Ahjummai

Using sorcery, the human-sized shadow puppets are used to drive in and out of the pass to trade goods because they don't have blood, they are not affected by the "blood run dry" curse. That is until YLX was born, the Nandou stars appeared in the sky, and the magic that fuels the puppets stopped working.

Which episode are you at now?

can confirm. it has english subs

i bought express on wetv app

she literally gave up her hand to gain an upper hand

wetv express eps have english subs

For some reason, YLX and the shadow puppets cannot co-exist (maybe because both can cross the worlds without harm - a sort of balance needed to happen). So the shadow puppets magic stopped working when YLX was born. So according to the prophecy, the "Bones of Liuxi" needed to die in order for the shadow puppets magic to work again.

Long Zhi's main motivations weren't really clarified until the end. Little bits of information seems to point to the shadow puppets revival as what the sorcerers really wanted. YLX after all was not the type to be controlled unlike shadow puppets. Having control over the goods that come from outside the pass was of great importance to the Longs. BUT that felt a side note than a main thing.

Makes me want to read the novel to get a better idea of this part of the story, tbvh. I wouldn't be surprised if CN censors didn't like the idea of the bad guys wanting full control and authority and the good guys crushing the powerful families and their military.

In the end, her motivations weren't made clear. It would be too much if it was because of JZ. That she like JZ from when they were kids but QZ took him away. She was in need of a fresh corpse. I was surprised that was part of LZ's flashback when she learned for JZ's suicide.

that's not low by MDL standards these days. So don't let the rating daunt you. This is a truly enjoyable series with great acting and chemistry. Take a dive! Plunge into the other world with us!

The express was only available on the app. I usually watch on my laptop, but I couldn't even though I paid for it.

It was a poorly used device in PW. They enter midway through the story, then every time they came out, it felt like they were cutting in line. It's like they were added as an after thought instead of being smoothly integrated in the story telling.

that would be one for the darwin awards and good riddance to save humanity from their genes

TBF Long Zhi with all her scheming and long game planning was good, but the ending was flat. The moment LiuXi spoiled her plans, she went downhill. As for the Long family, I thought they'd be so powerful but Uncle Ao felt more powerful with the gnats than any of the other sorcerers in the drama showed. In the end, they were just controlling the exotic beasts with the wand and that was most of their power. And they were all just following LZ's plans all this time. In the end, they never got to explain what LZ's "West out of Yumen" idea was that drove her to do all those things.

I'm more unimpressed by the narrator-painter addition to this story. Agree that they were totally unnecessary and breaks the mood.

wetv has an express package for the last episodes

with english subs

None whatsoever. They're really outside of the story. Someone here explained that it's a censorship thing where they want to make sure viewers know it's a fantasy even though it's set in the modern era. lols

I'm gonna savor it for a while before binging. But for those not getting express, I can say that the next episodes are very exciting and the ending is satisfying.
If you can get the express, it's worth it.

Yes. I'm sure the actors also got a kick at playing geminus

YES

Ack!!! Still the same... when Ni Ni cries, my heart aches 😭