#mjty spoilers

[melodious-tear]

"Remember to bury me closer to you. Plant a cedar tree. It stays green for all four seasons, yet it turns white when covered with snow. The snow in the back hill will never melt. Bury me under the tree. In this way, I can always have tea with you in the snow."

#aka things that hit me sideways and then won't leave :))) #my journey to you #云之羽 #cdrama #xue tongzi #zeng shunxi #xue gongzi #chu zijun #mjty spoilers #seriously i've reblogged gifs of this scene like 'zsx pretty' #but no one told me that it is devastating???? #someone fix this #also duck the fake fringe sdfjdfk #my edit

[eohachu]

云之羽 My Journey To You (2023), dir. Guo Jingming || Episode 10

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[tytangfei]

The more I think about it, the more I'm miffed at how the character of shangguan qian was handled. If there's no season 2, then this is going to bug me forever. Almost every character got a chance on screen to show their backstory on screen, including Lady Wuji, that is meant to show to us the audience as what "truthfully" happened. But for shangguan qian, to the very end, we got only crumbs of her backstory. She only TELLS us that she's from that one sect and that she wants revenge on Wufeng, but we never get the visual storytelling that tells us the audience whether that is actually true or not. She may be lying to the other characters but we the audience should be let in on the secret at one point to build our sympathy and understanding of her character.

But since we're not given much about her, despite being a main character, it's very strange. So, unless we're getting season 2 that will explore more of her character, the choice to leave out her backstory is weird.

#my journey to you #mjty spoilers #my journey to you spoilers #jina watches cdramas

[shewholovestoread]

My Journey To You - Thoughts and Impressions Part 2 of 2 - The Characters

Part 1 HERE

The format of the post will be as follows:

1) Yun Wei Shan

2) Gong Zi Yu

3) Their Relationship

4) Shangguan Qian

5) Gong Shang Jue

6) Their relationship

Spoilers below, beware all who enter.

Yun Wei Shan:

On paper, Yun Wei Shan seems like a perfectly fine character, she's empathetic, kind in an unkind world and willing to go to extremes (even putting her life on the line) to protect those she loves and cares about. The problem is just that though, in a book, we would have access to her thoughts and her perspective which would make for interesting reading. But when viewed visually, it's not as compelling. Visually, you have a character who seems to have the range of 2 expressions and there's no sense of internal conflict. Take her 'allegiance' to Wufeng for instance. From the very beginning, we the audience, can tell that she's not truly aligned with them or their ideology. She doesn't agree with their methods and if not for her foster sister, Yun Que she would have quit long ago. Not even the poison that Wufeng uses to keep all their assassins in check, would stop her.

What I will commend her characters for is her innate kindness. She is kind in a world that should have snuffed that light out a long time ago and yet, it persisted. This was in no small part due to her bond with Yun Que. She wasn't simply a dorm-mate, a fellow assassin. She was a sister in every sense of the word. She had someone to care for and protect. Even her mentor, Han Ya Si, is not like the cold and unfeeling mentors we meet later. You can tell that he genuinely cares about those under him. For all intents and purposes, he raised these women since they were children and unlike the others, he doesn't view them as tools to be used and then discarded when no longer useful.

When she goes to the Gong Family as a prospective bride, we also know that Yun Que is dead, her one tangible tie to Wufeng is gone. She's now thrust into this family that Wufeng claims is their arch-nemesis but throughout the show, we never find out what her actual mission is, what is she after? Why was she sent? She's clearly not supposed to kill anyone. Evade discovery but then what? We never find out. But because she's not particularly loyal to Wufeng, there's never any sense of conflicting desire inside her. So in that sense, she becomes a very one-note-character.

In terms of character growth, there is very little. Throughout the series, her one desire for freedom which, in a sense she does achieve (if you ignore the last 5 minutes of the show) All her life, she's been told what to do and that love is a weakness. At the end, she chooses to stay with Gong Zi Yu and embraces her love for him and those around her.

Gong Zi Yu:

Gong Zi Yu is perhaps the weakest link among the four main leads. If Yun Wei Shan's growth seemed negligible, Zi Yu's felt unearned.

I understand what the writer and director were going for, they set him up as a contrast to the other clan warriors who are cold and calculative, he was warm and kind. He starts off the series as someone who doesn't much care for the Gong family traditions, preferring instead the company of courtesans, he likes poetry and music. However, with the sudden death of his father and brother, he's thrust back into the family and worse into the role of Sword Wielder (SW), the leader of the Gongs. To officially become the SW, he must pass 3 tests and this is where things become a little strange. He passes them with ease and it feels unearned because while others who trained their whole lives took considerably longer to pass those tests, he came in with essentially no training and aced.

