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Solving the Raise son well puzzle and Yin Changsheng’s methods

The first wrong solution punishment releases a golden snitch sized tribble that acts like a Crite from Critters horror movies. This is one of the creatures shown on the underworld creature relief carving. It gravitates to pretty things which is why Wu gets chased the most.😂when Zhang captures it, it dissolves in his hand. The second solution attempt results in the son becoming a beggar and death of the mother. This time an eel like creature is released that shows itself like Alien popping out of people’s stomach area. This creature is insatiable and they pass it back and forth since only one can be possessed at a time. Sound effects and acting imply possession rather than showing it. Even now Wu makes wisecracks about Zhang’s turn. 😝😂Apparently once something eaten the creature doesn’t leave host. This satire of horror creatures segues to scene with Huo’s group. The finger tap signal is a code between Wu and Huo. She knows it isn’t them in spite of appearances and gets enough common sense in the bickering clans to be given the explosive which she gets to ceiling. They find another sealed off wall and Qi recommends staying put til more news. Back at the opera scene Wu figures out the punishments are the three Peng parasites and they are on the second one. They finally note eye contact transmits it. 🙄 The third parasite is through heart fire. Zhang understands how opera can move the heart and redistributes props from a viewers perspective. Zhang restrains Wu and covers his eyes while the mechanism is activated. The son is now top scholar with a happy mom and the mechanism reveals a new door. They both know that if all three parasites are conquered the next creature will be the great ghost. Here the scene shifts back to the two confined clans. Qi knows something is up with Huo and Wu. The sparrow with the map is found and they want to try one more time. Huo sees the ghost in the top corner, but agrees with the clans for Qi to do rite one more time. They all disappear except Qi who immediately faints.🤣 The scene goes back to Zhang and Wu who find themselves in a room with many vats. Further investigation reveals it to be an ancient prison where creatures and humans were experimented on in the vats surrounding them. The otherworld patriarch used the creatures to convince his disciples he was magical, but it backfired and the monsters escaped. Zhang believes they are bound to following a pattern and can be defeated. Wu is not as optimistic. While studying the relief they see differences from the mural and see that the mural is a map of the tower. The top person is Yin Changsheng who practiced magical arts. The other world patriarch tried to master them but was unsuccessful. Wu speculates that Changsheng took one of his pills and became neither human or ghost and could manipulate time. Wu believes Otherworld patriarch fled when ritual failed and left his disciples to deal with the monsters and built a huge wall to cover it all up. Zhang thinks more is going on than meets the eye. We see an ancient ritual starting when episode ends. There are interesting aside puzzles in this episode but I could have done with less of the ping pong Peng parasites. 😝

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9th master intro, Hatoyama Report, and yin yang lock

This episode picks up where last left off with Wu knowing his crew still alive and looking for them. Zhang’s group still exploring and they find a reclamation medal and an entire Japanese stronghold. It is unclear how or why they are there, but that it’s definitely more current history than any other part of the tower has been. The scene heads back to Changsha where General Huo confronts 9th master, Jie Jiu, and believes he has the winning hand. He is using Jie Jiu’s student status to look like he’s conspiring with the Japanese. Huo leaves a document for Jie to sign extorting trade funds for his life. Huo arrogantly leaves believing himself the winner after leaving a parting shot at another spy recently killed and how interested the Japanese are with Changsha. Now that my eyes have stopped rolling with the Huo there, we are back in the tower with Zhang’s group. They are looking through the Japanese hideout and find plenty of food but a squad of Japanese that had committed suicide. They backtrack to an explorer who was given permission to have men accompany him. A small branch sectioned off with info about a copper meteorite. After documenting location, it seems lots of secrets revolve around an even more mysterious element they were interested in. What Qi points out is the explorer was meticulous with his information and would not have left it to be found. Zhang gives the report to a colleague trained to read Japanese. They find a photograph of the entire party and determine most of them not in the tower. Qi still argues about the why of group suicide. Zhang suggests they thought once in tower no escape was possible. Scene goes to Wu finding his partner with lock and his crew still alive. He proposes to Huo but she suggests handling business first. Something in the tower is calling her ancestry to mind and she sees a man with fan that Wu doesn’t. We also don’t know if Wu’s experience was illusion or real. There is a repeat scenario with yin yang lock and he tells Huo the correct configuration. He also places extra men in safe location. Huo is mediator between whistle calls. This time wrong answer is in a different place and Wu’s verbal answer changed as well, but Huo has it figured out and this time door opens with no casualties. The shadow creature does escape but Wu is far from caring. The two missing are back to normal and Runty is fine. Huo is aware something serious happened with Wu while they were separated. Scene shifts back to spy hideout and Zhang clan goring through a Japanese diary. The explorer started off with 54 men. After half month went by Zhan Qi Shan cut off their spy network outside and those inside losing hope in the tower maze. Eight men became like 401 unit with 800 m distance and Hatoyama gets photos to explain why they can’t catch up to the men. He finds a way to get his men provisions in a different spot and takes a crew deep inside via a well. The diary revealed that a telegraph message from outside is why this squad of soldiers committed suicide. What Zhang has to decide is if they will follow the explorer down the well. They get an SOS asking for help via telegram. Wu’s group wants to pursue the dark creature but he wants them out alive. Prior events did occur as Huo has memory from first lock failure. She is at a crossroads to decide if she want to pursue tower secrets or stay with Wu’s group. For me the frustrating part is that these two clans have been told working together and going forward best offense and defense, yet both leaders deliberately choose to work independently and make no attempt to coordinate efforts with the other group.😝 Wondering what Huo will decide.

