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There are some opinions just two posts after you in https://kisskh.at/768987-wan-xin-ji#comment-23874586

Couldn't unsee that either.

Your "female general dramas of 2025" list is at least missing https://kisskh.at/776871-qing-chuan ^_^

Yes. She'll get a far better plot arc.

Yes. :c

I guess Qin Tian Yu isn't dubbed by anyone else and this helps a lot.

He's actually far less annoying than in Princess Royal, where he's like 9/10 annoying.

Here he's only half as annoying due to (thankfully) being on screen less.

I wish the FL wasn't dubbed, or dubbed differently :(

If you skip past the character development at 5x speed and only judge the ending, that might not be the best position from which to judge if the ending makes sense or not.

Blatant overacting is a bit of a tradition in Asian shows. I watched like a hundred dramas with over the top characters, over-acting villains, and so on.
For me, his character here is in the 1% that are actually a delight to watch. Likely also because he has some good lines written for him and his chemistry with his female counterpart is on point.

Of all ETL I've watched, this certainly is up there in terms of taking the enemies part quite seriously.

How does this work btw, do you have to be "Premium VIP" on iQIYI and then also pay for that mythical "express" thing?

(I just steal the 4K stuff from elsewhere, so it's just out of curiosity.)

It's definitely a step down from https://kisskh.at/733007-the-evil-face but still quite watchable.

The two FLs were much better in costume roles, dunno if that's the fault of the production (crew) or the modern setting or the actresses.

it did feel like a big plot hole to me, how SML villain dated SFL, while FL knew nothing.

however they do have a scene near the end that tries to justify it, where the two girls are at a shoot in historical costumes in the dark, freezing, and SFL talks about how there is this guy with whom she can just be herself, without referring to him by name or any other way.

so essentially the idea that you are supposed to believe is that the FL did not know his name or anything.

Gotta say:
Yuan Bao was the most important cast member.

Sadly the ""sequel"" https://kisskh.at/749333-qin-ai-de-bai-yue-guang isn't as strong. Both FLs don't deliver as well in their roles.

Comments from the age before "When Destiny Brings the Demon" age poorly.

It's sure a darker show, but in https://kisskh.at/776871-qing-chuan he's the ML and does a decent job.

I was very sad about how underpowered the (almost-)dragon ended up being.
Had just watched him as the ML of QVoV and he got to do a lot more there.


The flower demon flip-flops between useless comedic character and average power. (The villains also have power levels that shift from strong to kitten and back.)

If you consider "what happened 18 years ago" to be the main plot, that's pretty much on hold and only gets a few minutes in the last episodes.

If you consider defeating the villains the main plot, the longest-lasting ones are mostly dormant until the end, and to me none of them were interesting.

If you consider "the leads getting together" the main plot, at least that happens a lot earlier and the last episodes still have a few cute scenes.
(If you want heavy spoilers regarding couples happening or not, https://kisskh.at/696033-mei-fu-ren-chong-fu-ri-chang#comment-23815894 )

Yes, the plot is Swiss cheese.

If the ML was a demon all along because his daddy was a demon, or a part-demon because his mommy wasn't, then someone would have noticed in their million years of temple training, and random "demon-cleansing" spells would have hurt him, etc.

If the ML becomes a cat or demon due to his time travel, then this rewrites the timeline and the story can't resume in the same timeline.
If the FL becomes a full demon or full cat human or whatever due to ML's time travel interference, this also rewrites the timeline and the story can't resume there.
Bonus: If you change the timeline, there's supposedly grave universe-destroying consequences.
If the ML went back in time to "reclaim his own fate" (from the FL), then one would assume this to un-entangle their fates from each other and to torpedo their romance.

And it's not like it makes sense for the FL, who is part human and part demon, with both cat lord powers fused into her and a evil phantom core in her, to be LESS HUMAN (full demon) through the removal of the phantom core.
And if the FL became a full demon, then both in the rewritten past she would have been zapped by the formation at ML's workplace, as well as after she recovers her memory and goes to his workplace to look for him.


Why can the ML suddenly cast cat demon powers to free the FL? Nobody knows. Surely there's only supposed to be one cat lord.

Why can FL control the Changxi Mace? Her shifu is ML's daddy, but ML's shifu isn't exactly her daddy. If say "anyone pure of heart" can control it, then all the other Changxi disciples sans the leader Chang Ming should also be able to.

Since everything important is usually done offscreen, we don't even know if the ML wakes from his time travel coma suddenly, or he actually remained in the past and meditated "in seclusion" for 18 years to get back to the present.


To summarize, we don't even know which of the leads is human or demon or some mix. Not at the start, not at the end.



Also, who even kills the ML's mother? She's just randomly dead BEFORE the whole "fire raining down" thing happens.

In EP37, the FL confronts WuZiShu with a complete list of his crimes and his former identity as the big evil's sidekick. Where does any of this come from? The only plausible explanation is "the writers told her offscreen", it's that much out of nowhere.

Who kills dozens of random demons and why, while the cat and snake lords are out? The rat faction leader breaks into the warehouse and steals stuff there, but that was before. When the FL returns to the demon market, there's corpses everywhere, and the Hui faction supposedly took over, but we never see any of them.




There's much more the story should be explaining:
- what is WuZiShu's purpose and motivation as the phantom's sidekick?
- what did the evil phantom "write" on WuZiShu / QiangYi?
- isn't it literally WuZiShu who casted the fire balls in the past and thus is responsible for hundreds of deaths and city-wide destruction?


Chang Ming's motivations/actions/goals are really weak. his character is a convoluted combo of:
- he is jealous of ML's talent so he wants to take a dark arts shortcut
- he wants to kill all demons, so he... a) becomes an evil cultivator, b) creates demonic havoc
- he seemingly trains Pei Ji Ya for years, just to do one ink demon thing?
- he can't simultaneously be resident leader on a mountain where nobody ever leaves, while roaming Jianghu places and doing evil deeds and overseeing Pei Ji Ya and who knows what other evil disciples
- he is the leader of Changxi but can't take actions without convincing all his overly independent brothers
- once he is shown that demons aren't actually evil, he goes back to his "kill all demons" routine and is defeated in one second by what... his master's spirit? programming in the sword to punish him if he breaks his promise? he was carrying the Changxi Mace for some time and surely did other evil stuff in that time, so this would have happened much earlier.

It's so offensive that you don't even get a confession scenes where "the leads getting together".

They just are from one episode to the next, like someone flipped a switch (relationship mode: on), or they forgot an hour of footage.