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No complains here. I mean yes I was waiting for this abit too long. And the genre is abit outdate for the trend now. But if you like the Eternal Love/ or Love and Destiny... then you will like this too. Nothing is wrong with soapy drama. It is well done for its kind. The script is enjoyable and it doesn’t have a drag-on moment (not to the point where I stop watching). I still think Love and Destiny is the best version of the peach blossom story. The Pillow story is just more of the story the couple but it doesn’t really continue to their storyline in Eternal love. But you get more details and more complete story of the couple. Anyways I dont have much to say but it is enjoyable.
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One of the best drama I've seen so far
Okay just as you may know this is the second drama of eternal love. But the story itself evolve aroundFeng Qiu and Dong Hua. The reason I watch this because I really like eternal love and I love Feng Qiu and Dong Hua ?. The plot is very similiar to eternal love. But there are several things that also different. I thought I can't see Bai Qian again but you know what she show up. And also the fox is really cute. SERIOUSLY YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS YOU WON'T BE DISSAPOINTED. The only thing that I didn't like is why the plot is very similiar to eternal love if it could be different it would be a lot wonderful.
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Chemistry is on point!!!
I honestly enjoyed this way more than I thought I would. The chemistry between the two leads is on fire!!! I've gone back and rewatched my favorite parts about 3 times now. They did a real good job!! Some of the side characters are super annoying, but I just skip past those parts when I'm rewatching. Like the daughter of his friend really needs to get her crap together. She annoyed me the most. My only complaint is that I needed ALOT more of the end. I want more than just a few confirmed minutes of happiness. Don't know why they did that when the show was already 56 episodes. Add one more for closure! Lol. I highly suggest watching, it's super worth it!Was this review helpful to you?
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The drama was very well written with multiple story/plots inserted that were paid off. Not particularly interested in Chinese Fantasies & haven't seen Eternal love from 2017 to understand the context of this drama as many characters were carried over, in some cases their personalities do differ slightly.
It does fall into the drama-sque scene, as the heroine over time is able to whittle down the the male lead's cold emotion-less heart over centuries of time and turned him into love sap.
Jumping from one story to another you had to remember certain key points, which they pay off, which was very considerate not to leave the viewer hanging, and gave a sense of closure to the story.
Maybe the only thing missing was going abit more into Bai Feng Jiu's ancestral powers/background and her fox powers, which they basically held off to the very end, given that they basically have access to fate, and all sorts of knowledge, something like this should've been known or documented.
If the author's goal was to make Bai Feng Jiu the key to Dong Hua's unlocking heart, and the key to solving his problems, they accomplished that. Dilraba plays Bai Feng Jiu's role well into the context of the story defined/time/societal role, it does not show case her wide range of talent as her previous work, but she shines as the main character.
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I love the film set it is so beautiful a dream
Except for the fact that it's very long, it's a very nice drama.The actors were all very good the main couple was also great cast the chemistry was 100% right it was very good I loved it.This is the first drama I like from Dilraba, everything she played was terrible, it was always emotionless, zero emotion and zero chemistry, but this time everything was there I was pleasantly surprised by her I must say I didn't expect it. But the scenery was also wonderful, the most beautiful I have seen so far, it was really a dream ❤️??️?Was this review helpful to you?
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I Highly suggest watching this first instead of EL + Can someone fix Dong Hua Di Jun? Hahaha~!! ♡
Let me start by pointing out the main thing that got me mixed hearted over this drama.It is better to watch this first instead of going chronological and start things with Eternal Love. As someone who watched EL first then went to this, I find it very frustrating and bothersome that I was left with the scenes in EL and was expecting to get a SEQUEL in continuation on how they present it during EL but instead got a completely different scenes that made me all confused and even disheartened. I actually felt so bored watching the first 20+ Episodes of it solely because of that reason.
Next is I wanna address my Story Highlight Above 'Can someone fix Dong Hua Di Jun'. It was both Positive (In a very adorable Way) and Negative (In more serious sense).
