I really struggled with this book. I wanted to like it, we didn’t get along. I spent the first half of the book disliking the main character. Then the war came and I was just disappointed. I never connected with Rin but I did like Kitay and Jiang. Rin did have some character growth but not enough to make me
This book has many Chinese Drama (Cdrama) adaptations so I was expecting a lot from the novel. I was very disappointed with it. It started off reasonably well but it was clear that this book would revolve around the male ego rather than character development or a decent plot. Indeed I would expect this to be tall tale someone told
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My first thoughts were of the movie The Lake House when I read about the pendant. I wasn’t very far into the book at the time but it’s a thought that decided to chime in. Now that I’ve finished this book that was dedicated to Cdrama girlies.. I felt it was more like The Vampire Diaries than a Cdrama. The
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This book take off a year after the events of the first book Daughter of the Moon Goddess. It seems like we have a Katniss vs. Snow situation going on. Xingyin has freed her mother, it’s seen as an act of defiance and rebellion by the Celestial Majesties. This gives Catching Fire vibes. Thankfully readers don’t have to wait too
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Jin Xia points out that they can’t run away, then tells Master Mao that she would love to draw the blueprints of the gun but that she can’t because she hasn’t seen the inside structure of it. Jin Xia says that she will need to see the gun first, if Master Mao wants her to draw the blueprints. Master Mao
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As Xie Xiao runs out of the Wu An Gang’s HQ, he runs into Yang Yue. Yang Yue is surprised to see that Xie Xiao has returned and asks about Sir Lu and Jin Xia. Xie Xiao admits that he got separated from them but is too busy trying to leave so he doesn’t explain anything, he just tells Yang
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Xie Xiao demands to know why Lu Yi believes that the stones are controlled by the tides. Lu Yi snipes back that it’s because he’s smart and used his brain. Uncle Beggar loves Lu Yi’s attitude, saying that Lu Yi reminds him of well.. him when he was younger. Jin Xia asks Lu Yi what they should do now. Lu
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Jin Xia gets scared so she runs back the way she came.. only to have a man jump out in front of her making funny faces (not really scary, but startling). Jin Xia screams, then pulls out her gun as she demands for the man to identify himself. The man tells her that she’s rude for pointing the gun at
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Yerba mate or yerba-maté is a plant species of the holly genus Ilex native to South America – Wikipedia From the Teavivre website: This Lemon Mate tea of TeaVivre is made from all the leaf blades, so the shape of dry tea leaves are tiny and flat, in yellow-green natural color. Besides, blended with natural citronella and dried fruits, this
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Well after figuring out that if they don’t solve whatever is going on, they might die.. they decide to go to sleep. However Xie Xiao keeps calling for Jinxia in his sleep. Lu Yi gets up and takes the blanket off the constantly moving sleepy Xie Xiao and gives it to Jinxia whom he thinks is asleep before going outside.
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Jin Xia and Lu Yi wake up from being drugged, and are tied to a post in the middle of the town square. Lu Yi says that it will be 6 to 10 hours before the drug wears off. Jin Xia wonders if Xie Xiao will be okay but Lu Yi tells her that she should worry about her own
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After receiving the medication from Yang Yue, Shangguan Xi asks him to leave. Being a good boy, he does so after wishing her a good night. After shutting the door, Yang Yue pauses a moment before leaving the area. Shangguan Xi looks down at the medication deep in thought (please tell me you’re regretting liking Xie Xiao, and want Yang
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Jin Xia answers Lu Yi’s question about Yang Chengwan by saying that she doesn’t know why he stayed so long in Fujian. She then offers Lu Yi some more food but he declines saying that he’ll try some other veggies that are on the table instead. However Lu Yi hesitates for awhile not choosing anything which leads Jin Xia to
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Shi Fan taps Jin Xia on the shoulder with his fan hard enough to cause her pain. He then says that since Field Commander Lu is being so reasonable, he won’t take his precious subordinate. Shi Fan then points out that Jin Xia is wounded, he says that he has some ointment on his boat and inviting the two of
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Mayor Wei asks Sir Lu if the singer is a person or a ghost. Lu Yi tells him to not be so hasty as this is the old Taoist’s strength. Lu Yi says that after he old the Old Taoist’s analysis he found that Yun Zheyue and that of Sir Zhou were murdered by the same person. Lu Yi says
