DistantDream

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

in one of the many time loop, she told Ji Ling she knew...

As to how, your guess is good as mine... cause it was never explically shown

https://youtube.com/shorts/q_S6bxOAA5I?si=DrID99HxDksJJVKn

We dont know, the ending of that scene the camera pan up to where the oracle stone should be... it wasnt there for us to see. So we actually dont know

But we know it stil exist cause WWY and the fox sister talk about a new prophecy

It sad we never saw the fox form again after episode 3 ....

Too much effort to wear that for a fight scene 😭

Dang they appreciated the video I link 🥹

Listen to Jade Sleep, No Suffering and Chronicle of The Moon on repeated

I mean, his theory is fine, but not without its flaws.

You are right to point out it doesn't follow the OG Story, even I don't try to claim that.

cause the problem you run into is that the fox queen is dead, and the fragment is no longer in the oracle stone. We don't know how many fragments are left.

Did all 81 fragment was reduce to 3 by 50 years ago? We don't know. If so, the last one is in WSG. After what Future Ji Ling did

We know JY messes with the oracle stone for some of those prophecies, so a world where the stone might not be infected could have resulted in wildly different events.

Since JY isn't around to order the butterfly demon and Ji Ling is no longer around, that obsession would not have existed, so he might not have meddled with any event

So the Star Stone Illusion arc might not even happen the way it did without the butterfly demon

It pretty much depend on the romance, when you finish the show you will see why.