Now it made sense why the writer gives us the immortality pills arc so that Mei can see LQQ without any prejudice. In the previois arc, she gets to know LQQ and his ideals unlike the first time they met where she barely knew him. Thats why now she has know him a bit (oh, thats what she thought lol) her impression on him has changed when she picked all the clues and gather what actually happened. It made me lol since Sheng pointed out that she already made the conclusion like LQQ pointed out before when she also do the same with Zongying. However, its pretty obvious now in their next confrontation, Mei will learn that LQQ is a War Demon and while erasing her memory is a problem, the bigger problem that she might find it hard to forgive is when he used her to free from his suffering without her consent — a sinned War Demon who is hated by everyone and caused a lot of suffering in the past. Oh boy, thats another hole LQQ has digged for himself.
I thought the guy who scam Mei might actually has a gift esp the part where he mentioned arbor tree which refer to LQQ’s name. That part is the reasons that made Mei pause to listen to his fortune reading.
I love the part where it is pointed out how problematic is the immortal sects as we go on with the story. Not only they caused lot of suffering to human but they actually cause the civilazation to stagnant for thousand of years — freaking thousand of years. Shout out to all AMBF references in all of this arc. Like they said, the victors wrote the history so Im not suprised for this to happen also here.
Also, come a true rival that can matched LQQ? He did have this unhinged look in his eyes and the way he lectured Jinlun covers some interesting debate as well. All this immortal people do have all sorts of justification for their heretics behaviours smh. And I hate how they made it sound so convincing as well.
And finally! We figure out LQQ true nature. I believe he is a hybrid between human + war demon? Thats explained a lot of thing with how RJL has been playing him. Sometimes he has this unnatural look in his eyes that he is not human esp when he is in front of his enemies — so ruthless with very unsettling frightening aura. Then another time he appears so human with ideals and made mistakes. I love how this revelation explain a lot of all the things we question about him in all the previous episodes.
as for the social commentaries aspect, that part of Xiao Xiang Dong Er writing style, ever since her first novel…
Yes, thats the reasons why i love her writing. All her works mostly are layered, with depth with lots of social commentaries. She also has the ability to write lovely and relatable characters.
Thats why the douban scores of her dramas are always on the higher side compared to other idol dramas writers.
The ML wanting to be weaker is stressing me out, there is so much evil around them if he is weak who will fight…
I think that would be the climax of the show. Which is he need to chose between become human and feel alive (and save his clan) VS retain his power and save the humanity. Hope he get both though since it will suck big time if he loses back his senses after managed to see color, taste good food and ability to rest and sleep. 😬
But the writer told us it will be ~satisfying~ happy ending so we can feel at ease while watching this drama lol.
The scenes of Su Taiyi giving medicine, money and house all over the place for his shifu had me ugly cry lol. I wasnt ready for that. 😭 Then it ended with the scenes of them from 50 years ago when Su Taiyi told LQQ that ‘he is not allowed to hate him’ was icing on the cake. The whole sequence are amazing. The drama excellently potrayed parent and a child love between LQQ and Su Taiyi. We know that Su Taiyi lets him down when he gone down the immortality pill road by causing so much distress to the citizen and as a parent or teacher, you are dissappinted — that why he asked Su Taiyi to ‘get out’ after failing to reach him. But the love is there after all despite all the dissappintments thats why we see him running, the first time ever we seen him doing that to see Su Taiyi for the last time at the cave.
And LQQ’s words did reached him after all. Su Taiyi knew how much blood he has caused despite his good intentions and let go the immortality pills endouvers in the end. I love their relationship. Its quiet yet contain so much weight.
I also enjoy when Mei run amok with the sect leaders about how much the immortality tax caused damage to the people. I like this side about Mei. She is gentle, soft and earnest yet when its times to do what is right, we see this fierce and badass side from her. I love how she made them calculate how it will take 1000 years for people to own home now as opposed to 10 years before the tax. I really enjoy this duality from our couple just like LQQ as well — extremely ferocious and ruthless against the enemies yet seemed like the most unbothered and laidback dude the other times.
