chen358:So I've seen Chinese TikTok videos saying that Jing was saved by XL, that he used one of his lives to save Jing. I'm confused someone explain to me please, did XL not save him?
Xiang Liu did save Jing from being devoured by sea monsters, but he did not use one of his lives to do so.
Xiang Liu had 6 lives left by the end. He gave 1 to save Xiao Yao during the 37 years under the ocean, and 2 to kill the Lovers bug.
Xiang Liu did not give one of his lives to save Jing - what he did was to frighten away sea monsters that wanted to eat the unconscious Jing with his true form since the sea monster no longer feared him at first as he was no longer the nine-headed demon king of the seas, but only a "crippled six-headed demon". Doing so expended his spiritual powers, so he was even weaker by the time he fought in the final battle.
At the final battle, he still had 6 lives left (as evidenced by the 6 heads), and he still managed to fight for 6 days and 6 nights before he finally died.
Liu Yifei:Yes, Jing is a fox and as far as I have seen his tail is orange. I could be wrong and it might just represent FFB and not Jing. Might tell us that XL will come back
In LYF, nine-tailed foxes are white, not orange. TSJ’s tails and his astral fox are white, and the robe he wore during the Tushan clan leader ascension ceremony was symbolically white.
My recollection is that, apart from ceremonies, TSJ typically wears green and blue in the novel.
Whereas XY is associated with pink and red and, to me, the mermaid’s tail looks like it is a mix of orange and pink and her robes appear to be pink, especially in the pictures that don’t include the under-water-blue filter.
I just finished Episode 19. I disliked Episode 18, but words cannot describe how much I dislike Episode 19. I did not appreciate the long drawn out scene of XY trying to kill CX and then going full on into "woe is me" mode. I can understand XY momentarily acting irrational when she found out the truth, like she did in the novel, but making repeated attempts at CX (her most important person)'s life, not even pausing after CX admitted he did what he did because he wanted to be with her, mades XY look like a half-witted, self-centered lunatic.
I know this is also in the novel, but I really hated XY's lines about TSJ: "He would rather suffer himself, than let me be in misery." Are you kidding me? Is this the same guy who strung you along for decades and made you his side piece on the false premise of returning Ye Shiqi to you, then didn't even have the courtesy to tell you he got another girl pregnant?
I was in transit and my brain was doing that thing where it starts playing around with AU ideas as a coping mechanism...
This time the premise was an AU where XL returned to Gong Gong to repay his debt but instead of becoming Gong Gong's adoptive son and developing bonds of very deep, true affection and loyalty with him and his comrades to the point of being unable to leave them and choosing to die with them on the battlefield, he instead became Gong Gong's disciple who devotedly advised and fought with Gong Gong and the army throughout the war but was able to create a full life for himself outside of the army and to live on after the final battle.
After XY's assassination, TSJ's coma progresses much faster than in the novel and he dies long before XL is able to heal XY enough to wake her up. When XY found out that TSJ's soul willingly sought death, she was filled with mixed emotions, including anger, and a feeling that choosing to die and leave your responsibilities + people who care about you behind is a selfish choice while choosing to live is the more difficult and admirable choice.
XL/FFB still takes XY to see Left Ear win his freedom after 40 years of perseverance. But instead of inspiring XY to perservere with the no-longer-living TSJ, this experience motivates XY to want to save all the demons that are enslaved and forced to fight for their lives / kill each other for sport. The two of them go all Scarlet Pimpernel / Zorro. By day, they seem like ne'er-do-wells with no goals or ambitions beyond enjoying life's pleasures. By night, she and XL/FFB start to go on raids where they break out demon slaves and help get them to safety and freedom.
With TSJ's death and TSH running the Tushan clan's businesses / supporting CX's uncles, CX's campaign for the crown prince position stalls (largely due to money problems). CX encourages XY to entertain Feng Long's interest, so she doesn't reject him outright. But she keeps him at arms length and is not in danger of committing herself to an unwanted marriage. As time stretches on, XY opens a medical clinic and begins to use it as her own HQ for her nighttime escapades - a mix of freeing enslaved demons, deities and mortals and publishing pamphlets and other documents under a penname calling for the abolition of slavery / the abolition of forcing slaves to fight. Over time, XY unintentionally creates her own network and a found family of people (mostly demons, including Left Ear, but also a few deities) who stay with her not because they are too weak to leave her (like Lao Mu, Ma Zi, and Chuan Zi) but because they choose to be with her.
XY uses Feng Long's interest in her (which is still much more about self-interest on his part than it is about actually falling for XY) to encourage him to get his father to update the Autumn Tournament to become much more inclusive and expansive. With the demons slaves constantly being freed, the slave death matches are pretty much non-existant. The updated Autumn Tournament offers deities, demons and mortals from all classes and all kingdoms an opportunity to test their skills and show off their fighting talents.
Maybe XY's true identity also still comes out at some point, she learns the truth about her parents, and is able to be at peace with her identity. Or maybe not. By this point her found family has long made her feel secure, wanted, and loved to the point where she has made significant progress towards healing and moving past her abandonment trauma. But perhaps her true identity finally puts Feng Long off and gets him to stop pursuing marriage with her.
When CX eventually takes the throne many years later, XY influences him into officially eliminating slavery (which, of course, takes a great deal of time and energy and is not something that he is able to fully accomplish in a sustainable way over night, but he does eventually succeed).
And since this is my nice, happy little AU, CX and Ah Nian's marriage unites Xuan Yuan and Gao Xing with no war bewteen Xuan Yuan and Gao Xing required.
