The Hall of Candles in the Candle-Keeping Sect held ninety-nine candles, yet the sect leader always told her only junior disciple: "Be careful around the candles."
The young disciple didn't understand. Naively, she thought her master was merely worried that the dry weather would make her accidentally burn down the sect.
After experiencing many things, she finally understood the true meaning of those words.
It had nothing to do with dry weather. She simply had to be careful around the candles.
This is an article I like very much. The supporting characters are flesh-and-blood without making people feel that they are taking over the main role. The endings of different characters in the last few chapters made me drop my pearls. I will briefly write down my thoughts after reading this.
First of all, Lingze, the so-called villain, does not seem to be irredeemably bad. What drives him to still want to destroy reincarnation after a thousand years is more obsession and "cannot figure out" why this world is worthy of Jiang Xu's protection, so even if he destroys reincarnation, he cannot bring Jiang Xu back, and he will still do it. Because he wants to prove himself right, even if the person he wants to prove it to is no longer around. My opinion is that he is not so bad as to be unforgivable, because he does have some good genes in his bones, and that is Gui Chu. The foreshadowing of Gui Chu is quite unexpected, and one can't help but wonder if he had already tampered with it when he used the lotus lantern to test Asheng. However, I personally prefer that he was not completely controlled by Lingze when he was still in the world, so part of what he did was out of free will, including the subsequent use of his body to save Wu Nian. Although Gui Chu had received an order from Lingze to find a way to follow him to the underworld, he could choose the route. He chose to use loss minimization. In other words, sacrificing himself to beg Wu Nian to let go shows that he subconsciously has the idea of saving the common people. However, in his heart, the mere common people are of course no better than Jiang Xu, who has been with him for hundreds of years, so he behaves so viciously in conflicts that makes people hate him.
Because if you study carefully, you will find that the people Lingze actually harmed may not be as harmed as the people Jiang Fang and Song Fengqing conspired to do. From the perspective of cause and effect, the city of Yishi prospered and was destroyed because of him. To a certain extent, good deeds and evil deeds canceled each other out. And he did harm many people in Xuanmen and opened the gates of hell with his living souls, but tracing back to the source, the first people in Xuanmen were also enlightened by him, and the knowledge of Xuanmen was selected by him and passed on to mortals, so who can't say that this is also a kind of cause and effect? He allowed evil ghosts to bring trouble to the world. There seems to be nothing that can offset this. However, he was responsible for suppressing and saving these evil ghosts before. Letting them out now is also a kind of cause and effect. If Lingze harms people in Xuanmen and releases evil ghosts to harm the people, then Jiang Chang also deceives Xuanmen, and the ghosts he releases also harm some people, but even with different purposes, readers will believe that the latter are just necessary sacrifices. But then again, for Lingze, aren't the lives of those Xuanmen Taoist priests and people also necessary sacrifices? People first choose a stance and then prepare their own rhetoric.
I think Lingze is a rather contradictory individual, and it also depends on his attitude towards Asheng. I don't think he was kind to Ah Sheng in the end just because of Jiang Xu and because Ah Sheng was their last common friend. If that was the case, why would he help Zhu Yao, who was full of lies? She obviously doesn't like him, but she still keeps him alive. Isn't it just because he is a bamboo demon? Although he will not protect the bamboo demon, he will not be cruel to him, which shows that he has feelings for the identity of "Bamboo". Although it is very weak, he does not want to attack "Bamboo" unless necessary. In fact, after calculation, Lingze and Asheng stayed the longest, longer than Jiang Xu. Even though the two disliked each other at first, they got along as friends later on. A person who only has evil in his heart should not accept others as his friends.
Next, let's talk about the two protagonists. In fact, the suspense in the early stage is an important factor that attracts me to read on. My general guess ranges from "Jiang Deng is the reincarnation of Yama (I didn't know that Yama will not enter reincarnation in the early stage) + Ah Sheng is bamboo" to "Jiang Deng is a green candle + Ah Sheng is Yama". These conjectures are more or less inconsistent with the plot. Jiang Deng is the Lord of Hell, so the spirit of Wangchuan cannot be indifferent to him. It makes sense that A Sheng is Lord of Hell, but her vague demon identity and non-Jiang surname are another bug. Later, when the mystery was slowly revealed, I realized that Jiang Deng was the so-called Little Highness, which matched her unparalleled talent. In fact, the word "Sheng" is quite obvious, but it is because Jiang Deng's identity cannot be guessed that the past lives of the two are so confusing. One regret is that the two of them seem to have known each other since they met. They have the beauty of an old married couple, which saves a lot of ambiguity and testing. I really want to see the process of getting along with the two when they first met, including how Ah Sheng played tricks on Ah Deng. It would be better if the extra chapter could be written about it.
