#Ten Miles of Peach Blossom

[darklinaforever]

The characters for “Ye Hua” are 夜 (night) 华 (this one is tricky because it could mean many different things... But there's some connotation of glory / royalty / goodness).

The characters making up “Bai Qian” are 白 (white) 浅 (light / shallow).

Ye Hua & Bai Qian, the perfect Yin and Yang... My Reylo heart is filled.

They have the ending that Reylo should have had...

Like Dongfang Qingcang & Orchid / Xiao Lanhua ! (So they are THE Chinese Reylo ! Really, if you're a fan of Reylo, go for it ! You can literally make a grid and check the boxes for all the similarities !)

[dramashii]

Category: Xianxia Dramas

‘Xianxia’ (meaning ‘immortal heroes’) is a fantasy TV genre based on Chinese mythology and the concept of chivalrous spirit. It involves high fantasy materials like Cultivation, Gods, Demons, Heaven and Hell.

Till the End of the Moon | Love between Fairy and Devil | The Starry Love | Ashes of Love | Love and Destiny | Immortal Samsara | Ancient Love Poetry | Eternal Love of Dream | Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms | Love and Redemption

Read more about it HERE

[dazzlingkai]

ETERNAL LOVE (2017) "Even if you have to pay with your life for the bad things you have done, I will follow you in death. Here, in this world, no matter when, no matter where, as long as you do not betray me, I will never leave you."

[xiaolanhua]

Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms (Eternal Love) 三生三世十里桃花 (2017) Dir. Lin Yu Fen, Yu Cui Hua, Guo Hu – Ep. 54

[carlyleandco]

okay my fellow Cdrama fanatics, I’m in need of some recs as someone who is still fairly new to the scene…

Historical Cdramas I’ve enjoyed

Story of Minglan ~ this show is my Roman Empire…like I don’t go more than a couple of days without thinking about it. Love how much depth there was to the characters and their relationships. I got so much satisfaction from watching Minglan run circles around every one else using her intelligence and wits. Every time Gu Tingye popped up in the background as her backup support I lost it! Talk about power couple.

Love Like the Galaxy ~ first historical Cdrama I have watched and apart from Minglan, I think it has ruined the rest for me. This drama has so many layers. Niao Niao is an intelligent, and opportunistic female lead. She is unabashedly herself, and the story is not afraid to depict her as unlikeable at first instance. I deeply appreciated the focus on female relationships and family. And Ling Buyi has ruined all other antiheroes for me lmao

Destined ~ I thought this one would be on par with Minglan at first, but it did lose its way in the latter half. I felt the female lead was relegated to the background, which was frustrating as they built her up to be this shrewd businesswoman and then we never get to see her in action. I did appreciate how wholesome and untoxic Jiu Si was as a romantic lead. I thought her relationship with the SML could have been drawn out more, however.

Romance of Tiger and Rose ~ I don’t think this drama is anywhere on par with the above three, but I still enjoyed it. Definitely a fun and unserious romp. Zhou Lu Si is just so likeable in all her roles.

Xianxia I’ve enjoyed:

Love and Redemption ~ I literally fell down a hole with this drama. I could not stop watching. Even though the female leads starts with that token immaturity Cdramas are known for, it’s explained in-world and she goes through a noticeable growth/stepping into adulthood arc. I also LOVED how powerful she was and how often she got to use her powers. Also the romance? Sifeng?!!? Yeah I was a mess. However, one thing that irritated me was the lack of agency Xuan Ji had toward the end of the show.

Eternal Love ~ it’s a classic for a reason. I loved Bai Qian’s resolve, steadfastness, and maturity. Her relationship with Ye Hau blossomed naturally, and they had different obstacles to face as a couple as opposed to what I have seen so far.

Love Between Fairy and Devil ~ speaks for itself, and I love enemies to lovers.

Extra: points if the female lead is powerful, or is on a journey to realising her power. Whether that’s through her intelligence, empathy, or in the case of xianxia, actual mystical power. Bonus points if she’s a character like Xuan Ji who can go supernova and destroy everyone lol

Historical dramas I have not enjoyed:

The Sword and the Brocade ~ I didn’t even finish this one. My overall impression was, having already finished Minglan prior, eating cardboard after having been to a 5 star Michelin restaurant. Everything was so bland and dull, even down to the cinematography.

