Dramafan

Being the prior 2 in this IP were duds, I didn't have high hopes but maybe the practice makes perfect---same Director but this time the feel is more like a movie in lighting and sets, and the camera angles, lighting, and even the cutaways make this drama far my eye-appealing. Leads fit their roles and the way all characters are shot makes them beautiful--2nd lead Fiction Guo looks esp. good looking right from his appearance even with a bandana allowing only his eyes to be seen. Just the choices for voices of leads is irksome-likely selected because they sound younger than the actual actor's voices/age.
And that's just about the visuals!
(Detractors might say the animated demons don't fit but I think they worked fine and better than the creepy half real faces/half CGI bodies i recall from Disney's Maleficent)
Story--perhaps some will say tropy terrible childhood back story but it propels a "I want to know more" story and character motivations and links well to predecessor drama.
Watch and make your own decision! So far equivalent to Love in the Clouds, not a snooze dialogue-fest like Blood River, and while yet another sad ending for Cheng YI (does he always pick projects where he dies at the end?) FAR superior to the prior dramas in this trilogy and CY;s Journey of Legend.