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I think that it may not be something they want to see in the moment, or it s not their cup of tea

At this point, I think she knows she is at least as guilty as him , but admitting it would be hard on her

It s an heavenly opera

After the teasers of EP 26 to 28, I seriously think that a title like " rising stars: Immortals with celestial acting skills in heavenly opera" would be a more fitting title.

What I love about people picking side in this feud, it's how it reflects how closer our personality is with the characters. I am actually in BJS s side. And even if he is rough in his reflexion about humanity, I don't think he is wrong to feel this way. As an example, we see the life of little insects as ants, mosticos, bees etc. they appear so fragile, annoying and insignificant that when one bites us, our first move is to crush it. We even hate to see some others as spiders, cockroaches ( oh I hate them so!) and sometimes our instincts to get rid of them come easily just because we can. I don't want to compare us to insects ( specially cockroaches), neither want to say they lives, connections and emotions flow as ours do as gumans. But we can't expect deities living for thousands years, seeing the mortals going from life to death in circles for eons to treat us at least as lovable pet they can adopt and protect. And let s not forget our easily swaying nature. Sometimes, we are the creators of our own suffering.
So the problem lays deeper than helping people or not helping them . FL is compassionate and sympathetic, yes, but will it suffice to say all your decisions are good and will lead to eternal peace and happiness? No. The ML is detached, sticking to higher rules because things will flow the way they were supposed to. Does it mean letting someone meets his Fate portraying him as bad? No. .
The case of Mr ling did nothing but proove what the ML said. He tried to go against fate, died trying , and even left a wife and child alone in those harsh time were being a single mother raising a child is difficult. Did trying to save a life was a good thing? Of course. But do we really think that if he knew he would fail, he would risk his family s future for it? I bet no. It would have been great if both of their life could be saved. But the cost was too high, and the possibility of success too thin.
And we have already seen that both leads are people who are just and right. They don't bully the weak and don't abuse their power for personal gains. It is just a conflict laying in point of life and personally. And of course, the viewer will side with the person they resonate more with.

For the first question, maybe an husband that has been almost killed, and sealed by said wife for an hundred years lol? But more seriously, he is not really trying to kill her. He do hate her for what she has done, but the one who is actually trying to kill him is her.
Or maybe she really have done the deeds she was accused for, but for good reasons. Kerp watching. So far we don't know the whole story yet, but we trust the writers to deliver some plausible explanation. But what I like about this drama, is how it is raising questions. Who is good, bad, wrong , right? I would love to hear your insight after some more episodes 🙃

Lol the man at some point said he would never mistake his wife. So from the beginning he just wanted her to come clean . He even told her he thought she would confess after their trip when chason the lotus demon woman.
Well I personally don't fell sad for LQY because it was just a sweet act she put. I will miss her , sure, but I am more interested in what she really is, and what she put the act. And I love how acting as LQY just make her feel dangerous. Like the woman can pull out this personality, stick to it just to fool a man, even when bearing thousand pain, just to find the right occasion to kill him. She is terrifying

Because sometimes we act like we are a big money investor in the drama, feelling entitled to bash something we sacrificed so much for , because we feel like we were fooled by the whole production team. What they promised in the contract was not delivered , So all the money we invested were wasted.
Or peps are just having a very bad moment and want to lash it out somewhere.

You are right to be confused . The story telling wanted you to believe her so much they presented the scenes this way to fool the audience. Well, at least the husband was not fooled

When the second leads were asking for their way, the bandits told them that song he country was frozen and desert for some times ago. I think it has something to do with their last trip when they wanted to chase that lotus demon girl who thought that killing the patients of her crush doctor was an actual demonstration of affection ( lol I forgot her name).
Besides, the things happening to BJS are too coincidentals, as arranged for a play. Let's wait and see

We as humans are very influençables. We have tendencies to not go against the crowd , or to not voice some opinions we have because it could lead to rejection. I have seen people hyping as one very mediocre or average works, the same way they were bashing some actors work for little good reasons. And I guess that s how we are.
In my opinion, you can still try something even if it has bad review. From my experiences here, we do watch our drama depending on our feelings and whims. A drama you could not stand today could become a gem in your eyes in the future, just because it was not the thing you really needed to watch today.
And seriously, some people are bashing on dramas not really because the drama itself is bad, but because something in it frustrated them. It could be the actor, the character the actor plays, a situation set up by the writers. The not satisfied ending of a drama, the lack of romance, the lack of chemistry ( who is becoming an over used word), the lack of political schemes, too much political schemes ( lol)etc. And boom,they come here to say the whole thing is trash. And as a sane person who doesn't want to be the one with bad taste, you find yourself redrawing yourself from the show.
Lol, even there, I have seen people bashing the FL in Feud for the first episodes because the innocent and naive looks did not fit the actresse, then when she was not anymore, new comments about people missing her came lol. négative things has always had this effect on us.
This said, you can just watch your things for your own reasons and personal taste. Of you happen to not like it, just gracefully drop it, and analyze yourself enough to see that the problem may not lay on the drama s whole set up, but could only be about your needs not being satisfied with this one.

The kiss in the rain....well I am totally up to one now.

