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[Zi Qi's bangles/swords] Zi Qi made the ring for Miao Miao from his bangle. After that, his bangles became uneven. Even one of his swords shortened.

Bangles are even in Ep1

Bangles are uneven

The shorter sword xD

Ding Yu Xi liked the bangles so much, he asked the crew to make a smaller version for him, which he can wear casually.

[Zi Qi's hairband and spear are all from (high school) Miao Miao] She really is his armour. His hairband clasp is Miao Miao's lotus hair-tie. His spear is Miao Miao's favourite gel-ink pen.

Zi Qi's lotus hairband...

is the lotus hair tie Miao Miao wore at school

Her lotus becomes his symbol of strength.

Zi Qi's Chosen weapon...

...is the pen Miao Miao loved

Zhao Ruo Shi doesn't wear hair bands, but when he was Zi Qi, he had one.

Regular Zhao Ruo Shi

Wedding Zhao Ruo Shi = Zi Qi
The focus is the back of his head and not her :0 face

[Zhao Qin Ru has fun accessories too] She wears a palace/pavilion on her head, and the back of her head has the back of the pavilion.

[Accessories outside of the drama] Ding Yu Xi made a pindo 拼豆 (beaded cartoons) for Yu Shu Xin. It all started from their first live event (left image). Yu Shu Xin asked about his ZiQi-pindo, which he made a while ago. Then he thought about it for a second, and asked her if she wanted him to make one for her too. YES! (These two chitchat a lot when the microphone is there, lol). Then fans caught him actually making it and supposedly spent ~3 hours (right image).

Yu Shu Xin – being a great sport – shows off her MiaoMiao-pindo made by a very proud Ding Yu Xi. (This is their third live event)

DYX spent 3 hours probably making this one too.

Ding Yu Xi's Easter Eggs / Diaries

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These are titled "Zi Qi's Little Theatre". Ding Yu Xi recorded these "diaries" after filming wrapped. They're little romantic highlights. Total 13 clips.

[#1] Ep3 Easter Egg:

被突然表白怎麼辦？？ = What should I do if I am suddenly confessed to??
Caption: She said she likes me? I should have killed her (LOL)

[#2] Ep6 Easter Egg:

五子棋上有字是咋回事兒 = What’s the matter with the words on the wuziqi?
Caption: “Miaos’ (are written on his wuziqi)

[#3] Ep5 Easter Egg:

隨便變著玩的，沒什麼特別的意思… = It’s just for fun, it doesn’t have any special meaning…
Caption: 平安 (Miao Miao’s wish for everyone to be safe).

[#4] Ep8 Easter Egg:

前世今生都愛吃的小兔子蘋果 = Past or present, I still love to eat rabbit-cut apples.

Caption: Only I can have my jie's apples. From now on you (Miao Miao) can only have apples cut from me.

[#5] Ep7 Easter Egg:

居然敢不怕我 = [She’s] actually daring enough not to fear me.
Caption when he’s smiling: She’s not afraid of me (:
Caption when he’s pretending to be offended: She’s actually not afraid of me *best grumpy face*

[#6] Ep8 Easter Egg (No text from DYX)
Caption: She should be on the boat by now ):

[#7] Ep9 Easter Egg:

誰還不會做香囊了 = Who doesn’t know how to make a pouch anymore

[#8] Ep12 Easter Egg:

一定是藥太苦了…對！就是藥苦！ = The medicine must be too bitter...yes! It’s just bitter medicine! [And not that the sweetness comes from the heart ~~~]

[#9] Ep13 Easter Egg:

最討厭失控的東西，除了 = I hate things that can’t be controlled, except ….

[#10] Ep17 Easter Egg:

某人胳膊肘又…又…向不知道哪裡拐了！！😡 = A certain someone's elbow... again... is taking a turn to I don’t know where!! 😡

Caption: Damn it Liu Fu Yi. I don’t want to have a good relationship with you.

[#11] Ep19 Easter Egg:

還以為我也被愛了呢 = And here I thought I was loved (😢)
Caption: 你还真是不知好歹 You really don’t understand good from bad

[#12] Ep20 Clip (no Easter Egg):

今天是個好日子，我也來替慕聲兒助助興🎁評論區按時間順序9、19、29…到99的樓層會有驚喜掉落哦😎 = Today's a good day. I (DYX) am here to help Mu Sheng'er celebrate 🎁 In the comment area, there will be surprise presents for the 9th, 19th, 29th, ... to 99th commenters. 9s for two reasons: 1) He's at 99% love, and 2) 999s are good numbers for couples because it means long long long = forever.

