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The one, Ye Hong Yu yells out after in episode 33 is NOT The Eldest brother, he's Ye Qing, her brother by birth. I guess, you mixed them up.
While Ye Hong Yu and Ye Qing bid each other farewell, the Eldest Brother Li Man Man is in the middle of a fight against Chen Mou together with Third Sister and Chen Pi Pi...

Andy On has his first scenes in episodes 08, 10 (those are not fight scenes, though).

That's official.

Sometimes, not even the best cast can save the bad writing or the bad decisions made for a production.
I still can't believe, it's the same team being responsible for both seasons.
One reason, I still consider to be one of the most important, though, is that they rushed the whole thing. Season one was a success, the audience wanted more and so they decided to rush writing the script and to rush filming and to rush postproduction - just to release it about a year after season one.
It's said, filming started with a six months delay.
Why didn't they use that time to work the script out properly???
I will never understand this...

I forced myself through that series (mainly because of some of my fave actors having been part of it), but it was soooo awful...gruesome...

I'll try my best and with six episodes each week on three days in a row, I've always four days left to recover... ;)

Hahaha! Yes, I'm questioning my motives, too, at times.
If it would be for the story or the low-level special effects only, you'd have been able to see me running, already - in the opposite direction.
But, unfortunately, this series co-stars some of my (alltime) fave actors: Mark Du, Andy On, Zong Feng Yan, He Zhong Hua, Wang Jin Song, Lee Waise, Wang Dong, Yu Ailei and Marco Chen.
There's no way out as long as their characters are still alive...

I also like some of the other cast member: Kris Sun, Cao Cheng, Yao An Lian, Qin Yi Ming, Lu Yong...so, I'll stay till the end. I've no choice...

The moment when one single smirk of Archduke Li Peiyan of Tang beats Ning Que's non-stop pepsodent smile single-handedly...
Blessed be the veterans...

Well, for a moment, I really thought, the High Fantasy moments would return to Ever Night when Yu Ailei as head of Xiling evoked the sand dragon in episode 17.
The CGI looked amazing and the scene was an ultimate eye-catcher...
Aaaaand it went poof the moment when they copied Sang Sang and Ning Que in.
As if they had forgotten about how to do CGI and special effects within a single split second.
And it went even more down the drain and looked even cheaper when they copied Fu Zi in!!!
A great scene ruined by special effects worse than in the 1960s...

Yes! Ever Night is plannd to have three seasons.

Yes, I'm really curious, too!
The censors would never allow a 1:1 adaptation. I guess, they are too dumb to even understand what High Fantasy really is.
But the writers of the series don't seem to have a clue either if you think, how they make the whole thing look like.
Meanwhile, I'm glad, Tribes and Empires, Princess Agents or Bloody Romance don't have second seasons. Things could just have gotten worse.
Well, I'll go on watching EN2 - and I won't take it serious any longer. I'll get some nice screencaps of some actors I really like and basta...no worries about the story anymore...

That's true!
I guess, that's why I'm really picky if it comes to High Fantasy novels.
Aside of J.R.R. Tolkien, I only have a few authors I really enjoy to read.
High Fantasy is still difficult to write, but many don't believe it is and think, they only have to add some magic, some philosophy, some magical creatures and some weird storylines.
Wrong!!!
It took Tolkien a lifetime to create Middle Earth and it took his son a lifetime to sort and work on that legacy...
Sadly, most of today's fantasy writers lack this kind of devotion...

Maybe we just got to know one reason why some of the actors from season one waved goodbye to the production...

Where did you read the ending and up to which chapter?
Here are all 1118 Chapters and it doesn't sound that bad:
https://www.wuxiaworld.co/Nightfall/

Having watched a cut scene (yes, THAT cut scene) from episode 19, I really can't take this series serious anymore!!!

This should have been a moment of dramatic impact, but the way it got filmed was worse than the worst slapstick comedy and the acting finally went completely underground!!!

This can't be the same team that filmed the totally emotional, beautiful and hearbreaking moment when Wei Guang Ming and Yan Se had their final confrontation in season one!!!

What happened to the claim this series would be high fantasy???
I'm sorry, but this is a joke!!!
This is NOT high fantasy, this is worse than low-level!!!

Let's call it teamwork. lol

Just go ahead... :)

This scene tells me numerous things:

1. Andy On is a pro. He shows that his long years of experience let him focus on his job, on his character and on how to play it. I think he didn't give a f..k about possible changes the writers might have wanted him to do.

2. 17 years old Arthur Chen understood Ning Que's character, his dark and brooding side, his wish for getting after the murderers, his loving, caring and protecting side if it comes to Sang Sang and the struggle it means to be a teen slowly changing into a young man. He IS Ning Que.

3. Dylan Wang is sweet, good looking, nice to behold and he plays Ning Que (big difference to BEING Ning Que). I can't find anything, he might have added to the character himself. All he does is performing what he gets told. That's it.

4. Writer Yang Yang. She wasted 20+ episodes of season one on a love story that doesn't even exists in the book she wanted to adapt. She has no clue about how to pick up a thread from an earlier season to continue it properly:
The academy flashback, the NingQue-ChaoXiaoShu flashback...

I don't know how much time is supposed to having passed by between the end of season one and the beginning of season two, but not returning to season one to check, how the characters looked like is NOT really professional, same goes for adding a completely new tone to the show. A brooding young man does not suddenly become an alltime smiling goof...

I wrote this before I watched the episode wherein Andy On (Chao Xiao Shu) returns to the place. where he met Ning Que for the agreement to fight together against the murderers of their common friend.
They did a flasback for that scene (of course Arthur got replaced with Dylan) - and that was the moment where I realised what 17 years old Arthur really added to this role back then.
I rewatched the scene from season one and watched the same scene's flashback from season two back to back.
You have Arthur and Dylan performing the same scene, the same moment and this is the moment where it gets obvious with brutal impact, that this role should have belonged to Arthur for all three seasons. Dylan is no match for him, neither in looks, nor in performance, nor in charisma. Sad to say so, but it's a fact.

With episode 11 even the soundtrack went down the drain, now!!!
What the heck is that less than average piece of piano music playing in the background when Long Qing meets the 'Flower Addict' again...???
That piece of music is THAT out of place that you ask yourself if you're sill watching a high fantasy drama.
It's fitting for a modern day romance, even for Republican drama, but NOT for high fantasy...
Pffff....

I'm NOT talking about Dylan and Arthur or who is better!
It doesn't matter if Dylan or Arthur (I think you mean 'swggering', by the way) or who else ever would play Ning Que.
It doesn't matter if Sang Sang and Ning Que are on the run or not, if they hide or not, because the writers for the series DON'T show that they are. All they give us are talking wax figures.
If this is the same team like the one that worked on season one, someone tell me please, WHAT HAPPENED!
There is NO movement at all in this new season, there is NO dynamic (by the way, who's talking about fun?)...

"Lord of the Rings" was also a book everyone thought to be impossible to make a movie out of, but these movies had a great script, a great production team and the trilogy got filmed all in one piece over almost three years.
Maybe, the creators of "Ever Night" should have watched LOTR, first, to get a feeling for how high fantasy is done. Would have been helpful.