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=sigh=
....YQY finally convinces TTJ to let YXW rest in peace. TTJ reminisces every time that YXW saved him and remembers how she wanted to leave him. (Why oh why do they always have to say "I don't want to see you again"? --yep, I read the explanation, but... it hurts.
....YQY starts calling YBC by her name, not sister anymore... all familial ties are off now since she's the root of all the trouble that led to this moment. (As he should. She doesn't deserve to be called anybody's family with the way she treated Grandma😭)
....she also calls him YQY. ExCUSE me YBC., how dare you criticize THEM? You've hurt your siblings but you think they deserve it? That little monologue of hers shows how little she understands her siblings, or how biased she is towards them just because she is bitter at her station in life. No wonder YQY laughs at her.
....YBC's reasons for porridgegate is so shallow. TTJ defeats XL, but it's XL himself who wasn't as ambitious, as ruthless for power as TTJ, so it was meant to be. TTJ taking away the love threads, but she was supposed to return it anyway to the true owner and not keep it, so why blame TTJ?Both reasons are connected to how greedy she is. The evilness of YBC lies truly in her greed.
.....TTJ appears just in time to hear YBC's confession of porridgegate. He realizes how his misunderstanding led to XL's and YXW's deaths. The desolation in his eyes is devastating.
...of course, YBC is being so thickskinned and insisting still that TTJ amd YXW are the culprits. Blaming everybody else for her misfortunes again.
....TTJ sentencing YBC to death by porridge is so not equal to the destruction she caused. YQY looked surprised, and devastated because he was about to lose the last member of his family, evil though she was.🥺
....maybe it was better yhat TTJ hallucinate about YXW, hurtful tho it is, than hear ADG in his head.🥺
...Ding dong the B is dead. ☠️Death by porridge is poetic, but she doesn't deserve being comforted in her last moments by XL's letter. PYZ collects her tear for XL2.0 frankensteining later.
...no, XL, you just misjudged the goodness of your wife's heart. It's not the fault of the love threads that she never fealt at ease with you, it was her greed doing that to her. You're just too in love to turn dumb.
....YQY takes a moment to shed tears for the people he loved.🥺
...TTJ carves the tombstone himself, without magic, just to impress on stone the depth of his love for YXW. He reminisces that wedding, caressing the veil that he put his hopes and love in, and the jade he gave her. (I want to ask about the significance of the giving of the jade in a wedding).
...oh, the what could have beens! They hurt so much.😭
....not TTJ saying they'll go home together😭
....the start of YQY's masquerade as the Jing emperor.
...that crow that picked up the WOJ sure is a great intro for the immortal arc, esp the entrance of Si Ying and Jing Mie.
....really, at first watch I thought the great demons that PR had as parents were these two🤣
...so whrn the WOJ falls into Mohe, how does it end up in the Nether River? Or is the Nether River connected to Mohe somehow?
....TTJ looks much more delicate in those Nether River clothes.
....blood drops don't work like that....
....NBY, why recommend it in the first place then it you think it's so dangerous for your lord to enter??🤦‍♀️
....TTJ, the spirit is asking if you really are looking for YXW🤣 I remember the comments here during the airing date about OG YXW actually appearing to him and smacking him in the face🤣
....the torture at the Nether River begins.🥺. TTJ realizes that the divine essence heals him......then proceeds to waste it😅🥺
....the drama ends with our first
glimpse of LSS.🥺 the immortal arc truly begins.❤

This wasn't so bad after all. Of course the tombstone scene and the going home together bit was hard to watch, but the Nether River scene really drives through TTJ's loneliness without YXW. The immortal arc is coming up......

That someone being that redrobed sect leader, most probably.

Who's softspoken??!🤣🤣🤣 have you seen the gaming videos???🤣🤣
Yeah, talent like that should and deserves to be recognized.😊

1. Journey of Flower. That was the first taste of how angsty cdramas can get. But nothing can prepare me for
2. TTEOTM. Nuff said
3. TTEOTM's sequel, Love is Sweet. I thought it would be sappy, but it was just the right amount of sweetness and a dash of bitter (I got jolted by that "breakup" scene and memories of TTEOTM came rushing in suddenly). Though I felt as if we were intruding into somebody else's happy romance, so at some points I was🙈🤣🤣🤣

TTJ carved his own beloved wife's too.
With his own hands.

Her teeth is what makes me look at her smile and think "That's a happy smile." They may not be perfectly even, but they are beautiful.

