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  • 4/16/2025
I should have just stopped making theories because most of them were wrong at this point. Anyway, my bad if I seem a little dull this episode, I just wanted Zhou ZIshu and Wen Kexing to make up already!!!

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00:00Hello, this is eSoup aka Specific Soup. I'm about to react to Word of Honor episode 15,
00:08and if you've seen the show, you know where everyone is at emotionally right now. So I'm
00:16just gonna get into it and hope that we get something good in this episode at some point.
00:24At least a hint of it, please. All the drama on roofs and balconies.
00:47This poor girl.
00:48Oh.
01:18Wait, I think Gu Xiang is feeling a little hesitant because she actually likes her, whew.
01:29Oh, it's Hao Wei Ning is here.
01:43Obviously he can't see her do something like that.
01:46It's not a bad thing.
01:48She's sick.
01:50I'll go for her to get her.
01:53What are you doing?
01:55I don't want to do anything.
01:58I don't want to do anything.
02:00I'll buy a little bit of a bean.
02:07It's a bad thing.
02:09It's not bad.
02:11It's a bad thing.
02:13You can't.
02:14You can't.
02:15You can't.
02:16You can't.
02:17You can't.
02:18You can't.
02:19Damn.
02:20Bad timing.
02:21Damn.
02:22Bad timing.
02:24Bad timing.
02:25.
02:34.
02:35.
02:36.
02:37.
02:41Okay, so in the last episode, I thought Gaochong said something like my third brother ordered
03:03his Al Leitz's death, but maybe he was referring to the rumors and being sarcastic or like
03:12saying nobody saw this, you know, it's not true.
03:16It does seem like the Ghost Valley is a convenient scapegoat, but at the same time they're actually
03:22doing stuff.
03:25I don't think that's going to do it.
03:55Did you see him, or is he off in another corner?
04:08I can't tell where Lin Kuxing is.
04:10I can't tell where Lin Kuxing is.
04:15Oh.
04:16Oh.
04:17Oh.
04:18Oh.
04:19Oh.
04:20Oh.
04:21Who is that?
04:27Oh.
04:28Who is that?
04:34Oh.
04:35Who are you?
04:36Oh.
04:37Oh.
04:38Oh.
04:39Oh.
04:40Oh.
04:41Oh.
04:42Oh.
04:43Oh.
04:44Oh.
04:45Oh.
04:46Oh.
04:47Oh.
04:48It's my boyfriend.
04:53Oh.
04:54Oh.
04:55Oh.
04:57Oh.
04:59Oh.
05:00Oh.
05:01Oh.
05:06disguise. That's so funny. How cute.
05:27I don't know if the same kind of thing is gonna happen as last time where it's like,
05:31is Wen Ka-Sing gonna realize that the Scorpions have Zhou Zishu and then stop what he's doing
05:38to like, rescue him? I don't know. I just want something nice to happen.
05:53Hmm...
06:01But what if you had just opened up the armory for everyone?
06:11Like, what if everyone just had access...
06:17to it?
06:19Oh my gosh!
06:21You could let me go to your book.
06:22This is Ihr, it's the King of the Ring of the Ring of the Ring of the Ring,
06:26you look at the Shri-Rain of the Ring of the Ring,
06:28it could be they came from a van?
06:30Oh my gosh!
06:32пока, they've..."
06:33It's so nice to me.
06:34I can't wait for their friends.
06:35We're so quiet as they go to the Ring of the Ring...
06:39What are you guys doing now?
06:40You
07:10He's a- oh...
07:12Oh...
07:18Okay, okay, at least he's being a little bit funny now and a little bit flirty.
07:24They can fight, they can argue.
07:27I just need it to be, like, not sobbing and despondent right now.
07:33Okay.
07:40Mm-hmm.
08:01Mm-hmm.
08:03But what if it wasn't for the Glazer armor?
08:07Yes...
08:10Okay, that's right.
08:12Okay, well, it's been a bit different.
08:15Should I have to enjoy it?
08:18Yes, a lot of things just do.
08:21Well, I mean, it's a good thing, that isn't it?
08:23I don't enjoy it.
08:24Yes, I can't.
08:26Oh my god!
08:27Yes, girls, if it is more than enough,
08:30I want to see it, going to be a piece of it.
08:32Yes, mother.
08:34I just wanted to see the image of the Duxie. What character did you play with the Duxie?
08:38Interesting.
08:40Ugh.
