Shaoyaoville

what a nice day to end it all 😭

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I keep seeing this pic everywhere and feel like a clown every time...it seems unlikely to belong to clj but it looks like it does and always shows up under this topic for me lol

Every time historical dramas are about to end and a character says "war is inevitable now" I'm like "NO IT'S NOT!! FVCK YOU"

I know so many people wanted a dramatic war from ep 31 but I really loved how it didn't happen...I don't think that the thrill of watching an epic battle would be nearly as emotionally impactful as the battlefield getting drawn in sunlight and everyone uniting to bow to XLH's floating body...War is bad. war sucks. Everyone knows that but you feel it in your bones when you or your neighbors have been through it or have always been living under the fear of it happening. This drama is about peace and love and I love it. I can't explain the beautiful pain of XLH telling herself she has to bring peace to the world and save all people.

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I think you missed something...He wanted her to go back to her hometown and let him go, and then sell his spirit to the evil God in exchange of Tansui saving his people and unsealing the soldiers. He didn't think nor did he want Orchid to sacrifice herself. He wanted to save both his lover and his people by making a deal with the evil God.
"i have another way to save both" refers to that

The thing master Siming said about love not being fate and destiny is a really interesting thing coming from THIS drama because the concept of "love" in the xianxia genre revolving around the "love is fate" theme is a really, REALLY common characteristic of this genre. Most xianxias usually try to prove love is eternal and people who are fated to love will meet and fall in love again even after dying, forgetting e/o and being reborn as other people in other universes and lifetimes while it's the exact opposite for this one lol. I actually like the "fated to love you" ideology for this genre specifically (Not for modern romances and non fantasy stories lmao) because the epic and dramatic aspect of it peaks with that, but it's pretty interesting that CLJ's writers played on it with their own mindset rather than the common xianxia mindset.

There's this feeling when you go back to something remarkable your friend who wasn't your friend when you first saw that thing did that makes you go "OOOoooh this is my bestie but I didn't know i was gonna be besties with them at that time lol"...This is exactly how I'm feeling realizing that one guy in the promotional clip from this drama is actually Chengheng from Cang Lan Jue lmao ...

Your takes and analysis are always so flipping amazing, I'm seriously waiting to read them after watching the new episodes every night not even joking

Yeah...she breathes and people are mad...That's what being a high quality woman does to you

I know Goddess Xiyun=/= XLH but I'm totally not gonna be mad at her giving dfqc a cold shoulder later...I mean isn't that what he did to her in the beginning too?🤷🏻‍♀

Free this woman she didn't do shit sexual harassers r*pists p*dos cheaters are all walking out there freely while she's been stuck because of a stupid beef with her stupid fvcking company 😭

was spying douban yesterday and noticed she had two very exciting rumored projects, I don't know how long it's been since those rumors but I'm crying fr it's so unfair 😭 One of them was a famous author Guo Jinming dramadaptation starring her and Zheng Linghe (The Eng title on the poster said "half of us", but I couldn't find anything about it here) and the other one was a drama directed by Yanyang, the lady that did Ever night and The dream of splendor 😭😭😭
(Since my comments here keep causing confusion: this isn't new news, I just checked her profile on Douban and saw these there)

Btw now that the MBTI discussion was brought up yesterday, what type do you guys associate each CLJ character with? I think XLH is 100% an ENFP

Lol exactly...It's not just about this drama, I always get mad when I see so many people being mean to characters who do things that are totally understandable for them to do, like PLEASE PUT YOURSELF IN THEIR SHOES lmao. I found out maybe being an infp was the reason recently...But then again, it's about everyone having a different mindset and way of thinking, and again as the most empathetic personality type, I think we can "understand" why they would be mean to those characters again lol.

We do😭 I come here to spam the comments simping for her everyday

The story of Chidi woman has not been addressed neither....RH said she had "sad" looking eyes when he first met her. I wonder if this will somehow connect to XLH's revival later.

YM and GJ are already doing another drama produced by the same company together. I hope they do Siming with LYT! She appeared in this drama a couple of times but she was oozing an insane amount of charisma in her little sreen time

IKR?? Everyone talking about everybody being sad and suffering while my girl did that thinking about the entire universe 😭 no one seems to be giving her the credit she deserves

Flashbacks to Xuanji from LAR getting dragged to hell and back and overly hated for making wrong decisions when she was legit fvcking gaslit and constantly emotionally blackmailed by people around her to make those choices...She was also hated for being "dumb" when she was fvcking BORN with undeveloped senses...🤦🏻‍♀️ Let me talk about lack of sympathy for female characters and I can make an unending list