Be with You

everyone has their own backstory.

i enjoyed this series! i happen so to randomly come over this series but oh man, i do not regret it. this show is severely underrated btw!

this show has its comedy side, touching side and each main character has their own tragic backstory that will be revealed slowly. everyone might be slow, dumb yet goofy but their backstory really breaks my heart. the build up with the backstory is amazing, the way they have healed but the wound opened up again to get the actual closure needed. my top few eps are 14, 16, 18 and 22. if you watch the scene, you would understand why i really enjoyed these episodes.

they are fated that they all met at by jumping of the cliff and naming themselves by the wording 3, 4 and 5 inside in. it was so funny! they are "found family" as they found comfort within each other while facing their struggles, while understanding each other without saying much, while supporting each other and stay with each other no matter what.

i enjoy the friendship between all the characters and if you are wondering if there is any romance... it is like lowkey and not that obvious. you get to enjoy many different cp types of feels. if you are wondering how i am shipping, its 3+5 and 4+ji. i am waiting for the next season as the ending wrote, "the first season ended"

however, mango's subbing is bullshit because as a chinese, i saw the chinese wordings and the english subs, i am closed to vomit blood. it is so so badly subbed. so for those who does not understand, you might need to wait for better subs. like they subbed 你相信我吗? - it was supposed to be "do you believe me?" but they subbed to "do you miss me?" ...??!!

as for the acting, i think they did a good job! the main characters ranges from '97 to '02 and their acting is good! what i love is that their are a lot of dramatic and big expression type of scenes but they are able to not overact and overdo it. with the right amount that you won't think that it is too over the top and get annoyed about it.

it might seem boring at first but as it goes on, it will get better. trust me. anyways, please give this show a chance! thank you~

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Wuxia Comedy Sitcom With A Mature Storyline

This is one of the few underrated drama series which didn't get attention because of MangoTV poor subtitles . But worry not if you are interested in this genre with comedy wuxia then this drama is for you with wordplay, sitcom style. Some time i even forgot that i am watching a mystery series. But there are mystery in the story but it is presented with comedy and if you were to remove the comedy then you would be left with despair just like in EP 25.

The story seems like a dark comedy genre but it is more than that it is about friendship, overcoming hatred of revenge, realizing a sense of belonging after abandonement and still living.

It must seem that drama series make character foolish for comedy troupe but here our main characters (boys) are actually smarter. And the girl gets a few moments of enlightment.

I have watched this series twice and know where to watch it the next time i will.

Enough, if you want to watch this show here are some places you can (as of now) :
1. [Youtube with worst subtitles ever in MangoTV] : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDEDu62Caes&list=PLBNHceQmsdFRjo9Svq1iU9S4XjnSibew2&index=1

2. [Youtube with better subtitles than MangoTV but without intro and outro songs, also you will not able to differentiate which episode you are watching] : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLjThYOLbZk&list=PLlg7bBBbjhqWwg4AR0g78Hv0fYgyHcAc9&index=1

3. [The Recommended One, Daily Motion with good fan-made subtitles and with intro and outro, with the ability to differentiate episodes also with an extra episode EP 25] : https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9eqbn6














Now comes the spoilers part: DO NOT READ BELOW IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED IT YET !!!!!

Also for any confusion Da means the eldest son/daughter of the family. Then comes Er, San , Si and Wu. It means 1,2,3,4,5 in chinese.

Even after the end of season 01 and not knowing if season 02 will ever come the show leaves many things hidden some of them are below:



1. What happened at the ending? Why was Wei Dongyang was given order to kill Nan Xiaotian (the spiritual totem of Sanqi Dao)?
Ans: Well, SanQi Dao elders realized that then cannot kill Nan Xiao Tian as there was no justification. He was their spiritual totem because he never killed anyone. For their utopia is a world where no one kills any one, if they were to explicitly kill Nan Xiao Tian then their image in martial world will be ruined and they would become the public enemy who kills anyone without justification.

Hence, they ordered Wei Dongyang to be killed by Nan Xiao Tian to ruin his just image and have a justification to eradicate him. It was not written in the order but Wei Dongyang understood it. As for why only they choose Wei Dong Yang. Well, he is the only person in San Qi Dao who has yet to kill any person means he is still pure.

If he were to kill Nan XiaoTian, then the San Qi Dao would have had justification to kill Wei Dong Yang for murdering an innocent person (Nan Xiao Tian). So, it's like die or die.

Thus, at the ending Ye Wuzhi took Wei Dongyang to Yamen and accuses him as a criminal who assaulted Meng San Xi which Wei Dongyang admits and is sentenced to 7 years in exile in Mubian City. Thus, ending the cycle of kill or be killed and helped Wei Dongyang to live.



