AleksandraSucur

I hope for them they'll both leave that vipers' nest for good. I like her doing the tea business but dislike her living in the same mansion with wicked Rong girls... But the situation will certainly change, we still have no clue in which direction it will change... Besides, he also must use the power of Rong family to take his own revenge and bring down the governor and his powerful underlings...

wow, the speed in taking off her shoes... as she had done that thousands of times 😂🎇

Despicable ungrateful humans are getting more and more annoying in this drama...

as the other vipers were better than her, lol 🤦‍♀️

neither do I..

"Mr. Yan, you've been avoiding me like the plague, as if I were some venomous creature" 😂
The correct statement would be "as if you know I am a venomous creature" 🐍🐍🐍
Although Mr Yan is smart enough to keep distance from the chief vixen jiejie, he still didn't figure out he'd better run away to his mountain and grow up his own tea, lol.

Happy New Year to you, too! 🎇

I haven't seen the two Korean dramas you've mentioned, but this story is truly great, I'm at ep 13 and certainly won't watch smth not worth watching at 23,15 in New Year's Eve...
The value of socializing and finding friends to tell us more about ourselves in this drama is pure gold.
Happy New Year!

yeah, dishonest is not the the right word, you're right about it. But as an alpha, a beholder of real power, she is the true shaper of their internal relations. She put heavy requirements and responsability on the oldest girl, deliberalty spoilt the brazen one, made a (male) grandson useless... she has seen through their collective plot against the first granddaughter (when bandits hired by them abducted Bao) but never intervened, explaining to her maid the future matron must cope with such trifles on her own... She doesn't openly encourage them to be mean towards the eldest, but doesn't discourage them either and this is not a normal thing for a person who was and still is in charge of their education. As for the manipulation, I think we still haven't seen much of the grandma. It is true, as you said, she "lets the game play out" until the outcome of that game is what she planned... will she still be a "calm control power" if the outcome of the game she activated is smth she hasn't envisaged? Doesn't she already use the power of tea-bone on her granddaughters to keep them in constant competition and isn't this power already a sort of manipulation?

Happy New Year! 🎇

How perceptions may differ... While I agree they are all shady and scheming, I perceive the grandma as the most dishonest and scheming, an alpha she-wolf who shaped that entire wolfpack of the Rong mansion according - if not to her image and likeness - at least according to her business running needs and agenda.
One word of that old lady will suffice to stop the competition between sisters as well as the competition for the matrilocal husband. Given she has already decided who'll among the sisters be the next matriarch as well as her future husband. And she'll give a hell of a time to anyone who doesn't play according to her script...

It wasn't your fault, it actually wasn't explained properly and the authors used too many red herrings in this particular case, so many things remained without an explanation (eg. the trigger of the disturb/obsession with spiders) or remain blurred (egg-reproduction). Frankly, I've also remained a bit confused after it. Yup, spiders are interesting creatures.
Happy New Year! 😀

dolls were props used in a movie shooting, while cow remains were probably used for testing how the internal organs dissolve/liquify when an acid is used on them as to simulate the similar reaction when spider's gastric acids enter the prey. I have no medical knowledge as well, but have observed on my home-spiders how they kill their prey. The insects caught in their web don't die of suffocation although the spider carefully wrap them all over: if it is hungry, it'll kill them immediately injecting these venomous gastric enzymes and then suck it back together with liquified content of the insect (and that's how it kill another spider even without wrapping it in a sausage, I rarely kill them at home bc I know they'll kill each other sooner or later and are useful to keep other insects at bay) but if they are not hungry, they'll leave the prey hanging there for "hard days" exactly as we hang sausages, the only difference is that the content of that wrap still isn't "processed food", on the contrary, wrapping is a way of keeping them "fresh". I've saved a ladybug using a needle three days after it was wrapped and it was still alive. When they inject the liquifing enzymes into the prey (and there's no way for the prey to be saved at that point), spiders will immediately suck its content leaving the exoskeleton and outside wrap almost intact.

as well as are yours for me ❤️❤️❤️

Me too. I think I've dropped FoF because I disliked the cold demon king character (among other issues) in that one. The role he played and I preferred was of the tai qi master in I Am Nobody, because it involved so many skills he masters, including a bunch of microexpressions conveying wittiness, scheming, innocence, surprise etc. For actors, it's very difficult to play comic book's heroes in general, because they must excercise a great restraint to keep the character "bidimensional" in general appearence while still putting (an even greater) effort in microexpressions and martial arts movements in singular scenes to convince the audience. He slayed in that role, can't imagine any other actor performing that character in such a convincing way. Years passed and I still remember several great scenes, including tai qi lessons he gave to his father in that drama - pearls of pure comedy.
Happy New Year, my friends! 🎇

don't worry. Yes, ep 12 was still watchable, but 13-14 are simply disappointing. I understand why the fun disappeared - both the ML and the FL (+ SML) are in a much harder position than ever before - but I can't understand why the thrill has gone too in this weird illusion-land stocked with wicked females. I can only explain it by a drop in the story-telling quality. If the story drags within this arc even in tomorrow's eps, I believe many people will quit it...
It's a pity, it started well

I beg to differ on this. She stood bravely for the FL even when she was more scared in several occasions, in situations that were life-threatening for her as a weak flower demon. Here, she is against FL bc she wants to win a competition, wants a beauty and is jealous bc both humans and demons favors FL? Such a switch of personality is unconvincing and - if remains unexplained - it's an unconsistent writing, as Salwa Nice pointed out.

I agree. Although she is a side character, she is still too important for the FL. It isn't ok for such a 180° change in attitude to remain unexplained.

most of the dresses and hairstyle we've seen immitate the late Ming fashion-style (as the outfit AtsukoM mentioned), you're right, but not all. Hanfu worn by the old lady and servants is Qing (even the late Qing, recognizable for its diagonal closure from neck towards shoulder), as well as the sleeveless short vests over the dresses. And there are other dresses from early Ming, which is also a very different style.
I can understand the enjoyment, bc all these outfits are visually beautiful and none can say the contrary, but mixing the styles was not a wise choice of the costume department: there's also an audience who will feel confused seeing them mixed, that was my point

If close siblings behave like that, the responsibilty is of an adult person who grew them up: the old Lady Rong.
Who apparently favours the oldest grandaughter as a destined heiress and beholder of Tea-Bone (clan's insignia which makes me laugh, being a homophone with T-bone) but makes her life hard in order to "educate" her to cope with problems, including her brazen sisters. She perfectly knows they've hired robbers to steal tea buds from Bao and then sent the stupid bro to cover the traces... I mean, is it in this way how you educate your grandaughters? Bao was kidnapped by the people they've hired (and than freed by Lu), but the old lady turned a blind eye and even playfully joked with the mastermind of that plot... She is the person who stirs up their competiteveness, as the Tea Bone game is open until she passes it to one of them and one of the conditions is to get married before she'll do that. Bao is aware of her game with sisters, as well as of the fact the old lady intends to make her marry that wanna be monk...
It is also true that they are not totally at each other's throats, they tend to forget their rivalries the moment Rong family or tea business is exposed to some troubles

No, I am not critical at all, it's a fictional setting, why bother... it's just the mix of styles that makes me confused. I'd prefer they've chosen one style or completely fictional style dresses