08:42When Kuxing is like, he's like, I'm back to my shady self so I can suppress my difficult emotions.
08:52I think that's what he's doing right now.
08:57Oh my god.
08:59The freaking Scorpion King.
09:02Ugh. And he always looks like he has some, like, lip gloss on.
09:06But oh my god. Ugh.
09:08He's just, like, beautiful.
09:14Who's...
09:16My goodness.
09:18Huh?
09:20Godfather.
09:25Huh? Who are you?
09:27What?
09:30What?
09:31Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
09:34Godfather.
09:41We're not gonna get a good look at him yet.
09:43Oh, that's right. So some members of the Ghost Valley, at least, are working with the Scorpion sect.
09:56We know that What's-His-Name with the Big Tall Hat is working with the Scorpion sect.
10:01Maybe other members are, too.
10:03I think that's... it's, like, behind Wen Kuxing's back or just, you know, without his approval.
10:13Oh, that's so funny.
10:15My name is
10:20Is it you?
10:22Is it you?
10:23Is it you?
10:24Is it you?
10:27Is it you?
10:29Is it you?
10:31Is it you?
10:32Is it you?
10:35Is it me?
10:37That's right.
10:39You're not the one who wants to live in love.
10:43I think he still has a lot to learn.
10:47Who would you like to call these people?
10:50Yeah.
10:51But, Ahxue, you said it right.
10:54I would like to see it,
10:56it's just this kind of evil,
10:58and it's a big rage.
11:00Oh...
11:05Hey, what's wrong with you?
11:08Don't be afraid of you.
11:10I think he feels like he can show more of his true self,
11:13because he doesn't think there's, like,
11:16hope for their relationship anyway.
11:18It's like, oh, it's over, and Joseph Hsu is gonna die,
11:22so he doesn't feel like he needs to, like,
11:25be the good guy for him anymore.
11:27I guess it gives a potential opportunity
11:30for Joseph Hsu to, like, show care for him anyway,
11:34even in, like, a moment where he's, like, being evil
11:38and, like, showing his, like, true evil self.
11:41I think something like that happening would give him pause.
11:45Yes.
11:46I think he's gonna be a good guy.
11:47He's gonna be a good guy.
11:48He's gonna be a good guy.
11:49He's gonna be a good guy.
11:50He's gonna be a good guy.
11:51He's gonna be a good guy.
11:52He's gonna be a good guy.
11:53He's gonna be a good guy.
11:54He's gonna be a good guy.
11:55He's gonna be a good guy.
11:56He's gonna be a good guy.
11:57He's gonna be a good guy.
11:58He's gonna be a good guy.
11:59He's gonna be a good guy.
12:00He's gonna be a good guy.
12:01He's gonna be a good guy.
12:02He's gonna be a good guy.
12:03He's gonna be a good guy.
12:04He's gonna be a good guy.
12:05He's gonna be a good guy.
12:06He's gonna be a good guy.
12:07Go la
12:09Yeah, I don't want to tell you how to tell you how to tell you how to tell you how to tell you how to tell you
12:13Go la
12:14Yo, either
12:16I will go on to me
12:20What I'll come
12:22You have some water
12:31Okay, did they
12:34That's right
12:37That guy's... what's-his-name was agreeing to help... the weak ghost.
12:47Yeah, I see now. I see.
12:56This is such a cool thing going on.
13:00Oh, she doesn't know what's happening.
13:04Oh...
13:11Oh, no.
13:15He's... oh, you've never seen him fight.
13:22Let's see what you can do, little bro.
13:34I was ex... expecting him...
13:38Oh, okay.
13:40I was expecting him to not be very good.
13:42But he's, like, decently okay, I think, in this situation.
13:49But she's definitely the tough one here.
13:52Oh, she's okay.
13:58Don't hurt her. Oh, no.
14:04I like her.
14:08I guess I spoke too soon about him being, like, decently okay at martial arts.
14:18At least he could do something.
14:21Oh.
14:23Oh.
14:27Aww.
14:29She's not wasting it.
14:33And...
14:35Don't...
14:36You don't get to say nothing when you've got that human man that you're... working with.
14:42You... you gotta let her be.
14:44Hehehe.
14:47Hehehe.
14:51The plot thickens.
14:52What the heck is that?
14:55I don't like that.
14:58Eh?
15:05Who?
15:07What?
15:08What?
15:09Who?
15:10Who?
15:11Who?
15:12Who?
15:20Yeah, a young chief.
