{"id":3599,"date":"2009-09-24T21:20:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T04:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/?p=3599"},"modified":"2014-01-24T20:28:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T04:28:21","slug":"divine-melody-volume-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/2009\/09\/24\/divine-melody-volume-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Divine Melody Volume 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>A demon&#8217;s wrecking havoc in Feng Xia neighborhood! While tracking down this demon, Yun-Shi&#8217;s shifu ends up at Hui-Niang&#8217;s house.\u00a0 Will she survive this encounter?\u00a0 Su Ping learns that Cai-Sheng is familiar with the mysterious long-haired man.\u00a0 Su Ping starts to wonder how they are related.\u00a0 Wei Zi-Qiu receives an order that if Cai-Sheng is to harm humans, she must be killed.\u00a0 What will Zi-Qiu do?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/files\/2009\/09\/Divine-melody-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4113\" alt=\"Divine melody 3\" src=\"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/files\/2009\/09\/Divine-melody-3.jpg\" width=\"115\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>By I-Haun<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Publisher:<\/strong> DrMaster Publications<br \/>\n<strong>Age Rating:<\/strong> 13+<br \/>\n<b>Genre:<\/b> Fantasy\/Romance<br \/>\n<b>Price:<\/b> $9.95<\/p>\n<p>Cai-Sheng finally starts to realize her faults, but not until after she loses the one must precious to her, Hui-Niang.\u00a0 Her drive for revenge puts her in potential trouble with heaven, and her naivet\u00e9 about human relationships puts any relationship between Su Ping and Yun-Shi in peril as well.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t feel as excited about this volume as I did the first two.\u00a0 That Cai-Sheng&#8217;s selfishness not only cost Hui-Niang her life, but those of her children as well bothered me, and I didn&#8217;t really feel anything for her when she took her revenge on Yun-Shi&#8217;s shifu.\u00a0 If she had done what she had promised in the previous volume, they wouldn&#8217;t have had to die.\u00a0 Even though Cai-Sheng realizes her error, she doesn&#8217;t seem to learn from it.\u00a0 Instead she decides to continue to indulge in her selfishness and again offer to help Yun-Shi make the immortality potion, so she won&#8217;t have to be alone.<\/p>\n<p>All of her selfishness of course leaves Su Ping out in the cold.\u00a0 Cai-Sheng goes to her in her male form when he&#8217;s injured, but when he is almost discovered, she bales out on Su Ping.\u00a0 She visits Yun-Shi every day, but never sees Su Ping, and only tells Su Ping that Yun-Shi likes her, but doesn&#8217;t do anything to encourage a relationship between them, as she stated she would at the beginning of the story.\u00a0 Cai-Sheng doesn&#8217;t have a clue about the chaos she is causing in Su Ping&#8217;s heart, which of course makes her vulnerable to Yu-Niang.<\/p>\n<p>The art of this volume was very stiff, and had little emotion in.\u00a0 The chapters in this volume really needed an emotional impact, and some of the apathy I felt for the characters may be related to this.\u00a0 While previous volumes had moments of stiffness, this one had more than usual.<\/p>\n<p>The events in this volume turn the series toward a darker path.\u00a0 Things have to get worse for Cai-Sheng before they can get better and lead her to a resolution.\u00a0 The light-heartedness of the first two volumes is gone, and a dark cloud has settled over the title.\u00a0 Not only has Cai-Sheng&#8217;s actions caused trouble for Yun-Shi and Su Ping, but Hui-Niang&#8217;s husband has lost his family, and even heaven is ready to kill her if they can&#8217;t turn her back onto the path of light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A demon&#8217;s wrecking havoc in Feng Xia neighborhood! While tracking down this demon, Yun-Shi&#8217;s shifu ends up at Hui-Niang&#8217;s house.\u00a0 Will she survive this encounter?\u00a0 Su Ping learns that Cai-Sheng is familiar with the mysterious long-haired man.\u00a0 Su Ping starts to wonder how they are related.\u00a0 Wei Zi-Qiu receives an order that if Cai-Sheng is to harm humans, she must be killed.\u00a0 What will Zi-Qiu do? By I-Haun Publisher: DrMaster Publications Age Rating: 13+ Genre: Fantasy\/Romance Price: $9.95 Cai-Sheng finally starts to realize her faults, but not until after she loses the one must precious to her, Hui-Niang.\u00a0 Her drive for revenge puts her in potential trouble with heaven, and her naivet\u00e9 about human relationships puts any relationship between Su Ping and Yun-Shi in peril as well. 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