I think that’s 30 comments. I’ve covered a lot of ground. Hopefully this gives the author useful feedback and other readers a good overview.
2 The story does a good job of setting up questions that I actually want answered. Why did Bai Mengjin become a demon? What happened between her and Ning Yanzhi? Why is the Samsara Mirror showing her this? Is there a way for her to get her power back? Each chapter gives you a few answers but leaves you with more questions, which is exactly how effective serialized fiction should work.
The father’s death being the trigger for all this drama is so tragic. The text says he went hunting to avoid marrying her off to the idiot from the Liu family. That hit me hard. It shows how far parents go for their kids. And Xiao Yu blaming herself, thinking maybe she should have just endured the marriage to save her dad—that’s heavy. It’s a realistic guilt complex. The funeral scene with the family crying and smashing the bowl made me tear up a bit. It’s a classic “killing off the father to force growth” trope, but handled with enough emotion to make it work.