FULL-LENGTH CHINESE DRAMA REVIEW
🌳 Love of the Divine Tree / 仙台有树
Chinese title仙台有树
2025 · 40 episodes · Full-Length Chinese Drama · Romance / Fantasy / Xianxia
Deng Wei as Su Yishui · Xiang Hanzhi as Mu Qingge/Xue Ranran
Main Couple: Su Yishui × Mu Qingge / Xue Ranran
THE ROMANCE CHECK
Quick Answers
Relationship spoilers below.
- Does Love of the Divine Tree have a happy ending?
- Yes. Su Yishui and Ranran finish married, alive, together, and raising three children.
- Do they break up?
- No formal or voluntary breakup. Magical amnesia and possession cause forced separation/conflict.
- When do they become an official couple?
- Episode 28, after mutual feelings and a clearly mutual romantic kiss in Episode 27.
- When is the first clearly mutual romantic kiss?
- Episode 27. An earlier intoxicated/mistaken-identity kiss around Episode 18 has consent concerns.
- Is there major separation or conflict?
- Yes. Magical amnesia begins around Episode 30, followed by possession and other forced conflict.
- Do they marry and have children?
- They marry in Episode 40. The epilogue jumps forward 13 years and shows three children.
- Is this a shifu/disciple romance?
- Yes. Mu Qingge was Su Yishui’s master; after reincarnation as Xue Ranran, she becomes his disciple.
- How much romantic payoff is there?
- Good chemistry, multiple kisses, affection, marriage, and a domestic epilogue. The official relationship takes a while.
- Is there dog/cat harm?
- No verified dog/cat harm. Fantasy creatures are injured during the story.
- What is the rating and watch status?
- 3.5/5 · Finished — all 40 episodes.
A PERSONAL VIEWING JOURNAL
🌸 My Review
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️½ — 3.5/5 Status: Finished Year: 2025 Episodes: 40 Leads: Deng Wei as Su Yishui · Xiang Hanzhi as Mu Qingge/Xue Ranran Ending: ✅ Happy Ending
🌸 My Review
Here we go again.
Another shifu/disciple relationship. 😭😂
Except this drama apparently decided the normal master/disciple setup was not complicated enough.
Mu Qingge was Su Yishui’s master first. Then she dies and reincarnates as Xue Ranran. Years later, Su Yishui becomes the sect leader and takes his own former master — who no longer remembers everything — as his disciple.
So basically they take turns being each other’s shifu. 😭
At least they got creative with it.
The romance takes its sweet time. Ranran realizes her feelings much earlier and confesses around Episode 13, but Yishui rejects her while practicing the Unfeeling Mantra and doing the usual xianxia male-lead routine where apparently protecting the woman you love means making both of you miserable. 🙄
Meanwhile, he is already obviously gone for her.
There is jealousy, protectiveness, secret helping, forehead kisses, drunken kissing, denial, suffering…
You know. Cultivation romance. 😂
The romance finally starts paying off properly around Episodes 27–28. Episode 27 gives them a clearly mutual romantic kiss and clears up their feelings, and by Episode 28 they are officially together.
And then naturally the drama says:
Oh, they’re happy? Fix that immediately.
Yishui gets hit with magical amnesia around Episode 30 and loses roughly 23 years of memories — including his relationship with Ranran.
😭
He goes cold and suspicious again, and she basically has to make this man fall in love with her AGAIN.
I am NOT counting this as an actual breakup because neither one voluntarily ends the established relationship. This is forced memory-loss separation/conflict.
And hilariously, even without the memories, he starts falling for her again anyway.
Apparently his memory got factory-reset but his attraction did not. 😂
The later episodes pile on the usual xianxia suffering — possession, sacrifices, identity mess, demons, magical artifacts, world-ending schemes — but thankfully this drama does not punish us with a miserable finale.
💍 THE ENDING — HAPPY
This is an actual Happy Ending.
After the final conflict, Yishui and Ranran rebuild their lives and marry.
They leave Mount Wester and travel together.
