It's not a dream.Jiushi was like transmigrated [sucked] into the game world that once restored, everything was…
First of all, all of my explanations are based on my understandings after watching it for many many times.
Everyone who got in touch with the game, even only logging in without even playing it will be sucked into the door world for the first time.
On the 1st door, the delivery man was shocked because he was going into the restaurant but ended up in the snow village. It was also shown on the further doors, all newcomers would experience the same thing.
Apart from Ruan Lanzhu, everyone else is not NPC.
They 'touched' the game on the real world, then got sucked into the door world, and would be staying inside the game world until they conquer all of the doors without them realising it.
When Jiushi met them for the first time, LDY had become BaiLu leader, Chen Fei and others had joined Obsidian, and Tan Zaozao had become actress, so their initial profession before 'touching' the game were never really mentioned.
[We only knew TZZ had become actress for 10 years, Chen Fei was veterinarian, and Li Dongyuan as phone-accs stall owner which was shown on ep. 01]
All the players were 'detained' inside the game world [without them realising it] until they could clear all of the doors alive or dead.
That is why the code name for the prototype of this game is called 'The Spiritual Realm' because once you played it, you will be staying in that spiritual world [the game world] until you successfully finish all levels in the game.
The game was created by Gao Dawei to fulfil their childhood of having a realm [a world] that they could get a happy family, so everything was made based on their childhood experiences, memories, etc.
Basically the game was made exactly like the real world because of those reasons. That is why nobody realised that they actually stayed inside the game world until the game was completely restored by Ling Jiushi and Ruan Lanzhu.
=========================== Viewers' understanding about this series are vary.
Many think that everything is only Jiushi's dream while he was in a coma.
As for me, I take it as what I have explained above.
Putting aside the censorship, this series is basically about the journey in a survival game which is in-line with the genre [the unlimited flow genre]
There's no deviation of plot from beginning to the end.
That is why although it is really bittersweet, I can understand why the ending was made that way.
That's it, that's my understanding of this series.
It's not a dream.Jiushi was like transmigrated [sucked] into the game world that once restored, everything was…
It's not weird actually.
There are 3 worlds exist.
1. The real world. 2. The world inside the game where the main setting on the story. 3. The world inside the door.
Ling Jiushi was sucked into the door world on his first quest.
Then after completing the first door. He returned to the world inside the game where everything is similar to the real world.
Ruan Lanzhu was indeed created to assist Ling Jiushi to restore the game, back to its original trial version where there is no violence, gore scene, etc.
Gou Dawei's major when studying abroad was never mentioned. It's only said that he studied abroad.
So after the game is compeletely restored, the game world amd the door world are completely erased, disappeared along with the program [Ruan Lanzhu]
Everybody returned to their real life which is really different from their life in the game world.
It's not just Tan Zaozao, everyone's profession are completely different.
Only Jiushi retained his memories, because he is like the 'technician' of the game, someone who hold the program [Ruan Lanzhu] to restore/delete the game to its original.
After he woke up, the game station owner told him there was the trial version of the spirealm game but then nobody was interesting so the game maker gave up and took it away.
Then Ling Jiushi wanted to recreate the game because he never belonged to the real world.
He was outcast and bullied since he was a child, even his childhood friend made him the laughing stock on people's mouth.
He wanted to return to the game world where he belomged to where he could be with his loved ones.
The ending is not rushed, it is really in-line from beginning to end.
He finally could achieve his dream which is to have his own family even if it is inside the spiritual realm.
The ending just destroyed the entire story into pieces, because every character decisions that made them loveable…
It's not a dream. Jiushi was like transmigrated [sucked] into the game world that once restored, everything was returned the time when the game hadn't been created, and everybody lost their memories about this game world journey, except him.
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Sorry, probably because I was too immersed into this series that my mind is a bit imaginative 😬
It's my pleasure to explain my point of view 😊🌻👌🏼
Those are series that I have watched.
