side ship though. Sigh, but they did have their happy ending — in another life, that is.

There are some that dissatisfied not knowing Zhou Zhusi past (his parents, Liang Jiuxiao, his connection with Beiyuan), also Gu Xiang past (why was she abandoned, what makes Wen Kexing took her in). But we get to know the past of Wen Kexing (his parents, his hatred, his enemies). That is just how life roll. It is impossible to know the complete tale behind an existence. Like Ye Baiyi, like Zhang Chengling. There is always a missing piece or pieces. This story hold and told, the important components of each its character though.

The romance of WKX and ZZS feels completely natural to me. A rogue and a rogue, so the flirting can be extremely flirty and extremely violent. Though for some it might seems like that, but for me it feels completely natural. If asked, the time where I felt they are mutually attracted is after ZZS got kissed. The scene where ZZS himself feeling conscious by himself, remembering that kiss. I was like, ah this is turning point. Because, before that, ZZS is like an old man entertaining a spoiled child lol. Then ZZS begins actively bringing "rouge fragrance", to go find his paramour in that establishment. When before he ignore, now he actually fired back. Bit by bit, the two soulmates opened up to each other. And the final door opened when ZZS asked truthfully, if WKX is sincere (I love this scene). Not gonna lie, after that, I was suspicious ZZS is the gong, especially when he rescue WKX in the end. Because WKX really is useless hahaha. I felt ZZS resolved his own problems. Both are equal. So the extra where the position is determined with selling misery really suited them. After all, WKX said, the cutest person is a soft-hearted person with a soft-waist ;). Before the extra, I really felt they are monks, old married couple lol.

Zhou Zhusi embraced, that he had infact be cruel and a bad guy during his time being ambitious, silly person taking silly choices (as he said). That is why, throughout the story, he never hypocritically condemned any of the bad characters. He had embraced his past, still carrying the torment of the burden and spying eyes of the one he once served. It is admirable how the carefree him, hiding under his disguise, slowly expanding his world under the light (as compared with his past hidden in the dark) and come to be greedy again, per human raw instinct, wanting to live longer, wanting to love, wanting to be free of the nails of his past, never putting a mask anymore. As long as one live, they really will never stop wanting.

I also liked when he asked Wen Kexing if he 'wants' to live, as he understood the struggle of 'wanting' to live.

I just don't know though, what is Tian Chuang takes on him after all of this? Since he disguised himself because he knows they still got their eyes on him. Probably the Emperor and Tian Chuang is explained more in Lord Seventh. But, ever since Zhou Zhusi taking Ye Baiyi words to live openly, I was wondering about Tian Chuang.

Then we had Wen Kexing. The one where his past is basically where he was pushed to the extreme. His extremely strict father denied his childhood until he is 10. He knows he will really be skinned by the Ghosts, so he shows how he can be madder by eating clean his own father. Human really did bizarre choices sometimes. When the Ghost really took him in after that, I had to stop reading, contemplating for awhile. What Wen Kexing did also shows how this small child had biased or grievance of a child. Because he choose to eat his father (a strict father, a nice friend that took possession of something unknown bringing the disaster), not his mother. I love the aspect where, he spends his thirty years living as a Ghost for avenging his parents. Because that is what left in his life, hatred. But wavering to continue living in a dream when he meet Zhou Zhusi because he learn to love again. Surrender to die in Scorpion's hand after losing Gu Xiang and avenging her death. Because all along, he is insecure to continue living, alone. It is tiring being a bad guy (quote by Zhou Zhusi). But when Zhou Zhusi saved him, and asked if he 'want' to live, and he asked "will you stay beside me, till grey hairs", I shed tears. In life, you really just wanted to find that someone, that will accompany you till the end of your day.

Cao Weining and Gu Xiang. These two basically there to show there are pure hearted people, fully trusting their Master/ those close to them; no matter if one is born in a good or bad house. Because people really be living in a gray house. And as usual, these pure hearted souls, always, commonly died tragically young. Either in the hand of the person they trusted (Cao Weining), or for the person they trusted (Gu Xiang). The extra about them also a nice touch in the book. Consistent with how it is set in a world that believe in reincarnation, good merits ease your next life.

Then we had Zhang Chengling and Gao Xianlian killed the Scorpion. One of the main conspirator that killed their father. It is satisfying, how ZZS's mercy actually gave them opportunity to do it. I love that Gao Xianlian went back to her sect while Zhang Chengling basically went offering to be adopted to our main CP.

The last extra really coined the book well. Six Harmonies are just like life. We each were given life with each respective conditions, but that is only half of it. The other half is how we are going to live the life till the end. The people besotted with Six Harmonies are just people that envying other people life. So they get distracted off track of their life line which commonly got cut off earlier than others.

How Ye Baiyi never wished for immortality, but it is thrown freely to him while he is simply trying to save a dear person. How he understood the philosophy of Six Harmonies (life) unintentionally, while others madly gambling their own and others lives to get a glimpse of it (Rong Changqing, Rong Xuan, Zhao Jing). No one really knows Six Harmonies, yet everyone was fighting for it. But the clear minded one will regard it as demon and bringer of trouble - Ye Baiyi the one that had seen it, Wen Kexing the key holder/destroyer that can verify it exist and implicated, Zhou Zushi the analyst that make judgement it exist but so do trouble. The ending? Human in the end will wants to end as human. Not one as Heaven, not one as a Ghost.

Oh not forgetting the fact that Ghost are proven human in the end. Devil practitioner, righteous practitioner; in the end, if one is too obsessed with life (power, greed), then they will still die and bleed red blood.