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Bu Bu Jing Xin/步步惊心

by Tong Hua

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" It's kind of a shame that this novel doesn't have a fully translated one in English. (I'm aware that there are people that translated bits of this novel but most stopped at a few chapters and the people behind translating them don't appear to be acti It's kind of a shame that this novel doesn't have a fully translated one in English. (I'm aware that there are people that translated bits of this novel but most stopped at a few chapters and the people behind translating them don't appear to be active anymore 😔) However, I can say that I enjoyed the TV version of this book and preferring this over the 2016 version (no offense to anyone who liked Moon Lovers. I find it stupid that people only like the Korean remake more than the original only because the actors in that version look much more attractive than the ones shown in the 2011 TV series.)

Ngl the ending for both versions is quite tragic. Apparently the ending in the TV series is entirely non-canon to Tong Hua. She actually prefers the ending that she gave in the book version.

Zhang Xiao dies in Aisin Gioro Yinti's arms but never wakes up to ever be able to head back to modern day China, implying that her modern body immediately died after being comatose for so long alongside with the body she's been using for mental time travel for years. Looks like the people who created the TV version thought that this ending depicted in the book is too depressing (thing is the whole story itself is a tragedy even though it started off lighthearted. Ruoxi and Yinzhen were just star-crossed lovers that was just doomed to have an unhappy ending. I'm glad they decided to change the ending slightly for the TV series because these two didn't deserve the endings they got in both versions.). The TV series epilogue has Zhang Xiao wake up from being comatose for weeks, she visits a museum where she ends up seeing Yinzhen's reincarnated counterpart. Sadly for her, he doesn't appear to recognize her at all. Zhang Xiao feels a lot of guilt for all she's done during the time she was stuck in Ruoxi's body and says not a single word, only to be last seen taking off of her glasses as Yinzhen goes out of the museum and starts crying.

I normally dislike sad endings because I think everyone deserves a good ending as long as the characters themselves earned it, but in this sort of work... I honestly can't see that happening at all. Not all endings had to be happy to teach the readers something. ...more "

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