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Even though it had it's flaws alchemy of souls have me something that k dramas have failed to do in a long time. Excitement. I remember waiting to watch k dramas as a teenager with baited breath for the next episodes to come out, falling in love with the characters with every step. And alchemy of souls delivered. So it will be one of my favorites. It could have been better but I will still love it even with it's flaws.

Uk just does not disappoint. I love him for the whole “yeah I’ll let this world burn to the fucking GROUND. Cho Yeong’s the only one that matters to me.” Get me a man like that lol

So as much as i wanted to see Cho Yeong train and be her old fighter Naksu self i can see why she chose not to. She trained as a mage and was a very skilled with the sword because Jin Mu trained her to be an assasin. She was manipulated and used by Jin Mu and made into an assasin. I understood why the she as Mu Deok wanted to gain back her powers. Because she wanted to be Naksu and be the assasin she was trained to be. But now, she doesn't want to be Naksu. She wants to be Cho Yeong and use the divine powers of her body to stop the evils around.

I do, however, appreciate that it apparently ends with the main couple going on Cool Magical Adventures instead of settling down to a life of boring domesticity with 2.5 babies and a white picket fence

very funny to me that jin mu took someones body and was like. ok i gotta do his eyeliner. a smoky eye. darken my eyebrows. slick back my hair

the way yeong and uk went to "i am going to believe that we will always have tomorrow." on their first day of official marriage to spending their lifetime together and running around kicking ass together is such a well deserved ending for our jade egg lovers

people willfully misunderstanding the whole point of cho yeong’s arc was not to return to who she was but to grow and find a purpose in life that she chose for herself

All the folks complaining that we didn’t get “badass Naksu” back really are showing that the only way they think a female character can be strong is if she kicks ass. Was Naksu awesome? Of course. But she was also the version of Cho Yeong that was abused, neglected, forced into becoming magically and physically powerful as a tool for Jin Mu. In the end, Cho Yeong made her own choice to reclaim her birth name, stick with the divine powers she received from Bu Yeon, and be happy and free alongside the person she loves. Also, would you want to go back to using the magic and the sword that you were forced to kill your lover with?! Yeong and Uk both spend the whole story chasing freedom, and they both got it in the end. They are both powerful, both free of others’ control, both happy with each other. I don’t see how that isn’t an ideal ending.