It’s his voice tho. Nobody else has that beautiful voice thus it can only be him.
I dunno, it makes sense if he is alive to me.
1) He promised his sister he’d retire peacefully with a cat. 2) He was foretold he’d live till his hair turned white again. (He’s trying to force the prophesy with hair dye but that’s not how they work) 3) He closed the doors behind him but never barred them, and the force of the explosion blew them open. If he was standing close to the entrance he would be blown towards the exit while the king would have been blown further in, consumed by fire. 4) The overarching problem (there is not enough to eat for Tiemo) has not been resolved. Chang’an can spare food to fund a whole underground river city of refugees, it has more than it needs while Tiemo doesn’t have enough. Stealing food because you have none isn’t the right answer, but I’d back him sorting out the mess that is their nation. 5) He wants to live so he can keep remembering his family.
For me its plausible on all these levels if he didn’t die in the fire, but that the last of his vengeance burnt up instead since the masterminds who were involved in the betrayal and murder of his dad and family were finally all dead.
It’s his voice tho. Nobody else has that beautiful voice thus it can only be him.
😂 Nah, for a less distinctive voice it could happen, but not his. Only he has that voice. It is such a beautiful voice. He is randomly in a locked room without a hair brush (or had one but that’s what happens to hair you don’t brush daily when it’s that long, it could have been a morning wake up call) but he’s alive, I will take it.)
How he lived is way more of a mystery given the boom but if YFS lived and only pretended to collapse like XHA did after the stab in the stomach, maybe YFS picked him up and got him out. 🙏 They can be a toad found family, both ooozing charisma and scheming while still caring about the nation 😭
Replying tobuffy20041•Dec 26, 2025•Liked Dec 26, 2025
I loved the drama but i want to comment something:I don't think the guy in the special is Huai'an. They trying…
Yeah initially I thought the same, that couldn't be XHA. Because Cen Pickles seemed to act differently towards this guy, like more taunting. He wouldn't dare to act like that with XHA. Or is it because XHA is behind bars, Cen is not afraid anymore?
Then later on I thought about the prisoner's voice (sounds a lot like XHA's), the pouch of bitter after, the bottle (of toad oil?) , the mention of Mt. Shilouman, the ugly toads story, and forgetting the past. These seem to be things specific between Yan Fengshan and Xie Huai'an.
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1) He promised his sister he’d retire peacefully with a cat.
2) He was foretold he’d live till his hair turned white again. (He’s trying to force the prophesy with hair dye but that’s not how they work)
3) He closed the doors behind him but never barred them, and the force of the explosion blew them open. If he was standing close to the entrance he would be blown towards the exit while the king would have been blown further in, consumed by fire.
4) The overarching problem (there is not enough to eat for Tiemo) has not been resolved. Chang’an can spare food to fund a whole underground river city of refugees, it has more than it needs while Tiemo doesn’t have enough. Stealing food because you have none isn’t the right answer, but I’d back him sorting out the mess that is their nation.
5) He wants to live so he can keep remembering his family.
For me its plausible on all these levels if he didn’t die in the fire, but that the last of his vengeance burnt up instead since the masterminds who were involved in the betrayal and murder of his dad and family were finally all dead.
How he lived is way more of a mystery given the boom but if YFS lived and only pretended to collapse like XHA did after the stab in the stomach, maybe YFS picked him up and got him out. 🙏 They can be a toad found family, both ooozing charisma and scheming while still caring about the nation 😭
Then later on I thought about the prisoner's voice (sounds a lot like XHA's), the pouch of bitter after, the bottle (of toad oil?) , the mention of Mt. Shilouman, the ugly toads story, and forgetting the past. These seem to be things specific between Yan Fengshan and Xie Huai'an.