Well played

This was a nail biter because just when you thought one side was going to win, it was equally countered. The bridge fire caused a slight delay but it played out right to the end. I wish Pei would not have caught the arrow and had let it fly. The fact that Zhuo cowardly sold him out at the end, I have to admit I was surprised a bit. I figured he would quietly bargain with emperor but I thought he had more to him than confessing that before the entire army. Li hands Pei the longevity lock and I think she is still playing out which baby is which but doesn’t survive long enough to tell Pei. Personally, I didn’t want Zhuo to live for an interrogation. He needs to be gone. Pei has some plan in mind to undermine him or he would not have interrupted the arrow. But I wonder if that will get him in trouble with Emperor or if they planned this as last case scenario. With these two I can’t tell. It would have been nice to outmaneuver the poisoning of Li but since Zhuo killed the apothecary, he had the top hand with poisons.

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