More flashbacks, more information

This episode provides more background into Yin Xue and Ge'er's past as well as more insight into the relationships between the siblings at New Blade City.

1)We open to Ge'er who looks wistfully at the wedding gifts in the cave, perhaps thinking about what might have been....Outside Yin Xue plays a sad melody on his jade flute and Ge'er focuses on their mission, asking him where they are headed.  In doing so, she learns that someone is following them however Yin Xue casually brushes this off and tells her that this is his normal ever since he came down from Misty Peak mountain.  She is kind of surprised, especially when she realizes he has been pulling all nighter's to keep watch.

2)They make it all the way to Ping An City and their flatbread stall before Ge'er notices where they are--either she is EXTREMELY distracted or that is a silly plot hole I lean towards the latter--and she asks him about the medicine they are supposed to be getting.  Yin Xue playfully (it seems) tells her that they are here to heal the wound in his heart.  She accuses him of being silly but he says he is 100% serious (and judging by what we know of him, he may seem to be joking but he is a VERY serious person) .  He asks her to stay a few days here with him because it (basically) upset him when she left him here, abandoned him, and besides they have to ensure enough time has passed for Yu to buff up his security because once he heals Yu, he will be at his weakest, and that is likely when their enemies will attack.  Ge'er seems to accept this reasoning.

3)Everyone in the town is over the moon to have them back as if they have not had anything to eat but rocks since they left.  Everyone also assumes they left to get married and have only now returned.  Yin Xue is naturally more than happy to allow them to believe this lie and thanks them when they bless and hope they have a son next year.

4)Neighbors drop off wedding gifts and Ge'er is trying to figure out how to burst their bubble when Yin Xue pulls the woman aside and tells her quietly that because he is a scholar of low birth the flame villa did not approve of their marriage however Ge'er was willing to overlook this.  He tells her it has not been easy for the two of them, and he encourages her to let the other towns people know so that they can be sensitive to their marriage--as she leaves the neighbor tells Ge'er that she doesn't need status and she should cherish Yin Xue, leaving her confused and wondering what nonsense Yin Xue has begun to spread.  Alone, Ge'er pouts and then throws a basket at him him however he easily stops at but seems surprised that he had the power--she wants to know what was said but he dances around the subject....

HOWEVER if they are married, it protects her reputation, I think, and might even get back to Zhan Feng who my readers has all the smarts of a bag of rocks--

5)Yin Xue serves her wine that evening and suggests gently that maybe her temper is improving because she did not flip out when he told the neighbors that they were married.  He points out that maybe she is not that upset with such a misunderstanding, and Ge'er refuses to look at him, so he suggests she is blushing, and she indeed does seem to be blushing and hides her face so that he cannot see her smile (o_0)

6)MW, Miss D is a moping mess.  She has stopped eating.  Wu Xia comes to see her because of this.  She wants to know why he has chosen to align himself with Dark Evil Palace.  Rather than answer immediately, Wu Xia promises her that this marriage that he knows she does not want is only temporary, at east until flame lord is exposed for his evil ways.  In addition, Anye Luo will suffer enormous injuries during the battle with flame lord, and at that time, Wu Xia plans on eradicating the Dark Evil Palace.  Miss D doesn't care about that--she would rather spend the rest of her life locked up instead of marry without love.  Wu Xia then gets on his knees as he asks her to recall how he has sacrificed a great deal to keep Top Blace City on the top following the death of their father.  Could she bare to see their clan fall?  This alliance will help their clan, he insists, and he begs her, telling her that it will crumble without this marriage.  Miss D is made of strong stuff and gets on her knees and tells him that is very nice, but she hopes he will support her because she will not marry him.

7)Wu Xia leaves, angry as he tells Wu Hen that this is his fault for spoiling her.  If she refuses, he will be forced to tie her up and make her marry Zhan Feng....

8)MW, Master Lei arrives in disguise as a Northwestern merchant.  He gets into the city, but is immediately stopped by Wu Hen.  At their villa, Wu Xia's mistress meets him and begs him to stop seeing Miss D because her marriage means that she must be a proper wife and to be seen with Master Lei would be very scandalous.  Master Lei agrees to respect this before leaving.  Wu Xia then appears and congratulates her for a job well done.  She calls him Master but he stops her, telling her that his new title will be Castellan after this wedding (someone is a little power hungry...)

