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One of the sequences I love in this episode is TTJ and LSS's conversation in the hut. LSS is again confronted with the suffering that TTJ went through with the constant betrayals by the people by his side. Of course, she does "Punch first, ask questions later" but then, the last time they saw each other, he had the upper hand, and she also fully believed in Lan'an protecting TTJ. The punch isn't without cause too, as LSS again emphasizes the worth of the people around him.
Despite the nonchalance TTJ had while talking about Lan'an's betrayal and his poor upbringing in the Jing Palace, his eyes and the tone of his voice couldn't lie.

LYX and BL's acting here is just mesmerizing to watch. Both delivering on the feels and the emotions that their characters are feeling.

LSS's extra annoyed punch to the chest after TTJ wakes up is quite funny.
"Why is it you?" TTJ asks. Indeed.

LSS takes time to write a letter back home just to ease her family's minds. While they think she is gallivanting with TTJ around Jing Kingdom, little do they know she's fighting for her life, and his😅

and unhinged TTJ is so fascinating and satisfying to watch. "Am I going to die first of the poison, or of blood loss?" Add drowning to that too as he joins LSS overboard🤣

Chuntian!!!! Where are you???

Everyone who betrayed TTJ were quickly disposed. Karma bites back fast.

LSS finds Sang Jiu's statue and the World-Overturning Jade as she sinks into the Mohe River. A little bit more and she would have found Ming Ye slumbering below.

But really, Lan'an is such a disappointment. TTJ really pinned a lot of hopes on her, that she could be the mother he had never known, but her betrayal is such a painful thing to watch.

Hey hey Moonies! Time for our 2nd anniversary rewatch!😁Tune in to Episode 10 and drop your thoughts here as to why dying by rat is a painful way to go 😅🤣

This episode's highlights:

1) LSS handchopping NBY unconscious. Dude should have known better😅🤣
2) TTJ giving a beautiful but deadly hairpin to Lan'an. Vengeance is sweet when served cold, and in advance. Dude really knows how to think in advance.
3) The first appearance of Tantai Minglang's scarred face, and his faithful righthand woman. Oh my Xiao Shunyao.😅😍
4) The dance sequence. LSS's dance is awkward, but whatever rocks TTJ's boat --literally as well as figuratively🤣
5) PYZ's strange predictions... "Water will bring them luck" --foreshadowing the next arc?
6) Jing Emperor secretly wishing TTJ back, just to see his eyes--his mother's eyes (smells like Harry Potter?🤣), making TTML jealously murderous. RIP Jing Emperor.
7) The whole ferry sequence. Blue eyes suits LYX's face. Lan'an's motivations for betraying him are useless and yes, as @Aya said, hypocritical. TTML's grievances against TTJ and his mother: pitiful but unwarranted against TTJ.

The entire sequence when TTJ details how he had actually plotted to get out of the Sheng palace through YXW shows how cunning and brilliant his schemes are all the while pretending to be the weak and helpless Hostage Prince.

After the good feelings of the snowball fight, of course LSS would feel betrayed that TTJ had learned demonic arts behind her back. TTJ feeling angry that LSS would dare hurt him is valid as well, and regretting immediately that he hurt her back... the entire exchange is fascinating to watch.

watching LYX and SZN together tho........... is an interesting pairing I also do hope to see sometime in the future😅❤️

That is DG's purpose tho. To take in all the negativity in the world.

Haha, Qingyu getting hit for being a gentleman😅 poor baby

YQY remembering PR as the woman who saved his life in the battlefield... PR must still be fresh from her lover's "abandonment" as she sees YQY's similarity with him.

for #1, I think his wondering ends by the Jing Kingdom / Bo're Dream Arc😅

Agree with @Aya: the feels watching this snowball fight scene is bittersweet, especially when you think about how this comes up again near the end...

Two different goodbyes. LSS promising to be by his side, while TTJ thinks about leaving...

Excuses were delivered confidently at that, so he must have had plans to take LSS with him despite his "goodbyes" to her in his mind🤣

She's both too!😅😆🤣
Ahhhh... such missed opportunities!🥺Would General Ye have loved PR had they met?😓😢

Love these moments with LSS and her grandma, and LSS talking to the spirits of her fallen sectmates that she is loved and safe just like she was in the sect.

Lan'an. She really had my sympathy and my hope then. =sigh=