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They released the kiss bts cut from ep 29 as well. That one was longer and hotter 😆 I’m saddened for all the missed intensity we could’ve had 🥲

Oh yeah, I had to rewind that scene to see who she was talking about. It might have been another result of the cutting. I don't know who Yu is (maybe she and XD gave his brother a nickname, like how his is Fang Jiang), but the English translation was bad. She was referring to herself in the third person as the sister-in-law and said "I had promised your brother I would help seek justice for you" So I think she meant the real XD because then she tried to prevent XD from going to kill her father.

I was so annoyed we got only 30 seconds of XD in ep 30 and they didn't even showed the fight scene that they teased in the trailer 🙄

Yeah. I also read that in the novel it was another eunuch who was the murderer, not her father, and XD did kill that person. So people were also complaining about why use the father as a plot device and not go through with it, which then leads right back to the same conversation lol.

Bai Jingting is pretty popular in China and that drama made it over 10,000 heat index(I think partially due to the uncut romantic scenes). But yes, they were a legitimately married couple.

I also think all the cutting, plus unskilled scriptwriting, did damage to the narrative and these points the drama was trying to get across.

Double edge sword. We don't want to wait 40,000 years in between episodes, but we also don't want it to end so soon.

She also blindingly trusted him to drink that poison wine even when she had no clue what his plan was. And killing someone will not bring back the dead. Why not cherish the living person who has given your life new meaning instead. I just found all those conversations funny and how focused they were about the fact that XD spent six years trying to find the killer for vengeance.

They did this in New Life Begins, with all kiss scenes left in tact. So many times, that I started questioning how the censors allowed it lol.

I don't think she had one. I remember it was mainly because she was made to do so in place of the older half-sister and also in exchange for giving her mother better living conditions due to her being sick. But then later found out her father lied to her about her mother being dead, so maybe revenge for that?

Doesn't seem like it because I see the fans telling others to go and report all the 1 stars as spam and then Douban would look into it and screen them out. So in the end, the fans have to put in the work. I give Chinese fans props for dedication because they work really hard when they support any celebrity, negatively or positively lol.

Yeah, majority of them seems to be real haters trying to drag the drama and actors down and not actual critical reviews.

Exactly, someone mischievous and lively.

Yeah, it's a pity. A female wuxia lead would be great to see. Hopefully it'll at least be evenly balanced on screen.

Do you mean on Douban? I saw it was also partially because of the organized hater groups coming to give out 1 stars. Although some cnetz seem to be really upset today about the giving up on revenge in the name of love plot.

I'm not sure what goes on externally since I mainly stay within the Unchained Love discussion topic on Weibo and I've only seen positive comments about their CP there. Comments under their BTS clips are usually about how sweet and natural they acted their characters. I support the new no CP stirring rule as it will cut down on a lot of the toxicity.

Hey, responding to you here instead of under UL. I checked on all the different synopsis, including the novel's, and that's something that got lost in translation. It's more along the lines of a fairy or sprite, and the original text is closer to "eccentric sprite". I read it as a figurative description of her personality. She's a human. She just has really advanced martial arts skills that's magic-like, similar to what you see in Blood of Youth.

From the previews, it looks like the FML is the one who can fight and he is more of a Mei Changsu kind of character. Although I’m hoping he has hidden abilities because his fighting scenes in ADoS were very good.

That random voiceover made me nervous this could be the case. I will flip tables with you.

They also cut another bed kiss after she tried to get him drunk and he took her back to her room. Then it flashed to the outside view and the next thing you see is him locking up the secret passage to keep her from following. In the teaser trailer, there was a scene of him pushing her down on the bed and kissing her. They were wearing the same clothes. So I think he tried to stop her from stopping him by kissing her into submission lol.
The first bed kiss was the one after Fu Wang interrupted them and XD jumped on YL after he left. You can see smeared lipstick on XD's lips.

The Ingenious One should be premiering next in a couple weeks. Rumor is late Jan or early Feb.