Now, you can be special but the fact that you are "special" must be made noticeable in text, like foreshadow it, or leave subtle clues that hint at it. The show does none of this and instead just asks the audience to believe it. That is not how you write a compelling character.

He's also probably the least mature character in the show (and I'll get to big reveal in a bit) but his blatant disregard for the Gong family protocols more than once, illustrate his cavalier attitude. Another way of looking at this is that he breaks tradition because he wants to create a better world for the generations to follow but all of that gets negated at the end.

The big reveal at the end, where we realise that everything that happened since Yun Wei Shan's reveal as a Wufeng assassin, was his grand plan does not make sense one bit. It comes completely left of field with little to no set-up at all. There was no foreshadowing, no little seeds left by the writer/director, little things that the audience could notice upon rewatching the show. In their effort to be ‘unexpected’, they sacrificed coherent story-telling.

Even his relationship with Yun Wei Shan is boring. I get that it was meant to be sweet but sweet will only take you so far especially in a show where the tone is anything but that. I know we're meant to swoon because of how steadfast he is when it comes to her but there are times when it seems straight up stupid. She is an assassin who has infiltrated his family and her mission could possibly be to kill him or someone close to him. Unlike the audience, he doesn't know that she is kind and even if he sees it, how can he know that it's not a facade? This also makes it seem like their relationship has no stakes, like what could she possibly do to make him doubt her or vice-versa.

I know you could be thinking, "but this is a healthy relationship." Okay but how is it healthy? It would have been if they explicitly trusted each other and communicated (like a Dream of Splendor, now that was a healthy relationship) but Zi Yu and Yun Wei Shan don't do that either, at least she's not always honest. If we're meant to believe that they do indeed communicate, then we need to see it, you can't plug it in as an extension of a previous scene and call it a day.

One of the best ways of making a compelling couple is the push and pull of the relationship and this ship had all of the ingredients; The Assassin and The Target, both suspicious of each other but inexplicably drawn together, so much sexual tension and angst. Instead, all we got was bland love at first sight and then sticking through it.

Shangguan Qian:

Shangguan Qian is the other assassin sent by the Wufeng (why send only one when you can send two and double your chances of success) and her character is infinitely more delicious than Yun Wei Shan's.

Shangguan Qian is very hard to pin down and stays so till pretty much the end of the series. Her motives are complex and you can never tell just whose side she's on. I also love the way she gradually warms up to the Gong brothers. I think that Wufeng feeds it's assassins a lot of lies about the family and her being with them, i think starts to dispel some of the myths.

She is also set-up as a foil to Yun Wei Shan. Where Wei Shan is kind and straighforward, Shangguan Qian is cold and unpredictable. Her demeanour makes sense when you look at her relationship with her mentor, Han Ya Qi, who in contrast to Han Ya Si, does seem to view his pupils as expendable. He recognises, correctly, that the only person Shangguan Qian cares about her is herself and that's because of the world she was raised in, caught in a perpetual dance between survival and death, there was little time for luxuries like love.

But even here, the show and Shangguan Qian surprise us. At the end, we learn that Han Ya Qi did take steps to protect Shangguan Qian and when he is at death's doorstep, alone, she does come back for him and tries to save him. The Shangguan Qian we met at the beginning of the series, would have left him there to die without a backward glance. Her time with the Gongs and especially with Yun Wei Shan and Lady Wuji, gave her glimpse of what life could be like, it's subtle but it's there. Every time Wei Shan helps her without asking for anything in return, there's always a beat where you can tell that Shangguan Qian is wondering what her motives could be. She never trusts the other women fully, they are after all Wufeng assassins but I do believe, by the end of the series, her opinion of them is kinder at the very least.

I also loved how unapologetic Shangguan Qian is. She's not sitting there wringing her hands, fussing over things she has to do. To her knowledge, if she fails her mission, she dies. Her mentor doesn't seem to care beyond training her, she has no one to fall back on. She has a job to do and she's gonna do it to the best of her abilities.

I must also talk about the actress, Lu Yu Xiao, and her performance. Her character is someone who is always on alert, always plotting her next move, carefully observing those around her for weaknesses she can exploit. She goes from seductive to hurt to unaffected in a beat and conveys it all through her eyes and the minutest of facial expressions. Her performance is so understated and it's a pleasure to watch.

