Vince

Could feel Barth's frustration and defiance like it was my own.

Ohh, the missing eps would explain the loopholes.
Nevertheless, yeah, I enjoyed the drama a lot even with its flaws; some says it's not a true blue wuxia, but for my part I enjoyed the fight scenes immensely.

I guess it was a mechanism, then? We will be left with the doubt, I suppose.
BYT being alive in the credits I think it's just the director (and our) wishful thinking, but if this mean having BYT being alive, I'll put the logic away just for this time 😭

We are left with a lot of questions, especially about ZZ's past and his family. I wouldn't mind if they gave us a second season 🥲

I'll recognise this drama was not perfect in any way, but I loved every second of it.
I didn't think I'd get so attached to Zhan Zhao and his little found family, but here I am.

The after scene credit is probably a collective fever dream the director decided to share with us so to not have a full breakdown and I appreciate him for that 😭🤚🏻

When Zhan Zhao is about to kill the Prince, how come he's pierced by an arrow?? Was that Bai Yu Tang? Did Zhan Zhao activated some kinda mechanism while swinging his sword over the candle? I feel stupid help.

They really had to stress me tf out until the last second possible my god 😭

Also I've got a question (I'll put down in the spoilers) so if someone can answer me, I'll be grateful.

You guys really need to start using the spoiler tags when discussing episodes that are not yet out sigh.
Knowing more or less what's to come, I'm now dreading to watch because we are gonna suffer SO much along with ZZ and the others.

Also praying they'll manage to wrap everything somwhow since we have only 4 eps left sob.

I was gone for a month and I come back just to find everyone fighting in the comments, instead of being excited about the drama or talk about the novel, what's going on 💀

Let me just go die then 😭

This was about Ming Zhu Er specifically, but I also saw a scene about Bai Yu Tang, so tbh I'm stressing for both 😭

You may want to put that in a spoiler tag 😭

Unfortunately I was so shocked that I wrote the wrong number, but it's about episode 33 😭

Yes, and even if I already knew, let's just say episode 31~32 really showed the lenght ZZ is willing to go to keep the boy safe, which is way it moved me (and I wanted to comment on it).

Given the story they're hint to have, I'm kinda terrified for what's to come for them both.

No no, it's to say he cares about Ming Zhu Er a lot, more like a little brother or a son, rather than as a servant/apprentice.

Just opened xiao hong shu unassuming and I'm afraid I got the most horrible spoiler ever for ep 33 goddamn let's pray it's fake or I will be in absolute shambles 😭😭😭

Also Bai Yu Tang's reactions are always the best, the way he started stomping harder on the medicinal herbs once Zhan Zhao woke up because he was mad at him really got a laughter out of me 😂
But our Zhan Zhao did deserves that scolding, with all he kept from them while his conditions are this bad.
I've lost count on how many times Bai Yu Tang managed to bring him back from the brink of death, alright 😭

The fact Zhan Zhao stopped killing because of Ming Zhu Er and almost started again just to protect him from harm, I'm in tears.

Genuinely never seen Zhan Zhao this scared ever, he was downright terrified about Ming Zhu Er learning the truth... He cannot bear see him hurt in any way, the boy is basically his son 😭

Also can't believe we're gonna be already at episode 30 tomorrow... They do have time to wrap everything properly, so let's hope they'll manage, but also I don't wanna say goodbye to this drama yet 😭

Bai Yu Tang blends way too well with the kids, it's so funny 😂

I appreciated our trio bonding moments a lot, Zhan Zhao getting Bai Yu Tang an eagle kite melt my heart a bit and I'm glad they confided in each other, with Zhan Zhao finally telling them about his past.

Thank you!! I'll definitely go check out the ones I don't know to see if they match my taste.
Especially for the HK TVB, I know very little about Hong Kong's dramas, so I'm curious to check those out if I manage to find them.

I'm not big into the wuxia genre (I mostly saw new dramas and read novels), but most of the drama I watched end up focusing on the romance, while I'm in for the martial arts and the character developments of the protagonist (plus the friendship, if it's done well).
I do agree that China tends to whitewash a lot in term of how "bad" a character can get, especially if they're the leads, which is a shame (to not mention those characters who lives outside the system) which is a shame.

Thank you again for the insightful response, I'll definitely roam around and check your recommendations!