Positive - The moment they went to Fanyiy Village this guy turned into a Adorable-Jealous curve ball who's so in love to Feng Jiu. Those moments of him are actually the turning point of this drama for me. I was like 'Finally things are getting funnier and interesting' in contrast of how serious it was during the first half.
Negative - I don't get how Chonglin was blaming FengJiu for misunderstanding and leaving DHDJ when that guy barely said anything and is always very secretive of every single thing. He act on his own and always act as if nothing is happening. Also, how can you blame a Woman who was left alone during their Wedding Ceremony without any proper explanation? Are they serious?
Oh Well, Moving on... On a brighter side I would love to highlight my hopes, expectations and opinions for this drama that might have help it to be less boring and more interesting. First is Bai Gun Gun's appearance. I felt like they could've atleast let the boy experience some screen time with his parents for like 3-5 episodes and should've cut off some episodes on the earliest episodes of the drama. Second is introducing DHDJ's adorable and In Love pace earlier in the story and Third is following the whole plot laid out on EL cause let's all be honest; Majority of the people most probably came here after watching EL.
Anyways, The drama is still good even with its sudden change of events and scenarios. Truly enjoyed it specially the latter half of the story.
Story - 9.5, This could've been higher only IF they didn't mess it up during the first half of the story and also didn't make FengJiu seemed irresponsible and illogical. Like come on. Those scenes ruined it BAD for me.
Acting/Cast - 10, Acting is really Good however with the Cast... I just felt sad that Bai Zhen and Zhen Yan's actors got replaced. Cause the new one's lacked that chemistry. Also, shoutout to my favorite characters Yan ChiWu and Ye QingTi. I love those men so much. They gave so much flavor to the story and added more spice and excitement throughout their appearances.
Music - 10, I enjoyed it a lot. The BGMs was used on the most proper and fitting places and I just love ballad so much. ♬
Rewatch Value - 9.0, I would still watch it but will definitely skip some scenes during the first 28 episodes of the drama. I don't think I can go over them again after falling asleep several times on my first watch.
Overall - 9.5, This drama just lack a thing or two on the plot and scenes side and that was all due to the Prequel story where they had a completely different way of introduction and character build up. Nonetheless, the rest are either Good and Great for me and that explains my score.
IF you find my review helpful please let me know.
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Not a bad series
I loved Eternal Love and was looking forward to watching Eternal Love of Dream. The story wasn’t bad and I liked most of the character except for Feng Jiu. They made her character too immature, selfish and frankly annoying with her constant crying about DongHua not loving her. And once he married her, she leaves him because everything has to be about her. Plus she hides his child from him. I don’t find Dilraba to be a good actress so it likely didn’t help. I didn’t expect to like Yan Chiwu’s character so much.For a similar story, I preferred Love and Destiny over Eternal Love of Dream even though I love Gao Weiguang as an actor.
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Loving who love us
Summary of the storyThis drama tells of a goddess from the fox clan who has long admired the former emperor of the god realm. One day she was saved by the person she admired. The goddess was looking for every way in order to enter the palace of the emperor in order to pay her debt of gratitude. After being in the emperor's palace for so long, she finally found a way to repay her debt of gratitude to the emperor. But in order to help the emperor, the goddess lost her human form, and returned to her original form, a fox who could not speak. In the form of a fox, the goddess helped the emperor exterminate the negative energy escaping from the soul locking jade. The emperor didn't know that the fox who helped him was actually a goddess. If the emperor had known that the fox was a goddess, of course he would have helped the fox return to its original human form who can talk. The emperor also brought the fox who had helped him to his palace. The fox had always been the emperor's favorite pet. Although they have interacted for a long time, the goddess never realized that she was only considered a pet by the emperor she admired. The goddess was so jealous with the emperor's future wife because the emperor pay a lot of attention for her, so the immature goddess clawed at the emperor's future wife with her fox claws. The goddess was very sad, and disappointed when the emperor defending his future wife, and locked the goddess in a fox cage. When the goddess came out of her cage, she was injured by the mounts of the future emperor's wife and almost lost her life. The thing that saddened the goddess the most was that