2. What happened to the perpetrators of the Li Family Caravan Massacre (Liang Da, Liang Er, Liang Si)?
Ans: By the end of Season 1, their ultimate fate is left unresolved as a cliffhanger. During the Show at the Market assembly, it is revealed through Duan Shou (Severed Hand) testimonies that Liang Da and Liang Si (who also slaughtered Tuoba Village) were the masterminds who disguised their men as bandits to intercept the caravan, intending to bankrupt the Dai family who had insured it. Liang Er is also heavily suspected to be involved. However, they are not shown being killed or officially brought to justice before the season ends, setting them up as lingering antagonists for Season 2.



3. Why was the Liu Family Grandmaster(also a SanQi Dao Elder) guarding Duan Shou?
Ans: Duan Shou was one of the fake bandits hired for the caravan massacre whose hand was chopped off by Dai Da during the fight. To prevent him from leaking the truth, Liang Da wanted to silence him. Duan Shou fled into the mountains where he was secretly saved by Liu San (Liu Yungui). Liu San deliberately hid him at the Liu estate and assigned a Grandmaster (who is secretly a member of San Qi Dao) to guard him. The goal was to keep Duan Shou alive as a crucial living witness to the Liang family's crimes, allowing the Liu family to hold leverage over the Liang family.

As for the reason why did San Qi Dao killed Bei Xiao Hai when one of the Elders of San Qi Dao (Liu Family Grandmaster) knew that it was the doing of Liang Family (Da, Er, Si not Wu). Well, the timeline doesn't matchup. Let me explain, Duan Shou fled to the mountains so that he will not be recognized for the killing of Li Family Caravan Massacre and stayed there for a year. Bei Xiao Hai was killed a year after the Li Family Caravan Massacre. So, Bei Xiao Hai was killed first and then did Duan Shou came down from the mountains to get treated by Liu San.

Then, did San Qi Dao realized that they fucked up. They killed the wrong guy.



4.At the end of ep 24, Gu Niangu and Lao Ding are going to fight San Qi Dao - are they anti-San Qi Dao faction members?
Ans: The finale presents this as a massive shock and leaves their true allegiances deliberately ambiguous. Based on clues throughout the show, i have two theories:

Anti-San Qi Dao Alliance: They are an independent, undercover faction (Just like Ye Wu Zhi ) gathering on the mountain to launch an assault against the corrupt San Qi Dao. As for how they knew the location of San Qi Dao Ye Wu Zhi heard from the Liu Family Grandmaster during the interrogation scene and must have told Lao Ding or Lao Ding over heard it. As you know Lao Ding is a member of Anti- SanQi Dao and knew the location of Sanqi Dao except for the Mountain Name which he told Ji Mingzhao that he hid 30000 taels there.
OR
A "Clean" Faction of San Qi Dao: They are actual members of San Qi Dao, but belong to a righteous faction within it. Earlier in the show, Wei Dongyang mentions that he is the only "clean" person among the higher ranks, foreshadowing that San Qi Dao might be internally divided between corrupt leaders and a hidden, clean rebellion.



5. The Liang Shop arson case which killed 16 people (same people hid as bandits and massacre the Li family caravan with Liang Da and Liang Si) done by Liu Da ?

[This happens 4 days after the Li Family Caravan Massacre]

[Also, if you don't get why Liang Wu (Bei Xiao Hai) was involved in this case. Well, Liang Da, Er, Si probably framed him and made him the owner of the shop. So, he was a scapegoat for the Li Family Caravan Massacre Case and the Liang Family Shop Arson Case as well.]

Ans: Around EP 17-18 Ye Wuzhi (Mo Rushi) recalls her final conversation with her senior brother, Liu Yunxiao (Liu Da), before their sect was purged by San Qi Dao and Liu Yunxiao died.

Liu Yunxiao did explicitly admit to Ye Wuzhi that he was the one who set the fire and killed the 16 people at the Liang family shop. He explicitly stated that even if he were given the choice to do it all over again, he would still burn them to avenge his friend and protect others. He explained to her that those 16 were actually the disguised fake bandits responsible for the Li Family Caravan Massacre. Liu Yunxiao told Ye Wuzhi that he killed them as vigilante justice.

While San Qi Dao's intelligence broker (Li Jun/Qi Yifan) correctly identified Liu Yunxiao as the arsonist, San Qi Dao completely ignored the context of the crime. They branded Liu Yunxiao a vicious murderer who slaughtered 16 innocent people and used this as justification to wipe out 30% of his sect.
In reality, Liu Yunxiao was acting as a righteous vigilante taking out the true villains of the caravan massacre. So, while he wasn't a scapegoat for the fire, he was severely wronged by the martial arts world's (and San Qi Dao's) narrative of why he did it.

