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What clip? Could you share it with me?

Noooooo!!!!!

I see. Thank you for the information.
Well, I hope they give us like 4 episodes in a day to replace those two bleak days .......

Does ep 15 end in cliffhanger?
I plan to skip today watching so I can watch two episodes at once tomorrow.
Anyway, the news about no episodes in August 17 & 18 stressed me out. Sigh .... My before sleep entertainment .......

If they don't want to pay, they just need to wait a bit longer for episode release. Sigh ......

Anyway the drama is still very early. It still in introduction stage where all players are introduced one by one. We need to be patient to wait until all secret is opened.

Giving a drama a low rate just because you cannot understand the language is crazy. At the very least, hold your rating until you can do it justly.

This drama is very political strategy heavy. It will be very hard to understand without good subs, indeed. And if you cannot understand the characters stratagem toward each other, then you will get easily bored with this

Cheng Yi is an experienced older actor. His acting skill is already matured. Comparing him with Xu Kai is silly. Xu Kai is still young and still has lots of room to grow. Even so, in the same age group, Xu Kai is already in the top, acting skill wise. Moreover, Xu Kai is very skillful in depicting a character that both cold and pitiful. This is not easy. Lots of actor failed in this.

I tend to stay away from user who only praising how handsome the ML is or how pretty the FL is. It shows that their comments has no substance and high chance they are watching just because of they are fans of certain actor/actress or even paid to do so.

That is what make me more confused. Which xianxia?? I don't think ALP was aired together with some other xianxia with popular actor?

Sigh ..... I also don't understand why China following the skinny boy trend that I think popularized by KPOP boy band that these days looks more and more like a woman. Those korean aesthetic is one of the reason I stay away from korean drama right now.

I currently watching Stand by Me which stars Cheng Yi. I am distressed looking how skinny he is in there .......

As I see it, Xu Kai is not a traffic actor as he has not a big fanbase that can ensure the rating of his drama. So I think he should not have suffered too much from black fans?! I kind of befuddled on where all those black fans come from ...... Does someone feel threaten by him or something?

Yeah, I blame the filter and lighting. Xu Kai jaw is not really visible when he is in white garb of Bai Jue. It gets much better he wears some color in Qing Mu and black later on.

When observing douban rating, I mainly check the comment section. Because black fans seldom engaged in lengthy discussion. Thus usually I derive the true opinion of chinese watcher from there. From the comments, I can also see whether someone only talking trash or he/she truly watch the drama and give honest opinion.

I rate this 9/10 at the merit of acting alone. Even though the middle arc bored me, I still will rate this high. Reason is, it is really not easy to act in this kind of comedic drama. I need to praise both ML and FL to be able to switch between serious emotional and comedic back and forth.

Moreover, I think Xu Kai portray perfectly what is expected from a xuanhuan ML: prideful, arrogant, genius, and have a horde of female admirers. Finally someone get it!! I am tired with all those xuanhuan adaptation that sells ML that act as if they are very pitiful. Xuanhuan genre ML, no matter how poor his background and his life experience, is someone who can triumph over difficulty with perseverance and confidence. In the whole drama, Xu Kai exudes this unfailing confidence despite he has difficulty in cultivation in the beginning. He also nailed every emotional scenes without going overboard and making the character too emotional.

I certainly enjoying Wang Lu very much here. Will check out the novel when I have time later on.

Yeah, I read the discussion in Douban forum. I sense the general drama fans love this drama. And they lament the horde of black fans that adamant in lowering the rating at night time.

Also, I think I know why Xu Kai looks fat in some screen. I think it is the problem with the filter or lighting. It makes his jaw less prominent thus his face looks larger than it should be. It is worse when he is in Bai Jue garb which is white/pale in color. But once he wears black, he looks way slimmer.

Anyway, rating a drama low just because actor/actress appearance is very toxic. I shows how childish and vain those people are.

If you want to see by yourself The Promise of Chang An, then I can only wish you good luck, hahahaha! The acting is good. The set is good. It is only the character ......

I have not seen World of Fantasy. No Boundary, I have not checked out the original novel, but the drama is quite bad in my opinion. Xuanhuan drama that I have watched until today:
1. Fighter of the Destiny
2. Fight Break Sphere
3. Douluo Continent
4. The Great Ruler

People indeed praise Wang Juan for his work in Joy of Life. I have no comment about this since I have not watched that drama. But Douluo Dalu is pure cultivation novel. He took everything that make the series good and replace it with emotional drama. That is why I said that he does not know what make xuanhuan appealing. I hope he will never again write a script for xuanhuan adaptation. Honestly, the only thing that save the drama from complete failure is Xiao Zhan; his fans to be exact. I was active in MDL Douluo Continent page when the drama was airing. Majority that supported the drama, always sprouted how handsome Xiao Zhan was and the like.

