Jiang Ling's review also provided a profound analysis of Tang Ruoxuan.
The article was titled "Loving You is My Destined Calamity!"
If life were only like the first meeting, why the sorrowful autumn wind and the painted fan.
In the past two years, I have played many tragic female roles.
If I were to be judged, Tang Ruoxuan would be the most tragic female character I have ever portrayed, and there will be no one after her.
In "Heavenly Sword and Dragon Slaying Saber," before Yin Susu's death, she warned her son Zhang Wuji that the more beautiful a woman is, the more deceitful she will be.
It's a pity that Tang Ruoxuan's parents did not tell her that men who are sweet-mouthed and handsome not only deceive but also often have the cruelest hearts.
She should have been a pampered young lady with both parents, a happy and fulfilling family, and untouched by the hardships of the world.
If not for the Five Dukes of Heavenly Sword, she would not have lost her family overnight and become an orphaned girl with no one to rely on.
Xiao Ting's appearance was both her calamity and her sin.
To cure this man's eyes, she was willing to give up her own.
To be with this man, she defied her master's objections, challenged traditional authority, and resolutely canceled her engagement with the second male lead, Gu Hanyang.
She gave this man the most sincere and unreserved love.
Yet, he inflicted upon her the most heavy, despairing, and cruel pain.
On the peak of Mount Huang, after years of planning, he finally obtained the Heavenly Sword he had always dreamed of. In front of the assembled heroes, he calmly admitted to being Abhiraja and, wielding the Heavenly Sword, went on a rampage, slaughtering those who opposed him.
"Ruoxuan, even if I kill everyone in the world, I will not kill you, because you are the person I love and cherish most in this world."
Most cherished? Most loved?
How cruel and ironic those words were!
Killing her parents and family, killing her master, making her an orphaned girl with no one to rely on – was this how one treated the person they cherished and loved the most?
The revelation of Abhiraja's identity and the bloody truth laid bare before her struck Tang Ruoxuan like a thunderbolt, making it impossible to bear.
The man she loved most was the murderer of her entire clan.
There is no greater cruelty or pain in the world than this.
Even more tragic was that, not long before, she had discovered she was pregnant with his child.
Faced with such a blow, Tang Ruoxuan was on the verge of collapse.
No matter how difficult it was to accept, she had to face the reality: the man she loved, Xiao Ting, was indeed Abhiraja.
In the eyes of everyone, Tang Ruoxuan was gentle, kind, and dignified.
However, gentleness and dignity did not equate to a lack of principles, and outward weakness did not mean her heart was as soft as tofu, easily crushed.
On the contrary, Tang Ruoxuan's adherence to righteousness and justice was stronger than anyone else's.
The lesser heroes help the weak and uphold justice; the greater heroes serve their country and their people.
She simply could not forgive Xiao Ting, because between them lay the blood feud of dozens of members of the Tang family, the lives of her master's family, and the countless lives lost to the Blood Moon Divine Cult's indiscriminate killings.
She had considered giving Xiao Ting a chance to reform, even revealing the secret of the Heavenly Sword, hoping he would covet the elixir of immortality and destroy the Heavenly Sword, that harbinger of disaster.
In the end, Xiao Ting disappointed her again; he could not give up the Heavenly Sword, nor the power and status he was about to attain.
Tang Ruoxuan had no other choice but to use her own life and the child in her womb to deliver a devastating blow to Xiao Ting, making him taste the bitterness of losing those he loved and cherished most.
In the end, Xiao Ting felt her pain, despair, and breakdown, but it was all too late.