The ending as it stands; He "dies" but it later turns out to have been a 3 month coma caused by a too strong Hold Breath pill that was slipped into his tea. Standing in the street in the rain, he is not sure if the person who brushed passed his umbrella was really Yun Shang or not, but she is wearing the unique hairpin so.... The viewers get to see her looking at her wrist , a Portent appears still in it's starting level....so we know that it is her, we suspect she saw Wu Luan which is why she checked her wrist...but the knowledge is not a happy ending even if he catches up to her because even if they reunite, one of them still has to die....
Or do they??
As we know, our girl takes her sister's Portent so she had two Portents targeted at the Duke, and both were shown on her wrist. After Wu Luan's "resurrection" from the coma, one Portent is gone! And the other one is reset! So if one Hold Breath Pill can dupe the Portent, then all they have to do is for him to take another pill, maybe not as strong, to cancel the other Portent and in at least 3 months they can both live together. Bosh- a HE!. That's my interpretation and I'm sticking to it.
I viewed it as the ML is dead and the FL is dreaming he's with her. But it could also be seen as he's somehow…
I'm also 95% sure he's dead. But I even thought at first that the way she was strewn one armed across the table- with some random berries and seeds next to her, (whereas before when she'd been sat there awake there were flowers and fruits instead)- meant she'd taken poison - so the upside down kiss was them reuniting in death! They were each wearing similar but not exactly the same as in the scene I describe as weddingy below as well which made me think reunion but not quite reunion. But now I re-watched the end a few times I don't think that she's dead.
When Shen Cheng was wearing a suit with a neck scarf and putting a white hat on her as she said his new name and they kissed I felt it was reminiscent of a wedding- especially with the children's rhyme about a bride and geese in the background. Happiness short lived because war has arrived.
He goes to fight and she also goes with and somehow becomes a Dr. She is told of his demise on the front lines and given his things, along with a patriotic last message. She mourns, has some flashbacks to their journey as adults with a female voiced backing track singing about longing and geese. She carries a green suitcase so clearly intending to leave and then Jiang Xiao turns up.
When he tells he is also going to fight and many others are too, she has a mini surge of emotion, eyes tear up, she looks away and then leaves without another word. Maybe she hoped he was going to say Jiang Wei was alive , maybe she felt bitter that more people fighting for the country have come too late to save Jiang Wei, maybe she couldn't bear to see Jiang Xiao, her last link to Jiang Wei and her last little "brother", also give his life for the country. But anyway it seems like, in her grief, she is done with it all.
Then we hear the kids chanting the rhyme about brides and geese that we heard at their "wedding-like" moment before they went to war. The kids are playing and smiling- a sign that peace has come. She herself has also found some peace- before she turned her back on the military hospital but now she is working as a Dr in the community. She uses his pen and half smiles at it as she writes the prescription. Jiang Xiao returns - war is over and , like the pen, here is another reminder of Jiang Wei by her side and a symbol of the victory that Jiang Wei fought and died for . She flashes back to her happy childhood moments with Jiang Wei. She sleeps and seems to kiss him in their almost but not the same wedding attire as back in happy times before war, whilst a male voiced backing track sings of longing .
I think this is a temporary dream reunion because she doesn't even open her eyes to see who had the audacity to kiss her during her table nap, but I also think the fact that the backing track ends with "don't look back for me, I'll be fine" is meant to show that although she misses him, she is carrying on ok, carrying his pen forward into doing good for the people , able to find solace that the war he fought is won and country he cared about is at peace and so he can rest in peace too.
I binged-watched all seven episodes available on Viki last night. I loved it, and I love angst, which I hear is…
Also hit the Viki UK airing wall. Argh. Long time since I watched something whilst airing instead of waiting for it to be finished and now I'm champing at the bit for the next ep!!. I don't normally care for angsty melos and only started this out of curiosity about how well the actress swap would work. But this is giving me Ashes of Love vibes- which I loved - so surprisingly I'm here for whatever emotional rollercoaster awaits.
Ghosts, Mofang has a drama almost airing named The Glory. Let's support Xin Yunlai first big ML role. i know he…
I'm really enjoying The Glory, really intriguing and full of *moments* - I don't know how to describe but it's like drinking a justifiably expensive full bodied red wine. NB he's not giving the same puppy eyes Mofang gives though.
i tried to watch this drama while airing and found it boring because i couldn't get past gegeda-xingyun arc. Then…
If you find a way to let go please tell me.
