I was so tired last night so I was only half awake watching the first episode of this drama. I have to admit, though I was really knackered, the drama did keep me awake for most of the time but the subtitle was so fast my befuddled brain was extremely challenged.
Anyway what I can gather from the moving pictures rather than the subtitles, 🙂 Xiao Yan lost his mother when he was nine years old. His mother was a bit of a warrior renegade. She had to sacrifice herself and commit seppuku to ensure that her interrogator does not get any information from her.
Xiao Yan saw his mother killing herself and this affected him greatly.
Seven years later, Xiao Yan grew up into a rather skittish young man, who often gets bullied for his weak grasp of martial arts. No matter how much he practices, he can’t just develop enough stamina that would be comparable to the other students in their dojo.
Even his childhood friend Xiao Xun Er (a girl) was stronger than him. This was really upsetting for him as he was once upon a time the star pupil of the dojo.
He was in a doldrums as his father, a known martial artist, refuses to teach him a special lethal move. His father thinks it was not right for him; it was too soon.
Xiao Yan then met a mystic man, Yao Chen, who lives within Xiao Yan’s ring. Yao Chen knew of Xiao Yan’s mother, whom he respected and cared for. He started showing Xiao Yan some snazzy martial art’s moves.
(I have to say Baron Chen as Yao Chen with purple-gray long hair is still as gorgeous as back when he was lead in Bromance.)
Meanwhile, at home, Xiao Yan’s father had accepted a marriage alliance for Xiao Yan.
Episode 2
Episode 2 got me totally hooked.
Xiao Yan was jilted. The Clan Nalan refuses to have a closer relationship through marriage with the Xiao clan as they were deemed not worthy enough. T
he beautiful princess of Nalan was the last hope of her clan, Xiao Yan is not good enough for Yan Ran. He cannot protect her or their clan, he is not fit to lead the clan Nalan.
The engagement celebration came to an embarrassing bloody fight between Yan Ran and Xiao Yan. She defeated him easily but Xiao Yan kept at it. In the end he had to surrender after receiving a serious punch from her.
Yan Ran said in three years time they will fight again and if he wins, then she will be at his service.
Xiao Yan told her that they would certainly meet again in three years but only to right the embarrassment the Xiao family suffered that day. He does not want a marriage with her. This rather shook the princess which was noticed by Xuao Yun’er. She told the princess that she will regret her decision she made today.
Meanwhile, Xiao Yan is desperate to learn the special Qi, level 3, whatever that is?!!! He went to Yao Chen, who was once her mother’s teacher and mentor.
Yao Chen, who lives in the ring, said that he will start training Xiao Yan only if he could defeat a giant scorpion in a mortal combat.
Though Xiao Yan was badly hurt, he killed the scorpion.
Episode 3
As promised Yao Chen has become his mentor. He taught him the Fighting Qi but in order to strengthen him he allowed Xioa Yan to undergo the dangerous energy bug to open up his drive and bouyancy (or something like that 🙂 )
It was time for enrollment to different academies. Yao Chen advised Xiao Yan to ensure to Jia Nan Academy. Xiao Yan told him that was impossible as he has no background in the martial arts yet.
Yao Chen made him practice the impressive 8 points strike.
During the tournament, Xiao Clan was rather the underdog as they had hardly enough candidates to represent their dojo at least until Xiao Yan put himself forward.
Everyone was surprised as it was widely known that Xiao Yan is a weakling.
But everyone was taken aback when Xiao Yan showed extraordinary improvement in so short a time. His mastery of the 8-point strike was awesome.
Xiao Yan, Xiao Yun’er and two others from their dojo eventually got to Jia Nan academy.
Xiao Yun’er was curious how he managed to improve so quickly and asked his secret.
Xiao Yan asked for advice with Yao Chen how to reply to Yun’er. He was told by Yao Chen to tell her the truth. This is another exciting episode. It is just getting better and better. Fingers crossed it continues.
When are they going to appear in this drama? Remember the XNine from the Oh My Emperor?!!”
Episode 4
Yes in this episode the XNine finally appeared. They were also some of the students from all over the world to come to learn and polish their martial arts at Jia Nan Academy, reminiscent of Harry Potter and Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
The trek to the academy is fraught with danger and failure. They found out that the trail would involve a test of stamina and ability. They had to undergo smelting trials involving being ‘tortured’ by the senior of the school. It was a game of cat and mouse.
Here the four members of XNine banded with Xiao Yan and Xiao Yun’er to get pass the trail. This episode is fun and pretty exciting.
Episode 5
Almost from the first day of school, Xiao Yan became a victim of the martial arts’s instructor’s. bullying.
Episode 6
The instructor would beat up Xiao Yan and then send him to clean up and polish a room. This went on until it got worst. He allowed Xiao Yan to be framed as a thief.
He was about to be expelled when one of the big wigs of the school intervened because he was not convinced that Xiao Yan was indeed a thief.
Due to having fought back, he was put into a detention, a solitary confinement for three days.
During his confinement, he overheard some of the senior students discussing joining the Blood Sect.
When he got out he took Lin Xiu Ya with him to investigate the blood sect secret meeting. It was led by a man with a hidden face and he was helped by an enormous snake, who bit the faceless man finger for bloodletting to make his new followers drink from it. At least two of the seniors drunk the blood before Xiao Yan interrupted to proceedings.
He told them that once they drink the blood they would be a slave to the blood sect.
He then runs with Lin Xiu Ya but the snake followed them. Lin Xiu Ya run but Xiao Yan fought back the snake. It was a long fight but Xiao Yan used his fire Qi which reduces the snake into a cube.
