AleksandraSucur

Hi, glad you've caught up, I've missed your comments.
Actually, I was grateful not to seen her disheveled and miserable as I would have been in her stead after all that emotional fighting scene and how my closest bros betrayed me, using even orphans I've took under my protection... bc it reminded me I'm watching a drama, it's not for real
Still under the emotional impact, I've also hated FSG and all men who would forbid me to from drowning myself in alcohol.
No, it isn't much, it's balanced enough

Can't agree more 😂😂😂

yes, FSG is ruthless, decisive and scheming and has a line he won't cross.
And takes his resposnabilites seriously

it's an insult to wolves in sheep's clothing. 🐺
FSG called him a Beast but FSG also gave him too much credit. He is just a total hypocrite talking big to cover the fact he's a big weakling. Maybe your unintentional lapsus was better: a sheep playing, pretending to be a wolf.
"I don't kill women" - his words to the brainless FSG's sister which convinced her he was the hero of her dreams. Fact check: unless they are my most loyal generals who I want to marry.
"There are no lowly people, all people are equal, my subordinates sit with me around the table, they are my bros" Fact check: even the closest bros are expendable. Not only.
We had this scene of him chatting happily with the 3 orphans, previously sent by him and WR bro to track her while he contemporarily sent another group of his people to kill her, to use one of those children to lure her (putting a child in a mortal danger as well) on a boat filled with inflamable oil... And after all that sh*t, he continues with his double personality insanity hoping she'll come back to him.
He is a poor man, a poisoned sheep, who is scheming with the enemy from one antidote to another but is always ready to sacrifice the next closest person for any unachievable goal he has in mind.
FSG can't be more distant from him.

yes, but as I've said above, it's wrong to promise smth you can't maintain even when you are promising to yourself. He can't protect her bc he promised her earlier he would let her deal with her killers. That's why I've said all men in this drama talk big, I know he is a definitely better man than that beast(s) who even used those children to track her down and harm her

I know all that.
To these reasons, I could add even a better one. Their cooperation agreement stands on 3 conditions: one of them is that he would let her deal with her killers herself.
But I am still pissed off and can't help myself.

don't mind me, I'm still under the emotional impact of today's ep, and feel so pissed off and bad for the FL that I'm just venting.
If I were her, my heart would be so broken that I would have drown myself in the pool of alcohol and wouldn't like any man being in my presence, especially not the one who is taking the goddam bottle away from me.

I was horrified... it was unexpected bc it's so unimaginable. I've ought to replay it, WTF are they saying, and then remembered WR told Ning Fei (who was upset) when they haven't found her in that clinic, he'll "use another ways"...
So sick

yup, inimaginable, this is another level of betrayal

yeah, but he watched her bleeding and fighting against her sworn brother, eating popcorns just a few minutes before....
Imo, all men in this drama are big talkers, but at least he isn't the one who betrayed her

was the fact XJS and WR sent her pupils, orphans of their fallen comrades, they were using those children with the purpose to track her at that border clinic. I've thought the children escaped on their own to find her.
Three children, 2 boys and a girl, just like the three of them...
Adding another weight to the dimension of the betrayal, another insult to injuries they've inflicted her...

That battle between sworn brother and sister was sooo heart breaking, I've stopped breathing. The intensity of moves, sword clashes and gazes mixed with flashbacks of their youth. They truly fought with broken hearts, crying, gasping, screaming due to the heaviness inside them. Heaviness of betraying, heaviness of being betrayed. Definitely a memorable scene, excellently executed, shot and edited.

And what I haven't expected at all...

No, bc no person who was in the capital during the could be the mask man (the brother, sister, all Zhuangs were in the capital).
As far as we know, the only person out of the (capital's) picture during and immediately after the battle, was Murong

yes, that line was very fitting

ofc the mask guy is his marquese friend, Murong.

Lemon, he wasn't sent to guard the borders at all, he said he would join his father sent to guard the borders, which means he is substantially free to go or stay wherever he wants, as well as he was before, bc he is also that merchant who met with XJS the nightwhen Zhennan army was celebrating the victory at Pingling. He is also the person who passed that military intel between Zhuangs and XJS on Feng battalion's movements, Zhuangs were all in the capital at the time, as well as the prince who is too young, soft and brain-limited to orchestrate anything.
Even if we haven't seen all the hints, we can deduce it was the Murong guy by simple elimination of possible sus.

I've completed it with a lot of hardships not to drop and still cannot believe such a cast agreed to play in this drama. Fortunately it was short but I've never rated so low a drama I've watched till the end

watch the preview ep 11

😂😂😂

yup.
Thank you for the comment, I am also figuring out :)))

You should remember the fact he is poisoned and we do not know who is giving him antidotes.
I think there was some sort of romantic entanglement between them.
Before being shot, the FL was crying, that means "the secret" was truly shocking and she heard of it just before being shot. I think she discovered SML with a masked guy (who was maybe without a mask, Murong Yao) talking that the plan was to annihilate Feng's army, not to make them retreat. And that - at this point - SML had no choice but to shoot her and make her fall, hoping he could retrieve her personally, before she gets killed by his own men he ordered to kill her if she is still alive