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Hahahha…Thats a funny good one.

Wow…thats a good hypotheses about Xiao Bai Long.
Yeah, I understand, Bei Hai couple is tragic, they escape from the Poison valley but still end up being kill in the end. His invention backfired and he hasn’t had a chance to find cure.

Now you mentioned, the whip does seem to look ‘cheap’😅.
The water scene should be also iconic, wondering how it’s going to be written in. In the preview, HY is fighting by the river, will that follow by XJ coming to the rescue? But that river seems too shallow😅. We will only know by watching on.;)

Ah I see, true in terms of time line, possible that someone from Poison Valley wants to capitalize on Bei Hai’s work.

That will be too massive a budget to film😅. And thus far into this drama, they selected some iconic scenes that focus on the couples’ relationships, so I feel that this director and screenwriter seems to want to focus on their romantic relationship and less on the character arc or war scenes.😓

Xiao Jue gave He Yan a whip, a weapon she can use to win fights, protect herself and achieve her goals. Chu Zhao gave her an accessory to hang on the whip, so symbolically, he is just a dangling beauty that does nothing to her life…what an interesting symbolic representation of their relationship.😅

What a twist, so XBM’s identity from Haiya orphan to being one of the son of the main key culprit that cause the Yesha soldiers and massacre of the village to having a brother…insane content download in two ep.
So the main cause of all this is XBM’s father…yet his other son is following his legacy making more Yesha and perfecting his father legacy. What a messy family affair.

Hahahha…there the pace of mini drama, one moment in danger and next moment resolved and make out, they progress fast…that kiss and confession at ep 14.😍

The novel is actually more intense and serious. Initially I thought the drama will take that direction too from the trailers, but then after watching till ep17, I do feel that the director and script here focus more on humour and Rom. Com. I am pretty okay with it and nice to see that the drama still keep some of the iconic scenes from the novel.
Highly recommend reading the novel too.

Yup, Ryan Cheng’s jealous expression is priceless😍. We can literally feel him thinking, “why is this man keep hanging on MY Whip!!!”🤣.

It’s not openly stated as “ban” but under really strict scrutiny and may result in dramas not being release.
Here is a thread under MDL, the legend of Female General for reading pleasure;).
https://mydramalist.com/discussions/754387-legend-of-the-female-general/143950-why-rebirth-and-time-travel-cdramas-are-banned-not-produced-in-china

Such tropes are always under strict scrutiny and script can be shelved easily. So most directors and production team chose to ask their scriptwriter to re-write the story to avoid such scrutiny so the drama can pass fast and release fast. Those titles you mentioned were lucky and often they use the element of dream or the characters are written as a storyboard and there is a real life they woke up from or being extremely vague about the ‘rebirth’ element.
Here is a discussion thread in MDL on this topic if you are interested.

https://mydramalist.com/discussions/754387-legend-of-the-female-general/143950-why-rebirth-and-time-travel-cdramas-are-banned-not-produced-in-china

As below explained by another commenter, how certain dramas dodge the censorship, by showing the possibility of the characters being in a dream or it’s a script and not the real world. So the dramas yoy mentioned, all uses that concept. And for some directors, in order to avoid such issues, they chooses to ask their screenwriters to re-write the original story so to avoid too much scrutiny and can pass censorship faster, which is why the Legend of Female General was done that way, it’s the director and production team’s choice.

That is also partly why I feel that FL couldnt see herself confessing to him as he is perfect and beyond reach to her. At this point, she is still not so sure that his niceness, was it part of the act as their couple roles or was he truly nice to her.
This is very poetically written.

Yup, the censorship was put in place and necessary after that incident.

This drama is based on a DongHwa animation, so at current series, it only shows the ML’s cultuvation journey at a beginning stage, so I would say that it’s not exactly an ending. We all hope there will be more seasons, but so far there is no confirmation of season 2 and it’s not been filmed yet.

Hope you may watch it and decide whether you enjoy this series;).

I love Zhan Zhao’s character, love the whole Justice Bao Zheng series. One of my favourite WuXia with investigation😍.
Cya there.

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻better late than never🤩. Agreed that the brotherhood here are so enduring.

Nope, this is not a romance drama.

Hahhaha…my personal bias, after watching lots of smart FL of late, I have lower tolerance for a FL character that is written as this. But like you said, she fits in the team well.