WuxiaWanderings

yeah buddy actually came back to life so he could say some final words to her.

He's fine. He doesn't die or anything.

Zhao Lusi deserves a lot of credit for her acting, especially the last couple episodes. Just her facial expressions, especially the end there when she's eating the gruel and she gradually starts tearing up. The camera stayed on her for a long time and she played it perfectly.

He could have. But if that's all it was then she wouldn't have looked so sad at the competition. She looked like her heart was ashes that whole scene.

Exactly. She looked so sad, that's how you know she wasn't just leaving to go traveling with him. If she was, she would have looked much happier.

But it's Kang Ju I really feel bad for. That was his best friend, closer than a brother, who he had known since they were little. They escaped the dungeon together, survived alone in the desert together, spent the rest of their lives together. The show of course focused on Yan Zijing + Su Muzhe, but Zijing's death would hurt Kang Ju even more. What's he gonna do now? That's why I wish we'd seen him there with everyone at the end. At least we'd know he still had someone.

It's not an open ending. The ring on her finger at the end and the despondent way she looks says it all. Saying it's an open ending is just copium.

I feel bad for Kang Ju. Shame we didn't get to see him one last time at the end.

I like how they showed Su Muzhe wearing Yan Zijing's ring at the end. Nice way to show what happened.

I don't really like how it all just ended with a bunch of high-fallutin words about the ruler, jewelry business, etc. Who cares.

It hurt seeing how despondent Su Muzhe looked at the end.

Good show .

Gif I made of Su Muzhe spitting out a longan seed: https://s11.gifyu.com/images/SGphG.gif

No. In Chinese, people who are close call each other brother or sister. It's just a term of affection here.

Prediction for the ending: Yan Zijing lives but is permanently blind. Duanwu helps takes care of him, and Zhang Jinran drops by from time to time to hang out.

Zhang Jiajia 张佳佳

https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%BC%A0%E4%BD%B3%E4%BD%B3/64650348

https://kisskh.at/discussions/zhu-lian-yu-mu/131556-the-story-of-pearl-girl-companion-piece?pid=3164232&page=1#p3164232

In the companion piece forum entry.

I wonder how many scenes if any were cut from ep.28. Yunxiu was doing that jade competition but then it never went back to it. We never even saw her finished piece.

I still think Su Muzhe mismanaged Yunxiu, having her be a sales clerk rather than spending her time carving, which what she's obsessed with. She could have used "Jade Guanyin" for marketing, selling exclusive Jade Guanyin-carved jewelry etc. Could have even set Yunxiu up carving in the showroom so customers could watch.

Sending Gaoshou and Yingtao to Guangzhou is... I mean they have 10 days to be able to pay back the songstresses, but just getting to Guangzhou would take way longer than that.

I was thinking that when they were in that building. Trying to see who everyone was, where's Kang Ju...

"whether she will eventually fall in love with Zheng Wu?"

I think she makes her position pretty clear in ep.29.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I love Kang Ju.

The whole cast is great, actually. Xie Keyin as Cui Shijiu is a presence. Tang Xiaotian is killin it as Zhang Jinran. It's nice that the to MLs aren't enemies. It would be exhausting if it it was constant jealous back and forth between them.

His name is Gao Chen 郜宸. Character's name is Du Ming 杜明.

That's not really fair. She was reduced to nothing, she had no other options. It was either this or begging. She's doing what she can. She doesn't have the protagonist halo protecting her like Su Muzhe does, there's not someone always swooping in to bail her out.

It appears to be an original poem for the show.
白骨已埋荒草外，
黃沙猶在古城陰。
可堪回憶當初事，
只有孤魂伴苦吟。

Check out The Ingenious One if you haven't. He has a very similar personality in that one too. That show also has a lot of satisfying scheming by the MC.