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I've been idly trying to reconstruct what is missing from the ep and where it all ended up, on the basis of both Gu Xiang's conversation with Da Wu and JBY in ep 31 itself and the long dinner scene in episode 34, and how the flashbacks in that one line up and resolve concepts we didn't get to see, and it's just... so much was lost and lots of it would've been so glorious! :'(

Oooh, yes, I really wish we could have seen all of that, and I'd love to hear about your reconstruction if you ever feel like writing it up. There's SO much happening behind the scenes in that sequence ...

Yes! I'd love to hear your thoughts about what might have happened, if you think they're coherent enough to share. :)

Gah, not yet, but definitely by the time we get to that point in the rewatch! But my feeling is that the original script was meant to set up multiple things like Wen Kexing going to Chengling and confessing his identity without showing us how Chengling takes it before ep 32, so that the scene at the cliff packs even more of a punch then. I suspect all the pieces of the puzzle would've fallen into place like that, just like Ye Baiyi's "If I ever see you outside Siji Manor again I'll kill you" does, and then would've been the most cathartic dinner ever (for everyone except Zhou Zishu, anyhow).

From the teases we get in 34, Wen Kexing is wearing the same robes when he talks to Ye Baiyi as when he talks to Chengling, and he's wearing his hairpin in both of those, so all these things happen before Zhou Zishu is rescued. We would also have seen how Wen Kexing suddenly acquired 19 new disciples for Zhou Zishu - I suspect Beiyuan and Wu Xi would've played a part in that, easier for those kids to trust them than this random dude in red with very intense eyes claiming to know their old master and asking for help...

Awesome! :D These thoughts are great, and I agree—seeing some of the set-up but not why WKX was talking to all these people would've helped make the cliffside fight and fall much more interesting (and give all the clues a viewer needed)!

And there's also (can't believe I forgot this!) his whole arrangement with Xie'er! As far as I can tell, Gu Xiang gets genuinely captured at the start of 31, somehow barters for her freedom with the promise to bring WKX over/someone tells Wen Kexing and he shows up there all Ghost Valley Master and a lot of heads roll (is that what happened to Pretty Ahrat? I feel like at some point she just... disappears?) and somehow he and Xie'er make a deal and then double cross each other about ten different times...

I hope hope hope someday someone leaks the original scripts, or at least the original plot arcs...

All of this makes me wish SO much that we'd got to see all of it!

We would also have seen how Wen Kexing suddenly acquired 19 new disciples for Zhou Zishu

This is the bit that intrigues me the most! And I think it had to be WKX himself to some huge degree, because he's the one who admits them in his role as second disciple. How he convinced them he had the right, I have no idea - but even more intriguingly, they are not shocked when he turns up at the rescue as Ghost Valley Master with his ghosts, so they must have known that as well, and must have been convinced that's actually all right ... No lie, this is one of my top missing moments that I'd really love to see.

It's true he's the second disciple by that point, but he's also... not someone any of these kids have seen before? I think he needs more than just words to convince them, although he's super charismatic when he wants to be, so who knows. But by that point his identity as Master of Ghost Valley is out, so I suspect he has to be a bit more careful. But thinking about it more, the disciples wouldn't know Beiyuan or Wuxi either, so... how did he set up all these alliances?!

Also, for my own comfort - did anyone try to talk him in/out of telling ZZS and Gu Xiang what the final plan was?

Yes, I really want to know how he managed to convince them! I don't think they would have known Beiyuan or Wu Xi either, yeah. I hope someone writes this at one point, I desperately want to read it!

And that's a very good question. It's not just WKX; what was everyone thinking?! (I also really want to know why YBY didn't even tell ZZS after ZZS tried to off himself by diving down the cliff himself! YBY in particular baffles me, seriously.)

I think the most charitable explanation for YBY is that he, uh... Dragged ZZS to that inn and left a note by his bedside which somehow ZZS missed. But yeah I dunno either!

The change of pacing from 30 to 31 is just so abrupt, you really get the impression that the money disappeared halfway through and everyone was left to scramble frantically. I wonder if they even filmed some of the stuff that's missing! Maybe Youku will bless us with an episode 31 supercut that's like 2h long... Maybe...

Dragged ZZS to that inn and left a note by his bedside which somehow ZZS missed.

#Haha, OMG, that would be super painful!

Plot twist turns out ZZS did rear it but in typical YBY fashion it only said something like "kids these days are SO overdramatic" and how was he supposed to know what that meant?

The terrible thing is that I can totally see YBY doing that ... :D

Right? He SO would. And then he'd be all I don't see what's unclear about this letter. "See, I used plural, it clearly meant both of you."

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