LinXiu Ya, however, met the faceless man.
Xiao Yan reported his exploit to the school. No one at first preferred to believe him until he gave them the finger, which was the secret sign of the master of the blood sect.
Apparently, those with the blood bugs from the blood sect would turn into a zombie.
Episode 7
The freshmen are fed up being the victims of harassment from their seniors that they decided to form their own gang which they wanted to originally call Yan Gang after their leader Xiao Yan.
Their instructor adviser thought better of it as Xiao Yan seems to attract trouble, which is contrary to what they were trying to sell to the adviser.
So they had to rename their group as the Flame gang.
Episode 8
The newly established Flame Gang was given their own Practice Room, which was rather derelict. They need funds to rebuild and decorate.
To make money they decided to manufacture Qi drugs. Within days they have the funds to decorate but by then they attracted the attention of the Medical Clan who they price cut from the market.
The Flame Gang was duly challenged by the Medical Clan.
The Flame Gang had a great difficulty winning the challenge at first but Xiao Yan can through in the end.
Episode 9
The defeated leader of the Medical Clan was rather vengeful. He would not let things lie low. He said that every day a challenge will be issued to the Flame Gang from the Medicine Clan.
During the inauguration of the Flame Gang HQ, the leader of the Medicine Clan gatecrashed the celebration. They ended up fighting which got found out by the teachers. This meant Xiao Yan and the leader of the Medicine Clan were confined together.
They had a heart to heart and decided to be brothers in arms.
Episode 10
Xiao Yan’s trouble is not over yet. He was personally challenged to a duel by the leader of the White Clan, who is a know starfighter.
He did not really want to fight and certainly, his gang begged him not to accept the challenge but he does not any choice as the leader of the gang. The leader of the White group had told him that if he does not accept the challenge he will force his gang to fight him one by one and he would love. He taunted Xiao Yan that he would especially enjoy a good fight with Xun Er.
Xiao Yan prepares for the fight including undergoing some death-defying rituals like being sat on a burning Kiln to burnt off all the impurities in his body.
Finally, he was given the bone spirit ice fire ritual which zapped all his energy and yet he was still determined to fight the White Gang leader.
To begin with, he was beaten up left, right and centre and it seems hopeless.
The even for a fantasy drama, the scene was surreal, he was speaking to his younger self and telling him to love his mother and not let her leave.
Then the most amazing thing. Rather spectacularly divine, he started to grow huge purple cloud wings. And then nothing can stop him. He is unbeatable.
Episode 11
Their first mission as a team was go to the mountains amongst the beast. There was a truce between the beast kingdom and the human kingdom but each should be wary of each other.
While on their expedition, they were almost assaulted by a purple wing lion with a green hair girl on its back. The girl is apparently a cannibal.
The students were tasked to go deep into the mountains in groups. Xiao Yan group encountered a rather ferocious beast giant centipede.
When the centipede was defeated it left a huge chest box from its stomach. When they opened it, there was a frightened girl inside.
Episode 12
The frightened girl was anything but. She is a disciple of some sect who forced Xao Yan to accompany her to look for the mountain hidden within a mountain.
The had a bit of a chemistry but they parted ways but the girl said she’ll look for him when she comes out of the mountain.
Episode 13
Xiao Yan had a confrontational fight with his uncle, who killed the master, which Xiao Yan’s mother was blamed of.
Xiao Yan ended up falling in a ravine and meeting the green hair woman and the lion.
Things are getting complicated for Xiao Yan. He may be creating a harem of his own as he inadvertently promised the green haired girl/poison girl marriage. Now Nalan Yanran is also showing concern for him. But his heart is really with Xun Er
When the universe was begun, there was a dimensional gate separating the mortal realm from the alternate dominion.
Over time the dimension gate was opened up allowing the demonic creatures called yimo from the alternate realm to invade the mortal realm.
There was a guardian to the mortal realm and he was the Emblem Ancestor. He used all his power the aid of the Ancestral Emblem to seal off the demonic yimos. And to close off the dimensional gate, the price was his death.
As years passed by the demonic force of yimos was gathering strength once again. They have been searching for the mythical ancestral emblem to unseal the dimension gate once again.
The Yuan Gate’s Three Mentors had a committee meeting with the agenda of finding the reincarnation of the Emblem Ancestor and also to find the Ancestral emblem.
While this was going on, Lin Dong was entertaining a gambling crowd with his gladiatorial prowess. He needed to earn money to buy medicine for his ailing father, who’s a martial art expert.
Lin Dong defeated a 20 stone man, who was dragged into the spoliarium. This gave him confidence and accepted another challenge which would yield him four times the prize.
But his next opponent which really scared him was a ferocious looking Fire Phyton Tiger. Despite all the odds, he was victorious.
He went home happy but shunned by his Lin clan.
As you can see, I stopped watching this long drama almost from the start. Don’t get me wrong it was a pretty exciting first episode but it was the small details that really grabs you. When I saw gorgeous Yang Yang wearing brand new boots as if he just came out of Primark and he was so squeakily clean, this was after he had been fighting to the death and had been traveling back home mostly on foot, this niggled me for its lack of attention to details.
I supposed when all the historical dramas have dried out a bit, I shall go back watching Martial Universe only for gorgeous Yang Yang.
This is a fantasy drama starting with the creation of the universe, where the marriage of ying and yang created the deities, fairies, humans and the presence of good and evil closely residing together side by side.
Zi Fen, of the Flower realm, is shown giving birth to a baby girl while on the other side of the realm, the water immortal, the father of the child is getting married to another woman, the wind immortal.
