I think, the reason Yu Shisan's death hurts the most is because it feels the most inevitable. Part of it is compounded grief (like @vyther15 said in my DMs) and part of it is the fact that he was left behind by all his friends, only to not survive himself (like @xiaolanhua said).
But I think, the biggest thing about it is that it can't be easily fixed. Qian Zhao, Sun Lang, and Yuan Lu can all be saved with a bit of plot armour--stab wounds are survivable until they aren't, same with arrows and exhaustion. Specifically in Yuan Lu's case, there's a fix-it scenario all set up for him to bump into Ning Yuanzhou and Ren Ruyi.
But how do you save Yu Shisan? Yu Shisan, so devastated by loss that he could do nothing but lie on his brother's grave. Yu Shisan, who drank until he fell asleep. Yu Shisan, who has been running all his life and runs from Chu Yue just the same, but saves her in the end. Who, blinded by explosives and facing an entire army, takes up his spear and smiles. And even purely mechanically--how do you give someone enough plot armour to survive an explosion? How do you get him away from all those people he's fighting? Who is there to save him?
How do you save Yu Shisan?
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Ohmigod look at modern day Yu Shisan and Chu Yue!
(Pictures from twitter user @/dramapotatoe)
So these guys are the endgame, and Li Tongguang and [redacted] huh.
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About Yu Shisan - "A Journey to Love" ep.39 SPOILERS
"One day you'll find your match"
"Impossible! I'd rather die. … But if I really did that, then I'd have been together with her for the rest of my life."
Yushisan! Look, I edited out the blood in these (to avoid the content flag); are you happy?😂
But this scene. "Yu Shisan, the most beautiful man in the world," who felt up his face after battles to check for cuts, after finding out he's lost his eyes and his face was covered in blood and cuts... If he hadn't already been prepared to die, can you imagine his emotional loss then?
1 - He couldn't bear to die, as he probably thought his wounds left him: "ugly," so he prettied himself up, even in the middle of the battlefield, the best he could. He was going to go down, but dangit he would look good at it! (and he did😭 LBR, that scene was COOL!)
2 - But he was also "Yu Shisan, who enjoys looking at the prettiest women," and I think artists can relate to this sentiment, this particular feeling of loss, that would be not only not being able to see in general, but not being able to see beauty anymore.
3 - He's the only one (aside from Ruyi) whose dead body we do not see. This is very in-character of the narrative. I don't think he would have wanted anyone to see him like that. He'd have liked people to remember him looking good, unmarred. So it fits that Chu Yue, being temporarily blinded by the explosion, never even saw him wounded.
Why do I keep feeling the need to write posts about Alen Fang's characters? 🤔
This show-stealer... 😂 *goes to watch another of his dramas*
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