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Like Harrison Ford, every actor loves a good death scene 🤣

(Lolllllll I know though, right? He dies so well, but leaves me traumatized ;-; I am keeping my fingers crossed for a happy ending for the new series he's filming now, Liang Jing Shi Wu Ri (Fifteen Days to the Capital). 🙏(He has had one though, he gets a happy ending in Love and Redemption as well 🤣)

In terms of the characters I cared about: Crazy Yan, Xiao Xueyu, Xiao Qiu Shiu, Li Chen Zhou, Zhao Shi Rong, and strongly-implied Xiao Ming Ming also. About 50% of the Power Gang also winds up dead, but Liu Sui Feng and Red Phoenix don't.

Prepare yourself 😁

Right? His smile is so evil-looking despite how he's actually an upstandingly nice person here 😂 And yes, when they didn't show us the Parents and just cut to that 10-min grieving scene, I was waiting too for them to show up again because they never showed us bodies ;-; but alas indeed. Looking back, I wonder if XKY went a tiny bit crazy after he murdered his mother in a Qi possessed/obsession-possessed kind of way, and maybe the obsession's why he acts like a total psycho? Cuz something definitely seemed to be happening when XQS played the Qin at the end and he cried when he saw all those visions of everything he wanted in life playing out. But by then after what he did to his sister I didn't care too much why he was a psycho anymore, I just wanted him dead ;-; 😂😂

Right? I keep coming back to this page too even after the show's been over so long ;-; a whole 3 weeks now already ;-;

I got a feeling it's because I liked XQS/XMM so much. Like, LCZ was technically cooler cuz he had the rock-solid confidence + the aura of power + the relationship with his wife that I loved so much, but XMM/XQS are the ones I actually liked as human beings.

Like, you take it for granted that the hero is going to Do The Right Thing and be Into Righteousness so that's expected, they don't gain points for saving/trying to save people or speechifying (they'd just lose points for not trying to save randoms if they didn't do that), but then there were things like the "I guess I'll try and be a good bro since you're calling me that and I'm in XQS's body and I wouldn't like to let the dude whose body I've hijacked down" and that little rock thing he gave TF after TR died, and that talk of basically he has no idea what happens to you after you die but maybe there's some kinda afterlife maybe? which is what most people do talk about when someone close to them just died if they're not solidly religious and was probably the point in the drama where I started liking TF too, or the chatting about how much you hate your crap boss behind their back and you're soooo close to saying to their face (lol), or even just the way he was so happy to see his mom again and be fussed over by her at his age (same honestly) and was like, y'know what, even if this is a dream who cares, let's do this, a good dream beats a crap reality (escapism for the win). And the shortcuts, lol. Let's try the cheats first and only do it the fair way if we gotta, so relatable. He's just such a nice, laidback, low-stress person, and he has such a warm heart with room for so many people in it, and he's got a way of making nice more attractive than evil which is a feat cuz usually the bad guys or the Mr Darcy types are my favorite, but he's a total Bingley, albeit one who can fight amazingly XD The ending is so bittersweet since the characters made me care for them despite the plot technically being a hot mess 🤣 Like, it's almost like the question of 'what is the meaning of life'/'did you strive for what you wanted in a way you could live with, and can you die without regrets'? < For this, though they did it in their different principles & ways & alignments, all 3 of XMM, XQS, and LCZ can answer yes. While meanwhile, LN and XKY, though they got all the wealth and power they wanted, can only answer "no."

You gotta wonder with R, was the emperor another optional role for LN he could have levelled up into by completing his own evil main quest, thereby gaining the option to make life hell for a XMM lookalike till they died and then rule happily forever with a ton of power and wealth that he just never unlocked, same as how XMM never unlocked a second role, because LN/XKY was too busy lazily taking shortcuts and randomly murdering people for the crime of having better book fates than his? idk because we never find out anything ;-; Which fits with XMM's mindset of 'it's not why we're in this world that matters, it's what we do since we are', and XKY/LN's mindset of 'We're in a novel anyway so no one's real, therefore nothing matters except myself, the people I like, and maybe that 1 other person I hate but who I know is also a human being teleported into the book like me, I'd like to rub it in his face how much better I'm doing at Life than he is' but still... so many questions ;-; XD

