Tigers Sniff the Rose Episode 8

He came for revenge. The chancellor would like him to consider a career.

🐯 Right, THIS episode earned the jump to 9/10. After all the planning, we get him taking revenge against the man who murdered his mother and brother. Him actually stabbing the man was my OMG moment. We’ve moved well beyond suspicious conversations and dangerous poetry now.🐯 He’s my favourite this episode. Seeing him reach the moment he’s been working towards, followed by the emotional aftermath, gave his story real weight. Getting revenge doesn’t suddenly undo what happened to his family, and I liked that the episode gave him space to break down.🐯 My favourite scene was her running to him after hearing someone had been murdered at the flower show. She knows he’s in trouble and immediately goes to him. After the cold shoulder and all the distance between them, her actions make it very clear that she cares.🐯 She saves him from being arrested, gets him out of the garden and then holds him while he falls apart. That closeness really worked for me. He’s seen glimpses of her pain, and now she’s there for his. No bedtime story this time. Just her letting him stop holding everything together for a moment.🐯 Then he decides his business in the capital is finished and he’s heading home. Sir, you cannot give me that emotional scene and then start packing 😭 She doesn’t believe he’s truly finished, and the chancellor apparently has some thoughts on that too.🐯 His attempt to leave turns into another game with the chancellor, who knows what he’s done and knew his parents. Their conversation widens the whole revenge question: what about the power that allowed his family’s murderer to act in the first place? He points out that he’s only a commoner with no power, which feels like the beginning of a much bigger decision.🐯 My theory is that this is what pushes him towards the imperial examinations and gaining influence of his own. Eventually marrying her is also on my prediction list, but that’s me looking ahead rather than anything confirmed here 👀🐯 9/10 — revenge, consequences and a proper emotional shift between the leads. Her running to him and holding him afterwards was the part that stayed with me most. Apparently, I needed her to show she cared just as much as he did.

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