The moments he steals, here in the Cottage of her parents. The memories he makes... a lifetime of love.. created in a small space. It's a tiny cottage another man once built ignoring the futility of the act but wanting to leave a physical monument of a dream. Touching things that were once so carefully crafter for her, meant for her touch.
He pictures their child in that cradle, their image on the wall.
He will die, in part for his men, he will die in part to make sure this future isn't also their future.
But most importantly, he will die.. least his willpower grows weak.
He has made the right choice, stealing these moments in this cottage has cemented his fidelity to the masterplan.
He will worship at the altar of a ruined future, a dreamland built for disuse. He will honour her parents, he will honour her past, her future. He will leave this place and he will not look back, FOR ONCE all 9 heads are in agreeance.
If it was ever in doubt before, she is unknowingly - unburdened, in a marriage which would have been acknowledged by her Father's people, by rearing that Bug and asking 9 Heads to share it with her. We've never so much seen any definite acknowledgment of this, but now with his bowing to her parents and the way he pictured the painting turning in to himself and XY - maybe in a different time, a different life - maybe as the worst possible outcome had he not steered their relationship towards what it is now - they would have perfectly enacted the TRAGEDY which was her parents relationship. As he walks through that cottage you can see what he to would have wanted to create for them, and also where it was doomed to lead. He bows to his parents-in-law for the first and final time. He declares to Chubby - in lieu of nobody else to lay witness, that it is better to part ways than to continue, in the manner of how an ordinary man would have proclaimed as he sought or granted a divorce to his wife.
She will never know. She needn't ever know.
I'm pretty certain Jing knows though and it's a little too far in to deception for me, personally. The things he knows and will never tell. The author certainly know what she's done writing him this way.
I feel so BURDENED by what we know, Does Jing? Does it eat at him? It's eating at me.
I cannot take it. Old 9 heads can feel something as gentle as a flutter of lips through her. Please remove the bug, and soon. If a heart can break only once, it can break hundreds of times through every heart that is touched by this drama. I don't think I've ever ached this much for a character on a screen, perhaps because he's so pure in his quest. A 9 headed demon is the most noble amongst them all.
“I knew that I was dying. Something in me said, Go ahead, die, sleep, become as them, accept.
Then something else in me said, no, save the tiniest bit. It needn't be much, just a spark. A spark can set a whole forest on fire. Just a spark. Save it.” ― Charles Bukowski
I am really enjoying this series! While its pretty slowburn and not as dramatic as The Double, this series actually…
I'm only on ep3 and I think they have some chemistry, it's not like with Bai Lu but it's still simmery. I like how they've handled the plot so far, it's refreshing in a way. I like that I have so many eps because 3 days or more LYF is a long time.
I would go solo. Jing feels too good at manipulation, on a level that would scare me subconsciously and XL is…
I agree, the Great Doctor! reinvent herself every couple of decades to avoid human detection. Discover that love is in everything, inside the quiet conspiratorial moments you have with confidants.
I think she feels all these men will live forever - so her hand is never forced, she's not thinking about anyone's end. She thinks she can have them all in some aspect, Xuan as a brother, Jing as a husband and is happy enough knowing Xiang Liu is out there - somewhere. She has no idea her world is about to crumble.
She has no idea that her unsteady lines drawn will lead to the end of everything she holds dear. You have to DRAW CLEAR LINES - else people get ideas. XL taught you about that too, personally.
Awwww....what a loyal friend. Lirong Chang feeling indignant again for Jing. We all need a wingman like Lirong…
I want him to be the cricket that sits on XY's shoulder and says too much, let's something slip. Oopsies about XL, about the true meaning of the Love Bug - he'd know, as the old man was his uncle? Come on cricket! Let it slip!
We must remember, she's a creature hardened by torture, frequent and horrific. No physical pain she's not weathered. She much prefers this to the hearts anguish.
She's died more than once, she died in that cage remember.. she accepted death in to her heart. She was effectively reborn from character suicide. She ended her old self and begun anew. On shaking, pebbled ground mind you, but after hundred of years that new identity was pretty solid too.