Generally speaking, the setting of the underworld is quite novel, and the logic is self-consistent yet rigorous. It has the philosophy of "Tao gives birth to one, one gives rise to two, two gives rise to three, and three gives rise to all things." The inability of the Yin soul to reincarnate disturbed the peace of the human world and the hell, so the Yin energy gave birth to spiritual consciousness and gave birth to Lord Yama. Lord Yama created reincarnation, but the ghosts with resentment would be unhappy after entering the reincarnation and even make trouble. Therefore, the Wangchuan River that purified the resentment gave birth to spiritual consciousness to save the ghosts. The birth of Lingze and his character together destined that the underworld would usher in a disaster in the future, so the bamboo produced Lingzhi, with the intention of using it to suppress Lingze in the future. It seems that the rules of heaven and earth have their own operating system. If something goes wrong, there will be a compensation mechanism. For example, there must be an antidote within three steps. Bamboo is the nemesis of the Wangchuan River. You thought that Ah Sheng had a rebellious mentality and jumped out of the destined fate of sacrificing herself to wipe out Lingze. However, at the end of the story, she took the initiative to enter the formation and was willing to sacrifice herself for her lover. So this may be a compensation mechanism, but not necessarily. Otherwise, how could she be swept away by the river when she was just born and fall next to the well of reincarnation, and be picked up by Asheng unbiasedly?
Generally speaking, this article is very good for being able to write such a complete story in a short to medium length, and the writing style is also very good. The author should not underestimate himself. Each of the supporting characters chose to sacrifice themselves to protect the world despite their own shortcomings. In the early stage, I may have disliked Yu Xingshu, but later I shed tears when I saw her story. Wu Yuan's active defense against Jiang Deng was actually just a small fight, not hurting anyone or killing anyone. As for Su's father, Su's father is indeed bad, but his badness lies more in his personal moral level and style. In the later stories where people often die, he looks like a little Karami. The real villain in the story is actually only Lingze. There are indeed good and bad in the world, but only the world with good and bad and neither good nor bad has its own charm.
Luoying is Jiu Yiniang, right? I feel that Miss Su is more popular than Mr. Su in this house.
Hahahahaha, are you so sure that you owed money in your previous life?
Does Feng Qing like the heroine? I don't want to see this kind of emotional dispute...
This is an article I like very much. The supporting characters are flesh-and-blood without making people feel that they are taking over the main role. The endings of different characters in the last few chapters made me drop my pearls. I will briefly write down my thoughts after reading this. First of all, Lingze, the so-called villain, does not seem to be irredeemably bad. What drives him to still want to destroy reincarnation after a thousand years is more obsession and "cannot figure out" why this world is worthy of Jiang Xu's protection, so even if he destroys reincarnation, he cannot bring Jiang Xu back, and he will still do it. Because he wants to prove himself right, even if the person he wants to prove it to is no longer around. My opinion is that he is not so bad as to be unforgivable, because he does have some good genes in his bones, and that is Gui Chu. The foreshadowing of Gui Chu is quite unexpected, and one can't help but wonder if he had already tampered with it when he used the lotus lantern to test Asheng. However, I personally prefer that he was not completely controlled by Lingze when he was still in the world, so part of what he did was out of free will, including the subsequent use of his body to save Wu Nian. Although Gui Chu had received an order from Lingze to find a way to follow him to the underworld, he could choose the route. He chose to use loss minimization. In other words, sacrificing himself to beg Wu Nian to let go shows that he subconsciously has the idea of saving the common people. However, in his heart, the mere common people are of course no better than Jiang Xu, who has been with him for hundreds of years, so he behaves so viciously in conflicts that makes people hate him. Because if you study carefully, you will find that the people Lingze actually harmed may not be as harmed as the people Jiang Fang and Song Fengqing conspired to do. From the perspective of cause and effect, the city of Yishi prospered and was destroyed because of him. To a certain extent, good deeds and evil deeds canceled each other out. And he did harm many people in Xuanmen and opened the gates of hell with his living souls, but tracing back to the source, the first people in Xuanmen were also enlightened by him, and the knowledge of Xuanmen was selected by him and passed on to mortals, so who can't say that this is also a kind of cause and effect? He allowed evil ghosts to bring trouble to the world. There seems to be nothing that can offset this. However, he was responsible for suppressing and saving these evil ghosts before. Letting them out now is also a kind of cause and effect. If Lingze