A Splendid Match Episode 12

Nanny Zhou finally removed from the house🥳

Thanks to Chen JinZhao’s brother (Rong) is finally located. There is a happy reunion with their mother tho both are concerned about her health. Here Ye Xian is actually helpful and gets an exceptional physician there to examine her. He agrees that the script from prior doctor was correct and much more progress should have been made. When the medicine pouches were inspected, it was discovered that rhubarb had been added tho not an ingredient in the script. JinZhao’s aide discovered the culprits and she teamed up with Ye Xian’s aide to capture them. After interrogation, Ye Xian had confessions in hand and was happily on his way to inform JinZhao. His father interrupts and Ye Xian is now basically under house arrest until further notice. He sends his aide to the Gu home while his father makes further plans with Xiao about trouble making Prince. Nanny Zhou is finally called to task for her crimes. After the lashes she will be sent to another estate til she passes. JinZhao is not happy because she blames the concubine and wants her out of the house as well. With this, while the concubine was aware, she was deceived at the severity of the added ingredient. I have not read the book, but in the drama Nanny Zhou was the brains of the outfit who had no bottom line in what she would do or have done to raise the status of her family in the Gu home. The concubine and daughter were not as evil or meanspirited as they are being now. Here it seems the drama is changing their characters to match the book more which is a damn shame. The story would have been much more interesting with the family to have the girls being friends like they were headed in the first few episodes. Once they changed the stepsister to the catty mean girl she is now she is much less interesting and far more predictable. She makes the mom stick to her ignorance story because it is very clear who is not the brains of the outfit.😝 Lan has one last chat with the nanny and promises to look after her mom. Lord Chen has just heard of YeXian’s assist to JinZhao. It never occurred to him that Ye Xian did have skills tho not of the soldier variety. As a spy or assassin he would totally kick ass if his father would acknowledge where his abilities were instead of the incessant berating and lamenting how he did not have a mini me.😝🙄 Ye Xian would love it that Chen is pacing and insecure on how to catch up in JinZhao’s eyes.😂🤣 I am kinda sad he didn’t get to be a bit smug with this because he really deserves a moment to shine in spite of public opinion and his rather reckless impulsive behavior. He is an amalgam of kindness and ruthlessness that he’s figuring out. Chen decides on a gift and has a secret meeting with JinZhao where he gives her a whistle. This is an emergency call for help. She tries it out and he stopped. Here I wish he would have returned to see where the moment led. But that didn’t happen. He did, however, let her know where he would be in a few days. Things are gonna be interesting in the Gu house. Nanny should have been executed for attempted murder, but it will have to suffice that she’s out of the house. What they will probably do is make step sis the new mastermind and that’s a damn shame. She could have been so much more as an ally. JinZhao did her best to get her mother to leave the house and divorce him. Lady Gu can’t deny her unhappiness, but she is determined to continue on her chosen path. Whether she is being a martyr for her children or there is some other story of their marriage we don’t know yet, she refuses to leave him for reasons only she understands. Now to see how stepsister and concubine act without nanny dearest. 😝

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