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The great demon

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And then there was light. And then there was your smile. (Yannis Ritsos, can't for my life find the collection I've read this in)

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[ENG SUB] Deleted lines from the script, Li Lun and Zhao Yuanzhou/Zhu Yan, EP04 & EP33

I don't know what their source for the audio is but the deleted lines are from the original script. This vid edit was made by 诹拾 on Bilibili.

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Demon Daddy really said "My body, my choice." LOL. Also, me being a huge LOTR fan, I literally hear the follow-up of those words "It is mine to give to whom I will, like my heart."

Even though the whole thing is a plot to mislead the Dragon Princess, ZYC means every single word he utters. He's being completely vulnerable and open; his feelings and sentiments are real and, in the end, WX and ZYZ get carried away by his heartfelt sincerity. He makes the lie real. Because, let's face it, eventually it will come down to it and ZYZ will do something like half-killing himself to help ZYZ, especially since it really looks like he wants to use the scale to save WX who might have really been poisoned.

The sword is his family heirloom, the one thing he truly connects with his older brother, and everyone wants that sword, but he would throw it away without any hesitation, if repairing it meant hurting ZYZ or him dying. Honestly, it almost looks like he is totally fine with it, getting rid of the possibility of him having to kill him with it one day.

He is so adamant about and steadfast in that he won't allow ZYZ to sacrifice himself for him, and in a way, he is actually picking him over BJ, or rather he could give up on BJ rather than save him at all costs.

Translation: "You are more precious to me than anything in the entire world." FETCH MY SMELLING SALTS!

ZYC's words shake ZYZ to his core, it floors him that someone would choose him, the most evil great demon, above everything, that he would even choose him over the adorable BJ.

Demon Daddy thought he would show an Oscar-worthy performance, but he ends up going through the most intense therapy session of his life. All these words are everything he needed to hear in those past 8 years so much, but didn't know it.

Look at him! How much it means to him! How much he drinks those words in! WX and ZYC are unbreaking ZYZ's heart that shattered to pieces a long time ago and putting it back together. The fact that ZYC would turn against his friends and fight for HIM of all people, defend him, protect him, without any weapon, just using his body!

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I like how the drama, along with the dynamics of found family and "everyone loves everyone in one way or another," brings up the theme of "but everyone wants to be chosen firmly."

Everyone wants not only to be part of a family, but to be someone's special person, someone's main person, someone's irreplaceable person.

And this theme - in subtle but completely intentional hints - is seen in the ZYC/ZYZ/LL relationship.

Zhao Yuanzhou had repressed his feelings for Li Lun after the whole disaster, but they were definitely there. And as he started to feel more alive with his new relationship, those feelings begin to seep in, sometimes creating confusion.

Is Zhao Yuanzhou afraid of seeing Li Lun in Zhuo Yichen, or does he want to? Where does the nightmare end and the deepest dreams begin?

Zhao Yuanzhou himself could hardly answer that firmly, until a certain point.

It makes me a little sad for Zhuo Yichen, but I suppose it's realistic (when you're dating a guy hundreds of years older than you with a history of bloody divorce). And I like that triangle because it makes the "star-crossed lovers" story less superficial.

Destiny is always a mix of fate and choice.

Zhao Yuanzhou and Li Lun could have been that "legendary destined couple" too, and they even were for a while. But then life happened and they made the opposite choice.

But after Zhao Yuanzhou finds the strength to first meet Li Lun and then let him go, the confusion ends.

In this story, the theme of "being firmly chosen" reaches a radical point. Because at that final moment of the fight with the main villain, if Zhao Yuanzhou was not sure who he sees in his heart - Zhuo Yichen would have died.

And although at first glance it seems that Zhao Yuanzhou chooses to risk Zhuo Yichen's life, in fact, he chooses to do what Zhuo Yichen himself would want from him.

And this ability to remain on a common value platform and make a common choice, even when this choice breaks your heart - this is exactly what Li Lun and Zhao Yuanzhou did not succeed. And this is what makes the relationship between Zhao Yuanzhou and Zhuo Yichen destiny.

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I am completely insane about Zhao Yuanzhou's hair.

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So sad