ShortCircuit

When she told the Lin'An hooligans about the raid, someone in this freaking room where I'm all alone watching the drama sneakily started chopping onions.

When the other non-related hooligan wanted to make her his new 'wife' and the 4AndTheGang's leader was trying to save his life, LOL, that was SO GOOD hahaha~ One tear of hers and that bastard didn't know what hit him haha!

The little kid killed me this ep - I seriously hope they have some emotional coach there because that little boy looked definitely afraid and in shock and I know they're actors, and they would probably go through scenes so that the kids know it's play/acting... but he made me afraid for him. I wish QianQian never saved that insane ungrateful's ass in the first place.

What's the old nanny's business though? She acts more like the Custodian of Imperial Blood than anything else, doesn't the crazy duo have actual crazy parents? Why is it on her to make sure he had a kid, and then to save that kid from his father?

And come to speak of old farts, WHAT THE HELL is Xie Zheng's old mentor doing in the freaking frontlines?! Sir, you're there, she's there, do a good thing and TEACH HER TO READ properly, then condense 20 years of classics' study into one or two months until hubs shows up, and make her READY to take over the household 'cause he DEFINITELY isn't able, what with being STILL so stupid.

So, her father (?) who wasn't Fan Erniu, killed himself - did he kill his wife too or did they kill themselves each on their own over Wei Yan's threat? Did these guys ever think of raising up their household, get their daughters and freaking FLEE?? I hate this trope so much. I mean, they're dead and their daughters (?) still aren't safe. And now they're parentless too. Drama tropes, lay off already.

I expected ChangYu to keep going to save kidnapped children - she did say she had a part in cleaning up more bandits lairs but she should have kept doing it.

PS Li HuaiAn is SOFT. He never deserved her anyway. Let him pick another wife. QianQian is going to be free in a while - though I expect she had enough of noodle-spined men already. Oh well. Girl power.

Though I expect she's not doing it that convincingly to Qi Min, he already thinks she's a liar, why would he start trusting her out of the blue? I just hope she doesn't get another Sui heir in the process of steaming hot scenes - what, were the censors asleep AGAIN?

PPS ChangYu, all up in her head: "MY husband (that I definitely divorced) is tall and handsome and good at martial arts and is WAY better than your disciple"
Lao Tao: "MY disciple is tall and handsome and good at martial arts and is WAY better than your husband"
Little hooligan in the background: They're the same picture.jpg

Yeah buddy, we know. We know.

OMG that was hot. I have mixed feelings about it because of who it was, but it WAS hot. *MUST. RESIST. ASKING. FOR. REDEMPTION. ARC. FOR. THE. INSANE*

I'll be placing a Missing Person note on every wall in that country. Our ML hasn't been in the picture as much as I and his wife would have liked, and it looks like even old men are now looking for him. The beatdown will be epic.

Meanwhile, Yan Zheng: *Do Not Disturb. Busy eating my wife's candy*

ETA We're now officially past the halfway point. I am so not ready for this to end. Let's ask for more seasons where they do stuff, I don't care what, as long as it snows and he gets to fight in it for a while and she just goes and sells pork or something.

ETA2: "Let's go get MY daughter".

You do you, YZ, you do you LOL. I have no hope left for this idiot, hahaha. When she finds out (though I expect she'd be grateful), I'd rather have her hit him over the head with that chopstick move just to teach him a lesson.

Watch Dead End. He's SO good there - and a very good guy.

He is, just as Yuan Qing, not Sui. He's this guy (very good actor, I loved him in my first drama with him): https://mydramalist.com/people/107037-lin-mu-ran

He goes over the same part of skin over and over, and he pushes the coin. Her skin reddens only from the scrap.

I did scratch myself accidentally (not a lot), and I have lots of cats (and their claws go deeper, longer and draw blood), but still that - it looks painful. And I have a huge problem with (looking) painful + being done intentionally.

She also twitches from time to time, like she's hurting.

I know it's supposed to look gentle, and it's an intimate moment between them, and it's romantic - probably - but all I can think of is OUCH LOL.

It's going to be on the 26 or 27th. How do I know? I have to be away from my laptop for two days, and those are the days. Murphy's law says it HAS to happen (the express) precisely when I'm unable to watch it.

So there you go. Count on my bad luck.

AS IF he touched her much before LOL. I wonder where his mind is at times.

To me it looked amazingly painful. I have zero curiosity to ever try that. Even if the old lady said it was needed. Ouch.

Oh, I just realised that the OP sequence has the (now) infamous feathers in it, and her crown of flowers. It looked kind of strange since I first saw it, but oh!! now it makes sense.

