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e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/cdramasfans/comments/1q9tyde/comment/nyzu89k/

BE depending on how you feel about the little explanation given.

Since HY, HY and HY are all the same individual, that would be pretty problematic.

The FL has a bit of a harem, but she's not interested in anyone else.

to be fair that logic never made sense (it just could, maybe, have made sense with explanation/justification)

From my limited exposure* I don't think she's capable of romantic chemistry as an actress.
(*: That being all of TUS, the romance arc of Go Ahead, and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9M27a9rRTM )

I thought the azure dragon was solid, the 100 years ago part was best, and the EP11-19 thing to be a huge waste of screentime.

The cherry blossom actually makes sense: he places it on the body of Ning'an, but even if Xiao Yao is "inside" that body at that time, it won't be on her body in her next life 100 years later.

Thought the whole Dreamshard thing ended up being a huge waste of time.

Plot issues you're missing:
- it's not explained with even a single word how human+Yuli equals demon
- the time travel / past-changing stuff has huge chicken and egg issues, like you know very little about what the "actual" original timeline is before FL's two trips to the past where she kept altering things (unlike in Till The End Of The Moon for example where the past is experienced more like the characters watching a movie), and in the 10k-years-ago that we watch it is the FL who plants the seeds for all the issues that come later


Additionally, the blind girl and the grass bracelet are completely forgotten, while DaLi also does not reappear.

Guess you could endure until 20 or 26, picks up around there.

We're also normally Esther-voice-haters but managed to watch S&L. Maybe just got used to it over time. (To some degree it's "the point" that she acts cutsey exclusively in front of the ML.)
I would say it's in the top 20% of drama chemistry.

Spoilers: it was Mu Jiu level sacrifice. Sort of.

You didn't even get to the point where the villain died.

If you aren't into the action heavy nonsense of Speed And Love, the part once they leave Thailand is 90% a romance show.

The one time we encountered a car scene without an absurd unrelated background video in a C-drama, we jumped up and cheered.

Then again, there was one short drama that just made the outside view *white* to not even bother. Maybe they forgot adding their amazing 1900s tech in postproduction.

You can look at Only For Love, it's kind of the inverse: https://mydramalist.com/697877-cuo-liao#comment-22418184

You can skip everything that does not have the mains. Or at least one of them.

Actually, you can even skip all triangle/job/etc stuff that *does* involve one of the leads. None of it is good.

If you are watching on streaming (especially on free streaming), you likely don't have the actual music: https://mydramalist.com/49871-love-is-sweet#comment-22326820

Stellar production. Lots of effort put into the sets, the costumes are stunning, & 80% of the CGI looks good too.
Probably the most purple show ever filmed (which I really appreciated).


Is there some reason Chang HuaSen doesn't (really) do kissing scenes?

For me, Ao Rui Peng was channeling Wang He Di a lot (minus the arrogance, which wouldn't be wrong for the first episodes).
Dai Lu Wa as Fu Ling for some reason kept reminding me of Zhou Ye.
Normally I prefer undubbed shows, but I don't think this could work without VAs replacing 3 of the 4 mains.

Yes. They come back from their deaths.

Did you watch her in https://mydramalist.com/49871-love-is-sweet ? She is quite different there.

I agree that in Moonlight Mystique there are a lot of "oh I know that Bai Lu expression" moments.