AleksandraSucur

Whoever poisoned him must have had some connections with Yang family servants, bc RSB's servants were all withdrawn from that courtyard.
Grandma didn't know RSB would spend the night with Lu, she would never risk poisoning her own granddaughter together with that bull.
Only Yangs' and RSB's servants knew he was allone in the bedchamber, but only the first could have served him. Who can give orders to servants from the Yang family? Either his uncle or his twin, right?

Yup, exactly my thoughts.
And yes, I hope they will, we were shipping those two, lol

we know she isn't fit from the start, when she hired bandits to steel the tea from FL not knowing they were abducting women from plantation and the FL ended up abducted as well. She isn't fit bc she is envious, viscious and hypocrite and lacks an outstanding knowledge of tea. But we never percieved her as dumb, she was a rival whose path was smooth because grandma never seriously punished her misdoings and boosts her jealousy in order to have a leverage over the FL. But she was still a rival and a top schemer we've feared.
The explanation we've got today for her collusion with family's enemy re-dimensioned her, dumbed her down.

Today's eps were anticlimatic with details of dubious logic here and there: for the first time since the drama started I had to suspend disbelief. It looks like the writer expects from us to condone Yunxi as she was unaware He was planning to kill her cousin. If this is the case, we all overestimated Yunxi's intelligence. Not being aware of how dangerous this psycho was and colluding with such a person, a family enemy, "just to frighten" (as she said) a vulnerable girl makes Yunxi plain dumb. As a dumb person is no match for a smart FL, their rivalry (which raised the tension and our interest in the story) will feel... downgraded, watered, from now on.
I suppose our interest will shift towards ML's background story, friends and enemies, which actually isn't a bad idea, we need to go out and breath a different air from the one in the stuffy Rong mansion.

Twin bro was my n°1 sus, He was 2nd. So, yes.
But their targets were different. Twin bro knew RSB wasn't in the chamber, so his target was Yang bull, while He wanted them both dead.

The FL is a hard working woman, a breadwinner of her family.
She is stressed by her working burdens and family responsibilities, exausted by her siblings playing a game of thrones and her granny's constant pressure.
Yes, that's exausting so no wonder even a beautiful actress will look exausted and worn out when playing such a role, it isn't a fault of the make up department, this is how we all look like (even worse) after being so stressed and pressured. If you look better in such conditions, send us a photo
That's why we root for her. If you watched 10 eps and still feel nothing, then it's better you drop it, this drama isn't for you

Your comment was so funny, I laughed a lot.
Now I'll play a serious investigator, just to recap Yang bull's murder and how the FL really felt following your track

1. She went out to forget the bull in the ancient hall where he even kissed her and she felt so sullied
2. Fireworks were the precise moment in which she was feeling weak staying close to ML but feeling it would be wrong to involve him further in her problems, she felt that man (ML) did so much to cheer her up that afternoon (he even got her rid of the monk with hair her granny chose as her mate/husband) and evening, involving him further just didn't seem right
3. Not spending the night with a person who blackmailed her and offended her family and her personal dignity was the only thing she could have thought in the moment she saw his shadow on the door. She felt enraged. If she stepped into that room she could even commit a murder. Better no, she thought, lets spend this night in someone else's room humiliating him and showing him a Rong woman does whatever she wants.
4. Nanny is a person FL's mom decided to shelter. By threatening to expose this fact, FL agreed to marry the bull despite the fact such a thing would damage more the bull's family than the Rongs. The bull wasn't a person to be reasoned with. He wanted the FL (I don't blame him for that) very badly and was joicing at the very thought he'll possess her with this pressure. If I were the FL, I'd certainly kill him, bc I don't stand any kind of pressure or threat, but the FL is constantly under pressure and threat and somehow more used to it. Wanwan would have been the last of my thoughts but somehow FL retained her cool and managed to arrange persons looking after her. The person in charge the night WW went out slept on duty and successively was even blackmailed and bought with a pearl pin by the evil cousin and lured WW to her killer.
5. When FL decided to use the plates with butterfly motives, she never expected evil sisters would involve and expose a mentally impaired sis publicly. It was an unfortunate coincidence they've brought WW to show to the outsiders the one who possesses "tea bone" is WW, while they all know it's just the legend and the FL simply knows more things about tea than they do. The sisters and bro who is dumb enough to serve other people's interests indeed worked hard to ruin the family's reputation. That's why the grandma harshly reproached evil sisters and severely punished the stupid bro who takes their punishment as well for habit bc he is out of the game of thrones for the simple fact he's a male.
6. Being not mentally stable, WW is a perfect scapegoat to kill a big man like dead guy. So, WanWan becomes the only suspect but an impossible suspect (I finally found the phrase I can repeat!) We are so in sync, lol!
7. And this point too, I'll repeat it: "If we know what that bead bracelate means and what scandal is it hiding then we will know if this murder was so worth for FL or not.. ELSE FL did not do it and it just might be as she guessed... a plan to kill her on her wedding night " I also think like you do: where are the fu***ng beads? They are not with the FL, who was the real target that night

Blind girl - you "don't understand her angle" but I agree with "She definitely fell in love with the scholar guy and is crafting her way to get to be with him" and I also feel she "would want the tea estate to herself..." that's why He-Yunxi plan to make the scholar guy the scapegoat of their (unsuccessful) murder won't work and why WW is still alive. 😀

I've found it, thank you very much.
To me, it doesn't look like the same candlestick. The one left by that Song boytoy had side handles and couldn't be grasped in that way, while the one used to kill was shown in a firm killer's grip. Besides, the one stolen by boytoy remained in Mrs Yan's room, while the killer had a man's hand

Yes, there's no doubt he is. An unpredictable and dangerous. When he says "I concede a defeat", we can safely bet all our money he will strike back tenfolds. He is unable to accept a defeat, a psycho.

she isn't clever enough to invent her own schemes but actively participate in Yunxi's schemes. She helped her to blackmail SB's maid so the latter can lure Wanwan to her killer. Far from innocent...

can you find the clip with bloody candlestick?

