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Chan and the mermaid candle

An odd antique dealer shows up at Yashe. He is supposed to bring items to shop but that hasn’t been shown yet. I’m betting he knows something about the travel chair and trying to find a way in at the shop. It is fun at the market with the tongue twister name of bubble tea. It was funnier when her guard wanted to keep testing for toxins.🤣 BiZhi gets location for mermaid candle and is taken aback at the condition of location. The village is ravaged and all are begging in the streets. The officials are corrupt and do not care if the food is distributed fairly or in good condition. A little girl is in the background and comes back to her home and lights a blue camera with mermaid on it. She is surprised when she gets up that the candle has not burned down any and happy to use again. Her food is stolen and she is pushed aside. Her hands are bleeding and her basket is broken. As she weeps by the candle she sees a visitor on her bed. She declares herself a mermaid and replaces the food she lost. The mermaid promises to stay with her as long as the candle is lit. The mermaid takes care of her for years and she is old enough to work and the town has recovered. BiZhi’s coordinates land him at a brothel and he tells them BeiLu is paying. 🤣😂 It is funnier that he remains the most sober with the drinking game. 😂 They learn that the Chan they are looking for delivers the laundry and had already left for the day. It was later at night and an official that had harassed her at work had more plans for her in the alley. She bit his hand and ran away. Fortunately a handsome noble came to the rescue and the disgusting official stayed groveling at his feet while Chan ran home. She was greeted by the mermaid who was worried about her and had come looking. This night, she was taught how to defend herself with a dagger. This is probably the Kun blade BiZhi is looking for. After seeing her assault, I was glad she was getting a lesson in self defense. After the lesson, the mermaid gave her the blade. The next day the official was found dead. Chan saw her bite marks on his hand. She runs into the nobleman at work and offers a sachet as a thank you. He buys one and returns it to her as an invite to his poetry group. He is definitely interested and so is she. ☺️ The mermaid has the hairpin a seller tried to get Chan to buy. It has blood on the tip and it’s quite likely she killed the official. Can’t feel sorry for the guy but hope the evidence doesn’t point to Chan.

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Lu Feng and Wu blade

BiZhi and BeiLu attend Lu Feng’s exhibit. Bei Zhi buys three pieces to get his attention. He asks for the Wu blade and Lu Feng is interested because he wants his work to be displayed in the Rainbow Manor. BeiLu is just starting to figure out that the great gpa in picture is BiZhi. 🤣 BeiLu invited himself to the exhibit but BiZhi had to dress him. 🤣 I am wondering if he kept the tags on to return later since he asked about return policy in the way out. Lu Feng paid the paparazzi to take pics of him at dinner and get a buzz going before exhibition. I am thinking when he refused to make a relationship with Nina public she is the one that released this info to the public. It went viral right after she stomped out and it was a bit too coincidental in timing. Lu Feng looked through all his tools and came across the knife. He didn’t even value it but threw it in as a freebie with BiZhi’s other purchases. BeiLu gave him a piece of his mind on the way out the door. He was disgusted with the lack of value Lu Feng gave Lan’s gift to him. He was angry that the sincere artist he met at the market was this publicity seeking womanizer before him. What was news to the artist is that his memory of the market started to return once he reacquainted himself with the gifted blade. It is one of a pair and BiZhi needs to find its mate before he can neutralize the energy on it. Lu Feng is rushed to the hospital with a perforated stomach. Once he recalls his market adventure, he gives away his wealth and goes back to creating. Maybe he will finally make something truly wonderful. At the market he was a very good handyman fixing things. That seems to be his real talent. BiZhi is tempted to investigate BeiLu’s past and has the means to do it. For now he set it aside because I don’t think he wants confirmation that BeiLu is not ZiYi.

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Who is Su BeiLu?

BiZhi is trying to determine if BeiLu is ZiYi. He visits BeiLu’s vet clinic and apartment. BeiLu is having financial difficulties so cousin BiZhi pays rent. He takes BeiLu to a time rift market to ask the Lord of the market if BeiLu had ever been there. She could neither confirm or deny the possibility of BeiLu being ZiYi, but she could confirm he’d never been at her market. BeiLu has an adventure by getting kidnapped by two lovers from different eras that didn’t want to be separated. There was no way for either to sacrifice their place in time so they just promised to live each moment as their last. Turns out Lu Feng has no memory of the place and has to send out miss you messages in a multi chat. His influencer date wasn’t fooled and left. He is wanting her presence at his exhibition to have increased visibility. What was interesting is that the Lord of the market was familiar with his name but not his appearance. She serves as the item location finder for BiZhi and they bargain for coordinate locations. Unlike others that accidentally find the market and have to remain til their time era opens, BiZhi and BeiLu can come and go plus retain memories of their time spent there. This is a unique feature of travel via Yashe shop. BeiLu has not passed his vet test or become licensed in three years. There seems to be a very real lack of motivation with no given reason. BiZhi takes BeiLu to a five star location where I am surprised a dress code wasn’t enforced. BeiLu eats like a starving college student at a pub. I don’t think BiZhi will go so highbrow next time. Maybe this was another ZiYi test because of all the manners forced upon him by his family. It was interesting how quickly BeiLu recognized how boring BiZhi’s life is in the future. That was very quick insight. This episode focused on new characters and locations with BiZhi taking notes indicating it is less and less likely that BeiLu is his friend. He hasn’t given up hope but he is probably now deciding if he wants a look alike to keep him company if he can definitely prove one way or the other if ZiYi or no. Does he consider them friends if not ZiYi?

