Isabella Snow

i thought kdramas had lost its touch. and now i think with this title HOH, the charm is back. remember the era when it was about grim reapers and and gumihos, now it's about shamans. Kdrama world has still so much culture to showcase. and I just love how they do it with this story. the actors are great, the plot is thick. The signature sweetness is there.
I try to avoid commenting cause I have a jinx that if i speak to soon, it will spoil the momentum. But this show is already halfway there. and I believe it is good.
Things that I love:
-Bong su is not really an evil spirit, he's a temperamental ghost boy who has unfinished business, he really spun the story to a different level of fun
-the supposed to be real evil, Yeomhwa, has a really sad backstory. All villains had an origin story
-how they all live in one house. the evil shaman (also daughter of the mother shaman). even Bong su the evil spirit who possessed Gyeon U.
-it started out as a light romcom, shaman schoolgirl has a crush on the reluctant client. archer boy. but the storywriters were serious with the shaman technicalities and has even included spirit dieties, and warding off ghosts and grim reapers (lol i remember the goblin which was also about grim reaper and black, and etc.). but they still maintained the school drama.
-no one is really evil. i guess thats the thing they were trying to portray
-the school theme is not underdeveloped. they went hard on the shaman parts, but they never left out the school stuff, with the classmates and even with the archery competition. so theres alsolike a sports athlete theme.

Spoiler alert: ep 10 ending was unexpected and very deep in feels. honestly, this plot is so unpredictable. but with the pace, they must go with a ultimate sacrifice trope eventually.

no this is not cdrama. what do you mean? it's far from cdramas.

the FL mother from Best Choice ever was so toxic, it made me drop the show earlier. I was looking forward to it cause of Xukai and Yang Zi but the FL mom's character was such a put off. Good thing, there was As Beautiful as you which starred Xu Kai and Seven Tan to replace.

damn, i thought he was gonna be an engineer. that's so cool!

did they reconcile with his parents?

wow. that's so detailed. so the guy achieved greater than that? cause he's been put on a pedestal since childhood...

for recommendations, these two fit better as well.
Le Coup De Foudre
A love So Beautiful

i wonder that too. what happened.
and what happened to his parents? have they finally come to term with his next plans. is he still living at his parents? have they disowned him? im so confused

reminds me of the mom from Go ahead

confirmed Lord Qing xu is the one mentioned by lord Yuya that slayed the Lei bird.
but the other name Yuan something is not a woman, i just checked the cast. something older is going on.

then he's like "and while you're on that. can you please wear a sexi red dresss (rawr)," lol hahaha.
and she's like, you wish.
but she wore it anyway. XD

that's one of my dreams hahaha

i have a thought. maybe it's connected to what happened 600 years ago? Yuya mentioned a slaying of a Lei bird. and this Xiao jingshan is positively on a mission that might have been caused by that event. maybe the infinite steele is connected to that. and take note, he wants to destroy it. not take it for himself. destroy it. is it like a lock, but it used 2 actual souls and trapped them there. those names seem like a man and a woman.

i also caught that. nice of you to point it out. this is why i really love MDL.
now who the heck are these Lord Qing Xu and Yuan Chenghua.
theories guys?

in a modern setting it would be like her terrible deadbeat father took away her hard-earned money/savings to put her under his control. imagine how she must have felt. the maid was on point when she said, "she's gonna hate you forever when she wakes up"
and he even thinks he's protecting her. gosh i want him to die.

what the heck is an infinite steele,

correction, almost-stepmother. XD
he was so young and hopeful at that time, his dad is getting married to this beautiful goddess, he thinks he's getting the perfect family finally. then boom! the husband stabbing wedding happened. that's his villain arc.

we weren't shown yet how Long Yuan was taken into BJS's care. but they mentioned he was the first disciple of BJS and he was one of those who saw Siling before the feud started. he's basically like the child of divorced parents who hates his mother (rather step mother) that left them and is very protective of his dad. meanwhile, Li Mo is the mild mannered other younger son, who probably don't hold much grudge because he was younger when the parents divorced.
give and take, the divorce happened way much after the 10 years of Siling power getting locked, when after she recovered, she went into the 9 heavens and tricked him into another marriage just to take revenge. LY and LM were just young innocent kids of single dad BJS at that time. poor kids, the trauma this feud has left them.

husband special request lol. weird kink BJS.

Just realized that the actor who plays the youngest Wei general is the same actor who plays one of the snow guardian guys from My journey to you. He had a scandal in 2023. good thing they were able to release this despite those issues with the actors.