Xiang Liu and Xiao Yao’s Story and Romance

@liddi

Thank you for the translation, liddi, I was actually very curious about this chapter, but honestly I am very dissapointed about everything that is coming în S2. 

I think this script is legit, you guys. It's 100% what's going to happen in season 2.

 Elise:

I think this script is legit, you guys. It's 100% what's going to happen in season 2.

Yeah, definitely. There's no way this is just an elaborate prank. Oh well.

 blabla100:

That is true, but delaying something în order to deal and solve things diplomatically în a difficult situation doesn't mean he didn't put XY first. The only thing he asked her for was time and she did agree to that, otherwise I belive he would have giving up everything at once. Even after everything was sorted out, XY wasn't actually în a rush to get going with the wedding, they waited for like 15? 40? years before doing that. Idk, I just think that even if some circumstances were against Jing at some point în time, he had never giving up on her, everything he did was done with the sole purpose  of fighting his way out for her / to be with her. 

By definition, TSJ making choices based on those other factors (choices that hurt XY) meant that TSJ wasn't putting XY first at that point. That doesn't mean he didn't care about XY or that he gave up on her, but he didn't choose to prioritize her and her feelings over everything else. Which makes sense, because XY's expectation was unrealistic. No one in her life is able to prioritize her over everything else at all times, no matter how much they love her. TSJ is no exception.  

TSJ's ask puts XY in a pretty crappy position. He asks her to wait for him and not let anyone else into her heart for 15 years. He promises to end his engagement and return to her as YSQ within that time. But during that time, she has to watch him stay engaged to another woman who lives with him, often stays by his side, and is publicly acknowledged as his fiancee. XY hates being lonely and feeling abandoned. But that's exactly what her promise gets her. While TSJ slowly works on (unsuccessfully) coaxing his grandmother to cancel the engagement and CX-related political plans (which will also result in XY living closer to him... and his finacee), XY is stuck feeling extremely lonely and neglected for ages (16 months in the beginning, iirc?). She even thought that TSJ had lost interest in her. Only FFB's arrival in her life  finally alleviates her loneliness. And he doesn't make promises he can't keep. 

When TSJ does show up, she can't be with him openly because he's still engaged. Making her the bad mistress, even though TSJ was the one who pursued her. The fact that XY wouldn't have been in a rush to marry TSJ right away if he broke off the engagement quickly is beside the point really. The wedding isn't the issue. It's the position that XY is put in for as long as TSJ remains engaged to FFYY. 

TSJ knew his choices hurt XY, and he apologized for it. Again, I fully acknowledge that XY likes the part of TSJ that resulted in him making these choices. I'm not saying all of this in an attempt to paint TSJ as the wrong endgame. I'm just saying it to underscore that TSJ (like XL and CX) did not always put XY first. 

 blabla100:

What I mean by that is that indeed, XL wanted to have the bug transferred from CX to him, but I am not so sure that he would have agreed to get the bug planted în himself if the  bug  wasn't already planted in someone and thus already taking its course by that time. 

I agree it would be pretty weird for XL to volunteer to have the bug planted in him for no reason. 

Would he accepted the bug (assuming he knew everything about what it was) if XY tried to plant it on him directly the way she originally intended (without asking for his permission)? In that scenario, I'm not sure. I can picture XL going either way, but I'm kind of inclined to think he would accept it.  

 blabla100:

@AH

"Would he accepted the bug (assuming he knew everything about what it was) if XY tried to plant it on him directly the way she originally intended? In that scenario, I'm not sure. I can picture XL going either way, but I'm kind of inclined to think he would accept it. "

I am starting to forget parts of the story, tbh, I should re-read the whole novel again / rewatch the drama to understand things better, but IIRC she did try to plant the bug into XL before planting it into CX, but she wasn't able, right? By any chance do you know how far behind was that attempt? Like how much time had pass between her first failled try and the time she actually succeesed to plant the bug? 

She definitely tried to plant it on him in the drama but it didn't work. I find time in the drama hard to tell. It wasn't long afterwards but I don't know if it's week, months or years.

CX didn't know when she planted it on him but it worked. Would that imply that in between the first and the transfer XL fell in love with her?

 MengXiang:

I find time in the drama hard to tell.

