Lessa

I would say that almost any language is useless (well, if you are not moving to another country). The only ones people would really need in the following years are probably English or Chinese.
Most of the time people people study languages as a hobby. While Russian is not the easiest, it is still easier to learn that Chinese or Japanese (where either you have really good memory or you are out of luck).
Pretty good choice if you want something entirely different from English but with slightly familiar alphabet so that you don't need to start from a scratch.
Also, you are wrong as names of languages starts with capital letter in English.

Oh, that is a difficult thing to learn. They have probably told you that grammar forms of the word will depend on its gender. In fact, Russian children guess the gender based on words grammar forms they remember.

When you see a new word (either noun, verb or an adjective) try to look at its declensions (for example, here https://ru.wiktionary.org/) and in time you will be able to form most of it (mostly depends on last letters and the accent). But still, I don't think there is a logical way to explain the words ending with "ь" - you need to know some of the word's declensions to form the other ones, no rules, words like "тень" or "лень" are feminine and "день" and "пень" are masculine. But if you remember any other form - like with preposition "without" it will be "без тени", "без лени", "без дня", "без пня" - you see, it changes differently based on gender - so if you remember at least one such form and have some experience with possible endings of words, you can guess all other forms (it is similar to English words "I"/"me", "he"/"him" but it applies to all nouns and there are different forms for different preposition types - 6 total and infinitive - like in English "below me" and "without me" uses the same "me" but in Russian it will be different forms: "подо мной" and "без меня"). Don't worry, for us English prepositions (the use of words "in", "on" or "at") are the same nightmare.

If you meet someone for whom Russian is the second language (someone Georgian or Uzbek - who has two national languages, studied the other one at school but speaks both languages fine) they will be making a lot of errors in declensions (they may form endings of the wrong gender or use infinitive form of a noun instead). It is probably the worst you will ever encounter studying Russian (well, if your teacher don't make you learn punctuation - commas seem to be pretty rare in English so there may be some... surprises).

It is easiest for now to remember which word endings corresponds to which gender. "ь" is especially nasty but other than that consonant are mostly masculine, "о", "у", "мя" and "е" are neutral, "а" and "я" are feminine. Don't worry if you make mistakes - we all do, they even had to change the gender of the word "coffee" to neutral as people refused to remember that "кофе" was actually "кофий" ages ago so it is "he". Often it is impossible to guess the gender of the word if you don't know other forms of that word (with different endings) so don't think about it too much.

At least we are in better situation than our SaHPH neighbours who got air date and then got postponed. We didn't believe our rumours at all so our hearts were not broken.

I don't like low-budget cringe-worthy dramas. It messes with the image I have of cinematography.
But you know, there is a simple solution to that. I just don't watch such dramas...

For some reason I don't see any October drama without exact date in the upcoming list. Is it only me or does no one see HYX there?
We need our clown recruitment service back on the main page's Top Upcoming Shows section.

I remember "air dates" for April and maybe May. Its great that they have brought us all together with a new date as it became much more lively here.

If I am not wrong, that is not elections in our understanding, it is mostly about deciding a political course for next years. If it was just elections, a lot of people wouldn't even care as right now everyone knows who will be the secretary and unlike Western countries people are not involved in the process of elections.
But the thing is that the world right now is in a rather complicated situation and China plays a major role so everyone (not just chinese people) are waiting for what they are going to say and they are definitely going to state their position.
In fact, it is impossible to say what it means to us. They may forbid all historical and fantasy cdrama or they may throw a bone to those who are most likely to protest so that they can watch their sweet little bl romance and forget about politics for a bit.

You can also try The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty - it is also adapted from BL novel if thats what you mean by friendship. It is something between historical and wuxia (the same novel author as Thousand Autumns and Peerless so if you have read it you know what to expect)
Also, I liked 2020 version of Handsome Siblings. Not BL but still about friendship and the plot was fine until last episodes.

Not sure. Probably they are talking about several photos which don't seem to be a part of HYX itself (just some funny bts where CFY tried to lay his legs on top of LYX) and a short video with failed fight scene where CFY helped LYX to stand up. I saw it in one of vk groups (no one actually delete leaks there) so maybe it was something different from the twitter leaks people talk about.

Ancient Love Poetry will end in several days. It is similar to HYX - also big xianxia series with really good graphics, also on Tencent, people also waited for it for a very long time (it got a trailer somewhere last autumn and then no updates until release).

Their next xianxia can be HYX but it is likely that they will wait for at least several weeks before the next xianxia series. Also, I am not sure about that celebration - there were no new historical dramas in China for a month or so.

I remember watching the first ep when subtitles were just added and there was that line about 3 years right after 3 months timeskip. As I understand, that was an idiom which was translated incorrectly (the error still remains in Russian subtitles on Youtube so if you are not watching in English, maybe they didn't correct that for your language too).
The correct translation was "the person who spent three years as a beggar would never want to switch place with an emperor" or something like that.

As I understand, Six Hearts never required someone to die. YBY practiced it with Rong Xuan's father (I am explaining the drama version as in the novel that technique was not dual-cultivation and it was only mentioned that it was too hard to master and any mistake could lead to qi deviation). And YBY mentioned that he didn't tell his friend about Rong Xuan's death (which happened 30 years ago) so it seems both of them survived the process.

