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.