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It's implied that she committed suicide because she fell for some scam involving a lot of money. You get one scene of her entering a room then pleading, but it doesn't really elaborate more or why those guys were responsible.

It was never banned. There's just restrictions in place depending on the medium you're broadcasting the drama.

If you watch The Blood of Youth, Ye Ding Zhi's death is stated in the 3rd episode. His son is a main character and Wenjun shows up later.

They don't really get punished as betrayed by the person they work for. But it happens near the end, so it'll be a couple more episodes more of them from where you're at.

Step siblings are only a thing in modern China with the influence of European understanding of family rooted in monogamy. Even then, Jiang Li and Jiang Rou Yao aren't step siblings, but half siblings since they share the same father. Jiang Yu'e is a cousin, but in large families you can rank all the cousins by the order in which they were born. That's why she's the 4th sister of the Jiang family despite being a child of Jiang Li's uncle.

The sisters aren't direct family in the sense that they aren't of the same mother, but Jiang Li and Jiang Rou Yao are both children of the main wives that have priority when inheriting anything from the Jiang Family. Before Jiang Li returned, Jiang Rou Yao was the oldest child from a main wife so she was the head of her generation. Jiang Li's return would mean Jiang Rou Yao is no longer he head of her generation.

For traditional Chinese families with multiple wives, there is the main wife and concubines (which are still wives in Chinese, but concubines in English). The main wife's children (you're given the title of Di -> 嫡) are the ones who have the priority to inherit anything from the family. The children of the concubines (you're given the title of Shu -> 庶). If you are the oldest son of the main wife, then you are the next in line even if you have older brothers from the concubines.

Ji Shu Ran is not a stepmother but formal mother. It's why Jiang Li addresses her as mother (母親). And even if Jiang Li's mother was still alive, Jiang Li would still call Ji Shu Ran mother because there's no concept of stepmothers in ancient China. All wives of the father are mothers to the children. Jiang Li's mother was the main wife and Ji Shu Ran was a concubine while she was alive. With the death of Jiang Li's mother, Ji Shu Ran was promoted to the main wife. As the main wife, her daughter Jiang Rou Yao would be set to inherit everything as long as Jiang Li was locked up.

The English translations lose out on a lot of context because words that describe familial connections in Chinese don't exist in English. There are also translations to English that erase context or change the meaning. Without those words and the understanding of how Chinese families are structured, it doesn't make sense. But if you do study how Chinese families were structured in the past, it makes a lot of sense why they are so obsessed with Jiang Li, the FL.

It's not though.... Christianity doesn't have a personification of Death. Also, the conception of hell exists outside of Christianity. There's Naraka in Buddhism and Chinese mythology has Diyu, both of which are similar in concept to Hell and influenced Korea longer than Christianity has (as well as having just as long a history or even longer than Christianity). Going to Diyu or Naraka is a result of divine punishment and it's not eternal making it closer to purgatory than hell. However, because of the need for translations, "hell" was chosen because it made things easier to understand for non native speakers.

You bring up Sandman which has a personification of Death, but it also has Lucifer making Christian influences apparent. This one doesn't. In fact, hell isn't even a main setting unlike in Sandman. It's only there to provide the main character a reason not to simply give up 12 times and not even try to live.

In Goblin, they did have the same faces. It's that Lee Dong Wook's and Yoo In Na's were older versions of their initial characters in the opening scene. The second life where Lee Dong Wook's character commits suicide which results him becoming a grim reaper is as his older Lee Dong Wook, not Kim Min Jae. In the initial scene, they were teenage/young adult versions before dying so had Gong Yoo's character met them when they were their younger selves, he would have recognized them.

But your point still stands as they did have different faces making them unrecognizable as Gong Yoo's character only remembered them as their younger selves. It's also arguable that after 900 years how clear your memory of a past without photographs are.

They're just playing JerryC's Canon Rock from two decades ago... A song made famous by a Korean cover of his rock cover for Canon in D...