Hi!! Good to see you again in a drama page!
Are you enjoying the drama so far? I think this drama will not be everyone cup of tea.

Promise of Chang An will make you curse the FL. I hate her so much. Angst is fine for me, since I am quite an angst lover. But Promise of Chang An is a different angst alltogether. It makes you want to scream and slap the FL multiple times.

Douluo Continent ....... That was my first ever xuanhuan novel. I had hopes at the beginning when I heard it was Xiao Zhan that would star as Tang San. He is not my favorite actor and I think that his fame through The Untamed is more of because of the drama itself than his acting skill level. But, I still thought he was decent enough and should have been able to make Tang San worked. ...... The result was just another abomination. I didn't recognize Tang San in the drama at all. The characterization was off. I blamed the writer for that failure of adaptation. I sensed that the scripwriter was not a lover of xuanhuan genre to begin with thus didn't understand what made that genre appealed to the mass.

Hello! I see so many familiar user name here, hahahaha!
No matter how angsty this drama gonna be, nothing can beat Cheng Xu suffering in the hand of Ming Yu. I am fine with Qi Yan dying here, since I am already comforted by the fact that FL loves him truly and do anything to help him.

Agree 100% with you!! I hate how double standard people are. At one side, they hate if FL is bullied by the ML, but at the other side they condone if FL manipulate ML emotionally. These days, people think they can do anything without any repercussion just because they are female. I hate it when dramas tend to brush off any FL mistake and people will riot if the ML doesn't want to forgive FL easily. Some people has weird thinking that FL is entitled to everything.

Ye Hua and Bai Qian perhaps not a really suitable example for our discussion since Ye Hua indeed has fault, too. If you familiar with previous Cheng Yi drama: The Promise of Chang An, that drama is the perfect example for hateful FL. Never before I wished death to come sooner to ML just so that he can be freed from FL machination.

Yeah, I do see the problem that you have seen in western tv series and movies. Their strong FL is actually a man masquerading as woman in my opinion. Nothing show that they are a woman except their reproductive identity. I have my share of frustration for western series. One of the reason that I avoid them.

These past few years, my new favorite genre is xuanhuan. It is a genre that very much ML centric (at least I have never found xuanhuan with FL centric thus far). Unfortunately, you cannot find any good xuanhuan drama adaptation. Majority of those adaption turn to be abomination.

No matter what, a least Qi Yan here will get the girl. He will get the FL love and loyalty. Unlike in The Promise of Chang’an, the FL just manipulate the ML to do her bidding. It was so disgusting

"strong female character" can basically equate to "complete jerk"
Hahahahaha!!! I really want to know what is the definition of "strong female lead" in the head of those scriptwriter and director. I hate how they think as long as the FL can handle a sword or can enter a "male dominated world", it means the FL is strong .......

Bai Qian, I don't really hate her, perhaps because I was more focused on Ye Hua than her. But I will not classified her into strong FL. I see her as damsel in distress, hahahaha. I don't think I can remember she can handle her own problem without involving the ML in some way. The FL in Nirvana in Fire, that what I can say a strong FL. Even the demure Crown Princess also can be said as strong FL. They are strong because of who they are, as a female. Not because they "disguised" as male.

The other "Chang An" still gives me pain until today. I have never hate a FL that much. Not to mention even wishing a faster death for ML......

I understand the preference toward Viki sub. I have plan to check out their sub for certain episodes (if needed).

Well, even if this drama cannot match Nirvana in Fire, I have hope at least it will be close to it. At least from the 8 episodes that I have seen, it is full of characters fight with their wits and brain with each other. I hope this will have solid end and not a rushed ending without any detailed explanation.

Anyway, another person that prefer ML centric like me!! Hahahaha!
The older I am, I find myself to prefer ML centric more and more. One of the reason because ML centric story is more logical. The story will not revolve around entitled-damsel in distress-annoying FL that only know to cry and manipulate ML to get what she wants. There are good dramas with FL centric, yes, but it is a tall order to find them. Also, these days the dramas enamored with strong FL. But in my eyes those strong FL just another entitled selfish FL with no capability to help the man she loves.