not worth your time
I've tried my best for 12 episodes. I'm really sorry for the actors in this series, they tried their best. How is this level if writing even got the passed to be made into a series, total waste of money. Was the writers drunk? or was it written by a 6 yo? The story was so consistently bad from the beginning. Main Characters were shallow, unlikable, undeveloped. Not even a single character was properly written. The storyline is crap. Watch this drama, if your purpose is only to see the actor's pretty faces, there're plenty of beautiful people in it. I'm dropping it, and really regret wasting my time on the 12 episodes I've watched.Was this review helpful to you?
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Can be dropped in the first episode...
TWO WORDS FOR THIS SERIES: SIMP AND FOODthats literally the entire series was all about the ML is a literal simp for the FL and also twice his age for her. I dont understand the concept of caging and blocking the FL from ever training her "demon" abilities to avoid the calamities.
What these so called "Nianhua" sects are just literal hypocrites to that "traitors".
I literally had to skip all the scenes that involved the ML and FL cause they dont make any sense and have zero chemistry between them. It was all one day we should be together cause the script says so. It just makes my blood boil whenever I see them together.
The ML was just to be a SIMP/ predator towards to FL, and is written that he doesnt think before he acts. I think what goes in his head is "girl disciple lost = DESTORY ALL" (eye twitches). HOW IS HE THE SECT LEADER FOR A WELL-KNOWN SECT!!!
The only character that matter was the sect Uncle who literally died third of the way of the series (pure headache).
The FL is also written poorly, she's only there cause she is special with "demon blood" in her, and will ruin this world. Also they try to add this quirk that she likes to eat, and all she does is eat and beg to food shops to eat with all the male characters. Sadly she's only there to supposedly push the story forward (cause of her demon nature) and enjoy eating the food she never had when she was homeless.
I want to drop it soo bad, but I have to see how bad they end this series. This series is literal brain-dead story. These xianxia dramas lack story and character, and it just hurts my brain.
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Yikes
I started watching this Xanxia because I had previously seen the FL actress in another Xanxia, the exact name of which alludes me at this moment.She is one of the most beautiful Chinese actresses working today, and unlike most Chinese actresses, she can actually act.
Maybe she will never have the opportunity to rise above the usual Xanxia FL character, but she has more expression in her eyes than most Chinese actresses hold in their entire face. What an outstanding beauty she has been gifted with. Truly, an exceptional beauty and she isn't the least bit wooden or prone to act out naivity as stupidity. She doesn't ride out her time in the story as the village idiot. She went through the obligatory "love blocking poison" Xanxia story trope without completely losing her brain in the process.
Despite her impish stature, she's still convincing as a paragon of "spiritual energy", because of the strong way she carries herself.
Yes, I wanted to talk about this actress first because I can't think of anything positive about this drama apart from her performance.
The story itself is very flawed. It's not even much of a story to begin with. It's the same Xanxia "Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms" story that could easily fit in 4 episodes, but because it is a Chinese drama, it must be stretched well past its breaking point.
There were the usual characters seen in every single Xanxia, and then there was Jeremy Tsui.... the ML... China's very own version of Christopher Walken. Weirdly stilted acting with bizarre, wild glances which never quite make sense. Christopher Walkens can pull off his trademark weirdness, whereas Jeremy Tsui's signature weirdness is just.... so bizarrely out of place or without reason.
There is a moment in this Xanxia that I had to watch several times to absorb, where Jeremy Tsui's character is given a comically large pill of some sort, and told the FL is in danger. He had the funniest look on his face as he popped that absurd pill into his mouth. I almost couldn't believe how absurdly bad the acting choices I was seeing actully were. This also has to do with the directing though. The director could have easily said something to help out their actors on so many occasions.
Now, we come to the part of my review where I am forced to talk about the inappropriate master - deciple relationship. It's disgusting, as it always will be, to have the deciple fall for the master. A young woman falling in love with her master over what I can only guess are daddy issues. The master knowing the deciple from birth during her rebirth just made it that much more incestuous and gross. I can't even really talk about that aspect of the plot without feeling disgusted all over again.
Overall, a real yikes of a drama, but even the story was a yikes to begin with, so it didn't have much of a chance to be anything other than what it is.
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a very tired tropy drama going through the motions
The leads have no chemistry. The acting is wooden and subpar between them, it's a tired old trope of immortal master and student that becomes cringy boarding on completely repellent.I came to watch some of my favorite young actors. The director didn't give many of these characters personality yet a few manage to try and put their best foot forward, these would be Wang Zhoucheng who manages to allure in heavy makeup as the Demon King Wang Yue, Asher Ma, who is a headstrong and rambunctious Young Master, Lin Si Yi as the Princess turned Immortal but bound to the jealous nemisis stereotype, Hu Yun Hao as a senior Immortal Master with the one brain cell this Sect contains, but poor Deng Wei, so bright in I Am The Years You Are The Stars is completely wasted.
