Xiang Liu and Xiao Yao’s Story and Romance

 liddi:

Leaked script Ep19  scene 16-17 (Vol 3 Ch13 / Chapter 46)

Also, thanks for the translation! ^^

 liddi:

Having said that, Xiao Yao turned to leave, staggering as she did so. As the cold front she had forcibly maintained dissipated, tears welled up in her eyes.
Expressionless, Xiang Liu watched Xiao Yao stagger, walking out of his life with each step.
As she continued to walk, her knees buckled beneath her and she collapsed in a faint.
Xiang Liu immediately rushed to her side and held her in his arms. While his face remained uncaring, his attention was solely fixed on her. The tears brimming in her eyes told him that her coldness was a front and his own cold mask finally shattered. Xiang Liu lifted her arm. Xiao Yao had not spared herself and while the blood had dried, the three terrible slash wounds remained. Unable to bear it, Xiang Liu kissed her wounds with love and tenderness, and the wounds healed as if it had never been. However, what stood between them now was an insurmountable gulf.
Beneath the moonlight amid the ripples of the lake, Xiang Liu cradled the unconscious Xiao Yao in his arms in desolation.

I actually like this part better than the novel. At least we get to see XL show affection to XY :')

 MengXiang:

In the leaked script, if XY doesn't poison herself, why is she at Jade mountain. What are the circumstances around the big removal scene? I don't understand how AN is involved.

If I remember correctly, liddi mentioned before that Xiao Yao doesn't go to Jade Mountain at all in S2. We never see Sir Bi and nearly everything from chapter 48 is cut. 

I'd like to say I don't expect CRYING gifs when I read this thread, but that would not be true.

Whether this is actually what we see in the drama (my usual mantra to hold off freak out), I've noticed this in other places, where Tong Hua emphasizes words and themes.  After XY was lashed and agreed to become XL's man, she was STILL trying to joke around with XL, and he told her make sure to learn what kind of person he was.  It's a variation on his "Who do you want me to be?" line.

 MengXiang:

I hope XL mentions the line where he was heart and soul willing to take the bug so it planted in him properly. It's  one of my favorite lines from the novel. It's the few times he actually verbally expresses his love even if she can't hear it. Not sure if we will get this line as in the show it doesn't mention anything about willingness to plant the bugs.

This line is retained in the leaked script, and hopefully stays that way in the finalised version.

 Kokuto:

After XY was lashed and agreed to become XL's man, she was STILL trying to joke around with XL, and he told her make sure to learn what kind of person he was.  It's a variation on his "Who do you want me to be?" line.

And she chose to believe he was the man she thought she knew, until that last time, when he called her a fool for believing he was anything but a heartless demon and showed her no mercy as he drained her blood. Yet, for all her being convinced she had been wrong all along, his death still shattered her even as she berates herself for being a fool in feeling that way..

 Elise:

He's my second favorite (XL being first of course). I think he had a higher chance than the other guys at the beginning. It was CX that XY thought about when she was imprisoned by that nine-tailed fox and it was CX that she thought about when she was tortured by him.

IMO, CX and XY would've gotten married if she never left Jade Mountain. When they were kids, XY told him she'd marry him.

Great points!

 Elise:

Maybe I would like the idea of them being together if he didn't have a harem of nine wives and they weren't cousins. I see them as cousins since they have the same grandfather, the Yellow Emperor....

This is what I think too. He said that all he wanted was XY (if he didn't want to rule the world). It seems like it was okay to marry a first cousin in ancient times?

 AH :

Does the script include conversations between XL and A Nian / XL and the Royal Mother? Or does that all happen off screen?

Yes, Xiang Liu breaks the bug connection there, and we are given his dialogue with both A Nian and the Royal Mother after that too.

 MTH123:

Great points!

This is what I think too. He said that all he wanted was XY (if he didn't want to rule the world). It seems like it was okay to marry a first cousin in ancient times?

It seems like it might have been acceptable for royal cousins to marry in Dahuang. In the prologue to Once Promised (the novel prequel to Lost You Forever), Tong Hua draws on several characters from Chinese mythology to build her world. She says that the world of Dahuang was created by the god Pan Gu, who had three subordinates: Sheng Nong, Gao Xing and Hua Xu. Hua Xu had two children: Fu Yi and Nu Wa. Although they were siblings, they ended up being crowned Emperor and Empress and were husband and wife. So there is a precedent for royal deity siblings to marry and rule together in Dahuang. Presumably royal deity cousins marrying and ruling together wouldn't be impossible. 

ZX and Xing Yue are related. So are XY and Feng Long. XY and ZX's grandmother was a cousin of Feng Long and Xing Yue's paternal grandmother. And that seems to be perfectly fine.

But, on the other hand, after XY is struck from the Gao Xing family register, ZX argues with the Yellow Emperor in chapter 35 because he wants XY to take the name Xi Ling Jiu Yao and not the name Xuan Yuan Jiu Yao. In chapter 47, XY realizes that ZX might not have wanted XY to take on the Xuan Yuan name and become a princess of Xuan Yuan because of his feelings for her. So maybe her taking that name would have gotten in the way of ZX being able to marry XY one day.

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Chapter 47:

But now she knew how Zhuan Xu felt about her, many things in the past took on a different meaning, so Xiao Yao went back through her memories and spent the entire night thinking of the past.

When her Dad issued a proclamation that Xiao Yao was no longer the Gao Xing Eldest Princess, her Grandfather wanted to give her the Xuan Yuan last name so she could be the Xuan Yuan Princess and had the most illustrious last name in the entire world. But Zhuan Xu insisted on giving Xiao Yao the Xi Ling last name, and for this the two argued over it. Back then Xiao Yao picked the Xi Ling last name so she was matched to Jing’s level, which is why she never thought about why Zhuan Xu wouldn’t let her become the Xuan Yuan Princess.