Jackie_the_ripper

we'll be waiting for you to share your emotions with us in your own terms

i agree on every point. also i'd like to add that not everything is meant to be confortable, even classic bls. the writer doesn't owe us anything and certainly doesn't have to accomodate anyone feelings. there's already too much censorship from industries that don't want to disappoint their audience to the point of making beige production so that nothing is actually problematic. if people can stomach it well then they should watch something else.

i don't know, i saw it coming. depression (and Tian as a chatacter represent also depression) is a sneaky beast, on the surface everything might look fine but it actually is not. there were hint througout the series especially in the latest episodes. it doesn't make it any less painfull but somehow understantable

you know what, i think it's the people approach to this and other stories the problem. again, this drama is not for everyone for multiple reasons. what's pointless (and i'm not talking about this user) is blaming the writer for wantint to share her vision. you might disagree with it, you might even hate it, but you have to respect it, becaue it wasn't meant to lure you and then disappoint you. (not you you, you in general 😂)

of course you're entitled to your own opinion and to accept or not accept others explanations, including the very same autor. it's fine that TO YOU bls instead of a genre with many subgenre is pure scapism, it's really fine. as it's fine that a writer vision may not resonate with you. but you can't expect that every single one of them witll accomodate you and your needs. it's also fine if you don't feel confortable with this show anymore and you feel betrayed by something that make you feel this deeply, but not every single bl is the same. do you expect that all hollywood movies are romcoms? i guess this is your goodbye to this series and it's perfectly fine, if something triggers you you should step away by all means.. so goodbye and thank you

they started growing from the moment they started having a distinct personality and their own arc. Qinlang needs to go through 9 trubulations to find his way to love, i hope he's not taking us with him through all nine of them

old tropes. he's tsundere and does tsundere things

if you scroll down a bit you can find Lady_Kexing post reporting the staff explanation about QT death

here, let jiejie hug you

they started as a plot device to tell what happened 7 years earlier between QL and the rat, they start having their own distinctive story line after episode 8 and they now represent the show business world, with all their many and terrible shadows

welcome among us! we love to share our opinions here, it's a safe space for everyone.

i may be weird, but the actual funeral wasn't the saddest part to me

absolutely (i have a special evelope for you, Zelia)

i love their reactions. Kuma worked on the character with Zelia, he wasn't just following her directions, so he has some interesting insight. on youtube you can also find translated livestreams. Guo ge (i don't remember his actual name), who plays the assistent in the drama, his actually Zelia's assisentant, they're kind of a big family (Zelia's own daughter works on the set too)

and there was that crash noise on episode 12 too...

the scene that moved me more was Wenshu lighting the phoenix fireworks. poenix means rebirth, Tian, the broken bird, now belongs to the sky, he's free to be reborn

i think one of the themes of the series is acceptance of things you can't change (like in the case of Lan jie's death), life and death are one and we'll be back to the origin. so i guess he'll move in this direction (or so i hope, i've been fooled by this show before.)

this post made everything clear, many might not be satisfied by the explanation but what can we do? thank you for posting!

it's the way the autor wanted to tell this story, it has a meaning and ripercussions on future events for sure. i also think it's her way to bare her heart. Zelia is a buddhist and you can find buddhist elements throughout the show, it may be hard to understand for us, but it is the way it is. i understand you need time to process it, afterall you were hit by a loss yourself, but give the show and yourself a little more time

i know, but if has ties with the mob how can he be a prosecutor? lawyer would make more sense in my opinion. of course this is just my theory and i can be wrong (very likely 😂)