Really love him in Fangs of Fortune. Zhao Yuan Zhou / Zhu Yan is my second favorite demon in Chinese dramas, just below Xiang Liu 😆 I hope that Neo gains more popularity and opportunities in the future
Ep 30 WX: “No one can protect everyone. Great Demon is so strong. He needs us sometimes.” PSJ: “He wouldn’t need me.” WX: “But I need you.”
Ep 31 WX: “If I die, there will be another Baize Goddess. But Xiao Jiu… There’s only one Xiao Jiu in the world.” BJ: “But in this world, there’s also only one Wen Xiao.”
Ying Lei? Is that you cutting onions up in the sky? I can't take this pain anymore 💔
People who read the novel, can you tell me what was different from the show?
There are a LOT of things that were changed, especially in S2. S1 followed the novel fairly closely. Here's the important ones that I can list right now. Someone can correct me if I’m wrong or add on. Sorry in advance that it’s long and there’s a lot of Xiang Liu in here. I may or may not be biased lol, I’m just really salty and disappointed about the changes and this is not even all of it 😭 You should read the novel when you have the chance; it’s better and more intriguing than the drama!
Major changes in the overall drama:
- Some of the names. Cang Xuan was called Zhuan Xu in the novel, Xiyan was Xuan Yuan, Haoling was Gao Xin, Chenrong was Shen Nong, Chi Chen was Qi Yo. - Xiao Yao's feelings for Xiang Liu is obvious in the novel. The drama made her seem cold to him and downplayed every scene of them together (ex: altering dialogue or parts of the scene).
Major changes pertaining to S1:
- Omitted scene: After hearing the mermaid's love song (S1E37), XL explains to XY that the clam shell is both a home and place for mermaids to mate and bear offspring. Eventually, XY grows tired from swimming, rests in XL’s clam shell, and has a happy dream about the ocean. When she wakes up, she gets flustered thinking about how XL views his clamshell and tries to cover it up by saying she’s hungry (Ch 26). This leads to the scene of XY cooking fish for XL.
Major changes pertaining to S2:
- Jing gave a beautiful proposal to XY in the novel (Ch 38) unlike the drama where XY suddenly interrupted and thanked him before he could properly propose (S2E11). - Only XY, Jing, and the Haoling Emperor went to see her mom Xiling Heng (Ch 36 / S2E15). All three spoke with Heng, not just XY, and it took place in a peach blossom forest (the spirit of XY’s biological father Chi Chen), not a house. - Omitted scene: Novel XY learned the truth about the bugs she shares with XL (Ch 37). - Added scene: That YaoJing kiss scene and XL feeling it (S2E16) absolutely did NOT happen in the novel. - Added scene: Novel XY was very sad when Jing died but never held a wedding alone (S2E18). - That dream sequence in S2E18 and S2E19 actually happened in the novel. CX really did kill Jing, not Xin Yue. He survived because XY didn’t poison him enough while XY was saved by XL (Ch 47 & 48). - Omitted scene: Xin Yue hired demons to assassinate XY. She was saved by XL. They met Left Ear (the slave demon from S1) who then became XY's bodyguard alongside Miao Pu. They spent a few days at sea. Before XL left, he gave XY a sea map (Ch 43). - Added scene: XY reminiscing about Qingshui Town and XL (S2E20) was not in the novel. - Drama XL used XY’s blood to heal her after killing their lovers bugs (S2E21 & S2E22). Novel XL used it to revive Jing (Ch 46 & 49). - In the novel, Jing’s death and CX’s betrayal led XY to become Royal Mother. Jing reappeared during her ceremony so she changed her mind (Ch 49 / S2E22). - Novel XY found out about XL’s death after her wedding to Jing. She was screaming, extremely devastated, and in disbelief. She then decided to leave for the oceans because “XL said there were endless uninhabited and uncharted islands, perhaps [her and Jing could] find a beautiful island to call home” (Ch 51). This is unlike the drama where XY quietly cried for XL before marrying Jing and leaving for Qingshui Town (S2E23).