Again, I enjoyed all the social commentaries the writer provide us this episode. Particularly the part of old people committed suicide to avoid being a burden to their children 😢 since thats what happened at China and they are trying to combat that problem. Also the part where people avoid having children since they cant afford it due to high cost of living (even when both parents are working like Mei highlighted) which prompt China government now to give monetery incentives for couples with young children to increase child birth. And the writer did this without sounding too preachy which I like. Just like when LQQ asked Mei to think whether the immortality pill is good or bad without giving the answer to her.
ML want's to become human... that is the primary goal since the start of the drama (love comes only later into…
You dont have to worry about that since before she start her killing spree, she investigated first and discover the corruption behind the case. Has he just used the officers just to die, she will discover it too.
I agree with your review - it's a joy to discover him and also the side characters' backstory ;) I only have a…
He wants to be a human because his whole life is a punishment by Gods. He cant sleep no matter how tired he is, he cant see the beauty of the world since he cant see colors, he feels numb since he didnt even have the ability to feel pain and the biggest part everything that he eats taste like a rotten meat — but he has to eat to survive after all thats why people commented that he is skinny because he didnt eat.
So yes, all this is among the reasons he wants to be human. He also wants to save his clan from this punishment as well. I think this will brought up later.
ML want's to become human... that is the primary goal since the start of the drama (love comes only later into…
Im aware that he wanted the thousand cuts punishment for his human transformation. But the officers still corrupted and use straw and cause the dam to broke which killed thosuand of lives. I mean those corrupt official that his wife, the FL kill one by one.
I dont know but my fave scenes seemed to always be when LQQ with his students. Like when he asked the lil Emperor to relax and take a good night sleep as he has won.
And now he did it to Su Taiyi in this episode when he said: ‘Stop now, I’ll take you away.’
When he uttered this words, I felt it in my heart. Its like what parents would say when they see how far their children has strayed.
He is their father figures and the back story of how he and Su Taiyi started is wonderful. I love how when he attended to his injury, the camera pans to a drawing of a bird feeding its kids which basically foreshadow their relationship in the future.
So, when the plot twist happened when Su Taiyi offered his bones to him, it made complete sense. I love their relationship. And it reminds me of the 2 beggar kids as well — on how they view him as their father. I think LQQ has this natural fatherly figure ability that made people feel attach and drawn to him.
Also when he talked to them, you can feel his wisdom — he is this ancient God that has lived for thousands of years. So the way he sees things are also different. Some people are still greedy and search for immortality while he on the other hands is already tired living.
LQQ is like an onion, every episode, we learnt something new about him. When I realised he is a grey character that probably only do good things because of his own selfish reasons, then we got that scene with Su Taiyi where he lectured him about right and wrong. He is flawed, colorful, unpredictable and enigmatic. I love seeing all this shades of him one by one. And we all know there is more to come later.
Anyway, cant wait for today’s episode. Love when our ML is actually this powerful being that is almost invisible.
ML want's to become human... that is the primary goal since the start of the drama (love comes only later into…
There is so much shades of LQQ. Like I said, despite many things that he did appear noble, it might not appear that way like how he helped lil Emperor to the throne. The Emperor said it was using scheme and dirty tricks the way he carry the Emperor to the throne. The Emperor is the 7th son so Im sure it involves blood as well. Also not to mentioned how he turned blind eyes to all the corrupt officials that put him into prison. It seemed his sense of righteousness is not as pure like he just pretend to understand right and wrong but doesnt really feel it in his heart like Mei. Just like how he wiped out Mei’s memories. Aside from wanting to protect her innocence, it is also for his won selfish reasons. Thats what I thought initially. But it certainly change when he lecture Su Taiyi about right and wrong. I love all this different shades of him. He is like onion. With each episode, we knew more layers of his thoughts and personality.
Love at first sight doesnt have to be biliteral. Love at first sight for Jinlung. Sheng obviously is not interested.
Im watching the latest episodes now. I cant wait to know what Su Taiyi has in mind.. 😊😊
Im so glad I was wrong about LQQ. I thought most of his actions are ‘selfish’ to achieve his goals despite sometimes its might appear as noble but the snippet with Su Taiyi at the end of episode 12 revealed a bigger visions that peeled another layer of him. Now i wonder why he goes all the length to teach Su Taiyi all of this yet seemed detached with other things. I think once he transformed, he will feel and become more human. But so far, I love seeing all of these shades of him since his ruthlessness is quite unsettling esp when he used the same spell to kill all those sect people. It pretty terrifying since he seemed to be almost invisible which is pretty cool.
