Alila Nguyen
Coming into this drama I thought it’s a serious fantasy drama like 3L3W, with the son of demon king and a female lead. Then after a few reading of different synopsis (not spoilers or novel storyline), I found it more and more interesting as the son of demon isn’t the big bad evil but the female lead is 0.o and then finally the correct synopsis that the female lead got killed by the male lead, return as a ghost (kinda) and plan revenges on him.
From serious to comedic synopsis with 3 eps already watch, I’m like that’s great! My first impression of the 3 eps: the female leads was naive and full of hope at first. Totally maniser (instead of womaniser), saw the first beautiful looking dude (golden fairy) and had a major crush. Following the fairy’s advice, she tried to do good deeds, unfortunately her first good deed goes against the wishes of the “supposingly good” clans, she rescued the rumoured son of the demon king, with the reason that “just because you are born evil, but if you haven’t done anything bad, you are not evil, and killing such person is just bad and against what good should be”. Because of this, the whole of Jiangho turned against her. But she sticks by him (Mo Qing), after got him to a safe place so no one can find him, she went to meet her crush without knowing he’s the one that put out the order to kill MQ. He captured her and tortured her, during the torture, she was true to herself, and wouldn’t say the whereabouts of MQ, while trying to tell him he was at fault and not her. In the end, her grandfather die protecting her. She’s then vowed to be as evil as one can be xD
Pro so far:
The story moves quite fast, the pacing is great, lots of stuffs going on. Quite a number of characters, however, it’s not hard to follow.
Refreshing female lead, which I will describe in a few words: sassy, badass, smart, caring, totally maniser lol (in a sense that she loves beautiful looking man, and this is what cause a major problem later on!) but don’t worry, apart from the male lead, she doesn’t do anything inappropriate to other guys xD!
Strong male lead that is gentle and caring, smart and let the female lead has her ways of revenges, sad knowing the sweet things she does for him is for revenges but couldn’t help be happy and all puppy about it!
Their chemistry is just believable, from a one sided crush, and one hate-you-so-much-that-I-want-to-kill-you, to remember that tenderness of love and being cared for, and actually think for the other person. I can’t wait to the point where they are openly in love with one another as it will be a love of smouldering moments xD! Their interactions and moments are enough to propel you to love them, and wanting to see more and more of them!
The fight scenes: growing up watching a lot of wuxia drama, I always look down on fantasy drama as their fight scenes are always cheap and heavily CGI, literally 1-2 kicks then boom here and boom there, and smoke everywhere. But this series actually has longer fight scenes, and when the CGI comes in, it makes sense and it has great effects and looks. One thing is they don’t show much how the female lead fight when she was evil, which I guess to not truly show how “evil and ruthless” she could be, in case haters are gonna hate, and people will use that to not try to understand her character. (You will also later on find out more the reason why this is done so).
The side characters are all different and interesting, and given just enough time, not overly filler like a lot of series out there.
Acting: everyone is spot on for their roles, I love the casting, though apart from the female lead who I’ve seen in untouchable lovers, I haven’t seen others, and they all did a great job! Minus the second female lead sometimes (she just can’t do strong and sexy role lol)
Mystery: because I haven’t read the book, figuring out what and who and why so and so happening is great for me. I was able to guess everything, and while I got it correctly, I love how they leave enough clues for me to do so :) but not many that I felt like a kids being spoon fed (maybe for the book readers it will be :) )
Con:
The second female lead’s acting is so weak, that she couldn’t demonstrate the same ranges as the female lead, and that make her character weak sometimes (like not sassy enough, not angry enough, etc). So while I get they tried to show how other see the female lead’s character, they could have use her more instead of the secondary female lead. Though this is improved as the story goes on, as more and more people see who she really is, and that lesser usage shows the difference.
Only 6 eps a week is killing me! I have waited for 1 month and I’m only at 26 eps!!! And now I have to wait 4days for new eps!
The beginning of each ep could be confusing. Initially I was like WTH, did I get the wrong episodes. Because they are 3 mins of random scenes that doesn’t connect to the end of the last episode, however, after a while, I started to like how it was done. It is to give you information to clarify an event that might happen/already happen, that if told in a traditional sense, require a lot of filler to connect it into the story. This way, it helps explaining, and condense the story. Which is a rare thing to see in c-drama!
