Fantasy historical C-Dramas
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1. Love You Seven Times
Chinese Drama - 2023, 38 episodes
loved the love story. How the leads protected each other, and the friendships were super cute, especially with the read thread master and the Moluo clan. The male lead and female lead were strong and fought for what was right. Happy ending right at the end. Good CGI. The second ML was annoying in the beginning but he proved me wrong and evolved. No misunderstanding between the leads, which was great.
Bad side: Immortal Li died
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2. The Legend of Shen Li
Chinese Drama - 2024, 39 episodes
Beautiful story, badass FL, calm and powerful ML, amazing CGI. I loved the FL, she was strong right from the start, she cared about her people and refused to let injustice pass by her. Everytime there was a fight scene of hers, the moves, magic and the soundtrack used all matched beautifully. Everytime that music appeared, I knew I was gonna see a badass scene from the FL which I absolutely loved. The ML, being a divine god, had that calm nature, and I loved that when it came to the FL he could loose his patience and risk going against the nature Law to protect her, like when he thought she died and froze an entire ocean and risked the lightenings from Heaven. The realms were different from other dramas, you had the demon realm where people were good and it was a beautiful realm. The heavnly realm was not evil, and the Emperor only annoyed me because he expected the ML to keep on sacrifising his own happiness for the three realms. The side stories were really good, and heartbreaking like the FL's parents. That scene where the FL'S father decides to take her place and get sealed forever is beautifull. The last fight scene where both the leads were ready to sacrifce themselves for the three realms and be locked away together was beautiful.
Bad side: general Mofang's death and his lack of just thinking for himself, too many episodes that the FL was recuperating after almost dying, wanted to see her fighting ore even though there were o many scenes of those already.
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3. Back from the Brink
Chinese Drama - 2023, 40 episodes
loved the chemistry and relationship between the leads. CGI wasn't great but the story and the characters made up for it. Happy ending right at the end
bad side: CGI sometimes made me laugh. Misunderstandings between the leads which I completly understood both sides but made me sad to see them not together.
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4. Love Between Fairy and Devil
Chinese Drama - 2022, 36 episodes
Beautiful CGI and amazing moments of magic like when the FL sacrifices herself o save the ML and everyone who died. Liked the evolution of the FL, how whe grew up and got stronger. Liked how the ML grew feelings and started caring. happy ending right at the end
Bad side: sometimes the ML was annoying because of his attitude towards the FL, FL was a bit naive sometimes, the second ML who liked the FL and did not man up.
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5. The Starry Love
Chinese Drama - 2023, 40 episodes
spoiler: wished to see the FLs come back to life and reunite with MLs
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6. Love’s Rebellion
Chinese Drama - 2024, 36 episodes
Good drama, beautiful love story, good characters development. The CGI was not best but not that bad either, the plot was really good (there is a gap of three years forward in the middle after the ML "dies" so that we can see character development) , it always had an element of mystery such as who was the big villain which I never guessed who could be. The FL was really good, she started as a poison expert bent on healing her dying mother, who eventually looses her mother and goes on a path of self discovery which makes her incredibly strong. The ML was cold at first, with strong morals, always willing to sacrifice himself for the FL as he did twice. He dies but then returns with amnesia and still falls for the FL again. Their love story was super cute, hearbreaking because of the ML coming back as a demon and the FL's purpose was to kill demons, but they manage to stay on each other's side. The ending was a bit abrupt, with a fast forward of 3 years and shows the ML coming back and seeing the FL, but I got some questions.
Overall: good story, beautiful love between the leads, amazing friendships between the leads and the fox spirit and the Dragon Lord, the ending could have been more detailed.
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7. The Last Immortal
Chinese Drama - 2023, 40 episodes
Good story, good love story, and good development of characters. The FL was in the beginning naive, innocent but kind and stood up to help her friends. Then, when she reborns, she becomes matured, stronger but keeps on standing up for those in need. The ML was a bit childish at first, but he grew more capable and responsible. Both times, their love kept on being challenged, which led to them growing apart, like when the FL reborns and thinks the ML betrayed her. Despite that, they manage to keep getting back together. The Daze mountain wasters were always there for everyone and the masters were always there for everyone and sacrificed themselves to defeat the devils at the time. It was so sad, but then near the end, they reborned as well. The second couple was cute , and it was hard for them to just get together. Happy ending right at the end.
Final verdict: happy ending for everyone I liked, a lot of heartbreaks because of so many people not wanting the leads to be together which really frustrated me; the villains that had their own reasons but were so evil to so many people; wished to see the FL being stronger earlier ad the leads getting together sooner and not apart as much.
