A classic cautionary tale

The legend of White Snake is based on a cautionary tale about young men throwing away their dutiful family responsibilities for the pursuit of a wanton woman.

Well, forget all that.

This movie takes that cautionary tale and rips it into little fluttering shreds suitable for confetti in a celebration.

This is a love story about semi immortal beings whose goals are to become more god like and achieve greater power to do good.

The FLs, lets call them ws and gs for white snake and green snake, are the semi immortal spirits that achieve human forms as beautiful young women. Ws has twice the advancement as gs so serves as a sort of sisterly mentor and also as a fairly bad example.

Apparently that extra advancement only means ws can dig herself even more deeply into the depths of unintentional but hardly unforeseen trouble.

What captivated me about this series is the haunting rendition of "wait a millennium" by the FL. The former singing idol can make a song pull at your heart even if you don't understand Mandarin.

I became captivated with the FL as aging uncles like myself can sometimes do.

That aside, gs also does an excellent job at portraying a soul learning to love and finding out her love is bared by divine law. The gs actress also does a great job of portraying a playful childlike demon who learns to become more human, even though that learning results in pain. There is a marked growth in gs all throughout this drama.

The ML is done well. His best traits are his humbleness mixed with an acute intelligence. He is also devoted to the FL even when the FL acts too impulsively.

There are a fair amount of sword wielding bad guys and quite a bit of wire work (flying scenes) reminiscent of a period piece martial arts movie.

There is a Buddhist monk with magical abilities who is a sometimes antagonist and sometimes mentor who also goes through growth in understanding that a demon can be good just as humans can be bad.

This is a love story set on a timescale spanning a millennium which you get reminded of during every episodes opening music.

If you enjoy romance, beauty, handsomeness, nobility, foolhardiness, and haunting music I highly recommend this drama series.

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Time travel paradox romance

If you enjoy light hearted romances with a time travel element thrown in I highly recommend this little drama.
I have to admit a fascination with the FL as I totally enjoyed her work in The White Snake drama period piece series.
That being said the MLs, both protagonist and antagonist are very well done.
The interplay and story is what I would consider masterfully done. It might seem a little slow at times but this series is not overly long at 24 episodes so I urge you to follow it all the way to the end.
Without giving spoilers I can not say much more other than there being unexpected twists and a depth of character understanding you don't always see in such a seemingly light hearted drama.

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