Love Better Than Immortality

Loved Zhao Lusi but in this drama not only she/Chun hua is naive but also ignorant & stupid. She makes decision based on what others tell her basically hearsay. Not liking it one bit. She jumps from Xia bai to Qiyue & vice versa. She needs help, she calls Qiyue. She claimed to wanting love but she doesn't know what it means.

Xiao bai is an interesting character but dense. He claimed to love Chun hua but he lets her go easily, doesn't know his fiancée whereabout & wait for her return instead of looking for her. That's not love.

Qiyue/Li Hongyi is also an interesting character though manipulative, sly, scary yet he loves Chun hua truly. He looks regal! He rescues her every time, listens to her, helped others because of her.

It's an okay drama.

I'm a huge fan of Zhao Lu Si and Li Hong Yi, so seeing them work together was an absolute delight. Those two were literally the saving grace of this series. But even then, I feel like they were somewhat underutilized.

For example, it's well known that Zhao Lu Si excels at quirky humor, bringing loads of authentic, refreshing expressions and life to her roles. This translated well in the first four episodes, but eventually things became so somber and serious that nothing could distract the viewer from the terrible storytelling and constantly unraveling plot-like having Chun Hua get kidnapped every few episodes just to move the story along.

Though I loved the interactions between Chun Hua and Shangguan Qiu Yue, their screen time together was extremely brief for most of the series, and their chemistry didn't develop until well past the 20-episode mark. I was honestly confused most of the time since June Wu as Xiao Bai seemed more like the main ML, while Li Hong Yi was positioned more as the secondary ML. The way June Wu portrayed Xiao Bai was extremely wooden and unenjoyable to watch. Even when Xiao Bai began to fall for Chun Hua, there was no spark in their interactions, making those scenes a bit cringe.

So basically, the viewer is starved of Chun Hua and Shangguan Qiu Yue screen time while being given ample amounts of lackluster Chun Hua and Xiao Bai scenes.

To make matters worse, most of the 40 episodes are padded with storylines and relationships we care nothing about (such as the one between Qin Liu Feng and Leng Ning).

Then there's the cherry on top of this mess: the ending. I honestly thought it would conclude similarly to how the story began, but this time with the FL emerging from the pod (after dying from poisoning) and possibly encountering the second ML emerging from a pod as well, perhaps explaining to her how he ended up dying in the fantasy world. This would have provided perfect closure as they meet for the first time in true reality. But no, the writers decided to deliver the most convoluted, confusing, unsatisfactory ending they could think of-because why not?

The only thing that saved this series was watching Li Hong Yi randomly plant what must have been more than 20 kisses on Zhao Lu Si throughout the entire series. It was so amusing that I thought someone should create a drinking game based on just that.

Anyway, I gave it a 6/10 rather than a 7/10 because although it's watchable, 40 episodes is way too long. I'm sure quite a few people gave up on this series due to just that. The rest of us who really stuck in there to the end... had a huge cream pie thrown right at our faces, and must now go to bed crying over hours wasted.

I really liked Zhao Lu si in "who rules the world. She had amazing chemistry with Yang Yang and was willful ,strong and independent. I can't stand her in this! She acts so immature and clueless and the way she talks ( barely able to say anything) is annoying. I am no expert in Cdrama but I loved "who rules the world, Heavenly sword dragon sabre, Heroes and Martial universe. I have watched others that were indeed decent but I didn't have that "I can't wait to watch more feeling. I feel no chemistry at all with her and either male leads. One is creepy and one has no personality/emotions. And the other females are excruciating to watch with their awful down and hateful attitudes. Funny I found another series that was decent The romance of tiger and rose which I thought had great potential ( at first she seemed to be that bad @@s character but... No she is the exact same as in this.

Totally in love with this drama couldn't wait every week for the next episode . hongli was so hot in this very sexy and the chemistry between him and lusi was on fire x if your a romantic and you like a bad boy you will love it .

The first thing I found was the messiest thing: 1. Relationship between Chan hua and shang guan... really pathetic from start to end... Ruined the whole story also created the mess because of brother sister concept. Chun hua or shang guan Both of them address each other as brother and sister, but they are also kissing each other.whenever they get a chance.. which looked very dirty to see.

And this is the biggest reason Which was keeping us away from connecting with the story.

2. Very fussy triangular love story makes more lengthy the story... sometimes it between feng vs xiao bai vs chun, sometimes it between leng vs feng vs cai cai,, sometimes cai cai vs chun hua vs xiao bai.. and in last nd importantly chun hua vs shang guan vs xiao bai...bai is also feels like brother name coz in India "Bhai" means brother and bai and bhai pronounciation is very similar which makes it more complex to understand for Indian viewers specially if they are watching it's hindi dubbed version.

3. Storytelling is lazy. Script writer made the story very lengthy and unwanted boring triangular love story.

But act by all 6 cast members was the only reason which keep the story on track.