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If you loved this drama I highly recommend watching the donghua. It is absolutely amazing! And we just got served of of the best episodes 156 of the entire series. I can't recommend it highly enough. Especially if you can't wait for season 2 and beyond of live action haha

What are some other better cultivation dramas in your opinion you would recommend?

Haven’t watched the donghua, altho might start now as I can’t wait for second season😁 So this comment was based on the TV series as a standalone piece. The problem or the difference I think is the meddium. Like if you just look at probability of an average drama getting a second season is not that high. Even it it does, most of the time they change the actors/directors so the second season is not really second season but some weird remake. Like duoluo continent, fight breaks sphere even Evernight etc. So the long romance arc from the source material doesn’t really make sense for this medium.

Wow what a season finale! It literally saved the series! The chemistry/bond between Han Li and Wang Chan was undeniably electrifying - that last look in Wang Chan eyes - blew me away 🤯! But they seriously dropped the ball with the whole romance thing. This could have been a perfect 10/10 if they just left the romance out of it. First with over-forcing Miss Mo, then also making Nangong Wan into an emotional equivalent of a 3 year old spoiled brat. Quite disappointing and off-putting. Like we waited 20 eps for this?! Might as well make him and Wang Chan a thing haha. Altho I quite liked Senior Chen, her scenes were also quite useless in the grand scheme of things. If everything else was in order then they would be a nice addition but in the current state they were just taking away from what could have been a more productively utilized screen time. Nonetheless the spirit of the series was really poignant and coupled with an amazing OST it touches deep, and poses/delivers some really profound questions/realizations about life and immortality. Despite all the aforementioned shortcomings this has to be TOP3 pure "non-romance" cultivation wuxia up to this point.

Yeah I went to investigate after and learned this. It makes more sense now. But still I think they could have handled it better. By the looks of it the source material - at least first few chapters is totally non-romance. So no need to crowbar more romance into it.

My thoughts exactly! Less is more here.

Disagree with op haha Don’t get me wrong. I agree with everything you said. To a certain point. It was super potent when they had their first chance encounter after 10 years. And then they have to say goodbye. We can see HL cares for her and we get to share his/their realization that don’t walk the same path. It’s really heartbreaking. Even from just a platonic perspective. But everything after that just diminishes these heartbreaking moments and it’s clearly there because of some ulterior motives not to aid the story.

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This series absolutely blew me away from the first ep but now is starting to annoy me. I’m the first one to be all for non-romance aspect but to have close to zero interactions with the FL in the whole 30eps after that heated night is a bit absurd. And on top of that the amount of useless chance encounters with Ms. Mo is getting really annoying. She was cute in the beginning but now overstayed her welcome. She is completely useless. Starting to really feel the need to just skip chunks of eps. Wanted to really like it like 11/10 till the end but it’s getting on my nerves.

Think it’s around 13 or 14.

you mean utterly BAD ?😄

Good taste! Except Im Ji Yeon - I personally don't like her vibe haha

One of the rare near perfect gems. And to think I almost didn’t watch it!? But lately all the wuxia dramas are such a brain rot that I’m getting really tired of them. Seems like most of them are made for people with reduced mental capacity smh. And it’s a shame because wuxias are one of my fave guility pleasures but can’t seem to find good ones. Does anyone feel the same? And can anyone recommed something similar?

Did quite the opposite.

You and me both. It really baffles me that people are unbothered by these things. Like how can you enjoy that? Playing devils advocate the story does get underway soon after ep9 and it’s quite intriguing but then you get another middle finger around ep18 or so. So proceed at your own risk 🤣

Glad more and more people are realizing and this toxic BP fandom is getting exposed.

Amen! This bracelet is such a dirty, disgusting and absolutely rotten cheap emotional bait that it enraged me to the point of wanting to stop with C-dramas alltogether. On its own it would have been passable if they didn’t try so hard in the first few episodes oversell the ML’s distaste for FL (or ML in general), it’s like ok you don’t have to rape us with his angry behaviour, only to use it as a shock factor with this this bracelate incident. Clear sign of garbage writing.

It did get better, thanks, but then the stupid plot armor with the bracelet comes up and makes your brain rot once again. smh. Time to drop.

Finally somebody said it. Mu Jin's wife is so freaking annoying, self-absorbed and selfish and this show tries soo hard to convince us the opposite and shove it down our throats it’s quite repulsive. The biggest irony is she adds absolutely zero value to the plot.