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Yeah, you could tell in the scene in ep 25 when she's forging the sword and so proud and pleased with making him the very best weapon she can to save him in a dire moment, and her Master is all "What did this guy do to you that you're going all out like this for him??" That scene said she is every bit as in love with him as he is with her. And I definitely clued in on the name she gave it immediately. 🥰 Our girl acting like she can live without him and she wants their names erased off the marriage stone when she's literally head over heels and will never get over him.

I'm still upset that we didn't get at least a little modern arc in WDBTD! I would mind these "return to the future/real world" endings A LOT LESS if they gave us actual time with our couple, actual closure, not "let's ambiguously give you a MAYBE."

That said....I'm still watching it. And so far, the stuff back in time is not lining up with what people said here. I'm the second to last ep and they just removed all barriers to our duo being together, not at all like what I was reading in spoilers? So IDK. I've made the decision to watch the whole thing and judge for myself.

Other than missing another kiss, I loved everything about their interaction in ep 26 finally confronting the truth.

I love that he went there determined to know, and tested her with Embers, and then called her out on forging him a weapon identical to Embers (named "Nirvana"!) that would save his life. I love that she said she didn't want to lie to him anymore and seemed exhausted by it all when she finally acquiesced and told him the truth.

I loved how he teased her into almost using her severed spiritual veins (which would literally k*ll her at this point!) because for a second she thought he was really hurt. Knowing her identity, now he was testing the depth of her feelings for him.

I loved the scallion pancake. And - there was weirdness around that. He brought jus a single scallion pancake with him FOR HER, made her eat the whole thing while he watched, and even panicked a little when she almost coughed up a bite, telling her not a single bite can be wasted. Me: "The Golden Millet Dream is definitely in that pancake. He didn't destroy it. He just secretly CURED HER." And he says during the scene "You're more important to me than I ever thought." 🥰

And then he forces her to admit when she fell for him. One of my favorite moments, when he gently tells her "Ming Yi, being honest isn't actually that hard." Because it is for her, it has always been necessary for her to lie to the everyone, and here the person closest to her is telling her "It's okay. You can be honest with me. Nothing bad will happen. It's easy."🥹

I love it. I love how he's handling everything. I'm ready for their couple era.

😱 Really? Wow! So transmigration stories were so popular back then that young girls were...trying to do it with self harm? That's crazy.

Okay, but even if that is why she has to go back, they STILL could have had her whole family remember so the character growth they all had together wasn't undone, and they still could have given us a real arc with her and Anran in modern times. It wouldn't even need to be long, but these "going back to the real world" endings where they meet for 2 seconds, or even not at all (looking at you, Love Game in Eastern Fantasy) is just so unsatisfying and poorly handled.

Came here for the ending spoilers and I CANNOT BELIEVE they took this charming, mostly cozy drama, had the refreshing twist on the time travel trope of her whole family going with her, and then STILL did the completely unfulfilling "she goes back to her own time and barely meets 'him' in the end" wrap up. And no one in her family remembers??? What was the point then? they all had so much growth and change together, and the show just undoes it all and is all "nope, kidding! Ha ha." WTH. I'm so upset I don't even know if I want to finish even though I love the actors and the cozy vibe. So....we never see them actually be a couple? Is that true? I'm just so beyond disappointed and upset right now. That ending is awful, no good writing. And I say that as a professional author. I could live with basically using the male family members as nothing but comedy, and dragging out their scenes - even though that, too, was poor writing and cheap laughs that weren't actually that funny. But I can't with this ending. What a disappointment.

Yeah, I didn't find her at all believable in LOTFG. YMMV. I tried hard to stick that drama out and it just didn't work for me. And I love that actress in other roles. I also wasn't really counting shorter web dramas, I was referring specifically to the two long form dramas that have aired VERY recently, both featuring female generals prior to this one. I enjoyed Shadow Love, don't get me wrong, and I don't really care if people disagree with my opinion on the female generals we've seen. I just personally found Li Qin MUCH more believable. It worked for me. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Thanks!

Before I start, someone who has read the novel, does this have a happy ending? Or…I guess what kind of ending does it have?

