#and ruyi is still not waking up. obviously

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What did consort Shu even see in him? Like I do get the teenage crush part, but then in the harem he never treated her with genuine care untill he felt bad for his own doing. Don't get me wrong, I felt awful for her and hated the emperor as always, but I still think her character was way too bland, like a Ruyi 2.0 but without all the things that make her a complex character, only with her loyalty to the emperor that in this case didn't even make sense. I think Yihuan was there to be an example of what the emperor is capable of doing because of his paranoia, and also to contrast Yanwan's opportunism with her devotion. It is funny though that the drama is showing you how Qianlong screws everyone and that being loyal to him changes nothing, but also romanticizes devotion all the time (I'm talking about all those scenes with Ruyi & Yihuan being refered as different from the others because they're the only ones that care for him). The madonna/whore complex may be a too western term to talk about this (and also I hate it when it's thrown around randomly for any comparison of two female characters) but there's definetly a patron of good girlies that genuinely love the emperor always being shown praying & charming him w their knowledge and the manipulative evil ones that use him for their own interests potrayed as seductive, sexually active (w this I mean they are the only ones whose sexual relations with the emperor are implied via more than just getting pregnant) and yearning for other men that don't love them.

[dreamingsushi]

Legend of the White Snake - Episode 22

They both miss each other so much. Those two. Stop breaking my heart, please.

Xiao qing tries to cheat by using her powers to copy the books, but Fahai won’t let her.

Next morning, when Ruyi goes to see Xu Xian, she notices he fell asleep while looking at a portrait he made of Suzhen and she gets angry.

Xiao Qing is finally done with copying and gets angry about being called half immortal. She then says that Fahai actually doesn’t understand what is having fun and offers to take him experience it a little, but he’s... well he’s a monk, and a very strict one at that. That obviously wouldn’t be easy.

When Xu Xian goes back to his room, it’s only to find people moving his stuff away. Ruyi asked a fengshui master and he said to change everything in the room because it’s not proper for good luck. Then Jiaorong reminds him he has  to get married with Ruyi and that his previous wedding was shattered because they didn’t take care of arranging his room properly. Big sis then forces him to take Ruyi out for a walk and she won’t listen to him. This is so unfair for him. He doesn’t like Ruyi...

Hahahaha. Wow. Xiao Qing takes Fahai to drink. That’s so funny. He doesn’t want to drink it because to him alcohol is only changing someone’s behaviour wildly. But Xiao Qing tells him that if he wants to go around in this world, he needs to understand why people experience sadness and happiness. Actually, Xiao Qing is pretty smart. If he wants to take her back to read rites, he must first answer that question and she leaves him.

Xu Xian tells once again that he can’t marry Ruyi, because she’s just a little sister to him, there’s no feelings between a man and a woman. So he asks her to retreat from that wedding, but she won’t. And if he doesn’t want to help organizing the wedding because he’s too unwell, she’ll take care of everything with Jiaorong. Poor Xu Xian. Why is everybody working against his happiness?

While looking out for Xiao Qing, Suzhen ends up in the shop where Xu Xian bought for her the hairpin. Then Ruyi comes in asking about wedding pins. Poor Suzhen. Hearing that must be so painful. She knows that if Ruyi is getting married, it’s probably to no one else but Xu Xian. Ruyi then notices her and invites her to her wedding. Then just as Suzhen tries to leave, Xu Xian gets in and Suzhen rushes out. Xu Xian doesn’t care for Ruyi and runs after Suzhen.

It rains a lot in this drama. But actually, it does rain a lot in Hangzhou. That’s pretty convenient hehe. Seems like he couldn’t catch her and asks a boatman if he can take shelter from the rain in his boat. Boat in which Suzhen is already sitting. She’s about to congratulate him for his wedding, but he stops her. Because he doesn’t understand if they are going a separate path, why does everything he lays his eyes on reminds him of her. Awww. Cell memory. Your eyes remember how much you cherished her, but your brain can’t process the information. Poor darling. He doesn’t understand why she pushes him away. Since the rain stops, she leaves first, but he follows her.

Just right then, Xiao Qing is again running after Ruyi to kill her. Awww. Xiao Qing. From the beginning, you should have poisoned her <3 When Ruyi is about to reveal Suzhen’s real identity, she uses magic to silence her and takes her away for a private talk. She’s scaring Ruyi so bad hehehe.

