ShortCircuit

It's an inter-generational thing for cultivators. Despite his young age (he came out of the mountain in the 16 years since WWX died), he IS Baoshan's disciple just like Cangse and that makes him immediately WWX's shishu (martial uncle) because he is Cangse's shidi. It has nothing to do with age, just with ranks referring to their master.

WWX is also Jin Ling's shishu, for example (despite the no-blood connection). Jiang Cheng is his bio uncle, but one could argue he's a shishu too (but since they're not in the same clan, the bio relationship is the one recognised immediately).

Here's a terms map for Jianghu, LOL.
https://immortalmountain.wordpress.com/glossary/terms-of-address/

And then there's the Sword Saints and the like, LOL, who might or might not be immortal-level but are definitely way above everyone else. There are a few Saints in Joy of Life (wuxia+xuanhuan) and immortals in Word of Honor (xianxia). The one in WoH came about his immortality the regular way, too, LOL. (And he's a sassy old bastard, hahaha~)

I liked it. A strong start. And it's right up my alley, letting me connect the dots and not spoon-feeding every little bit of info to me. I approve :D

I do wonder how it's going to go after the rebirth - is it going to be separated cases in his new / refound career? Or is it going to be a long revenge arc? (Going by the support cast, I think revenge is definitely in, LOL).

PS DO NOT GIVE SAMSUNG IDEAS, DRAMA, YOU HEAR ME?! I can't even afford the foldable phone yet, and you're making it transparent already? Get out of here LOL.

Again, that's drama plot, not novel/OG story. I don't remember if Lan Yi is even mentioned much in the novel, maybe not? And still, while she was guarding the Yi Iron in the cave, she was already a ghost, so there were other rules over her, LOL.

I think the production didn't make a fuss over cultivation because it's a setting everyone knows (from wuxia and xianxia). Generally, once the cultivator joins a clan (or is born in one) and manages to forge a Golden Core (usually with the help of a master/shifu), the aim is to keep improving as much as possible and their talent, if any, allows. There are a lot of cultivation levels and as they keep getting higher, the levels get harder to pass. The ultimate goal - at least in xianxia - is reaching immortality, which is EXTREMELY hard and needs Heavenly Tribulations over all the cultivation they do. In MDZS not a lot of fuss is made over the separation of the Jianghu (Cultivators' world) and the regular people, either (no emperor, no state, no general wars and normal politics), but then, each author can choose what they show of the setting according to the needs of their stories.

Be warned, if you keep watching xianxia/wuxia/costume dramas, you'll keep encountering KNOWN/CAST IN STONE settings that won't get too much explanation because they are the norm. Like for example in xianxia, there will usually be three realms - mortals (which would usually include the Jianghu), immortals (gods) and demons. And a lot of the plots will be about wars or clashes between these realms. Again, not a lot of explanations will be given other than the specifics of those respective stories, because everybody uses the same background, LOL.

Xiao XingChen and Song Lan are also special - XXC was a disciple of Baoshan Sanren/Wanderer, who cultivated alone on their mountain and was specifically warned not to leave because he'd not be allowed to return. He still left, like Cangse had. The whole story about XXC, SL and XY is twisted - the drama makes them contemporary with WWX and LWJ, but they were already dead (not XY obviously) when everything went down - after WWX's return - and never met WWX and LWJ directly. The only thing WWX knew for certain about XXC was that he too had been a disciple of Baoshan and that was it. (Which reminds me, Baoshan's goal WAS to reach immortality and that's why she didn't want anything to do with the troubles of the mortal world).

You forget these are cultivators, LOL, their lifespans stretch as long as they cultivate and they can keep looking young(ish) until old age. Or become immortals, too. The older guys are all a lot older than they look.

It's canon WWX's mom cut off LQR's beard LOL when she was in school. So she was his student for a while, like most promising cultivators of the past few generations.

Also, when the story starts, the current gen's kids (WWX, LWJ, NHS etc) are all so young too . They don't look like it (because well, casting and it's a drama not a story) but they were all in their 15-16s, so basically kids. (In light of which, the fact WWX is so unruly is much easier to accept LOL).

For some of them, marriage and kids come easier (mostly through arranged marriage), for others, not so much - like LWJ's dad and his chosen bride, or JC who even after WWX's return has not found someone to marry and is already in his 30s with no marriage and no kids, being a surrogate dad to Jin Ling.

OMG no. She was his student in her time and also a troublemaker like WWX. If he "liked" her, it was the same way he "likes" WWX :D

My friend finished the drama and isn't heartbroken (that was a surprise) but now she's voluntelling me to TL all of Yan An's dramas, LOL. I managed to make a timely escape by telling her he doesn't have too many he's working on right now (which he doesn't, it's only about 4 LOL) that are available to me. But she's a fan. His face (or rather, Li Lun's) is plastered all over her screen savers hahaha~

I think I made a convert, LOL. She wants more, she wants it now and she wants it to be HMH too if Yan An isn't around (she's looking at Love in the Clouds, I haven't found the time to watch that one yet myself, LOL).