Youku is the only place that gets early eps

Not a risk - he knows she loves him. He's already decided to forgive her because he's figured it out, he just wants to get her to admit it. She keeps wanting to create a firm boundary. "Remove our names from the marriage stone." But JBZ: "You don't get to decide."

Ming Yi is forgetting how he told her after they protected the abyss she'd never be able to escape him. 🤣

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OMG!

Yes, spoiler tags! In the olden days of the internet when Livejournal reigned, we called it a cut, lol. Anyway, WAIT. Does that mean Ming Yi is not royalty at all and is the child of that sister and guard?? Or that someone else is that child?

I mean, I am very curious. You can spoil me, but behind a cut, obviously. 😉

I'm guessing her temporarily blocked it. I don't think it's that easy to remove.

I really don't get it. I attribute some of it to people loving HMH so much and feeling so much for what his character is going through....and needing to blame Ming Yi, I guess. But come on. They are both traumatized people with major trust issues, and neither of them has ever been loved like this before, or loved someone else like this before. They're both broken and hurting, but for a shocking number of people, only JBZ deserves empathy.

My impression is the "upper realms" are the realms that are NOT the abyss. Like, the abyss winning was such a big deal because they've been looked down on and degraded by all of the other realms. We don't know much about the Six Realms, other than the one Ming Yi came from, and the one our Big Bad and his legion of royal sons comes from, and even those we know very little because the focus of the show so far has been in the abyss.

Yeah, that was for sure an interesting little hint last night, wasn't it? And what happened to the other sister? They kept saying "two Bo sisters" - one was JBZ's mentor, do we know who the other was or what happened to her?

I am really tired of all of the hate on Ming Yi. The show has been VERY clear on why she's hiding the truth, and the many reasons behind it. I could go on about her traumatic childhood. How she was raised to live a lie and how deeply ingrained it was into her that lying was the only way to keep her family's affection and approval, or how she, as the most famous warrior of her people, is deep in enemy territory and with her greatest nemesis, and has been told over and ov er by everyone from her mentor to her BFF in last night's episode, that if her identity is found out, she'll be k*lled.

She had to nerve herself up to finally tell her BFF the truth, and when she did, she expected to be hated and abandoned, and was shocked when she wasn't. She cares about her bestie, but she is in love with JBZ. How much harder wil it be to face him with the truth? Maybe a LITTLE easier now that she's told one person.

"But she has no reason to lie anymore! He already feels betrayed and she has nothing to lose."

Guys, she's also protecting JBZ. She says it plainly to 27: "I can't make him choose between saving me and the oath he gave to his master." Then, he destroys the antidote in front of her. If she told him then, it would be like telling him he just sentenced her to die. Better NOT to tell him so he doesn't have to live with it if she dies.

And let's not forget, Ming Yi hates herself. She told him in the bath scene, under the truth spell, that it's hard to confront him, but even harder to confront herself. This girl's parents really did a number on her. She truly believes she is a worthless person who should be despised for letting others down, that her ONLY worth was in being Ming Xian, winning the Blessing Rain for her people, and/or in the help she can give others. She hates herself, not JUST for lying to JBZ, but that IS a big part of it. She believes that his hate is only what she deserves.

And STOP blaming her for 27! Okay, HE didn't want her to reveal her identity. HE wanted her to keep her heart separate and just steal the antidote to save her life. HE chose to sacrifice himself to keep her alive a little bit longer, while she was literally BEGGING HIM not to. Ming Yi BEGGED JBZ to spare 27, even if he k*lled her. BOTH of them are each other's only true family and would sacrifice for one an other. Ming Yi never once stopped begging 27 NOT TO DO IT, and he did it anyway, and you all are out here like she willfully made him do it.

It's AMAZING to me how these dramas can have the most red flag male lead who has crossed all kinds of lines, even with the FL, and people will forgive him as long as he's hot and loves the FL. But man, the amount of hate people have for Ming Yi is unreal. She's in an awful position, and she truly does not believe she is worth forgiving, or that JBZ will forgive her or love her for any of it. She is keeping the truth to herself in part to bear that burden alone and protect him from the whole truth.

Exactly. But people are much more forgiving of a hot male lead than a female lead. :(