Would I recommend this series? Definitely! It’s one of this rare drama with great different storyline and strong female lead that everyone is looking for. One reason why it isn’t as popular as it should be because the actress is relatively unknown, same as the male lead (both most noticeable work is as secondary lead for 1 well known series, hers being untouchable lovers, and his being the story of Yanxi)
For now: 10/10 for me!
From serious to comedic synopsis with 3 eps already watch, I’m like that’s great! My first impression of the 3 eps: the female leads was naive and full of hope at first. Totally maniser (instead of womaniser), saw the first beautiful looking dude (golden fairy) and had a major crush. Following the fairy’s advice, she tried to do good deeds, unfortunately her first good deed goes against the wishes of the “supposingly good” clans, she rescued the rumoured son of the demon king, with the reason that “just because you are born evil, but if you haven’t done anything bad, you are not evil, and killing such person is just bad and against what good should be”. Because of this, the whole of Jiangho turned against her. But she sticks by him (Mo Qing), after got him to a safe place so no one can find him, she went to meet her crush without knowing he’s the one that put out the order to kill MQ. He captured her and tortured her, during the torture, she was true to herself, and wouldn’t say the whereabouts of MQ, while trying to tell him he was at fault and not her. In the end, her grandfather die protecting her. She’s then vowed to be as evil as one can be xD
Pro so far:
The story moves quite fast, the pacing is great, lots of stuffs going on. Quite a number of characters, however, it’s not hard to follow.
Refreshing female lead, which I will describe in a few words: sassy, badass, smart, caring, totally maniser lol (in a sense that she loves beautiful looking man, and this is what cause a major problem later on!) but don’t worry, apart from the male lead, she doesn’t do anything inappropriate to other guys xD!
Strong male lead that is gentle and caring, smart and let the female lead has her ways of revenges, sad knowing the sweet things she does for him is for revenges but couldn’t help be happy and all puppy about it!
Their chemistry is just believable, from a one sided crush, and one hate-you-so-much-that-I-want-to-kill-you, to remember that tenderness of love and being cared for, and actually think for the other person. I can’t wait to the point where they are openly in love with one another as it will be a love of smouldering moments xD! Their interactions and moments are enough to propel you to love them, and wanting to see more and more of them!
The fight scenes: growing up watching a lot of wuxia drama, I always look down on fantasy drama as their fight scenes are always cheap and heavily CGI, literally 1-2 kicks then boom here and boom there, and smoke everywhere. But this series actually has longer fight scenes, and when the CGI comes in, it makes sense and it has great effects and looks. One thing is they don’t show much how the female lead fight when she was evil, which I guess to not truly show how “evil and ruthless” she could be, in case haters are gonna hate, and people will use that to not try to understand her character. (You will also later on find out more the reason why this is done so).
The side characters are all different and interesting, and given just enough time, not overly filler like a lot of series out there.
Acting: everyone is spot on for their roles, I love the casting, though apart from the female lead who I’ve seen in untouchable lovers, I haven’t seen others, and they all did a great job! Minus the second female lead sometimes (she just can’t do strong and sexy role lol)
Mystery: because I haven’t read the book, figuring out what and who and why so and so happening is great for me. I was able to guess everything, and while I got it correctly, I love how they leave enough clues for me to do so :) but not many that I felt like a kids being spoon fed (maybe for the book readers it will be :) )
Con:
The second female lead’s acting is so weak, that she couldn’t demonstrate the same ranges as the female lead, and that make her character weak sometimes (like not sassy enough, not angry enough, etc). So while I get they tried to show how other see the female lead’s character, they could have use her more instead of the secondary female lead. Though this is improved as the story goes on, as more and more people see who she really is, and that lesser usage shows the difference.
Only 6 eps a week is killing me! I have waited for 1 month and I’m only at 26 eps!!! And now I have to wait 4days for new eps!
The beginning of each ep could be confusing. Initially I was like WTH, did I get the wrong episodes. Because they are 3 mins of random scenes that doesn’t connect to the end of the last episode, however, after a while, I started to like how it was done. It is to give you information to clarify an event that might happen/already happen, that if told in a traditional sense, require a lot of filler to connect it into the story. This way, it helps explaining, and condense the story. Which is a rare thing to see in c-drama!
Would I recommend this series? Definitely! It’s one of this rare drama with great different storyline and strong female lead that everyone is looking for. One reason why it isn’t as popular as it should be because the actress is relatively unknown, same as the male lead (both most noticeable work is as secondary lead for 1 well known series, hers being untouchable lovers, and his being the story of Yanxi)
For now: 10/10 for me!
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