I can't make sense of how it goes (Google Translate doesn't help much).
MDZS Q: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T15okAJuoso&list=PL1XL0duQrCwRMtNrxNDHxamgI52maHCRW
Audio drama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jY1ZxRE_dE&list=PLu-5-hV3jMsJC8TsJP2ZWd1DLzmsbUyRw
The novel has infinite more PDAs (because WWX is shameless, that's why LOL), and you can see LWJ becoming bewitched in real time :D (like we all did hahaha).
I won't blame the new drama length rules that came out when TTEOTM was airing already and mutilated it, but it's clear the first three arcs are better (from my POV, particularly the first). Support charas fell to the side through no fault of the production team, I bet they did have something planned for each of them. But they did save as much as possible, so for me, I did like it. Very much so. Then again, as I've said, what I liked best was TTJ's progress.
Usually I read danmei, though there are a few other genres in my list (that I haven't gotten to yet, LOL). But the drama didn't make me want to read the novel anyway, PRECISELY because of what the readers said was in it, in difference to the drama's plot. So I guess, at least with this one, it might be the drama does it better than the novel, even mutilated by the censorship and rules. I really don't like deus-ex-machina endings, even if they're HEA.
Hahaha, I don't have a problem watching anything with subtitles (I even watched English dramas with English subtitles - things like Outlander - because there are some with strange accents and I couldn't understand what they were saying. I'm not a native English speaker either, so accents come harder to understand for me, when hearing them. In reading, it's a different story :D)
I've also grown weary of top-rated kdramas... It's either MDL public, or a certain bias toward kdramas from some Western countries' audience that rates certain stories way too high, according to my taste. So sadly I've started postponing some of them until I'm in the mood, and it's WAY easier to just drop them if I don't like how they start. Some of the freshness is gone - did you notice the trendy thing? One year, all major kdramas are medical one, the next, all are lawyer-filled, then there's a trend about natural beauty and / or the supernatural and so on, and so forth...
Sad. I still hope they revert the slide into Westernized consumption production, but I am not too optimistic about it.
Novel ending: they never separated and actually the final scene is a papapa scene, LOL. WWX provokes LWJ into a kiss then things... happen. That's where the infamous "everyday means everyday" quote stems from :D
(Do read the novel if you liked the story, it's very good. And it includes all the scenes the censorship made them remove).
In the drama, the reason for the separation was that WWX is still pretty much a pariah (since he's doing demonic cultivation) among the "orthodox" sects, and LWJ just got promoted to become the leader of the sects in place of Jin GuangYao / Meng Yao. That is, he would kind of find a way to fill the gap instead of letting anyone else *cough* Nie HuaiSang *cough* take that position. So they couldn't stay together THEN. But they get back together anyway.
Hahaha, Jin Ling and the Lan Clan juniors start going on night hunts for monsters WITH WEN NING LOL, so Jiang Cheng is VERY much fuming because of it. But he doesn't put a stop to it either. He knows what's right and wrong and it's his manner of redeeming past mistakes. And yeah, don't worry... most of the time, it's WWX taking them on adventures, LOL.
(Try reading the extras - I'd recommend From Dusk till Dawn, where WWX has a talk with LWJ about the juniors and Jin Ling's night hunting prowess LOL). Also be warned all the extras are NSFW 18+ LOL.
This makes me sad. T_T
So I'll rate high if I like how the character changes / acts according to their own persona (and it's shown, not told, I don't like directors to lead me by the hand and explain everything, LOL, I want to see for myself). A good plot and a good OST are also great. But I fall for the charas, not the action.
Not all dramas are for everybody. There are some I THINK I might enjoy - but don't, and some that come as total surprises. Oh No! Here Comes Trouble is one of them - that's one of the best short dramas I've ever watched - I highly recommend it :)
Lucky you for speaking Mandarin and Cantonese, I have to rely on TLs, LOL, and some of them can be hit or miss (basically everything MangoTV put out hahaha.)
Kdramas are also hit or miss... And now that Western streamers got into the pie, the things I've liked about kdramas in the past have been changing, and IMHO, not for the good. Luckily China has started putting out better dramas than before consistently (not all are great, but plenty of them are very good) and so I can move on, if needed :D