DistantDream

I think for LJ, which ending would you prefer:

him coming to the realization of what it means to be himself, but not being able to wait long enough for Ji Ling to be reborn,

or

not knowing what it means to be himself, but Ji Ling is alive?

Both are bittersweet

Read the above, stop pretending.

Don't act like the victim now. You know what you were doing when you wrote what you wrote.

"The core issues they have with the drama are storyline and plot."

Their original post was filled with sarcastic, dismissive, and personalized attacks toward the creator.

So I match that energy with all my replies, as this person had no intention to actually talk about the storyline or plot.

As per our back-and-forth, they have not and do not care to actually talk about the plot or storyline.

They are being in bad faith, trying to hide their opinion, saying they like the show, but at the same time, a backhanded attack on the show.

And I call them out on it

read what they originally wrote and tell me what your take away from it

Just another person making a claim about the show under the guise of that is their opinion.

and got called out on it, and now acting defensive about it

I ask for specific about the plot or storyline, and they continue to not say anything about say plot or storyline

You still can't understand the point...

You can't even tell the difference between an opinion and an objective claim that you made.

even after it was explained to you... You actually believe what you wrote is an opinion just because you wrote it...... that's not what an opinion is, btw.

I could repost it, but it seem like no one actually read the discussion sometime haha

lol, you might actually be too dense to realize your original post is ironic.

I just leave you to it, if you haven't caught on. I don't really care about your opinion if the show is amazing, the best ever, or if it was the worst ever.

When you make a claim about the plot and storyline. this become and objective claim about the drama

"And it's not even like I hate the drama. It was fun, I loved the characters and all the actors are talented I just wish we didn't have to deal with gjm obsession so we could have a much better storyline."

When you say have a much better storyline.

And I ask you how so? what? And you can't come up with anything.....

You are the one who is getting defensive when I'm literally pointing out what you say.

You didn't just say you didn't like it, you say

"I have to say, this plot is with a professional writer who is unbiased and doesn't have a weird obsession with one specific actor. We would have a much better storyline and not 15 flashbacks and 15 personalities for one freaking character (what even was that?) wasting the potential of the story."

Don't act coy now when you are called out on it.

again just matching your energy 🙌

Weird cause it's your words,

How ironic for you to criticize something, exaggerate about personalities and flashbacks, and then not even provide or point out any fixes? or actual plot ?

My comment just matches your energy 🙌

I think some people are still confused about the time loop.

The hardest part is identifying the starting point. We know there was a first rewind.

Base Timeline:
LWY sees Ji Ling injure WWY → JY possesses WSG → JL then uses the power of three demons to start the rain → Ji Ling stops the drought → Ji Ling's death → Ji Can then appears → offers LWY the ability to rewind time to save Ji Ling.

This is probably the loop most viewers would agree on.

LWY rewinds many times → repeatedly fails to stop Ji Ling.

Eventually, one loop changes things:
LWY becomes strong enough to overpower everyone → stops the drought herself → her supposed death occurs → Ji Ling is consumed by loneliness → falls into a coma → Ji Can appears again → offers her the ability to go even further back to discover the true origin of Ji Ling’s loneliness.

IMPORTANT TO NOTE:
Bai Ze tells LWY that Ji Can does know how everything ends.
Ji Can have the power to rewind time and see the futures!
Before the Hanba Arc in Episode 19, when Ji Ling told LWY that A’Wu used to talk to him, proving this had already happened before.

Second Layer of the Loop:
LWY travels further into the past → cannot interact with anything → witnesses Ji Ling’s early life → YWH influences him → Ji Ling gains human form → accidentally swallows the dragon scale.

We then learn the roots of his loneliness:
imprisonment in the Shilin Sect → watching people close to him die → being powerless to save them.

Critical Cave Scene:

Ji Ling reaches an emotional breaking point → wants to end his life.
But inside A’Wu was LWY all along

In that moment:

LWY severs her tail → speaks to Ji Ling:
“Don’t be sad. Don’t cry. I’ll always be with you.”
Ji Ling regains hope → does not go through with it.

And here is the paradox:
LWY saves Ji Ling in the past → Jiu Ying Created LWY specific to use her to get close to Ji Ling (Long Shen) → Ji Ling lives long enough to meet LWY in the future → LWY later travels back to save him.

If LWY had never existed, who would have gone back to save Ji Ling in the past? If Ji Ling never existed, why would Jiu Ying create LWY to influence Ji Ling?

Even though we were shown 20+ rewinds, from what we learned, it could literally happen forever, as LWY cannot die due to the oracle stone in her body, so the backlash from the rewinds ultimately didn't do anything.

In episode 25, Ji Can knows this and tells us his goal is always to get LWY to go back in time and become A’Wu to save Ji Ling.

But even here, he still tells Ji Ling about the paradox of their existence: “LWY was created by Jiu Ying, and she will die when Jiu Ying dies, and Ji Ling was created to kill Jiu Ying.”

But he also tells us that even if he can see the future, he cannot perceive everything

The paradox is truly only broken when either LWY or Ji Ling is removed from the loop. And that's what happened in the final episode

Something to note: to get to this point where Ji Ling goes back in time, kills the fox queen, takes LWY, and opens an exit to an unknown destination.

We don't know how many tries it took for them to reach here. As LWY says, she tries countless times.

With that being said, I still don’t think this was the best use of time travel in a show. The cause and effect are there, but the way it was told felt messy at times.

You can piece the logic together afterward, but while watching, too much was held back for too long, rushed through, or explained in a vague way. That made it confusing,

But again, Time Travel and Loop are just vehicles to show the theme of Love and Obsession. The theme of Love that transcended time and space is not something new. And that's probably what GJM wanted to show us through VoS

since you are a professional writer, can you shared with us what would you have done

Also welcome to MyDramaList ! im glad you decide to join us today on 4/21/2026 🙌

Should join one day ealier and made it 4/20

"Nothing. I think humans should never be so confident as to believe they're so exceptional that no one or nothing can replace them."

The irony of this line and everyone else's comments about AI.

"He also escaped into time portal which was never fully addressed. "

We can assume he stuck there, as we can see to created an exist required a large amount of scared power we saw that with Ji Ling when he had 6 pedals.

no he is the little snake, Jiu Ying is 9 headed snake in chinese myths, thought his power and what not in the myth is nothing like the show. But that little snake is really his true form

Liu Yuning might just be the GOAT when it come to OST

Jade Sleep is AMAZING, listing to it in the PoV of Ji Ling add so much more meaning


and through out the song he repeated Wu and Yi over and over

Also, the event needs to play out the way it did; LWY interrupting what JL plan is part of the actual time loop.

I can explain more if you still dont understand

Surely Yara_love got this one 😂

It time to move on, I let you guys fight the great battle of misinformation