How I wish, at the later chap, their long-awaited reunion should have ended with a kiss, coupled with whispers of sweet-nothings or something. If anything, they should start out with HC as this overprotective follower and have a dysfunctional relationship, and end up with XL teaching HC that he is able to do things and doesn't mind doing them, and that HC can live a life outside of him as well. The whole thing about spiritual energy revealing who they are, heavenly or ghostly feels confusing when so many characters go undercover – I feel, at times, the spiritual energy thing is deemed important and others it is not.

seriously, 20 chapters straight of suffering is not necessary, and the pacing and tone suffers because of this.

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Like the ML obsesses over the MC for 800 years, isolating himself from the world and not taking any side of the story besides MC's is supposed to be romantic, but it really isn't. This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees. The result is a half-hearted plot made up of threads of what could have been far better plotlines had they actually been written out, and a completely unsatisfactory tale from start to finish. And for that, I'll draw some comparisons to The Founder of Diabolism, which everyone reading this has probably read already.I can't say the same for the side characters though because other than Nan Feng and Fu Yao you don't get much. When you finish the novel you realize that it's not simply love, it's devotion, it's where the story actually begins.