The Road to Splendor Episode 15

Official from the capital arrives and already causes trouble

Of course, this plot is not letting our leads breathe... (alright, they actually did have some air for about six months since they captured the warhorses, but they didn't show us that peace) 🥺Yu Jingxiu coming to their town to inspect the military officers is one thing, but what is his motivation for specifically targeting Zhao Ling? He never wanted Tingyun in the first place, and with his scheming with the Zuos, he successfully escaped that marriage arrangement, so it's not jealousy over love. So, is it envy over Ling being more capable of climbing the ladder? If that's it, then it's a silly one. They are climbing different branches — one is military, the other is scholar. Or maybe they compete for the same posts in court? 🤔What a satisfaction that Ling is not letting him mess with their lives and is even using nature to his advantage to get rid of the guy! He knows what Jingxiu has done to Tingyun and how much she has suffered for it, and he will not let him off easy. 😏However, now I fear one thing, and that is Jingxiu suddenly falling for Tingyun because she saved him and tended to his leg while he supposedly was someone she hated... 😒 Please, don't! But considering we are not even halfway through the drama, that might as well happen to make him and Yake more relevant to the plot. 😔🫤 And him reproaching Ling for letting that "jewel" be buried in dust while he was the one who put her in that situation in the first place is insane! How does he even dare to say something like that to Ling when she survived only because of him? 😯😤 That kick on his injured leg was so well deserved! 👏But as for the positive — at least, I am happy that Ling and San are brothers again. Their little argument a few episodes ago made me really upset. 🫂 And I just adore all the daydreaming and longing Ling and Tingyun are doing! 🤗🥰And I wonder what will happen with the Fu family now, now that grandmother is dead. 🤨P.S. I didn't get what happened with the salt smuggling — so was it smuggling or wasn't it? I thought General Wang was involved in that with Lu Dahu and it was something illegal. 🤔

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Eye for an eye

Fan Ya Ke’s contempt for her father’s craft shows and now Yu Jing Xiu regrets his preemo choice for a bride. 😝I call it karma. 😁He is predictably contrary to any choice made for him so Ms Yu easily steers him to daddy’s choice for career path. Once there he is envious that Zhao Ling has made more progress in a year than he has.😝🙄His bias against what he perceives as special treatment immediately shows to all leadership in Ganlin. That a scumbag like Li has nothing bad to say about Zhao speaks volumes. Officer Yu did not bother to really investigate or get the lay of the land. He considers himself Mr know it all about all things pertaining to Ms Xie. 🙄 He selectively forgets the degree of ruin he gave an innocent bride candidate. 🤬🙄 Yu’s hypocritical diatribe at Zhao shuts up with the horseshoe thrown back at him. For all his education, Zhao’s school of hard knocks meets him eye to eye and toe to toe. 😝👏🏻This education can’t register to the book-smart but street dumb of the scholar. And he really has no clue why he’s not higher up the ladder. For all his spurning of nobles’ privileges, he’s made no effort to understand the lower classes and in fact, looks down on them except theoretically in government matters. He’s such a spoiled hypocrite. 🙄😝I am glad Sen and Zhao made up. 😁 Ms Mo at Zhao’s gate.🤣😂 She really is a decent person putting up with her husband. He let the Lu woman ruin his family life and career by overlooking the horrendous deeds of the brother and choosing her openly as favorite bed warmer. 🙄😡 TingYun was very gracious to offer assistance and had some forewarning about Yu’s arrival. Zhao’s plan backfired when TingYun saved Yu. Yu’s perplexed look said it all. She let him know it was not because she respected him in the least but wanted a confession from him to clear her name. This shows how little he understood her. She is a true jewel, but just because he has the barest hint of her brilliance, doesn’t make him eligible in the least after the grief he caused her. 🤬😝🙄Zhao will again doubt himself because of what Yu said. But he has the best bead on what she truly values and he needs to trust that and his heart. I had to smile when Zhao kicked his hurt leg because he deserved it. Yu will have to acknowledge the stalemate here because Zhao has both a witness and the guilty party.😝 I loathe Yu’s hypocrisy and fickleness with women, he plays his part too well. He was such a good guy in BoP so it’s playing with my brain cells he is equally good at being evil.🫣🤯This story continues to be told well and the cast is brilliant at bringing these characters to life and drawing us in.🌹👏🏻

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