Yeah, it's super hard to get a detailed sense of how much time passes between XY meeting XL and XL accepting the bug in the drama. In the novel, more than two years pass between the time that XY first meets XL and the time when he accepts the bug. But in the drama they don't sign-post time passing as much as Tong Hua does in the novel. 

iirc they still acknowledged that YSQ lived at the clinic for 6 years. So that's some indication. The seasons also change, which is sort of helpful if you're willing to pay close attention to those kinds of details. There might be more that one could pick up on if one was looking for those types of details, but I can't recall any off the top of my head. 

 AH :

Not a huge fan of, "Don't blame me for lying to you." When he didn't lie about that part - he just answered XY's question and didn't tell her other highly relevant information that she failed to ask about. I preferred, "Don't blame me for not telling you this before..." from Koala's translation of the novel.

That part is tricky to translate. The text from the script is actually the same as the novel "你可别怪我骗你". In retrospect though, perhaps I should have translated as "deceive" rather than "lie". 

The novel says this:

相柳拿起小夭的手，以指为刀，在两人的手掌上横七竖八地划出一行咒语，血肉翻飞，深可见白骨。“我虽然解不了蛊，却可以杀了它。” 相柳唇角含笑，紧紧握住了小夭的手，双掌合拢，血肉交融，再分不清究竟是谁的血肉，“不过，你可别怪我骗你，是你没有问！”

Xiang Liu lifted Xiao Yao's hand, and using his finger as a knife, he slashed vertically and horizontally to carve a blood spell on their palms, their flesh and blood flying everywhere, the cuts so deep that their bones were clearly visible. "While I can't remove the bug, I can kill it." With a smile, he held her hand tightly, their palms joined, blood and flesh intermingled until it was no longer possible to tell whose it was. "However, don't blame me for deceiving you. You were the one who did not ask!"

 AH :

“Don’t blame me for not telling you this before, blame yourself for being useless!”

Thank you for bringing this part in particular to my attention, another difference from the revised edition:

2013:
不过，你可别怪我骗你，是你没有用!
However, don't blame me for deceiving you, it was you who was useless!

2019:
不过，你可别怪我骗你，是你没有问！
However, don't blame me for deceiving you, you were the one who did not ask!

 AH :

Such an underwhelming use of her blood. Still disappointed about this part. 

My sentiments exactly. And it makes no sense. That same blood already exists in her body. So how would ingesting her own blood pill be any different. Gah.

 Elise:

I think this script is legit, you guys. It's 100% what's going to happen in season 2.

I am still holding on to a sliver of hope that it is not the finalised version. And that whatever dialogue changes they made during post-production dubbing were able to turn things around by some miracle.

 blabla100:

and not because he actually thought of having a future with her, I really can't belive this hypothesis.

We're on the same page here. ^^

If XY did try to plant the bug on XL as originally planned and if he did accept it, I feel like it might partly be for silly reasons (WXL raised this poisonous bug just for him!) and maybe partly because being able to sense her pain and having his lives connected to hers would mean that he would be in a better position to protect her, but in that scenario I think it would mainly be because having their hearts and emotions connected would mean that he would be able to better understand WXL. XL outright says he's more and more curious about WXL early on. She hides her true identity, but has these moments of intense vulnerability. She jokes around with him, even after he puts on his scariest demon general aura. And he starts to fall for her. I think he likes having that extra insight into XY's feelings (when she's not off kissing TSJ...) and an additional deep and unshakeable connection that no one else has with her. So I can see him accepting the bug, even if it wasn't a situation where the bug needed to be transferred from someone else. But not because he pictures a future where he leaves the Sheng Nong remnant army camp behind to build a white picket fence around Rejuvenation Clinic and play doctor with WXL and her band of misfits long term. 

 liddi:

That part is tricky to translate. The text from the script is actually the same as the novel "你可别怪我骗你". In retrospect though, perhaps I should have translated as "deceive" rather than "lie".

The novel says this:

 liddi:

don't blame me for deceiving you.

That's better!

 liddi:

another difference from the revised edition:

2013:
不过，你可别怪我骗你，是你没有用!
However, don't blame me for deceiving you, it was you who was useless!

2019:
不过，你可别怪我骗你，是你没有问！
However, don't blame me for deceiving you, you were the one who did not ask!

Oh the 2019 version is WAY better!

 liddi:

My sentiments exactly. And it makes no sense. That same blood already exists in her body. So how would ingesting her own blood pill be any different. Gah.

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