Gong Shang Jue:

Gong Shang Jue is the resident emo dude and he is easily one of the best characters in the show. He makes no bones about his opinion of Zi Yu and for the most part, his criticisms are on point. He is an also incredibly traumatised character, having lost his mother and younger brother during the previous Wufeng attack. His zeal, therefore, to find and root out any and all Wufeng assassins who could have infiltrated the family makes sense, he's already lost the people closest to him, he doesn't want to lose any more. He is so single-minded that he doesn't even spare his own prospective bride when he suspects her of being from Wufeng.

Unlike Zi Yu, Shang Jue realises why the Gongs put in the protocols that they did. At the beginning of the show, he is painted in a more antagonistic light (this is to land the big reveal at the end) but you can see that Shang Jue doesn't really care about power. His quest for position of SW, is more about keeping his family safe and he believes that he is the best candidate for that job.

His cold exterior only ever cracks when he's with his other brother Gong Yuan Zhi (he's the resident psychopath) With Yuan Zhi, you can see what Shang Jue could have been like, if not for the events of the past.

The relationship between Shang Jue and Shangguan Qian is a treat to watch. There was so much sexual tension between them, so much suppressed yearning, I loved it. Theirs was such a cat and mouse game with each constantly trying to outwit the other.

Is it a healthy relationship? Not really, he literally interrogates her and threatens to torture her even more if she doesn't talk. But he's not someone who is demonstrative of his emotions and feelings, like I don't think he knows how to open up. But with Shangguan Qian, his cold heart begins to thaw and you can see that in their interactions.

Every time, Shangguan Qian initiates physical intimacy or tries to, you can see the confusion on his face and the inner conflict. On the one hand, he doesn't fully trust her and is suspicious of her motives, but on the other, there is a part of him that genuinely likes and yearns for it. There are instances where he wants to reach out to her or touch her but always holds himself back.

Shangguan Qian is also only ever honest with Shang Jue, she tells him the truth and I think a lot of their later interactions (at least on her part) are largely genuine.

They are also unnervingly similar to each other, both owe their allegiance to something larger than themselves and are shaped by their trauma (Shangguan Qian with the loss of her entire family and Shang Jue with the death of his mother and brother) They are drawn to each other despite everything because they see that they are the only people who are capable of understanding exactly what the other is going through.

What differentiates them however, is that while Shang Jue is driven by loyalty, Shangguan Qian is driven by vengeance and therein lies their greatest obstacle, the one thing that neither is willing to compromise. They are so beautifully written and executed that, even knowing that it could never work out, they still make the audience root for them.

And yet, by the end of the show, they are both fundamentally different people. Shang Jue chooses to let her go when he finds out she's pregnant and instead of going back to Wufeng, Shangguan Qian chooses to stay in a small isolated house with azaleas planted around the house. She chooses to peace and safety for her unborn child over her thirst for revenge.

If there is to be a season 2, a Shangguan Qian and Shang Jue reunion is inevitable and I for one, would love to see how that unfolds...

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mjty spoilers

NO ONE TOLD ME THAT HUA GONG ZI WAS GONNA DIE FUCKKKKKK I HATE IT HERE OHMYGOD IM SO SAD IM IN TEARS

#IM SO FUCKING SAD WTF #WHYYYYYYYY #I LOVED HIMMMMMM #IM SOBBING #my journey to you #mjty #mjty spoilers #my journey to you spoilers #WHYYYYYYY #WHY DID HE HAVE TO DIEEEEEEEE #YOU STUPID BLORBOOOOOO #liang xue feng #hua gong zi #ALSO THE XUE GUY TOOO #FUCKKKK

[viewbenyapa]

GONG SHANGJUE AND YUN WEISHAN FIGHTING AS A DUO WAS EVERYTHING I DIDNT KNOW I NEEDED

#mjty spoilers #IM KISSING THE SHOWRUNNERS

[hailaphrodite]

I love all the Beauty & the Beast vibes in My Journey to You. The impenetrable frozen castle that is spookily underpopulated by lords and servants who can never leave the premises. The rumors in the village below and the way the whole valley is... wrong. The glowing flower that you are absolutely not allowed to touch if you are from Outside. The way if you try to leave you are immediately beset upon by wolves (Wufeng). Not to mention the way Shangguan Qian is actively Beauty & the Beasting Gong Shangjue and it's 100% working, the Jue Gong servants have clearly seen a movie and are probably singing "I think there's something there that wasn't there before" under their breaths at any given moment

#she plants flowers where none have been allowed to grow before!!! she reminds him that things can smell and taste good!!! #beauty & the beast would have been a better movie with an EXTREMELY jealous younger brother talking shit about belle's game tbh #my journey to you #mjty #shangguan qian #gong shangjue #cdramas #my journey to you spoilers

[qoomakuma]

mjty ep. 22 spoilers

for the past 22 episodes, i haven't cried in any scene or any character. but every time han yasi showed up, there was a tingle in my chest that told me that, yes, THIS is the character that's gonna break me the most.

and he did.

when he chose to die in order to stall ziyi, my tears began to roll. and then we got those damned flashbacks of his moments with yun weishan—him telling her to not look back. to run away as fast as she can. to move forward firmly.

so yun weishan had to keep going, even when knowing that this could be the last time that she was ever going to see and talk to han yasi.