Zi Fen was weak and absolutely heartbroken by the betrayal of her lover, Luo Lin, the water immortal. With her dying breath, Zi Fen instructed that her daughter should not be allowed out of the Flower realm. She then produces a small flower essence globule that she instructed the other deities to feed to her newborn daughter. The globule will ensure that her daughter will never feel betrayal from love. The effect of the globule will be the inability for the daughter eventually named Jin Mi, to feel love or express love.
In the heavenly realm, Xu Feng was currently undergoing some sort of regeneration. His final ascent was sabotaged by a black force from the demon realm. This resulted in Xu Feng, in the body of a phoenix, to plunge into the flower realm, right next to where Jin Mi was sitting contemplating her current situation. She has been an elf and had not progressed to being a fairy. She wanted to get out of the flower realm and see more of the world outside.
Jin Mi saw the bird all charred and burnt but still alive. She did everything to revive it. Of course, she succeeded.
Jin Mi had been nurtured without knowing anything about the birds and bees in their euphemism sense. 🙂
When the bird turned into a man, she tried to touch it everywhere. The scene where she thought that the bird/man needed healing because of his protuberance in his nether regions, Jin Mi thought he had a tumor that needed cauterising. Luckily Phoenix, Xu Feng became compos mentis, otherwise he would have woken a eunuch! 🙂
Episode 2
Jin Mi said to the handsome Xu Feng that since she had saved his life several times, he should return the favour and take her with him when he leaves the flower realm.
He did just that but their return to the Heaven Realm coincided with an attack by the Demon Realm.
Episode 3
Jin Mi is settling in at Xu Feng’s Qi Wu Palace.
Episode 4
Jin Mi met the rather introspective Night Immortal, Run Yo. And she is proving popular for her artlessness and naivete.
Episode 5
This episode is strange, funny, cute with a glorious fighting scene at the end.
Jin Mi had a first kiss (on the cheek) by a woman who wanted to marry her, not knowing Jin Mi is a woman. Apparently, she was dressed like a boy, I did not really notice it LOL.
Anyway, Jin Mi is completely clueless about love and relationship so she did not know how to turn down a proposal of marriage. It was left to Xu Feng to reveal that she is female.
From then on she started dressing in colourful, flowy garments which brought out her beauty and delicateness, which was noticed by everyone including by Xu Feng himself.
The scene where the viewers are allowed to hear what they were each thinking was hilarious. Xu Feng thought that Jin Mi was really into him, while Jin Mi thought he was a jerk.
One of Jin Mi’s Flower Realm compatriots finally caught up with her and convinced her to go back as the realm was in danger of being broken up.
Jin Mi was all for going back but the Moon Immortal is convincing otherwise. He told her that Xu Feng had looked after her well and therefore, deserved a proper goodbye from her.
Their toing and froing was interrupted by the arrival of Qiong Qi who was all powerful. He was about to take Jin Mi when Run Yo appeared. But Qiong Qi was too strong. Then came Xu Feng and his mini-army. Qiong Qi easily fought off the army and even Xu Feng.
Episode 6
Xu Feng is beginning to become rather proprietorial towards Jin Min. They shared another kiss, which Jin Min thought was a natural act of making Xu Feng take his medication. Really!
Run Yo explained to Jin Min the nature and types of dreams including wet dreams! Funny!
Episode 7
Xu Feng and Run Yo with Jin Mi went to the Demon Realm to capture Qiong Qi and find out how he got out from the ancient divine artifact. There they met the Princess of Biangcheng Palace, who assured them that her family had nothing to do with Qiong Qi’s escape from the ancient divine artifact.
This episode also had many funny moments including Xun Feng’s erotic dream of Jin Min being stolen by the beast dreamer.
Episode 8
Xu Feng, Run Yo, the demon princess, and Jin Mi accomplished their mission of defeating Qiong Qi with great difficulty. Qiong Qi can turn into a ferocious dragon at will. They return him back into the ancient divine artifact.
While Jin Mi was alone with the artifact, she had a psychological moment with it. She heard the voice of her dead best friend Rou Rou asking to be let out. Of course, Jin Mi had to open the artifact and out a weaker Qiong Qi. Luckily Xu Feng was just returning and quickly perform a damage limitation. Once again Qiong Qi was back in his bottle after he managed to almost fatally wound Xu Feng.
The only thing that could cure Xu Feng was a night rattan flower which only grows at the Flower Realm. Jin Mi was forced to return to the realm and begged the flower deity to give her some night rattan.
The flower deity was not sympathetic and grounded Jin Mi for having run away. But Jin Mi can’t be thwarted, she tried to grow the flower herself.
After numerous attempts, she managed to grow the plant and had Xu Feng healed.
Episode 9
Xu Feng was heartbroken. Despite telling the flower deities of his clear intention and that he had fallen for Jin Mi, he was turned away.
Jin Mi herself was very sad because she was so looking forward to receiving the 1000 years of magical prowess as a reward from Xu Feng.
Xu Feng later had a much bigger problem with his feelings for Jin Mi. He ‘found’ out that they can’t morally be together as they could have the same father, the emperor.
This was not the case really as the water immortal is Jin Mi’s father.
Episode 10
Kuan Lu was being recruited by the Heavenly Empress to spy on Run Yo but it seems Kuan Lu is loyal to Run Yo.
Run Yo, being the first born is really next in line to the throne but the Heavenly Empress is doing everything for Xu Feng, who is her son/nephew, to become the crown prince.