What would have made a much more compelling story are doomed lovers, the possessed immortal Chu Bu Fu/Wan Jie and Zhang Zhi Xi, a pair of actors and theme I actually wanted to follow.
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casting is great except main actress ?
let me tell you, it's so great to watch so handsome actors in one place but story is so unfortunate and main actress is my the most least favourite one, i just feel so sorry for actors.i hope that won't make this kind of mistake again.
i wouldn't write a review if it wasn't for DW( lost you forever actor✨✨)
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Overall Not That Bad
I agree with most of the reviews but it's not that bad. I watched the whole thing and its a lot better than many other dramas out there. give it a shot don't judge it by all negative reviews u read here.This show doesn't have a proper story, all males love FL for absolutely no reason, and all female characters that like those males hate FL for obvious reasons. and I didn't like ML's character in normal times he talks about protecting FL but when she needs him the most he has no clue what's going on with her or who tried to kill/hurt her. and their chemistry was off. In many scenes, it felt like FL deserved the torture, betrayal, etc cuz throughout the show she was sooooo dumb. There was no character development for FL and ML.
Honestly, i didn't understand what made her fall for ML, cuz other male characters did a lot for her in comparition with the actual ML, they were sooo devoted to her even though there was no particular reason for them to fall for her. most of them lost their lives, one lost his family, and one was expelled from his sect, they did what not, ML only took her side in front of his superiors but was not with her when she actually needed him. u will understand when you watch.
I liked Zhuo hao the most, he was always there for her, except when she was in ice prison for years ( no one saved her lol) and i think his character is the only one in which you see some growth throughout the drama, all others are useless. His character is a lot better than ML. he was funny, handsome, brave, truly loved FL, he feared nothing, and even went against his father and everyone for FL when FL showed zero interest in him. That was heartbreaking.
Mu Yu falling in love with FL was out of the blue, I mean i watched it with subtitles and it says 'Uncle Mu Yu' whenever their scenes are shown but turns out even he fell in love with her all this time and he suddenly wants nothing but her happiness. lol.
The demon lord was the hottest male character in this show but he never had any feelings for FL, all other useless characters sacrificed their lives for FL.
They literally killed every character that ever cared for FL or loved FL, except zhuo hao but her was tortured in other ways like he became a demon, lost his father, aunt and ended up being alone thinking about FL even in the very last episode., i felt very bad for him, he deserved a better ending.
I cried a lot in many scenes cuz many side characters die in btw and the ending was also so.. so.. cuz i didn't like the ML so didn't matter if they ended up together in the special episode or not. all i was concerned about was for side characters...lol....i cried buckets when Mu Yu died.
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Spoiled Brat on the Loose
I really wanted to like this. I have been a fan of the ML for awhile now and knows he can act well.IMO this a story about a spoiled brat who does not need protecting but a good spanking. The FL has no growth at all. Growing up in the mortal world the being able to go to the immortal then the demon realm because of her birth she should have some idea how she could help change the world and their prejudice but no she was a whiny brat until the last minute when her master dies for her. The ML, master, tried to help her but rather he enabled and spoiled her more. All because she promised not to leave him. But he breaks her heart and promise which in turn makes the brat act out more.
The characters I like Senior Mu and Qin Ke, I feel bad for their sacrifice I thought it was not worth it.
And that ending was rushed. They opened a can of worms on how the FL dad dies but they don't explain it clearly from what I saw on the 1st ep the mom did not kill the dad.
There was no chemistry on all the love lines.
The only thing I like about this series is how they emphasize on karma. You get what you give. So I was happy when QK was reincarnated.
Maybe I expected too much leaving me so unsatisfied.
I will not watch this again.
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And what on earth does it mean by "immortals", these people are not immortals at all, in my opinion it just seems like a small sect learning to cultivate powers to get rid of evil. Because real immortals don't interfere with mortals, and its impossible for a mortal to become one. Pfft, all you got to do is take a test and you can become an immortal and learn powers. They are not immortals but just a sect that's learning to cultivate power.
For some reason, I've watched 2 dramas with Yang Chaoyue, this being the second and I don't have anything agaisnt her, but she plays the role that somewhat just makes me hate her role. There's nothing special about it, and I've watched about 14 episodes and nothing makes sense to me what so ever.
Not a good drama.
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beautiful sweet colors ! fairytale )
This is an amazing fairy tale! I like it!)) pink trees and turquoise water.. Wonderful!! (reminds me of tropical islands haha) such colors evoke a warm fantasy with tender feelings)) very interesting, very casual, how they made the garden and in such warm pastel colors! This is something new. I liked the first trailer I saw, so I started watching it, and it's very interesting) to mix wuxia fantasy love story with martial arts elements. (As always, the Chinese are great at this!!)The story was about a little girl, Chong Zi, who is alone in this world, without parents and she trying to find a good life with her only one friend. Every day, life throws up new difficulties for her.
