peng-peng:
Hi all. I am very pleased to have found this thread.
I have not read the novel yet. I have seen in some comments on youtube, Reddit and in the main section that Xiang Liu is her soul mate. Is that true in the novel? I am asking because watching the drama so far I do not see this at all or any concept of soul mate at all. Please easy my heart. Thanks.
The drama did a good job of following the novel very closely. There were some changes but we can't have everything right. The connection link btw XY and XL was how they were tortured. It was when she opened up to him that he started to have feelings for her and became more human. So in that sense, only XL can understand what she went through. There's a scene in the novel where she found out about who her real father is and Jing let XL console her. He knew that only XL can understand her and make her feel better.
In a way, I find Jing very loveable in that way. He never constrict XY from seeing other guys even when they were together even if he knew she had feelings for XL. Though he himself always felt less deserving of her love but he always gave her freedom to choose.