The Starry Love (2023)

A jam packed series

This series had SO MANY plot lines, it's amazing they fit everything in! It also tricks you into thinking, oh it's all good, it's happy times, near the end, but then you see there are still 5 and then 2 episodes left and you can't hope for a nice happy ending.

I strongly suggest watching this, but be prepared for mortal realm story but also other story lines. When you think it's over, it's not. It's a complex story that somehow managed to pack it all in. Ultimately it was satisfying, but there are bits in the middle you could fast forward maybe (I didn't). I was hooked.

Be prepared with TISSUES, because the latter part of the series did kinda break my heart a little.

But the first parts and middle part was just being funny, sometimes late, but still enjoyable!

But would I put this on the scale of the top tier Cdrama series such as TMOPB, IS, LBFAD, AOL, TTEOTM? Not that high, but still pretty good!

Spoilers to come below:
That ending?
JUST ONE MORE SCENE with them reunited with their husbands, even with 10 years later, would have wrapped this up as nicely as I wanted. Like it would have been literally 20 more seconds, why they didn't do this is freaking ridiculous. There's some rumours I read that they may have filmed it but didn't make the cut?? Or for specials, which DO NOT SEEM TO BE AROUND?? We get a nice ending for Zuwei and the Beast Prince even!

The OST could have been a bit better - it seemed a bit rough around the edges, but there were some good tracks.

As per usual, I love the main couple Tan Er and You Qing, especially the ML's superb acting as the cold, emotion-free immortal, and then the 3 different soul shards he played, to then become the fifth final version of himself that is Tan Er's true love and protector. He really, really grew on me. Despite his deep scary villain voice, he got me good.

I have to shout out also to the sisterly love with Tan Er and Kui Er, because it could have been they hated each other, but no they loved each other, supported each other and I got chills when they reunited after being separated. I loved it.

I did love the third Void Prince and Kui's story line two as they were sweet.

I cried over Man Man... it literally broke my heart

Almost all the support/minor characters were utilised in a meaningful way and were memorable. I did love the mortal father and later development relationship

I have adequate hatred for the father Emperor and his selfish desire and narrow minded way of protecting the four realms.

I won't mourn this series but may still feel a void - I suspect because it was very strongly suggesting a NOT OPEN-ENDED ending, so I am satisfied.

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Best Xianxia Fantasy for this Year 2023

Try watching this drama guys, you'll definitely love it. Everything in the drama is interesting, moreover the concept of the story where the male lead dies but can be revived but in a condition that the female lead will make him fall in love with her 3x. In his 3 reincarnations, he has to fall in love with the same woman at the same time, for him to be revived. This shows how the male lead loves the female lead and the drama is so magical. There are happy, kilig, sweet times, and even sad times in the drama but you'll definitely love it because of its unique concept. The 3 reincarnations visual is so good even if they have the same faces but different situation you'll still like it

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A ROLLACOASTER RIDE

I'm still heartbroken before I talk about the relationship and my favorite characters I wants to talk about the surface level things. I love the story from start to finish each character served their purposes and I never felt like there was a character that wasn't needed and everyone acted like sane people, sure there were moments where I felt like they were annoying and doing the most but it never felt out of place I understood why they did what they did, again I don't agree but I understand the end left me wanting more but I would say it was a happy ending and my god when this drama to funny it's hilarious and when it's sad it's SOUL CRUSHING like they are never tame with it. Now lets talk about the ships.


Youqin and Yetan : I love them so much from when he was trying to deny his feelings for her to when she was collecting his soul shards and when they were finally on the same page I was invested in them from day one. Yetan was absolutely the highlight of the show despite how cruel people were towards her she was open and loving and my god when she and her dad finally made up?!?!?! heartbreaking. Youqin was everything I needed him to be her loved Yetan with everything in him and was loyal to her to the bitter end just a amazing lead relationship.

Chaofeng and Qingkui : what a amazing second lead couple although their relationship stared off rocking and with lies their feeling for each other was sincere and I loved every scene with them and when shiz hit the fan with them I just knew they would sort it because that's how much they love each other. Qingkui is my girl I love her to the moon and back and I can't think of her death without wanting to cry and you could feel her absence in those last few episode that just goes to show how amazingly she was written and Chaofeng was the tortured man I needed him to be there's a reason why they are my second favorite ship.

