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Think he may have ever since she saved him when they first met, but her subsequent behaviour and the choices she made put them on irreconciliable paths. Plus she was only in love with ZZ.

Real voice

Guilty as charged 😆

Well it occured to me he could be like the real life counterpart of Yang Yang's character in You are my glory - remember how Dilraba's agent drooled over him saying it was such a waste he wasn't in showbiz?

And last but absolutely not least he's got brains too - he was on his way to be an astrophysicist/space engineer (?) when he was talent scouted...............😂😂

Let's not forget that ZLH only made his debut a mere 3 years ago in what is still one of my fave romcom wuxia dramas, Maiden Holmes, and look where he is today 😍. I thought his performance would be secondary to BL's, but he's really showing a side to his acting that hasn't emerged previously. Definitely one to watch closely in the coming years.

And can I mention his amazing jawline again for the 100th time? 😂😂😂

It’s like they’re channeling JJ Abrams when he filmed Star Trek. It was horrible and distracting then too.

The lighting is terrible - those flares! So irritating.

Yes, but since she is now speaking as someone reliving her life, from her perspective she would also be talking about herself in the past life and herself now. Though XW should only be able to understand the first meaning. It really does feel like he has past life memories, but the novel readers say only ZZ has them.

IKR? My reax when that happened was wait till XW finds out what you did to his girl, you little a-hole, he’s so going to squoosh you…..😈

He said that XW missed out the part where the person coming of age also has to be a loyal subject, and asked why. XW of course evades the question.

I really wanted XW to turn up and do something nasty to Xue junior after he slapped JXN. Will have to wait till he takes them all down……

He calls her Ning’er cos that is a name of all of her own. Xue is a generational name - all the daughters of the family have that character in their name in that generation. Jiang is the family surname. Only Ning is her very own name and her very own identity.

I'm wondering about that too. The only place where I can think of where she makes reference to a changed self is when they were talking about the past and she asked which is better, the person she was then, or the person she is now............but that's so tenous.

Aaargh all these cliffhangers……

Dementia is not the best translation - as others have pointed out the literal translation is something along the lines of soul leaving or soul splitting disease. In modern terms best understood as PTSD or manic episode.

They first met four years ago cos JXN’s father asked XW to help escort her to the capital. Along the way they met some bandits and got separated from the rest of the Jiang household. The 2 ended up in the wilderness in snow and ice. XW’s PTSD/mania was triggered and he said some things which may have hinted at his identity as a rebel and/or his motives for going to the capital. JXN saved him by giving him some of her blood to drink.
It is probable that he has harboured some feelings for her since then, but subsequently he felt that she had become wayward, obtuse, and cruel. He is wary about her revealing his secret. He’s also (ostensibly) worried about her harming his cousin Yan Lin who is in love with her, although it quickly becomes apparent that he also has feelings for her at least in this timeline. In the previous life/timeline, JXN was probably oblivious to all these undercurrents when she was 18 and also apparently forgot most of the incident, and was therefore in XW’s words, allowed to live on for a few more years.

Well that also depends if you're taking into account that's she's living her life the second time

Yes. Wonder when they will thaw that one out...........big sigh.

Yes he's doing nicely. If Dylan Wang was a revelation in LBFAD then this could be ZLH's turn. I keep forgetting ZLH was also in LBFAD - he was ok there but not as memorable as DW. Plus Joe Xu also in the mix - hard to compete.