Fleurie - Hurts Like Hell (for the intro and the rhythm and the lyrics) (This would be a good one for a FMV for TTEOTM, artistically-inclined people who can edit video please can we have one?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uil0L-0F4no
Sorry I thought I know but in the end still query about it. So what is Heart Protection Scale? Gather scattered…
Every dragon has a special scale, the Heart-Guarding Scale. (I mean, every xianxia dragon does. There's no exception to the rules - even the one in BFTB has one). This one came from MingYe-as-dragon and was passed through to the immortal sects until ten thousand years later Pang YiZhi brings it with him to give to Xiao Lin for the wedding. and then the scale goes from XL to YBC to TTJ to LSS.
I mean... it's either sizzling because of 500 years in an acid bath (basically) or because there's so much electricity between them they're forced to go through lightning tribulations every other 10 eps or so, LOL.
But wait, before we forget, have we officially crowned Luo Yunxi as the new reigning BLOOD SPITTING KING? 👑…
I counted until the previous record was reached and equalled, but then I was bawling too much to care any more. So it might've gotten over it... I can't remember.
TBH this looks very similar to every other post-apocalypse story I've ever watched (mostly). But even The Silent Sea did a better presentation in the first ep than this one. I'm of two minds if I should even continue. The whole first ep was pretty bland and unengaging, Then they dropped the shock ending to keep people clicking for the second one... Well I don't know if I will. I'm not even going to mark it on MDL until I make up my mind, because I'd very probably drop it anyway.
because it sounded like one per only liked him because of his powers and that she used it to get a promotion
She took an exam to advance and misplaced the answer sheets (wrote the answers to the first batch of questions on the wrong sheet and the rest also got shifted). So she got the lowest possible grade. That's where the nickname comes from.
Then there's a TL of the final chapters (after the BE) also still a bit left to translate. You can find it in the discussions area, above the comments section.
From what I've seen so far nope, his mortal life wasn't rosey this time either. But not as hopeless as the previous ones anyway.
These are the condensed phases I imagine TTJ went through. TTJ literally went from: This world is cruel and terrible…
My take is a bit different LOL.
Phase 1 (hostage prince): Nobody cares about me and I don't even care, I wonder what caring actually means. Oh hi there ADG. Hey, I need to kill some demons and take their power. Also, I don't dream.
Phase 2 (hostage prince): I got powers now, what do I do with them? (Still bored though.) Maybe I should kill my wife and her whole family and while I'm at it, why not kill MY family too? Crows, assemble!
Phase 3 (hostage prince): This woman is acting strange, is she finally crazy? Though... warm green winter coat. Let's have a snowball fight.
Phase 4 (upcoming Jing Emperor): I got a honour guard now (hot men, but I don't even care about those things.) Also I got poisoned by my brother and YXW keeps saving me, what the heck is wrong with this woman? Also, hot little fox demon (but I don't even care about those things x2).
Phase 5 (hot-braided Jing Emperor): I hear they have dragons under water, let's get some. Oops triggered a trap noooooo~~~~~~
Phase 6 (Flood Dragon): This man is stupid for foregoing all that power for the love a woman, That's my take. YXW, what did YOU get from that dream? Also, here's a tear, kill me please.
Phase 7 (Jing Emperor): Having friends is kind of fun. Dear diary, my wife is trying to kill me with her cooking. I made her an offer she couldn't refuse (let her choose her own burial spot, ain't I romantic? PSYCH!! *smirk*)
Phase 8 (Jing Emperor): Dear diary, I may have to kill some of my friends. My wife keeps proposing we should get married, is she amnesiac? I thought we already did. Eh whatever let's just go on with it. WHAT THE HELL YXW DID YOU JUST!.....
Phase 9 (Jing Emperor, unravelling): My wife died, I wanna die, let the world die, let everybody die and YQY if you put that finger on me I'm going to set the palace on fire. ...Well you've been warned.
Phase 10 (Immortal wannabe): Things I've learned from 500 years of digging through acid: chemistry is hard. Also, don't do this at home kids. Oh hi Shifu! Teach me your ways.
Phase 11 (CJM): This woman keeps coming back from the dead, pretending not to know who I am and breaking my heart. If I knew it was going to be this hard, I'd've died in the snow. Also, hot demoness (but I don't really care about those things x3).
