I told myself I wouldn't watch another bromance after Stay With Me, especially a fantasy. But guess what? HERE I AM!! I folded okay. I was weak and gave in. I just wanted to know why people were screaming about how this managed to pass censorship. And god fucking damn it, I agree with the people. I am the people. Curiosity might have killed the cat, but god damn did satisfaction bring it back alright.

These two are literally in love your honour, and anyone with a single brain cell and working eyes could see it. Nay, even a blind bat could tell they're in love. Straight off the bat I knew I was going to love the dynamic between WKX and ZZS, the dude who couldn't give to flying fucks and our flirtatious king. Like, the way WKX looks and spits our the flirt bars has me dead. There was nothing heterosexual about that.

ZZS, or A Xu, off-- this man. Boy just wanted to die in peace while drinking alcohol and got a flirty husband, an annoying daughter and a cute son instead. I fucking loved the family dynamic, and watching A Xu and WKX go on a killing speer for their child Cheng Ling was the best thing I have ever watched. And there's WKX, who bullies the shit out his kids, but the moment they are in danger or being pursued by someone he's all Ghost King on them and I'm howling with laughter. Man is so possessive and it's hilarious cuz people keep messing with his people and don't know who they're pissing off.

Now, ZZS. The character development of this man. I could be here all day screaming about it and I'll still have so much to say. I am so enamoured by this guy, and if weren't for WKX, I would take him. The way he slowly went from someone who couldn't give two fucks about WKX, to slowly joining in his banter, flirting back at him, letting him touch him, letting himself fall in love and love him wholeheartedly. MY HEART COULDN'T TAKE IT. He's so fucking pretty as well, so it didn't help. "The world is not important. What's important is finding a soulmate." -- LIKE, YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHEN THEY LOOKED AT EACH OTHER AFTER ZHOU SAID THIS IT WAS PLATONIC. THERE IS ACTUALLY NO WAY. The him saying; "If it weren't for the fact that I don't have much time left, wouldn't it be great to find a soulmate to roam the martial arts world, and spend the rest of my life like the Four Sages of Anji?" This was legit the start of when he slowly started to fall in love with WKX. He didn't care about it before, just wanted to go off and die somewhere, but after meeting WKX, he started to think about this again.

And then after the revelation when he said: "I really thought he was my soulmate." -- TEARS. JUST TEARS. He could have left at that and not gone back to WKX. But brother just couldn't, he fell as deeply in love with WKX as WKX had with him. He opened up to WKX, fell for him, and even after breaking that trust, he still tried to get to know WKX because he knew there was something more. Something that WKX was hiding from him. And the scene where they called out to each other three times? That was the confession. No one can convince me otherwise. That was the turning point, and it was at that moment that ZZS was in deep with no roads back. He stayed faithful and waited for WKX to talk to him. "Lao wen, there's nothing between us that we can't discuss." -- the fucking patience this man has. I could never. And even after finding out his identity ZZS didn't leave him. Instead, what did he say? "My long lost 2nd Junior and my soulmate." -- I SCREAMED. DO YOU HEAR ME SCREAMING. I FUCKING SCREAMED AND SCREAMED SOME MORE. HE FULL OUT DECLARED HIS LOVE FOR WKX. HE HAVE LOST HIM.

And if that wasn't enough, we get further proof when he tries to end his life. "The world is not important, but my soulmate is. Since my soulmate is gone, death is nothing to fear." -- LIKE, WHAT IN THE ROMEO AND JULIET IS THIS?!?! THE FACT THAT WKX BECAME HIS LIFE, AND THE WAY HE WAS WILLING TO FIGHT ALL OF THE MARTIAL ARTS WORLD WITH WKX AND JUMP OF THE CLIFF WITH HIM-- UGHHHH. I CAN'T. THIS MAN IS WHIPPED, GONE, BESSOTTED.

But that doesn't even get started with Wen Ke Xing. THIS MAN. THIS BLOODY MAN. I AM IN LOVE WITH HIM. This guy is what you call a perfect onion character. A perfect sympathetic villain. The amount of layers this man had was fucking insane. More insane than he was in the series. Everyone knew this man was sus from the start, but watching him peel back layers of himself as the show went on was the perfect case of characterisation so many BL shows miss. The fear and terror hidden behind the cockiness. The shame and guilt hidden behind his ideals. The anger and resentment hidden behind his laughs and confidence. Everything was so masterfully done that I couldn't hate him for a single second. Even when half the world was going to shit cuz of him.

But then, despite all the tragedy that befell him, he still found love. He found someone to call a soulmate, someone who was willing to sacrifice himself for him. "As a wanderer in this world, all I need is you." -- He might have been interested or fascinated by ZZS when they first meat, but you could tell that he genuinely started to fall in love with the man after getting to know him. And his confession??? "The moon looks beautiful tonight." -- Yeah, these Chinese producers knew what they were doing to pass that fucking censorship ban. And when ZZS said; "Lao Wen. I used to think that you were pretending to be crazy and dumb. I didn't realise that you're actually crazy." -- THE BETRAYAL IN HIS EYES. BRO, LOA WEN WAS DESTROYED. HE WENT CRAZY, THE RED EYE LINER WAS BACK. THAT'S WHEN YOU KNOW SHIT WAS ABOUT TO GET REAL. I just love how their "breakups" progressively got smaller as the show went on. That was probs the funniest thing about this series.

Gu Xiang -- This girl. Honestly, I don't know how I feel about her. I don't hate her, but I don't love her either. She just got on my nerves most the times and that's putting it lightly. But her relationship with WKX was so heart-warming and funny to watch. The father-daughter dynamic they had going on was hands down the best part of the series. BUT THEN. BUT THENNNN. I was a sobbing mess okay. I had tears in my eyes and they were everywhere on my face. It was river of tears and I had nothing more to give. BECAUSE HOW COULD YOU?! HOW FUCKING COULD YOU?! HER AND WEI NING DEVERSED EVERYTHING AND MORE. WEI NING DESERVED THE UNIVERSE AND MORE. THAT SCENE SINGLE HANDEDLY BROKE ME TO FUCKING PIECES AND I'M NEVER GETTING OVER THAT.

Also, give my baby Cheng Ling a break. Boy's back must be broken from carrying so many sects on his back.

Censorship was 1010% sleeping when they greenlit this show. And most of the kudos have to go to the script writers. The way they used poems and double meaning phrases and the word soulmates instead of lovers was a fucking genius move on their half. Ain't no Chinese government sticking their nose in that and smelling the homoerotic undertones despite how pungent it was.