So... success? I guess :D

(I am SO satisfied, I TOLD HER she'd love some of the modern cdramas and she kept postponing them because of reasons, Well now I'm proven right and I'll probably have a lot to work on in the future LOL).

Don't know yet, I didn't have the time to go back to it LOL. I don't know her name anyway - the one who was leaving when they asked her to test the intern's meds for poison.

I have still to find out if I was right :D


ETA Now I have seen half of the 3rd ep, LOL, I WAS right!! It WAS Ms. Zhao :D

I should make a great armchair detective. LYX should hire me to do the detecting in this drama LOL

Every gentle and liked person hides a ruthless killer. That's what I learned from kdrama. So the more liked she is, the more dangerous. She did it for the fun of it, like all killers do.

I'm voting for her as main killer. The ex-GF can be an accessory or the mastermind, IDC LOL.

Yeah, there's a scene where she sells him off for a big sum so she could buy her son a factory he hadn't asked for but was eventually emotionally invested in, and the kid (the idol, played by RyeoUn) is asking her in tears not to let go of him. She lets go. Not long after, when there's a bullying scandal, he gets ostracised for no fault of his own and locks himself up in the bathroom to cut his veins. The manager's son finds him bleeding on the floor in his dorm bathroom that he had to break into, because everybody else was ignoring the idol/kid completely.

I tell you, those scenes traumatised me more than they traumatised the FL character. She eventually "realised" she did wrong but instead of doing something about it, she goes in a one-year vacation alone to find herself.

Total garbage. I get angry thinking about it, LOL.

Magic.

Actually, there's no honest wrap-up. The manager (who basically bought and sold off the idol) had a come-to-Jesus moment when he tried to commit suicide and her own son, who had grown close to the boy, was more destroyed by it than her. Everybody else went on to have their own happy lives ignoring the hurt they infringed on teens and young adults, the idol himself magically got healed of all his trauma (*because of reasons unknown*) and was obviously successful (*unexplained*), the young people involved in the story remained good people, ALL THE ADULTS remained psychopats, FL most of all, the end.

So no, there's nothing to save it. There was just a tiny ounce of hope they'd turn it around, make all the pain worth the story, but nah. Psychofest all the way.

Yeah, better not watch that. It remains one of my hate-watches and I keep anti-recc'ing it whenever I get reminded of it. Too bad about the music, there were a few good songs there.

My suspect is the lady forensic doctor who's just leaving - she had the means to poison the intern and she should know about drugs. So my money's on her.

I'm only two eps in though, so don't spoil me if it turns out there's someone else by ep 4.

I didn't even know Fei QiMing was in this one too (because hell yeah!)

LYX is looking amazing, the story is a bit convoluted BUT I already have a suspect LOL.

Just wanted to ask - whoever sings the ED song - did they also sing the OP to Be Reborn? It sounds like the same voice and it's itching not to know.

If you really want to see all the misery of being an idol (or trainee), there's Namib for you. I DO NOT recommend it. Just a warning and a heads-up. (There's also no romance of any kind, just pure misery porn all the way through).

Now I think the housekeeper did it. Everybody says she's nice, she must be the most evil person on that parking lot.

Oh FFS DRI don't get suspicious now. I'm all invested in you being a nice misunderstood idol who can do no wrong.

Also, that ex-GF is sus as heck. Woe on her and her house, I say.

The Blossom Glory of the Legend of Love. Or The Blossom of the Legend of the Glory of Love.

With dragons and demons and stuff LOL.

It's pretty similar, only the flashback isn't in one long piece as in the drama but spread out in shorter parts throughout the story. Also there are some drama subplots that do not happen in the novel, you'll see.

Other than that, mostly it's the same. Only uncensored *wink*.

Here after ep 1 - I have a feeling this is going to be good.

LOL, I've been seeing Cheng Xiao everywhere lately, good for her! FL looks like Meng ZiYi, LOL, I keep thinking, wait, this isn't her.

Our ML is SNEAKY!! I hope the amnesia plot (according to the synopsis) doesn't take too long.

PS Didn't expect the info at the end of the episode, what seriously, is Zisun Tea an UNESCO cultural landmark? Wow.

She's a good actress (seen her before). She has a good intro in this one (I'm only on ep3, so we'll have to see). HMH usually has good chemistry with anyone (you watched FoF, you KNOW it's true) and he brings up the rest of the cast with him.

First three eps are good - he looks so much younger than in FoF, she's playing a cutesy but wily swindler/demon, the older Zhuo bro is the last part of the triangle, LOL, the OP BGM is AMAZING, good effects (so far).

Dive in.

Glory is going to air in parallel to this one. I wonder if the production companies raised a stink about it yet. They (whoever made the decision) played dirty.