A Splendid Match Episode 8

Sister’s meddling causes trouble

They are already giving the step sister attitude when she started off being the most sensible. I am disappointed that they are making her so shallow now. She starts off episode being jealous of JinZhao’s Coming of age/hair pinning ceremony. There was no reason as it was both hosted and paid for by the Ji family. The ones that actually raised JinZhao. It had nothing to do with her whatsoever since her parents made sure there was no contact between them. She then feels entitled to abscond with the lunch invitation from Ye Xian. Now there is attitude from both parties because JinZhao feels like he’s spying on her and he feels like he was being snubbed. He doesn’t know she didn’t receive the invitation and she has no clue one was offered. This results in the entire debacle at the school. I am really annoyed they are making the sis act more like the nanny than a sister.😝 she goes to the place to watch over Ye Xian not considering at all the fallout of her little stunt to deny JinZhao the invite. Now JinZhao’s mother is giving handcrafted items to the gent family members in JinZhao’s name. She is very unhappy but can’t rebut her mother’s reasoning in why it was in her best interest but annoyed that the reasoning was for being proper marriage material. 😝She uses this as excuse to go to the school and return the book. XuanQing and Yao agreed that the best way to deal with JinZhao’s temper was to send a third party to collect the book she could not vent on. She was disappointed that the one she wanted to see was unavailable and removed a letter she had inside so that no one else would see it. He unfortunately became a target of Ye Xian who made the very wrong assumption she had ditched his invitation to be set up with a scholar. So the young Lord mocked him and then offered him a job when JinZhao interfered with an investigation. Ye Xian then rescinded the job and mocked them both. Nobody could have anticipated the poor guy’s reaction to Ye Xian’s actions. He is rushed to the hospital and JinZhao lights into Ye Xian. He is so enraged he takes his whip and strikes her and then abhors his response and tosses the whip aside. Her letter was dropped in the scuffle. In her defense, JinZhao had every reason to think Ye Xian was a madman. He felt the sting extra hard because in his own way he had sent her a sweet simple invite as a thank you. This is just another blow to his character and person that was just but not really deserved if the full story was told. Here the young Lord’s satiric nature worked hard against him. I truly feel sorry for him in spite of what he did to that poor scholar. I think he sees now that this has cost him any chance with her. The step sis would be gleeful if she saw her success.😝 What this did accomplish was getting XuanQing the letter she had written to him. The brother is not a fan of heart gifts. 😂🤣 He would have been much happier if JinZhao had gotten her way. However, given his attitude and step sis being so much closer and in the know with him, I can only have a very good laugh at his reaction. 😂🤣 JinZhao was returning with his intended gift when she overheard him and step sis talking. She heard his real opinion and him asking her for money. She decides to keep the gift and wonders what he needs money for. XuanQing is reading her notes and is completely enchanted. She would be so happy if she knew he actually got them. She finally realizes they are gone when she checks the sleeves. The scene moves to YeXian’s discarded thank you treats to see him downing his third pitcher of wine. Lord Chen has requested he move and gets an unexpected earful meant for JinZhao. He now knows of her injury and has kept the young Lord from complete disaster by sending him away with his servant. He is then questioned about YeXian’s compatibility with the crown prince and he says they should not be together. Was he saying this for the prince who’s been stirring up trouble or because he truly believes it? If they get separated the crown prince and frost will be sad with his absence. The brother has approached JinZhao for money, but whether or no she gave him his intended gift isn’t known. He is disappointed that she doesn’t immediately give him the money but he can’t complain much while she’s considering it. She is getting a different invitation this time and the sis has not meddled. She is invited to a bday party on the 17th at the Chen residence. She is confirming the invite by meeting on a bridge. This goes to step sis and bro chatting about XuanQing. Step sis is all pleased with herself because she thinks her mischief got the right couple together. She has no clue how much damage her stunt did. It is such a sad change that the sisters went from cohorts in crime to the typical step sis cattiness and machinations. This leaves a very sour taste for me. Now I am wondering if Lord Chen is getting Ye Xian to a safer place because of all the overt chatter about the dad. Whatever the case, Ye Xian wakes up 14 hrs later to learn he is being shipped off to sister’s house in Daxin and he’s been fired from his palace job. At the end of episode a much more sober young lord is coming to confront lord Chen to his face about getting fired. Had he just used his sharp brain to ask about the invitation directly, things would have been very different. I am surprised he didn’t consider that an option besides JinZhao’s direct refusal without a word. She always has too much to say and would have responded with a quirky refusal rather than not show up at all or she would have shown up and told him to not expect to be saved a second time. This is much more in character for her. He should have noticed and now the grownups are changing things for him. I am curious about what Chen is up to with this change of employment. He knows the two got along quite well. Hopefully will be revealed next episode.

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