Living wise or achieving the goal wise? Living-wise BE, achieving their mission wise HE.

iQIYI is the only legal site as far as I know. Depending where you live you can get a relatively cheap monthly trial, but the first 5-6 eps are free anyway so you can watch them on iQIYI even without a subscription and see if the show is one you’re enjoying and then only worry about where to watch the rest if you are enjoying it 😀

right? I don’t know about everyone else but all my theories were so wrong 😂😂 I still remember being so suspicious of poor innocent Prince Hugs and Shoulder Pats when he showed up lol 😂

well deserved first place 🥰

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Ahh. Yup, 5 is a hard price point to beat, it’s probably still the cheapest option vs DVDs and stuff. Hopefully, they’ll do another free period next year again like they did earlier this year for MLC for US users on the anniversary!

That makes sense on both counts, ouch 🥶🥶 Yeah I definitely waited for the iQIYI day promotion they give in my region to subscribe 🥶

How expensive is it for a month of subscription in India?

I relate to there being a shortage of sites to watch this one. The only reason I subscribed to iQIYI was for this drama, they were smart not to share this one 😂 Before I bit the billet and went for the year long membership though, they were pretty nice about giving a cheap month long VIP trial period for 1.99 for every new email 👀 What goes wrong with iQIYI for you, or just mainly looking for free sites?

I have not seen that one but if it does I’ll have to check it out! 😀

He is so charismatic and his relationship with his wife is so beautiful 🥰

ep49 he dies of poison, but he dies beautifully while passing the throne on. You can probably stop around mid way through ep49 where they’re attending the lantern festival and he spins her around with slow romantic music as your happy ending, stop after the first two cuts of the spin as he faints at the end of it, and the rest of ep is basically him dying and passing on the throne and the kingdom now being a happier place thanks to his hard work throughout 😂😆

for me, I don’t know that it’s badly written quite; In the previous ep, XQS chatted with his friend who remembers the novel plot, and they say “at this hero conference what originally happened was LCZ and you became allies and eight masters gave you their power which is how you don’t instantly die fighting LCZ.” And XQS theorizes the plot may be changed by R.

XQS follows them down the cliff because he is aware of this plot point, and upon seeing him all simultaneously are triggered for this quest and rush to give him their power. (He gives a token protest since he’s aware they’ll die doing it and he doesn’t like people dying, but doesn’t fight it too much because they are all dying anyway due to their wounds from fighting each other and also it’s the plot and definitely the only way to beat the Power Gang, which they want him to do to.)

It’s a scene both hilarious for me (cuz it’s like when you play an RPG and you go near a town and an NPC rushes up and says “you must save the world random stranger!” *journal update: new quest added*) but also an unsettling reminder that our lead is imersively LARPing a plot that is still following the original novel; he has more free will now he’s destroyed the System and has “become” the MC rather than the player (memory-wise), but he still hasn’t changed a key plot point yet; he is still living the protagonist’s journey rather than changing the protagonist’s journey.)

But yeah it certainly is a scene that breaks the third wall 😂

They have strongly different theological beliefs, basically, due to the different martial arts they practice and so the orthodox trainers want to prove orthodox methods are better while unorthodox want to prove unorthodox are stronger.

I like it 🥰

It starts out light and then goes suuuuper serious 😆😅

There's something very addictive about his acting, right? When I see photos of him still it's a completely different experience to watching him in a show, I think because he's so good at sinking into the role and emoting what the character would actually feel in the scenes. I'm slowly working my way through his other series too on this same logic 😂 >> [cannot miss him]

(I love his outfits in this show, so for me they worked, luckily for my viewing enjoyment vs yours for the first few eps🤭But I gotta say, my bar's not super high, I don't think I really detected the production values a lot of viewers were complaining about. The only thing I noticed was everyone's makeup was quite heavy in some scenes, but I think that was more to do with the weather being very hot when filming and needing to stop the sweat from washing it straight off, so I could understand it. There's one scene where one of the actors' chests is just slightly visible under his neckline and he was dripping sweat, it made me think the weather must have been so hot. Everyone did so well with their fight scenes despite the heat! I think I read it got up as high as 45, I wilt even at 30.)

Good luck with the rest of this one!