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the last few episodes have been pissing me off ngl. the characters were written smart in the beginning but suddenly everyone started being ridiculously stupid.
top 1 stupidity. in a murder scene, you should arrest everyone at the site for interrogation, not listen one sidedly to the only conscious person in the room. I was almost banging my head at this like wtf was going thru the writer's head here. a drugged person killed her own maid by slitting her throat and also stabbed the princess in the heart before passing out, not being stopped by the two non drugged maids in the room? sure let's all just be selectively dumb ig.
number 2, mo xiuyao didn't ask where the edict came from when yeli vindicated his family and soldiers but suddenly believed muyang hou when he put the blame on her mother? ur really gonna be mad yeli didn't tell u about anything when u didn't ask at the time of the edict reveal and also when her mother died trying to save ur brother bc of muyang hou's schemes?? where'd his brain go?? this seems like unnecessary misunderstanding written just for the sake of angst but it's not angsty cuz it's just dumb. what happened to ur promises to stay with yeli forever? u made them just to break them? I hoped for a moment it'd be different from the cliches and he'd spent all that time away processing the situation and accepting that her mother was betrayed while trying to help, resulting in both family's downfalls, but no, only ur family's downfall matters to u ig. not sure if he's gonna get back into my good graces bc this shitty writing really turned me off, especially when it's been so good up until like 5 eps ago!
ugh ok rant over

at first I thought ye li was always lying when talking about her teachers and shixiongs on lishan, but now it seems she actually believes they're still alive... but sometimes it does look like she's lying so maybe she occasionally has moments of clarity? either way her mental illness and ptsd is really sad and her shixiong's expression when looking at her after returning from lishan makes my heart hurt

the eerie mysterious atmosphere in this drama is amazing and the instrumental ost is so chillingly beautiful, i need them to release it asap

enjoying it so far but I got kinda frustrated by chu zhao's overconfidence in her plans. like the other characters said, she's smart but too impatient. she failed to kill xiao xun not just the first time, but the second time as well! and the second time she was still so confident that she'd succeed, not learning from her first failed attempt. prior knowledge from rebirth shouldn't result in overconfidence but in the person being able to make backup upon backup plans based on how variables might act. you shouldn't assume plan a will go as u think, especially when u already failed once. and history has already changed, so you can't rely too much on past knowledge. anyway hopefully she learns her lesson this time bc I keep thinking she'll have a plan b and c from the way she's acting only for them to completely fail and I'm like ...huh? I thought she's smarter than this. at this rate it seems like pure luck that succeeded to save the imperial grandson and become grand princess.
also really curious on fu jiu's backstory, like how did he end up going from being almost beaten to death to being under chu ling's wing

she's sooo stunning in moonlit reunion, you'll prob like that one

have you watched moonlit reunion? the plot is kinda messy towards the end but the chemistry between tian xiwei and the ml there is really good and a lot more than poj imo, tho the storyline is done better in poj

I really wanna know how mei zhuyu survived a stab through the heart tho, and how'd he become a cat yao? is wu zhen also still a cat yao? also if he went back in time to take the core into himself instead of wu zhen, shouldn't his dad have passed his power to zhuyu to seal the core and make him the cat lord instead of wu zhen? then how did wu zhen become a full yao?
also xuan hui's death was so unnecessary :((( that grey rat deserved a worse death, he got off too easily. not to mention shu suddenly killing himself before the finale was so... futile.
it's really a pity that the writing didn't match how good the characters and actors were!

this was so cute and enjoyable to watch! it was kinda a mess towards the end but the characters mostly make up for the plot holes. it's been a while since I watched a xu kai drama, he's really good at playing characters like mei zhuyu. and tian xiwei is really awesome at strong fl characters and looked so beautiful here. I love their chemistry, ngl even more than poj. also the cat scenes were so adorable, as a huge cat lover this is def a plus for me haha

omg i recognize mei si's va, it's lu guang and lu jinghe jhkdsajlk

what I loved about this show is that the side characters were so multifaceted and well done, especially the villains. half the time I couldn't even tell if the villains were truly villains at all. it's not so black and white. they are morally grey, with their own reasons and difficulties, which was interesting to see. especially wei yan, he was such a complex character, he seemed so suspicious but strangely also not really an evil guy. it was great seeing the alternate universe at the end, where their original personalities show. makes you realize that one wrongdoing from a ruler could ruin so many lives.
also the found family aspect was so beautiful and heartwarming

I feel like they got over mandi's death so fast! I was so sad but suddenly they're laughing and celebrating like they didn't just lose a brother... and then he just got replaced by that kang guy... what about his little sister? they could've showed a bit more of the gang's grief

I'm crying wth ep 19 is so miserable I can't believe everyone was wiped out just like that and poor qianqian, that scene broke my heart

then where is ji ling in the ending in this timeline? no one remembers him except wsg who's the only one aware of the time travel after it happened :(

yes, li jie's ending is the saddest... after talking with dieyao yuan wuhuo for the last time, he realized that he was born from og yuan wuhuo's obsession to protect his didi, but also became sure of himself, denying that he has been protecting ji ling all this time just because of his origins. like he told ywh, he might have originally found his way to ji ling because of that obsession, but he stayed by him because he got to know ji ling and see his kindness, compassion, and loneliness, and swore to protect him. it no longer had anything to do with either yuan wuhuo and their obsessions. that's why he said he knows who he is now. but the ending made him forget the one he devoted his life to and he lost his purpose...
but I headcanon that there is still a ji ling in this world, and that the voice in his heart will eventually bring li jie to find him

I agree that the journey is what matters over the result, which is why this ending actually ruins this idea. because memories are what make the journey. if you don't even remember the journey, it never happened... the only one that actually made the journey would be wsg who still remembers everything

if that was the case that'd be the most miserable, sad ending ever for ji ling, I can't accept it 😭

but li jie literally exists because of ji ling. and same with wu shiguang actually. at what point is ji ling removed from the equation cuz there's cause and effect and if the cause is removed, the whole timeline collapses, which is why I think the ending is so strange

why don't they remember ji ling? bc if there's no ji ling as long shen, then there'd be no li jie, no wu shiguang and no you chi at shilin. and where is the ji ling of this time? what part of the past was kept and what was rewritten? how far back was it when jiu ying put the piece of oracle stone in lwy, bc she hadn't met ji ling at that point. if ji ling went back so far in the past to kill jiu ying in the fox queen, did they still have to follow the steps of killing all the jy fragments and then chi wen? there's so many loose ends that aren't answered, the way they ended it with this time travel rewrite was such lazy writing ngl, the characters deserved better happy endings with all their hard work kept. or at least have the time travel be closer in time, like if the oracle stone was only put in lwy the last time they were called back during the full moon. then wwy and yc would still be revived and the butterfly effect of time travel wouldn't be as big of a plot hole

I'm still thinking about the ending and the consequences of the last time travel and something doesn't make sense, like what exactly was changed?

also we literally got a flashback from li jie where ji ling says he wanted to be remembered when he passed, and wanted to be mourned as ji ling. and he was before...