Chong Zi was bullied by other poor people on the street (because she had no money and was poor that she couldn't even eat), they called her ugly .. and her great desire was to come to Nahua and become an immortal master, so one day when her friend Shui Ji shared piece of luck cake, with Chong Zi , she fortunately got a chance to enter the palace and gave a promise , if she enetering fortunally there , she will always protect her friend!
Her friend Shui Ji believed that this cake could bring very great luck to win and get into the Nahua palace on the mysterious mountain.
One day ( before got a chance to enter in the palace ) Chiong Zi she was saved by a Yingfan master from the god clan after seeing a group of guys abuse and beat her, and he shared his energy with her so that no one else could hurt her in the future..
when the day of selection of students in Nahua came, Chongzi met the prince Qin Ke and princess Si Ma Mia Yuan , on the way to the palace, later helps them pass the obstacles and saves the princess from the tiger..
when everyone got to the palace and the selection of students for the masters, began, the main leader did not want Chong Zi to stay (fearing that her demonic energy would only destroy her and bring misfortune to the palace), but then the YinFan intervened , who saved her once, decides to make her his own student , noticing the potential and ambitions in her ..
For a while, Master Yinfan did not give her magic weapons long time , fearing that she would not be able to control her profound demonic power, and the weapon would only aggravate her situation, so that she could harm herself and those around her. But when the demon Chu Bu Fu attacked her while he was near the room she ( Chong Zi ) was in and she was injured, Yinfan thought about giving her a magic weapon for self-defense.
When she recovered, she asked about the magic weapon to protect herself, so the master entered with her in special palace with magic weapons , Yin Fan chose for her a magic staff made of steel, which was difficult to forge a sword.
I think that here Chongzi started to have feelings for the master, but it’s too early to talk about it, because am only in 6 episode))
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nice show
I love this drama though the development part is a bit slow for me as they tend to dwell on the same issue for episodes that's fine the main leads and the supporting roles acting are superb and the chemistry between all characters is amazing g most especially between Zhuo hao and his father, I just love their relationship and how bratty Zhuo hao is, its just too cute. also, the chemistry between Qin ke and Chong Zi is lovely too I was wishing they end up together in episode two but luckily the director deemed their passion. overall I love the showWas this review helpful to you?
Mediocre Fantasy
Very mediocre drama. Watched ~11 eps, may put it on in the background to see where it goes, but spent more time being confused and frustrated by the writing than enjoying myself.The good:
- As a fantasy production it is pretty decently put together. Not poorly produced, decent effects, decent filming angles etc
- There are some characters with charm, though a lot of this falls apart when the writing muddles their personalities and motivations. I feel like the actors were probably good, but the scenes and arcs that were written for them just failed their characters
- If you want to watch a show with intention to heckle it, turn on comments and there's a stack of people just laughing at it or tearing it apart
The bad:
The writing is really frustrating in its lack of consistency and its lack of respect for character motivations.
The FL:
Her characterization jumps all over the place, is she clever or an idiot, is she strong and willful or a baby. She doesn't feel consistent at all. In theory she starts out as having grown up on the streets among younger street kids who she takes care of, but as soon as she is off the streets she becomes the ultimate spoiled child. There is no sense that she has street smarts, she is completely gullible, and she acts like a total dependent child - there is no sign at all that she used to shoulder all the responsibility for a group of kids. She is shown to have never relied on anyone when she was homeless, but immediately just becomes completely dependent on every man we encounter once the show starts.
To that point, the FL is regularly portrayed as child-like when around any men, while they are almost universally portrayed as interested in her. It really gets to be pretty creepy with the grooming and possessive vibes, to a degree that even many xianxia "cutesy" FL's don't come across this bad.
Eventually as we forget that she was ever a street kid, and accept her new baby persona, the writing still can't stay consistent. Will she suddenly be willful or will she just let people push her around? Will she suddenly inexplicably be competent and powerful or will she just be mowed over? Will she make the absolute dumbest decisions just because the writers need to set up a misunderstanding plotline, or a persecution plotline? It all just jumps all over the place, and it makes it really hard to stay engaged and invested.
The ML:
Is a wooden block at best, but seems to just be grooming and keeping the FL isolated and we are meant to take it as romantic? Ew.
Other characters:
Too many love interests, basically every man we encounter, and almost all of them give no reason to care or root for them. Personally the most annoying is these romantic interests are regularly just totally disregarding the FLs autonomy. Tons of wrist grabbing and talking over her and "pushy flirting" which is really gross.
Basically no women anywhere. The only other woman in this show is the "bully" who also will be portrayed just as inconsistently in power and authority just suddenly ramping up, despite her also being new to the cultivation world.
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Female lead's acting is not work at all
Female lead's acting is destroyed the whole drama,no chemistry with the male lead and really can't go on with her dumb eyes which can't express the feelings!!!I dropped after watching 6 episode, it's a waste of time,money and failure of Tencent, she shouldn't act anymore.She is more like an entertainer and only suitable for Variety Shows.
Although the story is not bad for a XianXia but nothing is special, like 2nd version of "The Journey of flower", seems they want to flow through the fame but they make a wrong in choosing actress.
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