9 heads, having been christened in the same fashion, burned and hardened by the same flames understands her, but is bewildered that she once gave up but is still sitting here with him. Their humour is dark, unfunny - yet quite hilarious to two creatures who were once dead, conspiratorial in the middle of the night.
So above anything - he spares her heartache where he can and inflicts heartache where he must. Because this is the ONLY WAY to give her pause. And sometimes he needs her to move, and sometime he needs her to stop.
And so they know each other- horrifically, in ways nobody should know another. His burden amplified by a Bug, it's only fair he has quite a few lives to help him carry and she has a messy heart that he really mustn't touch.
Fangfeng Bei - their relationship is her favourite, '' if I cannot have permanence, a short meaningful acquaintance will do''. He accompanies her, trains her, tries so very hard to not get too close to touching that heart that he knows she has for him. He becomes what she needs, when she needs it. She chooses to not look at it too closely.
kkkkkk.....the only loser is the coward who paid a poor man to do his dirty job.
I think, as you say the Jing XY relationship is very rooted in realism. Many relationships have the 'greater manipulator' and the one willing to look the other day, or the one who's like Fire and the one who bends like Water. I think she's not blind, but she certainly is willing to overlook, to use her blinders. It makes love easier. It make loss easier too.
We must remember, she's a creature hardened by torture, frequent and horrific.
I don't like any of them for her, for various reasons.
Maybe realising that romantic love is not the goal she thought it was and that belonging lives in those precious, quiet moments shared with confidants. Her journey should be that - love is in abundance and it has many faces, her true heart is in Medicine and becoming the greatest doctor, living amongst the commoners.
Remember, the saying goes something like; You, everyone is someone's reason to get up in the morning. Most of us will never who we impacted so heavily on. We will never know all who loved us, we may never know the person who loved us the most. They let us go because they felt inadequate in whatever aspect, maybe while you barely even knew they existed.
The grief if there is no 'Puck', no Narrator, no little goblin, Chubby or spell that lifts the veil and gives her a taste of his true heart. We're running towards the end, Xiang Liu is running out of time.
She thinks he will be around forever! possibly young and still beautiful by the time she's some old hag and too self conscious to face him. It'll sneak up and then his light will be out, either she thinks he's still out there.. somewhere Maybe she will be forced to confront the gift he's given her and stare it down. Happily ever after.
My guess, It's the impossibly immaculate, expensive mermaid orb - the only item retrievable. Oh my Goddess, what about Chubby :(
kkkkkk.....the only loser is the coward who paid a poor man to do his dirty job.
I don't know why I didn't look at it that way before now. Jing is too clever, as Cang Xuan says, there's no way Jing doesn't know on some level what this will make XL do and how it'll affect her friendship with XL. The audacity to look surprised at the wedding too. We all know that Xiao Yao chooses to never look to closely at anything, she won't examine the motivations of those she loves unless her hand is pressed.
I don’t know how to explain this to ya’ll but XY does not LUST for XL at ALL. Can we not project OUR lust…
She gives him chance, after chance, after chance... after chance to come out with it, but XL never takes the bite. He knows how the previous generation- her parents- ended up, he knows how he dies and it's for his men. Jing even confessed a couple of episodes ago that he never gave her the chance to choose - when he finally did XL had already decided long ago to push her towards her forever, towards Jing. XL is her wobble, he wobbled her since before Jing got married. The author has stated that XL is her soulmate, but Jing is her happy ever after. One man has a future, one does not. They were written that way.
XL, it is too dangerous to love him, she states as much herself. If she never speaks the words, it's not happening. She circles around it and sheds her tears thinking her feelings aren't at all mutual, more than once.
She absolutely loves Jing, she will absolutely spend forever with him, but it's not the same. It doesn't mean that love isn't love. Love is just there, you don't summon it and it is very difficult to let go of once it's there.
Her own mother was brave and reckless of heart in a way XY was never able to be - because of how she grew up. Her mother loved wildly, in spite of, never mind the obstacles - This is not who XY is, her fears are too deeply rooted. So there will be no reprisal of the older previous generation. XY can only love widely if she is safe, if it is safe.
