SPOILERS: Ep.25-29 Recap, Q&A, Novel Comparison

CP/MXL's birth

Two things were deposited into their mom‘s womb after she died. One was blood from the father of the arranged marriage.The other was the chaos pearl.

GQM was a product from the blood.MXL is from the chaos pearl.

 Neptune:

@Micha, thank you for taking the time to put it all in one place. It's really useful.

If anyone knows, please help...I've got a question re: CP/MXL's birth. I understood it as she was birthed as a twin with GQM, but they left her under the Xuanling Tree because they thought she was demonised/defective. And they assumed GQM was the CP. Is that correct?

No biggie! ♡

About MXL's birth, she manifested as light and escaped from the womb when NX was cut open to take GQM out. The aunt, master, and dad Gao were blinded by the light but they thought the light was a sign from the heavens that GQM became the CP. They didn't know another entity was there. That's why the aunt said they were mistaken. 

Later on MXL gained awareness of her environment and had human form. She was discovered by the steward who brought her to the Gao estate as a spirit slave - mistakenly identified as from the Spirit clan because of the "demonic" markings on her face. 

It was Sang Qi who named MXL after the Xuanling tree. On the night of his attack on the Gao estate, he saw Ling Ling(that was her token name there from her slave anklet numbered 0-0) and took her because he could sense NX's faint spirit on her. 

The one who was abandoned under a tree by a crossroads was Sang Qi so he named himself after it. 

 Neptune:

@Micha, Thanks🌸. & knowing a little little canto I kinda get their names too lol. So she didn't birth as a baby from GQM's mums body, but the rest happens after the light & elsewhere...

Yes, MXL wasn't born as a baby. 

It was more descriptive in the novel but the drama followed it with the flashing light etc. 

 Totoro888:

Thank you for such a detailed recap of the episodes and the enchantments of the drama from the novel 

Welcome! ♡

I'll have to add more to the  drama-novel comparison later on because the drama screenwriters have expanded and added more details in ep.29 and 30.  

 Soocrafty:

question regarding ep 30 -

so if she transferred the Pearl to the 18 year old XXC, then does this mean it was on him this whole time? And if so, then how would her blood be able to create the stairs ? Wouldn‘t it have been his blood since the Pearl was within him?

Nope, MXL will always be the Chaos Pearl. She just inadvertently transferred the extra Chaos power (symbolized by the patterns on her face) to 18yo XXC. That's why the patterns were gone after that transfer was done.

 twinty:

Thank you for your time putting this all together. I came to read it after I finished watching ep 30. 

It was my pleasure! ♡ Need to update more but I've been busy  as a bee. Will have to catch up with y'all in ep.31 later