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It is considered the first xianxia (I don't agree with that) but yes, ut's a xianxia since it's based on a high fantasy (dungeons and dragons type) video game.

Those side glances....

The most recent wuxias are
Journey to Love
The Blood of Youth
Mysterious Lotus Casebook

For more epic wuxias with lots of sect fightings and hero learning different kungfu styles to fight different sects, just look for the umpteenth versions of
The Legend of the Condor Heroes
Heavenly Sword and Dragon Sabre
Any adaptation of Jin Yong's novels

I grew up watching the epic wuxias and loved all the versions that I saw. Jin Yong is the father of wuxia in the alternate universe of jiangwu. I loved the Chinese "hero's journey" themes but grew tired of the never-totally-happy endings and have since moved away from watching many of them.

Wuxia is, in Western terms, a hero journey with martial arts. In wuxia, there is a fictional land/world where all the martial experts live. Think of King Arthur and his Knights of the Roundtable--they are fictional in a fictionalized medieval world. The hero's journey is often a quest--revenge, honor, a mission to save the world, that sort of higher goal. Wuxias, in the old days, never ended pretty.

Xianxia is high fantasy, of multiple realms fighting for control. Think of it as Dungeons and Dragons, but with Chinese stuff, LOL. You're good, you level up, gaining power. You're bad, usually you get defeated, with all your powers stripped.

Joking aside, there is a mixture of Taoism (reincarnation themes) and Chinese supernatural beliefs, such as good vs evil, Chinese style (vs Christian version, LOL), cultivation and separation based on levels of powers (it's a very orderly heaven and hell!). Xianxia is about immortals trying to be better than mere mortals, but they are often not (which makes it kind of humorous for me) and because they are not, these stories often involved the ML and FL having to reincarnate a few times to get to the point where they are equals (or when their blood debts are paid to some heavenly-appointed .supercourt). The funniest element is the rule that, in order to regain their status or improve their cultivation, these immortals must reincarnate as mortals to go through literally fire and death before they level up (like a video game).

Hope this short explanation helps.

LLTG is what I call a composite historical--it's fictional but the background is factual and background characters are based on factual historical figures. The emperor and his wives were real, with slight changes in names--the story of the Concubine Yue, first wife who should be empress but was the concubine instead was also true. There was a famous love poem the emperor wrote about his love for his "first" wife.

Sama-sama!

Well, we all know he comes back alive each time, so there is no angsty pain there.

LMAO I did not think of salted fish! Now I cannot un-think that of TSJ being (again) unconscious. It's appropriate, though, as there is that Cantonese saying, Ham yu fan sang, which is exactly what TSJ is good at!

Nine heads, nine accounts! 🙃

lol Someone today mocked Xiang Liu’s in death as a pervert for kissing XY’s hand while she was unconscious. XL shouldn’t have saved such a useless user.

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Hier ist ein linkto my Review period, maybe it will Help you make u your mind, I don’t kn. I don’t know

https://kisskh.at/profile/TaliaToo/reviews/370291

Since you want dramas in the shorter format, I have two good recommendations:

1 Historical with face-swapping romantic intrigue, each episode is 10 minutes long, if that.: Familiar Stranger

2) Contemporary, suspense, ten episodes:
Regeneration

Give them a try and tell me what you think. Tschüss!

Found it. Enjoy!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=wHuCY0y9MeshxxF5&v=ExRBnBYrYq8&feature=youtu.be

Why not just try the first 15 minutes and see whether you like it? It’s very easy to just stop. I don’t know what you like, so cannot recommend or not recommend. It is a revenge drama, and the revenge is delicious. If you like that kind of story, this one is for you. This isn’t an idol drama. So if you’re looking for the typical idol drama, this one isn’t for you.

I didn’t want him with XY but since he loved her, I wanted to give him XY. 😂 Does that make sense. In my perfect world, I wanted him saved by a stupid woman named SuSu, get kissed everyday until he submitted, and then found out she was the Great Fox Queen Bai Jue, ruler of all TuShan foxes. Hilarity ensued at a family dinner when TSJ arrived with his wife to kowtow and respect to his new king.
🤣

Give a reincarnation script dammit! Take my money! #throwsDownCC

But I also believe he also fell into temptation after a taste of his newfound status. The drama had someone mentioned how badly he was treated when he was first promoted—no one attended his party. He is now regarded highly because SOMEONE decreed it so. SYR, as he gained status, liked what he be came. That was also partly why again and again, he denied JL was XFF in public—if he did, the loss of reputation would have been massive. Much later, as he stood contemplating his woes, he noticed the spider and he mused, “Even a spider knows to climb higher. Why is it wrong that I did the same?” He admitted his greed for status here. The next scene of his had him painting a spider made it clearer: he was the spider and was spinning this web of (self) deceit.

I’ve cut and pasted part of my SYR essay here lol. Sorry, couldn’t resist!

Why?

Ah! A viewer after my own heart! <3
Do you do contemporary dramas? Or just historicals?