And regarding Jinlun & Sheng, we used to see love at first sight took place but to have it explained is pretty hilarious. But it made sense why Jinlun is kind of obsessed with Sheng. Like he said, his heart is at peace and its only moved when he sees her. But girl is cold as ice. It will be cute when she is falling in love later as well.
Honourable mention how hilarious is Su Taiyi. He is so unhappy to see another man covet the eyes of his Shifu’s love interest.
I like how we can see many things are brewing at the background right now. It seemed some of the immortal sects are doing some really forbidden stuffs to gain more power.
And I seemed to have a bit suspicion that Su Taiyi didnt really develop the immortality pills. The moment LQQ said there is something fishy about Su Taiye developing the pills when he arrived at Chongking Village, I knew something is up. Su Taiyi developing these pills to cater to the very immortals that he hates, it didnt make sense.
I pretty much enjoy the central theme of the drama which is what to follow: is it rules or your moral?
And while its pretty straightforward to answer, the writer makes us question that theme when she made Mei going on a killing rampage. Yes, Mei likes to help mortals which are good and making her a great character but the writer literally challenged that when she made her seeking justice for Lu Huai thus making the cultivator’s rules about not to interfere with human makes sense since you can never know whats behind each things that you see. Lu Huai staged the whole thing for his human transformation, specifically choosing the worst ever possible death which is death of thousand cuts so he can do one of his transformation while she in the other hand think he truly died being wronged. Hearts are deceptive and she learnt her lesson after that.
It also made the noble idiocy that Lu Huai made of erasing her memories as somehow debatable. Its wrong in all possible count to take that decision away from her but him seeing how broken she is and wanting her:
1) to be idealistic again 2) not to lose her moral 3) continue to help people in need 4) and not just following rules
are worth to explore. Had he didnt wipe Mei’s memories, the mute lady will die in the next episode since Mei will chose to follow the rules instead of helping her with her magic.
Pretty thought provoking and very well written the conflicts so far. I really enjoy it.
Loved what the rusty hero said about view-points and different positions. Although sometimes one position seems…
Yes, its pretty thought provoking. For an example, Mei likes to help mortals which are good and making her a great character but the writer literally challenged that when she made her seeking justice for Lu Huai thus making the cultivator’s rules about not to interfere makes sense since you can never know what behind each things that you see. Lu Huai staged the whole thing for his human transformation while she think he truly died being wronged.
Im actually okay with the memory loss since I like to see a happy and sweet Xin Mei instead of a sad and depressed one. 😭 Girl is so sweet that I selfishly just want to see her earnest and happy self all the time.
I love to see Li Huai’s flabbergasted face since he truly has no idea when Chu Ying said Lady Mi has been waiting for him and remain unmarried. 😂 I love all his interactions with Chu Ying. Chu Ying know how to poke and made fun of him while also cry happy tears for him. I wondered what is Chu Ying actually. He mentioned he and Lu Huai has the same cultivation? but their power certainly is not the same level (as he is unranked 😆). Is he a cultivator or immortal? Love to hear how his history with Li Huai started though.
Anyway, I enjoyed the new arc very much since I love when they move on and focus on something new. And cant wait for our couple to reunite again in the next episode. I love how unintentionally, Lu Huai always look at Xin Mei with this soft, sad look. Lady Li didnt lie about how he did look at Xin Mei differently. I guess the blood pack did connect them in feelings aside from their physical bond. Its really sad when he can see color drained out of her when she is heartbroken.
Also, I appreciate the social commentary from the writer how the immortality taxes only benefited the rich at the expense of the poor. Also the rather gem point of view from our rusty hero about the different opinion of people about things, depending on their positions. Also so far the central dilemma in the drama which is following the rules or your moral.
Perfectly explained. And yes, it's the subtlety of his performance, the minute changes in his expression that…
Yes. He marks his character differently in every drama even when the supposed to be stoic or cold. Like Luyi coldness is very different from Zhousheng Chen in One & Only. And a worlds apart to the jaded Chang Yi in The Blue Whisper.
