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Do directors ever do post production interviews? I want to know why General Tong was given Bei Kun because Bei Hai had entrusted them to Zhong. They should have sent him to an orphanage if Zhong could not afford to care for 2 adopted sons. Or even General Hou since he didn’t have any sons, it would have been a better fit than General Tong because his concubine would not have mistreated the kid. If General Tong did want Bei Kun then he should have given him a different surname to assuage his wife’s anger and doubt (who I assume wrongly believed that he was the product of General Tong’s affair and was going to challenge her sons inheritance of the dart bureau). Anyway this is all premised on the belief that Bei Kun was indeed abused when he was in General Tong’s household.

side comment, I do like Xiao Bei Ming’s monologues, lol you know he about to spit facts when his soundtrack starts playing in the background 😭😂

Yeah, either he is an unreliable narrator or they were sadists who hid their true nature from the community by giving out food and stuff. The only memory we see with his father is when he is acting as an enforcer and watching him being whipped. Bei Kun doesn’t recall any warm moments at all in his home about his father, contrast that with XBM and even Zhuge Kong Yun’s father when they talk/think about constable Zhong. So what was General Tong doing while all of this was happening, that is the big mystery that needs to be solved for me 😅

The secret would have eventually come out 😢 unless he and XBM went on the run for the rest of their lives. And I dont think ZXM would have forgiven him

Spoiler tag please

Miao Jie got his successor and eventual revenge by manipulating Bei Kun’s desire for acceptance and recognition. Sadly by the time he met XBM it was already too late to turn back

Miao Jie is the catalyst. I think Bei Kun had been thinking about getting his revenge on his adoptive mother and brother but he had not actually completely cut ties with his adoptive father yet and so had not done it. Miao Jie came and told him that his adoptive father was the reason for his suffering (ie he was part of the army that killed his family), which completely sent him over the edge. As for Bei Ming, I really don’t know, he probably would have just left home once he was an adult and not exact any revenge on them but if he had encountered Miao Jie as a child living in that abusive residence, I am not sure if he would have still stayed good. Look at how Miao Jie even made him doubt his adoptive father (Mr Zhong) while on the boat, Miao Jie is a master manipulator.

Yeah, it seems Bei Kun’s adoptive father just came back home one day with a son and did not explain anything to his wife. Who then ended up abusing the boy while the father just stood by and did nothing. It not like he was being mistreated in secret, even the other people in the residence (the darts guards) could see his living conditions and kept him alive by throwing him food. Instead he even punished Bei Kun when he retaliated for his mistreatment meanwhile also giving soup kitchens to his community. The duality of this man cannot be justified unless it is a revenge plot

True! Miao Jie validated what he had suspected all along (that the world had to burn) and then gave him a new purpose, an agent of justice (the spark to burn everything down). But a perverted form of justice that sacrificed innocent people for the “greater good”.

Bei Kun was angry at the people who mistreated and looked down on him in the Tong residence. Miao Jie then found him and gave him a purpose and identity. His plot was never to get revenge for Haiya because if it was he could have killed the people who caused the massacre and be done with it. His beef was with his adoptive mother and brother, to show them that he could be something, that he could be a god/emperor. When the last minister died his revenge plot was complete, everything else after that was just a selfish project

Sadly the people who dropped it because of the poisoning will never get to feel the satisfaction of it all tying together😭😭😭 It also makes sense as to why there was so much focus on it (the poison) at the beginning and middle of the show only for it to vanish near the end as if it never existed

Bei Ming and Bei Kun’s life trajectory asks us a nature vs nurture question. If Bei Ming’s adoptive mother had been Bei Kun’s , showing blatant favouritism, abusing him and treating him like a dog, barely feeding him keep him alive, would he still have the same sense of justice and honour that he has today. Would he think justice would always prevail and righteousness could overcome evil? Would Bei Kun have become a better constable than Bei Ming if he had been raised by Mr Zhong instead? Or would he have felt that the world was still against him? Restrained by Mr Zhong and the expectations that would be on him for being his son? Also is Bei Kun a reliable narrator? Was he really treated so poorly at his first adoptive home? If so why did his adoptive father take him in in the first place? Did he adopt him to exact his revenge on him for being Bei Hai son? Could it not have been better for him to be raised with his brother in a different home?

Lol I should have not read the comments that guessed the culprit because when it happened I feel like I didn’t get the same shock value as I should have 😭😂

I still don’t understand why General Tong adopted him to then treat him like rubbish? Like did he not understand his wife’s nature? Or was he punishing him for Bei Hai’s crimes? I mean even without Yesha 1.0 coming in to take him in I suspect he would have either usurped the Darts agency or dealt with his adoptive mother and brother eventually. I mean who kills a dog by dropping it?

I just want to know what percentage of the budget was spent on the soundtrack and last 6 episodes because wow, they were so good

The synopsis doesn’t indicate that

And remember one of the old guys who died in the boat was shown to be one of the Lt of the Prince when they were carrying out the massacre so maybe he is the one who leaked the contents of the massacre to Yesha or was the original Yesha

Yeah, why did they separate the brothers? And he never mentioned that he had a brother at all, that’s very unZhong like

They better not draw it out 😂😂😂 #prayingforexpress

He said that he feared that someone had already had access to the pill so he left the formula for someone to make an antidote. But it could be seen as a sneaky way to leave a legacy behind because who can guarantee that the person who walks into his cave 200 years from now would have good intentions