AleksandraSucur

yes, I imagine it gonna be hard to make her step down 😂👍
But I remember (heh, my brain of a former employee of law firms) there's a rule in Rong family which forbids the family members "to commit crimes and to ruin the family reputation".... She is a person able to do both and get exposed. Is she above the family law?

2nd sis mentioned a rule that the heiress must pass a sort of honing through the rivalry and competition with sisters. And I think the old hag invented that rule because it fits her interests.

btw I wouldn't wonder if she re-written family rules in a way best-fitting for her personally. And that she is also the cause why the entire mid-generation is missing in that house.
I wouldn't wonder even if she has smth to do with the evil officials (those higher than prefect Xu) connected with the "Yang case"
She is vicious, evil, pure evil and must be taken down, otherwise this drama can't have a HE

I was telling that since the early eps...
I wouldn't wonder if she has even smth to do with the evil officials (those higher than prefect Xu) connected with the "Yang case" ...

just "partly to blame"? 😂 She is the main antagonist in the whole story. Emotional and power manipulator N°1. Ofc. she plays them one against another, she actually educates them to be as they are as a leverage against the FL, who is more of a multitasking slave she tortures daily in different ways. A resented old hag, hope she'll have a horrible death.

thank you very much 👍

you mean "the main antagonist". Yeah, she is.

that oath wasn't just scary. Grandma (again) exercised her authority and RSB's emotional weakness in front of her to pass down on her her own unhappiness and to lifelong bind her to a total (w)Rong slavery.
And again, RSB was too weak to oppose her and her insanity...

her role is to play SB's lawyer...
Lawyers may have that unpleasant attitude

Let's recap how the story we are so addicted to progressed today.
1. We've finally got a sort of explanation for grandma's unsound behaviour. As she never stopped to resent betrayal of her first love, she ought to assure her successor will be her clone: an unhappy, resented, viscious hag like she is. The rule that a heiress must pass a heavy competition trial with her sisters, being simultaneously burdened with all the responsibilities was probably invented by her and never existed before. In that way, she can continue to do nothing and dedicate all her time to her own inner demons, whose company she enjoys the most. Inaction interrupted by theatrical acting angry bc FL kept hidden from her the 6th granddaughter was still alive. She certainly prefers opera plays to planning what to do next. She trained a slave (whom she even forced to wow for a lifelong servitude and unhappiness in the ancestral hall) to deal with trivialities, can't be bothered with Yangs or messy problems... Besides, why would she coordinate with a slave?
2. As we've already forshadowed yesterday, FL also has her share of responsibility. While she is usually 10 steps ahead when it comes to business and dealings with the outsiders, she is 10 steps behind to send her cousin Wen back to his home, to protect herself first and manage emotions with cool head, to confront her Grandma... But I still rely on her intelligence and awareness that house is still full of vipers of both genders. Could she have really so hastily decide to marry (without letting know even to the groom) ignoring someone would certainly act to hinder it?
3. I feel releaved LJL finally got out, truly couldn't stand that mansion anymore. Impatiently waiting to see how will he deal with the case, prefect, governor... and yes, that mentor (why is he a Xu, too? Is it the same character?) of his. The change of tune came at the right moment bc the one playing in the Rong mansion became redundant, even a bit annoying.

I usually avoid trailers, bc they are often cut in a way to trick the viewers. Besides, these two are scheming from the 1st ep, what we see in trailer could always be part of their pretending/staging in sync, so why bother?
The only thing we know - bc it's logical - is that he must restore his previous identity, otherwise he'll be killed. He is an upright official and for the FL, who beside handling the mess in her mannor and will be forced to handle the disaster with business as well, has Mrs Yang/Wan'er's nanny to protect while her own kin is around trying to silence her for good. If I were her, I'd prefer to entrust the solution of this cold case/hot potato to the imperial inspector who btw loves me.

LJL already revealed himself to his enemies. That prefect in particular, who tried to kill him for the 2nd time, using the same person who is now detained in the Rong's mansion.
Ofc he must return to his identity, otherwise he'll be killed for good. He is still there only bc the FL is ill at the moment, and a bit instable physically and emotionally and a natural disaster is knocking on the door of the tea plantation... otherwise he'll be already out of the mess in that mansion.
And ofc, the leads will be separated, lets' just hope they are prepared and in sync to assign the cold case to the imperial inspector he is.

