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ZHOU YU TONG:
CUTE CUTE CUTE CUTE CUTE! As cute as she is in modern clothes (very good in hats, especially caps!), she is an extremely big beauty in ancient styling too. I was never attracted to Han clothing in the qin dynasty, I just feel they're not fashionable enough for women, I think boring would be the best description. I think ruby lin, yang mi, and liu shi shi wore them before, and I kept wishing for them to wear something more beautiful in their dramas. Han clothes are just not stylish. But Zhou Yutong wore them as a maid and even wash the potty room with it, she looked amazingly attractive in it. And for the hot pink dress in Tang Dynasty, (I was not hooked by the poster at all) but that was really one of the most memorable dress, reminds me of Disney Mulan. Her Yang Guifei was not only extremely cute and funny (super funny), but very pretty too. I like each and every ancient dresses worn by all the women in this drama (except for the maids in heaven), the color was totally right, hit the right spot again!
Two hotties are fighting for her, so the expectation is pretty high otherwise it will just be an epic fail. Overall I'm just overly glad they picked this actress for this role, nowadays it's too easy for actresses to annoy netizens, but Zhou Yutong did extremely well. 10/10, no mistake anywhere. She is very very worthy for the men to fight over. Although, I do wish she would show a bit more love for the two guys. She's so non-lovesick, and I like that, she got pretty good and legit reasons to make her own choice and do her own things.... but I just feel so bad for the guys.
FU XIN BO:
HUGS HUGS HUGS HUGS HUGS! This guy needs hugs! Like lots and lots of them! Ma Ke does too! At least Ma Ke got a few short romantic hugs, but Ma Ke still didn't get enough for sure. Fu Xin Bo only got the teacherly hugs. This is his section but I still have to mention Ma Ke, the choice between him and Ma Ke is just intensely great! Really totally different from Princess of Lanling where I don't ship LLW with QS at all but only YWY all the way through. Maybe I do like Ma Ke in this drama a tiny bit more. But in each and every lifetime when the lead actress travel back home, for my Fu Xin Bo, my heart gets torn into hundreds thousands millions of tiny pieces! He got a very dynamic role and probably had so much fun with all types of personalities that exist on earth. Started out as the seemingly boring+stiff+strict teacher, and then he was a cold+ruthless+mean+warm+hottie, then stupid+nice+silly+cute, and then a gentleman+smart+romantic, and finally evil (regardless, I still love him that way). His face is just so interesting that it matches all those different characters MORE THAN nicely!!! And, no matter what his character is, his love for the main girl just stay innocent every single time so when she leaves him, his innocence is what makes me wish for her to stay for him in every lifetime. I cannot even chose which lifetime of him I think is less sad about the abandonment, they were all too touching and too beautiful. Since she didn't have time to hug all the ancient Fu Xin Bo(s), I wish she would at least hug the identical master a lot more and much tighter and longer, or flashback about this guy (first time ever requesting for flashbacks in dramas). He deserves for her to miss him more. His portrayal is also 10/10.
I also really like the fact that he is her teacher not for the sake of taboo or forbidden love, but there is much more to it.
MA KE:
HOT! HOT! HOT! HOT! HOT! My heart breaks for Fu Xin Bo for every abandonment, but I fell love a bit more and more for Ma Ke each time. This is why I cannot chose who the actress should hug more and kiss more, I love Ma Ke in here so much to the point I want her to marry him, but I feel too bad for Fu Xin Bo. Does it hurt more that a man was reborn many times but still get heart breaks from the same girl every time? Or to wait so many hundreds and thousands of years for the same girl so many times? Both are equally the same.
These two guys both possess a cute and handsome look at the same time, with Ma Ke only a tiny bit more on the cuter side and Fu Xin Bo only a tiny bit more on the handsome side, it is a very strong cast!
I'm not asking for the unnecessary dramatic kissing, or, anything that is overly romantic like every other dramas, this drama is perfectly fine because it makes me pin for the characters, but I think I would not be crying for weeks if she can love these guys more (esp. Ma ke). Still, I just cannot let her like Ma Ke and forget about Fu Xin Bo, or, be a two timer, too hard of a choice.
At first I didn't like this weird guy with so much make-up in the journey of flower, but he's definitely hot in here. It makes sense why he has makeup in this drama, and the make-up was good! His modern white hair was soooo good on him too. Ma Ke is definitely a 10/10, for looks and acting at the same time. The love for Ma Ke in here is too indescribable, but...again...also Fu Xin Bo!