Well, I was pretty confused at the very last minutes of the drama. So I came her to see the explanation. But I…
To compare the final scene, watch EP02 from 38:40 (dark, outside the building). For one opinion (very spoilery), see the second and third paragraph of what Rosabella25 wrote here https://mydramalist.com/761021-xiao-yao#comment-24910220
Guess you could endure until 20 or 26, picks up around there.
It does the basic xanxia "three lifetimes" thing, with the FL going to previous lives and meeting ML there. Those parts at least have some sweet/cute scenes, even if the FL actress still does not have notable romantic chemistry with him.
- grass bracelet: 100% forgotten - blind girl with cat in demon valley: 100% forgotten - temporarily villainous plant Da Li: 95% forgotten
- how did ML turn from full human into full(?) demon? (& not die when killed by FL but sleep thousands of years): does the human goddess essentially already turn ML into a demon, or does drinking from the Yuli spring make him a demon instead of a human immortal, and what if anything does the FL do in this context? - how is the most recent FL incarnation born to be half demon, how can FL's blood revive ML, why does FL blood attract demons, why do the writers forget all this after a few episodes..?
- ...how do you place a human being's soul into a human body that has no functional heart, and the result is a living breathing "normal" human?
- the power levels of characters in fights change to suit the current plot arc's needs
As a quite haphazardly structured show, it goes so deep into side quests they might as well be full story expansions with their own side quests, only to then have to wrap up the comparatively paper-thin main story in 5% of the runtime. Makes you wonder how much was filmed and ultimately cut. There's so much unexplained or actually pretty much random stuff too.
So what type of ending does it have ? Is it happy or sad or open I cant figure it out.
Happy if you tell yourself she then changes the timeline (once more) to fix everything.
Open if you aren't that opinionated.
Bad if you consider it as her not traveling back in time but just being stuck inside her happier memories for the rest of her life, to escape the grisly reality. Someone else called that a "cosmic depression prison".
Assuming we're on the same page that Hong Ye is the guy who got the the whole Yuli Stream search going and is…
The FL is the one who got the whole Yuli Spring search going since she adopted the ML as her privileged house pet and then told the entire world population to go search for a magical thing that instantly boosts demon cultivation.
Her 3 close friends, of which one was more of an enemy, did not die then. They were locked up, think cryo-sleep.
Most of it about Bing Zhu, Bing Zhu looks like he is the main protagonist of the drama not Xiao Yao nor Hong Ye,…
Bing Zhu is definitely not the ML, but the part where Hong Ye doesn't appear for a long time is a substantial waste of screen time, yes. Once you get through that, the show is a lot better.
Everyone has their own thoughts and conclusions about this drama. Some say it's a never ending cycle. But according…
I watched the show in a very different light. For me, X3 changes shit left and right (which makes the time travel problems much more obvious).
My version:
10000–I: (I know nothing about the original timeline.)
10000–II: X3 is in X1's body, and immediately changes the timeline by randomly blasting the sea, spawning H1 onto the beach. Then she changes the timeline by being hell-bent to adopt a human, which makes her people stage murder games that H1 has to brave. She changes the timeline by telling the whole demon world about the Yuli Spring and that getting it greatly boosts demon cultivation. Ripple effects of this are AoHen and LongZhi killing X1's people & family, as well as thousands of years of demons and humans alike being obsessed with the hitherto unknown Yuli Spring. X3's precognition is why she specifically founds demon valley in the place it is in X3's timeline and makes HY wake up there (and even tasks poor Long Yu to be his guardian and first demon king). Why would X1 do it like that?
100–I: X2 is in X2's body, and she kills herself after H2's death, which XiaoM witnesses.
100–II: X3 is in X2's body, and she flies off with the tear essence after H2's death, but I guess XiaoM still sees it as her killing herself (??). While X3 is in X2's body, she behaves in ways that only make sense because she already knows H3 and knows that H3 and H2 are the same person, meaning it's okay for her to date her own boyfriend in the past and she presumably knows the X2 body will die anyway. She still approaches him in ways that would make no sense for the actual X2 to do, and while out in town with H2, she has a skillset/knowledge that would be 99.9% impossible for the real X2 to have. H2 constantly catches this and calls her out over it ("are you really a sheltered princess who has never left the palace?" style).
Because of this, for me there is a chicken and egg problem of what the actual X1 and X2 did. Also, X3 effectively overwrites and 'kills' X1 and X2, since neither seem to survive being inhabited by X3, with X1 more or less flying off into the sun to disappear and X2 (historically) dying with her husband.