Xiao Qing almost revealed everything to Xu Xian again, saying how much Suzhen sacrificed for him.

Suzhen threatens Ruyi that if she dares to hurt again Xu Xian, she’ll come and kill her. For now she doesn’t not because she’s scared of her, but because she doesn’t want to hurt Xu Xian’s feelings.

Yikes. They are really holding that wedding? I am so unhappy about that. Xu Xian too. He doesn’t wear his wedding clothes. He’s firm about it. He won’t marry her and his sister is saying on and on again how Ruyi took care of him when he was sick. He says that there are many ways of thanking someone, so why should he get married with her? Well if he doesn’t marry Ruyi, he should never call her his sister anymore. Here, I think she’s really selfish and doesn’t even care about his little brother’s happiness. I mean, what the point of being alive to be forced to live with someone he doesn’t like. He would never be happy.

Xiao Qing isn’t happy about that wedding so she starts a huge storm. When Ruyi falls down on the ground, Xu Xian helps her up and tells her to go home since the weather is so bad and he’s going to explain to everyone it’s his mistake. Ruyi is still acting like everything is going to go her way.

Fahai has a fight with Xiao Qing because she started the storm but this time he won’t spare her and he traps her inside his bowl.

Suzhen realizes Xiao Qing went to cause ruckus and rushes out to stop her.

Jiaorong comes out to see why Xu Xian hasn’t come back with Ruyi yet and she’s surprised that he’s not wearing his wedding clothes. Then he sees the umbrella she’s using and the engravings on it are the one he made for Suzhen. Is he going to finally remember?

And just when he remembers everything, he sees Suzhen in town. No matter how Ruyi and Jiaorong tries to stop him from going, he runs to Suzhen. Right then, Wang Daoling tries to kill Xu Xian twice, but Suzhen stops him. That’s just what you deserve Ruyi. Being humiliated like this for trying to impose that wedding. Now they won’t separate ever again. True love always win aww. I’m just so cheesy, I’m disgusting myself.

Fahai says Xiao Qing was killing people, so he’s taking her to Jinshan to cultivate. Then she asks him if he’s blind. She didn’t kill anyone, she just made the wind blow to ruin the wedding. He doesn’t believe her and then... HIS LOVE RIVAL COMES IN AND SAVES XIAO QING. I was starting to think it was a long time since we hadn’t seen Zhang Yutang. That’s a problem with this drama. New characters come in and disappear before coming back again. Anyways, he makes Fahai run away.

Xu Xian apologize to everybody for this aborted wedding, but he already has a wife and it’s Suzhen, he can’t marry Ruyi. Because of his illness, he did many stupid things. Ruyi and Jiaorong tries to convince him again, but he’s decided. He won’t marry Ruyi. Ruyi then suggests she becomes the wife and Suzhen becomes like... the second wife. Jiaorong asks Suzhen to be reasonable, but she answers that she won’t leave Xu Xian ever again. So Jiaorong then suggests that they both become wives, equally. Suzhen doesn’t say anything, but Xu Xian refuses. He can only love Suzhen. He would do anything to repay Ruyi, except marrying her.

Ruyi then gets angry and decides to tell everybody that Suzhen is a demon, but Xu Xian is like dudette, I know better than anyone who she is and she’s my only wife in this one and the next. Ruyi tries to kill Suzhen, but woops. She ends up stabbing Xu Xian. Finally, Jiaorong wakes up and sees Ruyi true face. So Ruyi promises that she’ll take revenge for that day.

Wow. Xu Xian lies to his big sis  to protect Suzhen. He tells her she wasn’t even there when she was hurt, because he sent her get something. But then she doesn’t understand why Suzhen never tried to explain herself. Xu Xian says he and Suzhen can still take care of Ruyi, but she probably won’t let them, so he asks his sister to help him with that.

[dreamingsushi]

Legend of  the White Snake - Episode 13

She gives her core to Xu Xian and he wakes up, thinking that she’s a dream. He misses her so much. Poor both of them. Please give them a break TT

When they wake up, they have a sweet little moment. It’s about time they get married. Really, they already act like a married couple anyways. Then, he starts coughing again and she goes fetch his medicine. While looking for it, she sees all the drawing he made of her while he missed her TT How come it there such a sweet guy in life? Can I marry him too? Well no, I won’t snatch him away from Suzhen, just get me his twin brother. Even though he’s a little to obsessed by her, maybe it’s scary at some point.

