Xavy & Mom

A xianxia romance with a strong lead and too many side characters taking up space. Love in Pavilion has the right ingredients. It has Liu Shishi — one of the more reliable leads in Chinese historical drama — and a mythology that is genuinely rich when the story focuses on it. The problem is that it does not always focus on what matters. For every episode where the central relationship earns its screen time, there are two more introducing side