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I was just saying its funny how at this time we really need to take advice from Cangxuan gege :
Don't let yourself have hope, then you won't be disappointed hahahahah

We saw leaked reuters of the final scene so unless they decided to do away with what they filmed and give everyone a shocking alternate ending..... 🤪

I think this is not just something we feel, but alot of Cent drama viewers have the same feelings regarding S2...
I suspect many novel readers feel betrayed about how badly its adapted towards the end, and probably will finally be able to move on from this story after being so passionate about it for the past 10 years...seeing how the author is willing to butcher her story for profit...

Some people are just trolls of Jing lol
Even though they realize tencent is using yaoliu for fanservice and profit, they won't admit it, so they just want to invalidate everything

This must be why Xiaoyao decides to leave and not give her forwarding address...she didn't want to burst into her house with Jing doing hot and heavy things and there Cangxuan is sitting.... going... oh hi guys...

I can only say right now the drama version of Jing seem to only exist because Xiaoyao needs to love him and will need his 'death' to showcase some performances for some of the actors... looking at it in a very jaded and calculated manner... 🙄

"Look at the kiss scene: the BTS kiss scene was sweet and passionate"
Thank goodness for the bts becos the way they shooting the back of his head, people would have tried to attack dw again and said 'he don't know how to kiss' HAHAH

I really hate what they did to Xiangliu. I get they want to give the man more screen time, but it feels so forced and fan-servicing that its really a discredit to a great character in the novel.
'had a cute romantic scene on a ship and also had their 1:1 heartfelt convo"

unfortunately for the first part : no, that cute scene on the ship has been merged with that beach stroll appearance where xiaoyao pinched his cheek like he was some cute snake in a petting zoo.... as for the 1:1 convo...not sure which one you mean... but... if its after whirlpool... also looks like a no...

You are most welcome... S1 was good because it tried to stay close to the novel events but when they giving us a super condensed version of S2...thats when their race car is crashing out of the race

Thankfully many fans really can tell what is going on lol

I also only came to know that apparently TH is a major investor in the Star Lotus Production company that we are all scolding right now hahaha

"A Nian is leading an army with zero prior experience and minimal knowledge, but is somehow able to instantly gain victory and also win over the army"

In the novel where everything made sense, two of the Haoling tribes actually went behind the back of the King and strike deals with Xiyan to betray their own country.
After CX went to the palace and they finally managed to conduct their peace talk and realize that the King had been grooming him as his heir in the first place, CX realized the two tribes took advantage in their deals with him.
So Ah Nian actually fought a 'staged' battle to 1) make the Princess of Haoling look good as a PR move, as someone the people of Haoling could be proud of... that their country did not 'marry off' their princess just to stop the war. 2) punish the two traitorous tribes who tried to betray their own country ( if I recall correctly ) ...

So yeah novel is the best..

To all the drama fans who hate our poor boy Tushan Jing... calling him weak, useless, boring, just know that he got the worst treatment a character could get in this adaptation.

When they stole his foodbox and gave to Xiangliu in S1 so XL could have his seafood bento takeaway for Xiaoyao, and cut Jing's dialogue down in the dragonbone prison... I truly did not expect them to stoop this low in S2.

They basically took all his defining worth and merit in his vindication arc, chopped it up and served as offerings on the altar of LYF.
S2 was the time after being tied down by his engagement and his fake son... where Jing truly shows how important he was as a force in Xiaoyao's life and for her healing journey.

Just like how he was the only one who realized Xiaoyao was unhappy to marry Fenglong, he realized she was not fine after the birth secret was revealed. So at the risk of incurring the wrath of the Yellow and Black Emperors, he took her to see the Haoling King, while also cheering her up with a wonderful first trip as a couple - ( this was merged with Cangxuan's trip to the Haoling army camp.)

When the Haoling King met with them, he finally decided to risk it all and seek closure himself as well.
So he expended his spirit power ( after this outing his hair turned white ) to bring Xiaoyao and Jing into the burning desert in search of Ah Heng. They had a wonderful tearful reunion and Jing asked for permission from Ah Heng to marry Xiaoyao, which he was granted.
After that the couple went on to Jiuli to pay their respects at the place Xiaoyao's parents stayed.
When they returned, Cangxuan felt regret that he was not there, since he actually had kingly duties to perform. Guess TH wanted to cheer CX up, so he got to join in the outing in the drama as well.

After they returned, Jing had a beautiful proposal, complete with peach blossom forests and swirling flowers for Xiaoyao which she accepted sooooo cutely - now axed from drama.

