Xiang Liu and Xiao Yao’s Story and Romance

 blabla100:

she was feeling a bit guilty towards Jing

I don't understand this aspect of her psychology. It's clearly it's Jing and CX fault in their trouble: Jing with FFYY and CX ordered to kill Jing. 

In both cases , she blamed herself that kind of half their mistake is hers. 

What kind of thinking is that? Very protective attitude for closed ones (to her).

 liddi:

Very true. As Fangfeng Bei, he was more deferent to her whims. When she realised he was Xiang Liu, she cared more how he felt, and would try to coax him when she knew he was angry. It is quite telling that Xiang Liu is the only one among her suitors with whom she tried to please, while the rest were always trying to please her. Likewise, Xiang Liu was the only one whom she took the initiative and mustered the courage to express her feelings, unlike the rest whom she waited for to prove their devotion and sincerity to her.

Xiang Liu is Xiao Yao's "exception":

Anyone who is CX's enemy is her enemy. Except for XL

Anyone who attempts to harm CX, she will not goes easy on them. Except for XL

CX is the most important person to her and she won't choose anyone over him. Except for XL

No matter how good something is, if it's not worth it anymore, she'll give it up. Except for XL

She does not retain anyone's images in her special mirror. Except for XL

She won't be the first to confess her feelings to anyone. Except for XL

She choose to associate with those who are weaker and dependent on her so they won't leave her. Except for XL

What else did I miss?

You can be rational and logical all you want, but the minute you get bitten by the love bug all your principles go out the window. Girlfriend got it bad and she doesn't even realize it. 

 windiaaa041293:

@H19279

I agree with your opinion, previously I posted Yao Liu from Grandpa Huangdi's perspective. Grandpa is Yaoliu's biggest melon.

Speaking of which, @liddi : in the S2 leaked script does XL realize that the Yellow Emperor/Grand Emperor/CX trying to bring him to abandon Chenrong at all costs is suspicious? Are they elements that can support that XL understands that they do that for XY and, by extention, that XY loves him just like Ah Heng loved Chi You? Even knowing that if XL understood this and realised that it would give him a chance to be with XY, it won't change his mind and the ending he chose for him.

Because in the novel I didn't feel like it, given that there had been numerous attempts to poach him (I might be wrong, @AH ?). 

@liddi and @AH, you're in great demand, I hope it's not too much of an imposition...

At night, by Yaochi.

Xiaotian was dressed in pure white clothes, with her hair loosely tied up, and her feet dangling in the air. She was sitting on the railing of the waterside pavilion, staring blankly at the moon reflected in the blue waves.

Bijun walked through the blooming peach blossom forest, walked into the waterside pavilion, and said to Xiaotian: "Your Majesty has not said to

Bijun had no choice but to leave and walk into the peach forest

Finally, he looked back and saw Xiaotian still sitting in the waterside pavilion in a daze. Under the cold moonlight, she was all alone. Thinking that this picture will last for thousands of years, Bijun couldn't help but sigh.

 liddi:

《Eternally Yearning for Each Other》(English title: Lost You Forever) -- A Mutual Love That Cannot be Together, Yet Unable to Be Forgotten

This just screams XL. XY ended up with Jing, so the cannot be together part is not applicable. She and CX doesn't have mutual (romantic) love, so it doesn't apply to him either. The love is mutual, not unrequited. Someone send this to the drama team, maybe it's not too late for them to fix the second season.

Also liddi; thanks for the link to your translation of the "who do you want to marry" conversation between XL and XY. I'm curious as to the wording of the last question. In my translation, the term that was used is "whom do you want to travel side by side with" (sorry, this is a literal translation as I'm not a translator). The implication with this particular wording is a companion that will walk through life together with you, side by side. We know that XL as FFB is the one that XY spent time with experiencing and enjoying the world. This wording is also a throwback to an earlier conversation between XY and FFB about the difficulty of finding someone to walk together with through life.

 nathsketch:

Also, the wedding night hahaha. Bells on, alright. An entire orchestra.

Hell yeah! Bells, whistles and the entire orchestra. These days, most people are already physically intimate before the wedding, but back then, with all the rules and etiquette and all the suppressed longing. Not even wild horses could have dragged me away from jumping my man's bone the minute that I could. Lol. And there's XY, sleeping her way through the wedding night *snort*.

@HeadInTheClouds

"LYF is no Crimes and Punishment"

Lol, you just mentioned another of my favs, alongside with wuttering heights and gone with the wind.  Let me look for that article, see if I can find it.