Eternal Love (2017) [+]
Jan 28 2026
Eternal Love is a Chinese ancient fantasy romance series running 58 45-minute episodes. The main plot is the thousands-year-long romance between Queen of the Fox Tribe Bai Qian (Yang Mi) and Crown Prince of the Nine Heavens Ye Hua (Mark Chao).
In the first part a young and adventurous Bai Qian disguises herself as a young man, Si Yin, and becomes the 17th disciple of God of War Mo Yuan (Mark Chao in a dual role). She becomes quite attached to Mo Yuan and he to her (as a high god he automatically knew she was a woman). But their happy times ends when Ghost Tribe Lord Qing Cang (Lian Yiming) leads an uprising and Mo Yuan has to sacrifice his soul to imprison Qing Cang for 70 thousand years. Si Yin steals Mo Yuan's body and brings him to Fox Tribe's special regeneration cave where she hopes his soul will eventually reform and return to his body.
70 thousand years later Bai Qian is betrothed to one the Nine Heaven princes but she manages to foil that plan since she's still waiting for Mo Yuan to return. She is then betrothed to the young Crown Prince Ye Hua. Before they can meet though Bai Qian reseals Qing Cang but as she seals him he strikes her, flinging her to the mortal world where she is a mortal amnesiac and lives on a haunted mountain.
Ye Hua happens to save the moral Bai Qian but is injured as a black snake which Bai Qian poorly nurses back to health. Ye Hua becomes enamored with the mortal girl and tries to win her heart by posing as a mortal mercenary who saves her and names her (because she forgot her name) Su Su. They live happily together and even after she finds out he's the Crown Prince of the Nine Heavens she is willing to follow him to heaven and live with him (and they married as mortals already).
But in heaven the machinations of Su Jin (Huang Mengying), Ye Hua's childhood "friend" and now sole consort, first alienate Su Su then implicate her in various crimes and offenses against heaven. Thinking that even Ye Hua has abandoned her Su Su commits suicide by jumping into the gate to the mortal world but some kinsmen find her broken body and bring her back to Fox Tribe lands to recuperate (in this 20+ year period Bai Qian was officially doing "self reflection" even though Fox Tribe leaders couldn't find her). Ye Hua is left with their son A Li (Hummer Zhang).
Now we're back to Ye Hua and Bai Qian being betrothed to each other. They manage to not quite meet for many episodes for them (and other people) to notice that Bai Qian looks just like Su Su and for her to see that Ye Hua looks like Mo Yuan (and to be fair everyone in heaven knew Ye Hua was the spitting image of Mo Yuan but using magic knew it was a different soul -- later we learn that Ye Hua is Mo Yuan's twin brother but for reasons wasn't born until recently).
Even after they meet and start falling in love Bai Qian is half-convinced he only loves her because Bai Qian looks like his lost love (and by this point Ye Hua knows they're the same person but doesn't think he can convince her of that fact). In episode 56 or 57 Ye Hua sacrifices himself to save the Nine Heavens. Bai Qian is disconsolate for an episode and more (about 300 years). Then miraculously his soul is reformed (thousands of years early due to Mo Yuan's help), he wakes up, and he and Bai Qian have a happy ending. (There are a couple of other romantic subplots that don't end up happy due to Fate and class differences so there's a mix of good and bad at the end.)
The first part is amusing gender bending as even Ghost Princess Yan Zhi (Dai Si) falls for Yi Sin but it's not really developed. Then there's the middle part where Bai Qian and Ye Hua keep managing to not meet each other (or at least meet but not see each other's faces) which is frustratingly amusing for me. The latter middle part where Ye Hua slowly wins Bai Qian's heart is fairly nice. The ending is not bad -- I've seen worse.
Overall a pretty good series.
In the first part a young and adventurous Bai Qian disguises herself as a young man, Si Yin, and becomes the 17th disciple of God of War Mo Yuan (Mark Chao in a dual role). She becomes quite attached to Mo Yuan and he to her (as a high god he automatically knew she was a woman). But their happy times ends when Ghost Tribe Lord Qing Cang (Lian Yiming) leads an uprising and Mo Yuan has to sacrifice his soul to imprison Qing Cang for 70 thousand years. Si Yin steals Mo Yuan's body and brings him to Fox Tribe's special regeneration cave where she hopes his soul will eventually reform and return to his body.
70 thousand years later Bai Qian is betrothed to one the Nine Heaven princes but she manages to foil that plan since she's still waiting for Mo Yuan to return. She is then betrothed to the young Crown Prince Ye Hua. Before they can meet though Bai Qian reseals Qing Cang but as she seals him he strikes her, flinging her to the mortal world where she is a mortal amnesiac and lives on a haunted mountain.
Ye Hua happens to save the moral Bai Qian but is injured as a black snake which Bai Qian poorly nurses back to health. Ye Hua becomes enamored with the mortal girl and tries to win her heart by posing as a mortal mercenary who saves her and names her (because she forgot her name) Su Su. They live happily together and even after she finds out he's the Crown Prince of the Nine Heavens she is willing to follow him to heaven and live with him (and they married as mortals already).
But in heaven the machinations of Su Jin (Huang Mengying), Ye Hua's childhood "friend" and now sole consort, first alienate Su Su then implicate her in various crimes and offenses against heaven. Thinking that even Ye Hua has abandoned her Su Su commits suicide by jumping into the gate to the mortal world but some kinsmen find her broken body and bring her back to Fox Tribe lands to recuperate (in this 20+ year period Bai Qian was officially doing "self reflection" even though Fox Tribe leaders couldn't find her). Ye Hua is left with their son A Li (Hummer Zhang).
Now we're back to Ye Hua and Bai Qian being betrothed to each other. They manage to not quite meet for many episodes for them (and other people) to notice that Bai Qian looks just like Su Su and for her to see that Ye Hua looks like Mo Yuan (and to be fair everyone in heaven knew Ye Hua was the spitting image of Mo Yuan but using magic knew it was a different soul -- later we learn that Ye Hua is Mo Yuan's twin brother but for reasons wasn't born until recently).
Even after they meet and start falling in love Bai Qian is half-convinced he only loves her because Bai Qian looks like his lost love (and by this point Ye Hua knows they're the same person but doesn't think he can convince her of that fact). In episode 56 or 57 Ye Hua sacrifices himself to save the Nine Heavens. Bai Qian is disconsolate for an episode and more (about 300 years). Then miraculously his soul is reformed (thousands of years early due to Mo Yuan's help), he wakes up, and he and Bai Qian have a happy ending. (There are a couple of other romantic subplots that don't end up happy due to Fate and class differences so there's a mix of good and bad at the end.)
The first part is amusing gender bending as even Ghost Princess Yan Zhi (Dai Si) falls for Yi Sin but it's not really developed. Then there's the middle part where Bai Qian and Ye Hua keep managing to not meet each other (or at least meet but not see each other's faces) which is frustratingly amusing for me. The latter middle part where Ye Hua slowly wins Bai Qian's heart is fairly nice. The ending is not bad -- I've seen worse.
Overall a pretty good series.