Dilangjue and Ziwu : THIS IS MY FAVORITE SHIP like from jump I knew this was going to be favorite ship and I was correct they tick all my boxes and the chemistry was AMAZING they were so sweet and I love how Dilangiue didn't even attempt to prove Yetan wrong when she said that if it was up to Dilangiue him and Ziwu would have three kids like my man wasted no time I love them very much.

I was glad that they decide to make Guhaichao and Sushui and Wudai and Jialouluo canon they were cute and I ate all their interactions up definitely two very underrated ships.

Qingheng and Suzhi : the angst train that never stopped riding like I was rooting for them and I just knew that Suzhi would never be able to get over her anger and grieve and that was going to stop them from reaching their happy ending but love that the ending implied she wasn't gone and was watching over him my headcanon is that she'll eventually return to him and they'll have their happy end.

Man Man, her death broke me and for her to be killed on her and Yetan's soulmate day?!?!?!?!? Somebody get the fxking rope I was balling my eyes out and her death set the tone for the rest of the drama once she was killed I realized that no one was safe and I was rooting for her to get with someone since everyone had someone just evil and cruel I love her and wish got her own happy ending.

I could keep talking about all the other amazing things this drama had to offer ( btw the void tyrant?!?!?!? SMASH SMASH SMASH like how that man is just so casually fine was criminal ) but all I can say is please watch the drama every moment is powerful and beautiful and the characters are loveable and worth rooting for.

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BEYOND WORDS!

Will definitely not write long review for this one as this one is beyond my imagination, word and any thinking capabilities...

Mr. Director... please accept my salute!! This is the 3rd drama I am watching which is named under his direction and I can surely say he eats and leaves no crumbs! everything he touches turns to gold! I mean Woww!!! First Skate in to love, then 'Blossoms in to adversity' and then this.. None of these disappointed or felt boring for even a single moment. I first felt he is biased towards particular actors because most of the faces in Starry Love were seen in Skate in to Love but now I understand why they were the perfect choice for their respective roles and this team is my new favourite.

The ML is soooooo good in his craft OMG firstky, I felt he is just another actor with poker face and no expressions but just good looks but when the drama came to a certain point, he proved he is different and I have found my new favourite!

The actor playing Chaofeng is sooo damn Handsome. I would be lying if I say I didn't crushed on him at first sight. and what an amazing actor he is!

Landy Li... Take a bow lady! You are the best ❤️🤌

EVERYTHING about the drama was on point... OSTs, cast, story, character development, comedy, love story.

Would love to see it's sequel as it was an open ending for me....

BYE going to watch the next name under director's list! coz HE NEVER DISAPPOINTS!

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good story but with a disappointing ending...

I started watching this drama without reading the reviews about the ending. If I had known it was going to end up disappointingly like this, I probably would have stopped somewhere in the good times for major leads in the middle of...

In general, what I liked was a nice idea for the plot, I especially liked the idea of the main lead Empyrean Xuan Shang, who played a total of 4 different characters in this drama.
Chen Xing Xu played it very well and I have to say that I really liked each of these character shards...especially I am impressed by the actor's warm-toned low bass voice, which also gave emotions to the characters played by him :)
Second lead character Chao Feng [ Third Prince] had a nice beginning and middle, but then the authors of the script probably ran out of ideas to develop it to the end, it's a pity, because this character and the actor's abilities could have been used more. As for the two twin flower sisters, both actresses played their roles well. I really liked both couples, they were very cute and sweet and I liked a lot of fun elements in between. Supporting characters like the Empyrean siblings, or Prince Di Lan Jue or Man Man also added a lot to the drama. The negative characters are really villains full of revenge, hatred and obsession to rule the world...there were moments when I got too much of this cold-blooded killing and scheming.
It's nice that the director gave a lot of nice light, comedic moments, it softened these drastic scenes a bit...

OST - when it comes to the music, I must say that it is very good and complements the drama scenes beautifully. For me, one of my favorites is Flawles World performed by Mao Bu Yi, where the instrumental version of the flute and guitar sank into my heart, and Sa Ding Ding with a beautiful flute motif and a female voice in the style of traditional Chinese opera, which was also an interesting solution. Funny and cute is the theme of the song Double flowers :)

The ending - the most disappointing moment of the drama ... for me it was not an open ending, but in my opinion both sisters ended sadly, that's how I perceive it, they were reborn, but only to the original form of a flower of a tree vein, which means for me, the form that they had in the beginning before the destruction of the tree in which both abided as twin flowers. Which means they won't be reborn as human beings, so that made me extremely upset and that's why I didn't give 10 points in the total score and also deducted points for the plot due to this ending. I think it's a big mistake of the writers of the script that they left the ending that way. After all the sacrifices, both couples should have a happy It would be good if the director thought about recording an additional episode with the rebirth of the sisters to human characters :)

