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Their rating is 10 now and they said the drama is good 😅 I don’t think they hate it.

so true 😂

A non expert so take my answer with a grain of salt:

Yunhe = what all viewers on online platforms are watching (number + %)

Kuyan = what viewers in online plus TV are watching (number and %)

Maoyan = More a popularity index (it monitors Weibo and Douyin too along with episode views, so more of a measure of how viewer engagement is going.)

A show only aired online may have 40% Yunhe, but 20% Kuyun if 50% of people were also on their TV doing something. If no one posted about it after their Maoyan score would be lower vs one everyone was talking about or making gifs/clips of, which would have a high engagement index.

Is my understanding of the difference!

Feel for you. I mean I loved the show despite its flaws, but still. Maybe try Stand By Me for a stronger supporting cast and a less live action anime type wardrobe CY historical?

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such an apt metaphor for those two 🤣😂

This is fair and valid, he totally did ;-;

I read another commenter saying that he's his dad in the book but that in the book Yan Kuangtu is the founder of the Power Gang and LCZ isn't a prince, so it could be that he is (despite never being covered in the series that I remember), but it could also just be that MDL is wrong. o.o

congrats to the triplets! 🥳👏

LCZ is still poisoned, just not dead from it. (It's said earlier in the series I think that it's an ongoing poison ala Princess' Gambit where he needs to visit every month to get a cure for it or he'll suffer. The emperor has been withholding the cure (that thingy he crushes in Ep38 and keeps hiding in the box, I think) so LCZ isn't dead but the poison has reached his bones, he's not going to live long either. (No comments on it being the stupidest way ever for him to die. I mean it didn't make sense but I was just glad they improved on the fate of how him and his wife died in the book, at least they let them die together with dignity here. ;-;)

ML picked it up from the qin music he played. "Snow Across the Land" (flashback to the tune Daddy Xiao tried to teach his three kids as kids) had the Voidheart codex hidden within the notes of the music. (Luckily, XQS and XMM are both good at the qin, unlike poor Kaiyan.) The somebody he mentions was the Jiang bros, who kidnapped Crazy Yan's siblings to force him to teach them the Voidheart Codex but then didn't give the siblings back even after they learned it, I believe. It's unclear why they didn't if they felt guilty enough to write down the codex for posterity, but given how Xiao Sr met Adopted Sis, it's possible some third party may have attacked them while they were trying. (I don't remember which ep it was to check if she was with a living adult when she was adopted.)

ML can kill bro as he now also has the Voidheart Codex. Kaiyan's strategy when fighting is, by default, to level drain; his meridians tend to pop if he expends too much of the power he absorbs as he's not had a master or an infinity pill to open his meridians properly, but since the absorption makes his enemies weaker, Kaiyan generally doesn't need to expend that much energy to kill them once they've lost their martial arts. Since ML now knows the Voidheart Codex too though, he can counter with it so Kaiyan can't level drain him anymore. It's down to skill vs skill, and while Kaiyan's absorbed a lot of crazy skills, our lead also has had about 10 masters giving him crazy skills too, so they are both advantaged by golden cheat codes. (was my reading!) (Since ML died of exhaustion due to buffing himself enough to beat Bro like that though, it's a bonus power that comes at a hefty price.)

I am rewatching because I am finding it hard to move on, LSF’s face when he spotted XQS is hilarious. I wonder if he asked “do we know each other” because he was trying to work out if this was a (very good) disguise by his boss 😂

random side note: They make the cutest merchandise for this show 😂

I relate 100%

Crazy Yan would know both, since he would also have read the whole thing, but just maybe not use both 😆

Yup, like I get not wanting to die as a side character but it’s crazy entitlement to think anyone else owes it to you to care about you. Nice if they do, smart to hang around people who do, but if they don’t get over it and move on 😂 Kaiyan’s whole arc made zero sense because he used methods that made him hate himself to achieve objectives that would never be achieved using those methods for reasons that never made sense anyway. Whiny, unrelatable guy from start to end. Even LN had logic that made more sense, at least he just wanted money 😂😂

He does but 1) for the “good” version you need to expend large amounts of inner force to use it, hard when you’ve had it all sucked out by Kaiyan, and 2) the “evil” one, absorbing the abilities of others is a massive massive nope in the martial world, it is considered demonic cultivation and it’s just not done. Passing abilities yes, forcefully stealing them nope except by evil people. (is my understanding 😅😅)

I would love love love to know that too re the first part, like, howwww? Is it just that like XMM he has LN’s memories and remembers living that way, or did he actually go there??

Yes to the second one I think.

Ep38 😆

If you want his epic appearance 34 is the one you want, where he shows up to duel finally with some of the most epic fighting in the show 😆

😂😂😅😅

Eventually he dies, he’s very cool while living though!

They don't show it indeed, but it was the same place just a couple of levels down, so XQS probably just had to shout "general" and listen for a reply to get there. Given the General seemed to have powerful martial arts still (based on tossing that spear like that) it's also possible the general was saving his energy and broke free himself to meet XQS half way.

XQS definitely dies, XMM's ultimate fate is less certain though it doesn't look good that his BPM is dropping to 17 as XQS passes away, or that LN passed away in the real world at around the same time Kaiyan would have been killed by XQS in the novel/System world (allowing for the riding time). XQS's weapon was the sword, while XMM mentioned at the start that he and the sword bros were in the Qin club. So the fact that he was walking off ominously towards the light with both sword and qin to me says that their souls indeed merged, XMM really did put his own life behind his principles alongside XQS to protect the world he was in and the people around him, and XQS/QMM are both dead and starting anew in their next life/ascending. (Or maybe a bit like L&R, they were both just human fragments of one primordial spirit to begin with, and both now passed this trial.)

(I do oscillate between thinking this, and thinking the System punted QMM outta the game when he completed the main quest of save the world/be named martial arts leader/redeem LSF though, so the doctors saved him and he woke up, but the two weapons are as XMM still had a lasting impact on XQS, just like XQS did on XMM, and neither of them will forget each other even though XQS is technically now gone.)

Confusion is fair, given XMM destroyed the System and therefore lost the ability to ask it questions, so nothing was spelled out at all 🤣🤣🤣 But at the same time, fair and in keeping with XMM/XQS's character, in that he was never worried too much about why he was in this world or where he was going when he died, mainly only worried about the wellbeing of those around him and living with dignity and keeping his principles himself while alive, no matter where he was or what put him there.