(this actor has the best chemistry with esther imo.)

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[solariene]

!! SPOILER EP 24 MJTY !!

Tbh I'm kinda sad there wasn't any angsty betrayal in mjty. What was the purpose to make someone fall in love with an assassin if no betrayal was planned 😅 I know Shangjue felt betrayed when Weishan told him that Shangguan Qian was an assassin but we didn't have any confrontation (yes they fight in the last episode but he let her go, she didn't try to kill him, there was no injury.. I wanted a fight with blood and injuries at some point lol even if they're in love). And let's not talk about Ziyu who didn't even try to look betrayed when he learned that Weishan was an assassin, he took the revelation pretty well immediately lol I really enjoyed the drama but it felt like everyone was too nice 😅

But I hope there is a season 2 because there are too many unanswered questions left (is Weishan ok??? The twin sister is with the bad guys or not?? Why didn't we see the face of the Wufeng Leader? ) The ending really felt like an introduction to a second season so I hope we'll get a part 2. I also want to know more about Shangguan Qian, if what she said was true, why didn't we have any flashbacks of her past? How could she be safe escaping Wufeng with no backup when Wufeng isn't completely defeated? (I also really want Shangjue to meet his baby pls)

#mjty #i hope the actors will play together in another dramz as a main couple #unpopular opinion but I couldn't really ship weishan and ziyu #they were cute and all but they fell un love too fast #and i didn't really see a big chemistry between them #😅😅 #my top 1 ship was Shangjue and shangguan qian #their chemistry was insane #my journey to you #cdrama #spoilers #mjty ep 24

[xiaolanhua]

so they released all the remaining episodes of mjty today... i don't know if i will be able to watch all of them but if i post about the last episodes i will tag them as "my journey to you spoilers" so if you want to mute the tag to prevent being spoiled i highly recommend!

#my journey to you #cdrama #aurora says

[dangermousie]

Soo, apparently fast track for MJTY came out today and @aysekira has been graciously feeding me spoilers.

I got to say the ending annoyed me enough that while I will finish this it’s definitely on ff. It’s a rare cdrama that doesn’t implode by the end tho so not surprised.

At least (a) my danmei ship is still alive and kicking and (b) I am amused but not surprised to find out that Shang Jue has epic PP (Penis Power) and the sex in the bath must have been truly amazing to make Miss Consummate Spy develop feelings and decide she wants to grind his ink (and other things) forever. NGL, Ryan Cheng with period hair sexing me in the bath is a better reason to turn traitor than many.

As to the main OTP, well…I hate cliffhanger endings so that’s all I am going to say.

#cdrama #my journey to you

[eohachu]

#. literally me rn #my journey to you #mjty spoilers #. don't touch me #. if I make it through the next 24 hours then I'll be fine otherwise I'll need to rewatch lol #r.mp3 #Spotify

[tytangfei]

Anyway, I definitely wanted to see shangguan qian more but the show didn't dedicate anything to her back story, just had her explain it to shangjue, which was uh a choice. The fact that she came back for her Raven, the fact that she barely went all out against shangjue and even falter when she is afraid of death......girl is a liar she's not heartless. (Especially seeing her take care of the flowers, very uncharacteristically sentimental of her....)

#s2 PLEASE #my journey to you spoilers #my journey to you #mjty spoilers #jina watches cdramas

[shewholovestoread]

My Journey To You - Thoughts and Impressions Part 1 of 2

I realise that I've been missing these past few months, i've been on a consumption binge but with little to no bandwidth to write about any show/film irrespective of how much I may have loved them. (depression is an ass) But I can, once again, feel thoughts tingling in my brain and I've decided to get back to writing, something that I deeply enjoy. Anyway, enough about me, let's get started.

To keep the post from getting obscenely long, I'm going to split it into two. This post will be about the technical aspects of the show. Part 2 will focus on the characters.

