With the high ratings seen on MDL, I had a very high expectation of the show. In fact, it is good, but not super good.

In the starting, it gave me a very strong "Ashes of Love" vibes but the production wasn't as good as that, acting wise I think Ashes of Love's casts are better. BUT! I personally think Love and Redemption has a better 60-episode story, which although it was long but it wasn't boring at all! I thought it would be in the "immortal world" settings but turns out to be the "mortal" world settings but having "immortal world" as the main lead's past. It was sweet in the first half and sad in the second half of the drama. It gave me a lot of anger because the male lead is suffering so much for all the misunderstanding, distrust and judgement from his loved ones. To the extent, I don't even think all his loved ones deserve a good ending, like they should have get some karma for putting the male lead into such situation... but well, I guess love wins ?

Overall it was quite good, as long as you don't compare it with other Xianxia dramas, it is fairly good as a standalone piece and it's worth watching! Oh, especially if you enjoy watching good looking casts, this drama almost all of them (even the villians) are as good looking as the main leads which is quite eye-pleasing!