Also, before YBY woke WKX up, he said that no one will die. I mean, he wouldn't really send WKX to death so that ZZS would follow him right after they master the technique - ZZS already tried that twice (when WKX fell from the cliff and later after seeing the body), so, well, that would be YBY stupidest idea ever.

That Chengling speech in the end was redubbed. Original script stated that Six Heart technique requires two people who fully trust each other. In the changed version we have that part about broken meridians. But I guess it should be fine because ZZS also had some really bad problems with meridians after removing the nails and YBY technique healed that. By the way, in order to heal ZZS in the novel, Shaman had to sever his meridians and then reconstruct it, so it is not a death sentence here. Also, even if Chengling didn't finish his story, it didn't look like he was telling about his teachers' death (that would be a great fairytale for little children with all those details, yeah).

What YBY said about sacrifice was most likely one of his cruel jokes. You see, WKX was the main reason they ended up like that - ZZS doomed himself because of WKX actions. So it seems like YBY made his revenge on WKX so that he would feel the same ZZS felt while removing the nails.

I don't remember when anyone said anything about hair turning white as a result of technique. It seemed like a small revenge from YBY for all those jokes about "gray-haired old turtle".

In the end, when WKX lost consciousness, ZZS didn't look too panicked. He was scared at first (white hair was unexpected) but later he set there not doing anything - to me it seemed like WKX just passed out because he was already wounded before and spent the whole night meditating with ZZS right after.

They didn't become immortals in the novel. They stayed on the mountain with Chengling for several months, then WKX asked ZZS to go with him to a trip down the mountain to bury his parents (and thats was where the novel ended). I guess, they found a place to settle later (most wuxia characters does that eventually) but it is left to imagination.

In fact, I think that drama ending feels more hopeful. I mean, there is rebuilt Four Seasons Manor and main characters have some students to teach (and I believe Chengling stayed with them for several years before restoring the school). And, well, there are a lot of people who would want ZZS or WKX head and we are certain they never got it...

If the thing about Six Hearts tecnique feels weird to you:
It is common for wuxia techniques to require something in return. And our characters are quite lucky with that - Six Hearts forbids eating normal food but its practitioner doesn't really need it. Compare it to some other rules like the need to eat human hearts or having poisonous insects under your skin or being unable to feel anything... I remember, in Smiling Proud Warrior the strongest martial art people were fightnig for required castrating yourself and everyone thought of it as a fair price.

Official ending in the novel was at the end of ep35. ZZS didn't remove nails so Shaman healed him later. YBY never passed his technique to anyone (I guess he took it with him to the grave). ZZS and WKX stayed for some time at the mountain and then mentioned going to properly bury WKX parents.
Ep37 is the real ending to the drama version - they tried to follow the novel as closely as possible but censorship would not allow good ending here. So what we have now is re-e-eally close to the book ending but they edited ep36 in a way that censors would believe that WKX died (thats why we have all that Six Hearts plot line) and hid the last part in an OST video.

Don't believe chinese rumors. That information about HYX coming out in August is an obvious lie - no costume drama will air at that time because of the celebration. And, well, Chinese people spread those rumors on certain drama not passing censorship (they are crying about Shapolang now)/delaying until next year all the time. It is not facts, just some random rumors.

In the novel WKX often joked calling himself a wife (he was much more shameless there) and ZZS sometimes played along. It was not about danmei shou/gong though (Priest novels don't really have such trope). Of course, censorship would never allow that in a drama version but I guess they didn't remove all those jokes.

Happy ending. But the editing now may feel weird.
Chinese censorship really dislikes HE in BL drama so it is a bit tricky here - the last scene of the ep36 is hidden in a music clip (people refer to it as ep37). Also, it is explicitely stated in ep36 that ML will die (that is an obvious lie from a character who often does such things), at least two big dialogues are redubbed (people who know chinese and can read the actual script from lips in a video say that it changes a lot) and the episode ends with a scene which can be interpreted as the death of ML.
Most likely Youtube version will be different as they don't need to please censors that much there. So if you tend to see bad endings when there are hints to that, it may be better to wait until international version is fully out.

If you want details:
They punished all those bad guys but some characters we really like died in process.
There was a way to heal ZZS from his illness but because of some events it became impossible. YBY gave WKX his technique but told him that it required two people and one of them must die (it is one of his usual jokes, also the problems started with WKX so he had to suffer for his stupidity). So in the end WKX and ZZS learned that technique and lived happily ever after (literally).
Also, that technique was about, well, double cultivation. Don't know what censorship was doing - maybe they got tired after watching HYX and just closed their eyes for the whole episode.

You can try Meng Xi Shi. I've read her novels Thousand Autumns (it is not fully translated yet but it has a donghua) and Peerless (fully translated).
It is much closer to Shapolang that HYX - really good plot with a lot of politics and not much romance. I liked main characters in Peerless more than in Thousand Autumns - at least they are trying to be nice to each other sometimes - so I would probably advice Peerless first. It has more wuxia (World of Honor genre) elements than Shapolang though.

If you are talking about the text which was translated yesterday in Twitter, they say it is most likely a fanfic added to the pirated version of the book.