Part 1 spent twelve episodes making you laugh at a thousand-year-old demon lord trapped in the body of a flower fairy who can barely hold a spell together, then quietly loaded the gun. Part 2 is where you pay for having enjoyed it. Everything cute about the soul swap, the bickering, the road trip to find Lanhua a new body, was Dongfang Qingcang keeping his resurrection vessel for Chidi close and comfortable. The comedy timing is genuinely sharp, which is exactly why the turn lands: you were laughing at the same scenes that were setting the trap. Watch how the show frames him when he thinks nobody is looking, because a man who has decided he feels nothing has to keep deciding it. Come for the demon lord sulking in a fairy's body. Stay because Lanhua chose him anyway, knowing.
Cang Lan Jue Part 2 is a comedy and fantasy and romance ONA from GARDEN.