Shaoyaoville

Does anyone know what non fan cnetz are saying about this drama?? Positive or negative?

Check out Iris van herpen's collections please I think that was an inspiration for the custom and headpiece designs in this drama, I personally find them really cool. They also kind of remind me of the flowy strokes in Chinese paintings

Now ppl saying the drama is very different from the novel is worrying me...I don't wanna read the novel rn cause i don't want spoilers but it just usually doesn't go well when they make it too different from the original text

Just blocking ppl complaining about Orchid at this point because she's not paying my bills for defending her unfortunately but I know dfqc will do the job for me he will btch whoever who puts slander on this girl's name up I have no worries

Silent moon palace and Cangyan sea all have middle Eastern/Moroccan inspired architecture and it's very very VERY beautiful but my anxiety kicks in for certain reasons I don't wanna bring up here whenever I see them lol (They were kind of walking on a FINE line taking this aesthetic as their inspiration for designing a devil lord's palace but didn't cross it thankfully)

Literally it's so gross I saw someone saying they watched the drama and wished dfqc to k!ll her because of how annoying they found her to be...That's not an opinion anymore it's a sign of severe mental illness lol ... Flexing some psychopathic thought like that on social media lmao
Also out of topic but CHOBOM are icons legends FULL STOP

Her character is not the typical fl's friend I actually find her interesting lol...She isn't the best person ever but she's pretty smart

Omg exactly like people simp over men who sound like they have a **** in their voice box I'm always like HOW do you all like that thing it's TERRIFYING lol.
This is the world we live in, you get away with anything and get praised for bare minimum as long as you have balls lmao.I mean we just noticed the entire world see the disgustingly unacceptable shite mr Johnny Depp did on court IN 4K laughing and joking and dozing off while some serious fvcked up stuff was being discussed and still made him a comedic icon lmao...Am I surprised that Asian drama fans (a mostly straight girls and ALWAYS wildly sexist fandom) are popping veins over a fairy having the personality of a fairy and cutsy voice, and then proceeding to say she's annoying as hell for destroying a man's plans who has murdered a shite load of people for thousands of years??? NO! Idec about him being a bad guy here cause it's supposed to not be taken seriously but people DO take it serious as hell and it's actually starting to crack me tf up like lollololollll imagine being sooo mad over THIS It is NOT that deep 😭

Dfqc obviously didn't only k!ll his father just to take his place but because he hated him (for abusing him when he was a child ) which I think implies that he was never really completely heartless. This might be me overthinking as always but reminds me of Sartre's "Hell is other people" quote which means people viewing themselves as what others project to them/think of them. He might've never actually been REALLY emotionless (I don't think that absolutely emotionless can actually be a thing even in a fantasy world lol) but the ones around him have told him about it so many times that he started to live the reality others created for him. It'd be nice if the drama actually explores this theme later.

I already love her lol she's got the brains in a girlbossy way

fr it's not even that big of a deal people watch abusive and manipulative men in dramas and have no problem with them but a fvcking fairy being cute gets them THIS butthurt lol

Did Jieli just...gaslight gatekeep girlboss shangque like that??? lmfao

This drama is making sooo many ppl's ugly sexist face hidden behind the fake feminist mask reveal itself and girl I went from being mad to laughing the hell out of my lungs I'm having sooo much fun reading some of these comments 😂 Keep trying honey, it just shows your awful mindset and how badly you probably treat other women in real life. This one's a drama after all and XLH is a fictional character but your actually trashy way of thinking about women and the way you treat real women in your real life will bite you HARD af one day evantually and we will be celebrating it cause you deserve that lol

Literally took the words out of my mouth...Like it's so freaking stupid and dumb they seat there reciting a list of female characters who have the exact same characteristics and are like WHY is fl in this drama not like that. They do this labeling it as we need dramas to empower women while saying the most misogynist and sexist shite ever lmfao, indicating that only one type of personality for a woman makes her a good woman and everything else is unworthy of paying attention to and having her story heard. JLFX is a woman herself, women are always protagonists in her stories and novels all have different types of female characters, she also never projects sexist tropes in her stories so if people just decide to be less airheaded and don't instantly categorize XLH as annoying and actually watch the show without that stupid bias, they'll see there's more to her and her development than just a damsel in distress, unlike many other shows that use this kind of a female character as the main girl with sexist intentions.

Also really ironic to mention TLB in a comment criticizing Little Orchid. TLB was an excellent example of proving people that women with different personalities and different abilities can all be strong in their own ways. LeYan was a white lotus character archetype, similar to little orchid in many aspects, yet she managed to grow without losing her kindness and personality. If FL's specialty was her strong nature and her fighting and war strategy skills, LeYan's was her kindness, the purity of her heart and her needlework. Both of them were strong in their OWN ways, Leyan's kindness got her in trouble lots of time but paid her back lots of times in return.
Same thing with XLH, her kindness has paid her back lots of times in only 12 episodes of the drama and her difference with a damsel in distress is that that particular trope exists to make male characters look cooler while the story is actually focused on HER here and SHE is the protagonist and the MAIN character.
I really hope some of you ppl understand that comparing women like this and making one look bad to make the other one to look good, and also constantly making rules on what is good and what is bad in a woman and what they should or shouldn't be like to fit your specific "standard" of a "strong" woman is not cool and...well sexist lol.
It's pretty much the same thing as ppl hating Cinderella bc they found her "weak" and not feminist enough. The IRONY right there is amazing lol.

Oh and btw if you're gonna preach about women being marketed badly on media go on and talk about how the ML's pr team and producers of WRTW ignored FL's character to focus on ML's "perfection" and "coolness" to the point that ZLS's character became a freaking extra halfway towards the end of the show, that's the REAL sexism and misogyny women face in the industry, their characters getting ignored and their job opportunities stolen by men. that drama was the PRIME example of female characters being "strong" in a disgusting tokenist way while the plot and story not giving a damn to their arc, their life and their own struggles. The "strong" woman is just there bc ppl like strong female characters but her arc and story was completely wiped and she was boiled down to nothing but the male lead's "Love interest".
And as much as i enjoy LLTG, it suffers from another awful and annoying misogynistic trope which has rotten media to the core which is female rivalry and 1 dimensional btchy 2ndry female characters who are dumb, stupid, materialistic and hate fl bc they're "jealous" her. Her mother and pretty much every other woman in the show is bad and in the wrong while most men are chill cool and cute lol. Tell me how in the world that's the right way to portray women well in an empowering and human way??? FL being strongheaded in there doesn't make it feminist at all because of the horrible way the other women are treated in the show.
(Notice that I do NOT hate the main girls in any of these shows, I hate the way writers treat them and the rest of the women in the shows)

This is 2022 why do we still have these silly whiny sexist misogynist people hating on female characters for absolutely no logical reasoning whatsoever

Yup yup exactly Beauty and the beast as well. It's like as if Disney would try to make a Chinese movie and actually nailed it (which they can't do lol)

I can't shut up sorry I'm just really excited about this show but I need to say it: The relationship dynamic between the mains gives me Howl's moving castle vibes and I keep having a mental breakdown thinking about it 😭 I know it's not similar at all but it is I'm obsessed HELP ME THIS IS UNHEALTHY

Yup it is. I think he has always been and is gonna get dubbed for some time from now on cause his accent is really really strong.