I was rewording songs to this. Battle Hymn is my ringtone and I sometimes miss calls so I can hear it for longer. I usually avoid BTS which ruin my immersion but search them for this because I was hungry for any little titbit just to hold on longer.
And I am not the only wandering ghost still checking back here.
Up to 21 and loving how every plot twist keeps you hungry for more but never feels implausibly ridicuous. (But...what is with the upwards "falling" snow every now and then.....)
it's been almost a eyar since i watched this and I'm still a bit confused, what was the significance of the other…
Imho to show the danger of forbidden love and why main couple are so hesitant/ keep trying to distance on a personal level (in addition to obstacles from their commitments, sense of responsibilty , love for the world etc) . Because the man was formerly a uber god like our hero and being punished for falling in love with constant reincarnations always missing out on his beloved and suffering like in that one life we saw. Also highlights ML loneliness and probably some more things I can't recall off the top of my head right now.
my interpretation of the ending was more positive because - he chose to write notes so as note to lose their time together early on - as he continued writing notes his language became more familiar (at least if the the translators on viki are right) from calling her Lady Wen to Wen Wan to Wan Wan - he chose to come to the Lantern festival and brought a rabbit lantern as if to reference both Little Dumpling and her comment to her rabbit of "I trust my marital fate to you" - his micro expressions improved from initially hostile to bemused accepting to even slight smile at the festival even if he's seeing her anew each day- like another commenter said below, 50 First Date Vibes- - she was bravely enduring the loss and not giving up on him (symbolised by waiting at the lantern festival)
i.e. there is progress in the heart despite memory reset in the brain, and that was worth the pain and difficulty for the opportunities to avoiding all the disasters- they pay it together rather than he takes on the price all by himself.
I found nothing to watch. Waiting for the next Zhao Liying - Lin Gengxin project.. 😂
Agreed, they were a great pair even though I enjoyed her chemistry with the other guy, just added depth to all the......you know...the *waves hand in general direction of PA that is blocked behind a sanity saving fog*
I found nothing to watch. Waiting for the next Zhao Liying - Lin Gengxin project.. 😂
I can't watch the Tale of Rose yet because I don't want to see him without Zhao LiYing and I don't want watch our Meet Yourself gal suffer.
But iirc in the interview with ZLY/LGX someone linked in the comments months ago (the "pull him out of the lake!!" one ) they said they didn't want to do a romance together again....so maybe they will avoid each other- or - their next joint project they will be enemies????
tried lots of stuff.. none of them worked.. sigh.. the Double was ok though and I enjoyed it.. but everything…
Same...sigh.....
A complete genre switch -with Parallel World- helped though, but now I can't finish that because I don't want to let go of the only thing that helped....which is daft really but Startitis (beginning about another 20 shows ) is also a strong force in the face of dithering procrastination.
I heard good things about the Double so , weirdly, I'm waiting to watch it so I don't expect too much from it as a lifebuoy and can enjoy it on its own merits.
Lol, also here after ShenLi... 🤣 The rollercoaster you mentioned is really fitting. I sort of liked the beginning,…
What are we going to do with this post Shen Li ennui? ?!
Yes the boredom here is really weird because all the ingredients seem right on paper, and although they start piling on tropes until one is punch drunk, they are done a bit differently from what I would expect , yet somehow it just doesn't engage the heart enough and the mind is left, as you say , spinning.
He "dies" but it later turns out to have been a 3 month coma caused by a too strong Hold Breath pill that was slipped into his tea. Standing in the street in the rain, he is not sure if the person who brushed passed his umbrella was really Yun Shang or not, but she is wearing the unique hairpin so.... The viewers get to see her looking at her wrist , a Portent appears still in it's starting level....so we know that it is her, we suspect she saw Wu Luan which is why she checked her wrist...but the knowledge is not a happy ending even if he catches up to her because even if they reunite, one of them still has to die....
Or do they??