Lol at this point I am not even interested in the romance. They are both too damaged for that. I just want them to stop hurting each other, sorting out their things, and go to counseling together

I am not sure it is how the show portrayed both characters. FL is compassionate, but we barely see her interacting with that much of mortals. In her past life, she spent most of her time in her manor, not knowing much about the outside world and their ways of living. At several time, it was other people ( the Meng disciple and her own husband) that explained how things work, and how hard it is for so much people.
And she only used her powers to save 2 people so far, the Meng butler and the Meng disciple. Even the dragon was slayed to protect the disciple, since he was on a quest costing him his life. And the ML told her once that the way she was interacting with the meng generations were backfiring at her.
The ML s point of view about mortals will certainly not please any human on earth, but he does have a point. Mortals are thrown in an endless pool of reincarnations ruled by fate and Karma. Their life's is so short to immortals s eyes that it's not worth it going against fate and getting all the backlash for them. He is not ignoring their suffering. He will just 'ot extend an hand to offer an help that will fire thousands thunders at him for no outstanding conclusions.
FL slayed the dragon, and the result were not only the end of the dough. People kept suffering because of the world s corruption, she got her power sealed and went for some crazy shit for 10 years we barely know about, ML went to heaven in the disguise of claiming his innocence, but we all know this will not be a Xanxia without some thunder formation punishments ( she slayed a divine being after all. Should we really think that sealing her power for 10 years was the punishment heavens accepted?), and they have a feud now for 400 years that heaven shook heavens for 100 years. Those events were triggered by her relationship with the Meng family.
But I am sure there is more to unfold for the future, and ML is sure learning to react with mortals, and hopefully will get to understand his wife s perspective more.

I fail to see how this is implying any patriarchy action harming women... Hong lian was born with a condition that messed up her moral compass, in the extend she is trading her affections, and not her real love to get a cure. The fact that she was the one who needed to give the love that could cure her showed she could have get ride of her conditions a long time ago. As for the men in her lives, those who were Romantically involved with her were hurt, the one she like did not like her back so she hurt him by killing others, those who have sealed her did it to keep her from harming other men/potential children , elderly and women, as she has already killed a bunch of them.
Ru yue is a primordial divinity who have been there for as long as the sun and the moon were created. She had been in everyone's ad side only some hundreds years ago because she caused an havock in heaven for 100 years ( of course those informations need more updates because we don't know if she has really done that or they are pining some false blame on her) . And even if she was set up, I am sure this has more to do with her essence as a divinity, that could be a liability for others , than her being a woman. Besides, they already stated how powerful she is, so she is no damsel in destress , and people can't mess up with her easily.
Ling ER s case is the only one I find fitting your description, and even so, I am not sure it has something to do about patriarchy. His father does enjoy taking those wives, and they have already shown how the last one introduced was more than unwilling to do the wedding. But as we saw it, they gave an explanation for it, and even if this mean sacrificing the love destiny of thousands a d thousands women, nobody but her father seems to be okay or to enjoy the wedding. Then again, how is it related to the whole patriarchal system?

I think there is a lot to adress in the serie before picking a side. At this point, it's not about who is wrong how right, or if an action was justified or not. It's about knowing one s responsibility, and accepting or bearing the aftermath of actions. Everybody is standing on his ground because they know they are not a villain. But still, they are analyzing the situation with only the datas and assets they have, or the opinion they formed, making them appear to be right on a short lens, but questionable, if not wrong when considering the larger picture. And that was a problem we have been dealing with for ever as humans. We still can't grasp how an action we made in the past can affect a whole future generation s life, in the good as in the bad. And the future generation will certainly not know to blame that one action that triggered their situation, but will assess only information about recent events .
The whole drought things was messed up in the first place, and the dragon sure knew he was hurting people that were not responsible for the destruction of his mountain. But we as humans, when hard times strike, instead of protecting each other, we are on the contrary throwing ourselves against one another, and in the name of survival, can even harm and hurt those who are more defenseless.
The meng disciple clearly explained how the officialdom was corrupted, and how the poorer were the most stroke by the dought. Will killing the dragon relieve those people for a while? Of course. Will it stop those people s suffering and ameliorate their conditions? Sure not. And it was interesting to see how meng chi, after almost loosing his life in a battle he could not win against the system, decided that the real problem was the gods, and slaying them would resolve the problem.
It s an endless cycle were people are shifting blames, taking actions that can relieve them for a time, but can cost them, or even a larger group in the future.

Normally they describe the time spend in heaven to be different from time spent to mortal real. For example, in love you seven time, the FL when to mortal world some seconds before the ML for a tribulation, this resulted to have him born a few years later after her arrival. So if the theory is right and he Went to heaven while leaving her in the mortal world, the difference in time flow could explain it.

Lol I first saw him in romance on the farm, and I noticed something was going on with his gaze too. Like he is that immortal soul wandering earth for too long and had seen the worst shit human beings can do; but is still undercover, and trying h is best to fix an eternal sulking expression on his face to hide is utter disgust for humanity.
Now considering the personality they gave him in FEUD, I do find the look suiting BJS very well

Nah, it's definitely a preference thing. I watched it straight after watching the shows I cited, maybe that s why I was expecting more,
so it's good if everybody else is enjoying it as it is

Yes! I forgot the 100 years he spent in prison. That s right, thanks