The story of XY's parents was playing out between XY and XL. He learned much earlier of her heritage, those 9 heads, man. He always hung on intently to her every word, their every interaction as he put together his plan on securing her future. She would not end as her mother, forced to face her love in a final battle.
All the heart strings, the entanglement, he would untangle them all thread by thread, until her messy heart was no longer woven together with his own. The final connection remains, he's dragging out it's removal.
It hurts ever more when it's solidified that they aren't as far apart as they thought they were, he wouldn't be pulling her in to the shadows, she's got her own demonic side. Had the previous generation not faltered, had the previous generation worked things out XL and XY would have started out from different starting points.
They are both so scared to reach out to each other. Xiang Liu is too good an actor. She can never know.
It's crazy how similar XY mom and dad story with XY and XL
Yes, this is why the old man warned XL to not repeat what happened in the previous generation. Her biological dad was some sort of God, quite possibly never meant to mingle with Immortals in the way he did. I feel like XL is some sort of nature deity too.
The memories he makes... a lifetime of love.. created in a small space.
It's a tiny cottage another man once built ignoring the futility of the act but wanting to leave a physical monument of a dream.
Touching things that were once so carefully crafter for her, meant for her touch.
He pictures their child in that cradle, their image on the wall.
He will die, in part for his men, he will die in part to make sure this future isn't also their future.
But most importantly, he will die.. least his willpower grows weak.
He has made the right choice, stealing these moments in this cottage has cemented his fidelity to the masterplan.
He will worship at the altar of a ruined future, a dreamland built for disuse.
He will honour her parents, he will honour her past, her future.
He will leave this place and he will not look back,
FOR ONCE all 9 heads are in agreeance.
It's just a death, it is nothing.
We've never so much seen any definite acknowledgment of this, but now with his bowing to her parents and the way he pictured the painting turning in to himself and XY - maybe in a different time, a different life - maybe as the worst possible outcome had he not steered their relationship towards what it is now - they would have perfectly enacted the TRAGEDY which was her parents relationship.
As he walks through that cottage you can see what he to would have wanted to create for them, and also where it was doomed to lead.
He bows to his parents-in-law for the first and final time.
He declares to Chubby - in lieu of nobody else to lay witness, that it is better to part ways than to continue, in the manner of how an ordinary man would have proclaimed as he sought or granted a divorce to his wife.
She will never know.
She needn't ever know.
I'm pretty certain Jing knows though and it's a little too far in to deception for me, personally.
The things he knows and will never tell.
The author certainly know what she's done writing him this way.
I feel so BURDENED by what we know,
Does Jing? Does it eat at him?
It's eating at me.
Old 9 heads can feel something as gentle as a flutter of lips through her.
Please remove the bug, and soon.
If a heart can break only once, it can break hundreds of times through every heart that is touched by this drama.
I don't think I've ever ached this much for a character on a screen, perhaps because he's so pure in his quest.
A 9 headed demon is the most noble amongst them all.
Something in me said,
Go ahead, die, sleep, become as them, accept.
Then something else in me said, no,
save the tiniest bit.
It needn't be much, just a spark.
A spark can set a whole forest on fire.
Just a spark.
Save it.”
― Charles Bukowski
I think she feels all these men will live forever - so her hand is never forced, she's not thinking about anyone's end.
She thinks she can have them all in some aspect, Xuan as a brother, Jing as a husband and is happy enough knowing Xiang Liu is out there - somewhere.
She has no idea her world is about to crumble.
She has no idea that her unsteady lines drawn will lead to the end of everything she holds dear.
You have to DRAW CLEAR LINES - else people get ideas. XL taught you about that too, personally.
Come on cricket! Let it slip!
She much prefers this to the hearts anguish.
She's died more than once, she died in that cage remember.. she accepted death in to her heart.
She was effectively reborn from character suicide. She ended her old self and begun anew. On shaking, pebbled ground mind you, but after hundred of years that new identity was pretty solid too.
9 heads, having been christened in the same fashion, burned and hardened by the same flames understands her, but is bewildered that she once gave up but is still sitting here with him.
