ShortCircuit

Never met a paranoid person before, have you :)

So, LSS is schizophrenic (I mean, two souls/minds, then they add SJ, so three so far, she's not all in one piece already LOL), TTJ is paranoiac (there's only one person who he can trust - himself), YBC is a narcissist (no explanation needed), XL has a martyr complex.

I could go on :D

In TTJ's defense though... even if you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not out to get you for real :D Case in point - YXW...

I recommend to everyone a good dose of web novels :D

(Myself, I prefer danmei, but there's a bit of everything for everyone :D)

Okay, maybe this drama's plot is more tailored to whatever I like best, or maybe I've read enough c-web novels already, but it all makes perfect sense to me, at least.

First, none of the main charas (protagonists and villains) are stupid. Everyone has their motivations and act according to them, and, as an aside, they weren't meant to be superheroes in the first place. Just flawed people placed in impossible circumstances.

TTJ knows and recognizes YBC for what she is, BUT she is similar to his ex persona to a fault (both helpless, forced by the circumstances to plot and get twisted by hatred and use anything and everything to survive). He doesn't like her, but he can't hate her either (at least not yet, as he's not privy to everything she did).

YBC is being now maddened with losing everything she so painstakingly worked for. She pretended all her life she's the good girl, the nice one, the fragile one, just to find a protector, and still, she could never be certain it was love or the love threads' work that got her XL. Looking out for herself is her complete motivation. She doesn't need remorse - she doesn't have TIME to be remorseful. But she can hate, and she does hate her sister, who had it easy, and is a perfect target for YBC's hatred. She (YBC) gets away with a lot, because yes, there's a lack of communication between the leads, but that's circumstantial. As long as there's no communication, YBC will do her thing, whatever it is.

YXW came primed to kill TTJ and kept pulling the wool over her own eyes regarding his actual well-intended acts. If the bone doesn't come out, he's is doomed. He could be totally the best emperor the world has ever seen, die, and STILL be the vessel for the Devil God. So YXW/LSS, since she didn't realize there were alternatives (she took the original mission as the complete and final and unalterable truth), CANNOT afford to be compassionate and respond to his love.

The fact that she does, and that she can still have revelations, makes up the whole drama actually.

I'm pretty pleased with what we got so far. I haven't read the novel, and I don't think I will, but the drama on itself is making sense to me, and I'll leave it at that.

YBC knows there was no communication because she (YBC) is still alive. She's not really stupid, no matter how much commenters like to hate on her. She's basically a ruthless, conscience-free, survivor.

You forget that YXW still tried to kill him, LOL. And he's in constant pain, and now his life is the guarantor of HER life (which she almost lost). So he wants to protect her by pretending he doesn't care about her any more. Which includes the reasons for why her sister wanted to kill her.

I don't think they've gone dumb with stupidity, they've gone dumb with pain and shock. How much can their respective minds endure?! They both looked like they were on drugs in the wedding ep. Neither was functioning correctly, both were in la-la land in their own minds.

I thought that was an amazing show of skill, myself.

Because everybody's been at the school of CoRelAtiOn DoeSn'T mEaN cAuSAtiOn :D

So... they took an already formed, loved, well-established 'verse that a scholar/professor spent dozens of years to build and enrich, and decided to make a Rings of Power out of it. (I know it's not Hollywood but Prime, but it's basically the same difference).

Or, different example, this one even more painful. They took a settled lore, a mystical fairy tale of the far future (and a galaxy far far away etc), and had the main hero of the story grow old to drink green milk from the nipples of a lard-bag of an alien creature, abandon everything his story and progress ever stood for, and decide to whoosh! out into the air. Which made zero sense whatsoever. Oh and somehow, Palpatine returned, too.

I don't even want to discuss the level of cringe I've had from the most lauded Western creations lately (that is, in the past 20 years or so).

There's a reason people (like me, if not others) turn from Western media to Asian media.

He doesn't know it was all about the poisoned porridge. If he knew, it would all be clear to him, too, but as far as we're in now, it's only YBC who confessed and YXW who heard the confession who know what it was all about. And since YXW is in the Cold Palace and YBC is not stupid to repeat the confession, nobody else will have a chance to find out, for now.

So the explanation that it was about XL's death is partly acceptable (partly because TTJ definitely knows how YBC could care less about XL when he was captured).

