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I want to go back to that scene in episode 9, when he finds his parents' remains.

Since we know these were directly Xiao Zhan's acting choices I have to say again how impressed I am by the scene. Not just the choice of portraying the nausea with the gagging but the way his entire performance was so contained there. I think it left a stronger impact on me, the immense strength of Zanghai's grief, that he wasn't big in his emotions but that he pulled it more in. Sometimes the enormity of tragedy is so huge that you cannot expel your emotions, they are choking you in their intensity. When he pulled the two garments together, I admit I really lost it. What a phenomenal scene.

Xiao Zhan fans are predominantly adult women actually, late twenties to mid forties then up. Definitely prime audience for this type of content.

You may discover one more millimetre of nipple. Totally worth it 😂😂😂

He explained that in persuit of art, one must make sacrifices? 😂

Take a good look at him and then tell me it's not justified 😂

Beggars can't be choosers 😋

Let's just say Chinese history is riddled with these "creative" punishments. I will spare you the details, it's not pretty.

But I applaud ZXL for not sanitising history and showing it exactly as it was. It's very impactful and the shock and disgust we feel is a good lesson for us all about what humans are capable of.

I think our brains get oversaturated with details so we simply don't register something.

But it's definitely no hardship to give this one repeated viewings 😂 So far, really excellent script writing.

They absolutely do have ulterior motives but so far, we are at episode 10, it still hadn't come to unveiling him or what their plans are. It is a well developed plot, no rushing. Watch everything then we can speculate together, there are so many theories!

ZXL is peppering all these small, seemingly throw away details throughout the drama but they end up blossoming later. It really requires repeated viewing to catch everything!

Today in ratings was excellent. Once again we had to contend with table tennis (which is incredibly popular in China, you have no idea) and of course, the drama going on CCTV1 but both episodes broke 1.9 today.

That means the plot is really resonating with the audience and holding.

He told you himself. Playing dumb is a sure way to stay alive.

If he were smart, his brother would have gone for his head a long time ago.

It was. Unfortunately it is a well known punishment from that time. People were skinned - while alive - and then the skin stuffed with straw and hanged on the walls. One small mercy here is that at least his parents were dead when it happened.

I think I probably would have went a little mad in Zanghai's place.

Go play victim somewhere else.

You don't get to come here and police what people say or think and no, you are not the arbiter of what is good or bad. Now you can play pretend some more like you don't know what you tried to dictate here.

Loop is our friend 😂

Breathe, breathe. We need to stay alive so we can feast our eyes longer 🥵

No, no, no need to thank me. I am happy to help if I can 🤗

I am hoping the same myself, we need to see if Youku is going to sell the rights to Netflix, that would be great. Have fun with your watching today 🤗

I suggest that people who like a fine man get some cold water ready. Weibo is going crazy for very good reason 👀

Hello!

Heat is currently at 10205. We have, unfortunately, entered the loop period of heat. Let me explain.

Tencent and iQiyi have heat that, theoretically, can constantly rise as long as the drama is gaining interes.

Youku has a 72-hour cycle. This means that it counts only 72-hour increments for its heat index. So as soon as we enter hour 73, the data for the first hour is deleted. This is why Youku has never had a drama that went past 10400, it is simply incredibly difficult with all the data being constantly purged and keeping only the most recent 72 hours one. The heat is holding steady, which is great news and means the drama isn't losing anything in discussions, engagement, views but getting it higher becomes incredibly difficult now. So it's doing great but by how much it may rise, if it rises, nobody can predict now. We have to wait.

All the other data is rising and is doing incredibly well. Legend of Zanghai is topping all the charts. But more importantly people are genuinely having a blast watching it.

The seal is actually still missing. It hasn't been found. What they found is a different thing. Go back and look closely at the beginning, you will see it is not the bracelet that was found by his father. It's a box like thing.