Draco

That depends on whether it's in the script. Both court lady and ancient love poetry follow novels very well, that's why both of them are good, and I like most of the characters there. What I don't like about adaptation is when unnecessary romance is added in to make the drama longer like a love triangle that wasn't there in the novel for example the legend and dance of the sky empire. I feel the romance is dragged out, and the CP is nowhere to be seen, just dragging out the love triangle even though it's clearly showed the fl doesn't have any feeling for the sml.

From watching up to ep 4, I can tell ding yunqi is a really nice guy. He never hit girls, and he gotten taken by luo yunsong because he went easy on those girls who were fighting him. Also I find it interesting that he took out the bullets from the gun and use it as a weapon, that's really interesting, is it because he doesn't like to use gun?

Agree 💯%

Whether it has a good or bad cinematography is not as important to me as whether it has a good plot. I trust xukai in picking a good script because I enjoyed most of the dramas he in. It's not the script that is bad, but he can't control whether his dramas get edited or him being sideline by the support characters in his own dramas. I love plot and characters the most, so those dramas I enjoy usually don't have many viewers, xukai doesn't do idol dramas and that's why I enjoy watching his dramas.

Yes being an actor need dedication and hard work, and I like that xukai doesn't think of himself as an idol but an actor, and he's constantly learning in each of his drama. He's not just a pretty face, he has both look and acting.

Yeah, I feel the same about ancient love poetry. Lots of people were complaining about it being boring in the beginning, but after finishing the drama, they start to appreciate the beginning since that was baijue and shanggu's happiest time ^^

I don't want him to die though, but yeah I hope he stay devoted because their relationship of master and servant I really like, and it seems ml also care a lot about him ^^

No I don't need 36 eps to judge it, but it's too early for me to say anything yet since I only watched 4 eps. I like watching drama to find out about plot and characters, so being 11 eps, it's too early to say anything about the characters. I'm not afraid of long dramas just as I love reading when it's a long book, so characterization is important to me as well as understanding the plot.

What I like about the pairing is how familiar they act toward each other even after being apart for so long, so I'm intrigued by that relationship since I feel they both care for the other more than they're letting on.

Some of the comments I read on here about the actress, they were saying she was being typecasted in other dramas with other actors so this has nothing to do with xukai fans. Most xukai fans are mature and we respect his costars. I don't like when actresses are attack for their look or age either, some of bailu fans attack him and the actresses he worked with before saying they were too old for him, or they can't act etc. If you're truly fans of xukai you would know most of his dramas are with older actresses, and we love him and each of his pairing.

It's not even a third of the way, what do you expect the drama to give you everything in the beginning. Then to be boring the last two third. Unlike you when I watched a drama I see it as 36 eps, so I guess the pacing is the problem for you. If I watch something, I usually finish it, so I can see what's going on first before judging it.

I don't think he's a bad guy, the way he treat his disciples and wu shuang make me thinks he's a good guy, he just cares a lot about Pentasect business, and is a stickler for rules like most martial artists like him.

The guy who's ml servant, who always call him master. I like how devoted he's to his master lol, hope he doesn't change and betray him in later eps.

I like the cp, why do you think this pairing is off. I find their relationship is so cute, the childhood friends who would come to help the other when one is in trouble. Can't wait to see when they finally acknowledge their feeling for each other.

Yeah, the tag did say multiple leads. It's just I wish a drama where xukai get lots of screen times, most of his dramas share similarities of him being sideline by support characters. Not saying I don't like the other characters, it's just my observation.

It's a very good drama. If you like xanxia you should definitely watch it ^^

It's not an attack, I didn't like how she was generalizing and made it look like it was xukai's fans who attacked fl, so I called her out on it.

You said most cdramas lack good characterization and good characters, and give an example of this drama. But in my opinion most viewers are just too impatient, and just want to get to the good stuffs right away, characterization is important, but it takes time to build up. Most viewers just jump the gun, and expect the impossible in just two eps, and calling the problem is cinematography or editing, or characters. I'm still new to this genre and I'm just exploring as I go along, and I'm enjoying what I'm seeing.

You said he doesn't act, but actually there are actors who play characters, and you can't really tell he's acting because he is so good at it. I find xukai is those type of actors, they're natural actors, he reminds me of Tony leung who can act with his eyes, he is still young and has a lot to learn, but the fact he has so many fans who acknowledge his acting meaning he's a good actor. I find him very versatile, so I think it's trash talk when you said he can't act.

I think it's meant to draw you in, wanting to find out more about what happened in the past. Also losing your mother as a child is a traumatic experience, and he blames his father for choosing his job over his family. I think he has every right to choose whether he wants to inherit his father job or not, knowing so many ridiculous rules of the pentasect, I wouldn't want to have anything to do with it either. If you think this is boring, then this is not a genre for you.