15:25Oh.
15:32Cool.
15:38I was gonna say, like, I don't really love how the show portrays a little person, the guy who is, like, carried by the really big guy that has, like, the maces and he has the little guns.
16:09I'm forgetting his name.
16:10I feel like the voice actor for him is maybe, like, hamming it up a little bit too much.
16:15And it just feels like it's a little bit stereotypical with, like, little person, minion, villainy guy.
16:23I do think since this show has, like, humanized so many characters, there's obviously the potential that we might get, like, more backstory and more information on him and, like, have him be, like, more of a character than just sort of, like, a trope.
16:37But it does feel a little bit weird to me.
16:40But, like, as far as disability stuff goes, I'm kind of liking the fact that this person designed the wheelchair and they're talking about, like, how amazing, like, the mechanics of it are.
16:53I think that's just, like, a fun little, I don't know, world building thing.
16:58Like, oh, this very mechanically gifted person, you know, is also disabled some way and, like, designed their own wheelchair.
17:05And it's, like, this thing that everyone is impressed by.
17:08So, like, that's cool.
17:09I don't know, I guess you, you win some and you lose some, right?
17:12I don't know, I guess you, you win some and you lose some, right?
17:13I don't want to let him, like, tell everyone, what the武库 of the Rai-Long-Chu-Mai
17:20So, Rang Xiuan stole from other sects, right?
17:45Yeah, so I'm really starting to think when Ke Xing's father had things stolen from him by Rang Xiuan.
17:53Like, was Rang Xiuan, or was when Ke Xing's father the one who came up with plans behind the glazed armor, he in the first place?
18:02Because we saw the guy with the painting and that scroll and that little illustration.
18:07It's a great little illustration.
18:08I was scared by my people from taking it away.
18:10He's handling some tricks.
18:11I so glad we could have shot him by leaving him.
18:13That's a bad thing.
18:14He's all the cookies.
18:15Unmanned children.
18:16You know, we are down here and they are right.
18:17We're down here and we're down here.
18:18We are down here and we're down here and we're down here.
18:19Hey, hey.
18:20We're down here and I will.
18:21I really know.
18:22You can hear that.
18:23You're down here.
18:24We do.
18:25You can't hear that.
18:26You can hear that.
18:28I can hear that.
18:29I can hear this.
18:30I can hear the pieces.
18:31I can hear the pieces.
18:32Hey, I can hear that.
18:33Well, I can hear that.
18:34Okay.
18:35Even if you have the glazed armor, it's- it would hurt you to open it.
18:46Oh.
18:56Is- is your father around?
19:05Yeah, you're gonna be able to give you the war.
19:11I'm so sorry.
19:12You're going to be able to take a moment.
19:15I can't believe the war.
19:18You're not going to be able to take the war.
19:22You'll be able to take the war.
19:24Peace.
19:25The war is the war.
19:29You can't die.
19:31Right.
19:32Ooh...
19:45Oh geez. Don't fight this kid.
20:02I think Zhao Jing is too trusting.
20:30He still doesn't seem like a bad guy to me, but he's like too trusting of his brothers.
20:41Oh man.
20:50Oh.
20:52I see.
21:00What?
21:08He's talking about Zhao Jing, right?
21:10Okay, I think he's saying he's stupid because like he was tricked.
21:14He didn't think so.
21:16He didn't think so.
21:18You're the person who set them up.
21:22You're the person who set them up.
21:34You're the person who set them up.
21:48You're plotting yourself.
21:50You're plotting yourself.
21:52...
21:54In some sense you won't be fooled.
21:55But I can tell you that I do the r 알고
22:00There is no doubt that it is open.
22:02I don't know
22:03He won't be annoyed.
22:04Here is the rOT of those who motors and pardon me!
22:06Give me a little help!
22:06She'll help me!
22:08I will tell you that our angel will be diverted.
22:12I hope that this will be the death of the SQL.
22:14I will do the龍少閣主 to lead people.
22:17I will send the randy of the dragon with all of us.
22:19We will send the randy to each other.
22:21Yes, yes!
22:22You can't.
22:23I don't know about that.
22:37Well, at least they're not threatening the kid anymore.
22:41Ah, geez.
22:53Oh, Cheng Ling.
22:58What does everyone want with Cheng Ling?
23:02Like, for real?
23:03Because I was kind of theorizing about it, but I don't really know.
23:19Your daughter has been kidnapped, bro.
23:23She's not even here.
23:28She's not even here.
