Summary Episode 1

In the beginning.....We open to a realm of flowers, which will henceforth be known as the 'Floral Realm'. There is a beautiful woman giving birth to a baby (and boy do I wish we mortals gave birth this way). A giant snowflake takes form over her body then transforms into a baby, which she hands to her attendant--an important character who is Peony but will be called the Floral Elder. The beautiful woman is the Floral Goddess, and she feeds the baby girl a pill so that she never falls in love and knows suffering as she is. Without love, she will not suffer and live a carefree and simple life. She commands her fairy attendants to keep the child's birth a secret and any who break this covenant must kill themselves. They are ordered to keep her safe inside the water mirror (a big bubble over floral realm) and perhaps this way she can be saved .MEANWHILE while the baby is being born, Heavenly Emperor and Empress are congratulating the water immortal and wind immortal who are getting married. The heavenly emperor says that if water immortal has a son, they will be friends with his son, if a daughter, he will marry his eldest son (very important). The water immortal sends a secret message to the floral goddess, apologizing because he must obey the edict of the emperor but before she reaches it she dies. The floral realm goes into mourning for a decade, all the flowers in the heavenly realm die (never to grow back) and the floral realm becomes its own realm separate from the other realms (it was originally under the heavenly realm).PRESENT DAYAn immortal, who we will later come to know is the Rat Demon, meets with a woman wrapped in red at a lake. We cannot see her face, but it seems that they are plotting to harm the second son of the heavens, the phoenix. We then see the Phoenix, who is going through his Nirvana (rebirth) be attacked by something and he is knocked out of the sky, as if dead.Jinmi, the baby born, is now an adult and neglects her studies, she sleeps during class and isn't too bright. She is like a little kid. She seems to be important to the floral elder who manages the floral realm in spite of the fact that she is just a grape fairy (uh huh). She encoutners later a dead bird, which she takes to be a crow, but it turns out to be the phoenix. In a comedy of errors, she plans to heal him it seems by removing, his , er , male parts--and we realize she is so sheltered she does not know the difference between men and women . Yes.Elsewhere in heaven heavenly empress needs to know where her son is (phoenix) and she is furious---

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Female lead with a lot of potential!

I wanted to make an episode review for a long-running drama as this one since I know most people feel intimidated when they see such a long drama and wonder if it is worth watching. The first episode of a drama is always important since it usually gives you a feeling of how the rest of the drama is going to be. Well, I so far think the first episode of this drama is just fantastic! Not to only mention the beautiful scenery that really gave a touch of perfection to a fantasy drama like this, but the female lead in this drama so far is really one that has a lot of personality and makes the first episode fun to watch. Jin Mi is a playful, curious, and adventurous girl who is bored with her mundane life being trapped in Shui Jing and her feeling of boredom causes her to rebel and wants to explore her surroundings. Due to those traits of hers, she makes the first episode really entertaining with her blunt remarks to various characters throughout the show. She also is very friendly, which makes her a more likable character to watch. We also get introduced to a character that will be prominent in the show, which is Xu Feng. His personality is differing in carelessness and openness to other people, unlike Jin Mi, who likes to learn more about every new person that she encounters because of her curiosity. It is obvious that these two will be the main couple in the show from the drama's opening, drama's and even the drama's poster, lol. How will Xu Feng start to fall in love with Jin Mi when they have such different personalities? How does Jin Mi eventually fall in love with Xu Feng, when she already has a pill embedded inside her body to not make her fall in love? The drama introducing both Xu Feng and Jin Mi, and me referring back to Jin Mi's past and the two's vast unalike personalities for their foreseen relationship, gives me a reason to continue watching this drama for me to see how their relationship unfolds. The first episode is a great start so far and I am looking forward to seeing if this couple will have a happy or sad ending. Due to their tale of bestowed unrequited love as their beginning, will them refusing to accept their fate in their journey cause them to meet a tragic fate in the end?

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