sifeng

She's actually a pretty great actress, but the scripts she usually chooses are very... mediocre.

haha pull a Goodbye My Princess Miniseries just to try to heal the viewer's heartache.

I don't know if xianxia even has the concept of "going to heaven". I always guessed they just went to the next lifetime or something. But as both SF and XJ are deities, and both are on their last mortal trial, I wonder what would have happened if she failed again.

I mean Li Yitong is making an appearance on a reality TV show that Yang Yang is on. Maybe they'll mention this drama?

what is that plot though

Xu Kai must be Yu Zheng's fav now. He's getting some really great opportunities (pairing up with Zhou Dongyu and Yang Mi?)

Yeah I was thinking about that too, it doesn't really make sense but we can just chalk that up to a plot hole. There are some reasonable explanations, like I always thought she had a heart and had feelings, she just didn't really understand what they were. With everything else, I think she's naturally developed reactions after seeing the people around her respond to certain things. Besides that's not a problem with acting, that's obviously a problem with characterization. Also, I didn't watch this drama with the brain I use for like studying. It's xianxia. Everything is a serious suspension of disbelief.

Visual effects are the best in drama (or at least out of the cdramas I've watched). The acting is pretty great too, especially Cheng YI.

I mean the drama never implies he doesn't like her (at least in the beginning), nor does it say that he actually likes her. It's more so up to interpretation. I personally feel like he must've at least liked her a little, because he did feel guilty about using her towards the end.

I don't know if she'll be a villain but the tone of "The Long Ballad" makes me hopeful her character will be more serious?

Massive spoilers here. ML will remember very late on in the series (third or second to last episode I think). He does like Sese, but once he meets Xiaofeng again, he starts to like her instead.

Fun fact, when I was younger I couldn't tell ZLY and YM apart. (I watched Running Man China religiously as a fifth grader, and that was the only way I ever recognized Chinese celebrities. When I saw YM in the third season I was like, did ZLY change her name?)

it's actually the sixth drama adaptation and 10th screen adaptation overall. I honestly feel like the drama industry might really be lacking wuxia scripts so they just randomly choose a Jin Yong epic and decide "it's been about four years, let's remake it!"

I totally love Zhao Min too (and I love Chen Yuqi). I actually quite like Zhou Zhiruo too because I like how she appears to be super nice and innocent but is actually crueler than Zhao Min. Most people don't like Zhang Wuji, which is pretty funny. Like I remember that people were ranking most annoying Jin Yong Male Leads, and Zhang Wuji was pretty high up there (1st or 2nd I think). The thing is, I think Zhang Wuji did like Zhou Zhiruo, at least initially, but then he fell in love with Zhao Min. So I don't necessarily believe he only liked her as a sister. I actually think Zhang Wuji is such a jerk sometimes because I honestly feel like he might've liked ZZR and ZM at the same time (like around the wedding I guess), and he couldn't choose so ZM had to choose for him.

Okay, I do agree that I was super annoyed with Xuanji for not believing Sifeng but it is true that Sifeng is literally playing with her mind. First he says: "the only thing I lied about was being a demon", then one second: "yes, I am Mosha Xing" and then a few days later: "haha just kidding." The most hilarious thing was when Sifeng tricked Xuanji about his ankle hurting or something and then Xuanji was like "you better not be tricking me" and he promises her and then the moment she goes to get the flower he immediately leaves.

I totally agree. Like in comparison with Zhang Xincheng and Tan Songyun I do have to concentrate a little more to understand what he's saying, but I don't care because he looks so good.

Okay I didn't want t respond but I haven't seen comments calling RY any of those things. If I did I would definitely respond too. As I have said I don't like these characters, but I dislike when people try to exaggerate their mistakes. (And if you have seen people call RY a rapist or molester then go and fight them because they clearly are either haters or stupid). So, I truly am a neutral person. If you scroll back enough you'll see a comment I wrote about how much I felt like both JM and XF were kind of stupid.

I don't know where that quote comes from, and if you truly believe in it, that's totally okay. I personally don't think it's "justice" when someone who has done something wrong is met with the same ending. For example, if someone killed a family member that does not make it okay for a family member to kill the murderer's family member. Yes, it is wrong to be a bystander to injustice happening, but as most of us as are only one in 7 billion, what can we do? We can only work slowly from our homes and our families to try to do the best we can. Who is to say what is "tolerating injustice?" How do you know whether or not someone is truly "tolerating" it, or if they simply cannot do anything to fix it? No one but the person themselves can truly understand how they feel, and it is not right for others to try to judge them based off of incomplete evidence that can be interpreted in various ways. Nothing in this world is good and evil, black and white, it is only grey space. Something that is right in the eyes of one could be a crime of humanity in the eyes of another, and that is just how we are. That doesn't mean that one side is correct. Sometimes "tolerating injustice" on the front but actually fighting using methods that might work better in secret (parallel to how XF seemed to be fighting for JM's safety when he jumped, but it would've been smarter to seem unaffected and try to help her from the heaven realm) can be even more helpful. And whose to say whether or not that is moral? Maybe my lack of experience with humanity makes my view a little too cynical or naive (however you see it), but anyways my point of view has been heavily impacted by the shows I watch that often preach the main point that it's not okay to kill someone because someone did injustice to you. I just don't really agree with the idea that it is totally okay to do injustice to one who tolerates injustice. I have more to argue about on this quote, but we are getting to the point where this is a philosophical argument (and personal philosophies are things that cannot easily be swayed) and not just our opinions on characters. I won't raise anymore questions here because if I do this argument will go on for way too long (as I am disputatious person and if you rebuttal this I will rebuttal back).

I have a question though. Does Jin Mi like not have the ability to love or does she simply not know what it is?

Unpopular Opinion but I like this drama more than Ashes of Love. First of all, better CGI, second of all even more tragedy, and third of all, I like that it is clear from the start that Xuanji likes Sifeng despite her not knowing it. Also I like Xiao Yinhua (or Lu Yanran) so much more then the usual second female lead that's always like unreasonably in love with the ML, because it actually makes sense why she cares about him so much.

Ah I'm so excited the plot sounds so interesting!