PS And I actually LIKED the feathers (I hope they're feathers, they look like feathers LOL). You could have put him on that horse with those feathers crown right into Mononoke Hime next to the Forest God and he wouldn't have looked awkward.

They pretended they love each other. They talked about one another with different people in a WAY different manner.

Much like Xie Zheng subtly threatening Wei Yan through Wei Sheng - he knows what's up and isn't afraid to tell it, it's just that he's polite. The bros are also doing the dance, I bet they'd love to cut each other's throats.

OMFG CAN YOU BELIEVE I WAS WAITING TO SEE WHO LIN MURAN WAS GOING TO PLAY?! I just saw him in Dead End and he was THE BEST character there, and wow, he's the little psycho here?!

I didn't even recognise him til you said it!!

... I might need glasses.

What the freaking heck, did they kill EVERYBODY in that village?!! Like poor magistrate's daughter, she JUST escaped another dangerous situation - and she went out with dignity, still, she's DEAD!! And the cook, and the old ladies, and even Mme Kang who was a harpy!

The only one I don't have a problem with dying is Mme Song. She had it coming.

Everybody just walks or runs around like mad, finds the nearest cliff (there seem to be two special places like that) and jumps or is thrown off it. They should ban cliffs around the characters of this drama, LOL.

SOOOOOOOOO... Is it me or it sure looks like ChangNing might have some relationship to the bandit chieftain girl? (That character SO reminds me of that bandit girl who catches Gerda in Snow Queen, the one who just wants to keep interesting things). Maybe the two Fan girls aren't related, or maybe there's a third Fan girl? And she has had asthma as a kid too? Curious.

What the HELL is Yan Zheng doing? He caught her (well, more like the plants caught her, still, he told Fido the Falcon to find her - do falcons even hunt by scent?! I don't think so), then he did all that freaking painful-looking scraping thing (don't get me any Ancient Chinese medical treatments even if I'm dying, please and thank you. The only case I can accept it is if Yan Zheng is doing it. Then YES, please and thank you). And then he... left?! And when he caught her again on the cliff (where he teleported to get her obviously, then teleported right back to his patrol), he STILL didn't tell her?!

Boy, are you stupid or something?! You're in a freaking deep hole already, stop digging.

If this keeps going on I don't see any way that she doesn't blame him - as Marquis Wu'An - for bringing this upon the village.

Amazing eps. I see now why they used more than a quarter of the drama to get us up to speed to whoever the village people were, since now I'm sighing over the fate of a village scorpy. Whatever happened to the little nephew? How come ChangNing was wandering the streets alone? And now, poor girl, is in the power of an idiot evil psychopath, who might twist her little mind. At least the bandit girl seems to like her. For now. Until they meet either ChangYu or Yan Zheng or something.

And you're telling me next week we'll be at one ep per day?! BUT WHY?

The longer he doesn't tell her, the worse it'll go when he does.

Both Sui bros are psychopaths. Nobody should've put out that palace fire years ago. I can't even decide who is the worse - the younger, who lives to torture and is silly evil, or the older, who wants to break everything if it doesn't go his way. Whoever raised them must've been a Lecter or something.

The lightest moment of both eps was Yan Zheng asking the falcon to do dog things, while the falcon was in fact, not a dog.

He's cute though. And can act. Once he appeared I knew his character was going to be a good one. He, JingXia and HaoNan should've been fast friends. (It appeared that they were friendly, but they would've been a riot together - evidence the way they worked together to change YuQi's mind about the marriage LOL. Add JingXia and his mercantile ways and they'd have had YuQi paying them to get out of it LOL).

SCD just started, LOL, He ChangXi isn't bad looking, I think his face would've been good enough as Song Yan.

(I'm not watching that one, I'm a danmei fan but I'll very probably pass, it's about gangsters and I don't like those tropes).

I wanted a better ending for the Mu twin. So he was in love with her but had played her for all her worth before he turned dark out of the blue - because WHY would he kill the Beidou disciples when it was basically 100% certain they couldn't defeat Nie-long-name-I-can't-remember. It makes no sense. Also... if Nie-whatever DID die, wasn't that Mu twin's original purpose?! So it was a win-win no matter what if the formation actually worked (which it wouldn't have because they weren't any kind of masters).

I don't know how it goes in the book, maybe they whitewashed him enough that the original ending for the character makes no sense for the drama one, once he truly falls in love. If he was evil, he should've stayed evil. If he turned to the right side, keep him on the right side. Have Nie-the first one kill the disciples, JOIN St. PingShu in her fight against him, die a hero. I mean, it's Li YunRui, obviously he wouldn't be a complete evil character but make it make sense!

