Yueyinglan

Fun drama with a twist

I really enjoyed this one, the story was interesting, the setting was beautiful, the production was great.
But omg, I haven't seen a female character faint more in a drama than this one. At least once per episode, bam, lights out.
In addition to fainting, her other talent was preaching - so much preaching. I had to skip her parts more than once, it was so boring and self-righteous.
But the male lead more than makes up for the weakness of the female lead. He was brilliant, both well written and excellently executed by the actor. This is the first drama I watched with him, his performance was very good so I'll go check out his other dramas.

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Overhyped

I really wanted to like this drama since I love both Chen Yi and Liu Xue Yi, but boy did this disappoint.
I skimmed through episodes and then finally gave up completely after about episode 23.
What a waste of time.

Spoilers ahead
The female lead is so badly written. She's at times super childish and doesn't understand anything, and then at times behaves as if she does have emotions and understanding of human interactions. She's super dumb, but what does intelligence have to do with lack of emotional understanding? Why is she so dumb? She's supposed to lack empathy, not intelect.
Example: is it so hard to understand you're not supposed to take his mask off the second time, and then AGAIN forget where you've put it, when there was the whole drama the first time you took it off and forgot? Why are you clinging to this man if you have no emotions? Why are you persistent at throwing yourself at danger when you know this only gets others killed? How can a character be so badly written?
I started cheering halfway for her to get killed, she's so annoyingly written.

And the bad guy, with the "evil" laughter? Don't get me started on that, it was so cringe in every scene.
And her sister, arguing with the spirit snake like a five year old child? Why? You're an accomplished cultivator, presumably you learned some self control.
So many examples of just really poor writing.
So many situations happen just to move the plot along, whether they suit the character or not. So many decisions made just to make the story go forward, regardless of the inconsistencies this creates in the drama characters.

The actors gave their best, but the writing was terrible. One of rare Chen Yi dramas I just couldn't watch until the end. Still have no idea why this mess got 8.6 stars. It certainly fooled me into starting it.

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