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I really don’t see any issue with the FL

I thought this was just fans of certain traffic stars mad that this drama hit 10k and theirs didn’t.

yeah I saw that. I was just wondering if the show had gotten negative review bombed because of that whole fiasco.

this is actually pretty decent for a modern (I’m not usually into them). is the rating so low for any particular reason? I read about the attacks on Yu Shuxin last week and so wondered if it was some carryover hate from that.

the ending is not as resolved as I’d like, but it’s still an HE and imo a beautiful ending

this person is like this in reply to whatever thread they’re in

where did you get that it was supposed to intense? the first big trailer literally started out with Dylan doing a dance number. it’s been clear from the getgo that this is a comedy. not the show’s fault you didn’t watch the trailer apparently.

She’s not ditzy or an airhead at all. She’s clever and thoughtful. You all just see ‘cute’ and ascribe negative traits to it.

1) Overall not as well developed or fleshed out in the romance department as LBFAD, but still really lovely and sweet.
2) GREAT chemistry
3) I wasn’t fond of a couple one off characters, but they’re only there for an ep or two. Leads and major supporting roles are all likable.
4) Well paced for the first twenty eps, meanders a bit for the next ten but is overall still decent. Last two eps are great.
5) Would liked to have had more time for a few later plot lines, a bit of fleshing out of some emotional moments. Miaomiao gets kind of shoved to the background for about 24-30, which can be frustrating. I think a lot of people wish the main couple had more skinship, and that the epilogue could have been a bit longer. I’m obsessed with both it and LBFAD, but LBFAD is the stronger show. LBFAD easily has the cleanest, most well placed arcs and characterization of any xianxia I’ve seen, as well as the most well fleshed out romantic relationship. LGIEF is not on that level, but it is still REALLY delightful!! I highly recommend it. Don’t expect it to be LBFAD2, but you’ll still have a great time with it, and the couple is very sweet.

Yes.

for me the only xianxia drama I’ve enjoyed more than this one is Esther’s other xianxia, Love Between Fairy and Devil

there is absolutely buzz, discussion, etc. it’s still accumulating a lot of views and it’s still doing very well in China. It’s a hit.
The tail effect is good and the douban rating just went up today. The variety show based on it is airing right now, and it’s doing very well. The internet does not consist of just the MDL comment section.

also it wouldn’t have aired alongside Blossom anyway. They’re both Tencent.

what did they do to Didi? Crazy they would mistreat either Didi or Esther considering LBFAD is one of their biggest moneymakers in years

can’t speak for outside of China, but in China itself by numbers, buzz, social media, viewing numbers, etc., yes LGIEF is absolutely a bigger hit than Pearl Girl.

They make out like six times in LBFAD, and they’re often long, quite passionate kisses that they both get into. Honestly some of the best kisses in Cdrama land. Moonlight has a lot like this as well. I’m not sure why you’d blame Esther for this. The writers just made a choice.

the doomed yuri vibes were STRONG

This is interesting read, which you are entitled to your headcanons, of course, but again, like much of the above, I don’t think it’s supported by canon.

If we are talking about what’s written in the narrative; yes Fu Zhou is Ziqi, and yes, Ziqi and Miaomiao experienced that world and fell in love. This is a transmigration story. They fall in love in another story, and then meet up again in the real world. It is truly that simple.

The book signing thing makes perfect sense. He wanted to revise the book because doing so would help fulfill his three wishes toward Miaomiao (and just from a practical POV, recovery from literal brain surgery is not fast. he would have been stuck at home for a while). As for her, she couldn’t remember his name or face. Of course she hadn’t found him and assumed it wasn’t real. Not sure I want to continue debating this. You seem to have a lot of fan theories and that’s fine, but that’s not really what I think OP was asking. Have a nice night.

He did write a fanfic version of himself, in middle school. and then he transmigrated during surgery and became Ziqi. The antagonist ‘Fu Zhou’ that unleashes the destruction of heaven is his middle school self, the existing narrative, because it’s who wrote the original novel. Present day Ziqi is the one that’s in there as Mu Sheng, while he’s having surgery, and he and LMM are rewriting that story.

This is a typical (though very well executed) transmigration drama that ends with the two characters who fell in love meeting in the real world. Truly it is not deeper than that, and we aren’t supposed to believe that the person LMM meets in the real world is NOT the person she fell in love with in the parallel world. That’s why ‘Mu Ziqi is still in this world’ is important.

you are correct. Mu Qingshi represents the first time LMM saves him. Lin Yu is unconnected to Miaomiao originally.

don’t agree with that interpretation at all and I don’t think canon supports it. I think it’s explicitly not the case.

over and over Ziqi is shown as Fu Zhou’s avatar in the book. His half demon heritage is analogous to his chronic illness IRL, he is the one who has slips that reveal fragments of another life (the bunny apple, the swing chair, and my favorite, the crescent weapon being the same shape as the pen Miaomiao left behind). No one else has this. They are one and the same. When he wrote the original book Ziqi was his avatar because he was angry and wanted to destroy the world (remember Ziqi became an antagonist in that version). When he transmigrated with Miaomiao, he experienced and was able to rewrite Ziqi as a hero.

‘Mu Ziqi still lives on in this world.’ As the official Weibo said.