23:46Oh, okay.
23:48Is that why he wants- he just- he wants Cheng Ling to take over for him because he wants to go become a monk?
23:57So he was like, I need to- I need to hurry up and see someone take over?
24:01Is that why he's doing this whole betrothal thing?
24:04Alright.
24:05That's unexpected.
24:06Oh?
24:07Oh!
24:08He doesn't ex-
24:09Oh!
24:10Oh!
24:11Oh!
24:12Oh!
24:13Oh!
24:14Oh!
24:15Oh!
24:16Oh!
24:17Oh!
24:18Oh!
24:19Oh!
24:20He doesn't ex-
24:21He-
24:22Oh!
24:23Oh!
24:24Oh!
24:25Oh!
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25:05Oh!
25:06Okay, alright, it's arguing time.
25:36Oh, and because he has the token.
25:44Yeah.
25:51Oh.
26:05Hmm.
26:06But my main question here is, does returning the armory to the people, like, opening it
26:15up for everyone, does that actually require, like, eradicating the ghosts?
26:21Is it, like, because otherwise the ghosts in Mount Tingya are right there and they'll
26:26come out and they'll stop people from using the armory?
26:30Because that's an interesting issue I'm seeing here, is maybe we're, like, are we
26:35assuming that the ghosts need to be eradicated when actually everyone could freely use the
26:41armory and it would be okay?
26:43Okay.
26:52Oh, okay.
26:53Hm, but what if they can?
27:06Hm.
27:12Hm.
27:22I just feel myself filled with anxiety right now.
27:47He forced him into it.
27:54It does still seem like Windpushin wants this.
28:01He wants an active fight between First Valley and the Five Lakes and everyone else.
28:08It does still seem like Windpushin wants this.
28:15He wants an active fight between First Valley and the Five Lakes and everyone else.
28:23He wants an active fight between First Valley and the Five Lakes and the Five Lakes.
28:38Yeah.
28:39Okay.
28:41Okay.
28:42The High Lakes and the Five Lakes is a good person.
28:43He wants a good person.
28:44He wants an active fight between First Valley and the Five Lakes and the Five Lakes.
28:48are they just gonna find something new to fight over like the armory is open everyone can access
29:09it and their works and scrolls and books from different sects and different people that were
29:15kind of like taken and they're like we're gonna return them now but now instead of fighting over
29:20the glazed armor people will just fight over the scrolls oh lord oh my god i don't i don't really
29:34think he cares that much he's like dude shut up this is ridiculous i kind of see the deal with
29:52gaocheng now unless they pull another thing out another rug out from under us i don't think he's
29:58like i don't think he is planning a big trick i think he's like i think he wants to be a monk
30:02because he's like i'm done caring about all this crap and he's put chungling in a bad position
30:07and i don't like him but he's not nearly as bad as he seemed before
30:13okay we have like 10 minutes left
30:25oh
30:29oh
30:31oh
30:33oh
30:34oh
30:35so oh wrong's who i had a sect
30:42that's
30:45oh
30:46the healer valley
30:47Oh! The Healer Valley!
30:56He's upset about the book from Rong Shuan's sect.
31:04Maybe Wen Ka Xing's father was part of Rong Shuan's sect and then he did
31:10something that Rong Shuan stole and that's part of what Wen Ka Xing is
31:15maybe mad about. But I also think he might end up having an interest
31:20in getting that Healer Valley book.
31:45Can't you guys just set up a library that everyone can read from?
32:04He's... he's mad because they're just like arguing and they're not actually fighting
32:15and that's what he wanted to see. Oh and Joe Zishu is gonna see that he just like
32:20wants people to like kill each other but I think he's still gonna stick around.
32:24Even if he jets out for a little bit obviously he's gonna be back but I don't know if I'm gonna
32:30be able to handle that because I would like to see them make up soon.
32:39Oh jeez.
32:42Oh.
32:44Oh.
32:48That part.
33:02Oh.
33:04Oh.
33:06Oh.
33:08That's... that's his whole thing is he's like in the ghost
33:38valley at least we're honest about like being evil but these people wear a guise of benevolence
33:46to cover up the evil that they do. But sometimes he's wrong because some people aren't as bad
33:52as others. It's complicated.
33:54Oh.
33:58Oh.
34:00Oh.
34:02Oh.
34:04Oh.
34:06Oh.
34:08Oh.
34:10Oh.
34:12Oh.
34:14No.