Run Yo is also attracted to JIn Mi but also aware that he is already betrothed to yet to be conceived daughter of the water immortal and his wife, who had been trying for a baby for 4000 years. LOL Run Yo is clueless that Jin Mi is the firstborn of the water immortal. Jin Mi doesn’t know either that she was the daughter of the Imperial flower deity and the water immortal.
Run Yo came looking for jin Mi at the flower realm. After having cute meteor garden moment Run Yo helped Jin Mi to escape her confinement at the Water Mirror at the Flower realm and took her to his Xuan Ji Palace.
Episode 11
To hide Jin Mi from the deities of the Flower Realm, Run Yo brought her to the human realm.
Jin Mi had a lot of adventure in the human realm when she happened to meet the wickedly naughty Lord Puchu, her friend.
Jin Mi is once again dressed as a boy and Lord Puchu taught her boy’s pursuits, how to have fun.
Apparently, it is doing all the four activities involving eating, drinking, playing and enjoying.
They had a lot to eat and drink, they went to a gambling den, where Jin Mi showed her prowess at Mahjong. She was so good because she had been unknowingly cheating by using her magic.
The gambling den owner had to throw them out in the end.
Finally, Lord Puchu brought her to a brothel for enjoying. Again Jin Mi was popular with the girls. But finally, Jin Mi had had enough and run off much to the hilarity of Lord Puchu and reminded her again about the four pursuits. He then brought her to another brothel/theatre with ladyboys as the attraction. LOL
Jin Mi was intrigued. She was just inspecting a server when Xu Feng suddenly appeared and then Run Yo also was there.
Xu Feng and Run Yo got drunk.
Xu Feng in an alcoholic haze almost kissed Jin Mi, who was not averse to a bit of ‘cultivation’. Xu Feng pulled back at the last minute. He told her that what she feels for him is mutual but the heavens will punish them if they progress their relationship. Jin Mi does not really understand what he was talking about and promptly went to sleep.
Episode 12
It is the birthday of the Heavenly Empress. Everyone from the six realms was invited except those from the Flower Realm.
Jin Mi feeling alone and lonely, wished she has someone to distract her from her tedium. Suddenly Lord Puchu materialised. He said that her wishing and sighing brought him in. He was on his way to heaven for the Empress celebration. He invited her to go with him. At first Jin Mi was not keen but the promise of the hundred of years peaches, which enhances magical powers convinced her to go.
During the start of celebrations, a parade of beautiful immortals was on show. Lord Puchu started to evaluate the beauties according to his little ‘black book’, the Valuation manual of beauties.
He mentioned that all the beauties on show were nothing compared to Zi Fen. She was the ‘it’ girl of her time, a true beauty.
The water immortal and wind immortal also attended the celebration. Jin Mi mentioned that she feels calm looking at Water Immortal. Puchu mentioned that she’s got a great taste as the Water Immortal was one of the most handsome men of his time.
Though Puchu seemed to care for Jin Mi a lot, he has his own hidden agenda. He connived with the Rat Immortal to make Jin Mi the centre of attention.
Both the Water Immortal and the Emperor noticed her similarities to Zi Fen, which only annoyed the Empress.
She ordered that Jin Mi be put to death. Immediately Xu Feng followed by Run Yo went on their knees and beg the empress to change her decision. They would take the punishment for Jin MI.
As the atmosphere is getting heated, Puchu flew Jin Mi out of the heaven, closely followed by the immortal guards, Xu Feng and Run Yo.
Jin Mi and Puchu ended up being confronted by the Flower deities and then appeared both Xu Feng and Run Yo. When the flower deities asked Run Yo his intention on Jin Mi, Xu Feng revealed that he knew that there can never be any ‘cultivation’ between any of them as Xu Feng, Run Yo, and Jin Mi are siblings with different mothers.
I am absolutely loving this drama, though I heard it will get darker and with a possible unhappy ending.
Episode 13
The Heavenly Emperor was so taken with Jin Mi as she reminded him so much of his greatest love, Zi Fen, that he can’t help but visit Jin Mi in her dream/mirage. There he told Jin Mi about his love of Zi Fen and how devastated he was when she passed.
Jin Mi, the ever self-serving elf, asked the emperor to give her mystical prowess, to which the emperor obliged easily. She got an enormous 5,000 years of a superpower. LOL He did make her promised not to get into a relationship with either Xu Feng or Run Yo.
The emperor was not the only one to visit her. The Water Immortal also came by. He began to wonder whether she was his daughter as she seemed very confident with water. She showed him her prowess of making it rain, instead of rain she produced frost.
The superpower she got from the emperor was too much for her body which made her ill. The Water Immortal stayed and nursed her back to health.
When Jin Mi was awake, he and the flower deities told her about her background. Her mother was Zi Fen and her father was indeed the Water Immortal.
Episode 14
This episode is about the love triangle between the heavenly Emperor, Zi Fen, and Water Immortal.
Before he became a Heavenly Emperor, he was actually the second son, not the crown prince. At this time he was in a loving relationship with Zi Fen, the flower deity, who he first saw gliding gracefully on a bed of lotus flowers.
But he was ambitious and wanted the throne so much that he did everything he possibly could including marrying the princess of the powerful and influential Bird Realm.
He thought that he could continue his relationship with Zi Fen after his marriage and would eventually make her his official concubine.
Zi Fen, however, was not interested in married men and at the same time, she had met an even better looking man, the water immortal.
Zi Fen’s relationship with the Water Immortal was so intense that before you know it they were sleeping together.
The emperor heard about Zi Fen and the Water Immortal. He went to Zi Fen and had his way with her, violating her, not knowing that she was already pregnant with the Water Immortal’s baby.