I don't get why people insist on saying there's a ban/prohibition on time traveling stories in China when so many of them are still released. Every year there's at least one major time traveling drama. If you go read the actual regulation, it gives them authority to make changes to time traveling, supernatural and a couple other types of stories if they deem it too outlandish. This basically means it's up to the the whims of whoever is reviewing the story to revise it, shelve it or release it. There's no ban or prohibition on time traveling stories the way alcohol was prohibited in the US.

She divorces him to protect him from the backlash he may receive from her actions. The ending is bittersweet. They punish Wu Lian, but they also mourn the sacrifices made to win. So Ep 25 is the happy ending for everyone, but Ep 24 is the ending in their reality.

The story ends at episode 24. 25 is a what if bonus episode.

The main story has a complete resolution as the story revolves around the missions given to the 2 female leads. That story concludes and all the plot points setup around their mission is resolved. The main story is that members of Wufeng infiltrate the Gong family fortress using the premise of bride selection to sneak in the 2 female leads. The 2 female leads are given missions to fulfill and they each set out to complete their mission. The 2 male lead's story revolves around the sudden deaths of the patriarch and the successor. One is trying to prove himself worthy of the role he suddenly found himself in and the other challenges his every step because he thinks the new successor isn't worthy of the responsibilities given to him. All of these story arcs conclude and is very well done. Every piece of the puzzle of the mysteries central to the story of the 4 leads are revealed at the end and come together in a pretty satisfying manner.

What isn't resolved are plot points that were never setup but always looming in the background. While the climax of the battle between Wufeng and the Gong family does clash the two forces, it doesn't end with the complete extermination of either side. It's this that they use to tease us with a continuation of the story, one that may or may not come. If you cut out that teaser at the end, people wouldn't have so much hate towards it because this is what western TV shows do right before the series is canceled.

I watched it just fine with my PC hooked up to my TV. Maybe just directly connect the video output to the screen you want to watch it on. I never use Chromecast or Roku as I find it cumbersome to use when my PC can do everything it can and more.

The vast majority of people don't remember things from when they were 3 years old. That's why I said you need a really good memory in order to retain and somehow match their face with the person years later.

Not only that, the number of people you meet and have to remember daily also affects how many people you can remember, regardless of how much "quality time" you spend together in the past. Try remembering people's faces after memorizing and interacting with hundreds of different people over a 10 year period. Han Ye has tens of servants and guards he has to familiar himself with over the years not to mention teachers, advisors, officials, and all other people involved in the royal court. Without a photographic memory and perfect recall, human memories get distorted and blurry over time.

Your own anecdotal experience of remembering people after not seeing them when you were 3 years old has no bearing whatsoever on other people being unable to recognize childhood friends. There are far more people in the world that can't recognize friends they haven't seen in a couple years than people like you. As far as drama tropes go, not recognizing your childhood friend immediately is a far more realistic one than not.

You need to have a very good memory of people's faces to recognize to recognize someone in a single glance after 10 years, especially if the last time you saw them was in your adolescence. I've met lots of people who couldn't remember each other after being separated for 3 years in middle school.

As for the portrait, it's clearly shown that he doesn't remember her face. It's Luo Mingxi who fills in the eyes. He only remembers the shape of her childhood face and the rest are formal wear which he would see on a daily basis.

VIP streaming gets a dump of the final episodes early. That's how people finish watching it before the "air date" ends.

I feel like this is a major problem with characters who are supposed to be stoic and actors, director and writers who cannot pull it off. They think a stoic character must maintain a flat facial expression leading to a very uninteresting character to watch, especially a lead character. Lee Sang Yeob does a much better job at expressing his repression of emotions while letting on what he feels underneath. In the 6 episodes I watched I understood his character and desires way more than the CEO. You could replace the CEO with a cardboard cutout and that might be an improvement to the wooden characterization he was giving. If he was written, directed and acted similar to Seo Ye Ji's character, it would be amazing since they are supposed to be a bit of reflections on each other. But while you can understand Seo Ye Ji's character by the actions she takes, you only understand the CEO by the exposition explaining his character. He is, by far, the weakest point of this drama and the sole reason I gave up.

Had to wait almost a week to see if it was just a fluke, but anyone notice the title of the episode was moved from before the opening theme to after? It's a nice little detail about the time travel.