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Lu Yi asks Jin Xia if she’s an orphan, Jin Xia replies that when she was a small child, she ran off and lost her family. Jin Xia says that she lived in the orphanage until she was adopted by her current mother. Lu Yi stays silent so Jin Xia says that she has a request but she’s unsure if
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Jin Xia looks like she’s having fun singing Chinese Opera when she finishes it’s Lu Yi’s turn but he doesn’t sing anything. Jin Xia prompts him saying that it’s his turn but Lu Yi doesn’t look interested in at all. Jin Xia tells Chang Sheng that her brother’s memory isn’t very good, so he forgets his lines, then offers to
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As the song from the zither fades, Yang Yue claps openly before remembering that his place. Lu Yi smiles briefly before saying that the sound of Zhai Lanye’s music lingers beautifully. Zhai Lanye replies that people often say it takes ten years to learn the Pipa **Chinese Lute** and one year to learn the Zither. She says that it’s really
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After seeing the Emperor’s decree that the investigation is now under the authority of the Embroidered Uniformed Guards, the prison guard quickly leads Lu Yi and Jin Xia to the prisoner. Once in a dungeon like interrogation room, Jin Xia reads off Zhou Xianyi’s personal information as follows: Zhou Xianyi is 28 years old, from Wuxing, Zhejiang. He passed the
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Jin Xia says that personally she admires Round Xie’s chivalry and sense of justice, but Sha Xiuzhu committed a crime so he must be arrested. As for the matter of swapping her badge out for a forgery, Jin Xia says that if King Lu of hell really does come after them then they won’t have a good ending. Jin Xia
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It was just after Xie Xiao says that he couldn’t marry Shangguang Xi that we get a flashback of her in wedding gear waiting on the bed. Outside her room she can hear the servants saying that the young master has taken a horse and run off. She lifts her veil to hear a bit better then lowers it again
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The episode picks up right where we left off with Lu Yi and Jin Xia swinging onto the ghost ship. As soon as they land, Jin Xia complains that he didn’t warn her before they swung over. The deck of the ghost ship is stained with blood and Jin Xia wonders how many people must have died there. She’s sticking
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Jin Xia snacks on the pastry that Yang Yue brought her. Yang Yue wonders why she was so late, and Jin Xia tells him that she was running behind because her Mother kept trying to set her up on a blind date. Yang Yue laughs, so she tells him to stop laughing. Yang Yue claims that he wasn’t laughing before
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We pick up right where we left off with Jin Xia begging Lu Yi for mercy. She says that she will accept any other punishment but the two options that she was given. This is how Jin Xia gets to muck out the stables. Jin Xia complains about cleaning the stables wondering how she ended up there (you stole evidence).
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Jin Xia is waiting on a hill overlooking the hideout, while Lu Yi is hiding not far away. They are both pretty bored though Jin Xia is silently cursing Yang Yue for being unreliable as they had both agreed to meet up outside the city. Cao Kun comes out of the little house, gets on his horse and starts to
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During the years of Emperor Jia Jing, Yan Song framed Grand Secretary Xia Ran. Xia Ran was beheaded under false charges. After that Yan Song removed Qiu Cheng, Shen Liang, Yang Qi Zheng and other political enemies. Since then Yan Song and his son have held enormous power in the court. In the 37th year of Emperor Jia Jing the
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This episode starts off in November 11, 2043. Jiang Shuo enters a futuristic looking office where a woman greets him asking if he’s the volunteer for today’s experiment. He introduces himself as Jiang Shuo to the woman. Roll those opening credits! The woman turns out to be Mu Qing (well the real version of her anyways.) and she shows Jiang
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This episode starts off with Jiang Shuo in the Psych. Jiang Shuo sees the back of Liu Zhi and slowly comes a bit closer. That’s when Liu Zhi turns around and the face looks exactly like that of Jiang Shuo. Tears stream down Jiang Shuo’s face while Liu Zhi has a creepy Smile. Roll those opening credits! After the credits
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The episode starts off with a bunch of people dropping one drop of blood into a bowl of water. When the camera pans out we can see that it’s the children. They then pass the bowl to each other to drink (gross!) Once the last child has drank from the bowl, he passes it to an adult. The children yell
