My favorite thing about watching The Untamed bts clips is not yizhan and their antics, it's the way the other actors react to it. Especially when they're trapped in the third wheel role.
Liu Haikuan (Lan Xichen) always looks genuinely amused and I headcanon that he ships it.
Xuan Lu (Jiang Yanli) OBVIOUSLY ships it. She ships it so much even Temu can't compare.
Ji Li (Nie Huai Sang) and Yubin (Wen Ning) are either amused, annoyed, or resigned, depending on the clip.
But my favorite is Wang Zuo Cheng (Jiang Cheng) , he never knows wtf is going on and is always 70% confused 30% scared lmao.
My favorite clip of them is that one where YiZhan are shouting at each other from opposite ends of a table and Zuo Cheng is in the middle, looking at the camera like "mom, come pick me up"
- Bloodied after battle, throws himself off a cliff, caught, lets go and falls anyway, presumed dead
- Resurrected, suffering auditory hallucinations, disorientated, kicked in the chest, finds self-inflicted gashes on his arm
- Hit with a spell, reveals bruises on his chest
02:
- Smacks himself in the face as punishment
- Struck in the back with a whip, knocked to the ground, winded, collapses
06:
- Struck on the back 300 times, needs support to walk
09:
- Dragged across the ground by a chain around his neck, thrown into a tree, splitting blood, choked, bruised throat
11:
- Forced to surrender himself as a hostage
12:
- Whipped across the hand, bleeding, tied up, whipped across the chest, collapses after being released
- Chained up and locked in a cell with a giant dog, trembling with fear, bleeding after being mauled, given medication
13:
- Thrown from a cliff, falls down an incline, winded, clutching his chest
- Struck in the chest with a branding iron while acting as a human shield, burned, has medicinal herbs applied to the wound
14:
- Infected with dark energy, unresponsive, passes out, thrown into a river, rescued, dragged to safety, wakes up vomiting blood, feverish, shivering, stabilised with magic, comforted, passes out again
- Wakes up weak and ill, coughing, unable to stand without support, passes out again, recovering in bed
15:
- Whipped repeatedly, knocked to the ground, bleeding from the mouth, shielded, cradled
- Verbally assaulted by his stepmother, tearful, tied up and forcefully evacuated from home
16:
- Still tied up and crying
- Grieving, crying, trembling
- Punched in the face and choked by his grieving brother
17:
- Guilt-stricken, crying, comforted
19:
- Weak after losing his power, coughing, unstable on his feet
- Struck in the chest, thrown into a table, spitting blood, has his hand stepped on, wincing in pain, restrained, beaten until bruised and bloody, has the brand scar from a previous episode cut open, kidnapped
- Dropped from 1000 feet, falling, knocked out on impact, wakes up with more bruises, infected with dark energy, screaming
21:
- Displaying symptoms of PTSD: Hypervigilance, withdrawal from social situations, alcohol abuse
- Meditating with dark energy, sweaty and shaky, screaming
- Infected with dark energy, clutching his chest in pain, falls to his knees
23:
- Lifted by the throat, choked, collapses into his friend's arms, recovering in bed
- Dizzy, breathless, holding his chest
26:
- Absorbs too much dark energy, spitting blood
28:
- Stabbed in the gut during a fight, bleeding, tries and fails to hide the wound
29:
- Overuses his power, spitting blood, collapses into his friend's arms, refusing medical care
31:
- Nightmare, writhing in his sleep
- Emotional breakdown, crying, stabbed in the back with a drugged needle, stumbling, supported to a bed, unable to get up, screaming, passes out, wakes up fighting the effects of the drugs, struggling to move, gasping in pain, staggering
32:
- Overwhelmed by dark energy, staggering, collapses to his knees, clutching his chest in pain, hallucinating, crying
- Shot in the chest with an arrow, pulls it out, instantly heals himself
- Grieving, sobbing, screaming
33:
- Overuses his power, spitting blood
