ShortCircuit

I watched AoL for LYX, LOL. Actually, I already mentioned this in the first eps, where he's the tortured TTJ-to-become-Devil-God, his hair is styled the exact same way it was for that amazing scene in AoL when he's provoked into letting all hell break loose - that's my favourite scene in that drama. All (blood-stained) emotionally blank face, hair loose and floating around his face, lost eyes and getting ready to destroy the world.

Yup, LYX is a favourite and one of the best xianxia drama actors :) (He does modern just as well, but he has this grace that costume dramas bring out amazingly well).

He didn't do anything much toward his nanny. Just gave her the rope and watched her hang herself, so to speak. Pretty much the same approach he took with YXW, actually.

For someone so evil-inclined, he's very nonchalant about doing evil stuff himself, preferring instead to let people do their own self-damage things.

This is the second time it's happened, and it's pretty much similar to the first time, but can we please stop throwing around participation trophies for pointing out that no-consent is a big no-no? This is a xianxia story based on a xianxia novel and that's a recipe for over-the-top, dog-blood stuff. It's not supposed to be a lesson for the youthful minds, or something to be admired. The fact itself that a lot of people are uncomfortable with the scenes should be proof aplenty that this is NOT condoned by modern society (and in this case in particular, MDL watchers.)

It's escapism fantasy drama, where women can be (and usually are) just as powerful and evil-minded and unrestrained as men. Nobody's learning how to be a real woman from this.

That being said, I've seen enough "oh but no-consent, so it's eeck!" and "if this were reversed" fights (even on this site) to say that I've said my piece and won't involve myself further.

What, no Ashes of Love? Deng Lun is the ML, but Luo YunXi is the SML, and it's all worth it.

Love is Sweet should count for Bai Lu&LYX, just not in this drama (yet) :D

It was just a shock to me, LOL. I've never seen them be so open before. Also, first YXW drugs, (not)rapes and then force-marries TTJ, now SJ force-marries, then drugs and (not)rapes MY, can my man catch a break already, LOL? What IS this novel? :D

I loved the MY&SJ love progress, I guess it'll be over next episode now... The dream is ongoing, the thread just happened, will the tear come next or do any of the already spilled tears count?

And if they were relevant for MY and SJ, how would they help with TTJ?

The boss fight in ep14 is magnificent, this drama looks like more than half their budget went to special effects.

Also, that goddess/the fake goody-two-shoes sister really needs a beatdown.

PS LYX doing the sword dance moves was so graceful! His dancing formation shows so, so well! BL was trying hard, LOL, but couldn't match him. This man... this man! *heart eyes*

OMG this is a Chinese drama, right? What did I just watch? :D

Dual-cultivation, some wedding night (delayed) stuff, LOL, were the censors asleep again? I REALLY need to read this novel now :D

Maybe her Immortal sign reacts to his Devil Bone, since YXW carries LSS's soul. Don't know yet...

She wasn't supposed to be an Immortal in his life as TTJ, he met her as an Immortal only in the future, when he's a Devil God and she's LSS. She was supposed to be evil-but-human Ye XiWu, whom he had to suffer for months in their forced marriage. So maybe that's why he's surprised by her being more than he expects, in this life.

That sign on her forehead is a sign she's Immortal (all Immortals have such signs). The devils have similar signs, but usually in a red / black colour. The signs are Immortal Sect - specific, so you're supposed to know where she cultivated into immortality if you know the sect's sign. (At least according to drama and webnovel rules, LOL).

Oh, that's such a great twist (and devious plot from the Devil God, too!)

So it might be the Devil God who cursed him to go through love, pain, hatred and death in the trailer? The mask was also intriguing, why does a Devil God care who can see his face? I wonder if he'll ever take it off and show he looks like one of the MLs - maybe TTJ.

Thanks for the info! I looked at the MTL of the novel and didn't quite like it, I'll wait for the SL translation to be finished :D

The trailer seems to imply he has to go through tribulations - for something (either as punishment, or in order to become greater,) Love, hatred, pain and death - he went through a lot of hatred, love is coming, pain is on the way, and it'll probably end up in death.

Unless things change - but there's a phrase in the trailer saying "she" only existed to give him a path through all these things... so I guess she's part of it all from the beginning, but as a tool to salvation for him. And where did the Devil Bone come from? Who cursed him? Is that devil inside him the dragon sleeping with the clam under his claw?

I wonder if they'll stray much from the novel, or I'd start reading it... but the wait is going to be soooo long. May 9th? A whole month to wait for the ending? :(

Here after 12th - I've only now watched the trailer (LOL). I kind of feel I'm right.

The Time God said she needed a dream, a thread and I forget the third thing, to get rid of the Devil Bone. So this is definitely the dream.

Also, there was a dangerous witch ten thousand years ago who made the Wood-Like-Jade artifact and just gave it to LSS like that, no problems... and who happens to have a dreaming dragon at her statue's feet... a dragon who can trap people into a dream of looping past.

Is this the original setting?! Did the Time God wait for ten thousand years just to try to set things right? Was TTJ previously the War of God and he fell into the demonic path because of something someone - maybe LSS's former incarnation - did? And now everything is supposed to lead to them saving TTJ from the Devil Bone and his destiny, but maybe lose LSS in the process?

Is this one of their tribulations on the way (back) to godhood?! Is the dragon somehow part of TTJ and the clam under his claws somehow part of LSS?

That would be a bit convoluted but would probably make total sense... Unless it's all an illusion with no base in the truth.

PS That SMILE when he saw her, though. He's not supposed to feel things, and he believes she left him, yet he can still smile seeing her after a long time with no news. And it wasn't an evil smile either.

Am I supposed to wait for the slow releases then?! The horror!!

Ep 11... o-ho, so is this the past?!

Haha, so it's not just me thinking "this is what RunYu looked like when the Empress attacked him on that lakeshore" LOL, his hair styling here is looking very much like his RunYu-in-distress styling and he looks amazing in it. The clothes also are pretty much perfect - he already is wispy delicate, but the clothes make him look ethereal...

All hail the cameraman/woman and the director :D

Now imagine Luo YunXi as Chu WanNing and Chen FeiYu as MoRan - that will be a pairing made in heaven. Keeping fingers crossed they decide to actually release it sometime soon.

The cameraman/woman is in love with TTJ (and I don't blame them one bit LOL), there are so many angles to better show his expressions, nobody else gets the multiple angle treatment :D

I approve of this, so, so much! :D

Ep3 - OneOrangeBraincell has entered the chat :D

Also, I find that the music improved a lot. I wanted to pace myself through it... Guess it's not happening now.