Immortal Samsara: Part 1 (2022)

Nothing new, just enjoyable drama

Like title, just another xianxia drama with high profile ML & stupid servant. I took fancy Cheng yi recently. Maybe my review will particulary bias. The drama is not perfect with some plot hole. One is the timeline between heaven & mortal. Its seem they forgot to make heaven time much slower in heaven than mortal. because zhixi went dizhi, yingyuan weapon. tang zhou still look so young.
I like this Yandan better than other character Yang zhi play. Atleast Yandan act stupid just couple beginning episode then she start to mature and know what is responsibility. By the way, I'm not sure but I think somewhat they forget that Yandan only have half lotus heart. She can't be that powerful when she fight with Huanqin, right. And somehow they 'forcing' Yandan, a lazy and unwilling to learn fairy, smarter than Dijun who experienced for THOUSAND years of battle scheme. gifted or they just make her so she can meet ML.

Anyway, both Ying yuan or Xuan ye is gorgeous with white hair. To bad that they only appeared for 3 episode. I guess, that ying yuan hair and forehead mark not only because poison but also his lineage?. To be honest Xuan ye love story bit more interesting

The most annoying is Ying de fairy, she got pretty weird face and facial acting, dunno why they keep close up on her. Among other, she really look out of place. And I still dont understand why she start to bully zhixi that badly.I mean, i still understand if she bullied Yandan because she caught Ying yuan attention but her action start long time before that. Or maybe they just need her as stumble rock villain for protagonist.

Anyway, i heard this drama got too much censored so the editing pretty damn crappy here and there. Despite minus, this drama is pretty enjoyable. i enjoy the acting and song.

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Great Xianxia

Ah, I loved this one! A good old-fashioned xianxia served up with all the best plot devices, romance, numerous episodes, great acting, and strong writing. Without giving anything away, it's just a fun romp through xianxia land and took me back to the days of TMOPB and similar xianxias that made me fall in love with the genre in the first place.

As always I loved Yang Zi's performance as Yan Dan, the lotus fairy who is born into the Heavenly Realm. Cheng Yi and Ray Chang's performances were also noteworthy, but in this love triangle, I was team Yu Mo due to their wonderful chemistry! Deep down, I hoped they would just run away together!

There was some pretty bad acting among some of the supporting cast--Wang Hao Xuan as Dragon King Ao Xuan, but the leads were rock solid. They were endearing, especially when the trio went on their numerous adventures. I have to commend Vicki Xu on her portrayal as the evil fairy Ying Deng. Damn, she was one you really loved to hate.

Nice OST and impressive special effects made it a feast for the eyes and ears. Definitely recommend this one if you're a fan of xianxia shows. Looking forward to part 2!

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perfect

if you are sensitive like me, I advise you to prepare your tissues, everything is perfect
Yan Dan is the sole descendant of the ancient tribe the Four-Leaved Lotus. Yan Dan’s entire being is a treasure trove of medicines. She and twin sister Zhi Xi transformed into human form a century before while attending the Queen Mother's Feast, but Yan Dan faced the greatest trial of her life - the love trial. Falling in love with Lord Ying Yuan resulted in her wasting the following 900 years trying to forget him. Such a high price to pay!

Now the supportive Yu Mo enters her life, encouraging her daily to perform good deeds. While punishing evil, they encounter Lord Ying Yuan's current reincarnation, Tang Zhou, the demon hunter. They assist Tang Zhou in his quest to locate the four ancient artifacts, uncovering an even more mysterious secret. Can the trio find the evidence they need despite the dangers?

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The Love Will Last Forever

One of the best dramas of the year 2022. If you are a fan of Xianxia or Wuxia, this one is for you.
If you have watched dramas like "Love Between Fairy and Devil" This one is something you don't wanna miss.