9)On his way out, Master Lei reflects on all of his memories with Miss D and seems to be a bit melancholy.  Miss D continues to sulk, miserable.  And Ge'er is so distracted that she invites Yin Xue to walk with her, in the rain (a metaphor maybe for cleansing/rebirth?)

10)She goes to the spot where Xiao Feng died and thinks of his dead body.  Yin Xue asks her if she is thinking of the dead boy, and she says she is, and that every time she does, she thinks of Feng'er, which makes her extremely upset.  Yin Xue tells her that she did not see him kill the boy--maybe it wasn't him (so he cares a lot about her, that he would defend his rival in love if only to see the woman he loves in less pain....) Ge'er changes the subject and asks him if he is ever serious, and he grins and says when am I not serious--I am always serious--(which I take to be a statement of fact).

11)In a dramatic flashback, we see a woman who looks exactly like Ge'er surrounded by a lot of men.  Yin Xue is there, and she coldly asks him to spare their lives.  He says he will spare their lives if she will kiss him, otherwise he will kill them all.  So she kisses him--and I take it, this is when he first fell in love with her.  (This is a confusing flashback because it isn't clear when this occurred, or if they met once before and she lost her memories....)

12)In the present day, Yin Xue tries real hard to kiss her.  They begin to flirt, and she dances and flits around like a fairy, out of his reach, and he looks EXTREMELY saddened by this and desperate to reach her.  She dances away to a tree, where she falls asleep with a smile on her face.  That night she wakes up and looks around until she founds Yin Xue calmly waiting for her, and he asks her if she was going to spend the entirety of the New Year's Eve sleeping.  

13)They return and the entire town is quiet--however their flatbread shop has the lights on.  Yin Xue tells her to stay close--just in case their is danger.  They arrive and SURPRISE it's a party the town has thrown to honor the New Year and their engagement.  From this point on, she does not deny that he is her husband and even refers to him as her husband, delighting Yin Xue.  Yin Xue eventually plays his zither after the town begs him and he sings a song about a phoenix looking for his lover, and Ge'er seems to be very touched by this song....

14)MW, the flame lord spends the new year with his other two disciples--housekeeper and Ji, and he invites Xun Yi to sit at the table since she is basically like a duaghter and will marry Ji anyways....

15)MW, Master Lei spends the new year getting drunk on his boat when a bunch of shadow assassins appear to kill him...

16)That evening, Ge'er tells Yin Xue that she is reluctant to leave, and he tells her not to worry and to leave with him but she apologizes?  He tells her she never needs to apologize to him.  She asks him then about why he picked her at the Blossom House (she has asked this before) and he tells her that he did not pick her.  He knew she would be there, and he has been waiting ages for her to appear.  She wants to know how long, and he simply says a long time before you were even born.  She then walks away, and he says that he has never lied to her but she still won't believe his words.

17)In a flashback, we see the opening scene.  Ge'er is dead, apparently from her wounds, and a miserable Yin Xue is begging the master of Misty Mountain to save Ge'er's life and to take him back.  His master tells him, rather disdainfully, that the dead girl's last wishes were that he abandon his evil ways i.e. leave Dark Evil Palace, and Yin Xue continues to beg, promising to do anything if he revive her and take him back, and so Yin Xue must undergo a dreadfully painful 100 year long punishment...

18)Yin Xue doubles over in pain and Ge'er hears him, runs into his room, and asks to know what is wrong.  He tells her not to worry, that it is just an old wound that acts up whenever he is cold.  She uses her flame fist to heal him until she can no longer bear the heat--she also hears him insist again that he will not be weakened when he heals Yu however she does not believe him, and then Yin Xue chooses to crawl into her lap and rest his head.  She does not push him away, rather she just smiles and lays down next to him.

(((Soulmates plot))))

I gave this a 9.5 because of the interesting plot and the ways the flirty scenes were carried out--she did not become annoyingly missish and it was nice to see a little more depth to the relationships between Miss D and her brothers.  I am very curious to know more about the past, especially why Anye luo is so evil and his hatred for Yin Xue and the flame lord....and who the HECK was Ge'er??

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