Then again - look at it this way. YBC is a survivor. She was very much in an untenable situation as TTJ was in the Ye family - no good background, no familial support, no one to care for her. I'm pretty sure he despises her for being so cold-hearted but at the same time he admires her for surviving in each and every circumstance, more like he had to, himself.

So he keeps her until he'll have some free time to investigate it all, but what with the constant pain and blood spitting and going to war, and also watching over YXW from the sidelines, pretending he doesn't care a bit, he might've just forgotten about YBC completely LOL.

Once you fall for WWX, there is no turning back :D

There is no xianxia genre tag on MDL AFAIK. For most xianxia, the wuxia genre tag is used.

Wuxia - martial arts, no supernaturals (immortals, cultivators, gods, etc), physics is a rumour.

Xianxia - martial arts, all kinds of supernaturals (at least three realms - humans, immortals, gods but maybe also demons, then maybe some fierce corpses LOL, or spirits/haunts/ghosts, fairies of all kinds, plants and animals cultivating into human bodies, dragons, and so on, and so forth), then gallons of spitted blood LOL. Physics is more like a set of guidelines that everybody and their pet phoenix handily ignores.

And then there's xuanhuan, which is even worse than xianxia LOL because it's more of a mix and mash of Chinese fantasy (xianxia) and some Western elements (like in fairy tales).

The Untamed is xianxia (because spirits and fierce corpses). Joy of Life, for example, is wuxia (because martial arts and some politicking only). Nirvana in Fire, for example, is historical/costume drama, despite some wuxia elements. Duoluo Continent is xuanhuan, IMHO (fits xianxia but borrows some tropes from Japanese shonen - the ever growing progress of the hero, for example, Naruto or Bleach-style, and also there's lots of monsters that aren't originating in Chinese folklore.)

Ji Ze: I gave you a prophecy, and three things to remember, and study, DID YOU GET IT?
YXW: Err... ummm... *didn't know there was going to be a TEST*
Ji Ze: Oh forget it. Exchange the freaking bone dammit!!!
YXW: *lightbulb moment* OH! That's what you meant!!!
Ji Ze: Next life, I never EVER want to be a teacher.

Little Miss Fox: What about it soldier, you're really sleeping with your weapon, umm? LOL
YQY: You would KNOW if I'm sleeping with a weapon or not :D

Her cheekiness rubs off on him :D

He asked two or three questions at the same time. She wouldn't know which one to reply to.

You already watched so many xianxia and other costume dramas, what do you mean you can't watch the genre?! No, seriously?!

He has no choice on it. The Bone is there for the Devil God to reincarnate after TTJ dies, no matter how he dies. At least, that's how I understood it so far.

Obviously, the Devil God being the Devil God, he wants TTJ to go through all possible pain in his life before death and reincarnation.

Wait, what, he got hurt filming 2ha?! Ouch. For someone so lean as him, even flesh wounds would hurt like hell and heal slower :(

The Devil Bone was still in TTJ though, and YBC isn't TH...

It's the Phoenix Gate. They (TTJ and NBY) mentioned it before, and it's the gate XL's men used to come to get YBC and attack TTJ in the process.

As for what it means... it's part of the set design - I saw a BTS the director and art director made and they were saying they tried to make every location distinct. The pictures of the swing set, for example, looked even better on paper, LOL. But I like the swing under the broken arch as it came out, too...

It's because TTJ used HER to kill him. She was his puppet. And he (XL) was actually a good guy.

The Blood of Youth. It's wuxia (not xianxia), but there's so. much. sass. on a square meter, it should be illegal. I'm loving it :)

https://kisskh.at/683119-shao-nian-ge-xing

Also, everyone could give a chance to a Taiwanese ongoing drama called Oh No! Here Comes Trouble (the title is... oh well). It's hillariously awesome and scary at the same time.

https://kisskh.at/730629-bu-liang-zhi-nian-qing-chu-shi

The TU (original, not the SE) ending, want to bet? :D

They mean EVERYBODY gets to dub a xianxia - actually, all costume dramas. The sound when they record is atrocious, there's too much noise.

But LYX and Sun ZhenNi (Pian Ran) re-dubbed their own voices. The rest of the cast was dubbed by professional voice actors.