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The writers once again rely on cheap plot…

The writers once again rely on cheap plot tricks. Most notably, they suddenly transform the up-until-now quite clever and well-informed Baili Wei Sheng into a gullible idiot. They also have nearly completed the transformation of Ten from a street smart punk turned fiercely loyal maid-friend of ZiQing ... into a stupid, gullible henchman of Meng Wan Yue. These character transformations are jarring and totally not believable but of course are apparently necessary for the plot the writers are contrstructing. Other lame tricks are of course keeping Xiao Sheng - a key witness to something important - unconscious so they can drag out the reveal as long as possible. The frustrating thing is that the overall plot they've constructed seems like they could have gotten there without using such cheap, lazy tricks. They could have gotten to the current scenario with consistent characters and fewer coincidental contrivances.

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Mirror images

This drama does emotional scenes beautifully ❤️ we get some background when Cpt Li met Ms He via the mirror. They rescued each other and shared sweet moments. While an anomaly that shouldn’t exist, their love story was very sweet and heartfelt. 🥰❤️ There is also some history when BiZhi met ZiYi and how their friendship started. They were successful in retrieving the mirror this time and it was added to the collection. I am not sure how much longer Ms He lived but they were shown holding hands with Gen Li as he passed. Wherever they are, they’re together😄 BeiLu was given credit for the idea and has been granted more visits to the shop. The cast and production team are doing an excellent job drawing you in to the individual stories of the collection as well as gaining clues about BeiZhi and BeiLu. Loved all the beautiful sentiment in this episode.

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We've seen enough of miserable You Shulang

This episode feels the same as the last one. I think now we've seen enough of a miserable, powerless You Shulang. They'll give us crumbs of You Shulang fighting back against Fan Xiao just for it to go nowhere. That other rich guy chasing him (forgot the name) and the second young master give us and You Shulang a glimmer of hope just for Shulang to not even be dedicated to getting out of his captive situation. I know he's mentally unstable but him backtracking and playing in the second young master's face like that has me wondering if he's genuinely just gonna kill Fan Xiao himself (I support it but he'd go to prison sadly) and that's why his independent ways of exit are moving so slowly or come back just to be shut down again. I'm also starting to get sick of seeing Shulang treated like that by Fan Xiao so if the next episode is the same thing I might go insane. The show also tries to get us to feel bad for Fan Xiao at times but it usually doesn't work, I just hate him even more at times because he ends up doing too much or it comes off as guilt tripping. I hope the next episode has You Shulang finally get out of his grasp because I miss his defiance so much.

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Chasing memories

BiZhi decides to let BeiLu accompany him against his better judgment. Since the location is the same time frame ZiYi lived there, BiZhi hopes it will stir memories. BeiLu seems to have been written as comic relief. I have mixed feelings with this approach. He constantly disrupts things without thought of the consequences. The fish mirror is discovered to be the heart guard of a young general. He found it on the battlefield and conversed with a distraught woman on the other side. They did a sort of ancient FaceTime and chatted with each other that way. The last battle scene with the young general was very well done. Because BeiLu tried to save him, the general died going over a cliff and the mirror could not be retrieved. He did suggest finding the girl and I am not annoyed he tried to save her. However this still means they cannot get the mirror yet. I think BeiLu’s character is smart, but he does act impulsively and does not worry about consequences til they literally tie him up to get him out of the way. I can see why some commenters are unhappy with his character. The ZiYi at the beginning seemed like a serious scholar so I am hoping the writers have included a growing phase for a more mature side of BeiLu to present during the drama. As childish as his impulsive nature looks, it was also this characteristic that had him help BiZhi even when he thought BiZhi was a complete nutcase. I am still enjoying the story and waiting to see what happens next.

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Five Stars

Finally got the leads committed to each other and even married. It was a legit question whether ZiQing would overcome her reasonable fear of commitment (since if she goes back 'home' she would lose her lover) but she decides to not live with regret and chooses BeiYue with no reservations. This is probably going to be the emotional 'high' point for the series for a while because if this follows typical c-drama arcs, the last 9. episodes will include every possible problem and crisis to try to tear them apart. Overall, a great episode with the only negative is that the writers had to insert a few minutes of the obsessed psychopath Lige in at the very end, just to try to ruin the episode.

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Fan Xiao's monolog at the start was a…

Fan Xiao's monolog at the start was a pity party for one, everything was me me me.... so i rejoiced when Shu Lang didn't soften. why should he?!? so what if Fan Xiao had trust issues, how is Shu Lang or anyone good to blame? what, cause a person is good that means they lead an easy life?!? there r people that smile & laugh & r in the world of pain. what everyone needs to walk around bleedin & in misery, displaying their pain for the world to see?? as i always say, just cause ur hurt Doesn't justify u hurting others!!! *********************************************************************************************************************Fan Xiao is a selfish ass hat, in the previous ep i felt sad for him, but now i don't - cause the sec Shu Lang started speaking he shut him out, cause he only cares to hear, what he wants to hear & as long as Shu Lang's not accepting his "apology" & ready to start over, he has no interest to really listening to what he has to say. this NOT boding well - idk how this love story is gonna get back on track, for me to root for it or Fan Xiao, as of now he unworthy of Shu Lang period. ****************************************side note: anyone adopting a child & then tossing them aside like so much garbage, cause they finally got pregnant, deserve to be thrown into prison, both "mother" & "father" heck a hefty fine would also be grand - anything & everything that would serve as a warning, for others not to act like heartless degenerates. who f*ckin does that to a child?!????? just disgusting!

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