The emperor then abducted and imprisoned her in his palace.
To make ensure that the relationship between Zi Fen and Water Immortal is over, he decreed that Water Immortal marries the Wind Immortal, who was Zi Fen’s best friend.
The WI categorically declined the emperor’s decree and hurriedly left.
What just happened was witnessed by Zi Fen.
She was found by the jealous Heavenly Empress in the palace. Knowing that Zi Fen is the emperor’s true love, she pushed Zi Fen to the brink until she fell into the abyss and ended up broken in the Flower Realm.
Zi Fen knew that she does not have much time to live,
The Water Immortal came to see her to ask her to marry him.
Zi Fen, feeling very ashamed of having been abused by the emperor lied to Water Immortal that she never loved him and that she had only ever loved the emperor.
The Water Immortal was so upset so ended up marrying the Wind Immortal, not knowing that Zi Fen had given birth and died at the same time as his wedding.
Episode 15
Xu Feng is really upset when the engagement between Jun Mi and Run Ho was acknowledged. He engineered that Jun Mi should return to Xu Feng the very rare Phoenix hairpin back. Xu Feng told Jun Mi that whatever he gave away, he doesn’t want them back. But if Jun Mi would insist on returning the hairpin, then he would like everything he lost to her be returned at that instant as well (meaning his heart) but clueless JinMi thought he was talking about the 500 years superpower he gave her and she was reluctant to give it back so she snatch back the hairpin and said that she won’t give back anything he gave her. So cute.
Episode 16
Lord Puchu visited Jin Mi but was confronted by XuFeng. They ended up having a mega fight until Lord Puchu was almost defeated by the Rat Immortal came to his rescue.
The Rat Immortal ended up being killed by the emperor despite raising a pertinent question regarding the Heavenly empress abuse of power. Jin Mi was rather upset that Lord Puchu ended up fighting the two brothers.
Episode 17
The Water Immortal wanted to be near his daughter to make up for lost time. He, therefore, moved in with his wife, the wind immortal to the Flora real.
I was really surprised when the wind immortal started singing to Jin Mi It was caterwauling. 🙁
“Difficulty is the nurse of greatness”
-Water Immortal
Episode 18
Jin Mi was officially introduced to the king and the court as the long-lost daughter of the Water Immortal and the Flora Immortal.
During the ceremony, the King proposed that Jin Mi is made as the new Flora Immortal. But the proposal was opposed by various deities saying that Jin Mi was just a fairy with insufficient magical power.
It was proposed that she needs to do an on-the-job-training in the human realm.
Jin Mi was quite happy to go to earth was looking forward to tasting some roast donkey.
Someone that is not happy was Xu Feng. Without a second thought, he jumped into the void to follow Jin Mi on Earth.
Sui He quickly jumped in as well to follow Xu Feng.
Episode 19
On Earth, a baby Jin Mi was found my a nun and was brought up as a nun, who will ultimately become a saintess.
On Earth, Xu Feng was born to become King Yi.
He was going hunting with a few of his soldier when they were attacked by a band of renegades. He was near death when Jin Mi found him.
She took him to a cottage in the mountain to tend to him.
Xu Feng/King Yi started to get better but lost his voice and his hearing.
At first King Yi is suspicious of Jin Mi, who thought he was some kind of a bandit.
Episode 20
King Yi and Jin Mi are beginning to be more comfortable with each other.
While Jin Mi is away, Kuan Lu is trying to seduce Run Yo. But he remains faithful to Jin MI.
Episode 21
While foraging for herbs, King Yi and Jin Mi spied some soldiers. King Yi grabbed Jin Mi to lie flat on the ground.
Finally, King Yi is fully recovered after a month’s rest in the mountain.
While JIn Mi was sleeping, he crept out of the cottage and left.
Episode 22
Jin Mi and her assistant were in trouble with the mother superior (head nun) for using the snow ginseng, which was so rare and had been set aside for the King’s use.
Her being told off was interrupted by a messenger that King Yi had requested the presence of the Holy Saintess(Jin Mi) in the palace.
Jin Mi and her assistant got curious about the King. Her assistant heard that he was very handsome and girls love him but he doesn’t have any concubine.
Jin Mi said that perhaps he has some male illness perhaps impotence.
Jin Mi then was summoned to the King’s manor.
Deng Lun was so adorable as King Yi. Jin Mi was extremely surprised to find out that the “crow’, the bandit she cared to good health is none other than King YI.
Episode 23
King Yi has turned into a hypochondriac. He sends for Jin Mi every day for a different illness until he was told that Jin Mi was ill with a cold.
He went to Jin Mi and was determined to look after her. This tender moment was witnessed by Run Yo true astral projection.
Jin Mi finally diagnosed King Yi’s illness for him. She told him that he is suffering from lovesickness. Awww.
The king was not annoyed, he told Jin Mi that the lantern festival was happening soon, he then asked her what lantern she wanted.
She said the Phoenix.
JIm MI almost got killed by the demon reaper but Run Yo materialised just in time to save her. He then gave her a dragon scale, containing a dragon summoning spell.
Episode 24
Jin Mi diagnosed Xu Feng that he was suffering from erectile dysfunction. They did then have a flirty exchange about Jin Mi should take responsibility for ruining the prince’s reputation as no one else might want to marry him if he can’t perform.
Deng Lun has the most captivating smile. Really wicked and sexy.
Episode 25
King Yi asked Jin Mi if she wanted to change her life, like becoming Queen Yi perhaps? Jin Mi was absolutely flabbergasted. She was reminded by her assistant that they had have made a vow of chastity.
