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I am hopeful it will never come down to either, at least not happening in the last episode to seal the fate. So much changed from the book already. But I will play just for fun. I choose 1.

You may already know this…if it is any consolation (book spoilers):

This is a tough question. If you are a YQ fan and choose 1, you die. If you are not YQ fan and choose 2, you surely will be sacrificed by YQ fan in his honor, and you die.

She was equally kind but less naive, wore the pants in the family and punished him lots.

You are really testing my memory here. I remember the tidbits but not so much of the chapter numbers. This bit span across several chapters throughout the first arc. I wanna say it was before chapter 40.

No one. A fight broke off between Heaven and Void.
The sisters walked out of their sedans. YQ spotted YT and picked her up and continued his fight, assuming she was “QK” based on their prior encounter. After YQ won the battle, she asked him what would happen if they caught the crown princess to-be from Void, to which he said firmly “death”. So she played along. QK walked into the Void princes as they were retreating from the battle. Noticing the Heaven troop had already left, she played along too.

What CF did do was that he teamed up with Gu Hai Chao to attack Heaven Realm sedan.

This is more like censor material, not YQ and YT wrapped up solid like spring rolls. They cut the wrong thing.

http://b23.tv/xA8iYLK

QK send medicine to Wu Dai to heal his old wounds, hoping it would help better prepare him for Guixu. CF learned and inflicted 42 new wounds on Wu Dai under the pretense of training. QK called him out and berated him for being vile. CF’s response? He planted a kiss on her lips and took off running.

A few days later, he woke up feeling unwell, specially, he was nauseous. He was also hungry, but he was too nauseous to eat. Worse yet, he couldn’t stop vomiting bitter bile. His mom, the consort, took his pulse, and was taken aback. “My son, you are…expecting”.

She demanded to know whose child it was, and landed her glance on Gu Hai Chao, who was standing nearby. He immediately sworn on his life that he was innocent.

The consort recalled there was a river in the human realm that had the power to impregnate whoever entered it, but it was long lost. By now, she figured her son had a woman problem, and was less concerned. She offered, “You can carry to term and give birth. Mommy will help you to look after it. Your thoughts?”

Later on, when CF wanted to mess with the princess, Gu Hai Chao would remind him of this episode: “Do you want to carry another child?”

In the book, Void and Heaven always collaborated in fixing Guixu, except the last time Void also attacked Heaven troop in the process. (Scums much?)

There was this meeting next to the lake to select a candidate to go to Guixu. Wu Dai was the only one who volunteered. He took great pride in dying for a noble cause, and was fearless. His mother died young, no one in the court cared to speak up in his best interest either. CF commented to Gu Hai Chao that his brother was simple and stupid, which was overheard by QK. She walked over to him, took his hand in hers, and patted on it gently. Then she walked away without saying a word. All CF could think of was how soft her hands were.

Soon after, he couldn’t move, and grass started to grow on him rapidly, poking through his clothes. When Gu Hai Chao turned around, CF was nowhere to be found, only a grassy hill stood in front of him. A pair of black eyes rolling left and right, peering through the grass. Gu Hai Chao tried to trim the bush down, which only made it to grow thicker. There next to the lake, CF and Gu Hai Chao stood, the soft spring wind blew, caressing CF’s grass.

QK was noble, kind and an eternal beauty. For Wu Dai, her serene and tender ways could “melt the hardest ice in existence”. For CF, if it wasn’t love at first sight, it was not far from it. QK held high regard for Wu Dai for his bravery. Her first impression of CF wasn’t so favorable. Unlike in the show, she often saw through him and wasted no time to punish his misdeeds.

In the book, CF didn’t swap the sisters and he didn’t know QK’s identity either at the beginning. Both him and YQ were quick to notice the oddity and figured out on their own early on.

A few more tidbits from the book for a chuckle.

When the sisters’ identities were revealed, YQ and CF decidedly fought their way out of their respective realm to bring the girls to safety, injuring themselves in the process. They run into each other and together took refuge in an inn while recouping. To their dismay, the rumors on the street were that the two princes fell in love while studying under the same teacher years ago, and they run away with each other to defy the arranged marriages.

The four took refuge in the beast realm. YQ and Di LanJue often had a go at each other out of jealousy. Once Di LanJue sent a painting to YQ. It depicted a romantic scene at a steamy hot spring under the moonlight, flowers blossoming, and…YQ and CF soaking in the water while gazing softly at each other.

YT repeatedly tried to escape the heaven realm and often misbehaved. But the last straw that prompted YQ to plant that punishment in her was her lack of propriety. YT thought she could go home if she angered the heaven emperor. So she dressed up in a tight and revealing outfit to a dinner party held in her honor, showing lots of skin. YQ came to pick her up unannounced. He was in awe of her beauty, something he had not seen in his 2700 years of existence. But as soon as he realized who it was, he went into a rage like he never had. He wanted to manhandle her, but had to quickly let go of her because his hand “felt burning” where it touched her beautiful and soft skin. He contemplated but rejected the idea of yanking her by the hair.

Many times YQ found his mind wander, but he always managed to snap out of it and composed himself properly. The third time they met was on the day both Heaven and Void came to pick up the princesses. Unlike in the show, a fight did break out. YQ’s weapon was a string instrument. He held YT in his lap with her back against his chest, while he was up against three Void fighters, including WuDai. For a split second, he brushed against what felt like YT’s female form, and “his usually sharp mind send both his hand and his eyes to verify promptly”. The first thing came to his mind was that when she teased him during their last encounter, he had a quick glance but “it didn’t seem to be so…” This distraction caused him to miss a note, supposedly a first in his life. Wu Dai seized the opportunity to gain the upper hand. But YQ quickly recovered and won the fight. He was somewhat angry at himself. Afterwards, he wiped his weapon, not to rid of the blood but to clean where it had touched YT.

YT was mischievous yet a striking beauty. YQ was noble, resolute and cold like his father, but he was attracted to YT from the get go. The second time they met, he noted quietly to himself that he had spoken more words during their encounter than he otherwise would have in a year.

Angst brewing on the horizon. A few tidbits from the book to lighten up the mood.

Both. http://b23.tv/rgZDN9b

In the book or in the show? They’ve diverged.

I think some kind person posted the link before, but there should also be one in the discussion section somewhere, right above the comment section.

It is poetic, but funnier and sadder than the show. La Mu was handsome, quiet and kind. A simple man, he always did things in the best interest of YT. A man of a few words he may be, unlike how it was in the show, he never talked like yoda!

When the three shards finally met, La Mu was the only one remained calm and didn’t throw jealous daggers at the others. YT kept on dodging their questions and hiding behind La Mu, which reduced Wenren to tears. “Why do you keep on hiding behind him. Couldn’t I have protected you too?”