ShortCircuit

With My Body - Huang Xiao Yun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28uxJRBz36A

There are two versions, one with "chanting". They're using that one at times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQvg3Z1_gAg

If you mean the BGM before it, I don't think I've heard it released yet. There is more BGM to find (I want to find the theme they played when they were coming to get demon-married, that theme is awesome.)

*sends complaint to Bamboo Forest Hotel Management* Water in the soup/shower still not boiled perfectly, giving a 2-star on yelp.

1. Nostalgia (it really was that good.)

2. Community (why suffer alone where we can all suffer together? :D)

3. It usually doesn't go away completely. Which is the greatest thing, too.

Happy me, I don't eat seafood LOL. No genocide in my future :D

They were both villains together LOL, he's World Enemy no. 1 and she's the one who kills her lover.

I want her to catch him, though. She owes it to him to let him be a bad guy again :D

For anyone trying to start a new drama while still in mourning for this one, two recs:

1. Oh No! Here Comes Trouble. A Taiwanese drama (12 eps) about dealing with the paranormal, full of comedy, heartbreak, excellent acting, great story, very satisfying ending. Please come watch!

https://mydramalist.com/730629-bu-liang-zhi-nian-qing-chu-shi

2. Go Ahead. A Chinese drama of 40/46 eps (DVD/TV versions). A family drama, soul-healing, nice charas, good flow, good story. Watch it for the dads' relationship in the beginning, but there's also steadfast, slow-moving romance. And strangely, this was on MangoTV but has good TL LOL (so strange and rare, I needed to comment on it hahaha).

https://mydramalist.com/40911-go-ahead

Neither is xianxia, obviously, but before starting any xianxia (that will definitely NOT compare with TTEOTM), better make a small wave-breaker with any of these dramas, because it's going to be needed :D

1. Baker boy was a serial killer who started in his teens, killing his brother. His obsession was with putting kids out of their imagined misery (he thought he was doing them a favour). So he very probably not only had those two kids to answer for, but for many more (ChuYing asks the detective to look into untimely death of any children around the area, not just the two). He met ChuYing in another kids' environment thing, so he was there probably scouting for more victims, and she told him enough of the doll case story for him to realize it's about his own killing. He's definitely not stupid, so he stuck around and tried to find out more (he began visiting the police station, asking random questions from her, etc.) And when he found out, he immediately wanted to know if his brother was still around too - because that's what motivated him. He also maybe has a thing for ChuYing (like Lecter has for Agent Starling) and wants to "help" her.

2. I think Grandpa really had an ruptured aneurysm or something before the plane crashed into the bus. Sadly I'm with the insurance company on this one. The Ink Lady kept him alive for two years, but in the end, she respected PYY's wish and let him (grandpa) choose for himself.

3. The Ink Lady isn't an obsession (no heart strings forming her, but ink or charcoal residue instead). I think she's the one linking the obsessions with the caligrapher so that he/them can see them and maybe act to help them. She's definitely very, very old (I mean, those are DEFINITELY charcoal ashes, imagine when did mankind use such to write? Way before ink was invented).

4. That scene had me in tears. PYY's expression - that fixed stare, the guilt, the longing, the fear he'd turn his father's spirit into obsession... Masterpiece.

5. It's love :D I know they never went there and it works as just simple bromance, but CGY is way too involved into anything that has to do with PYY. Even going to get him food at night while cursing him at the top of his lungs, LOL, I love them together. And I think CGY was kind of a loner, despite his good years in school, he doesn't have many friends but he's addicted to PYY's school hero manhua that even his mom makes fun of... Nah, CGY is ready for love :D (but we all know PYY is too dumb to even imagine anything like that too :D)

6. The kappa is still my favourite, LOL. I wonder what happened to its statue that mom had set up in the living room :D

7. CGY was already interning when PYY already got out of the first coma. He didn't choose a career either, waiting for PYY, so maybe one or two years, at most, going by PYY's hair :)

8. Everybody's waiting for the main character, LOL, even the spirits with the "Help me!" moan :D PYY's eyeroll :D

Beautiful story, definitely needs more seasons. I hope they have plans to make more :)

Interviews, BTS parts, an audio-only of them meeting again after the last ep's scenes.

I'd take these tops with a huge grain of salt - I guess they're counting access not ratings, maybe. For example, Queen Cleopatra has a 13% from critics and a 2% from audience on RT (it was 1% yesterday LOL) but it's third on the first top.

People tune in and maybe also tune out.

Edit: 1 day late, Queen Cle' has 11% from critics, LOL. Netflix can have some WTF moments...

Let's just pretend the delay is due to having to add so many GORGEOUS special effects now that TTEOTM has shown them how it's done :D

Nononononono if LYX gets to play only one danmei character ever, then he needs to play Chu WanNing. (And he is, be still my heart :D)

LYX is CWN and no one else...

OMG when people reference LaR and I ALWAYS flash back to the final arc, when XuanJi got to be a MALE God of War, LOL, and SiFeng was STILL mooning over her/him? hahaha. And not even a cute man, obviously, since it had to be a manly God of War, but a completely buff, no-romantic-inspirational man, LOL, it threw me off every single time he was on screen.

Cheng Yi must've had to resort to the best acting abilities he ever had to put himself in the head of lovelorn SiFeng hahaha. Imagine the pain :D

Every xianxia has its WTF moment, LOL, and there are always MCs who die, reincarnate, etc... I'd say maybe The Untamed is luckier in that department, but then Wei WuXian dies right at the beginning LOL. So there's none of them that make the non-dying character cut :D

PS The novel I was talking about (ABO danmei, though, in warning) is Accidental Mark. It's actually quite cute :)

There's a danmei novel I've read where the MC is a media producer. He makes a sweet school drama and times its release to air right when a huge IP xianxia gets to its middle arc, because, the MC says - xianxia ALWAYS gets to be dogblood and abuse the watchers, so when people start getting their hearts broken by the xianxia, they'd need to have an escape - and his cute school drama is it.

He makes a HUGE profit too LOL.

See, even novel characters know what's up :D (And I imagine iQiYi is now rubbing their hands in satisfaction over LIS hahaha).

TTJ and the Devil God are two different entities. For him to be forever gone, he'd have needed to BECOME the Devil God, and he didn't. He ascended when he was refining the Heart Protecting Scale (MY is a god, for someone to change his Scale that someone needs to be of similar power) and then he didn't CHANGE into DG as much as he absorbed his power, like he was absorbing demon power.

So what needed to be destroyed to stop the All-In-Distress-Way was his body and whatever is left from Devil God. TTJ's mortal soul can be saved... except his actions in the end take a very large toll so he's also gone (maybe saved in the Scale for the time being, before his soul can be put back together).

A lot of them are based on novels. If there's no HE (or not an easily achievable one), they can only work with what they have. Xianxia has always been a bloody genre LOL.

He's cosplaying HuaCheng, but his face is pretty similar to LYX from certain angles, LOL. And there WAS a moment when TTJ had that bandage around his neck and everybody was clamouring for LYX to be Xie Lian LOL :D

The world is saved through sacrifice. The love story ends in tears, but it's a victory for the one who sacrifices. You can see it as a BE because they don't stay together - there's a hope for rebirth, but a small one - or a OE because that hope is there so there's room for more.

But the whole journey is worth it. Very much worth it.

No, just very good friendship / bromance.

CGY's dad opened the successful night bar LOL, with the granny for a symbol. People are lining up in the rain to get there :D

CGY wants to be a forensic doctor, so maybe he'll only help dead people find their release, LOL.