Lan Zhan was definitely concerned, but I’d say that it was more out of his own strict and unmoving principles than anything else. It’s because the use of the sword is representative of the “right “ way of cultivation, when Lan Zhan saw that Wei Ying wasn’t using his sword anymore, for how strict and unmoving Lan Zhan’s personality is, it was a hard pill to swallow, especially since at that point, Lan Zhan and Wei Ying had acknowledged each other as soulmates (but it’s shown as BFFs in the drama, to get around the censorship), and for it was difficult for Lan Zhan to see someone he cares so much about to be doing something “wrong”, it’s the reason why—even if he still didn’t understand, at least, not until he lost Wei Ying for 16 years— Lan Zhan still offered Wei Ying care and he offered Wei Ying ways he could help him to gain control over his ‘new’ cultivation of the flute & music

Yes, the offer to help with controlling the new powers seemed very significant. He couldn’t condone the new abilities but he couldn’t stand by and let them consume Wei Wuxian.

Yes, and during the 16 years when Lan Zhan was swimming in his own regret and had the time to think things through, when Wei Ying came back 16 years later, Lan Zhan basically let Wei Ying do any and everything… Even drinking inside the grounds of Gusu and Lan Zhan was actually the one who provided the alcohol 80% of the time 😂😂😂😂 In the novel and manhua (Chinese anime), it’s said that Lan Zhan actually kept bottles of Emperor’s Smile inside the floorboards of his own chambers for whenever Wei Ying wanted it 😉😉😉😉

Yes, it was kind of shocking to Lan Zhan turn up with the Emperor’s Smile

Within the 3000 Lan Clan clan rules, it’s said that one should not let their guard down or dress down unless it is in front of family or people that you trust, so for Lan Zhan to show up with Emperor’s Smile INSIDE the walls of Gusu AND to be dressed down in, essentially, his PJs when he was bringing the alcohol over—that was a pretty significant and symbolic moment for Lan Zhan as a character, for the relationship between Wei Ying & Lan Zhan, and very telling for Lan Xi Chen ☺️☺️☺️🥰🥰🥰😉😉😉😏😏😏

It was a great scene and a much needed insight into Lan Zhan who is such a controlled presence and rarely speaks of himself.

I don’t remember crying very much when I was watching, even when something seemingly very sad happened, but the story of the Lan Clan and the brothers made me cry 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

It was the reunion of Wen Ning and Yuan that got me 😢

Oh yea, when Si Zhui called Wen Ning “Uncle Wen” 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

The moment you’ve been waiting for—and tbh, it was the moment we ALL wait for when we watch this drama— FINALLY happened—Jiang Cheng FINALLY found about about the whole Golden Core situation, and I was able to breathe again 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

I was worried that we wouldn’t get such a scene, especially as it’s so late in the story.

The revelation came later than expected in the drama, but I’m still so, so glad that we got it, and appreciated it. A lot of times, major reveals in dramas come just too, too late and it sort of wrecks the flow and spoils the climactic feel of the reveal, and though THIS reveal for THIS drama came later than expected (at least for me), it was still perfect and it still worked 👌🏻 I didn’t feel that it ruined the climactic feel nor did it ruin the flow of the drama

It’s probably a good point for the revelation as Wei Wuxian seems to have come to terms with the past and has been developing a relationship with Jin Ling.

Yea!!!
At this point, Wei Ying is slowly developing a rapport with Jin Ling and Si Zhui is developing a relationship with Wen Ning

I liked the way the younger characters got to interact with Wei Wuxian and Wen Ning without their guardians around and could start to separate the people from the myths around them.

Yesssss, I love that!!!

The younger generation was able to feel unrestrained to interact and get to know their “seniors” (so cute how Si Zhui always calls Wei Ying “Senior Wei”) and to draw their own conclusions, not letting the influence of their own clan seniors and the rumours about the past dictate their own thoughts and opinions 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

Yes, letting the younger generation interact with Wei Wuxian and Wen Ning without all the emotional baggage of their parents/guardians was great. They got to know them as individuals.

It was a slow start but the other night I found myself caught up in the battle with the Slaughter Tortoise. My husband doesn’t quite understand, he sees the wigs and some of the effects and wonders at my interest. I’m enjoying discovering the new mythology and new scenery.

That would be interesting. Watching the Netflix version I often feel that it’s been edited to fit a format, hour length episodes would make more sense.

@michelleb

I JUST checked:
The Netflix version and the YouTube 50-Episode version is basically the same— each episode is about 40-something minutes—I’d argue that the only major difference is the quality of the subs, YouTube’s subs are by far way better in quality…. Take it from me, a native Chinese 😂😂

The Special Edition with the 20 1-hour long episodes is the way that it is for the fact that it’s condensing 50-episodes into 20-episodes

I’m up to episode 36 now, so I’ll probably just keep going with the Netflix version. 😉