ShortCircuit

... Though MY and SJ did the deed and in a pretty clear manner and nobody exploded. This time though, with so much emotional invest in these two charas... LOL

She didn't kiss him on his freaking collarbone, that's supposedly romantic and nobody would've gone crazy (well, not too much anyway) but on his freaking BREAST ABOVE HIS FREAKING HEART CAN YOU NOT SEE THIS IS PRACTICALLY 18+ LOL, okay not really but that's about how any teen Chinese girl would go off.

I mean, I'm no teen Chinese girl, but that's how I went off LOL

And do you remember the omoplate indirect kiss in WoH? Yeah that caused a stir too LOL.

HUGE xianxia IP, lots of people (of all ages) watching. There was a ban for no nudity on TV under the neck for a long time (basically all nudity of any kind; they had a fixation against showing nipples LOL, there even was a bit of a talk about RJL's abs in The Blue Whisper when he has to be shown merman-dressed, that is, merman-nekkid LOL).

This is web-released but STILL millions of Chinese young minds are watching and anything that the powers that be deem to unsettle the population (even if there's only one million of fangirls screaming in unison, LOL), that's not good.

So they just pushed a bit to see what gives :D

You're alive, I'm alive, we're both safe. She said the same thing after XL's wedding. I didn't know I liked that sentence so much. He remembered too.

Love. It's all manners of love - lover's passion, mother's love, a love of a king for his subjects, a friendly love of companions, the love of an old woman who knows what's about but still cares for kind strangers, new love, one-sided love, everything.

So that he realizes he needs to love himself too. And then he can spread it to others and protect them - the Scale protects the heart.

TTJ is sus. He's making all too many plans in secret. Is he already setting up a scheme to take control of the devil's power?!

Is Master Zhaoyao still going to be killed? He's way too cute. Let's keep him alive, drama scriptwriter, can we please?

GYJW, nooo.... Don't fall for her tricks. Poor guy must be heartbroken.

It hurt (in a good way) to see how TTJ understood LSS's actions, finally. I would've twisted it around to "she only cared for me because I couldn't die before she took out the bone" but he moved past that to "she cared for me DESPITE wanting to kill me for being the Devil Fetus with the Devil Bone". He's a better person than I am.

Will Fu Ya remember/realize who all these people are and how they're related to her from 500 hears back?...

PIAN RAN!!!! *hugs, hugs, hugs* Come back, fox!!!

EDIT WAIT I WANTED TO START WITH THIS THING: I hope everyone who complained the plot was too fast just realised the whole cultivation world got up to speed in about one minute flat, LOL, WITH all the details and not missing one thing!!

That end of the episode LOL, still blushing. I wonder how they managed to make it pass.

Though this ep is so full of red flags I can't see anything else. The drama taught me too much of a good thing definitely leads to pain and despair...

Fast walkover:

Master Zhaoyou: you rob me of my best disciple and earn a son-in-law!!
LSS:.... TTJ, what are they teaching you in that sect?!

The second time I've teared up because of this drama - they're showing him all kinds of love and he's learning finally. The one destined to never have love managed to realize he has to love himself too.

I think I've finally forgiven LSS for being cruel after the return. She herself also discovered it's no use pretending not to love him and now can be with him in the open. So. Much. Skinship. Though. Not that I mind, LOL, I just still can't believe my eyes. And nobody forced anyone else either, that's a surprise :D

They're trusting Master Cen and Di Mian way too much. Kill them both with fire!! (And while they're at it, kill MN too!! I don't want GYJW to fall...)

The next eps will destroy us, right? It feels they're getting so many happy moments, it's obviously going to rebound soon :(

Have you seen the BTS on the kisses? No wonder they're viral :D

They are... err. Professional. That's the word :D

SY came to the YiYue tribe's village and defeated them. NBY got struck down and she decided to keep him alive for later use. He had to cultivate a demonic path though and he's been their minion for so long... I wonder how he still relates to TTJ :(

iQiyi detective romance Follow Your Heart stars Luo Yunxi as Jiang Xinbai, a former prince turned constable who suffers from facial blindness.

From here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAu4xTJ9vx0

I don't see any kind of cdrama in your list, LOL, this must be so confusing for you :)

So, the idea is this: xianxia genre is Chinese fantasy. In this genre, there are mortals, immortals and demons. Immortals are usually either humans or spirits (plants or animals) who cultivate - that means, daoists or "followers of the path", who use all kinds of procedures to form a dantian (core) to gather qi (spiritual energy) so that their lives are way longer or they eventually become immortal, they're much more powerful than regular humans, and usually also can use great martial arts.