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8. Love and Redemption
Chinese Drama - 2020, 59 episodes
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9. Ancient Love Poetry
Chinese Drama - 2021, 49 episodes
beautiful but tragic and devastating love story. The ML and FL were perfect for each other. The drama kinda has two parts; the first one is my favourite. It happens in the god realm where the FL is the chief God and a true God out of four. She has the ML as a mentor so that she can take the throne. When she does, she discovers her fate, she has to sacrifice herself to save the world from the doom day. We see in this part, the ML falling in love with her, the beautiful friendships like that of the FL and the other true gods, the FL and Goddess Yue Mi. Because of her fate, the god Tian Qi decides to become the devil to prevent the FL from dying. Because of this, he is seen as a devil and killed by Bai Ju, the ML, in a great battle. In the process, Yue Mi dies while trying to save Tian Qi from the evil servant Wu Huan. She was a good friend and servant to Shang Gu, the FL, but grew to ambitious. The other villain, the villain god tries to destroy the god realm and a lot of gods die in the process. As such, the god realm is closed and entrusted to the three main disciples of the gods, Wu Huan, Mu Guang and Gu Jun, with the first two rule the Heavenly realm. Wu Huan becomes the big devil. The ML and FL were reborn but with new identities, Hou Chi and Mu Qi. They fall in love, get married and had a kid, Yuan Qi, but they give up their identities to become once again true gods, which leads to them forgetting their previous identities, but they recover them later on. We see beautiful CGI and amazing fight scenes.
Final Verdict: liked the story, did not like how the ML handled the whole situation of saving the FL from doom day by sacrificing himself, yes he returned but he hid so much from her which led to great pain; Yue Mi died for good; Hong ri, the fire beast returned; Feng Ran's love, Prince Jing Jian died, but he might return; Gu Jun was amazing as he was like a father to Hou Chi,, but he died; wished to see the FL become Shang Gu sooner and badass.
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10. The Blue Whisper: Part 1
Chinese Drama - 2022, 22 episodes
Liked the FL, she was really strong and once we fell for the ML she was willing to risk everything to save him. Same with ML, he even cut his tail just to save the FL. Wished the ML did not act like a baby for too long, even though I get it that he had just become a human but still. The FL's best friend Luo Luo was so cute and she just stood at her side for everything.
the master qing from flower valley and young master's father story was so tragic, she loved him and died with him. Also the love story between Li Shu and the master sanyue was so sad, he chose to betray her for his master and in the end died for her. But good thing he came back to life.
The evil characters: Ruo Ling, the sister of the heaven king really got on my nerves and the immortal master who was hung up on his dead lover and wants to destroy the world.
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11. The Longest Promise
Chinese Drama - 2023, 40 episodes
Beautiful sceneries. All of the kingdoms and even the Mountain were beautiful. The CGI of the fantasy scenes was also really good. We see right away a FL who likes to speak her mind and a cold ML who has so many heartbreak in his heart. The ML liked the FL almost from the beginning and the FL then also fell for him, after knowing his full identity. We see several evil characters, like the consort of the emperor that wanted to kill the ML in favor of her son, Bai Xue Lu that was such a bitch in the beginning and just wanted power and would put others down, and then the god of destruction. I liked the growth of many characters: the ML grew feelings and figured it out what was worth fighting for; the FL grew in her power and determination to protect the ML (in the beginning would always pester the ML but grew as well), Chong Ming the great bird also finally ended up liking the FL as a sister; Bai Xue Lu that was able to let go of her insecurities and power quest and fell for Qing Gang that brought out the best in her. A lot of the fight scenes were amazing and the plot of the story as well.
Bad sides: wished the FL grew a lot more stronger in terms of her power; wanted to see the leads get together sooner; the death of both the FL's parents, Zhi Yuan's death, and the ML's death (but he returns right in the last minute).
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12. Beauty of Resilience
Chinese Drama - 2023, 36 episodes
Good drama, with beautiful sceneries of the kingdoms and good CGI. The leads were good, the FL was naive at first but grew to fight for her loved ones and improved her powers by accepting her fate as the phoenix. The ML was distant and cold at first but grew as well to care for other people and be willing to sacrific himself for his loved ones. The both of them were really good, they fell for each other and were willing to die for each other, as they did. There were a lot of deaths that I thought were unnecessary: the FL's mother, the ML's brother Yan Luo, the FL's brothe Mu man, the demon Lan Su, the immortal Da Tao. The storyline of when they had their other life in the human world was beautiful but tragic. I did not understand the ending as it does not explain everything. Also, wanted to know wether the ML, in their first life, knew when killing the FL if she was going to reborn or not.
Overall: the first part of the drama was better than the second, lots of deaths, confusing ending, good CGI, nice growth of characters.
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13. The Blue Whisper: Part 2
Chinese Drama - 2022, 20 episodes
The FL was still strong, but she was sick because of the two veins. She was captured by the ML that thought she betrayed him but he still cared about her. However, he was really cold with ther. Until ep11 we see the FL sick, the cold ML and then the FL dies. Her sacrifice for the end of the war was a beautiful scene. And she came back to life right away, this time just as a fox but with no past memories. Then on episode 14 the ML finds out she is alive but with no memories. Also, when she died he felt guilty because of making her miserable so when she came life he tried to not restrain her. The FL got her memories back at ep16 and then they made up and got together at ep17.
