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Ya really suay (singlish = damn unlucky/unfortunate). Quite a traditional setup for his kid's rise as hero as per wuxia tradition.

Interesting. Wasn't aware of that. Saw some snippets here and there about how ZZH career hadn't really advanced much during his time in YZ's agency and thus luckily he changed agency.

IKR - one of the few good things to come out of Covid pandemic.............

A Chinese Ghost Story......last ditch attempt to salvage the drama and release it. Bound to be a bit weird - digitally replacing face on body.............altho' after what they did in Star Wars with actors who are dead, maybe anything goes.

As pointed out above,, Ep 36 is "incomplete". Have faith in Xiao Chu, the scriptwriter and the production team..............

They are trying to do that with another drama too right? The one featuring wats-her-name - Zheng Shuang? Cos she's persona non grata now?

Who knows? Bad case of constipation? C-dramaland operates in mysterious ways. So many dramas sit on the shelf for ages..........think of The Wolf for eg.

Yup I was so looking forward to watching Zheng Ye Cheng and MGTV totally ruined the experience...........their first round of subbing was soooo bad some of the lines can become classics in their own right! For eg the one they did about blowjobs!!!!
Nowadays whenever I see something being released by MGTV I just avoid it until other platforms pick it up.

Oh no! Not Mango TV (insert scream emoji). I will forever remember when they translated that line about blowing a flute in the Sleepless Princess: "Since Prince Shen likes blowjobs so much, my mansion is big so you can blow whatever you want." Classic Mango TV!!

ZZH now endorsing Mabelline foundation while GJ is doing L'Oreal sunscreen. So just wondering, for the China market, is it common for women's cosmetics to be promoted by guys, or is it that these 2 are just so hot at the moment that everyone wants them to sell everything?

Ummmm, they can choose that interpretation if they like but don't tell others to drop it if they don't want to be hurt........I feel like posting a topic entitled "WKX says "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated!" :)

Some of it is the source material by Priest but some of the greatness of WOH is also due to the scriptwriter Xiao Chu, who is also very well-read and steeped in wuxia tradition as she has been a hardcore wuxia fan since she was 9. She had to expand on the source material because the novel is actually quite a short work.

Watch ep 2 again when the camera for some reason cuts to Ah Xiang toasting the shaobings/flatbreads - esp when ZZS and WKX start flirt-fighting over CL's injury...........now watch the explanation of what that shaobing scene refers to: https://youtu.be/jbh5XQ8RWdQ
Oh ya and then see if you are able to eat pancakes with a straight face after that :) I remember showing the scene to my friends (all of us are overseas chinese) - everybody learnt something new that day - LOL.

Did you also note the significance of the shaobings?

So true - I thought he had figured out that all the liulijia floating around were fakes, but still fell into the Prince's trap.............

Who knows? Literally just before Youku started changing the YT version we had a discussion here about whether Youku could show a different version for international fans on YT and everyone was - nah, not going to happen and then kapow..........the rest is history, or rather the rest is still in perpetual post production.

See Recent Discussions for info on the details of the ending and/or watch Avenue X live stream of WOH ending. They filmed a few versions of the ending and indeed in one of them WKX is an illusion. But the ending we’re given is a happy ending. This has been pieced together from the clues left by YBY and Cheng Ling’s real lines at the end. The kid at the end is Deng Kuan’s son with Gao Xiao Lian and he is practicing WKX’s family sword skills meaning he has been taught by WKX personally not ZZS. Meaning WKX is alive and kicking ass as an immortal on the mountain with ZZS. I am quite sure they survive by practicing dual cultivation as only soulmates can successfully do with the Liu he practice - that is the secret that lies at the heart of the Liu he practice. As YBY discovered before with Rong Xuan’s father.
For me the ending is therefore 完美 wanmei as WKX puts it or to borrow ZZH’s most recent line 很完美 hen wanmei!

Brace yourself for more.....

Aiyoh - everyone stop with the sad/bad endings already! No one except the bad guys died in ep 36. Did we see WKX definitively die? No, that’s just people making assumptions and not listening to YBY and picking up clues about dual cultivation. Ep 36 was for the censorship board - this was the ‘ending’ that had to be given to them or else it would not have been approved. But all along, the screenwriter Xiao Chu, said it would be a good ending and everyone knows Priest also writes happy endings....
For more on the ending see Recent Discussions above.
BTW - the Liu He practice is totally different from the Yin Yang manual - they are not one and the same thing nor did WKX combine the two. Please rewatch WOH carefully to figure out which practice does what and how. The Yin Yang method is particularly problematic as it involves organ harvesting and transplant.......
And no, people should not drop WOH, especially as it’s quite likely Youku may give a complete ending in the YT version of ep 36 since the series is now ‘safe’ from the censor’s chopping board. No matter what, YT is not going to leave its international fandom hanging with a weird ending- would a network that has been able to pivot and respond to every major criticism and wish by fans by re-editing, re-dubbing and adding extra scenes to its ongoing YT release do this? Not in a million years!

Sleuth of Ming Dynasty has quite enjoyable bromances.......there's also Heaven Official's Blessing (donghua/anime) on Netflix