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Before you ask about any other deaths I'll just straight up tell you that FX is the only important character that "dies" lmao (if we kill off all our villains in S1 then what's left in S2 and 3 amirite?) and even we don't even know if he actually died. There are some minor character deaths but I wouldn't count them as villains

1. The sword has something to do with the Yin Iron which will be explained later on in the drama
2. Yes there is something wrong with JC which is revealed I think like within the next episode or two so keep watching to find out
I gave brief explanations to avoid big spoilers but I can give more if you want :)

Yes! The mashup of the two scenes at the end with WWX's monologue played simultaneously with LWJ kneeling in the snow was better than the scenes separated in the actual episode imo. Especially WWX's ending sentence saying "I'm so useless" and then showing LWJ slowly walking away shows that both of them are probably blaming themselves for being useless. So sad :(

Wow you're anxious to know the spoilers! No he doesn't die either

She doesn't die in the drama but presumably in a later season

Yes story wise WWX's soul is in MXY's body. As for seeing through the lens of WWX I think it's more simply because the drama can't suddenly switch to a different actor. I'm not sure if I answered your question

In the end Yan Bingyun said "This is my choice" which was answering Fan Xian's question of whether he will stand by Fan Xian's side or by the Second Prince's side. Unfortunately the drama ended on a cliffhanger so we'll have to wait until Season 2 to see :/ ppl are saying that it might just be an act that Fan Xian and Yan Bingyun put on for the Second Prince.

In the first episode most of the ppl that "MXY" met were either the juniors of the Lan Sect or the Mo family. The Lan juniors never saw MXY before and since MXY grew up in the Jin Sect, the Mo family also never saw him before, at least not in adult form. WWX continues pretending to be MXY by wearing the mask that MXY always wears.
In the original story, the resurrected WWX takes the physical form of MXY but I think because the drama can't change actors they stuck to the mask idea. Someone else pls comment on this

I heard that the actual story takes place in a fictional time setting *in the future* so the names of the dynasties and kingdoms are fictional. He is the emperor of Qing but not the same Qing as the one in real Chinese history.
Edit: Northern Qi was the name of an actual place in real history but Qing did not exist

There's a pretty big spoiler in the synopsis...

HAHA I get you. At some point the constant one-sided pampering from Hua Cheng got a bit boring for me. I actually preferred their relationship in book 2 when Hua Cheng was just a kid and they were working together to solve issues.

Idk about the future progression of the show but possibly yea

At the end there was voting and the audience voted for their top 3. Next week the audience will also vote for their top 3 and the ratings of these two weeks will be combined and the group ranked last will leave.
The current ranking is:
1. Li Ke Qin and Zhou Shen
2. Fei Yu Qing and Ayunga
3. Zhang Shao Han and Xiao Zhan
4. Ren Xian Qi and Liu Yu Ning
5. Zhou Hua Jian and Jiang Yi Qiao

Haha I think your brain worked better than mine while reading this because it was already feeling complicated for me from book 2 onwards.
I do like Xie Lian and I respect his pure heart but sometimes I'm just like why do you put yourself through so much..?? I actually like Hua Cheng's personality better so he is probably my favorite. The HuaLian relationship dynamics are not as good to me as WangXian. And yes I agree that I found myself anticipating the appearance of other characters over Xie Lian himself.
And yep SVSSS definitely is filled with humor hahaa

Yep its exactly the backstory stuff that makes it complicated for me so in cases like these I might prefer watching a visual telling of this story first since I'm more of a visual learner. With all the different names and such presented in text form I get confused

They don't go in depth about what happened to WWX in the 16 years but like the above comment says there are details about what happens to LZ

Ep 1-2 is present day
Ep 2-33 is 16 years ago
Ep 33-50 is present day again
Not sure if you wanted more in depth chronological events or...

Yea agreed. I would have been confused reading MDZS first because of the constant jumping from present to past.

Deets about novel structure of HOB (I wouldn't count as spoiler but just warning you in case):
HOB is separated into several books and it is structured so that the present plot is continuous within each book but in the middle an entire book would be based in the past. There is no jumping in between past and present but more large scaled jumps from book to book.

I didn't mark this comment as spoiler because I didn't really spoil anything and also to satisfy @SuibianX's curiosity about the above comment lol
I guess I misspoke in my original post. I totally agree with what you said about HOB! It's definitely the best out of the 3 in terms of quality (not sure if I used the right term). It was definitely more structured. But I felt that it was the most complicated out of the 3 maybe because the backstory is very complicated (?). I'm sure that if I reread it after the initial taster then I probably will like it more.

We meet again haha! I remember last time we spoke you were still reading book 1. Book 1 was very straight forward for me but once it got to later books things started getting ??? for me. So I'm interested in your opinion after you finish the whole thing (if you haven't already).