Felt bad about Master Qing Ji, she just wanted revenge for her dead husband, but still let that go to hurt the evil spirit and help the other people. But once she dies, she reunites with her husband. The wedding scene between the leads was beautiful and I liked how th Immortal Master at the end fought the evil spirit and killed himself for his master, kinda atonning for what he did.The last episode almost gave me an heart attack, with the ML being frozen, Li Shu dying again, Luo Luo almost dying and Lin Hao Qing seemingly dying as well. But, fortunately, Luo Luo survived and married Kong Ming that became the immortal master; San Xue went to back the flower valley and Li Shu was reborn with a new identity. The end is a bit rushed, they show us the two leads happy in a cliff, so we suppose the FL came back to life!
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14. Song of the Moon
Chinese Drama - 2022, 40 episodes
jesus, everyone is against them being together, it's frustrating.
the water kingdom is beautiful. The immortal master is anoying, but improves in the end. Relationship between the two aquatic demon brothers is really intense but it's clear how much they love each other
Luo Ning and Fu's love story was so heartbreaking and was sad to see how much she suffered just to die in the end to save her brother from her lover. Was sad that master Zhuo was petrifiedThere are two endings. The one on ep39: He Na's death, The wedding scene with Liu Shao and evil spirit Luo Ge was really well done, with the tensions between the two and the beautiful gown of the FL and the petals on the floor. The final confrontation between God Liu Shao and evil spirit Luo Ge was really good, visually and also was emotional, with the whle scene of Liu Shao absorving the evil spirit to save her lover and dying. Also, her "symbol" the three legged phoenix which kept following Luo Ge, as she promissed she would. This ending even though sad was beautiful and I felt like Liu Shao sacrifising herself made sense, but wished to see her come back so that is why prefered ending 2.
The ending on ep40: Confrontation between Liu Shao and evil spirit is also amazing. Liked the involvement of everyone to defeat the evil spirit. He Na is alive, gets his power back. Beautiful scene where his brother Fu helps everyone and Lio Ning's spirit appears and Fu dies. In the end, they reincarnated in the human world and are together, Master Zhuo returned, and Luo Ge returned as well in the last second. This ending was a bit rushed.
Some issues I had: I liked the FL, just wished she would have gotten stronger faster to be able to help other people, like her badass moment in the human world when fighting with the disciple and the last scene with the evil spirit, wished to see more scenes like that.
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15. Sword and Fairy
Chinese Drama - 2024, 36 episodes
Overall a good drama, though it had a lot where it could have been better. The plot was not the best as for me it was not captivating, there wasn't much going on, no big mystery and when there was it was disclosed way to softly so it did not give us the element of surpise. The whole eexplantion about the ML's identity was confusing and even know I do not understand how extaly he came to be. The FL was naive, and I wished to see her getting stronger, both in her powers and grow as a woman, but it fell a bit flat, even the final fight with her mother that was corrupted because of her powers. The CGI was not bad, it had some good parts, the friend's leads were really good, and I especially liked the love story between the demon wolf and Zhaoyan but both have short lives so that is bittersweet (whose story with her brother was beautiful but devasting, for he was willing to sacrifice an entire city in exchange for his sister's life). Ming Xiu was strong but she lost her master who she loved and sacrificed her eyes for the greater good. In the end, the FL gives her life to bring the ML back, and we see both leads returning after a bit, but nobody remembers who they are, and it is a bit of an open ending because they are just staring at each other.
Overall: the drama had good parts like the friendships, some magic parts and the innocent cute love story between the leads, but the story could have been developed better and less deaths.
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16. Ashes of Love
Chinese Drama - 2018, 63 episodes
Overall it was a good drama, though it could have been better. Feel like if it had less episodes it would have been a lot better and less frustrating. The settings were beautiful, especially the Flower Realm. The love story between the leads was beautiful but full of obstacles, which really frustrated me. The FL did not know what love was but she fell for the ML but due to previous arrangements by her father and the emperor, she had to marry the ML'S brother. Now I did not like him at all, despite people saying they felt bad for him. But Run Yu just acted like a victim, yes, he went through a lot of bad things, none of which excuses him of what he did. Because of him, Sui He (another annoying character obsessed with the ML), the emperor and empress of the Heavenly Realm (the true villains) the ML and FL had to be apart a lot, and just the beginning is more heartwarming as the rest is heartbreaking. Loved the love story between the Demon Realm princess and her bodyguard Mu Ci, though it was heartbreaking as he died.
Liked the ending, all of the Flower Realm and the leaders (did some wrong decisions but all to protect the FL), felt bad for the death of the FL's father and Aunt, nothing happened to Run Yu (i get it it was supposed to be him understanding what he did and turning good, but he caused a lot of suffering); wished to see the FL more powerful with her powers; the scene where she sacrificed herself at the end was nice, and of course it was a happy ending as he came back.
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17. Legend of Fu Yao
Chinese Drama - 2018, 66 episodes
confusing ending
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18. Oh! My Emperor
Chinese Drama - 2018, 21 episodes
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19. Cry Me a River of Stars
Chinese Drama - 2021, 24 episodes
to many deaths for me
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20. The Romance of Tiger and Rose
Chinese Drama - 2020, 24 episodes