And also, you can always feel the emotional weight that his characters carry. Thats why I feel RJL acting is so addicting even after all these years, he embodied the character and becomes them, literally. Like his role in TDHR. You can see how depressed Xuanye is throughout the story, even after he falls in love, it never fades away. Or his role as He Xian in Silent Tides — that man is the epitome of calm and tranquility.
Appreciation on RJL acting. One of the reasons I’m a big fan since he is really great at portraying tormented silent characters. That's why the drama has all the melancholy feeling in it despite it's not really sad. While I do not feel this when I watch Silent Tides for an example since He Xian is a happy man. Ive been trying to figure out why I have this sad feeling, its the subtle expressions that RJL emits as LQQ — you can feel his suffering just from his expression or subtle smiles. It's like he lives for thousand of years suffering without all these senses — forced to eat despite it tasted awful just so he can survive to feeling numb and empty since literally nothing excite him. When he finally gained his ability to see color, he lets out this subtle smile instead of big celebration since ‘ohh this is what colors feels like.’ 🥲 —this unfamiliar happiness he experienced for the first time.
Then when he sees the Emperor, the way he looks at him like a lil kid, you believe he is the Emperor’s teacher from the tone alone. Then he said ‘Ah Jing, you have won. Relax. Go have a good sleep’ — that calm and soft tone, it breaks my heart. He has the calmness and wisdom of someone who has lived for a long time. I personally feel this kind of gravitas is hard to imits but he nailed it to perfection in this drama.
In first episodes (in the first minutes of the episode) , it's said Demon was punished not to feel pain, see colors,…
Yes, they both married for their own personal reasons. Thats why they are called a perfect match since even when they are strangers and barely know each other, they are what each other wants for a partner.
Later, when they fall in love, the term perfect match would be even suit the main couple to a T.
He is GREAT at portraying tormented soul. That's why the drama has all the melancholy feeling in it despite it's not really sad. But you can feel his suffering from his expression or subtle smiles. It's like he lives for thousand of years suffering without all those senses.
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Now it made sense why the writer gives us the immortality pills arc so that Mei can see LQQ without any prejudice. In the previois arc, she gets to know LQQ and his ideals unlike the first time they met where she barely knew him. Thats why now she has know him a bit (oh, thats what she thought lol) her impression on him has changed when she picked all the clues and gather what actually happened. It made me lol since Sheng pointed out that she already made the conclusion like LQQ pointed out before when she also do the same with Zongying. However, its pretty obvious now in their next confrontation, Mei will learn that LQQ is a War Demon and while erasing her memory is a problem, the bigger problem that she might find it hard to forgive is when he used her to free from his suffering without her consent — a sinned War Demon who is hated by everyone and caused a lot of suffering in the past. Oh boy, thats another hole LQQ has digged for himself.
I thought the guy who scam Mei might actually has a gift esp the part where he mentioned arbor tree which refer to LQQ’s name. That part is the reasons that made Mei pause to listen to his fortune reading.
I love the part where it is pointed out how problematic is the immortal sects as we go on with the story. Not only they caused lot of suffering to human but they actually cause the civilazation to stagnant for thousand of years — freaking thousand of years. Shout out to all AMBF references in all of this arc. Like they said, the victors wrote the history so Im not suprised for this to happen also here.
Also, come a true rival that can matched LQQ? He did have this unhinged look in his eyes and the way he lectured Jinlun covers some interesting debate as well. All this immortal people do have all sorts of justification for their heretics behaviours smh. And I hate how they made it sound so convincing as well.
And finally! We figure out LQQ true nature. I believe he is a hybrid between human + war demon? Thats explained a lot of thing with how RJL has been playing him. Sometimes he has this unnatural look in his eyes that he is not human esp when he is in front of his enemies — so ruthless with very unsettling frightening aura. Then another time he appears so human with ideals and made mistakes. I love how this revelation explain a lot of all the things we question about him in all the previous episodes.
Thats why the douban scores of her dramas are always on the higher side compared to other idol dramas writers.
Hiw would you like the story to end?
