Finally a Goddess Worthy of the Title: Ji Tan Yin is the Wu Shuang Goddess. She originally was a human with exceptional crafting abilities. It is her crafting abilities that allow her to improve human kind and be invited to the sky as a god. Throughout the show, we see her skills in crafting and easily see why she IS a god. Not only is her crafting abilities out of this world, but her heart is equally as big. She has no prejudice against the people on earth, whether its the human clan, the fox clan or the fighting demon clan. She is kind to all of them. Plus, she uses kindness to try to change the people around her and give them the opportunity to thrive and survive. 

Her romance with Yuan Zhong felt actually rather secondary compared to her capabilities as a goddess and broader love given to all people.  For once, I saw this woman truly as a kind hearted god. Not just someone born with immense powers that had nothing better to do than to fall in love and fight a demon.

I did burst out laughing at the numerous times Ji Tan Yin died though. That really used her “god” abilities to the max.

Tang Hua and Zhi Dai’s subplot – we don’t get to see them too much in the show but I absolutely loved their story. Zhi Dai is a human who fell in love with a member of the Fox clan but the two have vastly varying lifespans. I absolutely applaud Zhi Dai for recognizing that she wasted her life pining for a man who did not even remember her. Their lifespans are so different that what was life changing for her as a human was nothing but a passing thought for Tang Hua. This is a rare instance where we do see how challenging this type of romance is. I applaud Zhi Dai for walking away when she realized he didn’t remember. This was such a heart wrenching secondary story line that I felt was much more impactful than even the main story line. 

Intriguing subplots with interesting characters: While not all of the subplots worked for me and to be honest some of the episodes dragged, I thought enough of the subplots worked. I enjoyed the episodes with Mei Shan, a man who suffered the sky’s wrath every 49 days but could not become a deity because the latter to the sky was destroyed. Xie You, Ji Tan Yin’s teacher, stayed alive for hundreds of years because of his intense focus on solving a riddle to master crafting. this riddle Ji Tan Yin was able to solve and became a god but he could not. Qian Lin is a member of the fighting demon clan but is kind at heart and doesn’t want to fight on behalf of the clan, only see his mother.

Ultimately, I thought this drama shined in the broader lessons Ji Tan Yin and other members of the drama shared. I actually felt the trope of the demon was less interesting than these other themes.