Great chemistry, great kiss scenes. Some good kilig moments. Plot is simple and really pared down to only its most basic elements, but the story is novel and creative. It could be fleshed out into a good regular length drama.
ML and FL are both kind of goofy-hot which I really like. No annoying characters. I give it a 7 because it's a solid watch, but I'm not rating it higher because it felt like they raced too fast through the story for it to be a truly enjoyable rewatch.... and because the drama is fluttery and sexy but a little teensy bit too tame. All it all, it was 'not bad'.
The drama was good and I’m glad I watched it. Both actors did a great job at delivering their roles but it was…
SHEN LI ROCKS I think you will have fun with it. Rare for such a good xianxia to have a true HE. So many big names do guest roles and cameos, it's really cool.
Ignore it - had to be done to pass censorship. Or you can interpret it as the modern day them 😬 hope you caught…
their 'official' excuse is that some young impressionable girls have killed themselves to try to reincarnate or something. But just personally, I highly doubt they are censoring huge productions over one or two suicides in a population of like a billion. I bet it's more to do with the politics of religion. CCP is very prickly about religion in their country. But that's just personal speculation on my part.
Me!! I love he yu so much there and he was great here too as furong. i hope he only gets bigger from now on
Me too, and he doesn't get to show it in LoSL, but goddddd he is such a good onscreen kisser wheww baby! He should totally have some more ML roles in the future. He has a really rare kind of sexy/cute.
The casting was so so good. The story was simple but well-paced and engaging. The OST matched the story really well and complimented it. It was of a higher caliber than most short-length c-dramas. It was spicy and sensual, the kiss scenes were not the best but they are very well done.
My biggest issue with this drama is I am very averse to crying, and unexpectedly this drama made me cry quite a bit. It was just so poignant. If you want something sexy, but also that moves you, this is your drama.
Although I didn't enjoy all the crying I did while watching this, and my personal score would probably be a 7 or 7.5.... I just can't in good conscience leave a rating so low for something that I can see objectively is so good. So I gave it an 8. This may be too simplistic to really compare to full length dramas, but for a short-length, it was really of a much higher quality than most.
It's insane how the first 30 episodes are like watching someone try to light a campfire with waterproof matches in the rain, and then by ep 39, it's a full-on out of control raging forest fire, and you're like "well, that escalated quickly".
i did! the actor who played furong is the male lead in that drama, right?! I kept thinking he is so familiar!
yep he is! It was so fun watching him in this after having seen MFB... he had me totally crackin up. I love his sly little side-glances, and that goofy way he runs.... and seeing him in "fisherman's face" was freakin hilarious, that was such a great scene <3
The story of the King of Chimei and Liu Yu was so unexpected, and made me cry. It was not what I expected at all.…
Normally with these kinds of side-stories, I get really frustrated like I'm being dragged unwillingly away from the main story. But not this time. It was a really good side-story and could easily make a drama in it's own right.... although I'd like to see a better ending for them.
Yes, she has 3 potential love interests... the ML Xie Wei and two others.
The ML (Xie Wei) causes the death of the FL in the first timeline (which the story isn't about.... they give you the first timeline in a sequence of flashback-type scenes to set up the story of the second timeline). Because of this, from the moment the ML is introduced to the story, the FL is afraid of him and what downfall he might cause in her life. So when he expresses any kind of interest in her, she never considers it's because he likes her.
The 2ML (Zhang Zhe) is the person she starts off the story having a huge crush on. He shows no interest in her.
The 3ML (Yan Lin) is her bestie who has an unrequited crush on her. On her end, it's never more than platonic.
In the beginning, as FL pines away for 2ML, the ML is mainly in the background, and when she thinks of ML or interacts with the ML, she is mainly worried about what his motivations are and whether he has any plans to kill her or otherwise cause her demise.
Once FL realizes she has feelings for the ML, she is ready to put behind her crush on the 2ML. But by then, the 2ML realizes he has feelings for her, and they have a scene where she roundly rejects his advances on her and she makes it clear that he should move on from any feelings he might have for her.
Some people who watch this start off shipping for 2ML because he's been in other dramas where he is the sexy awesome love interest. But the majority of people who watch this are shipping ML by the time their romance really kicks in.
There is no actual traditional "love triangle" like the kind you generally see in old-school k-dramas. It's just that the ML has to wait for the FL to get over her infatuation with the 2ML, and get her to see her true feelings.
FL does not ever have mutually accepted romantic feelings for anyone but the ML. But their romance doesn't really get started until roughly episode 30.
I just totally marathoned that in one weekend. Did not skip the epic fight scenes, which for me is a huge testament to how good this is, because I normally hate epic fight scenes. My biggest gripe is 1) FL's lipliner problem and 2) Fairly sanitized kiss scenes. But that's pretty standard for the genre.
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ML and FL are both kind of goofy-hot which I really like. No annoying characters. I give it a 7 because it's a solid watch, but I'm not rating it higher because it felt like they raced too fast through the story for it to be a truly enjoyable rewatch.... and because the drama is fluttery and sexy but a little teensy bit too tame. All it all, it was 'not bad'.
My biggest issue with this drama is I am very averse to crying, and unexpectedly this drama made me cry quite a bit. It was just so poignant. If you want something sexy, but also that moves you, this is your drama.
Although I didn't enjoy all the crying I did while watching this, and my personal score would probably be a 7 or 7.5.... I just can't in good conscience leave a rating so low for something that I can see objectively is so good. So I gave it an 8. This may be too simplistic to really compare to full length dramas, but for a short-length, it was really of a much higher quality than most.
lol, I don't know what else to call it.
The 2ML (Zhang Zhe) is the person she starts off the story having a huge crush on. He shows no interest in her.
The 3ML (Yan Lin) is her bestie who has an unrequited crush on her. On her end, it's never more than platonic.
In the beginning, as FL pines away for 2ML, the ML is mainly in the background, and when she thinks of ML or interacts with the ML, she is mainly worried about what his motivations are and whether he has any plans to kill her or otherwise cause her demise.
Once FL realizes she has feelings for the ML, she is ready to put behind her crush on the 2ML. But by then, the 2ML realizes he has feelings for her, and they have a scene where she roundly rejects his advances on her and she makes it clear that he should move on from any feelings he might have for her.
Some people who watch this start off shipping for 2ML because he's been in other dramas where he is the sexy awesome love interest. But the majority of people who watch this are shipping ML by the time their romance really kicks in.
There is no actual traditional "love triangle" like the kind you generally see in old-school k-dramas. It's just that the ML has to wait for the FL to get over her infatuation with the 2ML, and get her to see her true feelings.
FL does not ever have mutually accepted romantic feelings for anyone but the ML. But their romance doesn't really get started until roughly episode 30.
9.5 from me.