
HeadInTheClouds:
According to the leaked script, we are going to see XL's reacting to the shared connection of the Lovers Bugs when XY-Jing is intimate. Is the drama trying to make us hate the female lead? Besides YaoJing's shippers who else is going to watch this and not come away with a bad impression of XY? Maybe they are trying to increase viewers' sympathy for him so the pay-off for when he died will be bigger?
That's just awful and it contradicts everything that we know about Tong Hua's constant claims that Xiang Liu is her favorite character. I don't doubt that he is, considering how much more care she put into writing his character, compared to the other dude. He got an epilogue, for crying out loud!
And now they'll just keep torturing him more and more during season 2? Isn't it enough what is going to happen to him in the end?

luv2bafangurl:
Besides YaoJing's shippers who else is going to watch this and not come away with a bad impression of XY? Maybe they are trying to increase viewers' sympathy for him so the pay-off for when he died will be bigger?
I don’t know, maybe they really aim to kill us all XL fans with depression and sadness by showing us explicitly what it means for XL sharing and feeling XY‘s emotions, the novel didn‘t do this as far as I know. I‘m already can‘t move on after watching S1 and joining this forum discussion, what a mess I would be after S2. HELP!
I think and I hope this will backfire spectacularly. I already have zero sympathy for the female lead. Never really cared much about her, to be honest, especially when she became a woman. But the way this thing is going, it's difficult for the majority of the audience to sympathize with her. Her "childhood trauma" free pass card is already too much of a cliché at this point.
Season 2 really is trying to amp up the depression, but that's a big turn-off. The world already is too depressing. No need to make things worse.
On the other hand, maybe all this depression and sadness will eclipse that pathetic "happy ending". Maybe it's all a blessing in disguise.