STORY : The story is about star crossed lovers. Heavenly Realm, the home of our main leads Yan Dan, a descendant of four leaf lotus and Sovereign Lord Ying Yuan. In Heavenly Realm love is forbidden and the punishment for falling in love is very painful. Defying the rules, they fall in love.
As they try their hardest to keep their feelings to themselfs, Ying Yuan gets poisoned in a war against demon realm and Yandan saves Lord Ying Yuan's life by giving him half of her lotus heart, then her sister ZhiXi takes the credit for it and Yandan lets her.
She is later on framed for poisoning a fairy and on her way to get punished, she asks Ying Yuan that does he believe her. Ying Yuan knew all along it was Yandan who saved him and he knows about her feelings, but due to the heavenly rules and because he wants to protect Yandan from the punishment of love, he acts like he doesn't know the truth and that he doesn't love her. Yandan is heartbroken and since she was betrayed by her sister and then rejected by the man she loves, she jumps from the bridge of emptiness. Ying Yuan saves her from dying, but she can't be an immortal anymore, now she must go to the mortal realm. She is supposed to walk the night forgetting river and forget her memories to be able to go to the mortal realm. She couldn't forget Ying Yuan and walked for almost 900 years, until she was saved by Ying Yuan again and finally able to forget him.
When she finally goes to mortal realm, she is a demon. Her friend, our 2nd male lead who also is in love with her, Yu Mo, a descendant of the nine fins clan, left the heavenly realm to be with Yandan. He was searching for her for those 900 years in the mortal realm and finally meets up with her and brings her to his home. Ying Yuan is suspecting that something happened during the war and goes to investigate in the mortal realm. In the mortal realm he doesn't know that he is actually a sovereign lord. He is now Tang Zhou, a taoist whose sect kills demons. Naturally these two lovers were destined to meet and Tang Zhou imprisons her, but doesn't kill her. He starts slowly liking her and soon we are in the same situation all over again. Tang Zhou is supposed to be the next sect leader, therefore love is forbidden from him.


What i liked and disliked about the story?

I personally loved the story very much. I enjoyed that the story didn't happen only in the heavenly realm and the characters really shined in the mortal realm. The sisterly love between Zhixi and Yandan touched me as a big sister myself. Yu Mo being the best friend for Yandan was quite sad and beautiful at the same time. He sacrificed so much for Yandan but still could never take Ying Yuan's place in her heart. But he was fine with it. The love story between Yandan and Ying Yuan was beautiful yet painful to watch. It might be due to Cheng Yi being a such an amazing actor that i really felt the love Ying Yuan had for Yandan. The story was really full of sacrifices being made which was a little too much for me. They were literally ready to die for each other every 10 minutes..I felt like that was a little tiring. I really hoped for some kind of development for Yandan's powers. because i felt like she was just in the way a lot. She was told not to come because it's dangerous and yet she came and had to be protected quite a bit. Also another let down for me was the Ying Yuan's Azura bloodline. We are told about Ying Yuan's azura bloodline in the very beginning, yet i didn't quite understand how your bloodline could affect your personality. When we were told about Ying Yuan's parents, it was clear that Xuanye, Ying Yuan's father loved Ranqing, Ying Yuan's mother, but couldn't let go of his own greed for wanting to rule the six realms. He couldn't let either one go. "My love and this world, i can let go of neither of them"
So i didn't really get how Ying Yuan's azura bloodline could be a bad thing. And we really didn't get the explanation for it, His bloodline did activate in the last 5 minutes of the last episode.
The ending wasn't so satisfactory as i wished for it to be but it was saved due to the special episodes.

THE MAIN CAST:

YANG ZI as Yandan. I really enjoyed her acting as Yandan, she could play off the childish, care free version of her but also the mature version very well. She was to me a pretty standard fairy main role. "Cute" is the first thing that comes to mind when trying to explain her. She was cute but she was also selfless and smart. Yang Zi did a good job overall!

CHENG YI as Ying Yuan, Tang Zhou and Demon Lord Xuanye.
Cheng Yi did an amazing job as he had to act three different roles, even though Ying Yuan and Tang Zhou were pretty similar.

Ying Yuan was a responsible yet mischievious sovereign lord with the realms on his shoulders. He wasn't meant to fall in love but he did. Cheng Yi's acting when it came to Ying Yuan was top notch. When he was in love with Yandan, you could see it in his eyes and the way he smiled. Cheng Yi's smirks were everything! The hurt and care he showed towards Yandan felt so real.
Tang Zhou was very similar character to Ying Yuan but more free and selfish when it came to being with Yandan. Only because of his time as Tang Zhou, could he decide as Ying Yuan to stay with Yandan. Cheng Yi pulled it off so well.

Now, Cheng Yi, Cheng Yi.. He really didn't have to steal my heart like that but he did it and he did it as Xuanye. I feel like i just want a whole new season of Immortal Samsara but make it all about Xuanye. He stole the show. Cheng Yi as the bad demon lord was something i hadn't seen before and i fell for him in an instant. Hot, mean and cool. "DON'T BE STUBBORN. BE MY QUEEN"

apart from these two, i feel like Meng Zi Yi as ZhiXi really stood out the most for me.

THE MUSIC :

10/10. The ost Agarwood is something i've been listening a lot lately.

THE COSTUMES:
The outfits were everything! So beautiful! the costume team did an amazing job as the wigs for Cheng Yi were amazing and i loved all of his outfits! Yang Zi's clothes were also very beautiful yet they were pretty much the same. The best outfits had Meng Zi Yi and Cheng Yi for sure!

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Emotional roller-coaster !

