Vince

Hai Xia is Hai Lou's whole world, so honestly I can't even imagine a timeline where Hai Lou would be able to live on without the other at his side; our little one quite literally has separation anxiety after everything that happened...
Not to mention the guilt (bc of course he'd think its his fault whatever may happen to Hai Xia), nope, Hai Lou would walk into the sea himself (i mean he tried already-) if he can't have Hai Xia to be safe and happy.

And Hai Xia is just too self sacrificing, my man would be able to find a way to basically resurrect Hai Lou from the death if something would ever happen to him lmfao like? It would mean lose his light (and humanity).
Protecting Hai Lou always has been Hai Xia most important purpose, so nothing will be ever able to harm the younger if Hai Xia is there, not even himself (I am so afraid he's gonna try to kill himself to protect Hai Lou in some way once he realises what's going on with Hai Xia).

So let's just all die atp because we are going to suffer-

I honestly don't see how this could have even a somewhat happy ending, but also Hai Xia if you really die at the end I'll go to hell myself to bring you back don't you dare 😭

The scene with the Mentor really broke me, Hai Xia just went back to being a child, terrified and in pain.
It's gonna hurt so much see him slowly losing himself, plus having Hai Lou witness all of it? That's just cruel. Especially since they both are ready to die if this mean save the other.

And having only one of them survive the whole ordeal is my biggest nightmare cause neither of them is capable to handle the other's death.

Hai Xia looking at Hai Lou with those heartbroken eyes like Hai Lou is a dream he doesn't deserve since he's slowly losing his sanity, im about to kms.

I know fully well Hai Xia won't know peace until (maybe) the end, but I really can't take him suffering like this, let my guy be happy 😭

Lmaoo then good luck my friend! Reading the books is definitely the best way to follow the whole thing 😂

Well, I'd be lying if I'd say I don't like it since I've been stuck in this fandom for almost 6 years, but I also do have beef with the author too since that man refuses to write/explain properly the MAJOR plot point in the whole main serie lmfao 💀

Also you need to be a little unhinged to really get in the fandom cause trying to piece together every bit of informations from all the existing pieces of media related to this serie (in order to make an understandable story) will drive you absolutely insane 😂

If you're totally new, I'd say Time Raiders would be the easiest way to get introduced to the whole story: is a very valid adaptation of the first books and pretty well acted too (+ the cgi is not that bad especially if compared with earlier series).

Alternatively, you can watch The Lost Tomb 1 (2015) & 2 (2019) which kinda tell the same story, it's just more confusing and different cast for both series.

Personally, to get the gist of the whole story I'd recommend: time riders > ultimate note > the adventure behind the bronze door > tomb of the sea > reunion.
The big, big plot holes in between you can fill the gaps with spoilers or going to read the novels bc nothing here is simple and linear 😂

Oh, Justice in the Dark, for that one they just stopped releasing it and cancelled everything related; we had to wait a year for Japan to buy the rights and air it on their platform to be able to see that drama.
But well, JITD is a censored adaptation of a bl novel so I never had much hope for it to see the light.

If I have to guess, the censorship with this one is so heavy precisely becasue ZXC acted in a censored bl adaptation and China kind of know that a lot of his fans came from JITD. So they wanted to reduce the skinship to minimun in order to not have fans ships the two characters (which clearly isn't working one bit lol).

I do find the whole ordeal tiring cause censorship is just stupid in my opinion (let people be gay omg who caress) and also people will ship or not ship characters however they like, it's just an impossible thing to control.
Deleting scenes left and right just disrupts the pacing of the story and overall lower the quality of the drama (especially bc what they often use to replace those scenes straight up doesn't make sense most of the time).

Anyhow this is not gonna stop anytime soon so ig we'll need to suffer and console ourselves with the bts footage.

You are in double luck, not only this author is very good at writing interesting character's dynamics, but also because Zhang Xi Cheng And Ding Yu Xi are the best actors they could have choose for their respective roles.
There aren't many actors their ages who got this range in acting.

Anyway, if you're enjoying this, I warmly recommed to recover also the whole main story cause Wu Xie and Zhang Qiling (and Pangzi)'s story will definitely make you go a bit insane.

Tbh the fact they're focusing so much on deleting the scenes of the two male leads together with normal skinship, it almost make it seems like it's a censored adaptation 💀

I mean, its kinda normal for brothers/friends to hug after a whole ordeal like that, won't you think? But apparently china disagrees 😭

✨ censorship ✨

Also for people complaining about the plot holes and how things don't fully make sense... Welcome to the Daomu Biji series guys lmfao this author is just like this: very good at characters building and their angsty, full of soul relationships, but if you want a linear & logical plot or world building, give up and turn away cause this man never finished to write/explain any book properly 😂

Ironic how until now Hai Xia always had been Hai Lou's "safety belt" but from this point onwards their roles will probably switch and Hai Lou will need to be the one reminding Hai Xia of his humanity.

The only real connection you'll probably encounter here is the Zhang Family, but the relevant parts will be talked about in the drama so you should be able to follow without problems.

Maybe, at the very end you'll see some characters that are part the main story, but only because this novel is "narrated" by Wu Xie (protagonist in the main story) and they likely will have no impact on the plot whatsoever.

It is part of a bigger universe (Daomu Biji novels), but you can totally watch it as a stand alone since it set a lot years prior the original storyline.

I mean, Hai Lou was "shipped off" to some places nobody wanted to go since the beginning (and Hai Xia got beaten up as punishment by their Master so just he could follow Hai Lou since he was worried about them being separated for so long).

Not only Hai Lou has no Zhang's tattoos so he's not considered part of the family (at least that was people told me), but his Master also sees him as the lowest ranking official in the Archives.
Our guy was also kept in the dark about everything regarding the Archives and the shady things that were going on. And I get it, Hai Lou is reckless as hell so maybe it was a form of "damage control" but still (and protection I guess, in Hai Xia's eyes).

I mean, they didn't even tell him about the fake-death thing?? Like, was he supposed to just go off and actually die if he ever faced a no-way-out situation? 😭

Everytime I remeber Hai Xia is the older one between the two of them, my heart breaks a little more because it is shown in the little things, how Hai Xia is effectively the only one who ever indulged Hai Lou's antics and always looked out for him no matter what (while everyone else kind of treated Hai Lou has a replaceable pawn at best).

I mean, I'd understand if he became loyal to her due her saving him before (plus ye li is smart, as a servant I'd follow her too dhdh), but I'd be so disappointed if he get a crush for her 😭
My girl is already happily married and we already have to deal with the other Prince, I don't want another man ruining the mood sigh.

Me too help they look kinda cute together 😂

ohh really? I thought this was based on a novel! But if not then I guess we will need to wait and see help.

Can someome spoil me if Ye Li’s sister and the airhead assassin are gonna have a romance storyline? She’s foolish and childish, but still in a harmless way for now, so I’m hoping for her character development, and I find the two of them quite match each other’s vibe lmao.