Kathy Noble:
What going to happen now they killed him this can’t be happening but xl was looking for him there’s hope? As for brother yikes
Don't worry, he is not dead. I'm not sure what route the drama will take. In the novel, it is indeed XL who saves him, but will have to see how the drama deals with this part.
Cang Xuan is indeed a complex character. What he does is unforgivable, but I can see how everything has lead up to this point. Ep 18 did not disappoint - from XY's devastating heart break to her confrontation with CX, I was engrossed.
I love what she tells CX about TSJ, why she loves and cherishes him so much. He healed her of her heart's deepest wounds. He showed her that it was possible to live on without harboring hatred and fear even after being tortured and even betrayed by one's own brother.
It would have been nice that the whole Haoling and finding XY's Mom arc had been more completely adapted from the book, because it more explicitly showed how much TSJ helped her heal from her past. But I think there's enough in the drama to demonstrate how he, without resorting to killing his brother or Fangfeng Yiying, could deal with his past and family matters and in turn offer XY an outlook on life that didn't involve all the plotting/scheming/killing that her family and ancestors were involved in before.
It's sad too for CX. In dealing with his uncles, he also demonstrated that he's not necessarily someone who will just resort to violence to off his opponents. But his jealousy and possessiveness of XY got the better of him (I mean, we are all human, right? It's part of why I feel so much for him while I also hate him for what he did).