♥️The Hidden Story of Yaoliu ♥️

【Anger vs Forgiveness】

Lies (Anger) vs Life (Forgiveness)

End it here or Start over

All of it is fake? What is truly real?

Only “Yao-liu” is real. (Blogger’s note: I already said, only the Love Gu is truly real.)

Quan Sheng Tang (manga character, Spirit Detective Han Hou)

Defeat Tang Qi completely

Feigning death / Fake death escape

My son

(Tong Hua OS: Xiangliu is my son, a perfect character. His arch-enemies don’t like him—no taste!)

FILTER:

• My son,I know you will have many questions, I know you will be very troubled, but believe me—Mother will definitely take good care of you, my good child.
• Han Hou’s character design is so outstanding, no wonder readers regard it as a classic.
• Han Hou’s biological mother, Lin Yuan…

【Did he “die”?】Rushou: “No autopsy allowed, retreat immediately!” (A guy who can play any type of role)

The blood is fake (but the arrow is real).

The blogger’s imagination is running wild, everyone bear with it!

Left side:

“Help, Xiangliu is a squid 😂”

“Oh my! 😱 The Great Squid King”

“Pretending to be a two-headed sea snake”

“Tong Hua is too talented, who else could have guessed this themselves?”

“🤣🤣🤣 Yes, we only know it ran away, but how it ran, only the author can explain.”

Right side:

“Did you see it?”

“I didn’t watch the drama, only saw your screenshot 😂”

“Then you understood it instantly”

“This is basically an explanation given right in front of us 😳”

“What’s going on with the Love Gu? No explanation? Was it fake too? Poor Xiangliu, did its legs get completely cut off?”

“Okay, the last question has also been answered”

“The octopus’s arms can regenerate”

“666”

The squid releases ink

Left:

The flamboyant cuttlefish not only can blend into its environment to hide itself,

but it can also communicate with its kind through color changes,

scare off enemies,

and even take on the appearance of other animals.

This mimic octopus spread out all its arms,

pretending to be a flounder.

That one,

baring its teeth and claws,

is pretending to be a highly venomous lionfish.

And this one

hides itself inside a hole.

Center:

Only stretches out two arms,

pretending to be a sea snake.

So it turns out that the mimic grass carp

is actually the world’s greatest actor.

Right:

If all its camouflage tricks are discovered,

it still has one final move to escape.

The squid will release ink to flee.

The ink cloud it releases

is about the same size as itself.

At the same time,

it will make itself instantly transparent

and escape in the opposite direction,

so that you can’t even see it.

Truth and lies alike are all for survival.

Octopuses have 9 brains

The octopus’s nervous system is very special. They have 8 accessory brains distributed along each of their arms. These accessory brains function like memory storage and are mainly responsible for memory. In addition, the octopus has a main brain located in its body cavity, which is responsible for thinking and coordinating behavior.

This nervous system structure gives each arm a certain ability to “think independently,” allowing it to react when in danger, and in some cases, even enabling arm-autotomy (letting an arm go to escape).

Regenerative ability

When an octopus’s arm is injured or lost, under suitable conditions, a new arm can regrow, restoring it to its original state. This regenerative ability is a highly coordinated, multi-level biological process involving stem cell mobilization, signaling pathway cooperation, epigenetic regulation, and energy metabolism adaptation.

Octopuses can become invisible and disguise themselves as “sea snakes”—all survival instincts of animals: to intimidate enemies and protect the secrets of their own bodies.

After releasing ink, the squid becomes transparent.

Do you think it evolved this ability

as a punishment,

or as a reward?

It’s just for survival, right?

Yes.

Being invisible itself is neither a punishment

nor a reward.

You mean I overanalyzed it.

Not the wind moves, not the banner moves,

but the benevolent heart moves.

The advancement of science and technology is not wrong.

As long as you don’t abuse filters,

don’t do illegal things or hurt others.

Using filters to reasonably enhance yourself is not wrong.

It’s like makeup.

Maybe you do it just to please yourself.

Maybe you do it to attract someone you like.

Maybe you want to become more confident.

Maybe you want to intimidate your enemies.

No matter what,

makeup itself is not wrong.

[Xiao Yao's Tears]

 • Fangfeng Bei has died

• Xiangliu has died

Thought it was like this (the crowd unaware of the truth)

Zhuai-jie OS: (the crowd unaware of the truth) Just pick any 'fake grave' and go all out...

(subtitle):

Man:

“It seems Quan Sheng Tang’s funeral is today, right?

Please send me the address.

I want to go pay my respects.”

Woman:

Quan Sheng Tang has already been cremated.

Man:

"So fast."

Woman:

Yes, that fast.

Quan Sheng Tang had instructed before he died,

that once he passed away, he should be cremated immediately

and his ashes scattered into the sea

Woman:

If you want to let him go,

all the waters in the world are connected.

Narrative text below the image:

“Dream of the Red Chamber,” Chapter 44

Lin Daiyu, upon seeing the play The Male Sacrifice, said to Baochai: “That Wang Shipeng really doesn’t understand much. No matter where the ritual is performed, it will surely end up by the river. As the saying goes, ‘Seeing an object brings thoughts of a person.’ All the waters in the world ultimately come from the same source. It doesn’t matter which water you scoop up and look at while crying—it allows one to grieve fully.”

Tears of fear: it's not about loss, but the lingering fear afterward (the real situation)

 knitmergetanklock:

Ah thank you, that is helpful. 

