A Gift of Love/YMMV


 * Alternative Character Interpretation: While Ren is kept in character, he once in a blue moon says things that imply that really, inside, he's afraid of being alone.
 * Complete Monster: Fan Suo. This is a woman who lost her first daughter because of anti-shaman aggression by the townspeople, but she never specifically uses that as a reason for doing what she does. What exactly does she do? Well, she curses and kills half the town for her daughter's death. After having another daughter, she pairs her with an older man who uses said daughter for sex - at twelve years old, and seems to be alright with it. Then, after Hua decides to marry Zhang instead, she forces her at 13 years old to have a child, which ends up killing her. One would think this would drive her to cherish the child as a memento, but she does just the opposite. She entices Zhang to practically become a sex addict for thirteen years with numerous women, causing him to ignore his own daughter's existence. As the girl, Pin-Mei, grows up, Suo beats her emotionally and physically, then begins to mold her into her mother so
 * That's not all! She crashes Ren and Pin-Mei's engagement party after threatening a servant with killing her family if she didn't tell her what was going on, then berates Pin-Mei for not continuing to play dress-up when she's not there. Then she tries to convince Pin-Mei that Ren doesn't love her, and only wants to control her, causing her to actually doubt him. It gets better! Then we find out she tricked  into helping her with her plan, and how does she reward
 * Not to mention she and then it's revealed that Zhang begged her to teach him to be a shaman just so he could see the spirit of Hua after her death, and she flat out refuses for no good reason other than to hurt him.
 * She also uses Ren and Pin-Mei's love against them when she tricks Ren into thinking Pin-Mei followed him to the battle and heard him say that he didn't need her. She also has no problem taking her revenge out on  when it's really Rong that she wants to kill. The fact that she  doesn't help, either.