PeachBlossomGoddess

It's a very refreshing change from romance xianxias.

I quite enjoyed S2. Hope it works for you.

No one has ever doubled their money investing in cdramas.

Seems Han Li is missing metal but water nourishes wood, wood fuels fire, fire creates earth, and earth generates metal. So probably he can get there based on my basic understanding of the Wuxing/Five Elements philosophy.

Gina Jin is very stiff I really don't like her acting at all. I hope there is close to zilch romance bc I just can't see her as a CP with Yang Yang. She was mis-cast in JOL2 and mis-cast again here.

He lost 7kg for this role.

All dramas live record some parts, especially when the actors are voicing themselves. But I don't think there is enough of that to qualify this as live recorded.

This has some wuxia concepts and elements but it is very much a xianxia as very early in the protagonist's story, Han Li is already leaving the mortal realm behind.

Although he lost his Foundation Pill, I like that he was pragmatic and recognized that he was not powerful enough to hold on to it. So he traded it for a job that he could thrive in with the plan to get another one or make another one down the road.

I am sensing that the gist of it is that cultivators are not necessarily good people. Indeed to level up, they need to be calculating and ruthless. I like that Han Li doesn't have super talent, he needs to be strategic and maximize his resources to survive. It makes it more interesting that talent in and of itself does not equate to rapid ascension.

Sadly this happens too often. Many actors get overly aware of how good looking they are and are almost too afraid to let themselves be natural in front of the camera. He is not the worse by far, I just sigh bc he did really have potential but after Red Chamber I have never seen him really immersed in his characters again. But as @Soocrafty points out, just sit back and enjoy the view.

Yes, it was remiss of me not to underscore how enjoyable the view is. 😅😂 This needs to be a safe place for all opinions. 👍

Amita's arc was probably was cut short bc of her controversy.

I don't expect him to cry. In fact I detest crybaby MLs its my pet peeve. But I did expect to see some form of grief or anger, just more emotion from him - after all that was his best and only friend. He just seemed to shrug off his disappearance. I do expect him to become more detached as he levels up but he is already starting out at a super detached level.

I felt kind of bad for the poor leaf that had to carry the chubby disciple.

Yes Yang Yang is dubbing himself as Han Li.

When Zhang Tie died I expected more emotion from him but I got nothing bc he seemed more pre-occupied with his grown up appearance or whatever. That scene left me baffled. Similarly, his homecoming seemed blank emotionally. Its these little things that bother me. But overall he is alright. He just could be a lot better if he were more in character. I think he did all the action scenes himself and they are very well done and hard to do.

He is very talented, I watched part of his first drama, when he was still a teenager and debuted as the ML in the classic Hongloumeng. But he has regressed or remained stagnant over time. In most scenes he is fine but there is no sense of immersion. He is always still Yang Yang and he always looks immaculate from every angle.

Yes I wish they took more time with the world building but not bad, very different from the gaggle of romance xianxias.

He was just a poor peasant whose family couldn't even afford flour. I guess he didn't really have many worldly attachments besides his family to give up. And as he became cultivated, I guess his world opened up and became a lot larger - he probably grew beyond them and there is no putting the genie back in the bottle. But yes it did make me feel very sad bc they just became transitory to him.