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"But yes, I agree that XY / XL never could get on the same page, mostly because of their fears or flaws, which just adds another level of tragic to their love."

Their fears, their flaws, and their love and attachments to other people, IMO. Like XY's attachment to ZX. Deeply tragic.

"People give Jing a hard time, but at least he had the understanding and balls to declare his love and ask for it return."

They also give him a hard time for clinging to XY, but she directly tells him that she likes it and wants someone who won't let her go, even for her own good. I feel like he would have stopped clinging to her (at least openly) if he thought she didn't want / like / need someone like that.

Actually, he basically proves that he would. When he figured out that Tushan Zhen is not his son, he wasn't planning to tell XY about it because her behaviour made him think she had moved on. He only tells her about it after she basically tells him that she hasn't moved on.

Lol, yes there are a few different interpretations / opinions out there. You're welcome ^^

Thanks!

Do you mean XL early on? The part where you felt like he envisioned a future after the war where he could be with WXL, before he found out her true identity?

Although we have different interpretations of certain parts, do we agree that there was never a time where both XL and XY were prepared to give up everything else to wander the world together?

"I still don't know xiayao if she really loves Jing, but from my understanding, she does Love him (I'm not good in English interpretation (?)) But I read some people here said she choose Jing because he is the only one who put her as a priority so if I understand that correctly she choose Jing because of that but not because she Love him?"

IMO, XY loves each of the male leads, including TSJ, in different ways. She loves and chooses to be with TSJ for several reasons, including his gentle heart.

In the end (so... spoilers), TSJ is the right person for her to marry because (among other reasons, including the fact that she is in love with him) he is willing and able to give up everything else (his wealth, his status, his relationships with Tushan Zhen, Jing Ye, Hu Zhen and everyone else from his former life) and leave with XY to wander and explore the ocean's countless islands and live a simple, peaceful life.

Which happens to be something the other male leads were not willing (and perhaps not even able) to do.

Edit: I'll add that XY agrees to marry TSJ before he is in a place where he can give up everything for XY. When they get engaged (and when they set a wedding date 40+ years later), TSJ is still clan leader with many responsibilities and attachments, and XY still chose to marry him.

nathsketch since one of those comments vaguely references who ends up, or doesn't end up, with the female lead at the end of the novel, could you put this under a spoiler tag to be safe please? Even though it's vague, someone might be able to understand what that comment is saying, and this would not be a great way for someone to find out about that part of the ending.

"I still don't understand though...I assume same father but different mother so that is why TSJ mother treated the older brother so bad?"

Yes, Hou has the same father as TSJ. TSJ's mother was his father's legal wife. Hou's mother was a servant, so he is a bastard and a living reminder to TSJ's mother of her husband's infidelity. But as TSJ recognizes with Tushan Zhen, the child in such circumstances should not be blamed for or treated badly because of his parents' bad behaviour.

"Also..Xiaoyao mom divorced her father (king of haolin) ..but didn't say why?"

The details of XY's mother's relationship with the King of Haoling are mostly covered in the prequel novel, and not so much in the novel that this drama is adapted from. From what I remember, she divorced him because he refused to help XY's mother's brothers when she begged him to, and her brothers died.

"Xiaoyao mom and Cangyuan were sisters? so they are real cousins? real cousins in ancient can get married...nowadays no way..."

In the novel, CX's father and XY's mother are siblings, making CX and XY blood cousins. In the drama, it is probably the same (the Yellow Emperor tells XY that she looks just like her grandmother the Empress, for example) but they changed a few things (XY's mother addresses the Empress as Shifu instead of mother, and CX says she was the Empress' disciple instead of her daughter) to make it less obvious / clear that they are blood relatives.

"When xiaoyao was sent to jade mountain as kid..cangyuan was sent to haolin to learn from xiaoyao's father...as cangxuan calls XY's father shifu...not king"

CX was sent to Haoling as a hostage to guarantee Xiyan's promise that it would not invade / try to conquer Haoling. But yes, CX does learn from the King of Haoling and calls him Shifu.

"Even the nine head fox (how he has 9 heads actually..lol...)...when he asked her to roam the world away with him....she said sure if he willing to give up everything...he couldn't...i guess do to obligations for the chengrong army....so sad...."

XL is a nine-headed sea snake demon with nine lives, not a nine-tailed fox.

TSJ is a nine-tailed fox, and so was the demon who held XY captive for 30 years when she was a child.

Lol I asked a friend "who's the earliest white or silver haired character you can think of from western media". She thought about it and said Ursula! I didn't specify the conditions well enough. ^^" But also, based on those specifications... King Triton was right there!

That's really going back a few years!

I remember people in the comments for LBFD talking about this scene https://www.tumblr.com/belsmultifandommess/694201138226069505/love-between-fairy-and-devil-%E8%8B%8D%E5%85%B0%E8%AF%80-episode-36?source=share and how the hair and the claws reminded them of Inuyasha and now every time there's a white-haired character like this I wonder how many of his fangirls started out as Inuyasha or Sesshomaru fans many years ago.

I wanted to indulge in today’s trend of miraculous and unpredictable spoiler-dropping, but I don’t actually want to make changes to the novel ending. So I thought of someone who seems like she *might* want to see some changes. And then the vision came ^^

I was indeed. And now to have my own thoughts twisted here in this way? I am shocked! Appalled! Dismayed! (/satire)

No matter the reasoning or how poetic it is? Hmmm, all of a sudden I’m questioning that last prophetic vision….

^^

The offering dish will be passed around shortly ;)

Totally legit prophetic vision #1: The first unpredictable change is that, at the end of the drama, a slightly battered XL goes on holiday to Brazil for some much needed RnR. He meets an illustrator. They get married and run away in XL’s clam shell.

👀

And here I was thinking you were just being polite and feeding the troll.

If he cited “I have had prophetic visions” as his source I would not be surprised ^^

Imagine if these insane takes turned out to be the “unpredictable” changes YZ mentioned ^^

Hi Hunter. Thank you, this is quite entertaining. I would love to know your source for these S2 “spoilers” ^^