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Omg so Wang Duo really did record one of the OSTs in TUS... he sounds beautiful and has got such a charming voice!! 😍😭

https://youtu.be/GHCBpQcN3h4?si=d84OcSqwPEAhEQnB

https://open.spotify.com/track/5Gcvmps1NQydFSPRcGLGSI?si=LdWH3SygTfK_mLymuHL9qA

I can't believe our two FLs are actually sisters omg I hope to see more bonding btw them honestly! And omg the FL being the Chaos Pearl was smth I was not expecting at all like what it's a person omg? And boy... the ML has another person looking like him like there is a connection btw them, like is it just a part of him or what? This is crazy. Super interesting and invested.

Then we have A'Bao who has been looking for her father... Little did she know it was someone working with the dark side (but I'm gonna keep my hopes up that he'll come back to the good side) :(

Also Sang Qi... I was wondering this whole time, "Wow, did she (Ningxi) deceive him this whole time when she looked innocent?" and boy did I not expect her sister did such a thing, pretending to be her, making Sang Qi misunderstand and hate Ningxi all this time and making him live a miserable life. Just awful and sad for him. I'm really happy tho that Ningxi always truly loved him. I find their love story precious and heartbreaking. :(

I also really like Wang Duo as an actor. He plays his roles well. I'll be honest tho about his character. I don't get any ounce of SLS. Just got mixed feelings with him. Such a well-written character tho with his complexity. He's really such an intriguing one. Like good job to WD really. He did well in TUS too which I just watched previously (but the script there ruined his character more).

Wow the drama keeps getting better and better. The twists and turns are incredible! I am really intrigued!

I am intrigued by the arc of the FL losing her feelings of love. Dang she's on another level without her feelings like she's stuck in the Dark Abyss completely now. I think too there's more to her master and Gao Qiumin's mother hmm...

Frrr they became so bad. I guess Pian Pian idk bc she alr served the Dreamshard Immortal so she had experiences not being a good person. But then with Bing Zhu I thought they were building him up as a character but instead they ruined him... It looked like he was learning from Xiao Yao too and then what happened to their bonding relationship? Nothing? Really bad writing here 😞

Started this on the anniversary bc it's a drama I've been wanting to watch and man are things getting really intense now from where I am. I am really loving it so far! One thing that I'm really scared about tho is the cliche path of the SML which I'm not liking / looking forward to 💔 Bc man am I really loving his bond with the ML but yeah I can see smth's just up with our SML oof I don't like it...
(Btw pls no spoilers lol)

I don't understand them bc she literally became one of my favorite female characters...

Oh dang LOTDT for the win. It's really well-written. The cp is one of my favorites ever! Prob the most equal pairing I've seen too! I see ur watching it now btw. How are you liking it?

No I shipped Yuanzhou and Yichen - the OTP for me 😂 I didn't get cp vibes from Yichen and Sijing since they're both quite similar to each other

Despite my rant below I overall really enjoyed this drama. The first half was actually really fun to me. I have seen many who seemed to not like it tho so I guess I'm lucky. Tho I gotta say whenever we were in the Demons' Valley... I just found it boring. What I loved about this first half was the mini story arcs of different characters which led up to the pieces of the Kunlun Mirror. They were honestly so good and really touching. They all brought me emotions. A Li, Zixiu (Taotie), the Dreamshard Immortal. Their stories I felt were told really well. Their arcs intrigued me. It def led up to the second half's story too. I liked it. I am so sad they all died tho tbh. I would've liked to have them longer tbh. I even immensely enjoyed the bond Xiao Yao and Bing Zhu shared. So what we see of them in the second half? I hated it.
Bonus: Not in the first half but I really loved the bromance arc btw Jin Jr and A'Tai as well! I wished we saw them longer lol.

In the second half we finally get to see more of the main couple. I still think they should've developed their feelings well, at least for Xiao Yao. It felt all of a sudden with her feelings. But despite this I liked how they grew as a pair. It was so nice to see the FL go back in time to her different lives. I esp loved the first life they had lived tgt (final arc). It made me feel even more for Hong Ye's character than initially. Smth I still would've changed about going back tho was the FL losing all her memories and only living in the past timeline. It felt so confusing that she had her memories esp bc wouldn't it be possible for things to change (which ik didn't)? I still think it would've made me feel even more for watching their past. It felt like they were telling us the present FL's past lives are actually not different ppl at all but just the FL in her present life which doesn't look like it should be the case here. So yeah, I would've preferred her having no memories as it makes much more sense. It just felt lowkey strange to see her present self adjust into the past like that yk?

