I just need to say, Prince Mu is by far the purest and most levelheaded character I have ever seen in a Xianxia. I legit thought he died in that one scene and I started crying because it wasn’t fair that there were magic plotholes everywhere and none to save him had he only told someone that knew how to save him…. TURNS OUT HE DID: THE KUNWU DOCTOR ON HIS SIDE THE WHOLE TIME who literally gave him the saintess stone to begin with. Either way, Prince Mu took the risk and sacrificed his life out of pure love for his family, his kingdom, and his one-sided love. No secret selfish intentions, just pure love. SO PURE. I think what made him the most attractive was that he never seemed wishy washy about anything, he carefully and levelheadedly made his decision and stuck to it.
Second to him is Youlin who, despite having her Kunwu clansmen killed and enslaved in front of her eyes and even experienced seeing her only sister die in the battle, even until the very last episode, she never tried to get revenge on any human and never asked any of them to apologize. Like she kept repeating over and over, “All we wanted was to live a peaceful life.” Before watching this I read that they cut 32 episodes, so I was prepared to have an unsatisfying ending. There were a LOT of unanswered questions, but actually the happy endings for everyone gave me a bare minimum of closure that I wanted. So I’m good with it:) and I’d recommend it just for those unexpected happy endings. I need to stop watching sad ending dramas forreal. They mess me up bad.
OH MY GOSH THAT’S SO TRUE. Her sword spirit master was the most ANNOYING character and then we never see him again. I’m assuming the sword went back to Dragon King. But that relationship, how he basically raised her but never said any kind words to her, could have been developed more. But whatevaaa
I started watching this because I shipped the main two lead actors so much in Untouchable Lovers when they were just side characters. I finally got the chance to binge this now and TRULY that was a fun little adventure. Since I’ve only seen Wu Jia Yi and Xu Kai as second leads, I was actually really impressed by their acting as main leads in this. Especially Jia Yi, whenever her eyes would well up at the littlest things whether it was for her Kunwu clan or Li Xuan, I always felt her love was so sincere and pure despite the literal inner turmoil of going against her master’s wishes. The whole cast did a great job portraying their own conflicting emotions and the costumes were gorgeous. You can tell the staff worked really hard to create this universe of Humans and Kunwu. I was immersed and enjoyed it!
Given how close we are to our goal, how about we take some time to discuss the OST. Which one is your favorite…
One of the few cdramas where I never skipped the intro or outro, and mainly because the OST for both were just so perfectly placed with the scenes they chose for the dynamics. I always had my finger hovering over the bar to skip but I would get mesmerized listening to the initial drums and just let it play all the way through. I’m waiting for the whole OST on spotify:(
Tell me how you feel about the ending:A) You’ve made peace with it and find it satisfying.B) You are still disappointed.My…
D) I’ll never have true peace and will forever seethe in my room until they post a special episode about the sisters’ future. How dare they drag me up this mountain of suffering and worry only to end up with an open ending and more questions. HOW DARE
Back here to post about how extremely happy I am that they finally put this up on Netflix in America!!! I started screaming when I saw KHG’s cute thumbnail! haha Time to rewatch the most precious and beautiful school drama of 2019 for the 10th time! It’s so cool how all the cast got really great projects after Moments of Eighteen! Not a surprise since their acting in this drama was authentic with high attention to detail.
I finished the drama a while ago and I can’t seem to move out of this withdrawal funk. But after going back through these comments, I feel a lot better now knowing I’m not alone <3. I’m just forever grateful I got to see these beautiful visual scenes that keep replaying over and over in my head. I’m currently watching Go into Your Heart and it’s so funny seeing a lot of the same cast playing totally different characters. But tbh, it’s not really helping me move on from the TSL universe. It was just so well executed in all categories. this missing them is realll bad haha
This is the trailer that someone posted a few weeks ago on youtube! But on the credits at the end of the clip it says Guo Jun Chen plays Ah Zheng and Xie Cheng Ze plays Zuo Lin so it’s switched.
