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😂 The fact that people will rate lower because the ML is actually nice to the FL and devoted to her is kind of crazy. But yeah, I'm looking very much forward to when he regains his memories and we get Prince Annan again, who had quite the presence in the tiny glimpse we saw in ep 1. And then I'm looking forward to that intensity mellowing when they both admit they love each other after. Love-hate-love. It's gonna be a ride.

I don't even know how to address this. She's not "Taking advantage of him". She doesn't know for almost like 8 episodes that the blood bond is even there. She thinks she found a strange kid with odd abilities and no memory, who then inexplicably turns into an adult. She suspects he might be a spy, but also knows there is weird magical stuff about him, and he keeps being loyal and devoted to her. They BOTH know and understand that he has no idea who he is, and he keeps insisting on staying close to her. She doesn't agree to keep him close because she wants to abuse his amnesia or the blood bond she doesn't even know about to lure him into a relationship. She keeps him close because 1. She felt sorry for him as both a kid and a confused man, and 2. She wants to figure out if she can trust him. SIMILARLY, he stays because 1. He needs to, he figures out pretty quickly that his weird abilities are connected to her, and 2. He feels loyalty and protectiveness for her, and 3. He also is coming to admire her beyond the magical bond, which I'm assuming will eventually be broken so our leads can realize their feelings are genuine and real. Meanwhile, they are pretty clearly slowly falling in love.

Also....nothing has happened yet beyond him tasting her blood twice in arguably sensual ways. Which HE initiated. How exactly do you think she is taking advantage?

Even without the blood bond, he feels grateful to her for saving him and helping him when he had no one and nothing, and would try to defend her and protect her. Which yes, might lead to him killing some of his countrymen unknowingly. Which isn't her fault.

NONE of what's happened to them is either of their faults, but lies on the shoulders of the very obvious villains introduced in episode 1 who did this to him.

I'm so confused by your reaction. Have you ever watched a romantic fantasy drama before?

It's just an effect to show the magical blood ritual isn't working quite like its supposed to, impacting his body in unexpected ways. Because he interrupted the ritual meant for his brother, it wasn't done properly.

She does not know yet! She has suspicions, but in the latest episodes there is a moment where she tries to cover the top of his face to see what he would look like in a mask and he stops her. So she doesn't know.

Yes, it's a fantasy. More like....magical blood rituals, not magical beasts or cultivation powers.

I don't remember them sleeping next to each other as early as episode 2, but....to answer your question anyway. They are connected via a magical blood bond, since he accidentally consumed a drop of her blood when he saved her/she found him. Because of this, whenever she is injured and bleeds, her blood calls to him, and her physical presence soothes him and strengthens their bond. For some reason, when she places her hand over his chest where the mark sometimes appears, it intensifies their connection and impacts his abilities. But it all goes back to the magical blood bond.

😂 Same!!

Only one tomorrow, too! 😭 Thank you. At least I can look forward to the next day.

ONE episode tonight, are you serious Youku?! AND you leave us hanging like that? Why?? 😭

Yeah, I get that. They definitely went more melodramatic for her scenes.

Yeah, I'm sure somehow, someone is going to convince him she used him or betrayed him or vice versa. It's okay, we'll get love-hate-love and it will hopefully be glorious and full of layers of emotion.

Oh heck, no! I'm waiting on pins and needles for those episodes to drop in....4 minutes, lol. I love that show so much! But I'm picking this one up, too. Nothing wrong with two great shows to watch!

I cannot WAIT until he gets his memories back and we get that intensity we glimpsed as her enemy Prince Annan. Cannot WAIT.

I kind of felt like that was on purpose. How many episodes have you watched? Because it's pretty clear later that she has some crazy obsession with him - wanted to make him her literal slave...oh, AND take over the throne, of course -- but that "making him her devoted slave" part seemed pretty important to her.

Yes! I love the visuals in this drama, and absolutely Cheng Lei is slaying this role.

I've been waiting for this drama it seems like for YEARS, but probably about a year. I was more excited for this than for Legend of the Female General. And don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed that well enough, but there are things about it that grate on me a bit that I struggle to look past.

This? This is just good fun. My favorite trailer for this show is the one where she describes his three different personas - devoted Jin'an, the mysterious and powerful Savior, and her enemy-to-lover Prince Annan, and she's like "Why do I have to choose one, I choose all three!" Heck yeah, because he IS all three of them, and let's be real, all three are a pretty terrific combination. I totally get why she falls for him in all of his aspects. (Also, I've been following Cheng Lei since A Familiar Stranger and this is his YEAR, y'all. He's an amazing ML actor finally getting the chance he deserves to shine. This drama totally allows him to show his incredible range. I love it.)

We only got a TINY glimpse of Prince Annan in the first episode before he ran into trouble and became the other two personas, but I can already tell he's going to be intense when he gets his memories back. Yes, please. I'm here for it. I kind of love that this drama appears to be a bit of a reversal of the usual enemies-to-lovers, where they meet not realizing they are enemies and fall in love before they find out.

I've watch the first 6 episodes and only wish more were available.

Who else felt really awful for our cute healer when the Captain coldly rejected her in front of everyone?! I know the story is probably going to put them together, but I want her to find someone else who falls for her and appreciates her, meanwhile he gets over his little crush on the FL and realizes he missed out on the best thing to ever happen to him. But I know how these stories go and that's unlikely. It"s okay. I'm sure I'll enjoy it when he has to put his all into winning her. He BETTER have to.

Yeah, I was using "all powerful demon lord" as more of a character type - the all powerful type who has been wronged and will wipe out everyone who hurts the people he cares about, etc.

Just finished episode 15, and almost the whole thing (minus the Ruling stuff) is love story fluff and I LOVE EVERY SECOND. These two are so adorable.

And yes, I know this is the calm before the storm, so to speak, but that's okay. Honestly, I normally go for the more angsty storylines. LBFAD, for example. I've seen people who haven't tried this show try to compare it to that, but really the two are completely different from one another. Not the same at all, beyond the character archetypes of "cold powerful demon lord meets adorable fluff girl and falls in love".

I was NOT expecting my favorite drama of summer to be this lovely, adorable storyline of these two characters falling hopelessly in love.

Okay, I'm betting they're going to stick with that. I'm sure "spiritual merging" carries a lot of intimacy in the cultivator world anyway, lol.

🤣 I mean, it FELT like they were implying that, for sure, but the more I think about it, the more I think they didn't. I feel like these two characters, who are actually both SO expressive with their emotions, would have much bigger expressions of those emotions "the morning after". This man is a virgin, right? He's been locked away and tortured for 500 years. She's his only experience with softness and love of any kind, I just feel like when it happens he is going to be so ridiculously soft with her after. His smiles and the way he looks at her now will be even more so.

And since this was a "magical merging/healing" and she didn't MEAN to sleep with him, I feel like she would have been a lot more flustered after if that's what really happened.

I think. But the show is definitely VERY deliberately being vague!