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I’m sure it was quite the journey, Mimi… helping Star, gazing through an enlarging glass at photos of Yanan, studying every single detail and line....costume line, not..body line… obviously....all in the name of art, naturally😁😏

Thanks Star, for all the great work😙 I’ve seen them all...maybe I missed one if you posted last month when I wasn’t really following the pg...but I checked now your profile and saw you’ve got them under feeds. I hope the mods will be merciful enough to leave it in the gallery for at least a day as you kindly asked them...who knows, maybe even longer😁and i agree with Yyri, the shirtless one is the crown jewel🤩

Ppl are saying one reason is reservations weren’t open during filming, and now only for Chinese youku,, not the intl one.. plus it’s an original script, so no existing hype from novel fans. Fanbase is big but uneven ...JJY, JZ and CDL have more fans than TRJ nd Yanan who are newer actors. Bigger fandoms push more, but to reach casuals they need a trailer that will come most likely in autumn/winter, cause with Youku, drama could easily air late spring/summer '26. Plenty of time, so no need for a big fan push yet on sm, not until the trailer, so I'm not worried about the numbers now...it will change..

Yeah, I just saw and I need an app for it... can’t do it in a browser.

Thx.. this thread’s making me hungry for some pasta or lasagna😁

I got it as a present 😂 But I need a few more to make some pasta..but still don't get what I need to do to grow some tomatoes to gift others😁

After some time off, I’m back and see there’s over 93K comments🙂 (good job), some tomatoes flying around somewhere, and a gallery purge. Looks like admin’s trying to explain the purge rules, but I don’t really get the tomato thing. Can someone explain or share a thread with the details? And where do I get tomatoes? Any cucumbers available too? 😄

So I was close😃 had almost all the right letters, just shuffled the order 😁🤣

Lol, Abebe and Labubu, besties 😁One rides the backpack.. the other swings from the waist😆😁

Only remember it had way too many vowels 😭🤣 but from today the name stays Ababui... sounds like some African Chinese hybrid, and it works whether the doll turns out demonic or a protective spirit..hope that it won't show up to be demon, Rui alredy has one demon Labubu doll, he doesn't need another 😁

I tried to contact xhs admin support to ask about redirecting or how to change the country code... but they request a phone number as a contact 🤯🥴 It’s crazy that redirecting doesn’t work in Chrome or Samsung Internet.. to ask you to open link directly in your xhs app. ..so i tried Firefox and DuckDuckGo browsers and there the redirect works , so you can do the same..

Didn't Chinese fans give the doll a nickname like ababui or aibai ..not guessing others...don’t wanna sound like I had a stroke🤣😁

Still can't open xhs, tried yday too. The same old glitch but this time even copying the url into another browser doesn't help😢 don't know if it's only me..

Who remembers the name of the doll?

Gjm gave us a lot nd nothing 😁he really is a wizard or a dark mage

Their story will transcend time and space 😁 as elves, as Ji Ling and his bodyguard…then enemies or just friends with grudges? Either way, it will take time in vos,excited abt that... nd hope the story is good, curious how it will end..as enemies or friends...😁

Can’t wait for this part of vos, it’s gonna be so good..really excited to see how the story goes between him and JL or whichever one of Rui’s 6 roles it turns out to be😁

Just be ready for a slow build between them. The story’s good..both carrying different but equally painful trauma and their bond grows gradually. This is a story driven drama with some visually stunning action scenes in btw.
I don’t think the FL will annoy you, not in the way you said. I actually liked her, tho I picked the bromance lane. Some say she’s not a strong female lead, but to me she was.. just not the typical badass martial arts type ...but that’s what many expect and recognize as “strength” these days. If you’re not expecting that, you’ll probably be fine with her.
But the real magic of GJM here is that he gives just enough for us to build believable interpretations. That felt kinda new to me and it worked, imo. You’ll have people who love her relationship with the ML ..so yeah, that’s part of the drama.. but also people who are all in for the bromance. The two sides somehow don’t clash unless someone’s super picky. It’s like gjm gave us the material and said..now go build what you want to see,..lol, and it works, it holds up either way. Btw, dialogues really matter here, and gjm even uses some unusual edits to tell the story..so details count. Rewatching helps to catch stuff you might miss if you’re not paying close attention.

