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I finished reading the various farewell posts from the cast, and I have to say they really deeply understood their characters. From those, I also realized the running thread of these characters all fighting against their fates, and it is quite nice to see how that ties in the whole story. In general, the basic premise of this series is a great springboard for many topics about humanity, autonomy, etc, and I especially loved the OSTs. They're my favorite so far this drama year.

I really liked the actor's answer to Yan Ke's obsession, and I think it might answer your question: https://weibo.com/1553193857/QC9Fh0sEl

She doesn't have aspects of the five senses. She can't feel pain, can't differentiate tones in music, can't see color, can't taste food, and can't smell.

Fang Xianye's tragic trajectory: had no family, used as a replacement for Duan Xu, never got to see his dreams actualized, silently loved a person whom also never got the chance to know how he felt, forced to choose between his one true friend and career and aspirations so he chose death...Never being able to live outside of being a shadow is so cruel.

Is there a behind the scenes video of Chen Ying's scene in ep 36? That was so well-shot: the music, the narration, the camerawork...

I just started this and am liking it so far. It's easy to watch.

Lucky! Tencent Video really knows how to tempt people to buy the express package.

I have to wait until Sunday to watch ep 36...

Oh my god, the trailers for ep 36 and 37.

Duan Xu is the real Duan Xu. Some of the memories Jingyuan has of her brother are actually memories with Xianye. Like in the ep with the flower tassel, she believes her brother taught her that, but it was actually Xianye.

This isn't my translation. It is Viki's!

My mind is still on Ep. 27 because Duan Xu sure has a way with words: "She's the first girl I fell for...the first girl who feels the world's beauty and pain because of me, and the girl who says, 'I'll protect you, but don't fall in love with me.' He Simu has become my new wish...I, Duan Xu, will have no one but He Simu."

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Yes, Duan Xu is the real Duan Xu. He Simu wasn't aware of his identity though in the beginning because of what Fengyi reported initially, but she now knows.

Oh, sorry. Thank you. Will edit the previous response. I confused the details. Fengyi previously reported to He Simu that Fang Xianye was the real Duan Xu, and that the young general wasn't.

The dad lied to the kidnappers that Duan Xu was a decoy, but he wasn't. The kidnappers caught the actual Duan Xu.

Yeah, the royal family has a secret group of assassins. His dad is an official and the kidnappers wanted to use his son as leverage against him, but his dad lied and told them that his real son was already sent to his grandmother's and that the person they caught was a decoy. That obviously wasn't true, but the kidnapper's believed it, and that gave Duan Xu the opportunity to escape from their grasps. Then, he was taken in by the leader of that assassin group.

Yeah, it seems that backstory will be told later in the drama, but the show has already introduced tidbits of her interest in humans and their world like when Yan Ke brought her the tea set as a souvenir, her making the sugar painting/tang hua, her acting as He Xiaoxiao based on her observations of humans, etc. In this sense, experiencing those senses stems from this curiosity/interest and also never having been able to as a spirit.

I think it's because she has always existed as a spirit (never got to experience life as a mortal) and probably because in the novel, her parents purposefully exposed her to the mortal world so her interest in the human world started at a very young age.

It's because the novel that this drama is based on is written during that time. Part of the plot also focuses on the developing solar panel industry at that time so it has to stay in that timeline to make sense.