Episode 26 -28
It the lantern festival. King Yi invited Jin Mi to make the phoenix lanterns with him. She was clumsy but the king seemed rather good at it.
I love it when the king asked Jin Mi if he can keep the lantern that they made together, Jin Mi answered with an alacrity that he was welcome to have it. We can then hear Jin Mi’s thought “Why would I want to keep it, it is such an ugly thing.”
The King then took Jin Mi to his courtyard to see lit phoenix lanterns that he made himself.
He was just about to confess to Jin Mi but left hurriedly.
Episode 29 – 30
Run Yu went to see his birth mother in Lake Li. She used to be the Princess of Dragonfish. His birth mother was an ex of the Heavenly Emperor.
He seduced her because of her slight resemblance to the Flora Immortal.
Run Yu had a very unhappy childhood. He was bullied a lot because a pair of horns grew in his forehead is a dragon child by the emperor.
The onslaught of bullying upset his mother and thought that it would make the heavenly emperor and empress to find out about Lin Er/Run Yu that she cut off his horns.
But as fast as his horns are cut off his horns and dragon scales grew quickly as well.
The Empress found out about Lin Er/Run Yu and took upon herself to fetch him from the bottom of the lake and bring him to the high heavens but ensured the Lake Li falls into ruin and the beautiful Princess of Dragonfish was killed.
The Princess though lived but disfigured. She was helped by the water immortal to relocate to Yun Meng Marsh.
Episode 31
Jin Mi was a bit forward. She kissed King Yi several times. But it seems she is not, well as she has been coughing up blood. Oh good one Jin Mi, you just gave King Yi tuberculosis. LOL
The Empress found out about Run Yu’s constant trek to the Marsh. She quickly found the Dragonfish princess, who she killed in front of Run Yu.
Run Yu turned into one powerful sexy vengeful son and stopped the empress on her track.
Episode 32-33
Princess Sui He killed her father Prince Nailang, who was to ambush King Yi.
Sui He then said to King Yi and as she is all alone in the world, he had to protect her, marry her.
King Yi Told her that he will laways protect her but he can never marry her.
He then went to Jing Mi to ask her to marry him.
Jing Mi finally agreed and said that would he want to see her face first as she is really ugly.
King Yi said that he would rather leave it to see her face on their wedding night and he could then be his ugly wife, who he will never leave.
She then send King Yi into another of his skirmishes.
Jin Mi was gravely ill. And the Mu Ci is trying to fast forward her death. She was saved by Qiong Ho, who was really her best friend Rou Rou.
The Demon princess has been protecting Jin Mi and warned Mu Ci if he touches Jin Mi again then they are mortal enemy.
Poor King Yi came back from battle to the dead body of Jin Mi who eventually died from coughing out blood due to poison and over-medicating, just right after Rou Rou’s death from saving Jing Mi from an arrow by Mu Ci.
Episode 34
King Yi loved Jing Mi so much he married her posthumously. They were dressed in their red silk wedding garb and carried her in his arm and went to the family catacomb and drunk poisoned wine to be with her even in death.
Really very Romeo and Juliet!
They are safely back at Heavenly Realm.
30 October 2018
Makers of Ashes of Love had confirmed that they will be shooting Season 2 of Ashes of Love.
However, there is a big BUT! Season 2 will have a new recast as it will centre on the children from the characters in the original season.
Episode 35
Jing Mi confessed to her father that she wanted to break off her engagement with Run Yu.
Episode 36
Jing Mi had a date with Xu Feng. It ended up them sleeping together.
Once again Jing Mi tried to tell her father that she wanted to break her engagement but her father told her that what she felt of King YI as Xu Feng in the mortal world is different from what the situation is in the heavenly realm.
The water immortal was thinking that the King did love Jing Mi’s mother very much but in the end he married someone else.
It is about an immortal looking for the boy/man of her dreams.
I have to admit that I am watching this drama because of Song Wei long. But having just seen the first couple of episodes, I like the lead girl immediately. She is strong and feisty and pretty.
Episode 1
The story started in France.
A billionaire who has a harem of wives dies leaving the bulk of his fortune to his daughter who had been banished in a remote island.
This legacy became a contention among the family especially to the current young wife who expected to get everything.
This young wife has a French lover. Between them they arranged the murder of the daughter.
Episode 2
The assailants shoot the girl pointblank in the chest. They took photo of her dying and sent it to the young wife.
The daughter had previously engaged the butler of her father. He became very anxious when the girl did not come home.
He suspected foul play immediately as the signing of documents was about to happen.
Back in the forest, the dead girl started to come alive. She found her mobile phone and called the butler to pick her up.
The butler was half aware of the secret as he was the father’s most trusted personnel. 🙂
The girl is actully badass.
She called the young wife for a talk. Over dinner, she had it confirmed that her ‘death’ was the young wife’s machination.
With a gun, the daughter played Russian roulette with the frightened wife. The girl made her promised not to do it again, not to touch her, come near her in the future.
Listening to this was the adopted son, Li Zhe.
Episode 3
Li Zhe interrogated Xue Ji who she was. She told him that she’s looking for a man in her dreams. He said that could it be him the man she dreams?
He told her that he doesn’t want the money from the inheritance. He wanted her to be safe.
Xue Ji has gone back to China and promptly drove a Lamborghini which Gu Shi Yi with his friend, Jiang Huai had crashed into.
Gu Shi Yi is a newbie driver without insurance and together with Jiang Huai are just students. They begged Xue Ji to give them a discount with the repair of the car.