the emperor was not looking for her. Finally the goddess realized that she was only considered a pet by the emperor so she decided to leave the emperor's palace. With the help of her 3 best friends, the goddess regains her human form who can speak. On the other hand, the goddess got the news that the emperor's marriage was annulled because the bride ran away on the wedding day. The goddess also felt so rushed to leave the emperor's palace that she had not paid all her debts. Suddenly, the goddess got news that the emperor would be reincarnated in the human realm. The goddess did not care about her own safety, and was desperate to help the reincarnation of the emperor. She did that to pay off her outstanding debt. In the end, the goddess managed to help the emperor's reincarnation process run smoothly so her debt was paid off. However, the goddess failed to help the emperor save the soul-locking jade and even the soul-locking jade fell into the hands of the evil demon queen. After finishing helping the emperor, the goddess returned to the fox clan. After the process of reincarnation, the emperor who had been asleep for so long finally came to his senses. With all her might the goddess tried to forget the emperor, her feelings for the emperor, and her memories with the emperor. Why is this feeling of not being matched so painful. As fate would have it, the emperor and the goddess meet again at Bai Qian, and Ye Hua's wedding. Even though the goddess constantly tried to dodge, circumstances only brought the goddess closer to the emperor. Until one day, because of the emperor's carelessness, the goddess was trapped in a valley that only opened once every 60 years. Until half a year had passed, the emperor had never come to free the goddess even though the emperor was able to do so. Therefore the goddess had given up hope that the emperor would help her. But suddenly the emperor appeared before the goddess and became her teacher. The goddess was even more surprised to meet the emperor's ex future wife. The goddess thought that the emperor came to the valley to persuade his ex future wife. Though the emperor came to the valley to help the goddess out of the valley. The goddess did not want to rush out of the valley, because she wanted to win a race that held in the valley to get pin po fruit. The pin po fruit is a magic fruit that is guarded by 4 giant pythons, not just anyone can take the fruit. The goddess needed the fruit to revive her human friend who had once sacrificed his life for her. With the emperor's guidance, the goddess managed to win the race. But the emperor actually gave the pin po fruit to his ex future wife. The goddess was very disappointed with the emperor, and decided to take the pin po fruit that was rightfully hers. But unexpectedly, it made the goddess trapped in a dream world. After realizing his mistake, the emperor was willing to enter the dream world to save the goddess even though he had to give up his 9 levels of power, and risk his own life. In the dream world, the goddess, and the emperor realize their love for each other. And they are considered married in a dream world. After exiting the dream world, the emperor and the goddess planned their wedding reception. But the emperor's ex future wife ruined the wedding reception. The goddess always waited for the emperor to give her an explanation but the emperor never came. This led the goddess to believe that the emperor also loved his ex future wife. The goddess did not know that her husband was dealing with the evil demon queen. On the other hand the goddess realized that she is pregnant and she couldn't stay in the fox clan so she decided to go to the human realm and calm down. Upon returning to the divine realm, the goddess was shocked to learn that the emperor's life was in danger. The goddess didn't understand why the emperor never told her about his situation. The goddess came to the battle ground to help the emperor against the evil demon queen. In the end the evil demon queen could be annihilated by the two of them but they themselves were also dying. After recovering from his illness, the emperor took care of the goddess who was still unconscious. As fate would have it, the goddess regained consciousness after her son visited her. Finally the emperor, the goddess, and their son lived happily ever after.
What I like about this drama
I love the characters, and their chemistry. I also like the storyline which is hard to predict. I also love the quality CGI. I am also very satisfied with the ending of the story. Even the drama OST is also touching and very matched with the storyline.
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I really loved the idea of this couple and story. But, each episode was full of filler with minor characters, unnecessary exposition and plot lines. I skipped more and more sections.
Dilraba Dilmurat as Bai Feng Jiu is a true delight and she lights up the screen. She's endearing and shows a lot of character complexity and growth. Unfortunately, no one really matches her. Every time she is off screen, I keep waiting for her to re-appear.
