Ah, Cheng Yi. Now I must pick up Love and Redemption even though I hated the first episode, just because of you.
I haven’t written a review for a while, but damn that was good.

That aside, Cheng Yi as three different characters is an absolute feast. Visually and emotionally. I love him best as Xuan Ye, and to be honest I am more invested in the Xuan Ye x Ran Qing story, it deserves a show of its own.

The story has the complete plethora of Xianxia tropes executed in the signature Xianxia angst in a forbidden love between a lowly but naughty immortal and an upright but also naughty emperor in the heavenly realm. I thoroughly enjoyed the first 10 episodes between Yan Dan and Ying Yuan.

The mortal arc became a bit tiring and I was really hoping that they could have delved a bit more in Ying Yuan’s as the Asura heir. Nevertheless we still had Xuan Ye, and just couldn’t get enough.

I think it had a lot of fillers and the drama could have gotten away with 45-50 episodes. I personally loved the ending and the 2 special episodes. I was completely satisfied. My next wish drama gods is for Cheng Yi to have another show and play a devil or demon lord.. that would be wonderful treat!