You should check the bromance tag to see the lists of series that got this tag.
I ended up reading the mythology of Chinese constellations
Everyone who got in touch with the game, even only logging in without even playing it will be sucked into the door world for the first time.
On the 1st door, the delivery man was shocked because he was going into the restaurant but ended up in the snow village. It was also shown on the further doors, all newcomers would experience the same thing.
Apart from Ruan Lanzhu, everyone else is not NPC.
They 'touched' the game on the real world, then got sucked into the door world, and would be staying inside the game world until they conquer all of the doors without them realising it.
When Jiushi met them for the first time, LDY had become BaiLu leader, Chen Fei and others had joined Obsidian, and Tan Zaozao had become actress, so their initial profession before 'touching' the game were never really mentioned.
[We only knew TZZ had become actress for 10 years, Chen Fei was veterinarian, and Li Dongyuan as phone-accs stall owner which was shown on ep. 01]
All the players were 'detained' inside the game world [without them realising it] until they could clear all of the doors alive or dead.
That is why the code name for the prototype of this game is called 'The Spiritual Realm' because once you played it, you will be staying in that spiritual world [the game world] until you successfully finish all levels in the game.
The game was created by Gao Dawei to fulfil their childhood of having a realm [a world] that they could get a happy family, so everything was made based on their childhood experiences, memories, etc.
Basically the game was made exactly like the real world because of those reasons.
That is why nobody realised that they actually stayed inside the game world until the game was completely restored by Ling Jiushi and Ruan Lanzhu.
===========================
Viewers' understanding about this series are vary.
Many think that everything is only Jiushi's dream while he was in a coma.
As for me, I take it as what I have explained above.
Putting aside the censorship, this series is basically about the journey in a survival game which is in-line with the genre [the unlimited flow genre]
There's no deviation of plot from beginning to the end.
That is why although it is really bittersweet, I can understand why the ending was made that way.
That's it, that's my understanding of this series.
I apologise if my explanations are quite long.
Thank you 😊🌻👌🏼
But after finishing the 2nd door, he decided to put it on again because he acknowledged what RLZ did for him and agreed to join Obsidian.
Considered LJS always put that ring/necklace on his neck and never took it off again.
It's Gao Dawei who created the game on the first place.
There are 3 worlds exist.
1. The real world.
2. The world inside the game where the main setting on the story.
3. The world inside the door.
Ling Jiushi was sucked into the door world on his first quest.
Then after completing the first door. He returned to the world inside the game where everything is similar to the real world.
Ruan Lanzhu was indeed created to assist Ling Jiushi to restore the game, back to its original trial version where there is no violence, gore scene, etc.
Gou Dawei's major when studying abroad was never mentioned. It's only said that he studied abroad.
So after the game is compeletely restored, the game world amd the door world are completely erased, disappeared along with the program [Ruan Lanzhu]
Everybody returned to their real life which is really different from their life in the game world.
It's not just Tan Zaozao, everyone's profession are completely different.
Only Jiushi retained his memories, because he is like the 'technician' of the game, someone who hold the program [Ruan Lanzhu] to restore/delete the game to its original.
After he woke up, the game station owner told him there was the trial version of the spirealm game but then nobody was interesting so the game maker gave up and took it away.
Then Ling Jiushi wanted to recreate the game because he never belonged to the real world.
He was outcast and bullied since he was a child, even his childhood friend made him the laughing stock on people's mouth.
He wanted to return to the game world where he belomged to where he could be with his loved ones.
The ending is not rushed, it is really in-line from beginning to end.
He finally could achieve his dream which is to have his own family even if it is inside the spiritual realm.
I am personally quite obssessed and has been rewatching it for many² times 😊🌻👌🏼
Jiushi was like transmigrated [sucked] into the game world that once restored, everything was returned the time when the game hadn't been created, and everybody lost their memories about this game world journey, except him.
That is my point of view 😊🌻👌🏼