She is a concubine's daughter and acts like a servant of Yunxi. In the game of thrones in this story, her chances are very slim if not unexistant.

imo, she wanted to show that bull who blackmailed her and tried to dominate her in the ancestral hall that a Rong woman does whatever pleases her. She had an urgent need to pass the night elsewhere to humiliate him. She likes Lu, ofc, and probably even wanted to have sex with him, but that was not the right moment (she was enraged with another man) for them to make love and Lu did well to refuse it while keeping her in bed in order to prevent her to do smth stupid.

Not choosing sides makes her "cautious" in my vocabulary, not "calculating rival"; being able to correctly assess the situation and sense the danger makes her "intelligent" not "formidable". But it's ok, these are just words, lets not discuss them further, call her formidable and calculating if you prefer so.

My point was she indeed sensed the danger coming from these two combined. When her maid reported her of He secretly entering Yunxi's coach, she even said smth like "The wind is rising, the disaster is following". And we both agree she's a very smart lass.

The point of our disagreement are the consequences of the crime for Yunxi. You've said: "if Shanbao is dragged into the mess as a co-conspirator in Yang’s murder, the family’s reputation will take a devastating hit". I can agree the family reputation may be damaged, but Yunxi can care less about the family reputation. She is only interested to bring Shanbao down and that's the reason why she planned and helped He to commit the crime. With Shanbao down, she has the best prospects to "restore the family reputation". Period. The blind girl, daughter of a maid the granny hated is out of the game of thrones in this story, as well as the unruly brat and the one who acts like Yunxi's servant, born by a concubine... not to mention the one surnamed Shen.

If her plot with He is exposed, obviously, there will be certain bad consequences for her too. I can agree with you even on this point to a certain degree. But they will not be that serious, she will not be handed to the authorities or kicked out from the family. She wasn't the material executor of the crime and will deny or distort the reasons why she helped He. Bc. that's how things work in that family and that's how the granny's mind (and blind eye) functions.

Indeed. Besides, I remember when RSB told Yang bull in the ancestral hall that the husbands of Rong women should be compatible with them for the family to flourish. As Lu is compatible with RSB, I also think Bai is compatible with her.
Actually, even He is compatible with Yunxi, but their compatibility is deadly dangerous. A compatibility of criminal minds, lol😂

I wouldn't call the blind cousin "calculating and formidable rival" but "the most cautious and intelligent" among them.
I think she is the one who saved Wanwan: aware of the dangers He-Yunxi pact will inevitably create and hearing from her maid RSB's maid Yang'er was in Yunxi's courtyard receiving gifts with maids from other courtyards, she immediately understood that maid will be used for some deadly plan. While she headed to Huanlin courtyard to check on "spring tea", she probably heard Bai was invited by the psycho for dinner and connected the dots, he's gonna be used as well, probably as a scapegoat.

yup, hearing from her maid, RSB's maid Yang'er was in Yunxi's courtyard receiving gifts with maids from other courtyards, she became sus. She is intelligent, aware of the dangers He-Yunxi pact will inevitably create, she immediately understood that maid will be used for some deadly plan. While she headed to Huanlin courtyard to check on "spring tea", she probably heard Bai was invited by the psycho for dinner and connected the dots, he's gonna be used as well, probably as a scapegoat.

You know, I think it was the blind sis who organised Wan'er's rescue. Sending a tip to RSB... she was on the plantation, it could have been too late. Beside being cautious, the blind sis is more intelligent than other sisters, that's why she is relatively safe. She had tried to enter He's good graces when he was tied by RSB but he refused her later, revealing his brutal hater psycho nature. So, she turned to Bai who is more similar to her in character and nature (the reason why she didn't want to be with him at first) and likes her. Hearing from her maid, RSB's maid Yang'er was in Yunxi's courtyard receiving gifts with maids from other courtyards, she became sus. Aware Yunxi made an iron pact with He, she immediately concluded the two criminals were plotting smth in that moment and that the RSB's maid will be used in that plot. So she headed to Huanlin courtyard to check on "new tea buds". Along the way, she probably heard Bai was invited by He for dinner (she and Bai were supposed to meet that evening) and connected the missing dots. He would never invite Bai for no reason, he hated his guts after she admitted they were dating. And was a perfect scapegoat if He was planning to commit a crime. For how much she is cautious, she doesn't want Bai harmed either, she likes him...

RSB didn't plan, just improvised after getting a tip from (probably) the blind sis who sensed He will commit the murder framing the scholar. The blind sis maybe even took certain precautions on her own given she was in Huanlin courtyard checking on "new tea buds" while RSB was away.

If you want to know the motivation, just close your eyes and imagine what will be the outcome of He freak-YunXi plan to murder Wanwan:
- the unruly sister will testify the shoe print was Wanwan's (and that's true)
- the authority investigating Yang's death will close the case with Wanwan as a Yang's killer (everybody knows she is not of sound mind, so the motivation will be her mental instability) and with Bai scholar as Wanwan's killer (who committed the murder in a drunken state).
- as a person who always protected Wanwan, RSB will be seen either as an accomplice to Yang's murder or as a person who covered for the killer. RSB will definitely be "brought down from the pedestal", as He freak said.
- YX will be praised by her grandma for helping to close two hot cases fast without harming the family's reputation.

It won't go that way, but that was their plan in simple words.