Phase 12 (CJM): Dear diary, my wife wants to marry me yet again. From past experience, that means she wants to kill me. I have no idea what the hell did I do this time. Please advise, waiting online for an answer!
Phase 13 (Hot ADG) Miss me? Hehe. TTJ, come to the dark side. We have cookies!
Phase 14 (Tantai Jin): You know what? I'm just going to end it all. Either it's All-In-Distress-Way and the world goes boom, or my wife kills me (she seems not to need any special reason). The heck! The cheek of this scriptwriter to kill off the hottest guy(s) on this side of the planet and reality (but I don't really care about those things x4).
Phase 15 (Tantai Jin): Dear diary, my wife made me lose my virginity in Bo'Re Life, should I google if she can get pregnant in a dream?
Phase 16 (Li SuSu): Baby, your dad was a hero, he was the most beautiful man on this side of reality, *very small voice* and I killed him. I mean, he looked so good suffering, I couldn't help myself. Let's ask the novelist to write up a good HE for the broken hearted :D
Is the drama ending different from the book? I need answers 😠I cannot recover from the ending
After the BE of the story, there are a few more chapters in the novel detailing how ZiMi (their daughter) actually manages to find him a thousand years later, after he is reincarnated and living a mortal life. From there, LSS doesn't let him go again.
A kind member of this comment section is currently TLing those final chaters, you can find them in the discussions area.
I've been wondering the same thing. I cannot find the logic in this myself.
A tribulation or trial is what makes someone overcome an obstacle (or gain a higher rank).
For immortals, it could be battling through a specific hard level of cultivation and could happen at any time once they're gaining enough power. The highest cultivation is needed for attaining godhood and usually the tribulations include facing lightning or thunderstorms. It's because gaining immortality goes against the Heavens so you first have to suffer a lot to deserve it (and it's still against the laws of nature).
And it's not just the one time. There's this danmei story I really like where an ancient dragon has to go through a lightning tribulation once every thousand years or so, and he can even time it or delay it a bit because he's god-level powerful. He also always passes it, but it hurts LOL, so he doesn't like to have to go through it.
For those already in the Heavenly Realm (small-time gods or godesses) who still have to go through tribulations, it's usually to gain even higher power (Ming Ye would have had to go through them to become God of War in place of TH's father) or to be punished, sometimes. If they're sent to the mortal realm for one or ten lives' time it's usually a punishment but not always.
In LaR for example, SiFeng and XuanJi's fates are linked through 9 or 10 mortal lives and they count as tribulations for her to regain her powers as a goddess of war. There's a mortal life tribulation even for JinMi and XuFeng in AoL.
LSS has to go through tribulations because she's already half a phoenix goddess and has a high cultivation level. Always trying to get higher is the whole idea of cultivation. And in the end she needs to attain Nirvana and become powerful enough to take down Devil God all by herself. TTJ knows that only a goddess can bring DG down so he pushes her to face the final lightning tribulation alone (the whole 81 hits of it) and ascend.
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Mecano - Hijo de la Luna (for the rhythm in particular, and the piano waltz section).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwGG5fX7bxY
Fleurie - Hurts Like Hell (for the intro and the rhythm and the lyrics) (This would be a good one for a FMV for TTEOTM, artistically-inclined people who can edit video please can we have one?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uil0L-0F4no
SaJi - Mysterious Bird (obviously)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D-5iTvFhQ8
I've made myself a playlist of only these three, to try and get through the first few days. It might be working.
LOL
...Gotta find a healing family drama or I'm going to go mad with no new TTEOTM eps :(
https://secondlifetranslations.com/novel/black-moonlight-holds-the-be-script/
Then there's a TL of the final chapters (after the BE) also still a bit left to translate. You can find it in the discussions area, above the comments section.
From what I've seen so far nope, his mortal life wasn't rosey this time either. But not as hopeless as the previous ones anyway.
Phase 1 (hostage prince): Nobody cares about me and I don't even care, I wonder what caring actually means. Oh hi there ADG. Hey, I need to kill some demons and take their power. Also, I don't dream.
Phase 2 (hostage prince): I got powers now, what do I do with them? (Still bored though.) Maybe I should kill my wife and her whole family and while I'm at it, why not kill MY family too? Crows, assemble!
Phase 3 (hostage prince): This woman is acting strange, is she finally crazy? Though... warm green winter coat. Let's have a snowball fight.
