Heavy Sweetness, Ash-like Frost

Ashes of Love is a 2018 Chinese television series based on the novel Heavy Sweetness, Ash-like Frost (2009) by Dian Xian. It stars Yang Zi as Jin Mi and Deng Lun as Xu Feng in the lead roles. The series premiered on Jiangsu TV starting August 2, 2018. The series reached 100 million views in just 15 minutes after the broadcast of the first episode. As of January 2019, the series has reached over 15 billion views. Plot Zi-Fen, the Flower Deity, died after giving birth to a daughter, Jin-Mi. She foresaw a future where her daughter would suffer a great love trial within the first ten thousand years of her life. Therefore, before dying she gave Jin-Mi a magical pill that prevents her from feeling and expressing romantic love, hoping to avoid the love trial tragedy. Jin-Mi grows up in the Flower Realm, living as a low-level immortal. Her peaceful life is interrupted when she encounters the Fire Deity, Xu-Feng, from the Heavenly Realm who had crashed into the Flower realm. After saving him, she persuades him to take her to see the Heavenly Realm, where Jin-Mi meets Xu-Feng's half-brother, the Night Deity, Run-Yu. She also meets Princess Sui-He, who is a close ally & niece of Xu-Feng's mother, the Holy Empress, and as a result, Sui-He believes she will one day marry Xu-Feng. Both Xu-Feng and Run-Yu develop a love interest in Jin-Mi. Due to the magic pill, Jin-Mi becomes unwittingly involved in a love triangle between the two brothers who become rivals for Jin-Mi affections. Jin-Mi, unknowingly, falls for Xu-Feng, through the mortal realm trial experience. Jin-Mi learns, later, of her true origin as a child of the late Flower Deity and the current Water Deity & she was also promised to the Holy Emperor's first-born son, Run-Yu when the Water Deity married the Wind Deity. Eventually, Jin-Mi is tricked by Princess Sui-He into thinking her father & his wife, her stepmother died at the hands of Xu-Feng. She kills him on the day of her wedding to Run-Yu who has rebelled during his wedding against his father, the Holy Emperor, as Xu-Feng is defending his father against Run-Yu. As Xu-Feng is dying, Jin-Mi coughs up the magic pill as a consequence. She realizes she does love Xu-Feng & regrets what she has done. She finds out she was tricked by Princess Sui-He & Sui-He was the one who killed her father & her step-mother.