But the writer told us it will be ~satisfying~ happy ending so we can feel at ease while watching this drama lol.
The scenes of Su Taiyi giving medicine, money and house all over the place for his shifu had me ugly cry lol. I wasnt ready for that. 😭 Then it ended with the scenes of them from 50 years ago when Su Taiyi told LQQ that ‘he is not allowed to hate him’ was icing on the cake. The whole sequence are amazing. The drama excellently potrayed parent and a child love between LQQ and Su Taiyi. We know that Su Taiyi lets him down when he gone down the immortality pill road by causing so much distress to the citizen and as a parent or teacher, you are dissappinted — that why he asked Su Taiyi to ‘get out’ after failing to reach him. But the love is there after all despite all the dissappintments thats why we see him running, the first time ever we seen him doing that to see Su Taiyi for the last time at the cave.
And LQQ’s words did reached him after all. Su Taiyi knew how much blood he has caused despite his good intentions and let go the immortality pills endouvers in the end. I love their relationship. Its quiet yet contain so much weight.
I also enjoy when Mei run amok with the sect leaders about how much the immortality tax caused damage to the people. I like this side about Mei. She is gentle, soft and earnest yet when its times to do what is right, we see this fierce and badass side from her. I love how she made them calculate how it will take 1000 years for people to own home now as opposed to 10 years before the tax. I really enjoy this duality from our couple just like LQQ as well — extremely ferocious and ruthless against the enemies yet seemed like the most unbothered and laidback dude the other times.
Again, I enjoyed all the social commentaries the writer provide us this episode. Particularly the part of old people committed suicide to avoid being a burden to their children 😢 since thats what happened at China and they are trying to combat that problem. Also the part where people avoid having children since they cant afford it due to high cost of living (even when both parents are working like Mei highlighted) which prompt China government now to give monetery incentives for couples with young children to increase child birth. And the writer did this without sounding too preachy which I like. Just like when LQQ asked Mei to think whether the immortality pill is good or bad without giving the answer to her.
So yes, all this is among the reasons he wants to be human. He also wants to save his clan from this punishment as well. I think this will brought up later.
I dont know but my fave scenes seemed to always be when LQQ with his students. Like when he asked the lil Emperor to relax and take a good night sleep as he has won.
And now he did it to Su Taiyi in this episode when he said: ‘Stop now, I’ll take you away.’
When he uttered this words, I felt it in my heart. Its like what parents would say when they see how far their children has strayed.
He is their father figures and the back story of how he and Su Taiyi started is wonderful. I love how when he attended to his injury, the camera pans to a drawing of a bird feeding its kids which basically foreshadow their relationship in the future.
So, when the plot twist happened when Su Taiyi offered his bones to him, it made complete sense. I love their relationship. And it reminds me of the 2 beggar kids as well — on how they view him as their father. I think LQQ has this natural fatherly figure ability that made people feel attach and drawn to him.
Also when he talked to them, you can feel his wisdom — he is this ancient God that has lived for thousands of years. So the way he sees things are also different. Some people are still greedy and search for immortality while he on the other hands is already tired living.
LQQ is like an onion, every episode, we learnt something new about him. When I realised he is a grey character that probably only do good things because of his own selfish reasons, then we got that scene with Su Taiyi where he lectured him about right and wrong. He is flawed, colorful, unpredictable and enigmatic. I love seeing all this shades of him one by one. And we all know there is more to come later.
Anyway, cant wait for today’s episode. Love when our ML is actually this powerful being that is almost invisible.
Love at first sight doesnt have to be biliteral. Love at first sight for Jinlung. Sheng obviously is not interested.
Im watching the latest episodes now. I cant wait to know what Su Taiyi has in mind.. 😊😊
Im so glad I was wrong about LQQ. I thought most of his actions are ‘selfish’ to achieve his goals despite sometimes its might appear as noble but the snippet with Su Taiyi at the end of episode 12 revealed a bigger visions that peeled another layer of him. Now i wonder why he goes all the length to teach Su Taiyi all of this yet seemed detached with other things. I think once he transformed, he will feel and become more human. But so far, I love seeing all of these shades of him since his ruthlessness is quite unsettling esp when he used the same spell to kill all those sect people. It pretty terrifying since he seemed to be almost invisible which is pretty cool.
