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Thank you, this is so helpful! ♡

FYI your review says this (Nine Times Time Travel) is "Definitely one of the best short c dramas!" yet you're overall rating is a 1/10, which is the lowest score. I'm guessing that was a mistake so I thought I'd let you know so you can change it if you wish. :)
You're review was helpful, thanks!

Because it's still airing. The next episode comes July 10th (in the USA).

It's a Viki Original and on their platform it says there will be 16 episodes total.

That's odd, I'm not sure why it's no longer showing on this page... I'll just paste what I said here: It is common in XianXias for a soul to start as a plant originally, or for one's spirit to reform as a plant after the death of their human body. If the plant cultivates long enough, they can turn into the form of a human/immortal.

Depending on the story, this process doesn't always retain memories. In this story, they do!

It's established twice in the story by HuSui (coriander plant) and QingKui's half of the twin flower that a soul can retain it's sentience and memories as it reforms itself from a plant to a human again. HuSui remembered everything from her previous life after being killed, and in one later scene QingKui's flower responds to her sister and husband talking to her.

At the end, it's obvious both sister's souls regrow as the twin flower and still recognize their husbands (by floating into their respective hands). Also, the start of the twin's souls reforming as flowers only takes a year, which is laughably short in a story with immortals, lol. With all the magical help they're getting from their family and friends, it's easy to imagine that their shift into human form again won't take long, though that's not shown before the end credits.

I think many people, myself included, would have felt more fully satisfied getting to see some embraces between the MLs reuniting with the FLs in their human form though.

Given the details you gave, I think it's better that I avoid watching than to risk spending 70 episodes to get frustrated and give it a lower rating out of personal dissatisfaction. I can enjoy well done angst and injustice if the payoff is satisfying enough. If the characters I love repeatedly fail in their endeavors, or people don't really get the karma they deserve, or people are seperated from their loved ones, it just leaves me in a bad mood for a long time. No matter how well done a production is, I don’t need that in addition to real life, lol!

Suggestions on where to stop watching if you want to avoid all the angst at the end (even though there is a happy ending, not everyone finds it satisfying).

Ep 33 at 13:42 in (when ML waves the doors closed for his wedding night) is a great stopping point for a satisfying HE. It's easy to imagine the 2 main couples and one of the side couples (Heaven's Princess with Prince of Beast clan) living out their lives comfortably in the Beast realm. It's also a good pausing point in the main story arc so it's fairly easy to mentally brush off the fact that the mystery of the twin flower and the conflict between the Heaven and Void realms hasn't been resolved yet.

Ep 35 at 27:46 in (with the lead group in the mortal King's palace) is also a decent place to stop for a HE though it would feel more abrupt as the scene shifts quickly to the Void realm. A main conflict has been met, most of the mysteries are revealed, loyalties have been proven, only one secondary character has died since Ep 33, and there's only a slight undercurrent of foreboding for some point in the future that can still be shrugged off.

If you want to take a look, I posted a spoiler comment with a summary of why the ending is clearly a happy one given XianXia logic and the world building of this particular story. :)

It is common in XianXias for a soul to start as a plant originally, or for one's spirit to reform as a plant after the death of their human body. If the plant cultivates long enough, they can turn into the form of a human/immortal.

Depending on the story, this process doesn't always retain memories. In this story, they do!

It's established twice in the story by HuSui (coriander plant) and QingKui's half of the twin flower that a soul can retain it's sentience and memories as it reforms itself from a plant to a human again. HuSui remembered everything from her previous life after being killed, and in one later scene QingKui's flower responds to her sister and husband talking to her.

At the end, it's obvious both sister's souls regrow as the twin flower and still recognize their husbands (by floating into their respective hands). Also, the start of the twin's souls reforming as flowers only takes a year, which is laughably short in a story with immortals, lol. With all the magical help they're getting from their family and friends, it's easy to imagine that their shift into human form again won't take long, though that's not shown before the end credits.

I think many people, myself included, would have felt more fully satisfied getting to see some embraces between the MLs reuniting with the FLs in their human form though.

The ending is much clearer and happier than comments lead me to believe! See the first spoiler below for summarized details on the that, and the second spoiler for suggestions on where to stop watching if you want to avoid all the angst at the end (even though there is a happy ending, not everyone finds it satisfying).

Thank you so much for listing things out- you've made it incredibly easy for me to know that I would not enjoy spending my time on this!

I didn't like that part of the story either. Sends the wrong message. True friends don't do that kind of thing. 👍

Both the SML and the SFL are forgiven. If I remember correctly, I think those two end up together near the end of the show.

I took another look and you are right! Thanks :)

For me the love story in Ashes Of Love really started in Ep 19 when the two leads (immortals) go through a human trial in the mortal realm. You could try skipping ahead to that or shortly before it.

Before then Jin Mi acts like a 6-8 year old (mentally, not just emotionally) and it didn't make sense to me why the two MLs started to have romantic feelings (beyond general fondness) during that stage of her development.

In the human realm Jin Mi acts like a young adult and the romance with the ML is beautiful. For me, that's what got me emotionally invested in their story and interested in watching their story to the end (though I did fast-forward a lot of the side character plots).

It might be a little confusing at first to jump that far ahead, but if you've watched the first couple of episodes I think it wouldn't be too difficult to catch on to what the immortals are doing around the main leads.

Amazing costumes in Love Between Fairy and Devil! QingCang's were especially entrancing👏❤️

Ah, got it :) 👍

When I went to Drama-Otaku the title did appear when I searched, but under the Episodes tab it says "no items found"... could you please tell me what to click on to be able to watch it?
I want to support official channels as much as possible.

Thank you for that info. When you say "sites like that", which ones are you referring to?

I hadn't heard of the two sites you listed, thanks! I'll check there for other titles but they don’t have episodes of this show available. :(

Glad you found my review helpful! I'd say if you can roll with the awkwardness of Ep 1 and get past it, the rest of the series gets more enjoyable. I hope that turns out true for you :)