My Journey To You is a 2023 fantasy, Wuxia show (shows/films that are based in ancient China with martial arts warriors being capable of superhuman feats, like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). It was highly anticipated owing to the amazing trailer (one of the best I've seen)

Plot: The series tells the story of Yun Wei Shan, a spy longing for freedom, who infiltrates the Gong residence to complete a mission. In the eerie and treacherous Gong residence, she encounters love and friendship, embarks on a journey of self-discovery, and finds the determination to move forward. Together with the rebellious nobleman Gong Zi Yu, they grow and mature through their shared experiences. (via mydramalist)

It stars: Yu Shu Xin (Yun Wei Shan), Zhang Ling He(Gong Zi Yu), Ryan Cheng (Gong Shang Jue) and Lu Yu Xiao (Shangguan Qian), Tian Jia Rui (Gong Yuan Zhi), Jolin Jin (Gong Zi Shang) and Sun Chen Jun (Jin Fan)

Written by: Edward Guo.

Series directed by: Edward Guo & Luo Luo

I'll talk about everything I liked before I get into the stuff that I didn't.

Right off the bat, this show has some of the most gorgeous characters you'll come across and this applies to both the men and the women. The costume and make-up departments do an amazing job making already attractive people look ridiculously attractive. They also help the actors really inhabit the world seamlessly. The costumes are especially incredibly detailed and intricate, you can see the care that went into crafting the look for each of these characters. Shout-out to Huang Wei (costume designer) and Shi Hui (Make-up)

One of the best aspects of the show is the cinematography by Wei Hong. This show is aesthetically beautiful, so many absolutely stunning shots. Chinese shows (and Korean shows) love slow-motion shots, and while at times, it can be a bit much, this show makes great use of them, especially during the fight scenes.

The cinematography is helped to a great extent by the excellent production design, courtesy Jiyao Zhang. Like the costumes, the production design too is detailed and intricate. The world feels fully realised and yet also lived in. Each of the different clan mansions, the Front Hill and Back Hill are so incredibly different and distinct that you can immediately tell where you are. An insane amount of hard work went into the show and it shows in every frame.

You can tell that they had a good budget to work with and every bit of it was spent on making the show look as stylized as possible, there is not an ounce of realism to be found here, cue slow-motion beautiful hair flying shots. (Every day I bemoan my inability to make gifs) But the screencaps below illustrate the beauty of the show, it's so gorgeous that you could literally use screencaps as wallpapers.

The fight scenes in the show are some of the best I've seen. They are intense and thrilling and always coherent, you can always tell who's fighting who. The fight scenes are also so aesthetically pleasing, like an exceptionally deadly dance.

Now, we come to the not-so-great stuff.

First off, the marketing. The show was marketed and advertised as an action fantasy show and while there is action and it is excellent, it's not an "action" show. The main focus of the show is on the characters and the internal power struggle of the Gong family. There are also whole scenes, sometimes making up the bulk of an entire episode which are just conversations. I've seen a lot of viewers disappointed and it makes sense. they thought they were coming for action and instead they got verbose conversations.

The pacing also comes to a near-halt in some of these scenes and instead we're treated to lengthy expositions which isn't necessarily a bad thing but it becomes tedious when it happens repetitively.

Now, let's come to the worst thing about the show, it's ending, specifically the last 5 minutes. This end is ridiculously mindbogglingly bad when you consider that there is almost no confirmation on a 2nd season. It's just such a bad idea to end on a cliffhanger like this. If they wanted to leave things open for a potential 2nd season, they could have ended with the Wufeng elders coming together at that character's home, possibly to hold them ransom or something, like literally anything else.

if you're planning on watching this show and I do recommend it, keep in mind that it does get slow and don't watch the last 5 mins of the show. Trust me, you'll like the show a whole lot more if you follow that approach.

Part 2 HERE

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[sassybluee]

a part to play

Rating: General Audiences

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Fandom: 云之羽 | My Journey to You (TV)

Character: Yun Weishan

Additional Tags: Extended Scene, Canon Compliant, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Finale spoilers

Words: 1,176

Oh hey, I wrote a MJTY fic to extend Yun Weishan's final scene! I feel as though I were a woman possessed. I hope you all enjoy where my imagination took me.

Read here

#my journey to you #my fic

[tytangfei]

like I feel like we gotta have s2?? Because what was up with shangguan qian talking about her backstory and trying to kill the chief of wufeng (but she doesnt get the chance to yet) and then we also never get to see the chief, who is like the Big Evil that needs to be defeated. Like. Don't we need that closure? Also, uhhhh, I don't think Shangjue is the type to just forget his own child ? You telling me that dude would forsake his own kid???? Nah.

#my journey to you #my journey to you spoilers #mjty spoilers #???? #if no season 2 at least a movie to end these specific strings #hmmmmmmmm #if no movie or show. fanfic writers i am relying on you to finish! #jina watches cdramas