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yeah, even if the actors werent all roundabout like 1000% gorgeous, and a feast for the eyes, all that gorgeous landscape and cinematique CGI was like awe inspiring , i just need a fanvid ,only with their landscapes in all of the three realms!

i have no idea if its true, but dylan and esther will be swamped with offers and contracts after this huge success, so its no wonder, that probably in the near future , like every second major and minor production will try to get them.

omg you named nearly all my fav actors!!
weeee...! !!! *faints*

lol, there is barely any triangle, the FL had sort of childhood crush on the SML , thats never going to develop into a full romantic love .
so , honestly, there was never really a competition between ML and SML.

still, of course, they have their destiny. but no worries, its all with happy end.

sharing two gorgeous fanvids that i have just found with our gorgeous evil overlord

https://youtu.be/GNocyYKiCtg

Bloodstream - The Most Epic Cut of Love Between Fairy and Devil
https://youtu.be/xQFtUdrucgM

thanks for the warning!

i think, i will put blue whisper first, before i am taking kunlun mountains off the shelf , to give it try.

thats true, i was also a little bit perplex, the mirror showed just one except from the future, so theoretically no one could deduce from one single scene,that that would be end .

actually, i must correct myself, i spoke wrongly!
actually, there are dramas in that era Qing, that did work for me, it was like two lifetimes ago, lol, and i was still a baby, but yeah, not sure how old you are, or if you have ever known Hongkong TVB dramas from the 80 /90 decades
but i am referring to this old dramas with those HKG superstars back then, the drama that made them household names in Hongkong, as well as worldwide in the overseas chinese and chinese origin overseas fans:
https://kisskh.at/6838-the-duke-of-mount-deer

both actors, tony leung as well as andy lau, where my childhood crushes of course, and i am glad, both still keep their fame till today.

wrote this as a comment for the giveaway, but thought, i copy and paste my thoughts here as well.

I love the show because of many, many reasons, but one of the main reasons, is NOT that dylan is hot as hell, as the evol, yet good, big badass (the best since... not YLLZ / wei wuxian, lol, nope since the US show Lucifer, where the actor Tom Ellis has superbly portrait the sort of Christian devil). I certainly rooted for him, who wouldn't coz his portrayal of DF was more than perfect and flawless, and the SML , CH, honestly, I couldn't decide which one I would have liked for the FL to end up with.
to my own surprise, its been the actress Esther, and how her character was written, and played.

she is innocent and trusting and naive at times, and that's how she certainly was as little orchid in the beginning (later, the goddess, I found the transition and the reasoning believable, however jarring and sad). but her whole journey and development along the drama (and hopefully as well in the novel) had shown one thing: being good and wanting to save the world and your dear ones, doesn't have to be in a brainless and dumb way or staying a 3 year old brat.

yes she more or less, needs a lot of saving from the devil , but those situations are always believable, and more or less, not within her fault.

their entire relationships, both her childish initial crush on the SML, as well as the later falling for the DF, was just... seamlessly believable. and well, one of the most healthy, less toxic , in such a "twilight" kind of fantasy setup I have seen in a long while. (I mean, come on, DF looks sometimes just as a vampire!lol, and gods, the age difference, if she weren't also the goddess, that would have make young fans probably go crazy and uncomfortable all over) .

truth is, after watching the ending of ep 35, for like ähh 60x times or so, I was ready to announce: you know what, SML and ML, you both can fuck off and elope for all I care, I will marry the goddess/ orchid anytime. hahah. yeah, duty and love, she tried her best to fulfill her destiny, and not to forsake her loved ones. not blaming fate / destiny / other characters, but growing up, and owning up, what needs to be done in the face of the fate of the realms, and saving everyone from tai sui. (the evol cloud, as I call that being) .