Xue Jin contacted Jiang Huai with the amount of the repair which was 200,000 Yuan, more than she and Gu Shi Yan can afford to pay.
Xue Jin proposed that Jiang Huai becomes her butler for a year to pay off the money. Jiang can’t really refuse and in a way, it was a blessing as she needed to look for a cheaper place to stay at. Xue Jin told her that they knew each other from a long time ago. Their mothers were friends.
Gu Shi Yi was rather skeptical and he said that he was the one who crashed the car and therefore he should pay.
Song Wei Long looked so young.
Episode 4
Gu Shi Yi is a budding pop star and had just been recently signed it by an agency and one of the rules was not to have a girlfriend.
Gu Shi Yi met up with Xue Jin and Jiang Huai. He later gave Xue Jin a lift to her place. In the car, Xue Jin said that they are fated which surprised Gu Shi Yi. Xue Jin then asked him if he doesn’t dream about her. If he doesn’t then he was not the man she was looking for.
Li Zhe has gone back to China himself as well and went to see Gu Shi Yi. Again he asked her whether he was the man of her dreams. When she told him that she already found the man, he became very sad.
Xue Jin moved in Jiang Huai but they ended up moving in with Gu Shi Yi because Jiang Huai has only a week to stay at her place.
Episode 5
The progress was very quick. Gu Shi Yi ashed Xue Jin why not become his girlfriend. He also a bit perturbed that she likes the man in her dreams who looks like him rather than him now.
Xue Jin is popular with the housemates because she buys them loads of presents.
Li Zhe came to visit her in the house and was jealous so he ended up staying the night and slept with Gu Shi Yin on the floor and woke in each other’s arms. So cute.
Episode 6
Gu Shi Yi dreamt that was in ancient China and being married to Xue Jin. But it looked like he was very emotional, shedding a few tears.
He told Xue Jin of having dreamt about her but he said probably it was because she was stressing him too much talking about dreams.
Xue Jin and Jang Huai moved into the mansion. To create a reason to visit the girls or rather Xue Jin, Gu Shi Yi put his phone charger into Jiang Huai’s bag.
He then later went to collect the charger but had a lovely cute moment with Xue Jin, carrying her to her upstairs to her bedroom while she slept in his arms.
Jang Huai asked Xue Jin if her mother can stay with them for one night.
Episode 7
Xue Jin’s brother died in an accident,so she had to go back to France.
Gu Shi Yi called her to commiserate with her but she said that she was not sad. Gu Shi Yi ended up saying that if something happens to him she will be far from being sad and then he hang up.
A new girl, Chairman Lin appeared in the agency.
Episode 8
Xue Jin has come back from France.
An elderly woman also came back from France. She has been tracking Xue Jin.
Episode 9
Gu Shi Yi had another instalment of dreams. It was on his wedding night with Xue Jin 1000 years ago. They were about to consummate their marriage when from under a pillow Gu Shi Yi pulled a knife and stabbed Xue Jin.
The elderly woman was dying of cancer and for some reason, she had Jiang Huai abducted in order to force Xue Jin to meet with her.
Gu Shi Yi is being stalked by President Lin, who appears to be another immortal as she killed Li Zhe’s mother when he was still very young.
Episode 10
Jiang Huai’s mother approached her again because she needed money as their investment including their house have been lost. She wanted Jiang Huai to borrow money from Xue Jin.
The Elderly Lady appeared and said that she will pay all the money her mother had lost as long as Jiang Huai’s convinces Xue Jin to donate blood to her.
Episode 11
Xue Jin promised Jiang Huai that she can have anything she wishes for her birthday.
It was her 21st and she wishes that Xue Jin donate blood to the Elderly Lady.
This drama stars real life sweethearts Guan Xiaotong and Lu Han. It is a poor boy meets rich girl kind of thing and they kick and box into a romance. 🙂
Episode 1
Ming Tian did not finish high school because he was left to take care of his two young siblings, who are twins, when his mother up and left because she got fed up with her husband, three years ago.
The husband ended up dead after a while, therefore a teenage Ming Tian had to shoulder the burden of looking after his two young siblings by eking out a living any which way he can.
While on a work errand, he came across a rather arrogant girl, who thought that money is enough to solve everything. This girl was Fang Yu.
Ming Tian really wanted to go to college and as luck would have it he was accepted into sports university in the Shenzhen City in the Guandong Province of China.
His little family left Macau to be able for him to enrol at Zhengze University where coincidentally is where Fang Yu is the queen.
The university used to be an all girl school but the director and headmaster were rather sexist. There were not contented with the trophies and awards won by their excellent sportswomen nurtured by their school. They reckoned that girls/women’s career in sport are rather fleeting. They have romance and get married and move on. They wanted men that would make sport their lifetime career.
For the first time the school offered 10 lucky male students places in the college. Only one took the place and it was Ming Tian.
Ming Tian was rather self-conscious being the only boy in the school especially when he found out that the school is not really ready for boys in terms of amenities, like boy’s toilet, locker room, etc.
Ming Tian being tall and good-looking became a prize for the girls to fight over.
While escaping from all the girls, he bumped into Fang Yu,who accidentally scratched his arm with her backpack.
Instead of apologising to him, she gave him a wad of cash, which infuriated Ming Tian. He ended up calling her a monster.
Unbeknown to Ming Tian, the word has a deeper psychological meaning to Fang Yu.
She was six years old before she found out she was a girl.
Being the heir of a conglomerate, when she was born, her authoritarian grandfather had told her parents that she was to be brought up as a boy, dressed up as a boy. Even in her primary school she was believed to be a boy.
