April 29, 2025

Love Never Fails | Review

Love Never Fails
A love that will always fail because they never communicate.
Notable Actors/Actresses
Liu Xue YiJin Xiu
Hu Yi XuanHong Ning
Ao Rui PengKun Lun
Chinese Title
落花時節又逢君
Meeting You Again When the Flowers Fall
Genres: XianxiaRomance
Network: MangoTV
Year: 2025
Episodes: 40

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Cast


Liu Xue Yi:
Jin Xiu
Hu Yi Xuan:
Hong Ning
Ao Rui Peng:
Kun Lun
Xu Xiao Nuo:
Lu Yao
Yang Lin:
Bai Cha
Jing Yan Jun:
Lu Jiu
Ma Yue:
Heavenly Emperor
Wang Shi Meng:
Heavenly Empress

Pan Fei Yang:
Ning Meng Jing
(Lemon Daemon)




Romcom/Romance Checklist


How much of the plot is angst/romance?
0 / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
The ML:
Cold–Lukewarm–Warm / Timid / Tsundere / Falls in Love First / Noble Idiot / CEO / General
The FL:
Bold / Cute / Cool & Independent / Falls in Love First / Better than ML / Noble Idiot / Business-woman
Describe the Relationship (the tropes):
Annoying Love (F/M) Rivals +++ / Bickering Start / Childhood Connection / Cohabitation / Contract Marriage or Fake Couple / Enemies to Lovers / Hidden Identity / Harem / Love Triangle / Married Couple (Real) / Rebirth / Secretly in Love (F/ML) / School to Adulthood / Star-Crossed Lovers
Relationship Progress (officially together; first (official) kiss; breakup*):
Ep 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / 15 / 16 / 17 / 18 / 19 / 20 / 21 / 22 / 23 / 24 / 25 / 26 / 27 / 28 / 29 / 30 / 31 / 32 / 33 / 34 / 35 / 36 /37 / 38 / 39 / 40
# of CPs (including main CP):
0 / 1 / 
2 / 3
Ending
Happy / Sad / Open Happy / Open Sad / Bad / Rushed+++


Screencaps

The first 10ish episodes are actually the "best" part of this show.

The plot hinges on ML not speaking. If he explained anything in Ep11 or 22, there’d be no drama left. That’s the whole show.


Remarks



[Drama Info]

April really is tax season for most of the world. With Song Zu Er making a comeback, we're also reminded – in the opposite direction – that Yuan Bing Yan is cancelled (😭) over her 2023 tax evasion.

Hu Yi Xuan steps in with a mix of AI-face-swapping and re-filming. (My personal take: if YBY's company hadn’t sidelined her and suppressed her dramas from airing on time, we could’ve watched this drama properly – without all the weird AI.) Things you don't need to know: Liu Xue Yi is older than Hu Yi Xuan by 4 years, but because of AI, they're actually the same age on our screens.

The director Zhao Li Jun has been working solely for Cheng Yi it seems, just none are his popular ones: Deep Lurk, The Imperial Age, and the The Promise of Chang'an. Co-directing is Ying Ying Lu. She's mostly done modern dramas: Where the Lost Ones Go, and The Silence of the Monster

OG is by Su Ke who also wrote Song of the Moon.

It's a The Blood of Youth reunion between Liu Xue Yi and Ao Rui Peng except they met first on this set, and then started filming TBoY the following month. 

Wrapped on September 28, 2021.

[Ending] Happy.



Reviews



Five (5/5)


Four (4/5)


Three (3/5)


Two (2/5)


One (1/5)


Reviewer: cynlynn
Date: May 2025
I used to mourn the potential for this when it couldn't air. Now I mourn the time I spent watching this.  This is the crappiest xianxia I've ever watched and there will be no crappier one because I would never sit through another drama this level if not for Hu Yi Xuan & Yuan Bing Yan FLs. The worst part about being not good is being so boring as well 😩.

The 2 ladies, Hu Yi Xuan and Yuan. Bing Yan. Seriously, I owe these two women a thank-you. They got me through this. 😤

In a weird way, I think it worked out for Yuan Bing Yan that this never aired back when it was supposed to. People who like her can still imagine how much “better” it might’ve been with her. But no one could have saved this plot. Not with this level of idiotic misunderstandings, four full arcs of lifetime filler, zero communication, and a lacklustre villain plot.

As for Hu Yi Xuan, I know she got hate, but this is still better than no exposure at all, which was her situation before this. Even though there's like 10 people on earth watching this, but surely, there are some more people who know about her, and she'll have better opportunities....right? I can tell she put in a lot of effort to bring some life into this. And honestly, I think I only made it through because she was the one who stepped in.  

The 2 men. Liu Xue Yi and Ao Rui Peng were bland.

Still, if my future self had told me to drop this? I wouldn't have listened. 😔



Recommendations


Yuan Bing Yan T_T
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