Haha, yeah i should have...lol...I’m not discouraged when my opinions go against the majority.... until solid n stronger arguments come along, yeah, the “diff LS bodies and diff minds” theory still doesn’t sit right with me. If we count Jiling as a doll/body which seems likely... that’s already three bodies minimum.Add more, and it gets messy fast. I can accept Jiling as a doll brought to life by magic, but not 4, 5, or 6 versions, popping in and out of existence just like that.. and living diff lives, it's just too much. At least one LS.. probably "9 to 5" ..must’ve had a normal life: was born, lived, worked. After his “death,” the simplest explanation is that he didn’t really die or was revived... not a fan of revivals, but it’s nothing new. That’s why the darker LS in the end still clearly cares for lwy.. it’s still him...LS deity was just a part, a fragment, dormant or active of this 9 to 5 version and it makes sense, its like subconscious finally surfacing and merging with the rest.. making it believable...with the other theory, you can’t just mash separate lives, memories, and feelings together with a magic trick and expect it to feel real. Deity or dragon LS never lived through what 9 to 5 LS did with lwy.. so he shouldn’t suddenly have those feelings for her. He lived a separate life, cause this theory supports it, so having this new/old dark version of LS loving lwy out of a thin air as much as "9 to 5" LS did before dying......isn't that believable..no "abracadabra" as a magic fix couldn't force it, in fantasy you still need logic, some common sense and consistency..to make it believable..

Well, they see two, but the explanation could be that only one has a real, physical body ..and the other doesn’t. Maybe it’s just a fragment of LS’s consciousness that appears visibly, as a hologram, looking real. LS also might be dormant in “9-to-5” JL’s consciousness, only taking over when needed ... like during his missions, lol, when he needs his shapeshifting powers, or when JL is unconscious, hurt, or weak, or simply hijacking LS body and taking full control over his consciousness, locking his memories along the way.
This could sound like advanced storyline variant I've seen in some sci-fi, though I’d have to check how much this kind of narrative appears in Chinese myths or xianxia..lol. Even if it's not that common it’s GJM after all.. we’ve already seen him play with these ideas in fof. Remember how Baiju’s consciousness/soul/mind was locked at the end by Lilun, who was taking control and hijacked his body...Lilun was initially dormant, appearing only when baiju was unconscious, then slowly progressing until he completely took over. The difference is that Lilun could only appear in his old form visible to others when using the "true eye"...but LS is a deity, so he might not be having such trivial limitations, lol. He could pop up out like a holographic image whenever he needs to, esp if he wanted to talk to himself, lol.
So unlike the holographic version, the icy LS (Elsa), red-braided LS, or sexy adult foxy LS fighting by the lake could all be shapeshifted forms but with real body, by simply hijacking JL’s body and consciousness fully in those moments. Ofc after JL’s death, after regaining a body once again LS now just need his shapeshifting powers. But these charc seem emotionless or low key angry, so it may be that dragon deity LS lost his heart somewhere, along the way. LwY might be aware of what’s happening, and she could be stuck dealing with a an angry, body-snatching deity LS, just like zyc had to deal with Lilun in baiju’s body. 😂 yeah, it will probably give her some serious headaches too, like zyc had in fof, but her mission could be "return the heart" to deity LS nd make him a whole once again to be conscious, healed, and fully himself in one body. Sweet task, lol and and this may be the love theme gjm wanted to tell us, with some msg "loving without a heart is impossible", lol.I like more this advanced “one body, many personality ” theory better than the simpler two bodies, two diff people” explanation. It doesn’t require anyone of these 2 to die, and the story resolves with a unified, whole person.
Alternatively, the second body could be teen Jiling or the baby fox but less advanced, maybe created by deity LS to be some temporary vessel, like a high-tech Doll Model 3000 😁, we saw it with one arm detached and on the floor with some Ikea manual/scripts assembly instruction..
Which tbh would make me sad...i love Jiling and would still cry if Jiling’s doll form was created by deity LS to be so easily disposable, serving his goals temp nd to simply vanish afterwards when no longer useful 🥺😭😭
And if the whole story turns out much simpler, hey... think i just laid the groundwork for a full-on advanced sci-fi xianxia story, that I’d still love to see it in the future..lol. If I’m even somewhat right about the “one body, diff characters” theory, then it’s a really complex one... and tbh, it could easily be messed up by gjm’s editing. It wouldn’t take much for it to slip and abandon basic logic when having multiple personalities, lol.... I’m still impressed by how many people misunderstood some key parts of the fof story and i don't even count in these stats the fans who were just busy staring at their idol’s face the whole time, lol. So if gjm tries to tell an even more complex story using his “watch for subtle details hidden in scattered dialogue and edits across 30 episodes” approach… well, the story might just fly over too many heads or end up being incomprehensible..I'm gonna save this text to see how much i got it right...at least that length of this comment should serve some purpose in the end.. 😆🤣