Aramintai

Script writers clearly got lost in the sauce here somewhere down the middle.
At least it's over now.

Agreed. I don’t even care for his face, he looks like he just woke up from hangover with eyebags and is always glaring at people no matter the situation.

I also think the romance is very mid here and these characters shine better on their own when they're doing their own stuff. Already thought of a few points as to why, but gotta see till the end to extrapolate in a review.
Out of all the romantic pairings here I got the best vibes so far from the Cangbei princess and the merchant guy, but this one looks to be in real peril atm.

Hating someone and wanting to become their wife are two different things, that are not necessarily mutually exclusive, especially if you have ulterior motives.

She wanted ML to take pity on her by reminescing on good old times and to be allowed to stay at his mansion with consideration of marrying her, I think. But FL quickly let her know that there's nothing to fish for here, lol.

Yea, it's 3 years max.

Maybe it was the bish's plan to implicate her. She could be plotting to remove FL and become ML's wife. Or could be that SML wants to oust ML from interfering somehow by using FL's situation. Gotta wait and see.

Maybe a mistranslation, could be "involve" instead of implicate. But who knows.

Looks like he's one of SML's men. And the annoying bish as well.
And looks like SML is behind the Cangbei scheme.

If you're looking for FL actress's fighting scenes, you should go watch her previous drama Unveil: Jadewind. Lots of badass fights there. This here is more fragile, ladylike FL's story.

There were teasers with her fighting alongside ML. Probably somewhere at the end of the drama.

Yea, and she'll give FL the edict, just as planned.

Long story short, the astronomer was a charlatan who had a relationship with the empress dowager, and on whose orders he cozied up to consort dowager, so that she'd be on the empress dowager's side.

And you seems to want to join that other guy in being blocked.

You asked a question, I answered. But your question sounded more like an attempt to invalidate a different opinion, just like that other guy the other day who started writing angry wall rants like I've personally offended him simply because our tastes are different. Don't be that guy, pls, and just leave it at that.

I've said from the very start of this drama airing - I'm here for the main mystery of the mountain and FL's revenge.
And I can write whatever criticisms I want here, it's not a fan site. Don't like it, just agree to disagree.

Yea, I recall FL's female friend having a sweet tooth there and it was hard to get that dessert.

He looks too innocent to be killed, tbh. It's not that dark of drama here, but who knows.
I'm thinking SML and the marquis will kill each other off, dowager gonna get some comeuppance too. And ML won't fight for the throne either. So the young emperor will stay.

Yea, super annoying.

If it happens, it's probably because of the edict. FL's mother and father were involved with it and ML may get angry because his family almost got wiped out because it was lost.