P.S.: What do you mean with the final scene dialogue affirming that H3 has memories of all lifetimes? In my subtitles the only really new thing he says is "These are all negotiable.". When she enters in EP40, he has more of a lingering gaze instead of immediately talking like in EP02, but that alone doesn't mean anything since she also enters the room in a very different way?
this product is so bad, nobody wants it even if it's the only thing in the fridge: https://i.imgur.com/Ose3Brb.png
obligatory 666 satanic medicine here and there (allergies? 666! stomach issues? 666! didn't eat for days? 666!)
some silly SOUL app
that clip of an ugly express delivery vehicle that plays ~50 times
those two alcohol bottles
(& everybody has the same phone design or brand)
I've seen ML's car in another show before, but at least you don't really have scenes highlighting its features.
In one episode FL snatches a device from ML that really doesn't seem appropriate/useful for her demography.
I mean, it's not oppressive the way Rio was in O2O. Or bubble tea in LMLMV.
However, one could also find its ending a bit iffy.
I feel I've seen the Tan'er actress in some other show, but...
For one opinion (very spoilery), see the second and third paragraph of what Rosabella25 wrote here https://mydramalist.com/761021-xiao-yao#comment-24910220
- grass bracelet: 100% forgotten
- blind girl with cat in demon valley: 100% forgotten
- temporarily villainous plant Da Li: 95% forgotten
- how did ML turn from full human into full(?) demon? (& not die when killed by FL but sleep thousands of years): does the human goddess essentially already turn ML into a demon, or does drinking from the Yuli spring make him a demon instead of a human immortal, and what if anything does the FL do in this context?
- how is the most recent FL incarnation born to be half demon, how can FL's blood revive ML, why does FL blood attract demons, why do the writers forget all this after a few episodes..?
- ...how do you place a human being's soul into a human body that has no functional heart, and the result is a living breathing "normal" human?
- the power levels of characters in fights change to suit the current plot arc's needs
Makes you wonder how much was filmed and ultimately cut.
There's so much unexplained or actually pretty much random stuff too.
And the ending... I don't need flame that on its own, https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTYPc6mjCqu/ does a pretty solid job of it already.
Open if you aren't that opinionated.
Bad if you consider it as her not traveling back in time but just being stuck inside her happier memories for the rest of her life, to escape the grisly reality. Someone else called that a "cosmic depression prison".
This isn't a drugs problem but a putting 30% of the story into 5% of the space problem.
I mean, all interpretations exist in the comments.
Her 3 close friends, of which one was more of an enemy, did not die then. They were locked up, think cryo-sleep.
Once you get through that, the show is a lot better.
https://www.reddit.com/r/cdramasfans/comments/1q9tyde/comment/nyzu89k/
there's a tacked on happy ending in writing though
https://x.com/tansongyun26/status/2012114014621352018/photo/2
but only read that after watching to the end
For me, X3 changes shit left and right (which makes the time travel problems much more obvious).
My version:
10000–I:
(I know nothing about the original timeline.)
10000–II:
X3 is in X1's body, and immediately changes the timeline by randomly blasting the sea, spawning H1 onto the beach. Then she changes the timeline by being hell-bent to adopt a human, which makes her people stage murder games that H1 has to brave. She changes the timeline by telling the whole demon world about the Yuli Spring and that getting it greatly boosts demon cultivation. Ripple effects of this are AoHen and LongZhi killing X1's people & family, as well as thousands of years of demons and humans alike being obsessed with the hitherto unknown Yuli Spring.
X3's precognition is why she specifically founds demon valley in the place it is in X3's timeline and makes HY wake up there (and even tasks poor Long Yu to be his guardian and first demon king). Why would X1 do it like that?
100–I:
X2 is in X2's body, and she kills herself after H2's death, which XiaoM witnesses.
100–II:
X3 is in X2's body, and she flies off with the tear essence after H2's death, but I guess XiaoM still sees it as her killing herself (??).
While X3 is in X2's body, she behaves in ways that only make sense because she already knows H3 and knows that H3 and H2 are the same person, meaning it's okay for her to date her own boyfriend in the past and she presumably knows the X2 body will die anyway. She still approaches him in ways that would make no sense for the actual X2 to do, and while out in town with H2, she has a skillset/knowledge that would be 99.9% impossible for the real X2 to have. H2 constantly catches this and calls her out over it ("are you really a sheltered princess who has never left the palace?" style).
Because of this, for me there is a chicken and egg problem of what the actual X1 and X2 did.
Also, X3 effectively overwrites and 'kills' X1 and X2, since neither seem to survive being inhabited by X3, with X1 more or less flying off into the sun to disappear and X2 (historically) dying with her husband.
P.S.: What do you mean with the final scene dialogue affirming that H3 has memories of all lifetimes? In my subtitles the only really new thing he says is "These are all negotiable.".
When she enters in EP40, he has more of a lingering gaze instead of immediately talking like in EP02, but that alone doesn't mean anything since she also enters the room in a very different way?
EDIT:
=> conversation continues here: https://mydramalist.com/761021-xiao-yao#comment-24910192
It's less offensive than in the drama.
This show even somewhat strays into the Rugal level, with things just happening because they happen.