Tigers Sniff the Rose Episode 5

He made it to the capital. She’s acting like he didn’t.

🐯 Another episode where it feels like not much happened until you start adding everything up. Everyone seems to be plotting to marry her off, she’s batting away schemes left, right and centre, and her marriage is apparently the prize everyone wants to claim. Has anybody considered asking what SHE wants?🐯 There are royal family reunions, but nobody seems to trust anybody. Lovely. Nothing says welcome home quite like wondering which relative has an agenda 😭 I’m still getting my bearings with the palace politics, but the atmosphere is already very different from their time in the mountains.🐯 Meanwhile, he finally reaches the capital, bumps into his friend and makes another acquaintance among the scholars. Naturally, that scholar is also being put forward as a potential husband for her. You can’t even make friends here without walking into someone’s marriage arrangements.🐯 Everyone is trying to curry favour, while he’s managed to offend her by understanding more about her than she wanted him to. After the glimpses we’ve had of her past, I can see why that leaves her feeling exposed. Still, watching her completely ignore him when he arrives was my OMG moment. We’ve gone from fireflies and bedtime stories to pretending he isn’t there.🐯 I do feel for him. To me, it’s becoming increasingly obvious that he has feelings for her, whatever ambitions brought him to the capital. Seeing him met with that cold shoulder after their earlier closeness stings a bit.🐯 No favourite character or standout favourite scene this episode. This felt more like everyone finding their position in the capital, with plenty happening beneath the polite conversations. Another 8/10 — I’m interested, but I’m going to need to keep track of who wants her married to whom and what they expect to gain from it.

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