[#13] Ep22 Easter Eggs:

是349%的喜歡 = It’s 349% love. Since he started at -250%, here's the math: 99-(-250) = 349.

Caption: I like Miao Miao. I want to marry Miao Miao. I love the detail that he also wrote it the modern way, with the A4 paper portrait!

Moonlight References

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Love Game's Chinese title is 永夜星河, which is a romantic coincidence with Moonlight's plot, particularly in Ep10 (pasted from the recaps): "They arrive at 星河 Road (Galaxy Road) and there are couples everywhere. There’s a legend that if one walks with the opposite sex on this path then they will be together forever."

DYX and YSX carrying signs for 星河 Road during 永夜星河 promos

(Love Game filming)	(Moonlight filming)

Yang Shi Zhe

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[#1] During a live, Yang Shi Zhe misheard his nickname and so from being 人機柳大哥 Robotic Liu dage", he became 雞柳大哥 Chicken Tenders dage. Then he was offered a chicken endorsement! But he rejected it!! The others (Ding Yu Xi, Yu Shu Xin, and Zhu Xu Dan) mourned for their free chicken.

[#2] Yang Shi Zhe was asked why he didn't dance for their MV. He posted this gif and later on uploaded his rigid dance practice. (I love the bloopers)

[#3] After fans zooooomed in on his eating in Ep22, he posted this: 昨晚做了餓夢 = Last night, I had a ~~night~~hungry-mare

DYX is here to protect his bro xD

[#4] Yang Shi Zhe on his WB: "Firstly, I apologize for my indifference when I looked down at the ground. Secondly, I think I imitated very well – nothing abstract about it!"

In a BTS, Zhu Xu Dan had complained that she doesn't walk like this. Well. LOL.

ZXD's reply with the above pic: 媚眼拋給「瞎子」看哼!你就毛蛋半永久吧 = [I was] Throwing flirty glances at a “blind man,” hmph! Fine, you’ll just pair with your 毛蛋 mao-dan (his nickname; Balut egg) forever then. (She's telling him to CP with a dog instead of her)

[#5] Speaking of Liu Fu Yi's nickname, Balut-Egg 毛蛋, it happens to be Miao Miao's favourite!

"I love eating Mao Dan the most!"

Misc. Episode Notes/Pictures

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→ Not necessarily new findings.

→ Some of these are just fun to resist.

→ Progress: Ep7/32 (i.e. these are the eps I revisited. Everything else is off the top of my head)

[Ep1]

Our CP did get a wedding ...xD

Yu Shu Xin commenting on CGI budget

[Ep3]

[Ep5] The first "positive/neutral" score of 0% \o/. It's the first time he found her cute here:

"Wishing everyone 平平安安 (safe) for the rest of their lives"

平安

The world that young Zi Qi wished for: "Sky-Destroying Calamity"

The world our Zi Qi will love because he has learned to love himself.

[Ep6] Miao Miao teaches Mu Sheng to play wuziqi, which happens to sound like his name Mu Zi Qi.

Miao Miao complimented his hair band. Of course she likes it. It was actually from her.

Miao Miao told her father to dig up Goddess of Mei's temple, knowing there would be a fortune to uncover – that's actually Miao Miao's dowry from Zi Qi's mother (;

"There is a Goddess of Mei temple"

"There's a gold mine"

Should have been an NG. Dad Ling cracked what he thought was a hardboiled egg, but it was raw. Then he tried to hide it under the plate.

[Ep7] Ding Yu Xi had a really pretty way of describing this scene:

世界在顛倒, 我們在相愛
The world is turned upside down and [in that chaos] love we found.

Zi Qi explains that to reach the daemon hunter's highest level, it may require defeating a level 9 daemon. Is that what happened in Ep31.... that he died so fast because he killed himself – Level 9 daemon because of his mother – to become a short-lived daemon hunter, free of the daemon-control, to defeat Lady Resentment 🤔

[Ep8]