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For plain 'turn your brain off and enjoy the nonsense', Chinese TV adaptation of a web novel. Series is called Whispers of Fate and is on Youtube and has the usual tropes of gorgeous scenery and sets, pretty boy martial artists, some light romance (which works for one pairing but not so much for another) and lots of implausible but highly entertaining CGI feats of mixed wuxia/xianxia, and of course the ever-popular Tragic Backstory of Doomed Brotherhood Ending in Betrayal and Death.
It's not the best example I've seen, and the story deviates quite a lot from the original web novel (still unfinished), some of the CGI isn't that well-done (guys, if a very important part of the plot is 'magical musical cultivation' then at least try and make it look like the combatants are playing their instruments?), the plot drags a little (not the show's fault, the book plot gets very convoluted too) and the acting is variable, to put it most kindly, but on the whole it's fun. The comic relief characters are good, and sometimes it breaks my heart because the main protagonist/antagonist pairing of the Tragic Etc. were all so happy in their Little Sect of Found Family before it all went to heck and tarnation (equally infuriating because antagonist is so easily manipulated into his Roaring Rampage of Revenge by others), but I have to say my favourite character so far is the wily sect leader who is on the good (more or less) guy side and is a consummate politician and schemer under a façade of benign avuncular harmlessness. Most capable person so far plus he's intentionally funny.
I'm also very impressed by how the protagonist can do the requisite Spitting Up Blood without ever spilling a drop on his white clothing!
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