why do I feel a plot twist suddenly popping out...like could Ming Yi be one of Bo Clan?
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.
Is Fated Heart ok? I've not started yet but i am itching to take it on, while keeping my sanity to wait for JBZ-MY…
OMG, Fated Hearts is one of my top dramas of the year! It's SO good. I really, really loved it. I don't know that I would call it SAFE, though. The characters go through a LOT. I actually cried multiple times. I will say it ends well so you don't have to worry about that.
It makes sense to her as a character lol, when you’ve been forced to keep secrets your entire life because you…
Agreed. And they did a good job of showing us how hard it was to finally come clean with her BFF....she was so afraid Zhang Tai was going to hate her and turn her back, and even ZT agreed "oh no, you can't tell anyone here; they'll k*ll you." JBZ is THE premiere warrior of the abyss....and her actual nemesis. And the fact that she is in love with him makes it even harder to be vulnerable. And when he confronts her, she also chooses to tell him nothing because he destroyed the GMD in front of her; now if he knows, it's basically like he k*lled her if she dies of the poison. So she is also protecting him in a way by keeping it from him at this point. First by not making him choose to break the oath to his master, then by not being the reason the poison takes her life. So yeah, lots of layers going on here. I get that everyone wants her to just be honest already. I do, too! But I see what the writers are doing.
Well thank goodness JBZ is finally starting to put some things together. And I guess now that she caved and told her best friend the truth and didn't lose her, she MIGHT finally tell JBZ when next they have a deep heart to heart conversation. We can only hope. I mean, he's basically figured out she's Ming Xian in the trailer for ep 25, and he KNOWS something is VERY freaking wrong with her that she's not telling him. I think he's smart enough to put two and two together at this point even if she doesn't tell him. Come on ep 25, don't let me down.
And hey! At least our Princess smacked some sense into the doctor. Yes, don't hide things and pretend you don't care in the name of "protecting her". 🙄 Trust me, we hate that.
Anyway, tomorrow night can't come soon enough. And what is this "ep 27" in the countdown?? Are we getting THREE episodes tomorrow? Better not get my hopes up. Probably only two still and the cd is just wrong.
Oh, and I just want to mention, I finished Fated Hearts tonight right before LITC aired, and...look, I came into 23 already emotionally drained and compromised, okay? That whole thing with the Golden Millet Dream and JBZ and then 27 sacrificing himself was rough! I had to break out tissues.
Everyone must be busy watching the drama, because WHERE ARE ALL OF THE COMMENTS about that opening for 23?! My goodness. I know, they're just setting us up to hurt worse later.
OMG Youku has TWO episodes, I'm so relieved. Too bad the trailer for ep 25 shows he STILL doesn't know for sure she is MX...but he obviously is PRETTY sure.
Wow, what a show. From beginning to end. I just finished and I don't know how to move on. The ACTING in this. The leads were both amazing. (And Li Qin is the ONLY believable female general we've had recently, IMO. No shade on the other actresses; they were...fine, I guess? But Li Qin was FANTASTIC.) And CZY? My god give this man more historical bad*** roles. Please! For me.
The scene when FYX tells him his best friend, the only person he has trusted unconditionally, is the traitor? Just WOW. The acting they both do with just their eyes, or with body language.
And let's talk about the secondary characters! WOW. Qin Tian Yu didn't have to go that hard playing the Emperor of Jinxiu, but here we are. The scenes in these final episodes were literally heart breaking, and he did that with a character that in another drama would not have been even remotely sympathic. WHILE still keeping true to his character's nature. The scene where he confronts his mother at the end of ep 35? Riveting. Absolutely 100% riveting. The emotion he brought to that. You could see the ineffectual, sociopathic emperor she made him into, and you could also see the little boy inside who wanted his mother's approval and affection buried underneath all of that. When he tells her why the Princess has "bewitched" him, it was just incredible writing and acting. Not her beauty, but because she NEEDED him. He felt needed and powerful because of that, instead of the emasculated, powerless emperor his mother had made him into.
I am just blown away by the acting in this drama. By the writing. By the cinematography and the stunning costumes and set pieces. The music! All of it working together so incredibly well.