Their humour is dark, unfunny - yet quite hilarious to two creatures who were once dead, conspiratorial in the middle of the night.
So above anything - he spares her heartache where he can and inflicts heartache where he must. Because this is the ONLY WAY to give her pause.
And sometimes he needs her to move, and sometime he needs her to stop.
And so they know each other- horrifically, in ways nobody should know another.
His burden amplified by a Bug, it's only fair he has quite a few lives to help him carry and she has a messy heart that he really mustn't touch.
Fangfeng Bei - their relationship is her favourite, '' if I cannot have permanence, a short meaningful acquaintance will do''.
He accompanies her, trains her, tries so very hard to not get too close to touching that heart that he knows she has for him.
He becomes what she needs, when she needs it.
She chooses to not look at it too closely.
It's all ugh, I hate it and I love it.
I think she's not blind, but she certainly is willing to overlook, to use her blinders.
It makes love easier.
It make loss easier too.
We must remember, she's a creature hardened by torture, frequent and horrific.
Maybe realising that romantic love is not the goal she thought it was and that belonging lives in those precious, quiet moments shared with confidants.
Her journey should be that - love is in abundance and it has many faces, her true heart is in Medicine and becoming the greatest doctor, living amongst the commoners.
Remember, the saying goes something like; You, everyone is someone's reason to get up in the morning.
Most of us will never who we impacted so heavily on.
We will never know all who loved us, we may never know the person who loved us the most.
They let us go because they felt inadequate in whatever aspect, maybe while you barely even knew they existed.
The grief if there is no 'Puck', no Narrator, no little goblin, Chubby or spell that lifts the veil and gives her a taste of his true heart.
We're running towards the end, Xiang Liu is running out of time.
She thinks he will be around forever! possibly young and still beautiful by the time she's some old hag and too self conscious to face him.
It'll sneak up and then his light will be out, either she thinks he's still out there.. somewhere
Maybe she will be forced to confront the gift he's given her and stare it down.
Happily ever after.
My guess,
It's the impossibly immaculate, expensive mermaid orb - the only item retrievable.
Oh my Goddess, what about Chubby :(
The audacity to look surprised at the wedding too. We all know that Xiao Yao chooses to never look to closely at anything, she won't examine the motivations of those she loves unless her hand is pressed.
He knows how the previous generation- her parents- ended up, he knows how he dies and it's for his men.
Jing even confessed a couple of episodes ago that he never gave her the chance to choose - when he finally did XL had already decided long ago to push her towards her forever, towards Jing.
XL is her wobble, he wobbled her since before Jing got married.
The author has stated that XL is her soulmate, but Jing is her happy ever after.
One man has a future, one does not. They were written that way.
XL, it is too dangerous to love him, she states as much herself. If she never speaks the words, it's not happening. She circles around it and sheds her tears thinking her feelings aren't at all mutual, more than once.
She absolutely loves Jing, she will absolutely spend forever with him, but it's not the same. It doesn't mean that love isn't love.
Love is just there, you don't summon it and it is very difficult to let go of once it's there.
Her own mother was brave and reckless of heart in a way XY was never able to be - because of how she grew up.
Her mother loved wildly, in spite of, never mind the obstacles - This is not who XY is, her fears are too deeply rooted.
So there will be no reprisal of the older previous generation.
XY can only love widely if she is safe, if it is safe.
He learned much earlier of her heritage, those 9 heads, man.
He always hung on intently to her every word, their every interaction as he put together his plan on securing her future.
She would not end as her mother, forced to face her love in a final battle.
All the heart strings, the entanglement, he would untangle them all thread by thread, until her messy heart was no longer woven together with his own.
The final connection remains, he's dragging out it's removal.
It hurts ever more when it's solidified that they aren't as far apart as they thought they were, he wouldn't be pulling her in to the shadows, she's got her own demonic side.
Had the previous generation not faltered, had the previous generation worked things out XL and XY would have started out from different starting points.
They are both so scared to reach out to each other.
Xiang Liu is too good an actor.
She can never know.