PeachBlossomGoddess

No I mean Miao Jie was a senior court official. Wouldn't he be able to get his son a job either with the elite constables or the spy agency? So I guess what I am asking is whether Miao Jun is one of those guys that seems to be around on every mission that we don't notice? I vaguely recall an early episode where someone's son joins the elite constables.

It depends on who you think Xiao Beiming's bro is.

Yes probably. Or maybe he is one of the many guys that are always standing around at the Elite Constables or the Spy agency.

Well Beihai was a Poison Valley disciple, the most talented one. He just left them bc of his wife. I want to believe that Poison Master and Zhong meant to right past wrongs. That is why Zhong raised Beiming to fight for truth and justice the right way (the means don't justify the ends was his final most important message). And he left Bailong/Beikun with Poison Master to help him learn about medicine/poison so that he could find the antidote. I think they always meant for the bros to reunite. Whereas Yesha is out for the poison for diabolical reasons. I think there is a possibility he is Wu Lie bc he helped his emperor brother use the pill and sees it as military weapon and he wanted to kill everyone from Haiya to cover it up. We think Yesha is out for revenge but it is very possible he is actually only after the pill. The only reason I think he is not Yesha is he has been locked up and according to Huang Wuchang Yesha is at Haiya.

Well its hard to rewatch bc idk which episodes. I don't care so much about the older Miao bc he is dead. But where is the orphan he adopted Miao Yun? Has he even shown up?

The ABOVE and BELOW thread contains what are most likely to be MAJOR PLOT SPOILERS. Reiterating @Ximena warning to open with care.

I hope he doesn’t but if Bei Kun is the older kid he might remember something. It is also possible his master asked him to find Beiming. I hope/sense he is good and Yesha may have asked Old Bug to swap his poison to get Beiming to Haiya. For all this to work Yesha needs to bring them all together bc he is after the formula. I don’t think Old Bug could complete the formula so they needed the brothers to open the tomb. I am just surprised there was no ambush there.

No Zhong is Xueman’s father.

Yes I started to suspect that when Feng was able to unlock the door to Bei Hai’s tomb. And it makes sense bc Zhong left the key to his daughter for Beiming and Wu Shuang taught Feng how to open the tomb. But it’s a major plot spoiler. So one son should be able to cure the poison and the other solve the mystery of Haiya. I just hope Feng or his master is not also Yesha.

I never blamed the town's genocide on Bei Hai. But he did overestimate himself and launched a pill that he had not sufficiently tested for side effects. His so called super soldier backfired spectacularly in the worst way possible. Its like inventing a nuclear weapon that gets used against yourself. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Bei Hai was Oppenheimer. And the emperor was Truman. In the end, IMHO they were both complicit.

It would also explain why Beiming remembers nothing. The other kid looks old enough to remember something.

Yes and Yunchi didn't want BM to get on the boat. Miao Jie forced him to let him join the boat party. If he didn't die dead, I would think he were Yesha. So now both my eyes are on the orphan he took home with him.

I do also think he also felt immense guilt and deserving of death.

I think from the way the dialogue was written, XBM should be the infant. Zhong said Beikun and Beiming and also someone said to Beiming that means you have a ge (older brother).

Those bugs... I squirmed on my sofa.

He killed himself bc Zhong was on the way to execute him, on the emperor's orders. They were old friends who used to investigate cases together so he spared his old friend the task of killing him.

The one from the boat I suspect is Miao, the one who attacked Zhong and then CUT!

I just noted his name from the registry of orphans that Beiming read out. and I always suspected Miao he looked bat shit crazy on that boat so I focused on him and his orphan.

It was just pure ego. Someone had access to it bc he GAVE it to his sect bro the master of the Poison Valley. The dude did everything he could to make sure the formula survived!🤬 And with what consequences? Look at what Old Bug went and did to try to advance it!

Yeah I just can't imagine Zhong separating the brothers.