The best ending, power couple with a child and both their families' blessings

What makes interesting from start to end is having a power couple. Yining who used to be an outcast when her mom died met Shen Yuan who was also an outcast at that time because his mom was a maid and his father never accepted him. However, when they solve cases, they make the best pair. The male lead knows martial arts and became a scholar's student and the top scholar himself. He has book knowledge, sword skills, and business skills. In his family, he is ordinary but outside, at nights, he's the most dangerous assassin you wouldn't want to meet. Yining is a smart female lead and didn't have to be the-princess-needs-rescuing-type all the time. In other dramas the family matters usually take time to unfold and be solved becoming draggy but things are fast paced for Rise of Ning.

The second male lead's obsession is dangerous. He won't take No for an answer. He was an eye sore because he can't move on and kept pestering the female lead. The only thing I find skipable were all those flashbacks of him and Yining as Mei in the past, I think it's too much. I wasn't sad when he shielded Yining from the arrow because I think he was the target but yeah they gave him a redemption arc.

Yining using kindness to melt her stepsister's heart is one of her best traits I love and we did not have to see her and her stepsister destroy each other and drag on the episodes .This is one of the reasons I love this drama, things go fast paced and solved
I love the two families. I was nervous I thought he lost Duke Ying, her real father when I was growing find of him as her father. On the other hand, throughout the story, there's always a behind the scene.

Rise of Ning has different themes of love included, mother-daughter, father-son, siblings, grandparent-grandchildren, and romantic partners.
One of mother-daughter scenes were the situation of the sixth lady and her mother. Her mother had good intentions as a mom but used the wrong methods. She became too obsessed with her children's marriages without regards to their happiness. Yining's mom became a victim of her jealousy and false assumptions too. she got what she deserved

My favorite people beside the power couple and the grandmas of both families are the second couple and the goose, Madam Lin the best mom for both Yining and Shen Yuan and Duke Ying is the father of the year.
Ren Min's make up is beautifully done, when she lets loose her hair, it's much better on her. I love her as Yining and her chemistry with Zhang Wanyi as Shen Yuan. I love Zhang Wanyi's acting here, when he fights, he looks awesome. They are both magnificent.
, don't miss this out, slow burn but mixed with comedy and is not drama heavy, transitions were smooth, the ending is not rushed, story is wrapped up well,

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Destined adventure with friendship, brotherhood, sacrifice

Foxes use elixirs found on humans for immortality. A white elixir exists one in a thousand years and chosen fox students will go through an exam to find it.
Hundreds of centuries ago, a cute and playful fox spirit was saved by a boy collecting herbs in a mountain and they were fated to meet again. The boy who died centuries ago is reborn as a scholar from Tushan who has his own mission and on his way to participate in an examination. The fox spirit went to the human world to look for the claman who has the elixir thought to be the rarest. He was assigned a protector because their chief knew he will cause a lot of trouble.
The unexpected friendship and brotherhood between them was put to test and they were running towards a doomed ending.
Who will sacrifice for who? Whose soul will be snatched? What will be more important?
Surprised by the ending to know a danger was well disguised, this black nine-tailed fox was greedy for immortality. He became the soul snatcher you didn't expect that deserved to be punished by lightning.
The story is short but I enjoyed the brotherhood, the funny and silly moments, the innocent scholar running for his life but came back trying to save his mischievous fox spirit friend not knowing it was part of his tricks, the short fight scenes, their costumes, and short romance,
I was distracted with the different healing method using blood of the different kinds of monsters stored in the paintings because it didn't look good for those monsters but this is fantasy and fiction,
The scholar and the fox spirit balance each other and I love their story. Li Xian is very cute and funny as the mischievous fox spirit and he bonds well with Chen Li Nong the naive but kind hearted scholar. They both have beautiful souls.
The fox spirit's nine-tailed fox transformation reminded me of Kurama but with some six packs, the cgi for both foxes and their fight scene is amazing,
Watch it and have fun,

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Rom-Com back in the days with a piece of "the importance of learning English for modern communication"
They can be the funniest duo. The fl can piss you off but that's who she is in the story. It has the funniest ending too looking at how their marriage life would be. That exaggerated ending, how far was their car to the park where they were?
It's the common genre where when you fall in love, your standards become unimportant. The main lead's romance and the English teacher's are proof
It didn't touch much on learning English but it reflected some of the difficulties adults have, including today in adjusting with the changing world, Eng for better communication not only in the the workplace but also for general communication when needed. In this age, many people are learning English and more young people are getting better at it. Also,it's important to learn the basics and learn more if you want but you must not forget your birth language because that's also forgetting who you are.
My overall opinion is that the fl and ml's goals are not actually learning English but finding true love.
The main and supporting actors are all good, Jang Hyuk is a really good actor and Lee Na Young also a good actress making me hate and like her character

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If you can't understand the synopsis, this will help.

First of all, if you are not into old movies, don't waste your time on this.
This is not my generation. I only decided to watch it since the title suggested the legend of foxes. Also, HongKong movies are very popular before.
Story: As a whole, it is good. I did not expect the ending. I thought I would see more of the "legend" part but that's me, I expected a lot. If you have HK film exposure, you will expect some action scenes. Again, of course, it's unlike the modern action scene performances. The story showed how foxes (or wolves as per the subtitle) were portrayed in ancient times, the females are seductive, alluring, and has to possess beauty. "The more beautiful, the more dangerous." This is the mentality- humans are dangerous and wolves are dangerous. And that's how the story started. There is a skillful hunter hunting a powerful prey, the only one who can dispell her spells. The romance here does not include intimate kissing scenes, actually, there's none of that, it did not show it like that. Even so, the love story is not as boring as you can imagine.
Cast: However, the ones listed here did not include Brother Ten's name (this is according to the sub of the link shared in the comment section), the female lead's love interest and the FL's mother's name.
FL: The only daughter of what I would refer to as the wolf queen/fox queen (the sub used "wolf" throughout). She fell in love with a human, the apprentice of her mother's enemy.
ML: The 10th son of the Wei family who guards the only object that can make the wolves perish forever. He freed the FL who was caged when he was young.
Hunter King: Appeared to be like an hermit, the only skillful hunter who can defeat the mother of the FL, the 'wolf queen', he knows spells, has fighting skills, and can use magic. He became the master of the ML after the guardian of the ML died.
Wolf Queen: She lives to seek revenge for the hunter who hurt her. She left her daughter to escape but used her once she was freed to get the object and the human heart she needed to revive their master or the wolf king (?) to kill his enemy- the hunter.
ML's guardian: Skillful, handicapped, but always protected the ML and the Wei family's treasure.
Music: Well, the 90s sound effect 😁 okay but not really my cup of tea.
The acting is overall good, I think I would have enjoyed it better with better sub😁. Each did their role justice. The love story is not bad. I would love if there were more fight scenes. I thought I'd see more of the ML and FL in action, but yeah. The costume is okay, the effects are of the old film setting. I would watch it again if I find a better sub.
Watch this at your own risk.

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