Do you have to watch this if you watch season 1, or can you just stop after season 1?
You don't have to watch S2 if you prefer not to. It's just that the natural thing to do is watch it because it concludes the story. This drama was filmed and expected to be aired in one go but due to China's new rule saying dramas cant exceed 40 eps, it was forced to split into two parts (seasons).
I will say though... many people including me think that S2 isn't as good as S1, so if you liked S1 and would rather not ruin the good memory you have of it or believe the ending of S1 is already conclusive enough, then don't watch S2.
I wondered for a long time what the lyrics of Xiao Yao's OST mean and who it's meant for. After analyzing the…
? What do you mean? It's her defense mechanism; she keeps her hopes low and her heart guarded to protect herself from getting emotionally and mentally hurt. Some people use this as their defense mechanism in real life too. "Expect disappointment and you won't be disappointed."
So Bai Jiu has been poisoning ZYZ but the rest of the team is like "nah no biggie" ???? Like the fuck is going…
I also feel the same. ZYZ deserves so much better 😭 He's so kindhearted and the number one victim IMO. Yes he killed some people but it's not like he wanted to; he was controlled by the malicious energy. When Li Lun threatened to kill the others or told him to choose between Bai Jiu or ZYC, etc. ZYZ refused because he considered them all his good friends and said such wonderful words about them, so it really hit me when Li Lun said "You consider them your good friends but do they also consider you as theirs?" I'm not saying that the others don't care about ZYZ at all but their actions are so insensitive sometimes.
Thank god I didn't watch ep 19 til today. That cliffhanger ending would've left me in shambles! Anyway, I'm glad the Bai Jiu spy situation got resolved quickly. Of course I knew my demon hunting squad would never be pure evil. The only despicable ones here are the members of Chongwu Camp, who take advantage of innocent people's desires (though it'd be pretty interesting if we later find out that they also had morally debatable reasons for doing what they do, since this seems to be a recurring concept in this drama lol).
However, I'm disappointed at how anticlimatic Li Lun's death was. He just vanished and... that was it. The way they played it made it seem as if Zhu Yan truly never cared about Li Lun which I know (or hope) isn't the case. They should've gave us a montage of Zhu Yan and Li Lun's moments afterward, or Zhu Yan grieving over his friend. But since they didn't give us a grand ending for his character, it does make me feel like he'll be resurrected later on. They can't just end his character like that!! ....... 🤡🤡🤡
There's a lot to take in in these past few episodes so I'm glad they decided to take a break and air only one ep per day for a bit, even though I really wish they could just air it all rn 🥲🤣
you know? if she get on the boat immediately, no dramatic things like what have happened, higher chance them 3…
I thought that too! When her mom first told them to leave, she walked away right after, so doesn't that mean nobody really needed to push the boat and that her mom could've got on as well? Unless that was an error on the writer's part. But even so, couldn't the mom have pushed the boat then quickly hop on after too? I completely understand the mom's intentions, but there were possibilities for them to all survive that just weren't taken 😓
I just finished ep 2 and.... I DID NOT EXPECT THAT LADY TO BE HER MOM omg... My jaw literally dropped when she revealed it out loud. How heartbreaking for Duanwu, to find out who your biological mom is right before you're separated from her by death 😭
And I'm really liking Duanwu so far. I love how she was so persistent in getting her mom on the boat, that her mom had to knock her out in order for her to stop. Most other characters I've seen would've just been crying "Noooo!" but never actually take action like Duanwu.
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WX: “No one can protect everyone. Great Demon is so strong. He needs us sometimes.”
PSJ: “He wouldn’t need me.”
WX: “But I need you.”
Ep 31
WX: “If I die, there will be another Baize Goddess. But Xiao Jiu… There’s only one Xiao Jiu in the world.”
BJ: “But in this world, there’s also only one Wen Xiao.”
Ying Lei? Is that you cutting onions up in the sky? I can't take this pain anymore 💔
Major changes in the overall drama:
- Some of the names. Cang Xuan was called Zhuan Xu in the novel, Xiyan was Xuan Yuan, Haoling was Gao Xin, Chenrong was Shen Nong, Chi Chen was Qi Yo.
