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That sounds so generic...

I finished up to the halfway point and then just skipped through. As an aside, something about Hyeon Su and Mu Jin almost makes me want to ship it lol. Seo Hyeon Woo plays their interaction with something bordering on passion haha

Then stop watching if it drives you so crazy

Episode 21 - I like how ML simply, straightforwardly says "I'm not a bad person". Nice to see self respect from that kind of "half monster" main character....

It was so disappointing. They had a good thing going with the romance which was the main dish anyway, and then kind of ruined it with endless circular plotting with the boring side characters in the family and also by oddly deflating the female lead (and somewhat the male lead) into... like, idling in their interactions....

I've noticed that as well, bit IMO part of the problem is also that female characters are often badly written. Someone on here described how this FL is shifted this way and that in order to enable the plot... that is very common in Cdrama in general and then reads as inconsistent and unbelievable. Also, if you rarely talk, like the ML here, you can not really annoy people... or reveal an unbelievable psychology. Not that that is good writing but its maybe a factor. So yeah, audiences give MLs a pass but also Cdramas often just have badly written female leads, in my view

I agree but part of the blame is on the script writer for giving her such a long overwrought speech

I gotta say, I also don't love the Cdrama trope of "ML just curb stomps everyone bang bang bang". Supposedly it makes him look cool. But it makes for such boring battles. And such low stakes... its neither courage nor sacrifice to fight battles when you know you wipe the floor with everyone you meet.

Honestly, at this point the trope "righteous sect being secretly terrible" has been done so often, it would be surprising and refreshing if one turned out to be good!

Yeah I mean the old men

Senior Bai looks so creepy in that getup with the black clothes and mascara, I find it rough that FL treats him as a good friend/potential love interest. But the scenes of rivalry between ML and him are funny.

Edit: Oh maybe she is no fool

Lol, ML does not have much luck with the human kids he fostered. So far two of them have become morally corrupt. Maybe he should ask himself if he is doing something wrong

Somehow, this started getting interesting from episode 9... now in 11 I am really engaged. Maybe I was also too impatient and skipped too much. No one of the side characters interested me, but Lotus guy and sword lady actually are interesting now. Never seen such a "romantic" setup yet, his mentality is really unusual

I like that he FL is just straightforwardly a good person, genuine, gentle, loyal and (within her level of cultivation) strong and brave.

Hm... yeah maybe I will binge the rest when its all out

Sadly, I think I will drop at episode 18. It just seems to keep slowing down. Even the edge seems out of the romance somehow

Ahaha, that was, uh... I'm always surprised that that is how scenes like that get explained

Right? Does it ever deflate the romance... Plus, I always lose a bit of respect for the characters. Not for making out... But for making out with a unknown rando you just met in enemy territory or something? Come on

*sigh* I wish Cdrama would stop doing the lust spell all the time. It's cheap... then again I guess so are those short drams

I appreciate that this is not exclusively about romance, OTOH the "scheming" is kind of boring here....