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Was the manipulation successful?

The 9th prince seems like an easy target to manipulate — he's quite naive. In the previous episode, his brother gave him that advice about using the military map and he couldn't tell how wrong it was. Now Huayong is exerting some influence on his decisions too with his manipulative sweet-talk. I'd like to see him become more autonomous, yet I'm not sure if that will be for the better or for the worse regarding possible villainy. 🤔Also, it hasn't really been stated yet if Huayong really achieved what he wanted with the 9th prince. Maybe he will decide to do the complete opposite. 😅And as always — Tian Yuan, love the character! 🤗

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UM HELLO?

Good on Big Jane respecting his wishes. Hugging him back makes this so much sadder than it needs to be. RIP PUT, hello??? Also, benefit of the doubt but i think big jane innocent. Sensual ah sad ass scene. RUB YA TITIES TOGETHER SWEAR. This is tragic. CHILLS FROM THE NOISES. And the looks have me deadddd. THE 10 REASONS IM DONE. WOULDNT WISH THIS ON MY WORST ENEMY PA, AH NAH. THAT WAS ACTUALLY TRAGIC. UH WHERE IS MY TEASER WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK, WHY ARE WE JUST GONNA LEAVE IT LIKE THAT, IM IRTTATED AS FUCK, IM IRRTATED AS FUCK. THIS WAS LOWKEY A LOT AND I SWEAR I just wnat them to be happy but i feel like that is too much to ask, like what? Okay bye!

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Jay a cold blooded man has actually some warm…

Jay a cold blooded man has actually some warm inside, good to see that, also that falling asleep on Sun was cuuuuute. OMG his past is no better than Sun, they can connect via trauma I see, what even.So Sky is trying to overcome his trauma, that's good he has them both to help him, however I am very surprised that manager didn't knew it was that serious.Is this series really gonna have only 10 episodes? We're at almost hte end and now some mess is happening. THe heck.Silver guy is complaining that Sunny want's to remove everyone but hey, hey bro, he took it from you I see!I loved hos Sunny shitted his pants the moment he saw Sun, yes bro! BE SCARED!

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The only thing keeping me from rating this a 10 is the crappy translation

The translations are killing me. One of the most common errors is that the pronouns are often incorrect. It might say "I did this or that" when it should be "He did this or that". Sometimes it says "she" when it should be "he". The first scene in this episode they are interviewing the landlady about the deceased man. Everything she says seems to be about herself, but she is really talking about the man. In the last scene, Wu Yue is questioning the dead man's wife and can only ask three questions. For her final question, she says "Should I ask about about the address or should I ask what is in this blue box?" but the translations reads "Should I ask about the address or I love you!" I mean it's really senseless, so I have my translation app on standby.

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A Tragedy No One Truly Wins

What Put did was wrong. Drunk or sober, it does not matter. The moment Jane said no, he should have stopped. No one has the right to cross that boundary.At least he faced the consequences. He was punched, he admitted his mistake, and he apologized. More importantly, he went to Jane in person and sincerely asked for forgiveness.But even so, he did not deserve to die.We all make mistakes. Some are small, some leave scars, and some change lives forever. For Put, that one terrible mistake became the price of his own life.Yet the person carrying the heaviest burden is Jane. He did nothing wrong. He defended himself, and he had every right to. Still, he will likely carry the weight of Put's death for the rest of his life, wondering if things could have ended differently even though none of it was his fault.I usually enjoy NC scenes, but this one was heartbreaking to watch. Every touch, every glance, every moment between them felt beautiful and devastating at the same time because, unbeknownst to them, it was the last time they would ever share those moments together.

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Man, talk about Emotional!

Half way through and we get an episode like this? Man, talk about Emotional! 1. I don't see why BJ can't stop what he is doing, he chose that work, he can choose to stop that work as well. Why keep it up just to see your love one feel scared and worry about you. I just don't get why people write this, but I guess if they didn't I wouldn't be able to write about it. 😆2. Put should of took what LJ said about Gap giving up on Cherry and turned it onto himself., because Put knows LJ loves BJ and won't love him, LJ just sees him as a friend. It's get old how many times they do the whole I can't/won't give up, so I'm just going to go for it even though I don't have a chance and will make my friend upset. 🙄😒3. BJ needed to stop being so controlling over LJ. That never works out. 😪4. "Maybe we're too different" should of been said earlier!!5. The NC scene was just way to sad, one last time before he leaves... Talk about heartbreak. 💔 They did a very good job on this part I think. You felt the heartbreak coming off them both. 6. The letter, OMG I didn't want to cry more, but then came the letter... Out of everything BJ could of done for LJ, he did the most heartbreak thing he could do, leave, yet not before he put his feeling to paper for the one he loves to read. Bittersweet is one way to call it.

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