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These are all great moments. and I agree with them all too!

I really loved Ruyi and Ning Yuan Zhou's first kiss scene. Because it's very sweet and romantic, but also hilarious. Also any time they would sort of play fight each other. Chemistry while fighting each other is a trope I love.

I know it's only a little moment but Qian Zhao choosing to aid in making Li Tong Guang jealous by pretending to report to NYZ while he and Ruyi were in the carriage. The dead pan look on his face. "1 2 3 4 5 6 7...." 😂

Yu Shi San and Ruyi's dancing together.

Actually Yu Shi San had way too many amazing moments to name off the top of my head..... but his heart beating faster for Chu Yue was really sweet.

Him putting her on the horse, sending her off, while blinded and going back into battle was also beautifully filmed.

I LOVE NYZ in the battlefield in episode 1 too- that doesn't get mentioned a lot. But I thought it was a great introduction to that character.

I wouldn't be against this. Third times the charm for them lol.

Not every drama is going to appeal to everyone. You gave it a go, it's not for you. This is okay. It happens to all of us. May your next drama fit your tastes better!

The dating rumour didn't come out this year. It started in September of last year, right around the end of filming. That's when the first melons came out. And the paparazzi videos with other people blurred out like WXY was talking about was just another factor that added to the story those melons were selling.

It finishes in the first half of episode 18. But it's a beautiful arc, and is important for character growth. For example, their development afterwards might seem somewhat abrupt without the context of what they experienced during this arc.

It also provides information about the ancient devil god, the past war with the gods, and things that come into play later on. I wouldn't skip it personally.

Hehe, I love that scene so much!

This is also true. Can't wait to see his choice for the next one haha. You know it's going to be cute too.

I really like Fang Yilun. Always happy to see him pop up in any drama. He was a standout in A Journey to Love recently.

He's also very handsome. 😊

I don't feel like it needed 55-60 episodes though, that might end up being a lot of unnecessary filler. 45 episodes probably would have been sufficient. unfortunately, having a second season of 5 episodes probably wasn't going to work. haha. Oh well....

This is why I think the cap should be at least 45 episodes instead of 40.

Some people who are unhappy with the ending will downvote it. Even if they loved the rest of the drama. (which considering how high the rating was, many did) It's just how it is. In the past i've watched people go from saying they loved a drama to saying the entire thing is trash and starting hate campaigns against it, simply based on an ending. So this doesn't surprise me.

It's fair enough that not everyone is going to like or be satisfied with every facet of the last few episodes though. Different opinions and all that.

Yeah, I think I might rewatch it again too. It was a lot of fun.

This drama was never going to be light entertainment. That was obvious from the trailers. It had the whiff of, at least a certain amount, of doom from the very beginning. Beautiful doom imo. lol. It was fun. It's worth it.

There's a 40 episode limit on dramas now. So if they wanted to make it longer they would have had to split it into two parts and air it separately. (like what Lost You Forever is doing) I think unless absolutely necessary, most creative teams and producers are going to be hesitant to do that from now on.

Ning Shi San and his sister Ren Lu are implied to be Ruyi and Ning Yuan Zhou's children. So either they faked their deaths and went into seclusion and had two kids, or they are all dead (as I figured) and this is also a part of an illusion of Chu Yue's. But why she would be imagining a child of two people she wasn't actually close with instead of Yu Shi San, I don't know. That part doesn't really make sense to me tbh. If anyone was going to have such an illusion it would have been Yang Ying who was close to the leads and the entire delegation and knew of their plans to have babies.

The other interpretation people have is that she has died and is being lead to the afterlife to join everyone but again, not entirely sure why people assume she has died or why a child that never existed would be the one to lead her there instead of just Yu Shi San lol. But that also works well as an ending too, imo.

So pick whatever version of the ending you prefer, it will be correct. As was the intention I think.

Yeah, I agree. If anyone was going to have an illusion about the leads and their children it would have made more sense for it to be Yang Ying.... She was there from the beginning, she knew about their plans to have a baby, she has strong ties to them both and the rest of the delegation to a much higher degree than Chu Yue, who didn't really know them that well. So it was definitely a really odd choice, if that is what they were going for.

Well I definitely don't think there's a "xianxia" realm in this drama. I literally went into this drama thinking all of these characters were going to die and I was right. So... not really that sad to be honest. I enjoyed it. For the most part it played out the way I thought it would. Except for the somewhat ambiguous final scene.

While not a "xianxia realm" Perhaps an afterlife of some kind , otherwise what exactly where they hinting at with Chu Yue? This may be historical but it's also a fantasy historical wuxia. This is obviously not the real world. As I said, they fly and basically have superhuman powers to some degree lol. So where was fake spirit boy leading her? I think that element is a bit hokey and is one of the reasons I get where people are coming from when they say they don't believe that part was an illusion.

Meh, as I said, however you see it. It works as an ending and was beautifully done imo. I'm not sad at this ending, but I am sad the drama is over.

I definitely didn't think it was a HE. even if you do interpret it as the leads faking their deaths - that is still not a HE as the rest of the delegation still died. However to me it was clear that it was an intentionally ambiguous ending in regards to what was real and what wasn't.

I like both interpretations and think they're both valid. I thought the idea that they're all dead but together was a beautiful one and literally what I predicted coming into this. That being said.... they would not have added the scene with the boy, Ning Shi San (and his sister Ren Lu), if they didn't want people to question whether the leads made it out alive or not. They just wouldn't have added that at all. Especially as those characters started the drama having faked their deaths. It circles back to where they started. They intentionally left it so people would question that and decide for themselves.

I still don't see why Chu Yue would be imagining a child of two people she wasn't all that close with instead of Yu Shi San. Where does the illusion start and end. It was very clear that she knew that delegation on horseback was her imagination - but does she know Ning Shi San is not real? Are the soldiers she was with also with not real? - it's just a very odd thing no matter how you look at that. So definitely not clear cut.

As I said, I really like both interpretations and think they're both kind of bittersweet rather than flat out tragic. I don't think there is a right or wrong answer.

If it was clear nobody would be questioning what was real and what wasn't. lol If they wanted it to be 100% clear that Ruyi and NYZ didn't fake their deaths, they wouldn't have had Chu Yue hallucinate an imagined child of people she wasn't that close to, and imply to her and the audience that he is the child of RR and NYZ. Especially as the child was talking specific details about living close to the academy and things about their parents. So while the images of the delegation on horseback are definitely illusion, Ning Shi San is up for debate. They left the question mark there.

If she were dying It would have made more sense for her to imagine Yu Shi San taking her, not a child that never existed in reality. So It seems this was an intentionally ambiguous ending. With two different interpretations aimed at attempting to satisfy everyone lol.

I predicted they would all die and still think this is not a bad ending at all - as they would all be together. I think that's quite beautiful really. However, the other interpretation is also there. They started the drama having both faked their deaths so it would actually be fitting that they ended the drama faking their deaths in the same way. (especially as we never actually see them "die" on screen. Which was again probably intentional) It's not out of the realm of possibility in a drama where people have the ability to transform through the use of skin masks, magically heal each other and have magical "life saving pills".

I figure there is actually no right or wrong answer and this ending was made so audiences could decide what ending they would prefer. Whatever ending you want, is the correct one. I actually don't mine either. Both are very fitting.

A hard worker, is our Luo Yunxi! The long hours do sound exhausting though.

Not going to lie, I really loved the MILF phone case and am sad to see it go so soon. But this one is really cute too!