Sunday 18 April 2021

Chinese Drama : Eternal Love 三生三世十里桃花

Alternative Title

Three Lives, Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms

Year Released

2017

Genre

Romance, Fantasy, Xianxia

No. of Episodes

58 - running time of 45 minutes per episode

Starring

Yang Mi, Mark Zhao 

Storyline

Mark Zhao mainly plays two characters, one is Mo Yuan. He is God of War, residing at Kunlun Mountain. Another one is Ye Hua (formerly Mo Yuan's twin brother) who reincarnated as Ye Hua, Crown Prince of the Nine Heavens.

Yang Mi also acts two characters, one is Mo Yuan's disciple, Si Yin. Si Yin's true identity is Bai Qian, Fox King's daughter. Another role is Su Su, when she turned into a mortal after trying to seal Qing Chang (Lian Yiming). He is the Ghost Lord of the Ghost Tribe.

Su Su coincidentally runs into Ye Hua in a cave when she is taking care of a bird. Ye Hua turned into a little black dragon (his true form) after getting injured while fighting off Golden Lion Beast (Ren Tao). Su Su mistook him as a snake and brought him back to her cottage.

Love blossomed between them and they got married in the mortal world without Nine Heavens' knowledge. Ye Hua sets a barrier preventing outsiders from entering. While he is away fighting a war, Su Su breaks the barrier unknowingly. Her presense is found out by Nine Heavens.

Given that Su Su was already pregnant with Ye Hua's child, she is locked up in Nine Heavens. Seeing that he is no longer able to be with Su Su, Ye Hua treats her coldly. This is the only way to protect Su Su's life.

However, Su Su was being framed by Su Jin (Huang Mengying) for pushing her off the Zhu Xian Terrace. Su Jin is in love with Ye Hua since young and vows to get rid of Su Su. In order to save Su Su's life, Ye Hua suggests to replace Su Jin's eyes with those of Su Su. At the same time, Ye Hua also gets lightning punishment.

Shortly after giving birth, Su Su decides to part ways with Ye Hua by jumping off Zhu Xian Terrace. She returns to Qing Qiu as Bai Qian and drinks a potion to forget all her sadness. 

Ye Hua is left alone taking care of his son A Li (Hummer Zhang). Ye Hua meets Bai Qian (his lawful wife-to-be) one day and is surprised that she looks exactly like Su Su. Ye Hua goes all out to make Bai Qian his love again. 

Unfortunately, misunderstanding arises when Bai Qian tries to revive Mo Yuan. As if this is not bad enough, Bai Qian suddenly remembers her previous relationship with Ye Hua when she was Su Su.  

My View

I'm seriously exhausted in writing Chinese dramas' storylines. For usual K-drama, the most would be three to four paragraphs. But for C-drama, I can't seem to skip most of the parts. 

EL, a drama that touched my heart. I'm sobbing bitterly each time I re-watch the show. This is my first-ranked Xianxia Chinese drama of all time.  

Rating

5/5 Stars

 

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