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The episode starts off with Wan Jin Rong and Wan Shu Xuan (Mu Qing’s Aunt and Uncle) sharing a bunch of cute couple moments.. with the sad music. Roll those opening credits! At the police station Mu Qing tells the others that police officers investigated near the boathouse but found no suspicious people. Mu Qing herself checked Ms. Sakurako’s room
Read moreReimagining the Autistic Mother Tongue Jane Shi Content notes: child abandonment, abusive adoptive parents, anti-Asian violence and misogyny, mass… Reimagining the Autistic Mother Tongue
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The episode starts off with a man entering the room addressing another man in a hood as Liu Zhi. The man does wear the six fingered glove piece so maybe it’s him (but at this point who knows?) The man asks Liu Zhi how he is. Liu Zhi is more concerned with how the cargo is. The man says that
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Dr. Shen arrives home to check out the files that she’s taken from Old Master Qin when she hears a noise. She hides the files under the bed, then goes to check it out. She opens the window to find that it was just a cat knocking over a bottle outside. Relieved she closes the window shutters only to have
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This episode starts off with Yi Heng going into his brother’s room to find him out of bed. Yi Heng asks him how come he’s out of bed. His brother just says that he did something, then asks Yi Heng to forgive him. He says that he did it for the Qin family, Yi Heng asks him what did he
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This episode starts off with a man walking in what appears to be an abandoned house. There’s writing on the windows in red saying a life for a life. The next window reads that kindness begets no kindness. The man continues walking. A woman appears at the entranceway of another room after the doors swing open. The man asks who
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This episode starts off with Mr. Sun attacking Jiang Shuo and Yi Heng in the Psych with measuring tape. He manages to make them fly in the air before using red string to drag them off into a room. Roll those opening credits! After the credits we see that Jiang Shuo and Yi Heng have just arrived in the Psych.
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The episode starts off with our trio walking into a building and out of the rain. Once they are inside they find a book with blood on it, a sheathed dagger and a wrist bangle and sequinned purse all with blood on it. Jiang Shuo uncovers what appear to be memorial tablets hidden under a cloth. He then goes to
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This episode starts off with Mr. Qin in the hospital bed and the nurse coming in to find out that he’s still awake. She tell him that it’s not healthy for him to stay up so late, so she gives him a newspaper to read to help him relax. After she leaves, Mr. Qin reads the newspaper to find out
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This episode starts off with a couple getting a letter from Wu Meng who is supposed to be dead saying that he wants his life back. The woman says that it’s impossible that the letter could have come from him. The man leaves the room to investigate a noise they heard outside after telling the woman to look after Ying’er.
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This episode starts off with s man carrying a woman into some kind of lab. The man puts the struggling woman down on the floor, and we can see that she has a red string on her wrist. Roll those opening credits! After the credits we’re back at the Earthly Inn where the Chief is toasting to the fact they
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This episode starts off with the main trio leaving the police station. Jiang Shuo wonders if since they solved the Zhao Ling clue, is that the end of their clues. Yi Heng says that since the case of Zhao Ling is considered solved, Jiang Shuo is the only survivor. Jiang Shuo reminds Qin’er that he told Jiang Shuo not to
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The episode starts off with a host asking an actress to stop onto the stage. Only to have the dead catty actress show up. Obviously the host is confused because she’s supposed to be dead. So like a Casper cartoon, he yells ghost and runs away. Shang Yu asks the actress if she’s dead. The catty actress agrees that she’s
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This episode starts off with an old time movie look. It looks like there is a fight and the bad guys kill somebody. The leader then comes down and marks the body with Liu Zhi’s symbol (maybe he’s the movie’s Liu Zhi?) Now roll those opening credits! Now we go back to where we left off in the previous episode
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This episode starts off at the club where Mu Qing and her father are watching the dancers perform. When the performance finishes the host of the club says that there is a special surprise tonight. The anonymous dancer Shang Yu will perform tonight without her veil. Mu Qing is very excited as she is a big fan of Shang Yu.