Awwww. He hugs and says she’s the best medicine he could have. Which is true. Or almost, because she’s also his poison ): But we don’t care about that. He finally outright says he wants her to be his wife. Just about time. She agrees and says that they have to be together not only in this life, but in every life after this one, life after life. So cute.

Ok. So that fake medicine seller is also some sort of demon. He gets in Ruyi’s room and tries to kiss her in her sleep. Two options. Either he fell in love with her at first sight, either he’s a frog and needs to kiss a princess to break the spell.

Before Suzhen can leave quietly, both Xu Jiaorong and Li Gongfu wakes up. Jiaorong is at first too happy to see that her little brother is standing up and then notices that Suzhen is there. Well they are both surprised. Oh no. Li Gongfu suspects that Suzhen is a demon, because the dagger lit up when she was close to it earlier... Well she is, but she’s not evil and she really fell for Xu Xian. She gave up everything for him. Don’t be harsh on her please...

He asks her how she was able to heal Xu Xian when no doctors in town could. She explains that he was poisoned and an uncle told her about a pill able to clear the poison and she just decided to try. But then Li Gongfu gets angry, because she said earlier that she has no more family alive. Xu Xian tries to speak for her, but Gongfu won’t let him. He wonders how she came in so late at night, how could she get in without them knowing. Xiaorong says he must not have locked the door. Then Xu Xian drops down on his knees right then and asks to be able to marry Suzhen. Jiaorong is very happy about that. Ah. Gongfu, stop being too smart for your own good. Now he wants to go ask Suzhen’s uncle for the wedding. So they say they will go to Suzhou in a few days. Suzhen is worried that a trip to Suzhou would harm Xu Xian so she says her uncle is now in Lin’An to see her, so they decide to go the next day.

Gongfu tries to convince his wifey to go slower with Xu Xian’s wedding, because there’s something fishy about Suzhen. He even asks her what if she’s an evil spirit. Then she laughs at him because before he didn’t believe in ghosts and stuff but now that he caught one he sees some everywhere. She tells him that no evil spirit would save people and if Suzhen is not just a normal person, then she must be an immortal. She’s like if you ruin my brother’s wedding, I am not sparing you. Thank you big sister for having faith in Suzhen. She indeed hides her real identity, but she’s really in love with Xu Xian. He knows Xu Xian getting married is a good thing, but he can’t rest about it so he decides to ask the monk.

Ruyi heard about Xu Xian and Suzhen’s engagement, so she’s really mad. Oh so she was hiding in a guest house and she gets kicked out because she doesn’t have enough money to pay.

Gongfu tells Fahai that Xu Xian is about to marry Suzhen so Fahai asks to meet with Xu Xian. Then Fahai is wondering how Xu Xian hasn’t died from the poison yet and realizes he now has a demon’s core. So he guesses Suzhen gave her core to suppress the poison. He tries to inspect him but both Gongfu and Jiaorong are like wait don’t touch him argh! Then Gongfu takes him apart and is like dude I didn’t ask you to check if my wife’s brother is a demon, but rather if his fiancée is one. Than Fahai wonders. Is a demon without a core still a demon? Poor Gongfu, he must be so confused.

I really like how the monk turns out in this series. He’s likeable. In the end, he doesn’t know and decides to go ask his master. I hope the master won’t say anything to break those two apart again. ENOUGH SADNESS AND PAIN.

Ruyi is so hurt, she decides to kill herself. But it’s more like to take revenge on Xu Xian. That girl. She tries to think of a way to die and remain pretty. But there’s literally none. Right then, fake medicine seller sees her and while trying to stop her from jumping off the cliff, scares her, she trips and falls down. He jumps in to save her.

Jing Song came back to try and take Suzhen away. But she won’t let him so he says he’ll just kill Xu Xian if she doesn’t leave. She tries to fight him, but she obviously can’t without her core and he realizes she gave it away. He’s really hurt by it, and only decides to give up because she says to kill her before if he really wants to get rid of Xu Xian. He leaves angrily, saying he can wait a hundred years.

Ruyi has completely disappeared. Li Gongfu looked for her all around but there’s no trace of her. Qing Er goes to give some name list to Xu Xian and his family and she’s like, why the hell are you all so sad? Then she tells them that she just saw Ruyi at home, she even brought a guy with her. Jiaorong gets worried that she just took whatever man in there because she was so sad. As she opens the door, she plays hard to get with Xu Xian.