peng-peng:
questions. 1- After XL crashed the wedding, he later asked her who she wanted to spend the rest of her life with. Why did she refuse the answer this question when she had answered his 1rst question?
The author seems to have juxtaposed those two questions on purpose so that the implications could be clearly inferred by the reader. When asked if she wants to marry TSJ, XY easily answers yes. But when asked "Who do you most want to spend the rest of your life with?" XY cannot answer. "Her mind refused to let her say what her heart felt." That speaks volumes. She knows TSJ is the right choice for her, and she wants to marry him because of that knowledge and because she truly does love him. She also knows (logically) that XL/FFB is the wrong choice for her. They cannot be together. But up to that point in the novel, we see XY wish, over and over again, that XL could just be the version of himself that could always be her companion (like FFB was to her for 10+ years) and not her family's enemy or a general who wants to die on the battlefield. We can infer that despite knowing, logically / in her mind, that TSJ is the best choice for her, her heart most wishes that she could spend her whole life with someone else. Each reader can draw their own conclusion about who that is, but to me it seems like that person is a fantasy version of XL. A version of XL that would be capable of being by XY's side for the rest of her life.
peng-peng:
2-when she then said it hurt, it hurt. Was it the love bug hurting her or her broken heart?
The novel specifies what causes her pain. It's not the poisonous bug or a broken heart. As TinaL mentioned, XL used his power to try to see into XY's heart in order to see the answer to his last question. But XY refused to even think about the answer. So her mind strongly resisted the probe, and her painful headache was the result of her resistance.
Here's the passage for ease of reference:
Another question was right at the tip of Xiang Liu’s lips but he was actually torn until a moment later he asked, “Who do you most want to spend your entire life with?”
Xiao Yao opened her mouth to answer but her expression showed her internal struggle as her mind refused to let her say what her heart felt.
After multiple struggles she became more and more pained and her body began to shake as she clutched her head “Hurt… hurt…” Xiang Liu had used his power to try and see into Xiao Yao’s heart but Xiao Yao’s mind was too strong willed. If she encountered something that even she refused to think about, then she would unexpectedly oppose answering it and the headache was the result of her refusal to answer the question.
Xiang Liu was afraid that she would injure her soul essence so he didn’t dare push her and quickly pulled back his probe and said “If your head hurts, rest.”
kjxy:
@peng-peng: I think when it comes to XL or him and XY, there's a thread created similar to this here on mdl
I agree that it would be better to ask XL-related questions in the XL thread in the future. People in this thread want to talk about TSJ and might get annoyed if the thread gets clogged up with XL-focused posts.