Eternal Love

favorite xianxia

There was a time where I was so obsessed with this drama, I read the whole novel (finding the translated version was like finding a needle in a haystack but I still managed to find it after searching for days haha) and in addition to that I read manyyyy fan fictions.

Did I also watch the sequel just to see if the main leads had a mini role in it?

Probably.

But yeah, let's not talk about this awkward phase I was going trough. I need to start with the review. And if I'm going to be able to explain the whole story (more or less), then I'm gonna raise a toast to myself. Let's try. But this drama is kinda complicated because it's a xianxia.

So many things happened. But to make it short, I'll only refer to the lives of the main leads. Yeah "lives" because they had more then one. To be exact, they had three. And all of them played a very important role in the drama. Starting with the first life, our main male lead wasn't even born yet. Just for you to know, there is a 90.000 year difference between the female and the male lead. But nobody really cares about it so we just pretend there isn't this big age gap. Funny how the male lead was still the dominant and more responsible figure in the relationship, but more to that later. So the female lead became a disciple of a guy called Mo Yuan, who's also the twin of our male lead, but the male lead was in a lotus flower the whole time. (I know, xianxia dramas are kinda weird.) Because only males were allowed to be one of this disciples, she disguised herself as one. But MY knew this. And he did not kick her out. Till today I'm pretty sure he had feelings for her, I don't care what everyone else says. For me, that wasn't a master-student relationship.

But let me tell you something, the first episodes I really thought MY was the male lead and was really confused, then the second male lead showed up and because of that I thought he was the main lead and was even more confused. They didn't even bother to show us who the main lead was till episode 11 if I don't remember wrong.

Our female lead is actually a deity who then fought with a monster (I don't remember what it exactly was but that's not important.) and because of this fight she 'fell down' to earth and lost all her powers and memories. This is where the second life (my favorite one hehe) starts. BQ (female lead) started to live as a human without a name or anything. The male lead was finally born as the crown prince of the heavenly realm and of course had this cold attitude literally every male lead has. One day, he went to earth and then got injured, that's why he had to stay in his snake form, so he could recover. BQ loved to treat animals and then saw the little snake. And because she's such a kind-hearted and lovely person, she just took that snake to her house, without knowing it it's even poisonous. Yeah, we love our female leads.

While she was starting to treat him, he started to fell in love with her. When he fully recovered, he didn't return but changed into his human form at night so he could sleep next to the female lead. Don't get me wrong, I know that sounds creepy, but he really didn't do anything but just lay down to watch her sleeping. Okay, that sounds even more creepy. Even I can't defend him anymore... I'm really sorry, but he's still one of my favorite male leads haha.

Let's keep going, he then wanted to know her as a 'human' and disguised himself as an injured warrior, who apparently needed her help. Long story short, they fell in love, she got pregnant and our male lead suddenly remembered who he actually was. Leaving her alone for a very long time, he went to the heavenly realm. But he couldn't bare to let her on earth forever, that's why he just took her with him. A human woman. Pregnant with his child. He's the crown prince and there's another woman who tries everything to win his heart. So we all know what happens next, second female lead is just an evil being who tries everything to get rid of BQ. And she actually really get rid of her by making it look like BQ was the reason she lost her eyes. YH (male lead) believed the second female lead and took the eyes from the female lead, so she got blind. Feeling betrayed she first gave birth and then jumped from where the second female lead lost her eyes. Everyone in the heavenly realm thought she was a human, so they assumed that she was dead. But she wasn't of course, as a deity you can't die from there. BQ woke up in her true form and remembered everything, including the betrayal of the male lead. She wanted to forget everything and drank an elixir erasing all her memories. And here's where the third life starts. I'm not gonna summarize this life because it would take me way too long. And it's also my least favorite life from all of them. There's also a second couple who had a lot of scenes, but they even got an own drama, so I'm just focusing on the main leads.

Talking about the characters, they were sometimes really annoying. Especially the female lead in the third life. But one thing got really on my nerves: the mother-son bond.

Oh wait, there wasn't even one.

I'm sorry but I never saw such an awful mother in any drama. These writers really just make it seem like everything was based on romance. THEY HAD A FREAKIN CHILD. Argh, it annoyed me so much. Poor AL, never got the love of his mother which he actually deserved. I'm glad YH was a good father, or I would probably really go crazy.

And then people still be asking why I only liked the second life. First one didn't even show the main lead but made it look like it was a MY-BQ-LJ (second lead) love triangle and last one completely failed for me after making the female lead such an irresponsible person. At least her character was okay, some people would even say she was a 'badass'. Not gonna lie, I loved how she took revenge after regaining her memory.

But like I said before, this drama is one of my favorites. With its flaws. As the most watched drama in China with over 50 billion views, it really is something special. I rewatched it (especially the second life) so many times and never got bored, even when the female lead was such an annoying mother. And don't forget, there's so much more happening in the drama, I only talked about the romantic relationship about the leads and this review is my longest one now.

