ShortCircuit

You mean the first special? (the other 6 were BTS). It wasn't a HE. It was a inconclusive ending. They're not together in the same frame, you could choose to believe he was there and they were looking at him (as the dog also was looking at someone) OR that they were on the same beach but in different moments in time, and that was the place he chose to walk in the waves or lie down and wait to die, long before they came looking.

The book has him alive, but it's not a HE either. I'd choose to believe he does survive in the drama, mainly for closure, but it's just my own choice.

Happily I don't have a problem with inconclusive or BEs, as long as the rest of the story leading up to them makes sense. :D I'd rather have this inconclusive ending that the definite one from the novel, anyway.

All the FLs want to get into romances, but all the MLs are busy elsewhere, LOL.

LXY would be part of the LEGITIMATE imperial family, but his ancestor never made it in the succession line, since he got killed off as a traitor in a rebellion that involved his sorceress wife.

The present emperor is the grandson of an adulteress concubine who realised her husband was infertile and wanted an heir any manner she could get one. So this emperor now would be illegitimate, if the whole story came out into the light. Which is why it doesn't.

Also, he was Wan Mian's boyfriend / FWB / expecting fiance /support animal or something. Maybe they were afraid of HER.

In LOTR, the excuse was that the Eagles DIDN'T want to, LOL. They were too high and mighty to participate in the saving of the world, as THEY weren't affected (yet) and didn't want to bother until Gandalf made a personal (and time-restricted) request, LOL.

So no matter how petty the excuse, there's always one.

At least we get entertaining struggles out of it :D

Well in the end, remorse or not, he KNEW the poison was without cure (he had no way to know LXY would even get to survive and detoxify in the first place) and when LXY does die of it... Yun BiQiu is still a b*tch.

As for why did the sect leave him alive... they were not united. And TBH where was the proof? His saying so? Maybe none of them felt that confident they were in the right to condemn and punish him.

They never can destroy it because there are ALWAYS work-arounds. If they destroy one access key, there would suddenly be some master-mechanical genius who just figures out how it was put together or something and THEN it gets opened anyway. Or something.

And well... it's the "why didn't they fly the Eagles to Mordor" approach. We wouldn't have the story - any of it - if it worked like that, LOL.

In the novel, FDB ends up married to the princess, the one sent to fight DFS in place of LLH (after he breaks his sword) is ZiJin - who seems to be a lot more important than in the drama, and after the missed fighting date on the beach, FDB sends hundreds of people to look for LLH along the beaches and rivers.

When they eventually find him, he is already disabled - almost blind, useless right hand and his memories mostly gone. He can't remember FDB, who is caring for him anyway, and from time to time he gets to play weiqi with DFS, but he also doesn't remember who he is.

So, better imagine he either died - as in the implied ending of the drama, or they did find him but he was basically okay, as is implied in the extra. The novel's ending is way too sad (maybe the MTL f**ed things up, but it seems pretty clear anyway, so I don't think it's something lost in translation...)

So yeah... actually the drama's unclear ending is better than the novel's.

I mistyped it, LOL, should be LYST. It's Love You Seven Times, with Ding Yu Xi (he was in Romance of Tiger and Rose). It released on August 10th, and MLC fast-tracked the last eps on August 9th, so that they don't overlap (iQiYi is releasing both of them).

It's a summer for wuxia and xianxia, that's for sure, lots of long-awaited dramas are coming out of the woodwork.

... not 2ha though T_T because life is hard. *sigh*

Youtube, Hifini, cdbao etc - there are places. They just have to actually release the OST and BGM, though.

Err, according to the release schedule, normal-VIP (not fast-track) 35-36 and so on are coming from Monday, two days earlier than I thought. So that's good news, right? :D

I've watched the extra. It's left unclear on purpose though - DFS and FDB are not shown in the same frame on that beach together with LLH and it's implied he WAS there some time ago and now is no more.

BUT the dog is looking happily up at SOMEONE (not one of the two, IMHO).

On the other hand... the beggar did say he took the candy from a body. So it's all up for interpretation and I'm gonna go read the MTL ending to see what's up, LOL.

The last eps (not in VIP) come out from Wednesday, if I'm not wrong. They will be released normally, just that they fast-tracked it for who wanted to see them sooner because LYST was releasing the next day, as I've heard it, and they didn't want the competition.

Respect toward elders - and particularly family - was THE social norm in Ancient China. Him not paying respect toward SGD would have been the problem, were it the case.

Actually, not just elders of the family had to be respected, masters or teachers HAD to get the same respect from their apprentices/students.

"A teacher for a day, a father for a lifetime" they used to say. Things are changing in modern society, but elders being important is still observed.

Still unclear though. They all went to that beach, but it might have been at different times. The only ALMOST certain clue that they are together there at the same time is Fox Spirit's attention to SOMEONE who can only be LLH.

Then again, the beggar said he found the candy on a body.

So in fact... it's a choose-your-own-ending kind of end.

Now I have to read the ending of the novel to see if LXY actually survives or not, because that beach scene, while lovely - I mean, both his boyfriends came to get him back! - is not clear enough. I tend to think he'd survive but we'll see.

I was going to BET he had to give the Styx Flower to the Emperor because there was no other way for everybody (and their dog) to get out of the situation. No matter how benevolent the Emperor would be, he couldn't afford to let anyone live who knew his secret, unless he had a tight leash on them, or they're dying anyway.

I still fear for FDB at this time, for that reason, too. His marriage to the princess won't ever happen anyway, and the Emperor might just want to wait a bit before making a move. Good thing FDB isn't a pushover.

Ah, Daddy Di! His obsession with having a fight with LXY anyway turned out so cute in the end. No, he won't take a replacement, not even FDB. That's true love right there. I guess he'll have to console himself with beating everyone else's asses instead.

Ahh, this was soooo good. Any chances for a second season? Can we, please, pretty please with a cherry on top? I won't even care if the mysteries turn out to be boring. Let's get the fantastic trio back, shall we!!

The most important thing you have to take from this is that LI XIANGYI CARRIED DI FEISHENG TO THE BRIDAL CHAMBER. On his back. No, I won't need any explanations for this. It's self-explanatory LOL.

Also, F**K that special extra. Do it wholeheartedly or not at all.

That being said, I loved this. And most of all, all hail Fox Spirit. That HAS to be the most happy dog on set I've ever watched in any Chinese drama, LOL.

He doesn't UNDERSTAND how to recognize feelings, it's not that he CAN'T or DOESN'T feel them.

Like a colour-blind person - they do see the colours, but can't identify them.

Trust him, he does love her. They'll find a way to communicate.

You're welcome! I really do hope you like it :) Have fun watching it :)