Vengo Gao certainly is no match. Frozen into an archetype - he's almost a cardboard cut out and shows very little vibrancy. The interactions between the two main leads 24 episodes in are still incredibly stilted. This is especially true when General Ye Qing Ti steals all his scenes by having true charisma and great connection with Bai Feng Jiu.
Once I caught myself skipping/fast-forwarding through more than 50% of each episode I realized I am done. I was looking forward to this drama, but it's time to give up.
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Pretty Awesome!
Although I started on episode 6, the episodes were still amazing! Though I didn't really know what happened before episode 6 (or what happened in Eternal Love), there were some parts showing what happened before episode 6 throughout the drama and there wasn't much of a need of going back to watch it as they weren't really included in the episode after episode 6. But I was hoping to see other relationships bloom and more things that weren't included in the drama.The acting was amazing! I was able to actually feel the emotions which is great and I loved how every one of them acted. The actors who acted as the enemies made me hate the enemies and that's great!
The music was really good. Just 10/10!
I'd definitely recommend this drama to others!
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Reba looks tired in some scene. She looked fresh like daisy in first eternal. Still the chemistry between these two is terrific. My only gripe is they must have known this series was highly awaited. They should have improved on clothes and makeup department. Still when the duo look good they absolutely looked good on screen. I am enjoying the series.
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Really cool, Very recommended!!
First, my nationality is not Chinese I'm just European guy that loves Chinish dramas so maybe my view of why I like it is different done yours.Also, I never read the book nor do I read the first one.
I really like it the first series "Eternal Love" but this one I like it more as the act of all the cast was excellent they always put a smile on my face most of the episodes, and all performed an amazing act in their roles which made easy to drag you quickly into their world which is what I normally look forward when I'm watching anything. The characters are really funny From (Dong Hua, Bai Feng Jiu,) to (Si Ming, Yuan Yu, James Li & Young Demon Lord Wayne Liu).
Why I like it more than the first one? is because the first was too much drama for me especially when Ye Hua cried that much I didn't quite like that, for me the man it should maintain the composture as Dong Hua does really really well and elegant, One drop or two of tear is ok.
From the first series, I don't know why I was more interested in the character of Dong Hua as it was mysterious and the thing between him and Bai Feng Jiu made me laugh and enjoy that series more so maybe that's why I really like this one more because they focused exclusively to these two characters, Also its been quite a lot of action so you never get bored compared to the first one that I thought they were so many extra dramatic episodes that made the series a bit long on the Dramatic part side as it was like super extra exaggerated at least for me but no offence. But this was just perfect, not too much not too short, just the right amount, though the Aranya Dream was a bit longer than it needed as I would have prefered sorter and change to a different environment so we could have the chance to see other beautiful sceneries. But it wasn't long that can ruin your serie.
The Music + The Decoration are Amazing top 10/10 all those beautiful sceneries are top-notch
Si Ming it should get a Comedian show as his faces is super funny it gave a lot of cool moments.
I would love to see a continuation just to see the world and characters again.
To end I have to say Dong Hua should get an Oscar as his performance was Amazing in this series and on the first one, has that air of mystery and that knows everything I don't think another actor could have taken his roll it was indeed made for him no doubt. Also, that white hair is it just too cool jeje congrats to the people that made that looks Awesome on him.
Yuan Yu and James Li also gave a lot of cool funny moments,
The same as Bai Feng Jiu she did an excellent performance as that innocent naive girl which made a lot of cool moments.
Congrats to everyone and to the producers of the show as they did an Awesome job.
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I hope that chines dramas never lose that magic and don't go bananas with sexual content as the western do now with series like Games of the throne which is one of my favourites by the way, but I hate when they do all that non-sense scenes of sexual as its very insulting, that's another reason why I like chines Dramas as they are clean, Interesting, elegant, they spend more time where they should (History, effects, fun) than the crazy sexual which doesn't add anything plus if we want to see that kind of things there are plenty free on the internet so I wouldn't be watching that series if I needed that, not sure why they don't follow your example on how to make quality Series or Films, keep the good job and give them example as the world went nuts.
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