From my understanding, the practitioner has to pretty much live in areas of extreme cold and can no longer eat human food as it would deteriorate their body. They can only feed off on ice and snow to maintain their body.
If maintained, they live forever, with no end in sight.
Here, Zhou Zishu makes the following comment:
“To live like that, or to die right here... I’ll have to weigh [the pros and cons]”.
I need you to remember how this man literally nailed 7 nails into his own body in exchange for 3 years of freedom.
That’s how much he loves freedom.
And yet, all that freedom means nothing to him when compared to more time than he could ever ask for with Wen Kexing. The fact that he is willing to give up what we would understand as “freedom” to spend forever with his soulmate...
In ep 14, he mentioned how he would rather live 10 days freely than live 10 years against his own will.
The wording here is so important because his choice in the end isn’t going against his previous claim. If anything, it reinforces the fact that Wen Kexing IS his own will.
Also, just to tie this thread to the special episode: in the special episode, we see the following comment being made
“The two have been fighting for a whole lifetime. When immortals start fighting, who knows then it’ll end.”
This implies that Wen Kexing and Zhou Zishu have forever.
If they have forever, that means that they both willingly gave up roaming the human realm and chose to stay in an area of extreme cold, feeding ice and snow for eternity.
Together.
Forever.
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#ZhangZhehan:
These two can understand each other very well. At the same time, their ideology is very similar, they all yearn for freedom but, they also shoulder a lot of burden. And that’s how they walked towards each other.
#GongJun: But I can understand that he (Zhou Zishu) would rather... rather let himself live for less long and to keep his martial arts, can’t let them be abolished. He has his reasons.
But when I ask that question, firstly it’s because I truly don’t want, this early on, for his life to end in just these years. I want to keep this soulmate. Secondly, it’s also... also out of selfishness?
#GongJun:
Actually, when you first come into contact with Wen Kexing he’s quite... outwardly. You get the feeling that he’s a cynical young master. Really, he’s capable of saying anything and everything is said by him.
For revenge, he can suppress his emotions. He lives too tiredly, I feel quite bad for him. His entire life is dedicated to his parents, until Zhou Zishu’s appearance, that’s when he started having happy times.
Towards Jianghu people, the feeling he gives off is probably an elegant Young Master, none confrontational, very kind, very generous, very easygoing.
#ZhangZhehan:
This character is probably one of the most varied roles I’ve acted, including the different periods’ attitude and role. A role that tends to have more turning points.
In terms of overall attitudes, we could probably talk about his Tian Chuang era, leaving Tian Chuang, then meeting Wen Kexing and revealing his true appearance. But within these, there are many smaller complicated changes of the heart.
At the time, when all the people that left the Four Season’s with him to create Tian Chuang died and there’s just him left—with only one last person alive, he’d rather nail himself because he needs to leave this place.