Key to the Phoenix Heart Episode 3

The wedding that became a rebellion

Seems WuYi and Mao are friends. WuYi tells him up front about the wedding and that it will happen no matter what. 😂🤣 JiaYu carries an arsenal of weapons that could rival Wednesday.😂🤣 Ya have to admire her brazenness to get WuYi’s assist and hide her dropped daggers. What was fun and completely unexpected was him flipping her over his shoulder and escorting her to the palace on his horse. He instructs his wife and maids to be sure JiaYu is kept quiet while he drinks with the guests. Then he makes sure JiaYu and Mao have maps to find their way out of the maze of the palace. Now if only JiaYu had the arrow You are here to see where she is and needs to go.😂🤣 WiYu rolls his eyes that she can’t find her way out even with directions. He gives a location far away and threatens her with death if found. Mao is where he needs to be waiting for her to escape but is taken by Grand Tutor to assist giving meds to the emperor. With all the plots it is hard to tell if JiaYu’s parents are interfering with the escape or another subplot of WuYi. What does become clear is General WuYi has figured out that the Empress dowager set the plot for his troops and wanted Changsha to take the fall. She was hoping they would take care of each other while she set the stage for her choice of the throne. Changsha is struck by a sword as WuYi is close….did the General finish him off or was it a suicide attempt? He confronts the Empress dowager directly if she could reign with peace throughout the land. If not, he had 100k troops outside the gate with the Emperor. This episode tests longstanding friendships and lines being drawn of who backs whom. And what happens to JiaYu when she learns Mao is not there as planned? Is WuYi stopping Changsha from causing a rebellion or creating a counter one? With troops outside the gate he can play it either way. Things are progressing quickly and the cast is doing an excellent job with their roles to draw us into the story with growing anticipation to see what comes next.

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Enjoying watching

This show has some surprising revelations that make you wonder when they’re gonna become known to everyone since we have the insights group.We learned some of the characters or a ruthless, hiding behind a kind personality, and others are kind hiding behind a ruthless reputation.The palace doesn’t feel fully flushed out see the core. We see the outside of the Court steps kind of scenes. We see the Emperor‘s bed chamber, and the emperor Doer, but it doesn’t feel like a full palace like some of the other shows but we’re only on episode four. It stinks that some people’s plans aren’t working out as they planned, and that the simple easy-going characters have to take much harder paths in life than they wanted for themselvesLooking forward to seeing more of how the story unfolds.

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What are Imperial decrees even for?

Wow, I am not sure what just happened! Prince Changsha just killed himself?! 😲 The Empress Dowager is revealed to be the mastermind behind the attempt to kill Xiao Wuyi and the Baifu Army? And all of that happens in episode 3?! So.... what do we have the remaining 25 episodes for? 🤯Did Wuyi secretly help Jiayu escape so she would be safe when all the killing and the palace coup happened? 🧐 And was he the one who asked Grand Tutor Xie to get Li Mao to give medical help to the Emperor, so he would be away from the Empress Dowager and Wuyi could use him as a bargaining chip to have a way out of the situation he's left in at the end of the episode? 🤔And I did love Xiao Wuyi — the way he just picked up his bride, jumped with her onto his horse, and then carried her inside his mansion! 🔥 Then he distracted everyone with that drinking party. He's a master strategist, and even if he's funny sometimes, he's actually quite scary! 😬😏P.S. Nice to see Riley Wang working together with Hou Minghao again... This is like the third drama I've seen them in together! 👍

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