No matter how many times time is revived, every single reset is luwuyi paying with her own life force to save…
I agree with the point you’re making about Lu Wuyi carrying the memory of everything, but I don’t agree with the idea that Wangyan “only experiences death once.” That part doesn’t really hold up when you think about how the loops actually work. Every reset creates a new timeline where events play out again, and in each of those timelines, Wangyan is still a living, feeling person going through those moments in real time. So when she dies in a loop, that version of her is experiencing fear, pain, and loss fully in that moment. That doesn’t suddenly become meaningless just because the timeline resets afterward. Memory and experience aren’t the same thing. Yes, Wangyan doesn’t retain the memories after the reset, but that does’t erase the fact that she experienced it. It just means she isn’t allowed to carry it forward. Each loop is essentially a “first and last time” for that version of her, where she lives, feels, and then dies without ever knowing it’s part of a larger cycle. So it’s not accurate to say she only suffers once. It’s more like, she suffers in every loop, but is denied the ability to remember or accumulate that suffering. And honestly, that’s its own kind of tragedy. Because it means she’s repeatedly put through extreme experiences without ever being given the awareness or agency to understand what’s happening to her. Meanwhile, Lu Wuyi’s suffering comes from the opposite direction. She does remember everything, so she carries the emotional weight of all those deaths across timelines. So it’s not that one suffers and the other doesn’t. It’s that Lu Wuyi suffers through accumulated memory of loss, Wangyan suffers through repeated lived experience without continuity. Saying Wangyan “only experiences it once” kind of reduces what’s actually happening to her in each timeline. She may not remember it but she absolutely lives through it every single time.
Any readers know Chun’er’s fate? I remember her in PA as such an innocent and naive princess who was basically used as a political pawn. She went through extreme trauma toward the end and completely lost herself. I always felt really bad for her. she loved too deeply without truly understanding the kind of world she was living in. Did the novel give her a better or at least clearer ending?
Ugggghhhh! I am obsessed! Cheng Lei is eating up his character and Churan is slaying her role! This is living up to the expectation. I am currently watching the donghua for this too and all I can say is *chefs kiss*
That darn cousin is getting on my last nerves because what do you mean she "trampled" your heart when you never looked at you once. Yuyin working in tea plantation was too funny, she definitely needed humbling. I just can't wait until all the sisters are on good terms and work/scheme together.
I am enjoying this so much more than I am with his other drama that is airing rn. ML here is so shameless lol. The moment our FL turns her attention to another man he finds a way to turn her attention back to him.
I love NHMH and Aimi but here, in the pictures they look like siblings and it's throwing me off---like , i'm supposed to be excited for this but I can't find it within me.
Wangyan suffers through repeated lived experience without continuity. Saying Wangyan “only experiences it once” kind of reduces what’s actually happening to her in each timeline. She may not remember it but she absolutely lives through it every single time.