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Honestly, the original timeline is truly dark and horrifying and it is so telling that despite getting his revenge and power, XW is utterly miserable and subsisting on drugs. But also, this shot, where their faces merge! The drama is NOT being subtle about them being the same and I love it.

She has come here to offer her body in return for protection...

And by his reaction, oh boy you can tell even in fucked up life one, he really really was mesmerized by her and wanted her. It's just if both are so extremely damaged and so not thinking of how to climb out of that darkness, it's doomed. There has to be some hope from someone, there.

But of course he can't act like a functional human being because he isn't one. She is seeking protection for her life, and from being sexually assaulted (that little throw-away "Yan Lin stays every night") but it's like one drowning person seeking rescue from another.

It's a darker mirror with him desperately begging and pleading her to stay, isn't it? When you are desperate, self-respect goes out of the window.

OK, ngl, the thing with the brush was hot. HOT.

But he kicks her out. Congrats, life 1 XW, cockblocking life 2 XW so effectively. Between her trauma and that scene, where she offered herself on a platter and he turned her down, no wonder she refuses to believe he likes her. But also, it's a desperate denial because it's safer. She knows if she has a relationship with XW it will be an insane hurricane and she's terrified.

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KEEP RUNNING S11 ep.9 | BAI LU × ZHANG LINGHE

Why are they so funny? The joy in Linghe's face when he's basically shoving it into Lulu's mouth 😂

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This is everything I ever wanted!

Thank you, Lord Pervnan!

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"Xie Ju'an, I've seen your light and your darkness, your vulnerability and your madness. I know everything about you that is known or unknown to others. I might even say that I know you better than you do. As for my past worries, after I almost lost you that time, they no longer exist. I'm only afraid that you wouldn't be in my future. I won't leave. Wherever you are, I'll be there with you." STORY OF KUNNING PALACE 宁安如梦 (2023) SPECIAL EPISODE

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Be Xie Wei 1st Life Failure:

>was freakin busy with paperwork after he and cousin yan lin took over the government

>hasnt slept in days and needs work to get done so he has someone send him up the narcotic drugs popular among court

>takes the drug and gets high. hallucinates empress striding in, mentioning his blood debt to her, and offering herself to him in exchange for his protection.

>thinks she is an evil spirit sent to tempt him and challenge his monk lifestyle.

>draws a line on her neck with red cinnabar in order to exorcise her.

>"get out" evil spirit!

>she leaves in shame and humiliation

>xie wakes up to find the ginseng soup she brought in his dream was real

>orders the servant who allowed her into his office to be found and executed

>decides to visit the empress to clear things up

>overhears empress and her bff inside the room shit-talking about him. Also overhears her plan of totally submitting to his cousin who "bullies" her.

>gives up and leaves

>has someone wordlessly send a dagger to the empress instead

>plans to set crown prince up as emperor

>his cousin yan lin has crown prince assassinated. yan lin yells that empress should just marry yan lin and yan lin become emperor himself. yan lin declares that he'd kill anyone who hurts/kills the empress.

>has his cousin angrily tied up. picks up a sword. and brings the guy to empress.

>calls empress to come out coz "everyone is dead." he's holding the sword. yan lin is sobbing beside him

>empress meets them and brings up his blood debt to her in exchange for the court judge zhang zhe's life

>agrees after coldly confirming if that's what she really wants

>empress kills herself with the dagger that he gave her

>in total shock and misery. he drops the sword

>visits zhang zhe to tell him the empress is dead. zhang zhe learns his mother is dead later

>destroys the plum blossom the empress had one of her fave officials sent to be given to zhang zhe

>tries to let zhang zhe go but zhang zhe writes his own irrefutable death sentence.

>yan lin threatens him using the birthday meteor sword because of the dagger

>breaks up alliance with yan lin after he reveals that the dagger he gave her was always meant to kill yan lin and not for suicide

>props up a beggar orphan to become emperor instead

>alone in a temple he stabs himself with the dagger she once used to give him her blood. he's holding the golden hairpin that fell out from her hair when she died

>lays and bleeds himself out on the grave originally meant for him since he was a kid.

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That was an insane scene in general, as he's wounded, in one of his fits thanks to snow and bobcats (only in cdrama) etc etc but it also struck me how his questioning is such a mirror of her attitude to ZZ. She saw ZZ as her salvation/person on pedestal/being too unworthy for him/if he sees worth in her than she has some, and XW sees her this way. It's healthier though, because Ning'er hid her true self from ZZ but neither XW not Ning'er are truly capable of hiding their darker parts from each other, any relationship or salvation will be based on their true selves.

Man may be cuckoo but that scene!!!!

It's also so interesting that she may not want to be kissed, but she is not afraid in the least, pursued by assassins and wild beasts, in a cave with a man out of his mind. Ning'er is hella fierce.

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STORY OF KUNNING PALACE 宁安如梦 (2023)

SPECIAL EPISODE

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You… Trust me. The more he believes that I'm obsessed with you, the more he thinks he can control me, and the safer we would be. But it's already midnight. Isn't it inappropriate? Do you need my help?

Story of Kunning Palace (2023) 1.35

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Xuening eating the layered walnut cake that Xie Wei made especially for her!

STORY OF KUNNING PALACE 宁安如梦 (2023) → EPISODE 14

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Story of Kunning Paalce (2023)

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Story of Kunning Palace (2023) 1.36

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Get out. Stand outside till the class is over.

Story of Kunning Palace (2023) 1.08

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Zhang Ling He and Bai Lu Keep Running 奔跑吧 (2023) – Ep. 9

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Xie Wei started the story as the least likely to ever marry anyone, much less Xue Ning, especially out of the the men vying for her heart, but it turns out he's been the most suitable for her all along. It's not that she is merely oblivious to his feelings for her, she is blind to her own as well. She hasn't realised how much influence and sway he holds over her, a woman so fiercely independent and stubborn even to her own detriment, and how much he has been affecting her and her life.

She keeps quoting him, follows his advice and adopts his opinions and strategies, she learns to like go (which she previously hated) and even became a decent qin player. It shows he attracts her because she can sense how similar he is, she can identify and relate to him in many ways. In comparison, Zhang Zhe, who she put on a pedestal and glorified, never influenced her actions with his skills, opinions and behaviour. Her actions towards him were guided by guilt and regret.

A lot of people can see that Xie Ning has Xie Wei wrapped around her little finger, because he loves her (even if she doesn't know it yet), she is the only one who can reign him in, but it goes both ways. He is the only one who manages to control and tame her, an feat not even Zhang Zhe, the emperor or her father have never accomplished. She changes her mind and opinions, listens to him and follows his advices. She can uses their stock excuses, it's because he is her teacher, but that would be a lie. Xue Ning has never treated anyone else in both of her lives this way - with respect and almost unconditional trust that he would never betray or hurt her. If she put Zhang Zhe on a pedestal, where she can't never reach him, she put Xie Wei right next to her, as her equal, so close and touchable.

Wo while Xie Wei might have fallen first, but Xue Ning is falling hard without knowing, by the time she realises how much he means to her, she will be so irrevocably bound to him, she won't be ever able to live him.

When you find yourself at your most desperate and helpless moment, you always run to the person you trust or love the most, usually a lover or a family member, and Xue Ning time and time again runs to Xie Wei in such moments without fail. Because she trusts him unconditionally and believes he can accomplish miracles, even though he still doesn't hold the ultimate power as in the previous life. On a purely subconscious, instinctive level, she must feel that whenever she falls and gets her, he is there to catch her, raise her up, and comfort her. Xie Wei is not so much her teacher, but a guide or a guardian angel.