Cangxuan only went to the Haoling camp later on to cheer Fenglong and again, it was Jing who saw how upset and worried Xiaoyao was when she heard that the Haoling king was very ill, and accompanied her to sneak into the palace using his Chief of Tushan status as a calling card. CX only tagged along later on, that resulted in the open line of communication at last, which concluded in marriage to Nian and the end of the war with Haoling.

This 'adventure' was merged into that cheap scene yesterday, with everyone 'in the family' paying respects except Jing, who was now an outsider since he has not even proposed yet... suddenly even Xiangliu got a scene to the grand 'Open House' of the Xiling witch.

They really also just cut a line when grandpa played chess with him, where he evaluates him and said "Your ambition does not lie here... Fortunately, your ambition does not lie here"
This line showed Jing's strategies and capabilities revealed in his game, that the Yellow Emperor acknowledged that if Jing set his heart to it, he could try to rule the world. But that will make him CX's enemy, so fortunately Jing was only interested to live a simple life with Xiaoyao.

Even Fangfeng Yiying's realization that Jing's kindness is not a weakness but a strength, her dialogue was also cut from the drama...

The drama team really can't stand to give anything substantially good for Jing, reducing the drama version to just being Xiaoyao's true love, the one she is willing to fight the entire world for... But seriously, can't the drama have spared just a few more screen minutes in every rushed episode to build up to this climatic moment?

Ok thanks for hearing me rant about the injustice of Tushan Jing.

Now the poor King of haoling will join Jing being blamed for something he did not do.
Due to poor scene execution, Jing got accused as the one who set fire to the plum forest during the assassination. now the Haoling King becomes the man who knew Xiaoyao's mum was in Jiuli all along but only brought her there after decades of missing her mother...

XY never saw him as anything more than a brother, but you are right too... he shot his own foot by first hurting her the most with the birth secret that he knew had haunted and tormented her for centuries, just to cut her off from her other refuge away from him, so that he can invade it to fulfil his own ambitions to unite the world.
If he didn't do that, Xiaoyao might have gone back to Haoling during the war and he wouldn't be able to deal without her by his side like his caged canary.
But now that he himself cut her relationship off from Haoling, he could never ask for her hand to stop the war haha..

Ran out of money is right. Really obvious in season 2.
After seeing how many peach petals they managed to create for Xiaoyao, no wonder they just axed my boy Jing's miles of peach blossom forest grand proposal..

They must have looked at that part in the novel and laughed wildly and said... ain't gonna happen with our budget... and just scored that part out... nevermind no flowers at his proposal, as a bad joke they even made him fail in his proposal...

Xiaoyao really written to look like some insensitive girl in S2??
First she cannot tell Cangxuan was so into her, and now she look at Jing's disappointed face and go " What's wrong?" with big eyes and then...xiaoyao.exe stops working... incapable of discerning what she can see vs what she is told in words...

In the novel he never knew for sure if Ah Heng was still alive in the huge burning desert ( think Dune with flames everywhere ) and only when Jing brought Xiaoyao to him for closure, he finally decided to expend alot of his spirit power and risk their lives to go seek the truth.

What we saw last night was really ..... a disgrace... I rather they left it as both died during the war... I read that it was a last minute decision to cram that scene in, so drama xiaoyao could' find closure' but this is not the way....

" powerful death scene" I am certain you will get it, after all almost all the CG budget went to all of XL's scenes lol
Under the sea, the only bird mount in the drama, his full form with multi heads..( which according to trailer somehow is detached from his body... I thought in the novel when he is in his full form, his human form is not there lol )

I saw angry fans counting the 32 petals xiaoyao got last night as her father's last loving caress... Did i see rightly that fans said even yangzi commented in her live stream " why are the petals so small" ahahahah

It just feels like they ran out of production money and time and decided to merge every event possible in the novel just to look like they managed to tick every checkbox.

If they aired what was left of the drama last year, I think the drama will have ended angering almost every fandom with their 'creative choices' and it won't have won all those awards...

Well after the shock of seeing my poor Jing being sacrificed alive for S2... this BL thread really made me laugh so much

Now I can understand why some fans can enjoy their 'delulu' so much, since 'interpreting the story' can really be so 'freeing' hehe

Now i look back at the ep where he makes xiaoliu go look for tushan jing, and he actually appears standing cooly behind without his mask... I thought it was some male-peacock strutting thing to show off his handsome face to a love rival... but...maybe he wanted TSJ to see his face right?