Phase 4 (upcoming Jing Emperor): I got a honour guard now (hot men, but I don't even care about those things.) Also I got poisoned by my brother and YXW keeps saving me, what the heck is wrong with this woman? Also, hot little fox demon (but I don't even care about those things x2).
Phase 5 (hot-braided Jing Emperor): I hear they have dragons under water, let's get some. Oops triggered a trap noooooo~~~~~~
Phase 6 (Flood Dragon): This man is stupid for foregoing all that power for the love a woman, That's my take. YXW, what did YOU get from that dream? Also, here's a tear, kill me please.
Phase 7 (Jing Emperor): Having friends is kind of fun. Dear diary, my wife is trying to kill me with her cooking. I made her an offer she couldn't refuse (let her choose her own burial spot, ain't I romantic? PSYCH!! *smirk*)
Phase 8 (Jing Emperor): Dear diary, I may have to kill some of my friends. My wife keeps proposing we should get married, is she amnesiac? I thought we already did. Eh whatever let's just go on with it. WHAT THE HELL YXW DID YOU JUST!.....
Phase 9 (Jing Emperor, unravelling): My wife died, I wanna die, let the world die, let everybody die and YQY if you put that finger on me I'm going to set the palace on fire. ...Well you've been warned.
Phase 10 (Immortal wannabe): Things I've learned from 500 years of digging through acid: chemistry is hard. Also, don't do this at home kids. Oh hi Shifu! Teach me your ways.
Phase 11 (CJM): This woman keeps coming back from the dead, pretending not to know who I am and breaking my heart. If I knew it was going to be this hard, I'd've died in the snow. Also, hot demoness (but I don't really care about those things x3).
Phase 12 (CJM): Dear diary, my wife wants to marry me yet again. From past experience, that means she wants to kill me. I have no idea what the hell did I do this time. Please advise, waiting online for an answer!
Phase 13 (Hot ADG) Miss me? Hehe. TTJ, come to the dark side. We have cookies!
Phase 14 (Tantai Jin): You know what? I'm just going to end it all. Either it's All-In-Distress-Way and the world goes boom, or my wife kills me (she seems not to need any special reason). The heck! The cheek of this scriptwriter to kill off the hottest guy(s) on this side of the planet and reality (but I don't really care about those things x4).
Phase 15 (Tantai Jin): Dear diary, my wife made me lose my virginity in Bo'Re Life, should I google if she can get pregnant in a dream?
Phase 16 (Li SuSu): Baby, your dad was a hero, he was the most beautiful man on this side of reality, *very small voice* and I killed him. I mean, he looked so good suffering, I couldn't help myself. Let's ask the novelist to write up a good HE for the broken hearted :D
The End :D
A kind member of this comment section is currently TLing those final chaters, you can find them in the discussions area.
People keep trying to find reasons and don't even know what they're talking about :D
Despite the pain, it FEELS like a HE for me.
For immortals, it could be battling through a specific hard level of cultivation and could happen at any time once they're gaining enough power. The highest cultivation is needed for attaining godhood and usually the tribulations include facing lightning or thunderstorms. It's because gaining immortality goes against the Heavens so you first have to suffer a lot to deserve it (and it's still against the laws of nature).
And it's not just the one time. There's this danmei story I really like where an ancient dragon has to go through a lightning tribulation once every thousand years or so, and he can even time it or delay it a bit because he's god-level powerful. He also always passes it, but it hurts LOL, so he doesn't like to have to go through it.
For those already in the Heavenly Realm (small-time gods or godesses) who still have to go through tribulations, it's usually to gain even higher power (Ming Ye would have had to go through them to become God of War in place of TH's father) or to be punished, sometimes. If they're sent to the mortal realm for one or ten lives' time it's usually a punishment but not always.
In LaR for example, SiFeng and XuanJi's fates are linked through 9 or 10 mortal lives and they count as tribulations for her to regain her powers as a goddess of war. There's a mortal life tribulation even for JinMi and XuFeng in AoL.
LSS has to go through tribulations because she's already half a phoenix goddess and has a high cultivation level. Always trying to get higher is the whole idea of cultivation. And in the end she needs to attain Nirvana and become powerful enough to take down Devil God all by herself. TTJ knows that only a goddess can bring DG down so he pushes her to face the final lightning tribulation alone (the whole 81 hits of it) and ascend.