But anyways, this was really an amazing drama actually. I wasn't even expecting much but was still looking forward to it and it indeed beat my expectations! Def worth my time.

For some reason I didn't want the three great demons to die. I kind of grew attached to them (tho I still can't forget how Ao Hen bullied Hong Ye basically so I would've honestly liked a sense of regret and apology to him...). Their deaths felt too quick and unrealistic considering how powerful they were. It was like killing them for the sake of killing. Ugh. Hated how that was executed. Felt really rushed too.

I really hated how terrible Bing Zhu became like it just felt OOC all the way thru the second half esp as we spent so much time with him and Xiao Yao in the first half and then he only got a guest appearance in the second half oof. It just felt so off, not to mention Xiao Yao's reaction didn't feel as big as it should considering how close she was to him for awhile. I think he needed to die tbh. How they ended his arc was not it. He did bad bad. Like why was we willing to follow Pianpian? He maybe is controlled in some way but it doesn't feel like he completely is. He had a choice and he chose this. It feels like he just does bad things bc of her ugh.

Where did all his righteous character go which we saw building up so well in the first half as he spent time with Xiao Yao? At this rate I just wished he only stayed with Xiao Yao and had no ties with Pianpian. I just felt she was such a good influence on him. Should've stayed this way. Anyways, at least he reunited with his sister I guess. She should've came earlier tho to stop him from becoming like this. But this is still weird bc she ended up in Pianpian's body like... I wished it was done differently but oh well. I gotta say I am really happy Pianpian died tho. I hated her guts! He should've never been in ties with her. He was better off without her.

And Bing Zhu should've been punished. What kind of ending was that for him? He gets to reunite with his sister and live off happily after what he's done? How come our main cp didn't punish them? It felt so wrong to let him go just like that. And I thought Xiao Yao became close to the three demons esp after going back to the past. She really didn't seem to have much of a reaction tho when she found out they died because of him. Writing just feels off at times really.

Haha since u dropped it let me say Bing Zhu turns 180 degrees. Character feels way OOC esp when his role felt more like a guest role in the second half. They didn't develop himself going evil well. It was so bad imo. And all this bc of that one girl. Hated it. Also u prob would've ended up possibly liking the three great demons appear in the last 10 eps. They were interesting and made the drama more fun. I get dropping it too even tho I enjoyed this one LOL.

There are those who messed up who had their karma if ur happy about it. The three great demons were in fact sealed for thousands of years (tho I don't think it was deserved besides maybe Ao Hen in some way). In the end they were killed by Bing Zhu which I personally didn't like at all. Bing Zhu should've indeed got his karma. His character felt way too off with the way he turned out too like... And then Pianpian met her demise and we were lucky to see Bing Zhu's sister come back, the positive person she was b4 she died. It's sad bc her brother turned out so bad which she didn't want. Bing Zhu should've indeed been punished.

I avoid comments bc I'm afraid I would get spoiled tbh. I'd rather one reply to me within the ep I watched only. So good thing I read this after I finished. So I know everything now unlike b4 and agree that he should be responsible for what he's done :)

I can understand why the three demons hate Hong Ye more... Like man is he pretty much destroying his future kind which is honestly so so bad. He's really pitiful tho bc of how demons treated him so I understand him but it doesn't excuse what he did, nor does it excuse what the demons do to humans, esp when u think about what Ao Hen did to Hong Ye omg that was too much... So honestly, it goes both ways. I just know Hong Ye will hate himself for what he did. Not to mention he's a demon himself in the present timeline... So sad 😭

Watched up to ep 37...

In the end it wasn't Hong Ye who was bad. Those three great demons? They're telling us that what Hong Ye did was unforgivable? Uhhh what they (Ao Hen and Teng She) did to Hong Ye was already terrible enough, esp Ao Hen. Idk how they thought Xiao Yao would perceive Hong Ye differently when I would also understand why Hong Ye would do bad bc of what he went thru bc of them... I bet Xiao Yao will understand him too and won't be in the other demons' side like they had hoped.

Oh right... And now I get why the three demons were sealed... It makes so much sense bc what they did to Hong Ye was unacceptable and too much (well idk about Qiong Qi yet but he better prove me wrong)!

Watched up to ep 35...

If Veil of Shadows isn't coming until March shouldn't this just come out first? Hasn't it been ready since almost a year ago? I've been waiting forever for this! 😩

Lol did I spoil myself that it's a SE just bc of the comments (okay I'm lucky I didn't read what the ending actually is tho)

PLEASE DON'T SPOIL FURTHER