As we know, our girl takes her sister's Portent so she had two Portents targeted at the Duke, and both were shown on her wrist. After Wu Luan's "resurrection" from the coma, one Portent is gone! And the other one is reset! So if one Hold Breath Pill can dupe the Portent, then all they have to do is for him to take another pill, maybe not as strong, to cancel the other Portent and in at least 3 months they can both live together. Bosh- a HE!. That's my interpretation and I'm sticking to it.
When Shen Cheng was wearing a suit with a neck scarf and putting a white hat on her as she said his new name and they kissed I felt it was reminiscent of a wedding- especially with the children's rhyme about a bride and geese in the background. Happiness short lived because war has arrived.
He goes to fight and she also goes with and somehow becomes a Dr. She is told of his demise on the front lines and given his things, along with a patriotic last message. She mourns, has some flashbacks to their journey as adults with a female voiced backing track singing about longing and geese. She carries a green suitcase so clearly intending to leave and then Jiang Xiao turns up.
When he tells he is also going to fight and many others are too, she has a mini surge of emotion, eyes tear up, she looks away and then leaves without another word. Maybe she hoped he was going to say Jiang Wei was alive , maybe she felt bitter that more people fighting for the country have come too late to save Jiang Wei, maybe she couldn't bear to see Jiang Xiao, her last link to Jiang Wei and her last little "brother", also give his life for the country. But anyway it seems like, in her grief, she is done with it all.
Then we hear the kids chanting the rhyme about brides and geese that we heard at their "wedding-like" moment before they went to war. The kids are playing and smiling- a sign that peace has come. She herself has also found some peace- before she turned her back on the military hospital but now she is working as a Dr in the community. She uses his pen and half smiles at it as she writes the prescription. Jiang Xiao returns - war is over and , like the pen, here is another reminder of Jiang Wei by her side and a symbol of the victory that Jiang Wei fought and died for . She flashes back to her happy childhood moments with Jiang Wei. She sleeps and seems to kiss him in their almost but not the same wedding attire as back in happy times before war, whilst a male voiced backing track sings of longing .
I think this is a temporary dream reunion because she doesn't even open her eyes to see who had the audacity to kiss her during her table nap, but I also think the fact that the backing track ends with "don't look back for me, I'll be fine" is meant to show that although she misses him, she is carrying on ok, carrying his pen forward into doing good for the people , able to find solace that the war he fought is won and country he cared about is at peace and so he can rest in peace too.
I was rewording songs to this. Battle Hymn is my ringtone and I sometimes miss calls so I can hear it for longer. I usually avoid BTS which ruin my immersion but search them for this because I was hungry for any little titbit just to hold on longer.
And I am not the only wandering ghost still checking back here.
anyone else?
- he chose to write notes so as note to lose their time together early on
- as he continued writing notes his language became more familiar (at least if the the translators on viki are right) from calling her Lady Wen to Wen Wan to Wan Wan
- he chose to come to the Lantern festival and brought a rabbit lantern as if to reference both Little Dumpling and her comment to her rabbit of "I trust my marital fate to you"
- his micro expressions improved from initially hostile to bemused accepting to even slight smile at the festival even if he's seeing her anew each day- like another commenter said below, 50 First Date Vibes-
- she was bravely enduring the loss and not giving up on him (symbolised by waiting at the lantern festival)
i.e. there is progress in the heart despite memory reset in the brain, and that was worth the pain and difficulty for the opportunities to avoiding all the disasters- they pay it together rather than he takes on the price all by himself.
But iirc in the interview with ZLY/LGX someone linked in the comments months ago (the "pull him out of the lake!!" one ) they said they didn't want to do a romance together again....so maybe they will avoid each other- or - their next joint project they will be enemies????
A complete genre switch -with Parallel World- helped though, but now I can't finish that because I don't want to let go of the only thing that helped....which is daft really but Startitis (beginning about another 20 shows ) is also a strong force in the face of dithering procrastination.
I heard good things about the Double so , weirdly, I'm waiting to watch it so I don't expect too much from it as a lifebuoy and can enjoy it on its own merits.
Wandering ghosts et al -how goes it? What will you watch next?
Yes the boredom here is really weird because all the ingredients seem right on paper, and although they start piling on tropes until one is punch drunk, they are done a bit differently from what I would expect , yet somehow it just doesn't engage the heart enough and the mind is left, as you say , spinning.