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I love panther Xuan Ye's small patch of white hair. Fantastic detail.

Shen Tunan /Martial uncle must have been waiting in the Underground City for the gate to the Wuyou Realm to open so that he can get in there. He is either after his lover who disappeared back there or he covets demon power. So I think he is out to somehow obtain Xuanye's demon bone so that he can power up into a demon and maybe even rule the realm.

So everything is coming together at this point:

I doubt it. Xuanye's foster father was not the founder of the sect, I think their story is too far removed and not relevant.

This current chapter is titled 脱骨双生 which literally translates as Boneless Twins. It probably comes from the idiom 脱骨换台 which means to shed ones bones and mortal body; i.e., be reborn. Its quite clever as it has a double meaning of both Xuanye and Zhongzi's ability to body swap as well as Xingxian's rebirth into a new body. I believe the snake story is just a side story/investigation and quite a boring one IMHO. The real substance of this chapter is really around the "boneless twins".

It was bugging the hell out of me too!

I don't think Xuanye can just randomly use that sword. I think he was only able to pull it for Banxia bc that was not her fate to begin with. She just stepped into it when she intervened. So yes, there should be still butterfly effect that remains to be seen but not all butterfly effect is bad. We just have to wait and see.

Why would you conclude that means their relationship will fall apart?
When Banxia intervened with Mrs Cui's fate, the backlash was that her fate fell on her so the white crow stalked her instead. If Xuanye didn't cut off the cause and effect with the sword, Banxia would have died. In that case, their relationship would definitely have no hope.

Yes the sword should be a sword that cuts off cause and effect. So somethings that happened in the past have been changed. We should see more signs of the butterfly effect as we go along.

There's a part somewhere where Banxia admits she admired He Quelian's bravery. Maybe in her subconscious that was always the kind of person she'd have liked to be so when she emerged from the painting, she was inspired by her and became more like her. I think its deliberate on the writer's part.

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Just finished A Life for A Life. Best drama I watched so far this year.

Cutting causality is not "light". There should be butterfly effect which will become more clear later. That is not to say its all negative bc obviously it may have saved Banxia from the curse of the white crow.

Yeah - I really need this actor Shi Pengyuan to stop playing these tragic characters - Yan Liang (The Bad Kids), Wang Bei (The Long Season) and now Binbin. He needs a HE.

Chilian and (male) Xingxian's styling and dynamics around the qin heavily remind me of Zhe Yan and Bai Zhen in TMOPB.

I think the screenwriter is a bit long winded. There are quite a few dialogues/monologues that make me roll my eyes and yawn.

OMG martial uncle is Shen Tunan - Wang Yang's character in War of Faith!!! 😅😂 No wonder the name just kept bugging me.

The Changle Sword should be the karma cutting sword. It cuts off cause and effect. So its not that Xuanye and Banxia forgot some things, those things never happened anymore.

In the novel, DXD chastises WG for trying to commit suicide, telling him Binbin's last message was that he live well for him, thus the title A Life Borrowed. I was looking forward to that scene but they kind of skipped it and turned it into the ending epilogue.

I just finished I feel so devastated.