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This episodes starts off with General Yuan talking to one of the guests from the banquet apologizing for the delay. The guest doesn’t mind since Mr. Zhang is now dead and that’s well worth it. Just then the platform balcony drops, and a body that looks like Dr. Qin falls onto the nearby car. The soldiers, and the General see
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This episode starts with what appears to be a party. Jiang Shuo still disguised as the Yuan Mansion’s driver asks Qin’er who he thinks is Liu Zhi among the guests. We can see that General Yuan is at the table as well as Wan Jin Rong among others. Yi Heng says that he’s observed everyone for a whole day and
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This episode starts off with a car driving down a forest like road. The man in the backseat is feeling up a woman in the back seat. The driver peeks into the back set only to get told off by the young master. The car suddenly stops interrupting the man in the back, irritated he asks what happened. The driver
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The episode starts with Jiang Shuo shackled to a chair. He tells Liu Zhi that he’s mad, fate should be determined by themselves. Liu Zhi says that when Jiang Shuo was his disciple, he knew Jiang Shuo was a hypocrite. Liu Zhi says that Jiang Shuo is a sinner, he thinks he’s saving people when he’s actually harming them. Liu
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The episode starts with a bunch of wooden dolls strung up in a pretty dead looking tree with the names of the people on the island attached to the dolls. One of the dolls is on fire. Roll the opening credits! Ms. Yan Hong opens the door to the room she was hiding in. Mr. Feng asks what happened to
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The episode starts with flashes of the painting and the sins it depicts. Then we get flashes of the cast, ending with a view of the villa’s entrance. Roll those opening credits Takeuchi shoves Jiang Shuo into a room where Jiang Shuo pauses as another memory surfaces. In the memory it’s Yi Heng’s father that’s tied up in this room.
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We start off the episode with looking at Yi Heng’s conspiracy map. Then the camera shows us a house door opening leading to the creepy dining room where a bunch of people look on edge around the dining room table. Then the clock sounds and we see a bunch of dead bodies followed by the calendar saying it’s October 14th.
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This episode starts with Jiang Shuo waking up in a chair. A voice tells him that someone once said that they wold only see hell after death. Light appears and we see it’s Liu Zhi in his creepy mask. He tells Jiang Shuo that others say that hell is just a fiction. There are paintings behind that him that briefly
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This episode start off with Jiang Shuo getting his picture taken in some fancy looking clothes. While he was alone when the flash went off, the picture taken shows him sitting next to Mu Qing. Jiang Shuo smiles at the photo and then goes to another room. Apparently the photos were marriage photos because when he enters the room there
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The episode starts off with Ms. Yuan walking through the festival not looking like her usual cheerful self. Jiang Shuo has managed to get out of the water and is following behind her. Ms. Yuan accidentally kicks over a beggar bowl with some bread in it and doesn’t even stop. Jiang Shuo picks up the bread and places it back
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This episode starts off with a creaky door opening and a black cat entering the room. The cat is meowing like someone forgot to give him wet food. The cat approaches the bed and manages to wake up Zhao Meng. Zhao Meng comments that she thought the cat was lost. She picks up the cat and asks where it has
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The start of this episode is in the Embassy where the Ambassador tells Qiu Liang that his country doesn’t deserve to have such fine Horology techniques and he can just leave the Eternity Clock on the floor (condescending jerk). Qiu Liang says that’s fine since he’s leaving it as a gift. The clock opens up in all its hypnotic glory.
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This episode starts with a flashback of Mr. Jack on the dark and stormy night of his death tinkering with a clock. When a maid comes to ask if he wants dinner, he throws something at her, yelling for her to get out. The mind leaves closing the door behind her. There is another knock at the door sometime later.
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This episodes picks up right where we left off with Jiang Shuo eyeing the window as an escape route out of the bathroom. We then flash over to him climbing through the window to the director’s office. He frantically searches the desk until he finds the human trafficking documents similar to what he found in the Psych. Let the opening
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So this episode starts off with some round candy dropping down a staircase. It then cuts to the nun sitting alone at long dining room like table. A moment later we see a bunch of children lining the staircase with one ha d on the railing, second later we see the same staircase and the children have vanished. Roll those
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We’re starting this episode with Yi Heng sitting alone in a room contemplating Jiang Shuo’s mind reading skills. As he tries to better to u deist and how it works. He comes to the conclusion that the swinging of the coins has no practical use it does however serve as a psychological suggestion. The dragon candle incense works like a
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