- Attempts suicide by jumping off a cliff, caught but lets go and falls
34:
- Suffering flashbacks to his childhood trauma, trembling, calling for his sister
- Tied up, rescued
- Absorbs the poison from his nephew’s body
35:
- Suffering the effects of the poison from last episode, clutching his chest
- Limping, revealed to have a cut on his leg, skin black from the poison, carried, needs support to walk
- Notices the poison is spreading up his leg
36:
- Dreams of falling from the cliff, wakes in a panic, sweating
37:
- Cuts his own finger for a spell
41:
- Overuses his power, unresponsive, twitching, stabilised with magic, stumbling
42:
- Stabbed in the gut, bleeding from the mouth, collapses to his knees, needs support to walk, stabilised with magic, spitting more blood, wakes up in bed with his stomach bandaged, in too much pain to sit up
- Discovered to have a cut on his arm
45:
- Cuts his own finger for a spell
- Overuses his power, exhausted, unable to walk without support, collapses, passes out
46:
- Dizzy, needs support to walk, nosebleed, collapses into his not-boyfriend's arms, passes out, carried to safety, cradled, wakes with a headache
47:
- Taken hostage with a garrotte, bleeding from the neck
48:
- Still held captive and bleeding from the neck, tied up
49:
- Neck still bloody
- Overuses his power, spitting blood, weak and stumbling
- Cleaning the wound on his neck
50:
- Neck still wounded
Lan Wang Ji
01:
- Arm torn and bloody after battle
06:
- Passes out after drinking, helped into bed, falls off the bed, struck on the back 300 times as punishment for being drunk
- Affected by a cursed object, clutching his chest, gasping for breath, sweating
11:
- Forced to surrender, has his leg broken, taken hostage
12:
- Still limping from last episode
- Struck with a whip across his injured leg, collapses to his knees, limp worsening
13:
- Still limping heavily, refusing help
- Lands awkwardly on his broken leg, bleeding through his clothes, needs support to walk, revealed to have huge gashes in his calf, has the leg splinted, vomiting blood, taken care of
14:
- Leg still splinted and bloody, needs support to walk
- Cuts his hands on a wire, bleeding
29:
- Forced to kneel in the snow for hours as punishment
33:
- Stabbed in the arm during battle, bleeding, uses his injured arm to hold onto someone, trembling, losing blood
- Revealed to have multiple scars on his back and chest
36:
- Catatonic after drinking, helped to bed, unsteady and disorientated, needs help to walk and drink
43:
- Flashback: Sentenced to 300 lashes, bleeding through his shirt and from his mouth
47:
- Seals his own power to save his not-boyfriend, captured
48:
- Still held captive from last episode
Jiang Wan Yin
05:
- Slashed across the leg, bleeding, has the wound treated in the field
06:
- Struck on the back 50 times, holding himself in pain afterwards
09:
- Trapped in a cage surrounded by zombies
11:
- Forced to surrender himself as a hostage
15:
- Struck in the chest, spitting blood, thrown to the ground
- Forced to separate from his mother, crying, tied up and forcefully evacuated from home, hyperventilating
16:
- Still tied up and hysterical
- Grieving, crying, hyperventilating until he almost passes out, loses control and attacks his brother, sobbing, in a state of shock
17:
- Rescued from captivity, bruised and bloody, unconscious, carried to safety, cradled, transported via carriage
- Unconscious in bed, feverish, twitching and muttering in his sleep, taken care of, revealed to have broken ribs and whip marks on his chest
- Wakes up in a catatonic state, learns he had his powers ripped out during captivity, crying and screaming, depressed, refusing to eat, crying in his sleep
18:
- Still depressed in bed, being treated for a fever
19:
- Dreams of having his power ripped out, wakes in a panic
28:
- Injured during a fight, spitting blood, bleeding from his shoulder
32:
- Grieving, sobbing
44:
- Robbed of his power, spitting blood
46:
