Reviews

5/5 for trust-shattering demon lord who learned his lesson

Betrayal is betrayal, but who lost more in the end? Xiuyuan disregarded female lead’s bond with Riyan The Ninetailed Fox, desperately wanting to save his dear brother. Perhaps the big bad guy convinced him of fox’s cunning and Lifei’s safety, or maybe sensible Xiuyuan just realized it was hopeless and tried to gambit. Regardless, he betrayed her trust, and he was the one to lose the most in the end (while punishing the big bad with a flick of his awakened fingers). Xiuyuan fully understands the value of the trust he lost. He is determined to make amends, but although Lifei still has lingering attachments and understands his inner turmoil leading to that poor decision, she develops trust issues and sticks to the lessons of her cautious shifu. So where does Xiuyuan even start? Surely new plot points would present an opportunity for our confused demon lord Yecha. He can’t let go of Lifei, and the repeating visions of the past don’t let go of him.

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4/5 for never smiling grumpy cat Xiuyuan

We’ve had some intense episodes, so this one will release some tension. Some trivial love matters of secondary characters (writers love love triangles, don’t they?) The main characters keep on giving sweets, but this is where it gets a bit darker when our grumpy cat Xiuyuan can’t bring himself to smile even when he desperately needs it to escape from the demands of a slightly drunk female lead. This is such a great way of showing his inner turmoil. Everyone is carefree and young, while his big brother is suffering, and he can’t help it without hurting the people he finally started to care about. As is to be expected, this leads to a tragedy and wrong decisions being made… Can Lifei save him again, but this time from himself?..

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5/5 for strange… culmination?

All the buildup from the previous episodes was for this moment of… failure? Our friends face off their first serious threat, and Xiuyuan gets himself beaten badly for Lifei’s sake (as per usual, haha). This all happens only in passing, and the students are practically left alone with the consequences. Only Lifei’s secret can save male lead, but she has no idea what! Seems like she will be the last to realize what she really is, while her love-struck friends seem to be grasping the idea pretty quickly. Would they want to use it for their advantage and disregard her best interest? We’ve yet to figure out. Also quite a sweet development between the main leads in this episode, facing life and death together Lifei finally shows true care for Xiuyuan. He’s falling hard!

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Justice well served

Oh, what a delightful episode! I got to see the Fifth Princess get humiliated and fall—and fall hard, for that matter. She got to eat her own arrogance in the worst way possible. Thank you, Buyi, for delivering this justice! 👏 Thank you, Shaoshang, for contributing to it too! 👏The trio watching and drinking tea while that officer got whipped was pure entertainment—Yuan Shen's sarcasm, the Fifth Prince's relief at not being the one getting punished and just sticking with the tough guys, and Buyi, of course, with his scary calmness, yet piercing gaze. 🤣😏I am kind of frustrated to see Shaoshang and Buyi argue—however, that's not quite the right word—about how they feel and whether she trusts him or not. This conversation has become very repetitive. I get it, it has to happen over and over again, with every subsequent time serving as a step closer to them finding common ground. However, these arguments and misunderstandings exhaust me. I much prefer them flirty, trusting, calculating, shrewd, and avenging! 😩😒🙄

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IPO time🥳

Everything is going smoothly for Fulaxida. Mr Li is on board. He has helped Mr Liao make peace with his daughter and has even possibly made peace with his old nemesis. Unfortunately, purely by chance, Qian Fei finds out who Yi Fei really is. She now has him locked out of his own apartment. I would have found it more believable for her to be somewhere else waiting for him to look for her. She has a right to be angry, but to lock him out of a place he paid for just rubs me the wrong way. Especially when he helped her ex out with medical bills. I really am not happy wasting the last episode with this. But I also have to agree he could have told her. Threatening to call the cops is really over the top and I’m disappointed with her. This is evened out with her candid chat with his dad. 😘 Her direct counters intrigued him. Her stance on money relatable to him as a businessman, and that Yi Fei told her about his swimming lessons revealed how highly he trusted and respected her. This was new turf. I liked their conversation at the IPO celebration. His appreciation of a woman that could bring out the better nature of his son. Seeing ShiYu and ex at the celebration. 😂 Looks like JingJing and LuZe having twins. 🫣 And the Jun’s jointing Dang Yu with livestreams. The ending where she ended up proposing first🥰🌹 His wanting food. 🤣😂I wish they would have shown candid wedding shots and maybe baby pics with LuZe rather than rehash the show. But, overall it was still an enjoyable watch and I do recommend. It is definitely not without flaws, I grumbled about all of them😂🤣 but it also has a lot of heart and leaves you smiling.

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A banquet of emotions

What an episode! Not just a banquet to celebrate the Empress' birthday, but it was also a banquet of emotions. 😭🥰😠As an appetiser, we got anger, terror, and fear, served by the Fifth Princess. She chose to deal with Shaoshang by pushing her into the pond, throwing rocks at her while she tried to get to the shore, and even ordering her maid to release snakes into the water, where one of them bit her leg. A terrible, terrible scene. Historical bullying at its finest and very hard to watch. 😡😟🫣 And just when I thought that all of that was behind us at this point...For the main course, we got emotional pain, lots of tears, and a very sweet, intimate, and comforting bedroom scene served by Buyi and Shaoshang themselves. He came to her late in the evening to shower her with praises, but instead, after what she had experienced during the day, those words had the completely opposite effect. It brought Shaoshang to tears, and not only her. Oh, how it hurt... 😭😭💔 Buyi noticed it eventually and asked what had happened, but she wouldn't tell the truth... of course, she said she was homesick, because she doesn't want to always run to him for defence, and just asked him to hug her... tighter... tighter... even tighter... 🥺🫂Buyi's comfort came suddenly, turning my tears into breathless sighs... The moves, the landing in the bed, the embrace, the gaze... It really was breathtakingly beautiful and intimate... ❤️🥹🥰For dessert, we got joy, flirting, some provocations, and a little anxiety for a cliffhanger, served now by all of them combined. Buyi and Shaoshang so openly showed their affection for each other, making the haters hate them more and leaving the supporters just in awe. 🥰✨ The Fifth Princess used yet another scheme from her very wide sleeve and tried to frame Shaoshang as being in a secret relationship with the Fifth Prince... 🤬 I am quite sure nothing of her plan will work, because Buyi definitely is smarter than that, and even the Fifth Prince might deny it after that insightful conversation with Shaoshang. 🤔☝️

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