Overall, I would say that this drama is worth watching, despite the unfortunate ending... :)

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The legend of twin flowers

Qingkui and Yetan are twins born to human queen and king.While Qingkui is respected by their clan,Yetan is ignored by her own people.
In a twist of fate,both the sisters are married to wrong husbands,not to the original betrothed husbands.
Yetan enters heavenly realm as the the heavenly prince consort.She is spontaneous,cunning,smart yet has a kind nature.She wins the heart of Empyrean Shaodian Youqin,her husband, but soon loses him after he sacrifices himself to the chaos.
Shaodian Youqin is introverted,respectful,duty oriented and is the highly respected Empyrean in heavenly realm.
Both the actors Chen Xingxu and Li Landi are good in their roles.
On the other hand,Qingkui,enters the demon realm.At first she is scared,but soon the third prince,Chaofeng,steps in to help her,at first for his own reasons,but slowly falls for her.
I specially liked their romantic track and also his mother and elder brother parts were also good.
Qingkui,is very smart,kind,helping,caring, loving and soon wins the hearts of the demon tribe using her medical skills.
Both Luke Chen and He Xuan Lin were good in their roles.
I liked the first 2 characters of the 3 shrads of Shaodian Youqin,which come to earth,and how Yetan deals with them is also funny.I quite liked the whole part.
All the other cast were good too.
As always,in Xianxia dramas,where the Immortals play the main role,there is a twist of fate,which links up the present people to the tribes and concepts of the past,that happened thousands of years ago,both the twin sisters are revealed to be key people associated with the chaos.
How the team of 4 solve the problems and struggles that come in their way is portrayed with a good pace.
As a whole,it is an entertaining drama.It brings few smiles,has good twists,and definitely does not bore you except for few scenes.Go for it!!

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Good one time watch ♡

The Starry Love 📺:Viki & YouTube
PG13
40ep

PROS:
◇The acting every actor brought the emotions & chemistry.

◇The sisters and their beautiful realtionship. The way they supported each other.

◇The side characters & couples ♡

◇The OST (orginal soundtrack)

◇The couples after they were together.

◇Unpopular opinion, but the ending it was great & lovely


CONS:

◇The revenge could have been justice and
would have been better in my personal opinion.

◇The plot dragged at times 🥲

◇Could have been 30 episodes instead of 40.


#TheStarryLove #cdrama #fantasy #XuanlinHe #LandyLi #DaherLin #MichelleHu #newshow

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magnifique ?❤️

Une des plus belle histoire que j'ai regardé avec beaucoup d'humour et surtout beaucoup de larmes 😭😭😭💔. Un gros coup de cœur pour les acteurs, ils étaient tous trop adorables 😍 surtout @hexuanlin.official qui joue QingKui ❤️❤️❤️ J'espère qu'il y aura plus de séries avec elle en tant que FL à l'avenir. Les effets laissaient à désirer mais bon, tout le reste compensait largement. Sinon vraiment magnifique

Notation personnelle 👇:

Note Globale 9 / 10
Scénario 10 / 10
Écriture 9 / 10
Suspense 7 / 10
Originalité 9 / 10
Addictivité 9 / 10
Pédagogie 5 / 10
Créativité 7 / 10
Personnages 9 / 10
Humour 7 / 10

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Annnddd Shaodian Youqin and Chaofeng Tianxia lives happily ever after! LoL

Ok. Done marathoning this in basically 3days with panda eyes and a building migraine from lack of sleep. Lol

Plot was catching with enough ‘cold hearted leads with shuai faces’ and comedy weaved throughout. I have problem sometimes deciding where to stop for the day and keep on clicking next episode, so guess the plot was catchy.

Nice to see CXX again after the complete tragedy that was Goodbye my princess. Lol. Still remember that tragic ending until now. Lol. Not sure if he used his own voice, but it sounds different than usual male lead’s voice. His acting sometimes seems off, but surprisingly all together came across as appealing to me. Dunno why. Lol. One thing for sure though, he’s still crying with all his heart (complete with the ugly crying face) lol but you cant blame the guy, you ask him to cry and he delivers! Lol.