And regarding Jinlun & Sheng, we used to see love at first sight took place but to have it explained is pretty hilarious. But it made sense why Jinlun is kind of obsessed with Sheng. Like he said, his heart is at peace and its only moved when he sees her. But girl is cold as ice. It will be cute when she is falling in love later as well.
Honourable mention how hilarious is Su Taiyi. He is so unhappy to see another man covet the eyes of his Shifu’s love interest.
I like how we can see many things are brewing at the background right now. It seemed some of the immortal sects are doing some really forbidden stuffs to gain more power.
And I seemed to have a bit suspicion that Su Taiyi didnt really develop the immortality pills. The moment LQQ said there is something fishy about Su Taiye developing the pills when he arrived at Chongking Village, I knew something is up. Su Taiyi developing these pills to cater to the very immortals that he hates, it didnt make sense.
And while its pretty straightforward to answer, the writer makes us question that theme when she made Mei going on a killing rampage. Yes, Mei likes to help mortals which are good and making her a great character but the writer literally challenged that when she made her seeking justice for Lu Huai thus making the cultivator’s rules about not to interfere with human makes sense since you can never know whats behind each things that you see. Lu Huai staged the whole thing for his human transformation, specifically choosing the worst ever possible death which is death of thousand cuts so he can do one of his transformation while she in the other hand think he truly died being wronged. Hearts are deceptive and she learnt her lesson after that.
It also made the noble idiocy that Lu Huai made of erasing her memories as somehow debatable. Its wrong in all possible count to take that decision away from her but him seeing how broken she is and wanting her:
1) to be idealistic again
2) not to lose her moral
3) continue to help people in need
4) and not just following rules
are worth to explore. Had he didnt wipe Mei’s memories, the mute lady will die in the next episode since Mei will chose to follow the rules instead of helping her with her magic.
Pretty thought provoking and very well written the conflicts so far. I really enjoy it.
Great theme to explore.
Im actually okay with the memory loss since I like to see a happy and sweet Xin Mei instead of a sad and depressed one. 😭 Girl is so sweet that I selfishly just want to see her earnest and happy self all the time.
I love to see Li Huai’s flabbergasted face since he truly has no idea when Chu Ying said Lady Mi has been waiting for him and remain unmarried. 😂 I love all his interactions with Chu Ying. Chu Ying know how to poke and made fun of him while also cry happy tears for him. I wondered what is Chu Ying actually. He mentioned he and Lu Huai has the same cultivation? but their power certainly is not the same level (as he is unranked 😆). Is he a cultivator or immortal? Love to hear how his history with Li Huai started though.
Anyway, I enjoyed the new arc very much since I love when they move on and focus on something new. And cant wait for our couple to reunite again in the next episode. I love how unintentionally, Lu Huai always look at Xin Mei with this soft, sad look. Lady Li didnt lie about how he did look at Xin Mei differently. I guess the blood pack did connect them in feelings aside from their physical bond. Its really sad when he can see color drained out of her when she is heartbroken.
Also, I appreciate the social commentary from the writer how the immortality taxes only benefited the rich at the expense of the poor. Also the rather gem point of view from our rusty hero about the different opinion of people about things, depending on their positions. Also so far the central dilemma in the drama which is following the rules or your moral.
And also, you can always feel the emotional weight that his characters carry. Thats why I feel RJL acting is so addicting even after all these years, he embodied the character and becomes them, literally. Like his role in TDHR. You can see how depressed Xuanye is throughout the story, even after he falls in love, it never fades away. Or his role as He Xian in Silent Tides — that man is the epitome of calm and tranquility.
Then when he sees the Emperor, the way he looks at him like a lil kid, you believe he is the Emperor’s teacher from the tone alone. Then he said ‘Ah Jing, you have won. Relax. Go have a good sleep’ — that calm and soft tone, it breaks my heart. He has the calmness and wisdom of someone who has lived for a long time. I personally feel this kind of gravitas is hard to imits but he nailed it to perfection in this drama.
Later, when they fall in love, the term perfect match would be even suit the main couple to a T.