And, I'm going to circle back to a comment I made here early on. Someone argued with me and pretty much told me I was wrong, but here at the end, I'm not wrong. One of the best things about this drama is how even after they fall in love, NEITHER lead is suddenly weaker or less bad***. BOTH of them keep the core character traits set up in the beginning, they just become a team who are soft with one another because they're in love, but also hard as nails to their enemies. They are a POWER COUPLE, and I'm here for it. And to whoever it was who was arguing with me, no, the FL wasn't suddenly made into a damsel in distress for the ML! She remains amazing and powerful and strong in her own right, and even saves HIM multiple times. Just saying.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but this is a super simplistic view of the events and choices all involved…
Actually, she pleads with him not to. He is making his own choice. You can choose to blame her and be mad about it, but the fact remains: he is choosing to do it against her wishes. Also, he's been telling her all along not to reveal who she is or what she's after because he's afraid they will k*ll her if they find out. So you're blaming Ming Yi for....following exactly the course of action both she AND 27 thought was the safest path for her? Anyway, you're entitled to feel how you feel and be mad at Ming Yi. But she still didn't "make" him do anything.
After seeing the preview, I hate Mingyi for being dishonest. Because of her, 27 will have to sacrifice.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but this is a super simplistic view of the events and choices all involved characters (Ming Yi, JBZ, 27....whoever poisoned her, even her parents for abusing her and training her from a young age to lie for survival, and so on) have made to reach the point in the trailer. And also, the show literally already foreshadowed "nine lives", so even though I'm worried for 27, I'm pretty hopeful he's not going to be permanently sacrificing himself for her.
they cut another kiss scene didn't they....I swore I saw clips of them kissing in the pavillion where she was…
Another? How can anyone judge what's been cut when we are only 22 episodes in? Lots more episodes left for kiss scenes, and set pieces often make multiple appearances in these dramas.
I mean everyone is already putting this spoiler in comments with no spoiler tags - really?? Some people don't watch trailers! But anyway, just watched the trailer for 23 ahead of watching 21-22, and g-d it 27 better not permanently die to give her a little more time to live! Literally her ONLY support and source of unconditional love for her entire life. Come on JBZ...or someone, anyone, please jump in at the 11th hour and save him, or do some magic cultivation spirit vein woo-woo and bring him back.
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.
And hey! At least our Princess smacked some sense into the doctor. Yes, don't hide things and pretend you don't care in the name of "protecting her". 🙄 Trust me, we hate that.
Anyway, tomorrow night can't come soon enough. And what is this "ep 27" in the countdown?? Are we getting THREE episodes tomorrow? Better not get my hopes up. Probably only two still and the cd is just wrong.
Oh, and I just want to mention, I finished Fated Hearts tonight right before LITC aired, and...look, I came into 23 already emotionally drained and compromised, okay? That whole thing with the Golden Millet Dream and JBZ and then 27 sacrificing himself was rough! I had to break out tissues.
The scene when FYX tells him his best friend, the only person he has trusted unconditionally, is the traitor? Just WOW. The acting they both do with just their eyes, or with body language.
And let's talk about the secondary characters! WOW. Qin Tian Yu didn't have to go that hard playing the Emperor of Jinxiu, but here we are. The scenes in these final episodes were literally heart breaking, and he did that with a character that in another drama would not have been even remotely sympathic. WHILE still keeping true to his character's nature. The scene where he confronts his mother at the end of ep 35? Riveting. Absolutely 100% riveting. The emotion he brought to that. You could see the ineffectual, sociopathic emperor she made him into, and you could also see the little boy inside who wanted his mother's approval and affection buried underneath all of that. When he tells her why the Princess has "bewitched" him, it was just incredible writing and acting. Not her beauty, but because she NEEDED him. He felt needed and powerful because of that, instead of the emasculated, powerless emperor his mother had made him into.
I am just blown away by the acting in this drama. By the writing. By the cinematography and the stunning costumes and set pieces. The music! All of it working together so incredibly well.
And, I'm going to circle back to a comment I made here early on. Someone argued with me and pretty much told me I was wrong, but here at the end, I'm not wrong. One of the best things about this drama is how even after they fall in love, NEITHER lead is suddenly weaker or less bad***. BOTH of them keep the core character traits set up in the beginning, they just become a team who are soft with one another because they're in love, but also hard as nails to their enemies. They are a POWER COUPLE, and I'm here for it. And to whoever it was who was arguing with me, no, the FL wasn't suddenly made into a damsel in distress for the ML! She remains amazing and powerful and strong in her own right, and even saves HIM multiple times. Just saying.