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That’s good ! So when they do get together it will be out of love, not guilt

It’s not the time skips that are bad I think, it’s the fact that they cut out so many important Gu Yiye bits and interactions that makes it difficult to follow sometimes

Thank you for this!

Yes, Gu Yiye is an extremely interesting character. I wish they wouldn’t cut so much of his screentime. I feel like it makes his motivation a bit harder to understand.

It’s almost funny, as soon as the girl is out of the way, GYY and GL seem to get along 😂 Maybe we will finally see them develop a friendship , GYY could use a friend

In a way I get you, I also want to see GUY happy and stop sacrificing himself so much for others. Let’s see how the writers develop their relationship, maybe they will manage to make it into their own thing and you won’t feel this way anymore, who knows. But even as it is now, all this just makes GYY’s character all the more conflicted and interesting. Imo this is Xiao Zhan’s best character so far !

I see some fans here got carried away and think that if someone hates the character, it means they hate the actor too. That’s not true. I hope all fans can remain reasonable and remember that it’s a fictional story with fictional characters. It is actually good if a drama can make its viewers feel so strongly about the characters. Let’s all
enjoy this engaging drama together !

Gao Liang is not a real person , he’s a fictional character that just happens to be not a very nice person . And yes, Huang Jingyu portrays him very well. No one hates the actor, this is a fictional story with fictional characters. Chill ✌️
And answering your question. Xiao Zhan’s fans have been asking him to play a villain role for the longest time. I think Xiao Zhan would be very fun to watch if he was an antagonist in some story

I take my words back. I said I don’t hate GL. Well, now I do 😡

I get what you mean but I can’t agree, I love the idea of Gu Yiye and A Xiu marrying each other😅A Xiu is just as dignified and noble as Gu Yiye, she understands him and he understands her. Even though they may not see it now because they are both grieving but I think they are soulmates and have the potential to become each other’s “true love”. I find the idea of two people that were brought together by circumstances and then slowly start to love and care for each other very romantic. So I am looking forward to see how they develop feelings for each other. Not all big love stories start with a passionate romance and imo seeing a relationship like this on screen is very refreshing. I don’t believe what Gu Yiye had with JNZ is true love, it’s just a juvenile romance between two hormonal teenagers. You can see how shallow it actually is when they face obstacles - GYY’s ptsd and GL wooing JNZ. The relationship also doesn’t bring GYY any comfort in his distress. At the same time I am sure that had Gu Yiye met A Xiu not as his leader’s wife for the first time , he would have fallen for her because of the type of person she is. Now they will both need some time to see each other as something more than Zhang Fei’s extension. But I am sure they will get there and I hope the drama will let them have their happy time together.

Someone save Gu Yiye from those two 🥲He’ll never recover until they are there to guilt trip him and make everything about themselves

And can we talk how satisfying ep23 was? Finally GYY told GL everything he thinks about him. But most importantly GYY’s father told him what he needed to hear. That “I understand” was such a relief to hear😭I wish GYY finds his peace soon, my heart was breaking when he was talking about still feeling the weight of his leader on his back. He needs to find his peace soon before he goes insane or severely depressed with guilt. Maybe A Xiu will be able to help him with that. And by the way, telling someone who suffered loss or PTSD to “forget and move on” is quite literally the worst thing you can say. Though people probably didn’t give it much thought back then.

As for Gu Yiye and A Xiu’s relationship I think it’s too early to say that he is gonna marry her out of guilt. So far there haven’t been any signs that GYY is even thinking about it or that Xiu would even accept the idea. We only know that he is burdened with an immense sense of guilt and feels like he has to actually help A Xiu (instead of just talking about it, you know, like some other characters that shall not be named). I feel like he is going to break up with JNZ cause he understands that he can’t be there for her as a boyfriend while all his thoughts are focused on another woman and her problems, it doesn’t necessarily mean he intends to marry Xiu now. I may be wrong of course , we shall see soon. Still I hope if he does get together with Xiu, they will be able to navigate their way out of the tragedy and their conflicted emotions and find happiness with each other at last.

So from what we’ve learned from some of the dialogues and from that actor’s post Gu Yiye was bullied and disliked by his peers at first ( he hand was hurt and his food was poisoned so he collapsed during training). All this makes his relationship with the platoon leader even more significant and GYY’s survivor guilt even more understandable but, sadly, they cut all these important parts from the story.
GYY is still obviously the emotional core of the drama (largely due to Xiao Zhan’s excellent portrayal of the character), he is the one facing loss and a moral dilemma (to do what he want to take care of his dead comrade’s family). It makes sense now where the extra 8 episodes went and whose scenes were cut to highlight other characters that don’t bear that much significance to the plot and whose scenes feel like fillers sometimes.

That’s how it often is irl, isn’t it? Someone has to take responsibility, others may admire and praise from afar but do very little to help

I think Gu Yiye will come to love A Xiu. They understand each other and he cares for her a lot, maybe the fact that she was his leader’s wife is stopping him from even thinking about developing feelings now but I hope they will love each other in the future. Not all love stories start with a passionate affair

It’s hard to tell whose fault is that, I am just disgusted with both GL and JNZ. While GYY was grieving they were getting together behind his back, too preoccupied with who loves who instead of helping GYY process his emotions and his pain. Neither of them are truly there for GYY

Why did they cut it from the drama? It explains so much. I want to slap the editor

Isn’t how it actually is in life? Like a never ending nightmare. Countless losses and everyone is taking their time to heal. It would be weird if they moved on after losing most of the people from their platoon and at such a young age

I don’t think GL represents nearly all Chinese citizens of that time. Unless they were all immoral selfish bastards which wasn’t the case. I think GL character doesn’t belong in the military at all