Meari21

I don't get the early reviews tbh. I'm good with the early ratings because when I was a lurker on this site, I used to come here just to check the early ratings and comments. It helped me make decisions on which dramas to watch. But the reviews I don't get. How can you review a drama you haven't even finished?

So another dummy account submitted a "template" and generalized negative review that could've applied to any other drama. Must be a supporter of Guardians of the Dafeng because they rated that one a perfect 10. I'm also watching and enjoying that drama. Why do people have to put down one to elevate another?

They're cute together. 😍

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They do have similarities. Some people even mistake them for one another sometimes. They could play brothers in a comedy series. I can only imagine the chaos they would cause. 😂

That's what I heard. Not sure if it's true but I'm inclined to believe it because I don't think Ruipeng would've been cast as Fan Yue if she hadn't intervened. I expected them to cast Dylan Wang or someone his level. I was surprised they got Ruipeng for the role.

They get along so well. I heard she handpicked him to be her leading man in this drama. I was wondering how Ruipeng got the gig because he's relatively unknown compared to someone like Bai Lu. Maybe a second male lead in her drama but never her leading man. It makes sense if she requested for him to be her ML in this. I'm glad she did because I like them both so I'm just happy to see them together in this drama.

I very rarely support a CP as I'm not really into romance and more into BL or bromance. I would like a hetero pairing here and there, but rarely become a fan. The last time I shipped a CP was Zhou Ye and Hou Minghao in Back From The Brink. They were the perfect pair! And now here I am again. I'm so sorry, Zhang Linghe, I like you but I am officially shipping Lulu with Ao Ruipeng. 😄

I did a little digging. It's actually not a new account and the username does seem familiar, I forgot where I saw it though. But I did notice one thing about the review. It looks like a template for negative reviews of historical dramas, which is weird since this is a fantasy drama (xianxia) not your typical historical drama. The complaints are too general. It didn't criticize certain aspects of the drama, making me think that the author didn't really watch it. Another weird thing I noticed is the author only submitted two reviews to this site, the other one got a perfect 10, but both dramas they reviewed are marked as "dropped" instead of completed. The account doesn't seem to be active either even though it was supposedly created more than 2 years ago. It seems to me that it's a dummy account or a second account created specifically to upvote or downvote certain dramas.

Somebody here mentioned that this drama is giving them The Beauty and the Beast feels. I'm inclined to agree. In fact, I think that Fan Yue had a traumatic childhood and was somehow cursed. He needs the Desireless Stone and someone who can unlock its powers to get rid of the curse. He only plays at being cold and distant or might've become like that because of his past traumas. Predictable but I must admit, I do like this trope. lol

Most likely Jing Yuan/Tian Qi, Fan Yue's god form in his previous life. The role was portrayed by Liu Xueyi in Ancient Love Poetry. But in this drama, I don't see the actor in the credits yet. I would like to know who plays him.

LOL

This! He is known as Tian Qi in Ancient Love Poetry.

The actress who plays Fu Ling reminds me of a young Ming Na Wen.

His real voice is actually deeper and more masculine. He was dubbed in The Blood of Youth to give him a more youthful sounding voice since he plays a teen there. I think they dubbed him for this role because his line delivery could use some work. In his last drama, he was also dubbed using a much deeper sounding male voice and it threw me off at first as well. But honestly, I've been watching C-dramas with bad dubbing for so many years now that I don't care anymore. I watch with English subs anyway. If I were a Mandarin speaker, it would've driven me nuts for sure.

I gotta hand it to Ao Ruipeng for effectively convincing me that he's a cold, domineering, red flag-type of male lead when in real life, he's a fluffy teddy bear. lol It's kinda unnerving seeing him like this as I still think of him as the adorkable Lei Wujie from The Blood of Youth. But then again, in his last drama, Hero is Back, he did play a dual role there and one was an evil entity. I suppose he can play the baddie too if he wants.

Oh yeah, he played a tsundere there too. I had to drop that drama, though. But it's true that he can pull off the cold and brooding type pretty well even though his real-life personality is the opposite of that.

I've been looking forward to this drama ever since I saw his styling as Fan Yue. It's his best look to date for sure. He's no longer the dorky and awkward Lei Wujie but hot demon god Fan Yue.

I knew somebody was going to mention that scene. lol

Probably Yue Mi or Xing Yue