And I am a bit disappointed in the (lack of) growth for Uncle Lei's character. Weren't they (most of them) the heroes of their age? So he KNEW all this time what his Sect's Master was doing, killing people, causing disasters with his corpse fighters plague, and so on - and did NOTHING?! NOTHING AT ALL??? Why were he and St. PingShu even friends then?! He couldn't have been such a coward in her times.

The only plausible explanations for the last ep are that they strayed so far from the original work that they couldn't make it back to track in time and just had to slap a haphazard ending over it.

At least I've finally noticed Zhou YiRan, I'll be looking for his dramas. Yu JiaCheng has the build and presence to become a ML but IMHO they overdid it a bit with this role. Not his fault, but the character overstayed his presence in the last ep...

Oh well, it WAS entertaining for a long time. The frustration comes mostly from the part where I expected MQY to lie there dying and making a will and giving everything away in order to have her commit to marrying him and leaving her no way out of it and then to go "PSYCH!!!! Made you believe I was dying - well, I'm not, let's get married!" That would've been 1000% in line with the character and his scheming shameless ways.

I'll just imagine that's how it went anyway LOL.

They ran out of things to do in the last episode. The editing messed up big time too - yeah I get it, we want some mystery blah blah but that's definitely not the way to go about it.

I could care less about the soap-opera redemption of their "Master" (what, wasn't he the same genocidal maniac from seconds ago? He had done things for years, way before he almost completed the final stage so that he could officially go crazy. And he had just murdered his wife a few minutes back. Like, DRAMA, SERIOUSLY?! Eff that).

PingShu must've been the one single best woman in the Jianghu ever, all the men were in love with her, going to battle with her, trying to save her, trying to get revenge for her, and so on and so forth. It got boring after the few 5 or 10 or so.

And what about the "sneaky" does-he-die-is-he-alive montage?! Whatever for all those dramatic goodbyes if he's going to come back all alive and hale just because almost dying magically saves you from a poison you've had all your life?! Could they have not found a better editor or at least do it so that there's some real emotion behind it?! Why did he appear out of the blue in that patch of flowers, when she already knew he was okay (given the flashback to learning he had expelled all the poison) and she was acting like he respawned from some flower seed or something?! That was... a bit (or more than a bit) cringy.

If they really had no more to say or show, I'd have preferred they shortened it by one episode or something. Like this... TBH, the final ep (or the final 4 eps rather) is a bit underwhelming.

Oh well. MQY as a character was finally one who could plan by using his loved ones for once LOL, and while the ending is weak, it's not completely bad. Zhao was... initially cute and lively, eventually kind of a revolving door type of character - hot and cold whenever the door turned.

So there's that. Could have been better, but then a lot of them usually are like this.

PS I seriously missed Song the father these last few eps. I'd have liked to see him recovered enough, even if with no cultivation. He was a good wingman to his son.

Which also reminds me - is it me or did we see a lot more of the SML than the ML in the freaking final ep?! Like... why?! I still blame the editor.

As expected...

I don't think it's coincidence. He's supposedly thousands of years old, maybe born immediately after Cheng Huang fell out with the original Baize Avatar because of his supposed cure for the plague. All the avatars are mortal, they don't get immortality from being chosen. They even have to apprentice to learn how to use the Baize Token. Wan'er couldn't have been only the second one, and Wen Xiao isn't only the third Avatar. So all the others Baize Avatars must've known the power held by the strongest Wilderness demon - and there's no mention of any other Da Yao other than Zhu Yan (and before, Cheng Huang).

They waltzed over the explanations, but it only makes sense like this - Zhu Yan was there for almost all the other Avatars and got along with them just fine, including Wan'er. Wan'er must've apprenticed with the previous Avatar, too, like Wen Xiao was with her. Zhu Yan likes humans anyway, he might've tried to make friends with every one of them who was decent, LOL.

And after all, the Mountain Gods are almost as old as the original goddesses, and they were keeping the gate closed when the plague came the first time. They have to know things. I can't imagine they'd keep something as important as the balance from half the balance-making entities.

Zhu Yan is sneaky, he won't tell anyone (and particularly his dearest and closest friends) things that might hurt them in the long run. Especially since they wouldn't be able to change any single thing about it. I mean - it was common knowledge he had killed YiChen's brother and father. Being friends with him hurt YiChen, because he also loved his family and wanted revenge. What if they all knew from the beginning that Zhu Yao had killed Wan'er (even if it was out of his control)? And when they do learn, it hurts them all and hurts the bond between them. So whatever dark secrets Zhu Yan has, he'd keep them all instead and suffer by himself (it's obvious he's very much affected).

Blossom obviously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb_-FGcNthM

Same director. He loves good cinematography and snow fights in slow-motion. (I highly approve). And handsome leads. And a pretty good plot. And best of all, that one's already bingeable.