Heeyyy. That second one says "Basically, we love to see LYX being bullied or spitting blood."🤣🤣🤣
But yes. Sorry LYX. You do it sooooo well.🤣🤣😅

Ahahaha... great shout out to the MDL page. 68k was such a ling time ago.
But yes. "Only dramas that inspire passion will stand the test of time." Look at all of us here, at 78k comments and still climbing because this drama was that inspirational. For me, maybe after the rewatch, I'm going to make this like the late Sir Christopher Lee's LOTR tradition, where he reads the book at least once every year.
And yes, I've read until the end of that first reddit page, which tells me I'm a bonafide luna-tic🤣

Came to the rewatch late half-unintentionally, half-intentionally because it is this episode. Actually one I've rewatched a lot of times for both research purposes and because I'm simply a sucker for angst.
Coincidentally, when I opened my downloaded file, I've stopped it midway again, so.🥺

Without further ado, here we go....
....TTJ sees what happened to YQY and PR from yesterday's ep by crow. Foreboding comes knocking...
...TTML recalls Fuyu making preparations in case she dies during their attack, and him being so confident that she would still be by his side no matter what. If only this series were longer, we'd know why Fuyu was loyal to TTML, even to the point of loving him, but we only get bits like this before moving on to the main event. (It's these little bits of unexplored threads that keep me, at least, from totally moving on from this drama.)
...For Fuyu, TTML vows to kill the person TTJ cares for the most, which of course includes the people who he had worked hard to uplift.
...this is the Ye family's glorious moment. Finally, we see how noble General Ye is, and that despite his image as a carefree man, Ye Zeyu could also be relied on to do what is right and protect the people. His care for Chuntao, and his smile when he takes up his sword makes him truly worthy of being General Ye's eldest son.
....YXW finishes creating the divine essence, and spits blood in the process, as the WOJ takes its toll on her. Lightning punishment gathers around her.
...when TTJ finally enters the city the same way TTML came in, how come YQY and PR aren't there?
....Despite having been neglected at the Ye mansion, TTJ recognizes the heroism of General Ye and YZY. And of course he sees the devastation TTML caused to his city.
....and the tower scene. TTML holds YXW and YBC hostage, while TTJ looks on. TTJ feels confident that no matter what, YXW will be safe since the bracelets ensure her life. So he decides to save.................YBC??? Just to spite YXW? He could have just said, "Kill both of them, IDC." Then proceeds to save them both. That would have spared him and her the heartache.
(Remembering that comment about a viewer not liking the eyeliner.....like, why? It's perfect, not too much, not too little. Was it about having eyeliner on guys that was the issue? I wonder.)
....even YBC is surprised she was saved. Really, why? The inner dialogues really point at spite. No wonder LSS wouldn't even give him time of day in the immortal arc.
....the tower is strangely clean when TTJ flies up to YXW. Where are TTML's men? (Yeah, I'm nitpicking just to distract myself from what comes next.)
............ok, let me do this again......
...when TTJ realizes YXW has the WOJ (which he should have already noticed way back at the wedding, but maybe he did, but didn't have enough time to ask properly, what with being nailed and all) he fnally learns the truth that YXW exchanged it for his eye and took on the curse he was willing to take for her way back in ep.9. YXW telling him the curse is about to be fulfilled on her makes him go denial mode, because that meant she would die a violent death."Why did you take matters in your own hands?" hits hard, but the answer to that strangely does not connect. "Because you are the DG"? No wonder TTJ is confused. "What DG?" indeed.
....TTJ of course doesn't understand what YXW was talking about, because the DG explanation seemed out of the blue. They never even talked about the DG before (well, not in what was shown anyway, maybe during their unaired bed talks?), so YXW suddenly calling him DG, taking into the context that they hated each other before, would for TTJ be a translation that she hated him so much she sees him as a devil.
Until of course she drops the bomb on him that she wasn't YXW, and through the power of the WOJ, reveal that she was actually from another time, another place, and that he was the stuff of her nightmares. At this point, I feel happy for LSS for finally confronting and processing her long kept trauma this way. It hurts for TTJ, but it should be relieving for LSS.
...TTJ is of course understandably confused. His points are valid: it isn't him, he doesn't know those people in her visions, he didn't do those things. His searching look at YXW says he wants her to understand all those things he said. (Erm, so the "who are you" seems misplaced. This should have been said right after she revealed she wasn't YXW. --again, nitpicking)
....TTJ's relief at YXW saying all those won't happen to him anymore suddenly turns to anger that YXW could think of him as a devil, and a devil god at that. (Kinda misplaced again, but it does lead to the next thing.) YXW's answer really is a high sounding explanation, one that seemingly doesn't care about him and his feelings at all.
....the close up scenes change from them touching each other's foreheads, and then YXW's forehead touching TTJ's nose bridge. ---nitpicking
....TTJ slightly flinches when YXW's hand touches his chest.
....why is it that whenever someone sacrifices their life for another, the ending's always, "let's not see each other in the next life"? Like one existence is enough.....
.....they say even when you're already dead, you can still hear something for a few moments. LSS does remember hearing TTJ's "YXW, are you abandoning me too?" later in the immortal arc. (This doesn't make it easier to watch.......)
....and Tia Ray comes on... making the scene even more difficult to watch....
....so does the lightning punishment still happen even if YXW's already...gone because TTJ still has some of her essence left thru the bracelets? ......not making it easier to waaaatch
.....gravity doesn't work like that...
....yep. the scene needs to explain why they can get the scene by themselves by showung that NBY and his army finished off TTML's men.
.......in a close up, when TTJ gathers the broken bracelet, his hands are bloody, as if they were cut as he held the broken pieces. (Not helping with the pain).
....the long walk home. At this point, TTJ just seems zombified while carrying YXW.
.....not YXW saying "who says I'm going to be with you for life?"
.....the scene ends with their first meeting on the frozen lake.
....didn't NBY see Gen.Ye and YZY dead on the streets? What is he asking that for? Nevermind YBC.
....that scene with TTJ in YXW's burnt room shouldn't have been a dream. It fits being an actual thing he did upon waking up and him hearing DG fits his state of madness, that he now hears DG outside of his dreams. The next scenes now don't make sense with him exiting his room without his cloak, then then at the next he runs with his cloak on.
....TTJ's progression of emotions from denial to anger to bargaining and to acceptance is so hurtful to watch.
....See, his hands when he caresses YXW are bloody, as if he had just come from YXW's burnt house and gotten hurt there... tsk tsk editing.
.....so....who exactly called for the ministers to meet if TTJ is with YXW? Can't be NBY, he's too naive to be governing in place of TTJ. YQY?
.....YQY is such a soldier. He had lost the love of his life, his father, his brother, and his sister (nvm the other one) and still manages to stand up and walk. But was the pale makeup necessary?
....NBY reaching out to YQY because he's TTJ's only remaining family is touching......and not helping with the pain.
....should Xiaoyao be credited for YQY instinctively knowing how to use PR's power?
....I love YQY's eye rolls.
...the extra lines of dialogue feel so out of place with YQY and TTJ's actions during the fist fight. No mouths were moving there.
.....it's so unfair that yQY is the only one bloodied up during that fist fight. No, the divine essence can't be credited for that because YQY also has PR's essence which can heal. What gives?
....to have TTJ ask if YQY understands why he wants to be with YXW is moot and beside the point. Of course he understands, didn't you see PR die beside YQY??
And of course this episode ends in the middle of a conversation. Again.

