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Read the novel for a happy ending. I truly hate adaptations that doesnt follow the novel’s plot, especially when the novel had been so good.

I thought the novel Wei Shao from The Prisoner of Beauty is the bastard of all ML bastards that I’ve read, turned out this Murong Jinghe is even worse 😒 i think writer of such novel really need to get their mental health checked. Super red flag.

Where did i say they must speak with english accent or without korean accent? All im saying is the super thick korean accent english that they spoke which is barely comprehensible shows how they do not play their “korean living abroad” role well. What’s more laughable is when their english lines can even be counted with one hand, some only have 2-3 lines only, and yet still fail to execute well.

Btw whats with this excuse about impossible to lose the incomprehensible english with super thick korean accent when other method actors can do it just fine? The squid game korean who played a main role in star war’s series the acolyte took english classes for that role and i saw he’s doing just fine acting as a main role in english speaking tv show. So yeah his korean accent is there but it is acceptable cuz it’s comprehensible. I’m sure he’s not the only one putting up enough effort for a role. That is the kind of dedication that i was talking about. I dont care about other shows cuz i dont watch them. And even if i watch and still saw a language that i can understand but been spoken horribly for a role that should speak it well, then for sure i would still criticize. It applies to all shows, just so happens i watch kdrama hence the criticism on this particular show.

Where did i say they must speak with english accent or without korean accent? All im saying is the super thick korean accent english that they spoke which is barely comprehensible shows how they do not play their “korean living abroad” role well. What’s more laughable is when their english lines can even be counted with one hand, some only have 2-3 lines only, and yet still fail to execute well.

Btw whats with this excuse about impossible to loose the incomprehensible english with super thick korean accent when other method actors can do it just fine? The squid game korean who played a main role in star war’s series the acolyte took english classes for that role and i saw he’s doing just fine acting as a main role in english speaking tv show. So yeah his korean accent is there but it is acceptable cuz it’s comprehensible. I’m sure he’s not the only one putting up enough effort for a role. That is the kind of dedication that i was talking about. I dont care about other shows cuz i dont watch them. And even if i watch and still saw a language that i can understand but been spoken horribly for a role that should speak it well, then for sure i would still criticize. It applies to all shows, just so happens i watch kdrama hence the criticism on this particular show.

The only one that i think can pass in cross dressing role is Zhang Tian Ai. She really looks rough disguising as a soldier, her face has a tinge of masculinity and the fact that they tanned her skin only made it even more convincing. The only shortcoming being only her height and build. Saw her in Fighting for Love and she totally nails it.

Ikr. I bawled when he died. I was wishing that he was not dead yet, that when Wei Qu strapped his body on his back that wei liang would somehow wake up and say “not so harsh. Im not dead yet!” 😭 had his character was the ML he couldve easily survived even the most severe injury. Such double-standard! Why cant support character also survive 😭

I have never rooted for any side couples as hard as I did with XiaoTao-Wei Liang. I never fastforwaded any of their scenes (like i did with side couples in other cdrama). This couple is the cutest!

I totally agree. ML is just too selfish knowing that he has a revenge to settle and yet drag shaoshang into the mess. I was super delighted when shaoshang left him after the first cliff event. He deserved it and so much more! He knew everything about shaoshang, and yet let shaoshang be in the dark about him. What a selfish bastard. I was not even moved when he decided to jump off the cliff, leaving shaoshang despite knowing she will never forgive him. In fact i wished shaoshang managed to slip from his grip at the last cliff scene and die, so ML would live in regret and despair all his life bwahahaha i dont mind a tragic ending here, this is the only time that i feel the ML totally deserved it.

It turned out i had a hard time moving on from this. So i started reading the novel. So apparently Mommy Xiao isnt as ruthless towards shaoshang in the novel than the adaptation. Gosh i wanted to slap her senseless when the on screen mom berated Shaoshang in front of the emperor just to decline the proposal. What a horrible mom! Novel mommy xiao is much more tolerable than the adaptation mom.

I concur. Although this show has a tragic ending, it did provide a complete closure and not leave us gaping at the senseless deaths around ML. The ending is perfect as it would seamlessly connect to the next series Sword and Beloved. I heard WQHY is gonna be a bad guy there and really harsh in Fugui’s upbringing. I dont think I’ll be watching Sword & Beloved cuz I hate tragic endings. And since in the fox spirit universe, their love would only be rekindled in their modern reincarnations, we won’t be seeing that on screen. Dangit.

Theyre already filming the next tragic love story about Huaizhu-hongye’s son Wangquan Fugui. So yeah there will be next story.

Oh by the way, with regard to your question as to how everyone can recover from forgetting him - i have passed the part in the book where everyone forgot XQA. It was really short because this spell casted by his father breaks after one of the cursed one’s family somehow remembers him. In the novel, the one who remembered him was his uncle. I dont remember who, but either chief astrologer or yunlu director forecasted this and he wrote a note that led to XQA’s uncle to remember. Everyone actually forgot him for less than 24hours and he was also rescued within that time 😂 I wont tell who rescued him lest you say im spoiling it for you.

Thanks!!

Oh so this story is a prequel to fox spirit. Great. I can just watch straight away.

The reason i asked is because i dont plan to watch fox spirit. But no point starting this one if i need to watch fox spirit to understand the whole story. If i need to watch fox spirit then i wont start on love in pavilion at all.

Great thanks.

I understand that the characters are from fox spirit matchmaker series. Should i watch the fox spirit first or can i just watch this without?

I wouldnt even bother with a review. All that action and goriness and u cant really make anything out cuz everything is dark! Gosh. Even when i turned my screen brightness all the way up i still have problem making out what is which. What a bummer. The reason why i dislike Batman franchise is because they always go for dark themed lighting. The tyrant can join batman club. 🙄

I havent finished the book, it is so long and Xu Qi an keep getting injured and breakthrough his martial level like nobody’s business. Currently at Volume 3, he’s already level 3 expert compared to level 9 at the beginning of the book and i dont think the book will finish until he reaches level 1 at least, hopefully not martial god cuz damn thats gonna be so long way to finish from where i am. Anyway, he is about to find out who Shen Shu really is. The suspicion is shen shu is buddha himself.

The Witch sect and Kui people are in collusion with XQA’s father to overthrow current ruling royal so they can conquer the whole kingdom. The father is actually the chief astrologer’s senior disciple. This is just the tip of the iceberg. There’s so much going on in the book that it might take 3-4 seasons to finish if they were to follow the book.

My interest is waning cuz there’s too much of XQA’s womanizing plot in between that I get tired of - this Xu Qi An is much worse of a player than Fan Xian of Joy of Life (the book character, not on screen cuz they toned down the womanizing part of on screen Fan Xian). Yes you read that right, book Xu Qi An is waaaaaaaaaaay much worse of womanising scum than book Fan Xian. 😡 so i kinda keep putting off to continue reading the book cuz his relationships is all over the place like spiderweb.it’s really a torture to read even if i skip all the womanizing part. It’s too bad cuz the real plot is really good.

Problem is Sang Sang in novel isnt supposed to be pretty. So I think they did it right by the actress. She nailed the portrayal of novel Sang Sang, really.