Nope

Is this something your hoping or has been confirmed?

thanks. I’m feeling much better.

thanks!

You weren't rude. I didn't reply because I've been dealing with a migraine. For me the problem is, for the 20 years of CCS life, the first 15 years were spent without her mother. Then they came home, and with 2 months her mother sent her away with her Uncle, where she stayed for at least 3 months. When she came back, the engagement fell through and she should herself engaged to LBY without a month's time. After that, within a month she was already at the palace most days until she moved into the Empresses private Palace and mostly stayed for the remainder of her engagement. Then after the engagement ended, she moved into the Palace permanently for 5 years. So for the 20 years of CSS life, she actually spent less than 6 months under mother's control. So while her mother meant well, the reality of it is her treatment of her daughter is ultimately what drove her to latch onto other parental figures like her Aunt and the Empress. Yes, she loved the Empress dearly, but we see that the Empress was actually more a mother to her, than her own mother. Not only that, but the Empress showed CSS compassion, understanding, and found a way to teach her, guide her, and help her grow into a better person. Its really the influence of the Empress that helped CSS grow and mature. Even Yuan Yi realized eventually that her methods to raise her daughter, and the things she did to her, were wrong. But by then, it was really too late to undo the damage.

Can someone preemptively spoiler for me when their engagement ends up called off ( I know it happens and for why) and how long it lasts before reconciliation(I also know how they reconcile)?

While I agree that the mother actually does what she thinks is best for her daughter. We cannot ignore that she ignores her own daughters suffering and does play favorites. Not only that, but she is called out on how she belittles and treats her daughter as if she is nothing, by everyone with sense and even admits it at one point after publicly getting called out by CSS for her treating YY better, but continues to do so anyway. Yuan Yi keeps talking about how both girls need to be treated fairly, while discounting that this is the first time in NN life she is getting treated as an equal to someone of her status, and her mother immediately tries to take that away in favor of not wanting to make Yang Yang feel less than. We have to remember that while we the audience see her intentions, the people around them and Niao Niao herself, does not. Rumors fly around her that her mother doesn't care about her, because publicly her mothers doesn't defend her even when Niao Niao is the victim, nor bothers to say a kind word about her while praising YY. Even worse, she is depicted multiple times publicly belittling her daughter, and Yuan Yi is the only one that does not see the wrong she is doing to her daughter. Even further, when Niao Niao does try to confide in her about how she was treated, her mother turns around and tells her its because she is a bad child that she was treated that way. NN tells her that her second aunt would try to starve her into compliance and that she was was sent to the country house to nearly starve to death for 'reflection' and her mother doubles down by not only not allowing her food until she studies, she also denies her the one thing she wants (to go to the lantern festival for the first time in her life) and repeatedly tells her she is not allowed to leave her quarters, and eventually has her beaten with military rods to the point that she passes out. Honestly, Niaoniao could've easily turned out like her grantmother and SIL, just from her mothers treatment. Her mother also fails to acknowledge that the reason NN takes revenge and plans this plots is because no one in her life ever stood up for her and she's learned to stand up for herself and get her own justice. What NN needed, was someone to standup for her and protect and care about her; and her mother deliberate withholds what NN needs most to thrive and grow. Ultimately, if it weren't for her brothers showing up, and LB showing up to help and protect her...she probably would've turned out much worse than her grandmother and SIL. And Yuan Yi would have no one else to blame but herself.

What is sad to me is that really the only reason she wants to marry LY, is because he respects her and she thinks no one else will want her.

I think the confusion is that we are told that he won the championship at 13, hit a slump, then sm got to him, then the incident with the ref happened which led to his suspension and subsequent retirement ..... but later he says (when he is 27) that its been 11 years since he stepped into an area, which puts him at 16....So either something is missing in the story, his slump lasted 3 years, or its a mistake.

16? I thought he won the championship when he was 13 and the actor that played him at that moment he retired barely looks 12?… Still seems excessive the way he was treated when all he did was yell at the guy when he was a teenager

wait so…. her mother argued that he deserved a 3 YEAR SUSPENSION from tournaments when he was 13 YEARS OLD, because he yelled at a referee?

I feel like I'm going to combust when I watch him look at her. Who doesn't want to get looked at like that at least once in their life?

LW knows how to bring the chemistry. If a guy looked at me like that, I'd combust.

HAHA!

HAHA!

How soon do the main couple get together?

Thanks!

Before I watch, do I need to prepare myself for multiple misunderstandings or breakups? I keep getting shown YT videos saying she is pregnant and hiding it from him? Yes? No?

Thanks. I was trying to avoid that one. lol!

Anyone know of an English translated version of the novel, that is completed?

Thank you!