When Destiny Brings the Demon Episode 18

You are the dearest one to me

Everybody shows up at Wufeng except who they expect to see. Sima Jiao knows it is a trap and heads to the other location where Shi’s son is leading a small group to guard the new flame. As the battle continues, the son firmly believes Sima Jiao killed Anxue, his love, and here even Nianju confirms his own father did it. He refuses to believe the truth and insults Tingyan and Sima Jiao. Tingyan helps to knock them down but Jiao takes this a step further and forces her to kill. She is completely traumatized by the event. This shakes even him because he did not see wrong in his actions. Her body is a demon, doing what demons innately do , kill when the need arises. But she is other and he is just now really getting that. I agree she needs a better sense of self preservation, but removing her choice from it and using her hand rather than an artifact made it much more personal. He thought he was having her stick up for herself, and she saw herself killing an innocent person she had no grudge against. She collapses and he carries her back. She feels unclean and is haunted by blood in her hands and visions of Shi’s son. She has told him that as grandmaster she j derstood his thinking, but that as the one most dear to her, she is hurt he used her against her will. This gives him pause to reflect. Shi is enraged his son is gone. His mind games made his son a puppet of a higher order but still just a puppet. I am not convinced his grief is for his son personally, or the loss of an u questioning cog in his machine of running the palace. His son killed many in that village, and I have no sympathy or regret for his death. But his death has made a serious impression on Tingyan and she wants to forget it. Shi is done with the facade of compliance. He is forcing Ruling’s hand by leaving her sister close to death. She has three days to find Tingyan. Her sister ended up dying with honor. I really didn’t expect that. She simply wants her people home and doesn’t put herself on any special pedestal or seeks extra consideration. Ruling cries over her but she barely spoke to her when she had the chance. She did not seek any further information about the barrier and aligned herself with a leader that thinks genocide is the way to rule. Why she thinks he will honor his word on any level is surprising to me. She personally knows the only two beings Sima Jiao keeps near him and this doesn’t make her question her judgment of him. She has just moved herself to the son’s puppet place in his blood machine.😝 Sima Jia brings Tingyan a jade pillow that will only allow good dreams. Hers is all about sweets and family. That’s really not surprising. She offers him cake and is back to her bubbly happy self here. She is more somber in reality, but she talks to him lovingly and wants him to take care of himself and not ever use her like that again. He is listening, but there is no way to know what future will want from them. They see each other in their soul lands and this time he is paying attention. He makes her an even stronger necklace to guard her while he is gone. He tries everything he can do to keep her safe. He has found the Shi flame, but he cannot break the barrier and the episode ends….

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