- Xiao Yao's feelings for Xiang Liu is obvious in the novel. The drama made her seem cold to him and downplayed every scene of them together (ex: altering dialogue or parts of the scene).
Major changes pertaining to S1:
- Omitted scene: After hearing the mermaid's love song (S1E37), XL explains to XY that the clam shell is both a home and place for mermaids to mate and bear offspring. Eventually, XY grows tired from swimming, rests in XL’s clam shell, and has a happy dream about the ocean. When she wakes up, she gets flustered thinking about how XL views his clamshell and tries to cover it up by saying she’s hungry (Ch 26). This leads to the scene of XY cooking fish for XL.
Major changes pertaining to S2:
- Jing gave a beautiful proposal to XY in the novel (Ch 38) unlike the drama where XY suddenly interrupted and thanked him before he could properly propose (S2E11).
- Only XY, Jing, and the Haoling Emperor went to see her mom Xiling Heng (Ch 36 / S2E15). All three spoke with Heng, not just XY, and it took place in a peach blossom forest (the spirit of XY’s biological father Chi Chen), not a house.
- Omitted scene: Novel XY learned the truth about the bugs she shares with XL (Ch 37).
- Added scene: That YaoJing kiss scene and XL feeling it (S2E16) absolutely did NOT happen in the novel.
- Added scene: Novel XY was very sad when Jing died but never held a wedding alone (S2E18).
- That dream sequence in S2E18 and S2E19 actually happened in the novel. CX really did kill Jing, not Xin Yue. He survived because XY didn’t poison him enough while XY was saved by XL (Ch 47 & 48).
- Omitted scene: Xin Yue hired demons to assassinate XY. She was saved by XL. They met Left Ear (the slave demon from S1) who then became XY's bodyguard alongside Miao Pu. They spent a few days at sea. Before XL left, he gave XY a sea map (Ch 43).
- Added scene: XY reminiscing about Qingshui Town and XL (S2E20) was not in the novel.
- Drama XL used XY’s blood to heal her after killing their lovers bugs (S2E21 & S2E22). Novel XL used it to revive Jing (Ch 46 & 49).
- In the novel, Jing’s death and CX’s betrayal led XY to become Royal Mother. Jing reappeared during her ceremony so she changed her mind (Ch 49 / S2E22).
- Novel XY found out about XL’s death after her wedding to Jing. She was screaming, extremely devastated, and in disbelief. She then decided to leave for the oceans because “XL said there were endless uninhabited and uncharted islands, perhaps [her and Jing could] find a beautiful island to call home” (Ch 51). This is unlike the drama where XY quietly cried for XL before marrying Jing and leaving for Qingshui Town (S2E23).
LilianKmei is saying that two people ended up dying:
(1) Xiao Yao's mother, Xiling Heng
and
(2) Xiao Yao's soulmate, Xiang Liu
They are not the same person. The sentence just lists both of them together because they both died.
I will say though... many people including me think that S2 isn't as good as S1, so if you liked S1 and would rather not ruin the good memory you have of it or believe the ending of S1 is already conclusive enough, then don't watch S2.
However, I'm disappointed at how anticlimatic Li Lun's death was. He just vanished and... that was it. The way they played it made it seem as if Zhu Yan truly never cared about Li Lun which I know (or hope) isn't the case. They should've gave us a montage of Zhu Yan and Li Lun's moments afterward, or Zhu Yan grieving over his friend. But since they didn't give us a grand ending for his character, it does make me feel like he'll be resurrected later on. They can't just end his character like that!! ....... 🤡🤡🤡
There's a lot to take in in these past few episodes so I'm glad they decided to take a break and air only one ep per day for a bit, even though I really wish they could just air it all rn 🥲🤣
And I'm really liking Duanwu so far. I love how she was so persistent in getting her mom on the boat, that her mom had to knock her out in order for her to stop. Most other characters I've seen would've just been crying "Noooo!" but never actually take action like Duanwu.