The epilogue jumps forward 13 years.
They are still happily married and have three children.
Nobody turns into a flower.
Nobody spends 5,000 years waiting for someone to reincarnate.
Nobody is floating around as a soul.
THANK YOU. 😂
RELATIONSHIP MILESTONES
❤️ Relationship Timeline
Full spoilers. Memory loss and forced conflict are tracked separately from voluntary breakup.
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Episodes 1–40 · Full spoilers
Su Yishui × Mu Qingge / Xue Ranran
- Early attraction: develops around Episodes 11–13
- Ranran confession: around Episode 13
- Yishui initially rejects her
- Forehead kiss: around Episode 16
- Earlier mouth kiss: around Episode 18 while Yishui is intoxicated/mistaking her for Qingge; consent is questionable
- Ranran kisses him around Episode 23 to transfer spiritual power
- First clearly mutual romantic kiss: Episode 27
- Mutual feelings clarified: Episode 27
- Official relationship: Episode 28
- Formal breakup: NONE
- Major separation/conflict: magical amnesia beginning around Episode 30, followed by later possession/conflict
- Reconnection: Yishui falls for her again even before everything is fully restored
- Marriage: Episode 40
- Final status: Married, alive, together, three children
Where Su Yishui and Ranran End Up
Happy Ending — married, alive, together, and raising three children. No formal breakup; magical amnesia and possession cause forced separation/conflict.
💗 Shen Zhiyi’s Drama Reality Check
Finished all 40 episodes. Full relationship and ending spoilers.
- 💕 Romance
- Good, but it takes a while to become official.
- 🔥 Chemistry
- Good. The jealousy and shifu/disciple tension help.
- 💋 Kissing
- Moderate to good. Multiple kisses once the romance gets moving.
- 🤗 Skinship
- Moderate. Hugging, closeness, and protective moments.
- 🌶️ Spiciness / Adult Intimacy
- Mild but clearly implied. They marry and later have three children.
- 🚩 ML Red Flag
- Moderate. Protective and devoted, but the drunk/mistaken-identity kiss and emotional distancing count against him.
- 👑 Female Lead Competence
- Strong. Ranran investigates, cultivates, fights, rescues people, and repeatedly helps save Yishui.
- ⏱️ Romance Timing
- Slow-to-mid. Feelings start earlier, but the official relationship is around Episode 28.
- ❤️🔥 Relationship Payoff
- Strong. Marriage, traveling together, domestic epilogue, and children.
- 💔 Breakup
- No actual voluntary breakup.
- ⏳ Separation / Conflict
- Yes. Amnesia, emotional distance, possession, and dangerous forced separations.
- 💍 Final Relationship Status
- Married, alive, together, three children.
- 📖 Plot
- Dense xianxia: reincarnation, sect politics, memory loss, demons, possession, magical artifacts, fate, and approximately 900 names to remember. 😂
- 🐾 Animal Harm
- No verified dog/cat harm. Fantasy creatures are injured during the story.
About these assessments
My impressions cover what I watched. Later research is labeled on dropped reviews. Kissing, affection and adult intimacy are separate; coercion does not count as romantic spice. Being apart does not automatically mean a breakup.
⭐ Why I Gave It 3.5/5
This has plenty of things I normally like: devoted male lead, capable female lead, jealousy, kissing, mutual protection, an explicit relationship, marriage, children, and a genuinely happy ending.
But it also gives me several things that keep it out of my 4+ territory:
- Yet another shifu/disciple romance 😭
- Fairly late official relationship
- Noble-idiot emotional distancing
- Amnesia factory reset
- Possession
- Lots of classic xianxia suffering
So 3.5/5 feels right.
Cute enough. Romantic enough. Happy enough.
But apparently immortal sects need a new rule:
PLEASE STOP DATING YOUR SHIFU. 😭😂
U.S. Availability / Where to Watch
iQIYI — official series listing
The existing catalog links to the official iQIYI listing. U.S. playback and full English-subtitle coverage have not been independently rechecked for this release.