Shreya

Yes please, I miss April 😭

Indian daily serial style is real😂 And I agree they kind of overused some of the sounds and osts despite the sheer amount of osts that VoS had but personally, I got so used to that one particular bgm by the end that I still randomly look it up to listen to it 😭

I get it and it's a fair point, especially if you look at isolated incidents. But no one has really died in his presence (except his friend ig) and the people he could kill were mostly pawns who are easily replaceable. So even if he did kill some people at the ground level, it doesn't mean he'd be able to protect everyone unless the mastermind is taken out which he could only do by gathering evidence and keeping the witnesses alive.

I'm not saying you are wrong or that his is the absolute right way, I'm just trying to explain where he is coming from.

You are comparing the principles of an assassin with that of a high-ranking government official. Su Muyu was an outlaw and Blood River operated even outside the rules of Jianghu, much less the government. He could kill anyone he wanted without facing much direct consequences and did in fact kill many people. His strict principles did nothing but provide him with some peace of mind since the cases he refused to take were carried out by Su Changhe and others.

Zhan Zhao is quite the opposite. He is a government official. Even if we ignore the fact that he would be directly held responsible if he killed someone, him personally killing anyone would go against his principles. Making sure everyone is tried in court and judged accordingly is his whole thing. It's not that he doesn't consider the difficulty of the situation but that it's not an excuse to take law into his own hand. What he's doing is trying to gather evidence to take down the whole syndicate and not just a part of it. The moment he starts killing people according to his morals, he'd become just another person in the Jianghu who can only protect people in his immediate reach.

You're right with the prison analogy, he is extremely restricted. He can't kill people even when he really wants to. But they already explained why he doesn't kill when he told the story of Yaksha. No one is above the law and no one person has the right to kill someone based on their own morals.

If you are familiar with GJM dramas, then VoS has the happiest ending among them. Personally, it's somewhere between bittersweet and happy.

If you are interested, you should definitely check this out because overall VoS is really good if you can keep up with it.

Hey, good to see you too! I agree that some people are too quick to judge or refuse to see that different dramas have different focus and every story can't be written in a way that personally suits them. I just try to appreciate whatever I'm watching since most dramas do have their own charm and I enjoy the variety even if I do have my favourites.

I'm on episode 22 now, and the level of patience and maturity Zhan Zhao has when dealing with Bai Yutang (and in general honestly) is so incredible. I'm absolutely loving their dynamic and how different both of their personalities are.

I think the lack of romance (and love triangles thankfully) really helps explore the depth of the bonds between the three leads which I find very refreshing.

She thought Ji Ling was just a human at that time while she was a fox demon, so she probably didn't want to leave any traces behind or Ji Ling to try to find her later.

Thank youu. I'm glad I could save you some work <3

While I do think the word 'haters' gets thrown around a lot, it's undeniable that some haters do exist on MDL. You are not a hater for disliking a drama or an actor or even expressing it, but you are one if you go out of your way to unnecessarily and actively spread hate toward them. The word also includes people who mass down rate dramas they didn't even watch.

Drama ratings have always been subjective, what is a 10/10 to someone, will not be the same for you and vice versa. If someone rated a drama 10/10, it doesn't mean that the drama itself is perfection but that they enjoyed the drama to their maximum level of enjoyment. As such, what dramas you watch and how many you truly enjoyed is totally irrelevant to another watcher. If they liked it for whatever reason, it's a 10/10 for them even if it's 2/10 to you, so there's nothing to be honest or dishonest about it.

Yes, they'll show how CW and WWY knew each other later. CW's character is very layered, so his motives seem to keep changing every time something new is revealed about him, but it eventually makes sense why he did all that.

Having questions is part of the watching experience 😭 But despite the confusion, you're pretty caught up with the events till ep 15 honestly.

Lu Wuyi keeps getting possessed by Jiu Ying from that time inside the illusion (1000 years ago) Here, they'll basically show JY's origin story.

Yes, the one who massacred Wu Shiguang's clan was JY (from that time) who possessed WWY.

You are not supposed to get Li Jie's story yet, they'll explain his relationship with the butterfly demon later. But what's happening there is that the brothers at that time (who were humans from Shilin Sect) disguised themselves as demons to steal the stone to prevent it from being used by WZQ in the war against humans. In the illusion, YWH and LJ will need Tiandi to turn into the stone so that they can use it to get out of the illusion.

You're welcome. Yeah, I feel bad too, the number of pending dramas he has is ridiculous. Hopefully they'll get released soon, I'm still holding out hope for Hidden Shadow to be released sometime this year.

It's okay, VoS is probably just not your cup of tea since most of us who loved this drama was pretty much hooked from the start. If you're still struggling at ep 24/25, I don't think it's going to get any better for you and it's safe to drop if you want. Though I assume you probably didn't get much of the plot if you skipped that much as this drama does require a lot of attention to details.

Yes, it's an original script and since GJM has a distinct style and also reused some aspects and cast from his previous works, his dramas are understandably similar. Hidden Shadow will probably be a bit different (if the drama ever manages be unhidden) as it's based on a novel and has a co-director.

No, you're not. This drama thrives on confusion and is part of its charm honestly, so don't worry if you feel confused. All of us were collectively confused when the drama was airing lol.

Good part is most of the questions you have now will be answered eventually but by that time, there will be new questions 😭 If you need help to understand anything, just ask here and I'm pretty sure someone will have the answers since many of the old viewers are still here because we can't move on 😂

It is relatively a major spoiler. I can tell you if you want but if you keep watching, they'll explain it later.

Also shouldn't there be two JLs at the point when JL went back and took LWY out?

Why would JL die after the great freeze?

JL from the og timeline went back 50 years and took LWY out and they went to an alternate timeline but another JL should've still existed in that timeline because the events with YHW and JL happened 150 years ago. So unless that JL died when he tried to kill himself, he should've still been around to meet LJ.

Honestly, my personal theory is that Ji Ling existed in that timeline too and died to stop the drought like he planned so pretty much everything would have followed the same sequence minus LWY. I do not think JL would have died when he tried to kill himself even without LWY. Also LJ would have known JL but the reason he didn't know the reason of his existence at the end is because YWH never told LJ about it in this timeline.