monstersnroses

The way i view it, theres 2 reasons for it to be a practical move...
One = if they follow the book there would be lots of confused viewers abt why hong ruo is born with her memories and sima jiao isnt, when they both underwent soul transfer. In this version hong ruo foesnt have memories at first. This will foreshadow what happens to sima jiao to prepare the audience.
Two, in novel, sima jiao and tingyan meet when sima jiao is sixteen. By portraying hong ruos accelerated growth as happening in 2 days instead of slower like renesmee from twilight, then when its sima jiaos turn, they can conveniently skip how they got together when the 2nd incarnation of sima jiao isnt actually of legal age.

It does make sense why they're in the story, but honestly that's besides the point. Straight up, if she was cuter, and he was hotter, this conv would never be happening in the first place. Both of them have what I'd call a unique look or maybe a quirky look, and that's just not hot enough for them to get a Hot Pass to be taking up screentime in this show.

If the snake was Yu Ning or Ling He, and Ru Ling was Lusi or Bai Lu, no one would care about whether they were useless to the plot or not.

omg that's hilarous and accurate.....

"Hey snake, which robe do you think she'd think looks better on me. The black one.... or the black one?"

blessings my friend 🌺

Now you have an equally good looking substitute-Wu you can fawn all over guilt-free because Arthur Chen isn't a r**ist. Yet this does not make you happy.

It does add to the story, but not in an obviously understandable way to the viewer. I think they add that side-plot for a reason that if I said it outright would be a really big plot spoiler.

The bright side is that the novel is very good, so if they screw up the ending on this show, you can always go back and read the novel, and know that is the REAL ending. Which is an HE.

yes this is a DOUBLE AMNESIA story.

since they basically share a soul palace, it's fitting really. What happens to one happens to the other.

in the novel, he actually fully regains his memories before she does. people keep asking when does she regain her memories, but at the end of the novel she still has only partially regained them.

I'm pissed off people are saying they're gonna kill FL at end of third arc and then have a modern-day thing. In novel they just wander happily off into the sunset or whatever. I hope they make it fast and hokey just to slap something on there for the ccp censors, so that the spirit of the end of the novel is upheld. We can't be having 3rd arc FL die in the end, that's not how this shit is supposed to work. aigoo....

They changed a little bit about how Ru Ling soul-transferred, and gave her a completely invented (not in novel) romance with the snake, and I think they're doing it all this way, so that when Sima Jiao enters the 3rd arc and gets his amnesia, audience has already seen "soul transfer effects" in how they worked with Ru Ling.

They also sped up the growth of Ru Ling from baby to adult in 2 days to skirt around the difficulties of sticking with the novel, when in the novel the 'mortal' sima Jiao was 16 when he met Ting Yan again.

imo the reason why they messed with snake and ru ling's characters from the novel:

GOOD JOB, GIRL!!!!! You don't have to compromise who you are as an actress to make a role great. You just have to be willing to be vulnerable to your audience, to your acting partner, and just be yourself. You and Arthur look so good together and brought your characters to life. Congratulations on making such an amazing drama, we LOVED IT.

The novel is really really racy, and really really vague. That's all i have to say on the matter.

does she know that she was the one he always loved, YES. 100% yes.

will he ever find out she is a time traveller? No, not in the novel.

Does the drama end in modern world in novel? No. It ends in the human realm, but still in the same universe and general time as the first two arcs. There is a bonus chapter at the end, set far in the future that's basically sci-fi style.

I'm frankly confused by the "modern world" talk going on too. I have no idea what that's all about, but I suspect it's going to be something like what they did at the beginning/end of SoKP, a few minutes tacked on at front and back to satisfy the CCP censors. But really idk.

He got into bed with her dead body and tried to light them both on fire.

WEWWWWWW gotdang that was a good drama.

Or! What if they use the emoticons again to kind of push her into remembering. I'm thinking maybe seeing her old belongings or her old evidence of existence could shake her out of it.

Ok I see where youre coming from now.... in that case all they have to do is bring it to a head that her "father" is an asshole that doesn't love her. So they could have him expose his ugly side to her, maybe try to hurt her, and then SJ intervenes at critical moment right before good old dad is about to hurt her, or right after he says something vile and crushes her feelings or something like that.

Ohhhhh yes that's right! We are talking full on DOUBLE AMNESIA! Aaaaaaa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

I hate amnesia a lot, but I thought the way they did it in this story was cute and hot and awesome.

All she has to do is put it together in her mind. He asked if that guy was her "nanpengyou". She goes "who taught you that word" and hes like "you did."

Boom, there it is. She just needs to sit down and rub a few brain cells together for a minute and she'll realize she can trust him.

One thing about the novel that was cool here at this part of the plot that I don't think they conveyed as well as they could have, is how SJ is like burning down the entire demon realm town by town looking for her, and in the novel you feel this huge army closing in, just imagine being so afraid, and then later finding out it was all for you...

Missed opportunity imo.

The modern meeting, I cannot understand, there's nothing like this in the novel at all. The final bonus chapters are about them in a future, but it's like way in the future like sci-fi. So this makes me think the modern part is just gonna be lip service for the ccp censors, like a three minute what-have-you that circles back to the beginning like SoKP did.

If they mess with the original story's 3rd arc, I am gonna cry so hard.