Yo so this xianxia drama, I was so deeply invested in this cast and story, it was that feeling of falling head over heels for someone, but like for every single character. Like we’ve all seen pure, unconditional, I-would-die-for-you love before in dramas, but to be able to see that pure love between the sisters, the mother and sons, the in-laws, Man and Tan and beast prince, and in 3 of the cutest couples, like it was all just pure love. No conditions. Just, I will lay down my life for you over and over again just because you are you, and I love you. And THEN ep33… and THEN the ending. like WHAT? I feel a tiny bit traumatized because all they wanted was a peaceful life. Like that was literally all they wanted? And because I was so invested in them for the past 2 weeks, that’s all I wanted for them too. So to leave me with just hopeful optimism that these two sisters with hearts of gold will “hopefully” be reborn somehow but not let me sleep in peace seeing them be reborn..I’m just ugh. But other than those last 5 episodes betraying my false delusions of closure in peace (in hindsight, i should have prepared myself after man’s farewell but I was in denial) and other than coriander girl’s last minute insanity, I really enjoyed this drama. The cast was really well chosen and their acting skills kept impressing me over and over esp in the scenes between the sisters. I shall be rewatching as I wait for spotify to upload the ost.
Honestly I started this because I intrigued by the switching of faces, but the actual story was really entertaining and nicely paced. I’m sure this story has been told before in other ways, but for some reason I kept getting surprised at every single plot twist and the script wasn’t awkward at any point. There were lines in the script that I felt were so cleverly weaved in and the cast did a good job in general in delivering these lines and developing their characters respectively. The costumes and set designs were beautiful and the little details of the cast’s actions like filling of tea cups to the brim were nice plot pushers and expanded the big picture. In shorter dramas like this, they sometimes leave out so many questions unanswered leaving much to be desired, but I was happy with the way this ended although I’m sure there’s plenty of plot holes that left the viewers saying, “what?” haha.
I’ll keep saying this over and over again, but we did not deserve that scene on the bridge with the ember firework reflections on the water and their matching blue hanboks. Everything was so gorgeous and meticulously shot just in that scene. And you appreciate it even more knowing it was filmed in the dead of winter, so cold you could see their breath in the air and the smoke coming from the fireworks all around them like a cloud. We just didn’t deserve it and that’s that. So thank you to the crew for blowing my mind!
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I legit thought he died in that one scene and I started crying because it wasn’t fair that there were magic plotholes everywhere and none to save him had he only told someone that knew how to save him…. TURNS OUT HE DID: THE KUNWU DOCTOR ON HIS SIDE THE WHOLE TIME who literally gave him the saintess stone to begin with. Either way, Prince Mu took the risk and sacrificed his life out of pure love for his family, his kingdom, and his one-sided love. No secret selfish intentions, just pure love. SO PURE.
I think what made him the most attractive was that he never seemed wishy washy about anything, he carefully and levelheadedly made his decision and stuck to it.
Second to him is Youlin who, despite having her Kunwu clansmen killed and enslaved in front of her eyes and even experienced seeing her only sister die in the battle, even until the very last episode, she never tried to get revenge on any human and never asked any of them to apologize. Like she kept repeating over and over, “All we wanted was to live a peaceful life.”
Before watching this I read that they cut 32 episodes, so I was prepared to have an unsatisfying ending. There were a LOT of unanswered questions, but actually the happy endings for everyone gave me a bare minimum of closure that I wanted. So I’m good with it:) and I’d recommend it just for those unexpected happy endings. I need to stop watching sad ending dramas forreal. They mess me up bad.
I miss them so much.
I started screaming when I saw KHG’s cute thumbnail! haha
Time to rewatch the most precious and beautiful school drama of 2019 for the 10th time! It’s so cool how all the cast got really great projects after Moments of Eighteen! Not a surprise since their acting in this drama was authentic with high attention to detail.
This is the trailer that someone posted a few weeks ago on youtube!
But on the credits at the end of the clip it says Guo Jun Chen plays Ah Zheng and Xie Cheng Ze plays Zuo Lin so it’s switched.
But other than those last 5 episodes betraying my false delusions of closure in peace (in hindsight, i should have prepared myself after man’s farewell but I was in denial) and other than coriander girl’s last minute insanity, I really enjoyed this drama.
The cast was really well chosen and their acting skills kept impressing me over and over esp in the scenes between the sisters. I shall be rewatching as I wait for spotify to upload the ost.
I’m so happy I have new studying music:)
https://open.spotify.com/album/3RQq1ZQfP9YU4GjzpDikZg?si=qG3PZVxaQOWLfT8IMFTPMg
but we did not deserve that scene on the bridge with the ember firework reflections on the water and their matching blue hanboks. Everything was so gorgeous and meticulously shot just in that scene. And you appreciate it even more knowing it was filmed in the dead of winter, so cold you could see their breath in the air and the smoke coming from the fireworks all around them like a cloud.
We just didn’t deserve it and that’s that. So thank you to the crew for blowing my mind!