He is. Gone.
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I've just said the truth, she was jinxing, I ought to spit three times over my left shoulder to stop it from happening... 😂😂😂

yeah, actually she gave him a smart guy as his aide...
As for scholar Bai... I distrust even him
The person n°2 I trust is FL's chief maid

Don't say that, whoever throws him/herself off the cliff in c-dramas survives and comes back even stronger. A more annoying WC would be truly unbearable

If it's any consolation, we know they must separate anyways: they've detained prefect's people in the mansion, people sent by the prefect to kill him, btw the same person who attempted to his life before so - if she wants LJL to stay alive - he must restore his original identity asap. She knows all that as well she knows the Yang senior is not in the house for nothing offering the other twin in marriage and that they probably know about the bead bracelet (which is still missing) and that they are after Mrs Yang hidden by her - so sooner or later she'll be found, better by an imperial inspector than Mrs Yang's kin who wants to silence her for good.
It's true that by showing off himself in public he brought the FL to a fait accompli, but the FL brought ML to fait accompli more than once and he didn't bat an eye, so I suppose she'll do the same.
Imo, he had enough talk with her, they've truly seemed like husband and wife in that moment, so there's no need to furtherly touch her emotional issues (it may be counterproductive and open some of her old wounds) bc they are only hers and the most particular among these issues is her relationship with her granny, the power game played by the old lady RSB must confront sooner or later. Even in real life romantic relationship is often unwise to press on issues which can be perceived as "meddling" in stuff regarding one partner's original family. They have more pressing and concrete problems to address and better be in sync and have a plan in advance. I've thought we would have moved today to his original background and identity, didn't expect we'll still be stuck with granny and "sisters" breathing the stuffy air of the Rong mansion and with a natural calamity approaching the plantation...

yup. The girls are like that bc of grandma who truly thinks she has a leverage over RSB if they constantly question or undermine RSB's authority. I don't know if grandma is stupid, unaware that - opposed to RSB - she just holds a handful of air or just bluffing in a poker game while having bad cards...

you've probably missed our previous discussions on grandma and her total failure as a person in charge of their education and the general respect of roles and rules. We've analysed the threat you've mentioned as well.
Grandma talks big and indulges her granddaughters as a leverage over RSB, as the two of them (the old lady and RSB) are essentially "parallel powers", as the first is in charge of household and the latter is in charge of family business. RSB is in charge of business for a good reason: the tea bone, for which we know isn't an innate gift but an acquired vast technical expertise regarding tea and tea business, no other Rong girl has. This fact makes RSB a breadwinner and gives her the top authority in a hierarchical cluster called "family". So, whatever the grandma says in this regard are... just empty words. Each of these girls has a personal problem and reason why cannot be in charge (one is bratty and unruly, one is blind and servant's daughter, one is a concubine's daughter with servile mind, one is mentally impaired, one is surnamed Shen, while males are not allowed to be in charge and the one we've seen is so dumb that cannot qualify even if he were a girl) and even the one we've all perceived as a rival is so stupid to collude with family's enemy n°1 in a crime against one of the Rongs.
And both grandma and RSB are clever enough to know all as above. If RSB decides to leave the Rong mansion, taking her little sis and nanny the old lady perceives as "a mess left by RSB's mom", with her level of tea expertise she can always live well as a manager elsewhere, while the entire Rong mansion will collapse in no time due to their infightings and lack of respect of roles. Ofc., there are some advantages of living in that mansion: Rong is a powerhouse with family rules providing protection against abuses women could suffer after married. But protecting the Rongs so devoutly and selflessly as RSB does is bringing them no good either.

Indeed. And the show in front of the granma when she "punished" the two sisters with a chess game and drinks? I was fuming. Instead of making them kneel in the ancestral hall asking them what they've done wrong? But, hey, we've already analysed that part, so we can only hope the disaster will knock some sense into those arrogant, cocky heads