i am usually one of those , no I don't have time like in my youth, to pour my soul into these kind of hate / ship wars, or discussions. I will leave that to the teenagers and tweens nowadays (I am a mid-forties woman) , who simply fast forward or not watch the show at all, if I see totally dumbass written female characters. I mean , naivite is really fine, but 95% of all -c-dramas I have seen the last 4 years ( I think that's the time, since I got sucked into watching c-dramas as a whole, must be starting with when I discovered NIF) are having female lead characters, where you wish. GAWDS how are these girls real? (fair enough, most male characters are also same level of mehhh, though I assume, the male characters are tend to be written slightly more palatable for the audience, plus, we all know, men do always get more leeway than women, both in real world as much as in fictional setups.)

in a nutshell, despite really, like HITTING ANY EXISTING fandom TROPE and KINK, as a story, the entire drama made it worked out perfectly, and this is one of the few dramas, where I would not have mind to have more episodes , I for once, found the ending satisfying (well they don't suffer like another 30000 years of separation, honestly, whats 500 yrs? they are immortals, that time span must be nothing) and would rather not having a sequel, with those characters or the main leads. )

rather give dylan and esther the chance now , with their fame, to explore more character options, I really hope for them to not stuck in playing those similar characters for the next few years, that would be really sad.

even that said, with this kind of story being such an immense success, there will be clone dramas popping up for the next 3 years, at least. that's my bet.
well at least, the screaming for release of any BL dramas , will be quieter, and maybe if the attention is being shifted from those BL dramas, the censors in china will be more lenient , and have mercy on the rest of the audience.

thanks a million for the blog name , i found it!

you mean CH? i dont remember that part, only that she would gain more powers, to truly defeat Tai Tsui ?

i mean no matter what, their power of love (DF and XY ) did defeat the evol cloud and changed their fate (or was it their destiny all along anyway?)

i am really not sure, how they explain the flow of time nowadays.

but back in those old days , it was said, like for the immortals 1 day in heaven, was like 100 years in the mortal realm.

but alas, you know, quite honestly, the discussion is sort of mood. coz no matter from which angle one has to look at, they were in love, and then they were separated. i guess, with that romantic background / POV, one day even can feel like a hundred years, so its cruel no matter. its 500 yrs, or being separated 50,000 yrs.

me too. somehow the story completely failed to draw me in.
even though its said, coz i like the ML, but guess, even his aloofness isnt sufficient to make up for my lack of interest.

i had it on my list, and tried 3 eps. but sorry, that era's style of clothing and dressing and overall hairstyle isnt just going to do anything for me, i doubt, even if Dylan and Esther would be in it, it would do anything for me.

so my next try is lost in the kunlun mountains.

oh, I just saw, still have on the shelf "the blue whisper".
usually dilraba does work for me... not sure if the story is captivating enough though

"was she going to have some powers through wedding?"
she explained it, through the betrothal pact, and the wedding she would have get unlocked some special powers.

isnt that for immortals like a blink of an eye? he was imprisoned like 30,000 years, so 500 years doesnt sound long at all.

though, of course from our POV as mere mortals, that would be cruel!

thanks for those key words, i found the clips on YT !

you seeemed to have read the novel! is it as good as the drama? better? worse? different? is it available in english?
thanks!

after rewatching the end of ep 35 like 3 nights without end, and in the loop, i am quite convinced, I am more in love than ever with the FL. whether she was little orchid, the goddess, or being possessed DF,
a) that actress was superb
b) her character, both as goddess and orchid, and her determination to do the right thing to save the realms from evil tai tsui, no matter at what own personal cost, is just... made me totally undone.

the only thing, that of course, with all these immortals dramas, the characters don't really die.
they are either coming back, or are being reborn.
either way, its more or less 99% happy ending.
but if no one can really die, or always have had the chance to return to life?

well , I personally feel, that takes away all the tragedy ...

not directly. i like those minutes after the kiss, where DFQC and XLH / Goddess were getting their gear ready, for facing their destined fate, the wedding, and the battle with the evol cloud thing tai tsui?
those shots were just... beautiful!
i am a bit odd, so for me that cliffhanger / open ending of eps 35, was the perfect ending.
the suspense ,never knowing who wins, or with whom the FL lead is going to end up, and which side is winning the war ?
thats like for me, its been perfect.

i actually did not care much about eps 36.
i know, very odd.