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this bc ill always side with a vulnerable mother 🥲🥲🥲like in Ancient Love Poetry I could not side with Bai Jue knowing what happened to Shang Gu

agreed, I liked her og voice acting in SOKP cause she truly fit that villainess role, but for roles like shiyi in One and Only, it makes more sense to hire a VA with a higher voice register.

it's a common trope to a lot of xianxias, immortals must "taste the bitterness" of mortal life, and usually that would be a trial related to love/heartbreak

I was lucky to have the show release right after my graduation 🙊but I would argue that the payoff of "abstaining from cdramas" will be great! you won't need to wait and beg for episodes like the rest of us and binge all instead lol

there are a million options, but since this is what's on iQiyi site, others get rejected 🥲

I think her heart never wavered, it's purely sympathy for the struggles of mortals

Regarding the mirror question, I recall a "surveillance crane" from Bai Jiusi, which is probably what Ling Er and Qing Yue were acting for. It's like a layered onion; LQY tries to fool BJS who is fooling her, and they both fool us through the screen 😭

i think the mdl situation has always been muddy but this year has been especially rough. most of my fav dramas from this year ended up with lower than expected ratings 😭😭😭

It was so touching seeing HRY doting on the children with miserable fates, secretly harboring the pain of believing her husband was unwilling to grant her that happiness. They both stand for justice, but HRY is definitely closer to abiding the "mortal's version" of it. He's more in tune with his logic while she's more in tune with her emotions, basically setting her up to resent him for a lack of sympathy for mortals and ultimately blame him for leaving her and her son (even though it was not his intended outcome). Time to twist the knife in my heart 😭😭😭

https://video.weibo.com/show?fid=1034:5175924849573898
how can everyone notice what I totally missed 😭 in the beginning at jingyun sect, he subconsciously made space for A yue onthe bed thinking she would sit next to him , he always knew 0-0

Oh and zhao yi qin played like several generations of the meng bloodline which is crazy 😂

I only realized after watching the BTS that hong lian's grandma version and villainess version are played by the same actress 😭She had to wear like so many layers of faux wrinkles which would be especially tiring during their summer filming

iirc Siling/Dacheng are said to be of the same origin so their titles are quite equal, the "empyrean level" is above dacheng, so his role is to guard the infinite stele / gate to three realms so he seems powerful but he's still not the highest authority. it's confusing bc in one of the episodes the north/east/south/west lords remind him of his duty to protect and detach from his emotions to keep the world safe, but they clearly can't force or directly punish him. i assume we'll see more in the 400yr flashback where the "heavenly emissary" will intervene

hihi! do you know what time? need to convert it to know when to stay awake lol

i def find this plotline more logical bc the characters value all their relationships, i bet if LQY actually left Zhang Suan and went with Bai Jiusi he would be the final and most evil villain in the drama 😂

ty for the explanation bc now i feel like i need to rewatch to pick up all the details again after figuring out the plot twist 🙊

oh there are many scenes that explain later, basically before the LQY and BJS encounter, their mutual love became mutual hate so they both did many "vengeful things" to each other. trying to be vague to avoid spoilers: LQY felt abandoned after BJS left bc he didn't explain his intent to try to save her, so she suffered alone in mortal realm. she basically masked her hatred and betrayed him on wedding day so he feels hate too.

I was thinking xiaojingshan's face looked so familiar.. then I realized his actor played Shen Ting Bai in Arsenal Military Academy 😭😭😭facecard lowkey eats just like his wife's

maybe they had to work around schedules or couldn't anticipate that drama would release this early, will still appreciate any CP content tho 🫶

if they had a non-fantasy but purely historical drama with that setting, I would watch it too 😭