Sunbath12

It's definitely not as smooth as far as the story telling nor as faithful to the original novel as season 1. It's still overall a decent watch, especially if you saw S1 and would like to know how it ends. It was filmed at the same time as S1, so same cast, production, etc.

I say that with about 5 more episodes to go, so it can still crash and burn.

I hope! I need to put this drama/story to rest and move on lol. I've been waiting for a year for Jing and XY to sail away together.

Agreed. I think they wanted to condense things, but these two plot points are major ones in the last part of the story and sigh, really shouldn't have been combined.

I'm preparing myself for some mental gymnastics where I live in an alternate universe and this leaked script is not true and that even while watching it unfold on screen, I will refuse to accept it. LOL, ugh what a mess this script is. I always liked how collected CX is - he only broke down in front of XY.

Why exactly would Xinyue want to assassinate TSJ? Shouldn't she want him alive to take XY away from her precious CX? Unless she told FFYY kill XY, but FFYY decided to change the plan? I'm already laughing.

Thanks! I’m probably going to sneak watch it here and there if I’m being honest

I'll probably have to wait, going to be on vacation with family and won't be able to watch. If not for that, I'd probably just watch every day haha, no self control.

I agree, this second season had the opportunity to develop Jing and XL and their mutual respect for each other more, but it's lost amid the numerous scenes of jealous CX and jealous Xinyue. It's disappointing, and CX deserves better too.

Yes, I get from the novel a lot more apparent respect between the 2 of them. It's there in the drama, just not as plainly, which I agree saddens me. It's a missed opportunity in my opinion, but oh well. Another thing to knock off this more lackluster second season for me.

I know, it's sad he was the one and no his horrible sister.

I hope so, it's in the novel. FL tells him when he is dying.

Yes! And I'm anxious about XL...I hope they don't mess up his ending.

Yeah all the cast are great. It's hard when you have no lines and you just stand there and smile (i.e. Jing in some of the past few episodes. And all Xinyue can do is throw more cups onto the floor). The writing is uneven, it's weird. Maybe team B did the Haoling arc when team A wasn't available lol?

I guess she was weak after all the blood she sacrificed. I think in the novel, he kicked Jing into the water.

LOL, imagine filming that tutorial.

Exactly, Hou is completely delusional. How does beating your brother up when you were always better at fighting show that you are better than him? It doesn't show anything new, genius.

I hope not. After what happened with the Haoling arc, I'm going to keep my expectations low so I might be at least somewhat happy with what happens next.

Yeah, wasn't expecting her to crack that cup and then...whooooo

That fight needed some better CGI and moves.

No, you've always made sense when it came to these darn leaked scripts. Deviating from the original novel and, like you said, omitting some key parts has consequences for things that happen down the line. The power of the loss at the end of the story is diminished. For CX mainly, but also for Xinyue's and FL's characters as well if Xinyue's storyline is completely changed/omitted. The story has been building up to something happening with Xinyue - so if nothing happens, I'm going to really roast this second season in my review.

Yeah, the previous 4 episodes were a bit underwhelming, but man, I was almost shaking by the time of the last scene in ep 18. So much power in YZ's delivery of those lines about Jing to CX while still remaining calm...until she couldn't hold it in anymore and cracked that cup.