Furthermore, those 16 people were the ones who killed his best friend (Li Family Master). It is said that Li family Master was a close friend of Liu Da (Liu Yunxiao) and on the day of massacre he invited Liu Da in his caravan.

Liang Da didn't knew that Liu Da is inside the caravan and Dai Da is following the caravan because The Li family had purchased an incredibly high-premium insurance policy from the Dai family. To ensure they didn't have to pay out this massive sum (enough to severely weaken the finance of the Dai Family), Dai Da was secretly tailing the caravan to protect it.
When Liang Da and Liang Si's disguised bandits attacked, Dai Da intervened. During this fight, he chopped off the hand of one of the bandits (who would become the witness "Duan Shou").



6. Why didn't Liu Yunxiao (Liu Da) tell the yamen about the 16 people in the Liang Wu shop he identified as the bandits of the Li Family Massacre Case and rather be a arsonist?
Ans: Liu Yunxiao (Liu Da) chose to burn the 16 fake bandits rather than hand them over to the Yamen because the official government in Muyun City was powerless against the true culprits, and he knew standard legal channels would inevitably fail.

The Liang Family's Immunity: The 16 individuals were officially registered as clerks for a shop owned by the Liang family—the most dominant and ruthless of Muyun City's great families. The local Yamen was heavily influenced by and terrified of these major factions. Reporting Liang family subordinates to a paralyzed government office would have resulted in the case being immediately suppressed.

The Active Cover-up: The masterminds behind the Li Family Caravan Massacre (Liang Da and Liang Si) were already manipulating the aftermath. They had successfully framed their own brother (Liang Wu) for the crimes and neutralized the only surviving witness (Duan Shou) by holding his family hostage, his wife and daughter. Liu Yunxiao (Liu Da) knew that if he tipped off the authorities, the Liang family would destroy the remaining evidence, bribe the officials, and protect the killers.

The Ineffectiveness of the Yamen: The show repeatedly establishes that the Yamen is useless when it comes to high-level Jianghu or Muyun City inter-family crimes. This is precisely why Dai Menghui (Dai San) spends years working as a Yamen constable—he knows he has to investigate his brother Dai Da's murder secretly from the inside because the official justice system will never touch the major families.

Vigilante Justice: As a highly skilled martial artist from the Qingjing Sect, Liu Yunxiao operated under the rules of the Jianghu. His close friend Li Family Master and his caravan consisting of 50 people had been slaughtered. In his view, turning to Yamen was not only futile but irresponsible.

When Liu Yunxiao recounted the event to Ye Wuzhi, he made it clear that he had no regrets. He knew that if those 16 men were allowed to live—or were inevitably acquitted through a rigged legal process—they would simply disguise themselves as bandits again to slaughter for the Liang Family. Taking the matter into his own hands was the only guaranteed way to stop them permanently and secure justice for his best friend, Li Family Master.



7. On, the 4th day after the Li family caravan Massacre, same day as the Liang Family Shop arson case Who killed Dai Da, Ji Da and 2 yamen runners ?
Ans: The "Day of Silencing" (4 Days Later):
Dai Da was murdered, and his body was left outside the city's South Gate.
Ji Da was murdered on the exact same day (it is not known why he was killed).
Two yamen runners were killed.
The 16 surviving fake bandits were burned to death in the shop by Liu Yunxiao (who was avenging Li Family Master).

Episode 24 successfully proves that Liang Wu (Bei Xiao Hai) was a scapegoat who took the fall for all these crimes. The deaths of Dai Da and Ji Da are set up as the primary driving mystery for the next season. Dai Menghui (who spent years becoming a constable just to investigate this) and Ji Er are still hunting the killer . While Episode 24 doesn't name the killer, but they mention : "That person is now the branch leader/ leader of Lei Ting Zhou (Thunder Clap Prefecture)". Either they have found clues or killer himself.



Whooooh, After all this if you still have some questions or want to read a even more comprehensive review of this series of what, how, when happened then i recommend these :
1. [Review of Be With You Drama by Cyn Lynn (not me)] : http://cyn-lynn.blogspot.com/2023/09/be-with-you-recap-and-review.html

2. [ Friends | Character, Plot, and Details Summary (Spoilers Included!) by Mushroom] : https://www.douban.com/group/topic/295306711/

3. [Timeline of the Entire Series by Ivy] : https://www.douban.com/group/topic/296986520/

4. [The Distribution of Power in Muyun City After the Li Family Caravan Was Killed (Part 1,2,3,4) by TongChen_]: https://www.douban.com/group/topic/296147599/

Enough, Now i will move on to the next drama.

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