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So I also rewatch episode 25, Ji Can told Ji Ling how to prevent his fate is preventing Ji Can from existing. Ji Can also stated that this is the only way to prevent your fate.

So this basically imply that Ji Can cannot just choose not to consume Ji Ling.

Having intention and being able to do it are not the same. Ji Can cannot just save Ji Ling from loneliness. He needs someone else to do it.

Yes, this does mean it is possible anyone could just save Ji Ling from his loneliness... but it is clear that only LWY could.

Then why didn't he ? why did the only timeline that Ji Ling was saved cause LWY existed 🤓

Cause he probably can't even if he never wanted to consume Ji Ling doesn't mean Ji Ling wont be consume by loneliness.

Like Ji Can say he can see the future, but in the same breath he also state that he cant predict everything.

now thinking back maybe Episode 22, when TJR delivered that emotional why he cant change the ending after everything I've done. It not just loneliness, it also guilt that Ji Ling felt. being Long Shen does make him extreme lonely but being unable to do anything because he doesn't have dragon deity power made him felt really guilty.

Also in episode 24, we still see Ji Ling consume by Ji Can when he though LWY die. So this show that even if Ji Can didnt want to consume him, he still can be consume by loneliness/guilt.

It's still something to think about... There is no right answer, just what makes the most sense from what we know! There are still things that they never answer, and at times, personally, maybe it's best not to think about them 😂

But on the other hand, we have people out there still thinking YWH and YXZ are twins. 😂😂

Li Jie, in the new timeline, isn’t the same person as WSG, for sure, as he has no memories of the old timeline. So we can assume he is simply part of the new timeline.

Largely, his coming into being would be similar to how, in the old timeline, Li Jie is created by the butterfly demon consuming YWH within the 50-year time period before Ji Ling came, killed the Fox Queen, and took LWY.

So the real question is: do we believe there is a Ji Ling in this new timeline? If we say he exists, we simply accept that the Ji Ling from that timeline probably died after being consumed by Ji Can. That would naturally resolve the issue of how Li Jie was created from YWH, because there was still a Ji Ling in that timeline for YWH to develop his obsession toward.

I see what Yara and Shreya are talking about, but remember what Ji Ling did by killing the Fox Queen and removing LWY. HE BREAKS the cycle. Because the cycle itself creates many paradoxes. One of them is that LWY keeps going back in time to save him. This is why we can assume that, in the “new” timeline, where the cycles no longer exist, Ji Ling would eventually be consumed by his loneliness.

Since you responded, I entertain you. Li Hong Yi was honestly carried by the Blood of Youth script, and he isn't even the best part of that drama.

And his other works, maybe he got unlucky, but they are all lackluster 😊

after reading through what you wrote... I wish I had skipped reading it, too, cause all I got from it was that you probably should have skipped writing this, as you skipped through the drama because you weren't interested in it.

It is reductive of what you wrote... but that is essentially what you wrote

Yeah I enjoy the dynamic between ZZ BYT and HLL... beside that the plot is alright nothing amazing

well basically everything that happen til episode 3 happen in the novel to a T... Almost everything we've seen past it in the drama has been an original script. for example Moon Envoy and DYH arent the same person in the short 9 chapter short stories

Yeah I know, I read it

Yeah, of course, there are already so many thing change about her, also the fact that she is not a main role

What Ding Yue Hua did in episode 18 was badass, even Zhi Hua looked relieved and impressed that she did that!

Lowkey didn't see it coming

it ok thanks to you I though of another explanation ! which is probably better cause there evidence in the drama that support it

😐 I was about to reply to you but you delete the comment 😂

Timeline-wise, YWH existed 100 years ago, so there are 50 years between then and when JL killed the fox queen.

So we should probably assume the original YWH died sometime between those 50 years, and that when he was consume by the original butterfly demon

As for the ending, the Ji Ling you see is the Ji Ling who time-travels, and LWY is most likely the LWY who was taken away... again, we don't know if that's actually the case, cause there's no confirmation with what was shown to us. But that is the simplest explanation

We are not shown what happened to Ji Ling of that timeline, but he most likely died.

Another explanation could be that since WSG just appears in the new timeline. Since Ji Ling, at the end of the drama, basically has all the pedals signifying he has full dragon deity power. He could be like WSG just appear in the new timeline and Ji Ling of that timeline simply didnt exist like how there isnt another WSG

Actually, someone wrote about this topic https://wuxiawanderings.substack.com/p/the-origins-of-the-tang-sect-in-wuxia-fiction

Tang sect is basically a trope, it been use in wuxia as a sect that specialize in poison and hidden weapon.... I dont know who was the first to use it in their novel. but it been use by many others now.

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