And thank you  @AkuMau for sharing all this!

Anything that keeps YaoLiu flame burning is all good :D 

Yes, thank you AkuMau!

There's a ton of analysis of the novel in China, and the drama led to even more essays.  I like reading these, because they catch cultural and historical references that I am unaware of, or point out things I missed.  But of course, there's also stuff I don't agree with.  People have different takes. :)

2. The four-male-characters special after the end of Season 1.”

After the broadcast of Season One ended, the extra stories of the four male leads in Lost You Forever only included one, “Xiangliu’s Extra.” At that time, the author Tong Hua was still planning to write Qian Fang Xiang and continue with the sequel to Lost You Forever, so naturally, much of the characters’ backstories and endings would be explained later. But more than ten years have passed, the writing environment and mindset have both changed, and the original plans could not keep up with reality. Of the originally planned four-novel series “The Classic of Mountains and Seas Chronicle” (Shan Jing Hai Ji), only Once Promised and Lost You Forever have been completed so far—leaving behind many unresolved plot holes.

Fortunately, for the drama adaptation of Lost You Forever, the author personally took part, and under the existing conditions, the logic and spirit were presented in a way that most respected the original novel. To provide the audience with some additional clues, after Season One ended, the production released four extra video specials—letters of longing (Si Xiang Letters) from Cangxuan, Tushan Jing, Xiangliu, and Fenglong—which can be found on TX or a certain Dou platform.

Among these, the Letters of Longing extras were made in two versions: one paired with clips from the drama, and one without. The version I analyzed was the one paired with the original footage. It must be said that this version conveyed much more information—using the contents of the letters, combined with cinematic language and the drama’s visuals, it subtly revealed the true endings of the four male leads: Fenglong died in battle; Cangxuan gained the throne but lost Xiaoyao forever; Tushan Jing married Xiaoyao but died young; Xiangliu, after dying, was reborn and lived with Xiaoyao in Qingshui Town.

You can find my video analysis on my Dou account of the same name. It is important to emphasize: this is not an advertisement! The written versions are also included in the official Lost You Forever Setting Collection.

3. The Huichun Hall Extra Released by the Production(Drama)

1. Huichun Hall Extra
   

On Yang Zi’s birthday, the production team released the Huichun Hall extra on a certain Dou platform, emphasizing the theme mentioned by the producer: “write one part, leave nine parts blank, and within that blankness lies the true essence.” That essence is—the flourishing of life, with “birthday” echoing the sentiment of “life.”

Since these are underlying themes deliberately left in the blank spaces, they are naturally not something ordinary viewers can easily grasp. So then, did Xiaoyao and Xiangliu have a child?

 AkuMau:

At the end of the Rushou special video released after the broadcast of Season Two,

WHAT????  There was a Beloved Ru Shou video after the end of Season 2???  Where???

So, the Letters are Longing are the ones you were asking about?  The one you were looking for with Tushan Jing?

“The political conspiracies of ‘showing one while concealing nine,’ hidden beneath the romance, need to be thoroughly uncovered and critically examined.”

Many people say the author doesn’t know how to write about power struggles. How could that be possible?

With such a skillfully crafted book that she managed to produce, do you really think she doesn’t understand political intrigue?

She deliberately made it clear that cangxuan is the male lead.

Not the official pairing, not the “true love,” but specifically cangxuan?

Isn’t this precisely telling us what kind of story this is?

It’s the chronicle of an emperor’s rise to the throne, a game of power and authority—how could there not be political intrigue?

Not only is there intrigue, but also blatant open schemes, and hidden, unspeakable plots.

Her purpose is nothing but to subtly tell everyone: this is the story of an emperor’s path to unifying the world. So stop focusing only on romance.

Go and study the schemes of power.

Although the thread of political intrigue is indeed subtle, between the lines there are clues everywhere, constant hints at it.

Is this really just a novel she’s writing? Isn’t it actually a reflection of reality?

Real reality, real power struggles—aren’t they exactly like the stories we see in this novel?

What you see before your eyes is only the surface, what others want you to see.

The real truth inside—if you truly want to understand it, you must look deeper.

From the hypocrisy and schemes of those in power, the King of Haoling was truly a master player of high-level strategy.

In Once Promised, it was always made clear—both openly and implicitly—that Haoling and Shaohao were full of cunning.

Without losing a single coin, he both gained the good reputation of a benevolent father, while suppressing, warning, and manipulating his foster daughter who could be exploited because she refused to obey and became his tool.

What a perfect deal—killing two birds with one stone, a profit with no cost at all.

Just make a proper comparison with how he treated Anian, and you’ll understand.

The better he was and the more attentive to his real daughter, the harsher and more hypocritical he was toward this cuckolded foster daughter.

So in the drama, they didn’t even leave him the last shred of a fig leaf to cover up. It was directly Chichen, the real father, who lifted the seal of the Zhuyan Flower.

The book left too much blank space—however you look at it, it was on the returning boat that he lifted the seal. The author blatantly exposed the hypocrisy of this so-called foster father.

Later, in Gouwei Alley, he even shamelessly questioned Xiaoyao, asking why she didn’t go to him for help when she ran into trouble. 

I really wanted to snap at him: “Why? You say why? If she had even a bit of sense, would she dare? Where did you get the nerve to even ask this?”

If it weren’t for Xiangliu, who was truly capable, standing behind her, then at Merlin’s massacre, she would have long since been completely wiped out because of the scheme you were plotting to place your grandson in power.