harms people in Xuanmen and releases evil ghosts to harm the people, then Jiang Chang also deceives Xuanmen, and the ghosts he releases also harm some people, but even with different purposes, readers will believe that the latter are just necessary sacrifices. But then again, for Lingze, aren't the lives of those Xuanmen Taoist priests and people also necessary sacrifices? People first choose a stance and then prepare their own rhetoric. I think Lingze is a rather contradictory individual, and it also depends on his attitude towards Asheng. I don't think he was kind to Ah Sheng in the end just because of Jiang Xu and because Ah Sheng was their last common friend. If that was the case, why would he help Zhu Yao, who was full of lies? She obviously doesn't like him, but she still keeps him alive. Isn't it just because he is a bamboo demon? Although he will not protect the bamboo demon, he will not be cruel to him, which shows that he has feelings for the identity of "Bamboo". Although it is very weak, he does not want to attack "Bamboo" unless necessary. In fact, after calculation, Lingze and Asheng stayed the longest, longer than Jiang Xu. Even though the two disliked each other at first, they got along as friends later on. A person who only has evil in his heart should not accept others as his friends. Next, let's talk about the two protagonists. In fact, the suspense in the early stage is an important factor that attracts me to read on. My general guess ranges from "Jiang Deng is the reincarnation of Yama (I didn't know that Yama will not enter reincarnation in the early stage) + Ah Sheng is bamboo" to "Jiang Deng is a green candle + Ah Sheng is Yama". These conjectures are more or less inconsistent with the plot. Jiang Deng is the Lord of Hell, so the spirit of Wangchuan cannot be indifferent to him. It makes sense that A Sheng is Lord of Hell, but her vague demon identity and non-Jiang surname are another bug. Later, when the mystery was slowly revealed, I realized that Jiang Deng was the so-called Little Highness, which matched her unparalleled talent. In fact, the word "Sheng" is quite obvious, but it is because Jiang Deng's identity cannot be guessed that the past lives of the two are so confusing. One regret is that the two of them seem to have known each other since they met. They have the beauty of an old married couple, which saves a lot of ambiguity and testing. I really want to see the process of getting along with the two when they first met, including how Ah Sheng played tricks on Ah Deng. It would be better if the extra chapter could be written about it. Generally speaking, the setting of the underworld is quite novel, and the logic is self-consistent yet rigorous. It has the philosophy of "Tao gives birth to one, one gives rise to two, two gives rise to three, and three gives rise to all things." The inability of the Yin soul to reincarnate disturbed the peace of the human world and the hell, so the Yin energy gave birth to spiritual consciousness and gave birth to Lord Yama. Lord Yama created reincarnation, but the ghosts with resentment would be unhappy after entering the reincarnation and even make trouble. Therefore, the Wangchuan River that purified the resentment gave birth to spiritual consciousness to save the ghosts. The birth of Lingze and his character together destined that the underworld would usher in a disaster in the future, so the bamboo produced Lingzhi, with the intention of using it to suppress Lingze in the future. It seems that the rules of heaven and earth have their own operating system. If something goes wrong, there will be a compensation mechanism. For example, there must be an antidote within three steps. Bamboo is the nemesis of the Wangchuan River. You thought that Ah Sheng had a rebellious mentality and jumped out of the destined fate of sacrificing herself to wipe out Lingze. However, at the end of the story, she took the initiative to enter the formation and was willing to sacrifice herself for her lover. So this may be a compensation mechanism, but not necessarily. Otherwise, how could she be swept away by the river when she was just born and fall next to the well of reincarnation, and be picked up by Asheng unbiasedly? Generally speaking, this article is very good for being able to write such a complete story in a short to medium length, and the writing style is also very good. The author should not underestimate himself. Each of the supporting characters chose to sacrifice themselves to protect the world despite their own shortcomings. In the early stage, I may have disliked Yu Xingshu, but later I shed tears when I saw her story. Wu Yuan's active defense against Jiang Deng was actually just a small fight, not hurting anyone or killing anyone. As for Su's father, Su's father is indeed bad, but his badness lies more in his personal moral level and style. In the later stories where people often die, he looks like a little Karami. The real villain in the story is actually only Lingze. There are indeed good and bad in the world, but only the world with good and bad and neither good nor bad has its own charm.
Luoying is Jiu Yiniang, right? I feel that Miss Su is more popular than Mr. Su in this house.
Hahahahaha, are you so sure that you owed money in your previous life?
Does Feng Qing like the heroine? I don't want to see this kind of emotional dispute...
Come on, I really like the article