- Flashback: Unconscious and cradled after being drugged
47:
- Stabbed in the chest during a swordfight, captured, healing himself with magic
48:
- Still held captive and bleeding from last episode, gasping in pain, tied up
49:
- Still bleeding from the chest
Wen Ning
05:
- Possessed, collapses and passes out, carried to safety, unconscious in bed
16:
- Grabbed from behind, choked
19:
- Found chained, bruised and bloody in a cell, cradled
26:
- Flashback: Face bloodied after torture, struck in the torso, slammed into the ground, impaled through the gut with a flagpole, screaming and writhing in pain
- Found barely alive and abandoned in a ditch, cradled, resurrected as a zombie-like creature
28:
- Tied down with a net and covered in healing talismans, writhing in pain, passes out
29:
- Loses control and goes on a murderous rampage, subdued with magic, weak and disorientated
31:
- Volunteers himself for execution
36:
- Wrapped in chains, under mind control, has a pin pulled out of the back of his head, screaming and writhing in pain
46:
- Struck twice in the chest with a whip, knocked to the ground both times, struggling to stand, blood in his mouth
49:
- Controlled by dark energy, forced to hurt someone, fighting the effects, holds his own sword by the blade, bleeding from his hand
Meng Yao
10:
- Stabbed in the chest while acting as a human shield, spitting blood, collapses into his friend's arms, needs support to stand
- Exiled, fighting tears
22:
- Struck in the chest, thrown to the ground, bleeding from the mouth
41:
- Flashback: Kicked down a flight of stairs, bleeding from the head, struggling to stand, limping
48:
- Sustains severe burns to his hand, crying out in pain, unsteady on his feet
- Hallucinating, screaming and sobbing in fear, spitting blood
49:
- Hand still burned from last episode
- Slapped in the face
- Flashback: Kicked down a flight of stairs, face cut and scraped, bleeding from the head, struggling to stand
- Bleeding from the wrist after ripping a wire from his arm
- Has his arm amputated, screaming in pain, collapses, writhing on the ground, barely conscious, wincing in pain while his wound is cleaned
- Stabbed in the chest
50:
- Still has the sword embedded in his chest, bleeding from his severed arm, struggling to stand, cuts his hand while holding the blade, forces it deeper into his chest, bleeding from the mouth
- Killed in a building collapse
Nie Ming Jue
10:
- Struck in the back, collapses to his knees, bleeding from the mouth, needs support to stand
- Betrayed, crying, forced to exile his friend
22:
- Bloody after battle, captured, tortured with dark energy, screaming in pain, falls to his knees
- Struck in the chest, thrown across a room, bleeding from the mouth, passes out
23:
- Still unconscious on the ground from last episode, wakes up in his friend's arms, needs help to stand, clutching his chest in pain
35:
- Cursed, bleeding from the eyes, screaming, spitting blood, has holes ripped in his chest from the inside, collapses to his knees
41:
- Flashback: Weak and bloody after being captured in an earlier episode
- Flashback: Poisoned, spitting blood, suffering episodes of chest pain, stumbling, loses his sanity, hallucinating, bleeding from the eyes
- Flashback: Still cursed, chained to a table, writhing and struggling, executed
Nie Huai Sang
06:
- Struck on the back 50 times, crying out in pain
08:
- Nightmare, wakes in a panic
09:
- Trapped in a cage surrounded by zombies, panicked
11:
- Forced to surrender himself as a hostage
12:
- Collapses and passes out, dragged away
42:
- Collapses and passes out from shock
44:
- Robbed of his power, bleeding from the mouth
47:
- Captured while unconscious, thrown to the ground
48:
- Still unconscious in captivity, wakes up with a headache
49:
- Bleeding from a wound in his leg, screaming and shaking, crying out while the wound is bandaged, given pain medication
50:
- Leg still bandaged, limping
TW: Contains themes of child abuse, child death, noncon and suicide