Gong Gong is still Gong Gong I guess... but instead of XL choosing to fight in the last battle, Gong Gong makes him promise not to fight and to instead live so that he can personally ensure that the ashes of all the fallen remnant army soldiers are returned to Shengnong and there is at least one person who will pay respects to them after their deaths. XL fulfills Gong Gong's last wish, honours and mourns him, but is not haunted by Gong Gong's memory / death or the memories / deaths of his countless comrades to the point of misery. He is able to focus most of his attention on the good life he has and the still-living people around him that care about him and that he cares for.
Eventually, XY and XL reach a point where they both have achieved everything they set out to do.
At one point, XY spent all her energy fighting against her cruel fifth uncle, who was tasked with finding and punishing the anti-slavery vigilantes and also spent decades trying to kill CX or destroy his viability as a candidate for the crown prince position. But at long last CX was on the throne, the world was peacefully united, and slavery was eliminated.
XL loyally repaid his debt to Gong Gong, honoured him as a disciple should, and fulfilled his last wish.
So they both feel ready to leave the capital (and Gong Gong / CX) behind for a freer life.
XL/FFB and XY have an exchange that is a bit similar to the one they had back in chapter 16, before XY knew that FFB was XL.
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After they entered the residence, Xiao Yao jumped off her winged horse and sighed. “My version of the wild Princess is so different from Ah Nian’s. With the entire street staring at me, my first instinct is to wonder what I did wrong. Is this a side effect of doing too many bad things in my past?”
Fang Feng Bei asked half seriously half in jest, “Why don’t you not be a Princess anymore and go wander the world with me?”
Xiao Yao giggled. “Sure! If you can let everything go first.”
Fang Feng Bei chuckled while Xiao Yao stared at him. She felt like she called him on his bullshit. When she was wandering the world being a con artist, he was likely home tickling his maids!
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And a bit similar to the one that XY had with TSJ after XL's death in chapter 51.
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Xiao Yao wearily closed her eyes. “Jing, I want to leave!”
“Where shall we go?”
“To the ocean! The millions of miles of ocean and unending horizon. Xiang Liu said there were endless uninhabited and uncharted islands, perhaps we can find a beautiful island to call home.”
“Sure!”
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The conversation between XY and XL is earnest, and they agree to leave everything behind to explore the ocean's many islands and to wander the edges of the earth together. Maybe, along the way, they'll find a place they like and choose to settle down there.
Much less dramatic and entertaining than the original story. But it's the nicer, softer alternative story my brain needed I guess. ^^"
Svetlanchik89:This is not a fan effort, but a vote rigging from Tencent itself.\
Tan Jian Ci has more fans, he'd beat him.
Why would Tencent rig a vote in favor for Deng Wei of all people? Deng Wei shat all over Tencent and Yang Zi last year and carried on at the beginning of the year. Tencent made it clear last year at their awards, that he wasn't a team player, when he didn't show up or get a single award from them last year.
I'm pretty sure it's a water army for DW and the anti-Yang Zi factions. Cause clearly, the center and star of LYF is Yang Zi and XY, not DW and Jing.
But yes, by most other metrics, Xiang Liu is leading amongst the male stars, so this Tencent heat index just looks silly.
https://x.com/tlmssusu/status/1815746269098528815
Tan Jianci's single-player AI character dialogue popularity exceeded 100 million.
Tan Jianci's Weibo added 580,000 new fans on the 15th.
TOP1 among all stars Douyin added 280,000+ fans on the 15th #長相思
TOP1 star of the drama Topic #相柳 Views 7.5 billion + TOP2 of all characters in 2024
Tan Jianci related topics have a total of 13.3 billion views and are the top 1 of all roles in 2024
The first non-male protagonist to break the 9.16 character record
If you are into rankings, check out this account. You can see most of the stats have LYF 2 as #1. Yang Zi's XY as #1. Tan Jian Ci's XL as #2.
I think @H19279 understands all this data, and has linkage.
AH :I was in transit and my brain was doing that thing where it starts playing around with AU ideas as a coping mechanism...
That's awesome, AH! And trying to wipe out the evil of demon slavery AND a happy ending.
I can't see XL as Zorro / Scarlet Pimpernel, but I can definitely see Fang Feng Bei have a great time with it.
Kokuto:That's awesome, AH!
Lol, thank you Kokuto.
Tbh it feels like a somewhat worrying sign that this story still has a death grip on my brain even after S2 has finished. Can't move on just yet. ^^"
Kokuto:And trying to wipe out the evil of demon slavery AND a happy ending.
A feel like a good AU offers a chance to resolve the things that bothered you the most in the story and the slave death match situation bothered me so much.
Kokuto:I can't see XL as Zorro / Scarlet Pimpernel, but I can definitely see Fang Feng Bei have a great time with it.
And yet these two are the same person! ^^
But yeah. I know what you mean. This AU!XL by necessity couldn't be exactly the same as OGNovel!XL.
AH :Tbh it feels like a somewhat worrying sign that this story still has a death grip on my brain even after S2 has finished. Can't move on just yet. ^^"
Apparently, I've got a permanent room in the Hotel Dahuang. I'm getting ready to rewatch season 2. lol
I just had a thought ... what if they announce a remake of Once Promised? O_O
AH :A feel like a good AU offers a chance to resolve the things that bothered you the most in the story and the slave death match situation bothered me so much.
This is true. It should be called Fan Fix. ;p
AH :And yet these two are the same person! ^^
But yeah. I know what you mean. This AU!XL by necessity couldn't be exactly the same as OGNovel!XL.
This is true. Especially since he could rocking the sea shell with XY all along!
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