The Princess's Gambit Episode 35

Friends in low places

The State preceptor is a mixed bag. When I saw the trap in the room I had a lot of words for him.😝 the irony of who the old lady was….guess he’s still annoyed no cure. I knew that the prince would never be comfortable that the edict resulted in a death. They need this physician to find a cure. I can understand why she faked her own death considering she ended up doing more killing than healing. It makes me wonder what cost was greater than the lives she would take to create it? As justified as the official felt in his choices, he had no right to say how proud he was of her choice to save the commoner. After the person he let be in charge for so long and the grief he caused two capable future rulers, he can get off his pedestal about future selection. He would be hard pressed to find someone worse. The only good part of this whole scenario is that the creator of the poison is best equipped to figure out an actual cure. She better keep this her life’s mission until successful. I don’t agree with chancellor’s choice. But, when there is even a speck of hope for a cure for one you love, there is no risk too great. So while I do not agree I understand his choice. And the doctor saw that he was not just a talker, he backed up his words using his own body as collateral. The empress knows the seal cannot be used and is a bit annoyed. She also knows the tutor/official was with emperor for last one. She knows she can work around it, but also recognizes that the people will feel otherwise if an edict is seen and read. She thinks she is smart with her trap but fails to have sub eat left handed. I am sure he didn’t enlighten her on her mistake. He knows the poison is going to hit and she can’t promise a cure. She actually was a bit surprised that he was that candid with her. It figures the black widow/cobra found the toxic desert flower that could cause the most grief. Here is where I wish somebody would have checked third prince’s notes and the place he created his pills. There might be an overlooked clue there. The princess sees what the chancellor is doing for her. She vows to wreak revenge on the empress and I’m waiting to see what they do to the cockroach that keeps coming back.

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Episode 35 (penultimate): For love

At the end of the episode, some tears fell from my eyes. Again, this ? A poison with no cure? I know that Shen Zai Ye chose to be the guinea pig for poison (as if to say: either we will be saved together, or we will die together?, as a couple. But.... that he used an animal as a guinea pig, better than using a human being (now he will have to fight in the next episode, and he may become weak). JTH's master is another with a heroic personality, in addition to being under the poison as well, he let himself be carried away by Empress Lv to save his subordinates, as well as protected the edict to be delivered to the rightful heir to the throne: JTH's brother. (The scene in which Shen Zai Ye takes the poison and feels remorse for the pain JTH felt in the past, showing the scenes and his thoughts was striking and beautiful. (It's the drama showing this harmony between them), but I wonder (Why did it have to be this way ???). They at the table touching each other's hands. (I liked to see this. Every sweet interaction between them is very good to see. I just wish there were more). Empress Lv is being a monster really in these last few episodes. (I think the screenwriter really came back), in addition to the feelings being more plausible between the main couple, there is the suspense part, traps that test the brain (in the dungeon where the edict was), which JTH was tested by her master to find out if she was still a person of integrity (and then he delivers the real edict). And the woman that JTH saved by giving up the "false edict" turned out to be the creator of the poison (who said: I hate to owe a favor, I'll test some cure), and in that SZY offered to be the guinea pig (at the end of the episode, JTH is in hiding and witnesses SZY's suffering when taking the countervenom (the test antiduct), she suffers with him, at that moment, when she sees through the curtains the agony he is feeling, she cries (and says: Empress Lv, you will pay for all the suffering you are putting us through").
PS: Despite the regrets, this episode is still a great episode. All the heroes have weight in him, and the love between Shen Zai Ye and Jiang Tao Hua is subtle (and even desperate), but this love hangs in the air. And I liked that (better than the distance between them), although this is the episode that precedes the last episode.
PS: The moment when Shen Zai Ye arrives with his gypsy outfit and his braided hair and runs to a JTH who also runs into him (I loved this sweetness between them) and loved that the other man in the room (the master) saw them together, that there is something, a strong bond of love between SZY and JTH. (but in a way it's like two heroes in the same room), in front of the woman they both have affection for. There was no love triangle in this drama, but here (it's just a very subtle and distant sign of something similar).

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