oldman123

yes. an imagined zhan zhao and I don't think the two 'heroes' have a good ending...

could never get into the xianxia stuff

yes, it's lacking. it's not going anywhere. i gave up after 5 episodes. give me PA anytime. the directing and script seems to be all over the place. i don't blame the actors, just pooor script and direction

focus on the acting not the age. I didn't enjoy rebirth but I think people obsesseed with age have a problem, maybe, shows them up psychologically. Also, get real, they are already many young women and girls romantically involved when they were and are in their teens. Many women in 'ancient' China marry in their teens.

New Life begins, Guardians of Dafeng, Moonlit Reunion are some of her dramas I have enjoyed

too true. Kdramas used to be more gritty. Splitting into seasons is like test fly a kite and if it's making money, bring forth a second season, milk the viewers. And a lot of viewers just want this fake warm, bubbly romance escapism and anything serious that is romance-free is marked down.

yes, since netflix takeover, kdramas have beem on a downhill slide. More money and more exposure but less quality...

Agreed.

Spot on but you have ideological warriors bent on hating China spewing rubbish. In the first place, what are traditional values some referenced? Betrayals are common in Chinese histories and also in western histories. Power, fear and distrust are common themes also in kdramas, Hollywood movies and in the case of the actress, the allegation is that she left the accident scence after injuring thee people. This is a crime and she fled the crime scene; surely anyone involved ina hit-and-run incident will report to the authorities first. Hushing it up with either power or money is just corrupt behaviour and practice. As for the ideological warriors and haters, get a life before spewing your vitriolic hatred

This is also happening in Europe and the USA. The 'modern' west is not immune from baby girls being discarded, women being trafficked. Such ideological blindness is so tragic.

great points

Thanks but Hollywood pumps out propaganda all the time - with their spies stuff, war dramas and more; it's not confined to festive seasons or national holidays alone. And really, this drama is a bit slow but maybe better and depicts conditions in poor regions rather well and remember, this was the 1970s and 1980s.

true and if you put it into context, this was set in the 1970s and many provincial and county governments were dirt poor

Don't watch it then. Just as I refused to watch Can this Love be Translated. As for peddling propaganda, which country doesn't? Hollywood does, Bollywood does, UK does and even kdramas do that explicitly.

LY and TLC and their endless gripes and tussles - all so repetetive, endless, and dead boring. The plot is also so banal - seems to revolve around a YinYang which is allegedly bad and a good - typical Xianxia story and no wonder, I can't subscribe to this simplistic 'fight' between a good and evil being. But what is truly boring is as I had said - the fight between the 2 'brothers' - LY and TLC, endless and repetitive

Boring. Endless repetitive tussles between the '2' brothers.

poor script and repetitive, like her early stuff. quite boring.

just about looks, vibes and not about script, the acting

i think the old soldier's son (the puppet) is the FL's fiance and he's out for revenge.

this is a whiney, self-indulget love story - all the endless pining and a doomed love story with a splash of action thrown in.