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Personally, I have issues with the pacing of the third volume. I understand why Meatbun wrote it like that but I'm not a huge fan of how they were paced anyway.

I think, everything in this world has parts that someone will not enjoy. I love the book but not every single detail in it was to my taste or even a writing choice I would make. I still respect the choices the author has made but I don't think anything is above criticism.
Nothing is perfect and we should all feel like we can consume media without having to subscribe to it entirely.
It's funny you brought this up because I just (almost) got into an argument with a rabid fan of another show because I was criticizing some facts from the plot. I don't understand fans who feel like they have to defend something at the cost of getting into a fight with a random person on the internet.
It's totally normal to be critical of stories we consume. Doesn't mean we hate the writers or creators or anything at all.

I know the implication, I just think they made a flimsy excuse. They could just send the brother who went with her anyway.

Chu Fei and Taxian Jun are so iconic. It's a shame we won't have them in the show as they are in the novel. Sharing this gem of a line for demonstration:

Chu Wanning stiffened his spine, not looking at him, but asking, “Aren’t you hot?”
“My beloved concubine’s voice is so cold, it can cool me down in the summer.”

married couple vibes

Um....I'm still on 37!🙈

Yes, I think the most hilarious fact about this show is how they sent her as a disciple to a military man and she doesn't even want to learn martial arts. Why is she there?!

It's so common too. Granted I don't love the trope but if you have to do it, at least do it right. I really prefer actresses who play their characters more subdued. The overacting just makes it very unbelievable and unnatural. It's very theatrical, not good for TV.

Skipped it. Only part I skipped.

I hate it. There's this irritating cute girl acting some actresses do...uuuuugh, it makes me want to scream at them, YOU’RE A THIRTY YO WOMAN, NOT A SEVEN YO!!!!

Thank god cfy and lyx neither overacts. I hope the rest are good too

For me, a plot is very important. Efficient storytelling comes first. If it's stupid, incomprehensible or they fail to convey the story in the best way possible, then I will be very angry.
Changes are fine. I generally like the way that cdramas adapt stories and the changes they make, the way they decide to tell those stories in a different media, are some of my favorite parts of the adaptations so I don't mind changes as long as those are good and logical changes.
I don't care for CGI much. If it's good, then it's good. If it's bad, then it's whatever. First plot, then natural acting, good design and costumes, and good directing.
Overacting or over-the-top melodramas really piss me off.

Now you see why I stopped! Lol

Doubtful. The rights to svsss belong to mxtx now so making it depends on her.

It's fine if it's a game or a book or a script like tiger and rose. They won't call it transmigration. They'll just say it's a game.

I think Mo Ran's soul going was definitely because of the soul fragments that were between the bodies but I don't remember what the logic was or if it was even explained.

No, I don't think that was a part of it? Like CWN wasn't planning to send TXJ's consciousness into Mo Ran. He wanted to send his own memories to CWN 1 and he even put a fail safe with his own shizun so if he didn't remember it on his own, then the memories could be traced like that. the fact that Moran went to the other universe was unexpected. It was something related to Moran, not something cwn did on purpose.

CWN found out that the flower was eating TXJ's heart but it was too late to save him. He planned to kill TXJ and he almost did it but then TXJ suddenly hugged him and said he had a dream that CWN taught him to read and he was slow but CWN did not mind and it was super good and there was this innocent look in his eyes so CWN couldn't kill him. He used the last fragment of his own soul before dying to nulify the flower, knowing TXJ was no longer a complete human and it was too late to save him but he hoped that it would at least end things sooner.

I'm still stuck on chapter 4 due to having to read too many things at the same time!!!

yes, personal male qin players are pretty familiar tropes in cdramas now I think. I think everyone recognizes the euphemism now. I really like it too. It's pretty clever.

Oh no problem! Yes, some of the summaries are very vague and unhelpful!