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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.

What are you saying about letting go? When it was first aired last year, i rewatched it 4 times consecutively back to back 😂 i thought after the 4th watch, ive already gotten over it. But then here i am rewatching it and crying like a baby at their dying scenes all over again. 😂 gosh it’s truly their best pairing yet. Moving on? I dont think so 😅

So it is slow up to the very end? Im at ep 7 and the pacing is so infuriatingly slow that i was thinking of dropping it altogether. After reading your comment, yeah im definitely gonna drop this. Too slow to further waste my time.

I am at ep 7 oh boy the pace has been so slowwwww i might drop this. His paranoia is irritating cuz the suspicions keep getting quelled by him getting gaslighted, even though i know those people are real serial killers. I might really drop this.

I think so too, too bad cuz the first part followed the book quite closely except for the details i mentioned. They skipped so many arcs to make everyone forget XQA at the moment he behaded the minister and dukes, when in the book it had happened quite towards the end of vol 2.

I dont get the ending too. Cuz in the novel, ML actually went to become the common people’s hero after he beheaded those two scums. He had so much support from the ministers, even the chief astrologer and yunlu director backed him up in front of the emperor that the emperor end up being forced to issue edict of self reproach, admitting that he had allowed the zhenbei wang to kill chuzhou’s population. Although ML had no choice but to quit his job at the nightwatch, he stil struts around freely with the prestige of the people’s hero. I just dont get why they changed it to memory erasing instead. The scene of his family forgetting him was so sad. This didnt happen in the novel.

There’s a reason why i put on the spoiler warning duh!

By the way it’s not future spoiler. Your first thought was correct, The death scene i mentioned was when he died alone in the cave in yunzhou, that was when he was already silver gong on a mission fighting off robbers. In the novel his death in yunzhou had been for fighting off 200 rebel yunzhou army. The production didnt follow the novel on that death, they changed it to him dying alone in that cave and found by his two best friends, bronze gongs song ting fang and zhu guangxiao.

It’s not future spoiler, mind you! That arc has gone by in the show, they just changed it to him fighting off with that mysterious entity in the cave instead. Im just expressing my disappointment that they decided to change it. I really think his novel death is so much more epic than what the show changed it to.

I fastforwarded all her scenes cuz i just cant stand her. She’s the most useless character btw, dunno why they decided to make her the FL when she was just a minor character on the novel. I skipped reading all her parts in the novel too. The novel Lin An is so much more overbearing than the adaptation Lin An - always calling ML as dog slave. Gosh i hate her character so much. Although I loved the idea of WQA coupling up with HuaiQing or any other character, given his womanizer character in the novel, i hope he marries Lin An instead, just so she’d make his lecherous life miserable 😂

The novel ML wanted to marry all these women btw, always refering to HuaiQing as wife #1 and Lin An as wife #2, and the rest as the women in his life as his concubines (though this is only in his monologues cuz he didnt sleep with them so far, im at the end of Volume 2 now). Gosh the author made WQA much more lecherous than JoL’s Fan Xian, WQA’s fav hangout spot is the Imperial Brothel and he has slept with almost all the top courtesans there. I really hate this side of the character.

Dont drop it, just do like i did, fast forward all of her scenes cuz theyre irrelevant to the main story. 😂😝 Her character is really expendable. More like a filler character than FL really, both in adaptation and the novel. The only time her character seem to function is on the Princess Pingyang arc, but i still skip her scenes and not miss anything either 😂 basically she’s useless you can totally skip her parts

She got better towards the end but i still hate her and fast forward almost all her scenes. Though the lin an in the novel is so much worse, always calling WQA as dog slave. I skipped her parts on the novel too 😂 she is so irritating.