Welcome !๐๐ฅ๐ Yes, everything you said here is exactly that. His interest is not romantic. His romantic story is in another drama. (But in the book, because in the anime he doesn't even appear, here I don't know what the motivation will be.)
Skimming through the scenes doesn't help you understand the drama. Watching each scene calmly is what makes you…
But that bit you mentioned: I liked it and it resonates with me. It's like an appetizer before the cherry on the cake. I watch some dramas, I don't see any drama rushing so much. I see it having a rhythm that comes and goes, the same as Ambforever.
Am I the only one who feels like the story is slow?
It's slow, yes, but with each episode we discover something more. (I enjoy watching the main couple's interaction develop.). (Although episode 20 was quite exciting.)
(About Sidneylandsam review): I find your review so thorough and enjoyable to read, but I will just make one aside: TY's moral compass remains intact, the demon in Yuan Zhong (not a demon race), which is different from the Western understanding of demons. It is a demonic, perverse heart, given over to evil. It is that dragon in the sea of โโconsciousness that Yuan Zhong spoke of (I heard someone wants to devour me). The Chinese drama leans on both sides with the meaning of demon (there must be some different word that gets lost in translation) and so we think they are talking about the same thing.
In episode 22 it is actually the first time that Yuan Zhong stands in front of TY to save her. And here, twice. (He, with the divine hand, can even save a goddess).๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
I don't see him being mean to her. There is a distrust with reasonable grounds between them. Something that involves…
She is a super powerful goddess. He kind of realizes this. And takes it as a threat (somehow). In the sea of โโconsciousness he saw her as a witch, she even made that comment to him. (Why does he see her like that?). This is more than a relationship between two ordinary people. It is a relationship between an immortal and a deity. Here, I see more sense in this treatment than in other dramas. I remember the scene when he was a teenager (he made 3 requests to the goddess. And she said she would grant one). It is this duality that I see. Human x deity, in their relationship. (Of course, we want the moment of total complicity and tenderness between them to arrive. But... that moment has not yet arrived.)
iโm enjoying this drama. the FL has such a good personality but i am getting tired of these consistent dramas…
I don't see him being mean to her. There is a distrust with reasonable grounds between them. Something that involves divinity/humanity, Past/present. Hurt, resentment, obsession. The mercy of the goddess/the obsession of the mortal/Immortal (fox priest).
maybe I missed something, but why is FL saving that demon guy?
She had saved him once before when he was at the innkeeperโs house, Liu Chenโs (weapon spirit) lover. There Tan Yin helped him get cured. And Tan Yin first met him on the tower ship when they accidentally bumped into each other, he was dressed in an elegant outfit. I think TY doesnโt know that he tried to kill YZ. But she has developed a fondness for him. They had talked once, sitting by the tree, and he asked TY if Yuan Zhong was injured if she would care about YZ. TY thought for a moment and said that she would definitely save YZ. Qianlin (war ghost) was a little thoughtful at that moment.
He is a character who first appeared in the drama "Love of a Thousand Years". He appears again here in "A Moment but Forever" and will appear again, along with Fox Priest (Yuan Znong) in the yet-to-be-aired drama "The Perfect Match". (These 3 dramas are part of the same universe created by the author of the 3 novels. PS: This character is a spirit of the Lamp of the Soul, created by Jin Tan Yin (goddess of crafts). He has become a person with personality and feelings. And he appears in these 3 dramas. Perhaps he recognizes Tan Yin, his creator.
I don't know if the drama will do anything different from the book or the anime. Because TY's line in the trailer:…
Ummm, as if he is hiding his true intentions. And the spiritual weapons, as they are very connected to him, know what is in his consciousness. (But I think Tan Yin also knows something). There is that moment when she says to an enemy, about Yuan Zhong. "He is a world-weary snake." When she said this, I noticed that Lin Chun looked at her meaningfully.
Does anyone know who the real identity of the high priest other than him having a the hand. He seems to be more…
I don't know if the drama will do anything different from the book or the anime. Because TY's line in the trailer: "I am the moon, you are the sun, forever shining in the sky together.", whether that might say something more about his identity (in the drama), I don't know. It could be that he ascends to immortality, as he said so much at the beginning of the drama that he would like to reach that stage. But the drama talks a lot about ascending to immortality, and those who, after ascending, may fall into obsession and become a demon. There is a key character in this drama who is this case. (Tan Yin is another case, but the book says that she had not yet completed all the tribulations that she was supposed to complete in the mortal world.)
Yes, everything you said here is exactly that. His interest is not romantic. His romantic story is in another drama. (But in the book, because in the anime he doesn't even appear, here I don't know what the motivation will be.)
(Although episode 20 was quite exciting.)
I find your review so thorough and enjoyable to read, but I will just make one aside: TY's moral compass remains intact, the demon in Yuan Zhong (not a demon race), which is different from the Western understanding of demons. It is a demonic, perverse heart, given over to evil. It is that dragon in the sea of โโconsciousness that Yuan Zhong spoke of (I heard someone wants to devour me). The Chinese drama leans on both sides with the meaning of demon (there must be some different word that gets lost in translation) and so we think they are talking about the same thing.
(Of course, we want the moment of total complicity and tenderness between them to arrive. But... that moment has not yet arrived.)
https://youtu.be/VcudSwlu-c4?si=j7iw4KPP0Z_k9-gP
https://v.youku.com/video?vid=XNjQ2NTA3MTE1Ng==&s=badd0e24932a492abf4a&scm=20140719.apircmd.298496.video_XNjQ2NTA3MTE1Ng==&spm=a2hkt.13141534.1_6.d_1_2 (trailer ep 26)
But, you need to let the commercial play first.
PS: This character is a spirit of the Lamp of the Soul, created by Jin Tan Yin (goddess of crafts). He has become a person with personality and feelings. And he appears in these 3 dramas. Perhaps he recognizes Tan Yin, his creator.
But the drama talks a lot about ascending to immortality, and those who, after ascending, may fall into obsession and become a demon. There is a key character in this drama who is this case. (Tan Yin is another case, but the book says that she had not yet completed all the tribulations that she was supposed to complete in the mortal world.)