Basically, the people in the Immortal Sects have cultivated into being immortals. Some can even, eventually, cultivate into gods, but must undergo tribulations (trials) to get there.

TTJ didn't cultivate into immortality, but he was outside time in the Nether River, protected by YXW/LSS divine essence, basically ready-made immortal through it. The others had to work for it.

She died in the tower scene. He still doesn't know how she came to be here 500 years later. He might believe she got reincarnated and kept her memories of past lives. He was looking for her soul in the Nether River for half a millenium. He did NOT know she kept the bone.

There is no uncut version. The only version is Youku's and it's 40 eps long, with each ep around 55 mins (around 50-51 mins of content, outside the op and ed).

The original presumed length was about 56-58 eps, but very probably around 45 mins in total (including op and ed) so maybe 40 mins content per episode. Because of new c-ent rules, it got edited down to the current version, with about 300 mins less than initially presumed. PROBABLY.

IF Netflix decides to take it up and re-cut it, they might show a new number of eps with the same content. Or they might keep it as is. We'll have to wait and see.

They just started filming Follow Your Heart, he also looks great in that one, but it'll be a long time coming, costume dramas always are.

I am still hoping for 2ha soon, CWN is one of my favourite charas and LYX playing him would be just perfect :)

She might just want to kill two geese at once - convince TTJ she is devoted (as if he'd be fool enough to fall for it, but she doesn't know him that well still), and make the SECTS reject him and force him to flee.

Also, she's a cute little psychopath too, she doesn't really need a reason to kill idiots. Maybe she killed him because he was also wearing red and it didn't look good on him LOL.

Immortality. It's a danmei (they'll probably water it completely down though, IF it even gets released *sigh*). It's based on the novel "The Dumb Husky and His White Cat Shizun", written by Meatbun Doesn't Eat Meat (LOL). The Chinese name is transliterated as Er Ha He Ta De Bai Mao Shi Zun (Er Ha is shortened to 2ha, as I prefer using it LOL), or Hao Yi Xing (shortened to hyx, as other people who read the novel like to shorten it).

Anyway, Chu WanNing is one of the main charas and in the drama (it's already filmed), he's played by LYX :) The other MC is MoRan, played by Chen FeiYu. MR is the crazy one, CWN is the innocent one who gets slighted and things - a LOT of things - go bad before they get better.

So we're basically talking about if people will compare MR or CWN to TTJ if the drama gets released LOL. IMHO, they will compare all of LYX's future costume drama charas to TTJ.

The whole idea when setting up traps in the Jing capital was the make CJM leave the Immortal Sects. When the sleep demon didn't work, SY and JM went to the festival to try other approaches and the idiot Cen heir walked right into one. Even before he came, SY was calculating how to force TTJ to come to the Barren Abyss. She's a smart cookie, that one, thinking fast.

Then I got nothing, LOL - maybe (last ditch try) The Blue Whisper, because the FL is a torturer and the ML is a prisoner. There's angst, but it moves kind of slow and in the second part it seemed glacially slow to me. But it's very pretty. And one of the villains, the evil fairy princess is one of the most beautiful villains ever. Her entrance in the story is one for the records LOL.

And also one of the most beautiful opening sequences/songs too (at least for the first season)...

He wasn't in the mortal arc - do you mean you didn't see the scene where he breaks?!! That's the best scene of the whole drama for me.

I already posted his change of look there, as proto-TTJ, he reminded me so much of that look when he looked up at YXW in the first ep, LOL.

This look:

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How are you with BL / danmei? (Censored, that is. China has no chill).

Because one of the biggest danmei xianxia hits of the recent past is The Untamed, and it's worth it all the way. No annoying FLs, the female characters actually speak in normal voices LOL and make sense and aren't annoying - well, one of them is but that's the character. There is even some blood spitting LOL. No PDAs though because China, but lots of angst and hatred and most of all, the best bromance there ever was (so many bromances there, LOL, not counting the MLs).

For more PDAs (but still censored danmei, and wuxia not xianxia) there's Word of Honor. Much hilarity, lots (LOTS) of angst, some crazyness from the MCs, there's even some het romance thrown in.

If you're not familiar with bromance or not sure if you'd like it - maybe try some out? I'm currently watching a Taiwanese drama called Oh No! Here Comes Trouble that is amazing, LOL (unfinished yet). One of the best moving bromances (no idea if it'll end up romancey or not yet). Also plenty of angst, but oh so much humour, it's worth it.

Give them a try if/when you feel so inclined.