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Are you talking about the last scene of them working together? That was because his high libido was too much for Wanyin (or she's worried about his still-recovering body), so she told him to redirect his excess energy on his work. And he was like, help me with the work, or else I'll have to expend my energy in other ways wink wink.

It's 100% because of the PV thing. Having to rewrite the core background plot to fit the 2025 timeline would've probably cost way more than buying a bunch of ancient cell phones for props.

Happy to help our international friends! Dang, that took a while, lol

(part 3)
Jin Zhao's experiences caused him to have never settled in a relationship. He has received far too little love, so every bit was precious. He feels grateful towards Jin Qiang, and he's gentle and caring for his family. The time he stole a glance at his (Jiang Mu's) mother, it was because he misses having a mom. It's also a rare moment of letting his emotion come out. Towards Mumu, Jin Zhao starts from the habit and instinct from a big brother taking care of his little sister since they were little. Then as adults falling in love after their reunion. Through this transition, he has experienced a lot of difficult inner conflict. But Mumu is the only person who can walk into his heart. Her unwavering love gave Jin Zhao a lot of courage. The courage to face even more cruelty from fate. From my perspective, Jin Zhao is someone constantly crushed by fate, and then puts himself back together and keeps fighting. Regardless of how circumstances change, Jin Zhao's core remains constant. His struggles towards the light, his defenses, his self-redemption, are all things I've confirmed since the beginning.

(part 2)
I think the message Jin Zhao wants to get across is one of "perseverance and redemption". Despite living in the darkness, he still has to hold on to the light in his heart. He never thought to compromise. Becoming a mole to clear his name. Opening a repair shop to make a living. Street racing. Underground boxing. They are all ways to save himself. The first few days of shooting were for Jin Zhao's fight tournament. I stood inside the arena, seeing the sweat and blood soaking through the bandage on my hand, I suddenly thought of Jin Zhao's hands, hands originally meant for writing and doing research, but now is constantly full of injuries. So when he found out that Jiang Mu was coming, his reaction was fear and disgrace. He considers his current life to be on a track that can no longer intersect with Jiang Mu's. But he was also happy. (...cont.)

My translation:
Jin Zhao is a very complex, multilayered character, as well as an extremely challenging one.
The first time I read the script, I immediately thought that if Jin Zhao is a "handsome, strong, tragic" character, then his early life is spent trying hard to erase the "tragic" mark life has given him. To make himself stronger, this is the main thread of the entire character. How do I present that? I think the core is to find the anchor point of his emotions.
Jin Zhao was taken in by others since he was a child, he's afraid of being abandoned, and this fear permeated his entire youth. He and his father went abroad, his step-sister's sickness needed money. The stress of poverty became his new problem. Facing these problems he had to grow up faster, to shoulder the burden of his family. But just when life was changing for the better, the car tuning incident sank his life to the bottom again. (...cont.)

omg, I can't believe my shoddy translation on reddit made its way here. 😂

Severing ties as a woman does not appear to be that easy in the show's social context. But even if she could and did, then we wouldn't have a drama, lol
Her original plan basically already put her out of the way for good. It was Song Mo showing up that triggered everything. The majority of her decisions following that have been mostly reasonable. lol you're talking about eliminating threats like her uncle. Kill him? She doesn't have the experience or a private army to do it. Oust him in some scheme? If a high nobility can be outed that easily, the complaints would be that she's a Mary Sue.

What do you expect her to do though? Things are different enough already to be uncharted territory compared to her memories, and she doesn't have knowledge of the future in detail, all she has is a cryptic poem per major character.

I love Cheng Hui and Nina too! At first, I thought she was going to a stuck-up snob and he was going to be a socially-awkward stereotypical nerd, but they both turned out to be super professional and endearing and both immediately picks on all the things happening with our leads. Also, I see in them baby versions of the couple in You Are My Glory. He's a nerd, she's a celebrity, and both have a fondness of space stuff. 🤣

I'm liking the drama but I will agree with them about the lines being too modern.
For example, when LR says "I'm a princess, why can't I have princess syndrome"? Princess syndrome is 100% modern slang and took me right out of the scene.

The song title isn't pretentious at all. The English translation is literal and is the translator's interpretation, but loses some of the poetic wordplay in the original Chinese.
The title can also be translated as "Beauty Falls in the White Pear Blossoms", or even more directly "Fangfei Falls in the White Pear Blossoms" because the FL's name (Xue Fangfei) is the word for "fragrant flowers", which itself is a metaphor for beauty. And that's what you see in EP1, the FL being buried beneath the pear tree.

That said, I agree with the other commenters that politics shouldn't be here. But if you are a historian as you claim, you should at least know that for many centuries, the Chinese have toss out the governments that failed them, and the current government has done more than enough to make the majority of Chinese people satisfied over the past several decades, regardless of how the West labels it.

I think Chenghuan is quite on board already, lol. She was looking forward to their date and was equally ready to murder her family with her looks and her unusually snippy tone with her brother. 😂

I guess it's a matter of philosophical perspective on whether or not you think it's the same Qi and Jinzhao when all of their memories and experiences are wiped clean. The way I see it, even when they meet again, it's not the Qi and Jinzhao that we spent 36 episodes with. It was also not clear that anyone else remembers them either. Which should be the case, since Qi technically didn't give up her existence, but Ming Xiu didn't recognize JZ's voice and only had a sense of familiarity, and the trio at the end didn't seem to be missing them.

Tried a few episodes and couldn't get into it. ML feels too dumb, especially after Jinzhao. Learned my lesson holding out for 13 episodes of The Last Immortal.

lol, I guess I should've known what was coming having seen Chinese Paladin 1 and 3 and also having played the game Sword and Fairy 7. This series is not known for keeping its ML or FL alive.
I didn't watched SF4 though. Wasn't really planning to either.

lol, y'all lied about this having a happy ending. That was anything but happy. Even bittersweet is being generous. Of all the main pairs, 3 are left widowed, also blind, in a coma, and in eternal imprisonment. The one remaining pair are both on the verge of death, but we can at least assume their cultivation fixed that.
I think being erased from existence is a million times worse than being dead. Just as JZ isn't BLH, the one Qi+ YXW traded for isn't JZ either, just another reincarnation. If they have no memories and nobody in the world remembers them, did they even exist? Even having to ask that question is depressing.

Based on the most recent episode, it's clear that Meng Xiao Dong is actually Yin Guo's biggest love rival. 😂

This drama is hitting all the cliche angsty setups and then dodging them like Neo dodging bullets in the goddamn Matrix. And I'm all for it. 😂

Usually you'd put either "Mandarin" or "Standard Chinese" for resume purposes (as opposed to other dialects like Cantonese, Shanghainese, etc.). Unless only writing is concerned in your role/industry, in which case it'd be "Traditional Chinese" vs "Simplified Chinese".