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I spoiled myself about the ending and dropped the show after episode 32 I think 😂 When the leads got reunited and left that cave together. That’s the ending I’m sticking with since I don’t do sad endings 😂

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From what I heard, her portrayal was pretty in line with the book. She was always considered petite and small compared to her male comrades. I found myself enjoying this a lot more after I just suspended my disbelief and went with it.

The romance is great for the most part. I would consider this a slow burn, though. The leads have quite a bit of screen time together overall and a lovely connection between them is built. I have some complaints about some parts of it. We don’t get a lot of skinship or kissing until much, much later in the show. And I think the writers dragged the keeping secrets out MUCH longer than they should have. Other than those things, they have really great chemistry and a WONDERFUL mature connection. My goodness, and the ML gives her some beautiful poetic confessions. ♥️

The SML gets super annoying and it comes to a head in the last few episodes when some serious 💩 happens due to possessiveness from the SML. Luckily it doesn’t last long at all. And if I remember correctly, the FL is pretty good about maintaining boundaries with the SML.

I heard it’s on HiTV. I had a heart attack when I realized I couldn’t watch it on Viki anymore because I was planning on watching it for the third time. I think I looked on HiTV last week and saw it there. If you guys know of other places as well let me know. it drives me nuts if I can’t access a show that I love anywhere 💔

It’s definitely preferable to me than keeping secrets, lying and not communicating in order to drag out drama 😂 TPoB is one of my favorite shows for this reason.

Yeah that was totally me with this show. It had a tight grip on me 😂

They reunite in the modern world in the last minute or two, and there seems to be a mutual recognition that they know who each other are. She recognizes him right away, and there’s a glint of recognition in the ML’s face that he recognized her too. He gave her his cute Sima Jiao smile and asked her if she knew who he was. I thought it was really sweet, but like many others wish we had a bit more episodes in the modern world.

It was a little confusing mostly due to China’s censorship of sexual scenes, which forced them to be somewhat vague about what they were showing on screen. Others who have read the novels have explained it pretty well. My understanding is that being allowed into another person’s soul manor is considered even more intimate than physical sex, and needless to say there are definitely sexual overtones to letting another person into your soul. So they hinted the first time that the soul manors were introduced that it was just a “spiritual cultivation”, meaning that the Sima Jiao and Tingyan were temporarily in a spiritual location when she first entered into his soul manor, which was a very intimate act by her and Sima Jiao. I guess it was kind of like sex of the minds. They also seemed to have engaged in sex within this spiritual realm that first time with him being shirtless and making sexual jokes lol. But yeah, Chinese censorship made this scene a bit unclear. Dual Cultivation takes place when two people go into each other’s soul manors and have physical sex at the same time. That definitely happened later when she was injured.

I am in the early episode 20s so far and I have been starting to get over the cute lovesick puppy vibes and ready for stuff of more substance. I know it’s coming soon, but I see what you guys mean. I think it would have helped having more sensual / adult blood sharing or scenes with fiery sexual tension to balance the innocent puppy dog vibes. We got some of the latter so far, yeah, but not enough of it in my opinion. It has kinda felt like a mostly childish romance stuck in the infatuation phase for too long. I am more disappointed by the lack of blood sharing, though. After we got that first time in bed with her neck (🔥🔥🔥), I was excited thinking we would be getting more of that.

Yeah! I get all the nostalgic feels when I see him in dramas nowadays! ❤️

Oooo sorry- Romance of the Tiger and Rose 😊

The costumes in this extra scene were GORGEOUS 😍! They’re such beautiful people.

Awesome! I am excited you’re watching TPoB and I hope you like it and let me know what you think :) So FoE is unique because the writers did a WONDERFUL job basically combining two genres. Despite it being a thriller, it is also very heavily focused on the romance between the leads and how their marriage develops as she starts uncovering more of his history and his identity. I haven’t been able to find another action / thriller show that is very focused on romance like this one. Trust me, I have looked. And the ML’s performance is stellar.

Gaaahhh!! One of my faves! ❤️ 🔥

I really liked this one! Green Flag ML, empowered FL, and lots of scenes with the main couple. I found the ML to be very attractive 🔥 First watched him in Coroner’s Diary.

I had the same issues. LOVED LOVED the ML, but he and the FL just did not get enough screen time to hold my interest. Hell, they should have listed the ML as a supporting character for all of the screen time he had compared to everyone else 🙄I was skipping episodes by the end of it too. But that ML- talk about oozing that battle-scarred, raw masculine energy 😍! I still rewatch a lot of his scenes. 🔥🔥

I hear ya! One of my favorites.

This one and When Destiny Brings the Demon are my top teo faves I think! TPoB is character-driven, which is a main draw for me. I get bored if shows focus too much on the plot and not enough on developing characters and relationships. I have watched TPoB a couple times now… I want to space out the rewatches so I don’t get used to how good it is!

Yeeeeeeeaaahhhhh it was difficult understanding wtf the writers were doing the last couple of episodes, especially with the emperor 🙄 Pity.