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This is my guess if that person is indeed Xie Huai An. Xie Huai An is an extremely dangerous person due to his intelligence. Many characters such as Xiao Wuyang, Yan Fengshan, and Wu Zhongheng have said this before. In times of peril, Huai An's intelligence is of useful to the Emperor but in peaceful times like the ending, Huai An's intelligence may be a huge threat. It's just like when Wu Zhongheng was "imprisoned" by Yan Fengshan. But I don't know if this makes sense lol. My other guess is that Xie Huai An self-detained himself.

Regarding the letter and bottle, they are probably setting it up for Season 2. The bottle may contain medicine to heal Huai An's burns on his face or something.

Some other theories I saw on weibo is that despite the voice sounding like XHA, the person being imprisoned is not XHA but Season's 2 MC. Xie Huai An and Wu Zhongheng both perished in the fire.

Yess the OSTs are so beautiful!! I'll actually keep listening to them even after the drama is done.

First, it is unlikely that Cheng Yi will choose to act in the sequel (if there is one). He seems to me like the kind of actor to move on to new works. I could be wrong though.

Second, the special episode purposely did not show the face of the person being detained. If that person is indeed Xie Huai An, I feel like they might set it up as Xie Huai An got disfigured in the fire and had to change his face or something. Then another actor will take the role.

It very much looks like they are setting up for Season 2. However, most likely Xie Huai An won't be the MC anymore or there'll be a different actor for XHA.

The reason for cutting down the episodes is censorship related.

LOL A Chinese fan edited this show to the Zootopia 2 OST, "Zoo". 🤣🤣

https://video.weibo.com/show?fid=1034:5245715127926939

The creator captioned this as "This is Zoo's original MV" 🤣

Yep unless a miracle happens and whatever issues that Hero Legends has will be resolved. Liang Jing Shi Wu Ri is still filming now so most likely it will only air in 2027.

This year has been extremely busy and difficult for Cheng Yi. Even though there's no drama of CY that'll be aired next year (unless Hero Legends receives approval), I'm happy that he can finally take a break from the spotlight. I wish for Cheng Yi to be able to leave that terrible company, receive more good scripts and act in dramas of his own choice! Hope that he can also have a good break after filming Liang Jing Shi Wu Ri.

I also believed that Xie Huai An died T_T. Him on the chair is like an illusion or past or something figurative.

This drama was the highlight of my holidays. I'm quite sad that it ended. Thank you to all the cast and staff for producing this quality drama! It's certainly not perfect and has some flaws but overall, I love how most characters (including the antagonists) were written and how the plot played out. From the start, I knew it wasn't a simple revenge drama because otherwise it wouldn't be able to air on CCTV-8. I have learnt many life lessons from this drama.

My most favourite part of this drama has to be the characters. Some of the characters are so unique that I don't typically see them in other cdramas. There's probably not a male lead/protagonist like Xie Huai An in cdrama history or a warrior emperor like Xiao Wuyang or a deposed emperor like Xiao Wenjing. I also really like Gu Yu, Han Ziling, Bai Wan, and Pu Nichuan. Even the antagonists like Wu Zhongheng, Yan Fengshan, Su Changlin, Wang Pu all have different stories. Fantastic job to all the actors who really put in the effort to portray their characters well!

My only regret is that there are so few episodes for a plot like this. I'm not sure why the script was condensed into 32 episodes and then further shortened to 28 episodes due to censorship. I do think that there are definitely some aspects of this show (e.g., Wu Zhongheng's past) that could be fleshed out more if we had more episodes!

Nowadays where 90% of cdramas are adapted from novels, The Vendetta of An is truly a rare gem. If the screenwriter decides to polish up the script a bit more and include the stuff that were removed into the novel, I'll definitely read it! I'm already planning on rewatching the drama to see if I missed any details.

EDIT: If this drama were to be adapted to a novel, I definitely want to see how Huben Army was formed by Liu Ziwen. Like a prequel or something! I think Liu Ziwen's story would be quite interesting too.

Yes, you got it right.

You're very welcome LOL

I love the scene between the Xiao brothers even though Xiao Wenjing stabbed his brother. Xiao Wuyang is too good, even after being stabbed once, he couldn't bear to retaliate against his younger brother which led to him being stabbed another time 😭. He also understood Xiao Wenjing's difficulties, gave him advice, and not blame him. To Xiao Wenjing, it was either the Tiemo people forcefully invading with the country and people getting destroyed in the process or surrendering to the Tiemo people as a puppet emperor. Both ways are terrible but Xiao Wenjing chose the one that may be less physically damaging to the country/people. But I hope that there's a bigger plan behind his actions.

Also, I can't help but wonder if Xiao Wuyang and Xiao Wenjing weren't born into the royal family, would they be able to live like normal brothers in a happy family? The scene where Xiao Wuyang stared at the happy family eating and smiled at the little baby made me think that he does really want to be in a normal, happy family 🥺. The baby probably reminded him of Xiao Wenjing since the brothers have a big age gap.

I thought the shopkeeper was very sus when he kept staring at Xiao Wuyang nervously and didn't eat the food that he prepared for Xiao Wuyang. There was no logical reasoning for my suspicion but I got trauma from the other betrayals 😅. Glad that the shopkeeper is a good guy after all. He respected Xiao Wuyang (the emperor) too much and didn't know how to act around him.

He and Zhang Mo (the real one) are so kind...

Uncle Long's actor (Cheng Taishen) and Xiaobing's actor (Cheng Haoyu) are irl father and son :0 We have two irl father and son pairs in this drama 😂

Regarding YFS's death, I thought it was really well done because it showed that XHA ended up killing him using psychological tactics and schemes, rather than a glorious battle or some grand plan. Probably nobody expected YFS to die like this, not even YFS himself. XHA understood YFS very well. He knew that YFS won't kill him immediately because he liked control and liked XHA submitting to him. He knew that Wang Pu's death was a regret of YFS. His conversations with YFS were all to make YFS lower his guard and actually believe (for a moment) that he was really seeing Wang Pu.

Although sort of anticlimatic, I ended up appreciating how YFS's death was executed. He deserved dying to a scheme that he never expected.

Love his character! I don't think I ever seen a warrior/general Emperor who is also quite intelligent before. An Emperor who usurped the throne but doesn't actually want the throne.

I think another person already replied you but the logic in that is he had to kill Wang Xing if not Xie Huai An would be exposed when Wang Xing manage to run to Hidden Soldier Valley. That is the logic and not a justification, once again. This show is filled with morally grey characters and morally grey decisions but this does not mean that all (or most) characters were born evil/bad.

Ikrrr 😭 One interesting fact about this dialogue. I saw people posting that scene's original script on weibo. Originally, Huai An was supposed to say "I know" in reply to that but Cheng Yi changed it to "I owe him nothing."

They have so much money to spend on buying black trending searches and smear campaigns too. If they really are who I'm thinking of, I can only say that these people are too obsessed and absorbed in their sick fan culture that they're losing their lives.

Yes!! He's so cool in this drama 🤩