This is my first drama of the FL and i was genuinely surprised by how much I like her acting. She doesnt come across as annoying (some FL does when acting as a carefree mischievous girl) and she cries beautifully. I was initially hoping for not typical plot where siblings backstabbing each other due to being pampered/ignored from childhood and thank god the drama made them such a close sisters. Qingkui’s actress do a good job in bringing forth such a soft spoken well mannered pampered character, but still not coming out as a helpless character waiting to be rescued.

2nd male lead also did a good job. Even though at first i was annoyed with him with all his scheming, he was able to mellow me down after few episodes when he starts falling for qingkui. I was laughing like crazy when he was berated by Qingkui’s father from get go. Hahaha

Of course the ending has left much to be desired. It would be nice to see the happy ever after with the 2 couples rather than only the bromance between SDYQ and CF only, though it makes the ending hilarious in a way.

Theres probably few plotholes here and there (or rather few nitpickings) -how the hell SDYQ is supposed to be all powerful being with high cultivation and almost always end up need to be rescued by FL or lost his memories time and time again! Lol, but i enjoyed watching this so much. Totally looking forward to more works by them in the future

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A maior surpresa desse ano.

The Starry Love foi minha surpresa desse ano, fui assistir despretensiosamente e sai completamente emocionada e apaixonada por esse drama, os personagens e os romances - sim, não temos somente a história do casal principal sendo desenvolvida.

Esse foi um drama que mesclou romance, comédia e uma pitada de drama que foi simplesmente incrível. Ri, me emocionei, vibrei e no fim estava entre o chorar e suspirar. A história de Shaodian e Yetan é algo único e é impossível não acabar apaixonados por eles.

Os efeitos visuais foram incríveis, figurino e fotografia impecável; mas se tem algo que merece uma menção honrosa é a OST desse drama - que toca nosso coração e parece que cada linha foi escrita para o personagem e o romance deles.

Enfim, muito mais que um romance; The Starry Love traz a força do amor entre irmãs, a importância da amizade, lealdade, superação.

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Dorama interessante que pecou no excesso de episódios

É um dorama bem dinâmico, com personagens interessantes e com uma história cômica e leve.
Nos primeiros episódios estava com dificuldade de me prender à história, mas os episódios foram passando e a história começou a ficar interessante. Não é um dorama com muitas reviravoltas, plots complexos e dramático. Mas sim, um dorama mais tranquilo, com bastante comédia, voltado em destacar a amizade, companheirismo e amor entre os personagens.
Tem vários casais que se formam, os romances são leves (nada de triângulo amoroso ou enemies to lovers) e destacam a cumplicidade entre eles.
Para mim, o dorama poderia ter terminado no episódio 26, no reencontro dos protagonistas no mundo imortal. Até aí, a história foi coesa, interessante e sem episódios enrolados e desnecessários. A partir daí, acho que já não tinha mais coisas para acontecer, e percebi que começaram a encher linguiça para completar os 40 episódios… sem falar que no episódio 26, teríamos um final perfeito, já no ep 40 tivemos um final em aberto e muitas coisas desnecessárias aconteceram.

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Quite annoying dubbing

Chen Xing Xu & Landy Li of course I have to watch this... Haha.... Not expect much, but turn out I quite enjoy the drama.

Usual story where the switched bride happen, the 'naughty' girl go to heaven realm & the 'good' girl go to evil realm. but of course turn out they both find the perfect match in each realm. The story gonna be bored with good girl go to heaven realm, but with the naughty one, the story become quite interesting....

As usual, our girl (Ye Tan (YT)) make a lot of trouble in heaven realm. But with that way, she seems to make her footprint & impression to our ML. And the same also happen with Qing Kui (QK) in the evil realm, where she also attract Chao Feng (CF) & Wu Dai (WD) with her charm & gentleness. As we usually said, opposite attract. Xuan Shang (XS) in heaven never really see such capriciousness like YT do, while CF & WD never really get such gentleness in evil realm.

The story become really interested after XS back to heaven realm. YT & XS become close & very romantic. In the same time I still grind my teeth to see the behavior of heaven emperor. Why he seems so bothered to see how close YT & XS are...? Sometimes with XIan XIa drama like this I have this big question: Why they really like to picture heaven as hypocrite, where they seem to do the right thing, but turn out they actually is so messed up & hiding something that dark even make the evil proud...?

From all that happen in this drama one thing that really bothered me is.... How fake & so dubbed Xuan Shang voice. It's like they cover the mike with sock or cloth and then start speaking. Haha....

Overall this drama actually nothing new, but still really enjoyable to watch.

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