34:16Oh jeez.
34:18Oh jeez.
34:20Oh jeez.
34:24Oh jeez.
34:26Oh.
34:28And they're still here and they just kind of were like hired help.
34:34You know for some BS.
34:36Right?
34:38That sucks.
34:40Oh.
34:42Oh.
34:43Huh?
34:44Oh.
34:45A whistle?
34:46I...
34:47I...
34:48I don't know what I'm gonna do while I'm waiting to watch the next episode after this.
35:04Whoa.
35:06Oh no.
35:08Oh they're controlling him.
35:12Never mind what I said.
35:13They're like seriously in on something too.
35:16Oh they're like controlling him.
35:18He's like one of the drug men.
35:22Yeah that statue seems illustrative.
35:26Oh.
35:27Oh jeez.
35:28Oh.
35:29Oh jeez.
35:33Oh.
35:34Oh jeez.
35:43Oh.
35:47Everything that's happening is so thrilling but I'm so upset.
35:53I want to be excited but I'm like so upset for better or for worse I was
36:07slightly spoiled for the ending so everything will be okay in the end
36:23long-tongued ghost did the mirror like sect let me make sure I'm catching this
36:53go to where is it who's speaking
37:12Is that the, um, no, I don't know who that is.
37:26I don't know who's talking, but if that's true, I guess I have to take back everything
37:30I said about Gao Chong, maybe being nice.
37:34Yeah, he didn't do that.
37:58Why did, I feel like Gwen Kuxing looked surprised.
38:01I don't know what he's directly masterminding and what other stuff is happening that he's,
38:08like, not aware of.
38:31Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I think this is what the scorpions were colluding with the tall
38:53hat ghost on, and that's why Gwen Kuxing was taken off guard, because he didn't know
38:59about it.
39:00But that's horrible for his daughter.
39:02Who is this?
39:13That godfather guy?
39:14Yeah.
39:18Yeah.
39:48I wonder, I can't tell what he thinks about it, if he approves or disapproves, but okay, so Changing Ghost is the one with the tall, squarish hat, right? And he worked with the scorpions behind the back of Wen Qixing.
40:10I'm gonna go to sleep and then tomorrow, as soon as I get the chance, I'm gonna be back in for the next episode because I can't wait that long because I was hoping. I feel like I jinxed myself. I was like, well, Wen Qixing might show more of his true colors right now.
40:29And even though Joseph Shue is, like, gonna come back, he might say nope and jet out for a little while and then that's exactly what happened. And I should have expected that. Everything hurts.
40:41I feel like some of these episodes around this point will most benefit from a rewatch when I rewatch the series. And I'm like, you know, because once I've seen everything and I come back around, I'll be like, okay, I know how this went down. It's still upsetting, but I don't have to be so upset about it.
41:00And then I'll probably actually be able to follow, like, half of the plot that's happening because I've been trying and, like, making theories, but I'm also just, like,
41:10I, oh, the stakes in this show feel so high. I don't know if that makes sense. It's just, like, I mean, a lot of bad things are happening constantly,
41:21but when bad things happen to the main characters or when there's, like, a major emotional conflict, it just, like, feels so intense.
41:30And you know that Joseph Shue, he still also gets very emotional, but he's just a more subdued emotional than Wen Qixing.
41:40But I think for him is, like, the more I think about his position and how he would feel, the more devastating that is.
41:47He was the one who was, like, I'm opening myself up and being vulnerable and trusting you.
41:54And I think he was hoping that Wen Qixing would, like, be on the upswing, you know, as far as his evil ways or whatever the heck he was doing.
42:04And this has shown otherwise, at least for the moment.
42:09So yeah, I will be excited and curious to see what happens next.
42:13And just hoping for the next moment of cuteness, whenever that may come.
42:19Because they really gave us, like, the most adorable, beautiful everything, and then just, like, took it all away.
42:27Which, if you think about it, that kind of mirrors how Wen Qixing feels about, like, everything he wanted in life getting taken from him.
42:37That's interesting.
42:38I don't know if that's an intentional mirroring, exactly.
42:42Because obviously the plot is going to have its emotional ups and downs and, you know, blah blah blah.
42:47Stuff has to happen.
42:49Conflict has to happen.
42:50But it does feel sort of like we were given something, like, so, like, beautiful and loving.
42:57And then they're just like, we're gonna take that away from you.
43:00For a while, at least.
43:02Okay, well, this is ESOOP signing out.
43:05Until next time.