I WANT to love this drama because I absolutely adore Liu Xueyi and think he's gorgeous, and I also loved the FL…
I get that. I'm enjoying it, but not to a crazy extent. if I had to try to explain my problems with this drama: I feel like they revealed too much of the plot too early, and now they're trying to cover up their lack of plot & poor planning with forced romantic interactions. like.... the last few episodes have been hard for me to watch bc there was such a huge tonal shift😭 I don't buy into these interactions at all. they don't make me feel anything bc they feel so forced.
That leader was Fagin from Oliver Twist on evil juice. Grooming all those kids because his weak ass couldn't leave…
sixth brother storyline had me so confused. at the end, HZB is just like "hmm I don't want to be chief" and the chief goes "okay I won't force you" 😭 like... was it always that easy? sixth brother really abandoned his wife & child because he wanted to be sect leader, even though it could have been given to him with likely no conflict?? I really thought there would be something greater to his character but nope. literally no purpose, they should have just kept him dead so we wouldn't be so confused 😭
Do you call this a sad ending after watching the last few minutes? I think it’s one of the worst endings any…
I don't view it the same way. there is such a distinct difference in how he first acts at her grave vs how he acts when he's older. when she first dies, he's obviously distraught & deeply hurt at her grave. but then we see his older self visiting, he's joking around & drinking with her.
he also specifically says "over the past decades, I've been coming to drink with you every year" which implies its a once a year thing to fulfill their promise. visiting the grave of a loved one every year does not mean that he "can't let go of her". he also told his master that he does not want to be chief bc he wants to punish evil & promote good in the martial world. so, we can assume that he's spent the years travelling, not sitting around wallowing in despair.
visiting her grave is like visiting home for him, a short break from the dangers in the martial world. a quiet moment shared between the two of them.
I'm usually not a fan of SML/SFL tropes, but I really like Miao Feng 🥺
I wish we had gotten more of them together 😭 even though it's a obviously a doomed ship because you know... responsible for her illness and killing Xuehuai and all.
I could be wrong, but last I heard, the novel wasn't even finished
I am not sure what the tag "pre-produced" means on MDL, but I'm going to assume that it refers to a drama that was fully filmed before airing. as opposed to a "live-shoot" drama, which is airing as it is being filmed.
but, if you mean the pre-production stages of the drama (before filming began), they likely just hired someone to write the script & finish the story for the drama. right now there are no writing credits for this drama, so I'm going to assume the original novel author (Xing Ling) might've had some part in it.
I want to know this too...they filmed that a whole 6 months after wrapping filming - never known that to happen??
they recently did something like this with another drama, the double, which had an arguably open ending at first. they filmed the extra episode while it was airing lol. so in this case, likely the ending was something like an open ending and maybe changed it after the sudden influx of open/sad endings lately, dunno. just an idea.
he also specifically says "over the past decades, I've been coming to drink with you every year" which implies its a once a year thing to fulfill their promise. visiting the grave of a loved one every year does not mean that he "can't let go of her". he also told his master that he does not want to be chief bc he wants to punish evil & promote good in the martial world. so, we can assume that he's spent the years travelling, not sitting around wallowing in despair.
visiting her grave is like visiting home for him, a short break from the dangers in the martial world. a quiet moment shared between the two of them.
but I think the earliest we could possibly see it is in late december of this year.
but, if you mean the pre-production stages of the drama (before filming began), they likely just hired someone to write the script & finish the story for the drama. right now there are no writing credits for this drama, so I'm going to assume the original novel author (Xing Ling) might've had some part in it.