Cang Xuan and Xiao Yao, LYF Season 2

A fan edit of Zhang Wan Yi's speech from the Lost You Forever Carnival Night explaining Cang Xuan's actions with a compilation of Cang Xuan's scenes https://weibo.com/5315162116/4959669434451946

I wish I knew what he said. This is the video description translated using Google: 

"with Xiaoyao" The recognition of each other has shattered your hardened shell..."
A very sad sentence.
I feel sorry for Cang Xuan because he could have lived a life like this.
The book in his childhood hand was replaced by the vagaries of the world to a cold blade held tightly in the cold palm of his hand. From a little crybaby to a person who always had a fake smile on his face... Cang Xuan has lost too many people.
 No more people will be lost.
"Don't offend if you hate it, don't get close to if you like it." - Fate not only deprived him of everything, but even gave him the things he least wanted in a vengeful way.
The words "from being a pair of children of the Shui Tribe for a lifetime" to "enjoying the blessings of everyone in the garden"
have never defined what you get, but what you want most.
And Cang Xuan - never "perfect". 

The comments:

"What moved me most in it was the sentence "Cang Xuan, you can never be that Cang Xuan who has nothing." From birth, his fate may have been determined. His identity as the King of Xiyan is also a shackle that he cannot get rid of throughout his life, because protection must pay a price."

"I always complain about why some people just don’t want to understand Cang Xuan and why they stab him. Obviously he also wants to be an ordinary person, but he can't. I cried that he was not understood, that he was getting further and further away from his loved ones while protecting them, that he could have been a young man who was pampered by his parents and grew up, that he could not control himself at all in his life. Thank you for understanding his story and telling his story to an understanding audience."

Also some of his speech. Apparently, it's over 3 minutes long: https://twitter.com/yushooxin/status/1714272491080917100

“Cang Xuan, I know you have regrets, & know you also don’t. I know your pain, insanity.. come from your deep love that can never be expressed with words. CX, thank you for getting through together this summer. Lovesickness is not over, see you again.” ?

 Elise:

Cang Xuan before he met Xiao Yao https://twitter.com/forWYB_ZWY/status/1714930397136801965 

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA cuuute

What's with the hair?! That little curl lolol love him

Cang Xuan and Xiao Yao deciding to go home.

Cang Xuan and Xiao Yao moment in episode 33 x

Reviving this thread because I know I’ll be heartbroken by all the upcoming scenes with CX and XY! Rewatching S1 and rereading their scenes in the novel pains me!

 Kokuto:

Poor CX.  In S1 all his longing looks happened while she wasn't looking at him.  At least in S2, he's going to get to look at her.

Not looking forward to a watered down CX ? weren't there other dramas that had “grey area” male leads? The anxiety is killing meee

 Kokuto:

No, I'm not.  It's the grey area that makes CX interesting to me.  I was so looking forward to him going FULL Emperor.  lol

I was thinking about CX (because of you, thank you) and I think folks dismiss him, because they dismiss him as a love interest for XY.  But he's a protagonist in his own right, and when you view him outside of the love interest frame, he shines as a very interesting character.

Agree, CX very much deserves the title of male lead as far as his character. His and XY's stories are intertwined, albeit ultimately with a very bitter, heartbreaking end.

 Kokuto:

Sadly, he has lost the ability to connect with most people in a real way, and views them as pawns for him to use.  I really find his relationship with A Nian to be a mystery.

Yeah, he says somewhere in S1 that he does not want to lose himself...sadly, from what I see in the novel and probably in S2, he does lose himself as he finds out keeping his throne is much more difficult than getting it in the first place. A Nian is interesting in her growth in the story as well (however my memory of the novel is hazy, I'm still in the process of rereading the last part). She is willing to stay with him even after everything that happens.

And though I've never read Once Promised or watched the drama based on it, I can guess what good ol' Grandpa was like back then lol. No matter XY's faults, I definitely do not fault her for not wanting someone like her grandfather (and similarly, CX). I could not endure that kind of life with that kind of partner.