I really want him to be both. I love that in the show the Dixing people are people with moral weight who are capable of love and whose suffering matters. At the same time I *loved* the young Ghost King from the novel.
I get that! And I'll totally read and love fanfic based on the novel (I'm currently part of a team that turns the novel translation into better English). But... well, I find that overall, merging novel and drama canon turns out to be impossible, so you'll find me discussing them as very separate entities.
Spoiled for that they both die, yes, I am glad I am not going to be blindsided by that.
Haha I was, and I would not miss the experience for anything. I was so new to the conventions of Chinese drama then.... ah, my innocence, where have you gone.
If you ever want to entertain yourself by reading what an unspoiled Western person's reactions might be, here are mine: https://solo.dreamwidth.org/582623.html
it's not exactly that I'm avoiding spoilers, more that even reading spoilers it's hard to get a full picture of what's going to happen.
That is true. It gets quite convoluted.
I am alas very far away from you but I will think about your garden.
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I get that! And I'll totally read and love fanfic based on the novel (I'm currently part of a team that turns the novel translation into better English). But... well, I find that overall, merging novel and drama canon turns out to be impossible, so you'll find me discussing them as very separate entities.
Haha I was, and I would not miss the experience for anything. I was so new to the conventions of Chinese drama then.... ah, my innocence, where have you gone.
If you ever want to entertain yourself by reading what an unspoiled Western person's reactions might be, here are mine: https://solo.dreamwidth.org/582623.html
That is true. It gets quite convoluted.
Aww, that's a shame. Maybe one day!