Key to the Phoenix Heart Episode 4

So many plot twists already

Wow, this episode turned everything upside down! 😳​The big schemer of sorts was actually Grand Tutor Xie, who wanted to get his illegitimate son, Li Mao, instated as regent. 😲​Poor Jiayu — what will she do when she finds out that her big love is actually her half-brother? That just means their marriage was never meant to happen, because China's censorship would never allow such a thing. 🤨​And now Wuyi and Jiayu have to stay married for Li Mao's sake... well, what a convenient inconvenience! 😏​And now the arranged marriage with the enemies-to-lovers trope will finally start... I am clapping my hands with excitement! Their chemistry is amazing and I just want to see more! 🥰🤗

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The masks coming off

Empress Dowager wants Xiao WuYi gone. She went to great lengths to set him up and she does not want him to have any military strength. He refuses to give it up and is surprised by a counter move from the Grand Tutor. He has arranged for Mao and the emperor to talk and Mao has pled for WuYi’s life. Here he is asked if he is willing to be sworn to him to live and die together. Mao believes in their friendship and pledges. This leads to two events that are non negotiable. Mao will become regent and JiaYu will marry WuYi to protect Xie family and Mao. We learn that Grand Tutor and Consort An had a child….Mao and he has been strategically placed to become regent. To see the unbridled ambition of JiaYu’s father and him deliberately slaying her guard is kinda surreal. As usual the daughter is the pawn to be sold off to either highest bidder or most strategic politically. What is unique in this situation is that WuYi truly cares for Mao and is actually trying to get him together with JiaYu in spite of decree. It is funny that after misgivings with the wedding wine he uses her own cuff links to bind her. It is just as fun when he reminds her he could have killed her much sooner and releases the bracelet lock. The conversation between the friends about JiaYu. To be fair WuYi knows nothing of her but that she likes to make gadgets and knows how to use poison and knockout powder. So he has to find it a bit annoying having his friend trying to push off how to take care of JiaYu lessons. 🤣Are the parents really his parents or stand ins for the parts? Is the odd behavior an act for her benefit to maintain family secrets or are they just rather odd for real. I think JiaYu likes them. The Empress dowager has taken Mao’s sister as apprentice and wants her moved to the palace as leverage. She will be a way to keep both the new regent and JiaYu in line. Jia Yu and WuYi both think things went down too easily and there is still more things going on, He does warn Grand Tutor that this should be his limit in meddling. Empress dowager’s eunuch was reminded that the Regent needed some space and she should respect that. Jia Yu is wondering what the hell has happened to her life and is most stunned with the images of the father she adored cutting down her guard with a sword and threatening her maid as well. The shoe thing was just weird after the mini bloodbath there between the different factions of guards. The Grand Tutor’s thirst will hopefully be quenched soon.😝 Empress dowager is letting her evil out with the fish. She is resenting the need to pivot and it remains to be seen what her rule teaching will bring to Mao’s life. She seems to want another wedding set up. 😝So the family that seemed so normal —isn’t. 😱 Both parents have kept JiaYu in the dark and have raised her to walk to her own drumbeat. This will hopefully assist in her threading the needle with the palace hierarchy. So I am wondering if it’s mom or dad that actually designed the real military crossbow. Somebody is hiding behind her Miracle Craft Creator label and is out to cause chaos. For as smart as she is with machines they make her rather silly in the common sense department. 😝Officials and Empress dowager were expecting WuYi to go out on a north deployment. He informed them that they could handle the politics personally and his dad would be leading the troops for awhile.

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