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Well this is the first Chinese drama I've watched in a while. The last Asian dramas I watched were the TVB series in the late 90's and some Chinese ones in the early 2000s to this series. About a 17 year gap in total. After the crap ending of Game of Thrones, I decided to research and give some Chinese dramas a try. My expectations were raised after I saw that this series had 58 billion viewers and a rating of 9.8/10. So I gave it a try and was blown away from episode 1. The movie like feel of the drama, the colors, the costumes, the scenery, the special effects, and the music. All this had me going 'WOW'. So the series didn't disappoint me and lived up to hype, which is rare. I have watched many other Chinese dramas since thanks to the positive experience from watching Ten Miles of Peach Blossom. The ending song by Zhang Bichen and some guy is something to behold. It's become a regular song on my playlist. Now to the cast. The last time I saw Zhang Mi, the main female lead, was when she played Guo Xiang in the Return of the Condor Heroes. In this series she's grown as an actress. I loved her as Si Yin the most where she did come across as fox like. Then naive and vulnerable as Su Su. Yang Mi also transitioned well to the high powered high goddess of Bai Qian . Mark Chao was perfect as Mo Yuan and Ye Hua. He has a heroic and noble feel about him. I think he's played Detective Dee in the movies. I liked Mark as Mo Yuan more though and I did feel for the character of Mo Yuan at the end. Poor dude without giving away any spoilers... I was rooting for you. As for the character of Yue Hua, I didn't really like him much. I thought he was a bit too aggressive with Bai Qian, but that's just me. I also hated the character of Yue Hua during the period where Bai Qian was Su Su and they were at the Celestial Tribe. But maybe its because I was rooting for Mo Yuan that I didn't like Yue Hau much, even though they look the same... I also enjoyed the bromance between Bai Zhen and Zhe Yan. Two people who did nothing but good during the series. The Star Lord, Si Meng, the kid Ah Li, and the Lian Song also deserves special mention. I loved their characters. There were head scratching moments in the series though. Like how no one could work out that Su Su was Ba Qian going through a mortal trial. Even her niece!! Especially as immortals go through trials in the human realm. Anyway, gripe over. I heard the sequel is solely based on the romance between the characters of Dong Hua Di Jin and Bai Feng Jiu... Oh god forbid, LOL. I just found Bai Feng Jiu to be too clingy and annoying... I'm also not found of young girls chasing grandpa like figures either. So I found them to be rather uninteresting and had to put up with them for a large part of the 58 episodes. Their own story is 56 episodes alone. Count me out of watching that sequel!!! But as for Ten Miles of Peach Blossom its a must watch. 10/10 period!

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My first Chinese drama series that I watched and I love it （╹◡╹）

Eternal Love is a story that opened my eyes to a whole different world of Chinese drama series that I have never experienced before. Now, I just look forward to discover more stories and enjoy watching and reading them.

Eternal Love music is lovely, the acting of the cast is amazing, and the story is astonishing.

Three lives, Three Worlds and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms perfect name for the story.

The story is intriguing, it would keep you on your toes, and would make you experience a lot of emotions.

I do like that the story has a balance of the lead actors characters. It shows different aspects of their personalities, and in whichever environment they are put in, they seem to master the role very well.

The cast from the main role to the support role actors did an outstanding job. Of course, Yang Mi, Mark Chao are one of my favourite couples in the story as Bai Qian and Ye Hua, I also liked Si Yin with Li Jin as a couple. Moreover, I did like Lord Dong Hua and Bai Feng Jiu Love story as well. The two most scheming characters were Su Sin and Xuan Nu, they played their role well. I liked Bai Zhen the fourth brother of Bai Qian, he cared a lot about his sister and was friends with Zhe Yan (the healer). Si Ming character was interesting where he liked to tell stories, and works for Lord Dong Hua. Zi Lan and Yang Zi were interesting characters and their story felt it could have had a different path. Die Feng the second princess loved his role as the senior disciple of Mo Yuan. As for Mo Yuan, I felt bad that things did not work out for him the way he wished for.

The music was well balanced with effect that it would give you while watching the story. The most critical moments in the story gave a gut-wrenching feeling because the music was in alignment with that moment in the story.

The re-watch value for me is on-going and I am enjoying it,

Overall, this drama series is outstanding with an outstanding cast performance. The director and screenwriter did a wonderful job.

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first I love watching historical dramas and well I love everything about this drama also the story was very good writing  and mostly I love is music in this drama dude music was the reason made me continue watching it and acting was fantastic and also romance between main leads were very sweet and I highly recommend u to watch it and u will not regret watching this drama for 10/10 and their is a lot C-drama's I have watch it but this one is the best for me guys and all u have to do is start watching it now and u will have great time watching it..go now start watching it don't waste ur time..????

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Add this to your list if you are new to Chinese/Asian drama

This is a very beautiful piece. The story itself is wonderful, this has a mix of martial arts, traditional, and such. The cinematography, editing, special effects are excellent. The characters are well portrayed and are a visual -- makeup and hairstyle. The ending was worth to wait and watch for.

I definitely recommend this to watch if you are a beginner in these types of drama or simply have nothing to watch.

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Ye hua looks tooo super girly I feel goosebumps while watching him flipping his hair euwwhh


Anyway, the story supposed to be super romantic but I turned off to ye hua hair lol
As mo yuan he looks more manly.


I watch this without reading the review beforehand, also didn’t read the synopsis.. to be honest I thought they are two different person! Ha! Mo yuan is ye hua and ye hua is mo yuan! Ok nevermind I just confused lol


Overall its a great romantic drama
If u like to be over the moon romanticly silly lovey dovey dramas u might love this one
A bit overdosed now
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