But her parents had another baby and this time it was a boy.
Suddenly Fang Yu is unceremoniously treated as a girl again. This did not only confuse the young Fang Yu but also her young classmates, who bullied her and called her monster.
Episode 2
Ming Tian cannot bear to be at the same school as the Queen so he applied for a transfer. But it was proving impossible to get out of the school, which is determined to hold on to the first boy in their enrolment at all cost.
Ming Tian was working for KFC as a delivery boy. He has a record to keep of being able to deliver at the shortest possible time.
But during one of his deliveries, he came to the rescue of a young boy being bullied by hooligans. They then turned on him and brought him to playing field to beat him senseless.
Luckily the three friends, the Queen, Yanan and Xiao Mi were passing through the park and saw what was happening.
Episode 3
The Queen, Fang Yu, finally realised the sad life Ming Tian leads. He was a poor boy, who needs to work every hour available to be able to bring up his brother and sister and himself.
He thought that if he cannot transfer schools then he would just drop out. He felt guilty not being able to provide his siblings with better life.
It seems there is a connection between Fang Yu and Ming Tian. They both love and respect the dead Mr Ji.
Mr Ji was Fang Yu’s uncle. The only one who understood and supported her transition from a boy to girl in her young mind.
Episode 8
Ming Tian was sent a poisoned cake which his young brother ate and ended up in hospital. Ming Tian then found out who sent the cake. It was the bully boy from the rival university to Zhenze. He went to confront the bully but he ended up almost getting expelled.
Episode 9
This episode is the cutest so far. Ming Tian and Fang Yu are very tentatively getting closer.
Fang Zhou, Fang Yu’s brother, is the 15 year old CEO of their family business. He had been trained to take over almost before he could walk. He is ably assisted by Ming Tian. Brother and sister have a very filial to one another.
Ming Tian’s problem with the bully has given him the push to seriously learn self defence and he is now being trained by the three lead girls.
Episode 18
Fang Yu and Ming Tian had a really cute ‘date’ at the funfair. Yanan and Guan Yuan romance is so sweet and romantic but is still yet to end up in misunderstanding as Guan Yuan had been asked by Yanan’s father as one of the three conditions in teaching him the death strike/blow was to date his daughter, Yanan. The cutest scene so far of the drama was when he told her that she is the apple of his eye.
Episode 19
I have to say the romance between Fang Yu and Ming Tian is very slow boiling. But at least in this episode, we know that Ming Tian is really into Fang Yu.
Episode 22
Yanan had a confrontation with Luo Guan Yuan about her being just one of the conditions for him to train under her father to learn the death strike. Yanan broke off from her budding romance with Guan Yuan despite his protestation that he was only humouring her father that he really like her himself.
Episode 23
Yanan, Ming Tian, Xiao Mi and Sun Huo went to Macau to represent their school and to hopefully recruit more students to attend their school.
While in Macau, Ming Tian was surprised with a visit from Fang Yu, who was on her way to Dubai.
Episode 24
Fang Yu’s grandfather found out her detour to Macau and the reason why. He categorically told her to break any relationship with him as they were not compatible in any way.
Fang Yu rebelled and run away with her personal chef to Yanan’s house.
Her grandfather withdrew her from the university.
Episode 34-37
Fang Yu’s grandfather cannot allow her to end up with a no-hoper, poor boy so he did everything to separate them.
Knowing that Fang Yu’s weakness is her Uncle Ji, her grandfather used him to drive a wedge between Fang Yu and Ming Tian.
He paid Uncle Ji’s widow to lie to Fang Yu about the circumstances of her husband’s death. She made it sound as if the accidental death from boxing was premeditated. She said that Ming Tian’s Dad was a dirty fighter, who hired people to rough up Uncle Ji before the fight. Then he used the death strike to finish off Uncle Ji.
Fang Yu was so upset and cannot get over the fact. It seems she loves Uncle Ji more than she cares for Ming Tian.
Ming Tian himself was heartbroken. His beloved father, he thought, was just a fake.
In the end Fang Yu succumbed to her grandfather’s wishes for her to break up with Ming Tian and study abroad.
A year had passed….
The case of Mr Ji is not an isolated one. Mr Car also died from boxing but the insurance company found out that it was a fraud. Mr Car had a brain complication before the fight which he did not declare when he took out an insurance.
This case made Xiao Mi remember that she actually overhead a conversation between Mrs Car’s wife with another woman, who mentioned her husband had the same illness before he had a fight. He knew he was likely to die but he decided that the insurance money would support his wife and daughter. This was Uncle JI.
In the end everything was revealed.
Fang Yu came back from studying abroad. Though she misses Ming Tian, she refused his offer of starting over. He accepted his decision afterall he really have nothing to offer her.
But Fang Yu’s brother had other ideas. He persuaded Ming Tian to go look for Fang Yu before it was too late.
They met up by the fountain in Macau and reconciled.
The End….
I have to say that this drama is rather lackluster despite having superstar leads in Lu Han and Guan Xiaotong. Though they are in a relationship in real life, they did not have that sizzling chemistry in this drama. It was so sedated, they may as well be brother and sister.
The story/script is all over the place. The story is repetitive.
How many times do we need to see the leads and they friends washing cars?
How many times do we need Luhan dressed in a rabbit suit giving away flyers?
The romance between Fang Yu and Ming Tian was slow boiling, it was almost already on two-digits episodes before that got together.
The saving grace though was the clothes worn by Guan Xiaotong. She looked lovely in all of them. And Lu han is of course an absolute eye-candy.
