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The dual sword can be changed to crescent moon, no? Even the FL had a sword initially, when she starts fighting and then uses crescent moon sword too. I think during the fight with that really powerful man that she later killed, I noticed this change. The FL kills with both a sword and crescent moon.

Thanks for the info.

I know about what you just said. That's not what am asking. IN Ep. 9 there is a scene where one of the cultivators (a lady) who is hunting the FL with a drawing got poisoned in a tea house. The tea house lady uses a crescent moon too. This is the lady I am asking about (who is she?)

I am a bit confused now. The FL is the one that uses the crescent weapon too right? How is she at a tea house and then at the pil tasting too (Ep.8). I know the lady cultivator was hunting her. I am a bit confused. Wasn't the person using the crescent moon and sword the person who was ML's wife and was avenging him?

Qin Jun Jie (Jiang Cheng) and Zhao Xun (Qi Yan) have the best performance of this show. They were simply outstanding in their performance.

Kudos to the producers of this show, it didn’t disappoint at all and whatever conflict that existed was handled properly and sensibly.

I definitely recommend other C-dramas to emulate them in how to tie stories together.

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Exactly! Most of the comments sounds like children or people who have not been in real actual relationships. Real deep love isn’t something you turn on and off like a tap. The SML and the FL had a love that felt so natural and easy. Look at the flashbacks of their relationship. With the ML, she’s more careful and not her relaxed self who is playful.
Memories and emotions that run that deep between FL and SML doesn’t just go away (too much history). Even when she thought he was bad, she was still burning for him secretly. Now imagine him being free and the whole perception of him being bad turned out to be a lie. It’s completely normal for her to behave that way.

I only hope the producers tie up the story and resolve everything properly. They better not take the easy way out and kill one of the characters or make one of them a villain.

No. People find comfort in people who care for them without necessarily loving them (I mean real love). It’s a childish opinion to think kissing and cuddling only happens between two people who are in love. It’s the trust she has for him that makes her seek comfort in his arms. You also have to realise that the FL is lonely too.
Additionally, people keep telling her to care for ML more, so she was also trying to give him a chance by letting go of SML. Now, SML is not what she thought and she’s conflicted.

I do believe if she eventually sorts out her emotions, she will realise who she loves intimately the most (she will always love the SML, they grew up as siblings).

You do know she was engaged to the SML and they were even living together. She loved him so much and from the flashbacks, her one and only intimate relationship before the ML.
Also, she never loved the ML and her response to him on questions of whether she liked him, has always been “ I trust you”.
Even before finding out that the reason she felt hurt my SML’s actions were a lie, she still loved him (earlier scenes where they crossed paths, you can feel the emotional tension). Now, it’s revealed SML is a hero, of course she feels very torn. All the love she has for SML that she suppressed due to perceived hurt can’t be held back by the hurt anymore.

Personally, I think she’s already also falling in love with her husband, the ML. She just doesn’t realise it yet. And that she may even love him now more than the SML.

To me, I think this is a realistic portrayal. If you’ve actually been in love, then you will know it’s not something you just stop. If SML stayed bad, it would have been easy for the FL to let go because she will have a reason to make her heart and head rationalise let go.

I’m currently suspicious of FL’s Shifu as being with the bad guys. Hopefully, I’m wrong.

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That was weird too. It felt like an unnecessary decision. But I guess they need to create friction for the personal relationships in the drama.

I am rooting for Qin Jun Jie’s character to be with the FL. But, knowing C-dramas, I’m sure it’s a tall dream and won’t happen 😭.

I need C-dramas to please make their female leads look like what they’ve been through.
At least in this show, the male casts look like what they’ve been through. If they are hurt, they look so, if they fall inside water they look it. Unlike the female lead.

Another drama that I had great hopes for but was let completely down. Only good thing for me, was the veteran actors who portrayed their characters with class.

From the first couple of episodes , I already knew that 30 episodes was simply too long for the drama. This contributed to how bad the drama turned out for me.

Then don’t get me even started with all the illogical plot lines and scripting of the drama.

Of course classic C-drama pitfall, the try-hard emotional set-up. A good drama should be able to naturally make the audience feel sad and teary easily. You don’t force it by trying to put supposed cliches and those sanctimonious monologues (super unnecessary in the last minutes of the show and didn’t accomplish its goal).
An example of how it’s done from something I just watched simultaneously with this show, is the two episodes before the last episode of the drama, “When life gives you Tangerines”.

Too long for the scope of the story they wanted to tell and because of that introduced unnecessary drama and somewhat went in circles too. Only to actually tie up the drama in the last few episodes.

I became confused if it was a revenge drama or a finance drama or a love story.
Also, the idea of a psychologist stalking and going outside his scope of work with his patient, didn’t sit well with me (this was even before they told us he knew her from earlier own). Still, in mental health, that will be very wrong and can even amount to taking advantage of your mental health patient.

This was another issue I had, the metal health theme was not professionally dealt with.

Show is so good so far. Please don’t ruin it midway. I’m still suffering from Her Blaze

Thanks for the recommendations 😊

Actually I don’t have preferences. I often just pick up any drama and give it a go for a couple of episodes to see if I will like it. That’s how I discovered this drama 😁.

I will check it out. Thanks ☺️.