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I really tried with Love Never Fails, especially for Liu Xue Yi, who I normally enjoy watching, but gawddd, I just couldn’t sit through this one. It felt messy from the start, and honestly, not even his presence could save it for me. The production didn’t have that dreamy, ethereal look that most xianxia dramas pull off. It wasn’t visually stunning at all. Had this aired back in 2022 like it was originally supposed to, I might have been more forgiving, but after all the delays and the major casting change, the whole thing just felt off.

Let’s be real, Yuan Bingyan would’ve absolutely slayed as Hong Ning. She has the spunk and emotional depth that the role needed. But with all the behind-the-scenes controversy, she was replaced, and props to Hu Yi Xuan for stepping in and reshooting everything in front of green screens. That couldn’t have been easy, and she honestly did what she could with a pretty flat script. Still, I felt zero chemistry between her and Liu Xue Yi and zero chemistry with the second leads too. Like, nothing sparked. The romance, the angst, the longing? All of it just felt... meh.

The plot was your basic god-demon forbidden love + reincarnation + misunderstanding formula, which could’ve worked if the execution was better, but I couldn’t bring myself to care about anything happening on screen not the leads, not the side characters, not even the world-building. Everything felt hollow and disconnected. After a few episodes of forcing myself to keep going, I just dropped it. Disappointed, but not surprised.

So yeah—Love Never Fails failed for me.