I believe the team made it a point NOT to drag too much so it does progress quite fast to the extent i wished i could watch more of Yan Dan & Ying Yuan/Tang Zhou together. Its a matured love story and more about sacrifices one will make for the world/realms and not only on love. Acting wise is top notch from all of the actors and actresses. Cheng Yi's crying scenes really broke my heart so many times and his acting got me hooked on the drama. Yang Zi is also very good as she made me cry and laughed a lot. One of the better xianxias of all time but my favourite remains as love and redemption. :)

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THIS REVIEW IS FOR BOTH PART 1&2:

I did not expect to like this drama more than I did, mainly because I was ho-hum about Yang Zi as an actress despite watching a few of her dramas, but she was much better in this one, IMHO. The show definitely benefitted from the acting prowess of the cast, with Cheng Yi in particular. He was more subdued here and not a long-suffering idiot like he was in "Love and Redemption," which I liked.

Though a bit convoluted, the drama was fast-paced and rarely boring. There's a few downsides though: I do not know how much more repeated reincarnations that I can take. This seems to be the go-to tropes of historical dramas, but this one is a bit much, especially with the same evil resurrecting a few times, it became annoying AF. Also, the CGI is not the greatest, I would say even to the point of particularly bad and laughable in some instances. But all in all a good story about love and sacrifice.

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Very good plot and explainable storyline

It was very good throughout the drama i really enjoyed everything. Story was good. I skip like 4, 5 scenes. The actors was good it show emotions right but i didn't like the ending unless there is another season I am not fully satisfied with the ending. I have wanted more since it lost its main theme in the very last episode. I like how they do not turned friends into enemy at last moment as i have seen in some dramas and i was hell sure that they are going to do that but thank god they didn't but then it was unfair for the main leads so it make me regret at end however everything was making sense so i just accept the ending. They explained everything in the movie so you would not like when did that happened and how the happened. Give it a watch.

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One of the best romance xianxia dramas

Truly a love story that tugs at your heart strings!!!

Highly recommend this drama as it had the perfect mix of romance, action and angst. The two main characters truly loved each other unconditionally and the drama did a great job of character development for both of the leads. The acting and music was on point, Cheng Yi's acting never fails to impress - it's as if his eyes can talk!!! Yang Zi did a beautiful job of protraying her character as well - main lead's chemistry was off the charts. Highly recommend this drama!!

Rewatch value: 10/10 I would rewatch this!

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Sad Ending …

I finished this drama about a few weeks ago but here i am writing a review before i forget about it ha

Positives : StoryLine
the storyline in my opinion was really nice. it’s unique and i loved that about this drama. i loved the fact that the fml was a four leaved lotus which was interesting because i’ve never seen a transformation like so.

i loved how the ml always flipped the tortoise ha-ha those parts were always so cute. they always made me laugh lmao

i also loved that that there was reincarnation and past lives which is a genre that i have a love for and this drama has PLENTY of it in it so if you love that type of genre this is a drama surely for you !!

Negatives: Storyline
- HATED THE ENDING OMG ( i’m pretty sure they both died .. sad ending and that’s the reason why i hated it, if they didn’t this drama wouldn’t gotten a higher rating 😶 ).

- a couple filler episodes

Positives: Acting
the acting from the actors were all decent but the "Yang Zi" , "Cheng Yi", and "Ray Chang" took the cake for me they were amazing. i think that "Cheng Yi’s" performance improved a lot from "Love and Redemption" and because of that it made the drama even more lovable.

Negatives : Acting
- a bit bland at times ..

Positives : Casting
the casting was PERFECT and that’s all i gotta say


Positives : Music
the music was AMAZING !! i loved everything about it. i don’t usually enjoy many of all the osts from a sound track from a cdrama but this one had to be one i really enjoyed. all the songs are 🫶🏾🫶🏾.

my favorite though is "Agarwood" by Jane Zhang, and Zhang Jie. the instrumental and the vocals from both singers is just ughh. the way the music touches my heart .. it’s so soothing. DEFINITELY A 10/10.


for sure would watch it it again in the far distant future and i can’t wait to rekindle the enjoyment i felt watching this drama again.


OVERALL .. i loved this drama and i encourage everyone to watch it if they love wuxia, fantasy, romance and reincarnation drama’s because this is the drama for you

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Obsessed!!

Storyline is very heart wrenching and emotional, but the moments are very beautiful. Both the leads are beautiful and acting is too good. Their teary eyes express very realistic emotions and heart-breaking. If looking for a new Xianxia drama to watch, please give this a try! Romance is good and not slow paced, it is mutual. The costumes are very beautiful on the female and male lead.You know what I mean if you look at the photos. The producer has many hit historical dramas and this is definitely one of them. I watched all 11 episodes in go and I am a addicted I will continue to support and watch this drama

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