Princess Silver ~ I dragged myself to the finish line with this one. The plot just became so utterly ludicrous and relied on the audience being invested in the main leads without actually letting them spend screen time together. I also hated that we had glimpses of the female leads power but that she never got to fully realise this. Just overly contrived and trite.

Xianxia I did not enjoy

Ashes of Love ~ this was the first xianxia I ever watched some years back. Given I was new to the genre, I think I found some of the characteristic features a bit jarring and I stopped watching Cdramas as a result. If I watched it again I may be able to make it through. Ultimately, I just could not stomach how naive the main female character. I understand this is typical, but it was another level of nauseating that I have not found an equal to since.

[dangermousie]

Luckily, their shoulders appear to be broad enough to carry BOTH the universe and their torch for the demon royal who they first meet as an animal and who chases them like her life depends on it.

[ladynamie]

Eternal Love (2017) | Episode 26

[harocat]

The more Cdramas of the romantic and xianxia variety I watch, the more special I realize LBFAD actually is.

[tavina-writes]

is ten miles of peach blossoms any good? i've heard of it and saw you posted it sometimes so I wanted to ask

Hi nonny!

First off I am so tremendously sorry it's taken this long for me to answer this ask.

The short answer to this ask is that like, TMOPB is not a show that I would necessarily rec because I think it's good per se. Like, there are many deficiencies like "a working plot" and "logical worldbuilding" and "good cgi" or "characters that don't have only one braincell between them" and if you get hung up on "how does anything work" or "why don't they communicate" when you watch shows I dooooo not think this is the show for you necessarily!

That said, I do love TMOPB a whole lot, and it primarily has to do with just how well it understands the tropes and archetypes of the xianxia genre and how well it plays to people's emotions. That it does so tremendously well. The soundtrack is banging. I don't think I've ever heard a song that was as great as Liangliang and that's saying something. The actors are remarkably well cast for their roles.

Also I adore Bai Fengjiu and I want her to get her man even if that's ill advised. :D

Suffice to say, this is a show for if you like melodrama and crying and tragedy and getting your heart stomped on. Less so for uh, plot logistics, so this is not a full chested rec from me, but I did write like 80k of fanfic for it so?

:D thanks for the ask Nonny!

[electricsoul-rpg]

fc: Yang Mi (杨幂)

ethnicity: Han Chinese

[milfzun]

I think one of the reasons the 3L3W stories are so satisfying is that it’s the best of both worlds: He fucks up in a MAJOR way where you think he’s never coming back from it. He, a beautiful powerful man who has no outside need to apologize, grovels and begs for forgiveness and she’s like “no fuck you you’re dead to me bye.”

Then it is revealed that for absurdly convoluted reasons, he was not at fault. He really did love her and was always faithful. It’s just fate and circumstances! And then they live happily ever after as a hot power couple.

[dazzlingkai]

ETERNAL LOVE (2017) Gao Weiguang as Dong Hua and Dilraba Dilmurat as Bai Fengjiu "There are always people out there trying to seek protection from me. This is the first time I've met someone who wants to protect me instead."

[xiaolanhua]

Don't cry. Look, I'm perfectly fine.

TEN MILES OF PEACH BLOSSOMS (2017)

[guzhufuren]

something that is so so great about chinese dramas to me is the wonderful satisfaction of vengeance. like yeah at some points beloved characters suffer harshly as fuck, but the revenge for it is always perfectly satisfying. it's never "haha and they forgave them with the power of love 💕✨". no. it's always "receive a killing attack for that time you destroyed my/my partner's life bitch 👊🔪"

[bocje-ce-ustu]

the more I watch Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms, the more I am convinced Love Between Fairy and Devil was created out of someone thinking, “to hell with Yue Hua, Bai Qian would be way better off with Li Jing, who is unhinged in his own way but at least tries to balance between love and responsibilities”, and thus Dongfang Qingcang was born

[harocat]

Would anyone be interested in a costume Cdrama zine? Xianxia, historical, wuxia, and xuanhuan.

Not something I’d think too hard about putting together until the mini bang is over, and I would need some other mods of course. However, I have headed up a successful zine before.