Replying to rambler26 • Aug 12, 2023
Title Love You Seven Times Spoiler
This lifetime was my favorite in the novel but dear god, I preferred it much better when the "third prince" wasn't…
Typically in other xianxias, the couple already loved each other in their original forms before having to reincarnate and starting over for tribulation. So the investment was already there. I think the disconnect here has to do with them not having established their romantic connections first so the viewer can emotionally relate. How they're falling in love now isn't really "real", if that makes any sense. You can see XY falling for him because it's all her with her memories, whereas CK doesn't have his. So it's kind of like what's the point of all this if once they go back, he remembers that he didn't even like her. And at the same time, she's not falling for his whole self either, just this sweeter aspect of him. So that's another issue there. For me, I need to see him fall for her as his whole self (and vice versa) and not any of these “individual parts” in order to buy into their romance. I'm looking forward to moving on from this arc and into the next when CK has his memories in tact and start doing the real falling. I love DYX in this, he's great. FL is so so. At least she isn't as bad as she was in CZ.
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