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I felt RR was biased towards her Shifu always. However in the beginning, I got the feeling her crush on Shifu somehow was not very established before they were 'separated' after his 1.5 year seclusion. In the novel there was much more interaction than we saw in the drama, but for pacing I suppose they considered too much frivolity as filler.

In the novel RR finds out way later about her real identity, she also does not have these constant flashbacks because there was no soul companion in that... I agree that while RR is portrayed as very intelligent and sharp regarding the real identity of the fake MQG in the drama, she was much slower to come to the right conclusion about herself.

Maybe because se trusted her Shifu too much when he said she was some uninvolved random spirit he had experimented with?

Especially that flashback of herself wearing red... sigh... that was too much...
That overlap point between ' RR is so smart ' and 'RR is so dumb' became blurred lol

looool when they both starting their acting towards each other, the CN iqiyi bullet comments were soooo funny.... all saying stuff like ' ACTION!'
' pls start your performance' lool

Not sure but it should be within this week since we are speeding forward like a bullet train lol

You and me both!! cries... oh well...

He kind of wants her to be able to survive on her own but the plan was for himself to take care of the Spirit Spring, which might be a one way trip. He had no intentions to involve her in it again in this life.
I guess he always saw it as he was the stumbling block in her life to ascension as an immortal. So he wanted to set that right and carry on his own promise to MQG.

The director himself spoilered is a HE lmao

His constant shock at how more wicked the 'good guys' can be is always hilarious lol
His values are still there hahahahah

Activate it every hour LMAAAAO

MQG was carrying too much weight of the world to be thinking about romantic love back then... so happy Ranran gets to enjoy as much giddy teenage love as she could lol

I was a little disappointed they made this change though. I was one of the few who liked how they started with Shifu recruiting Ranran like in the novel I suppose lol

Its not great obviously but I am curious, if you were in their shoes with this set of circumstances, what would your approach have been?

I agree with you. Flashbacks are not easy to insert in storytelling. We don't want constant jumping back and forth during the drama while watching because that is too hard to follow.
For me, this level of flashback and an additional nested flashback for a childhood scene is not that bad. At least its obvious which timeline we are at.

Apparently they took to heart feedback that the time jump was confusing to some viewers, just as we did see some fans here commenting that flashbacks within flashbacks was messy...
So they made some changes.
However I just watched Ep1... I think they shifted some eps around... its not a total re-edit or adding of new footage.

Its testing our brains like Inception! lol
But there was only one time it happened. Flashback within the flashback. Not as many levels as you said hahahahah

I think this is a series you will enjoy just jumping in.
Don't worry, you jump and we will catch you * wink *

So far it seems its only changed on CN Iqiyi.
The global version seems the same.
Its mostly the same except they shifted the episode order from Ep1-8 and re-edited some scenes.

^^ anytime!

So far I believe its plateaued at ard 8000+ every night

You are right in a way the drop of spirit spring amplifies negative emotions within him... its all part of building up resentment so he is easier to lose control to the spring

He might be. He was a Prince who tried to stage a coup. So his 'rebellion' failed. What awaits failure? Normally death or exile. It all depended on what Su Yu's father decided. So far its not been mentioned.