There. Ordeal over. I don't feel anything. This is not real.
😭😭😭😭😭😭

I echo one of the comments.
"I don't know if I'm going to laugh or cry at this."😅🤣😭

It's a cultural thing. Like, if you're chinese (and please, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, I only google my way out of things😅) you can call someone you love as your white moonlight, or something.

Besides, isn't it romantic? Interpret it however way you want. Mine is, TTJ's love is like the moonlight, cold, not as overly bright as the sun, but there to chase away the darkness.❤❤

I'm getting delulu with all the Lulu's🤣🤣

so are we doing the "caw caw caw" thing when they hit 7K? hahaa

Maybe it'll be in time for the weekend🤣

in ep9, YXW explains that using the WAJ will ensure that the user will die a tragic death, since it's an artifact created through evil means. We se that in the dream arc, and MY also confirms that

The WAJ kinda ensures a BE script for them.
(See what I did there?🤣)

The WAJ kinda ensures a BE script for them.
(See what I did there?🤣)

That sneaky brother of TTJ's can only be powerful if he enters the back door.😑

Yes, PR and YQY😭😭😭

True dat🤣 now when I'm watching, I'm now watching out for microexpressions, and it's because of LYX.🤣

So for BL, it's macroexpressions?🤣 I really really was impressed by last episode's anger, disgust and pain on her face.

All hail the king.🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️