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Think about the ending. Even if the Duke’s residence was heaven on earth with loving family members, LJL would still have to leave in order to be with RSB. She was willing to compromise on nothing. Her first love was and will always be the tea. She would leave him in a heart beat if it meant losing her tea business.

After a few hours away from the ending, I have to say this story left a bad taste in my mouth. Where is your dignity and self worth sir? The show should be renamed, Lady and the Simp” or “Tea for Cucks.”

Think about that ending. Even if the Duke’s residence was heaven on earth with loving family members, LJL would have had to leave them behind to be with RSB. She was compromising on nothing. Her first love was and will always be tea. She would leave him in a heart beat if it meant losing that damn tea business.

Definitely dropped it below 8 for me. It was totally rushed and contrived. They needed more time to develop the Duke plot. They should have used 12 episodes for the Rong plot, 12 for Duke’s household plot and then use final 12 episodes to wrap up loose ends, character arcs and LJL/RSB love story.

Just finished and I have whiplash. The last six episodes was like a whole new show. If they had more episodes or ended the earlier plot sooner then they would have had more time to merge the country and city plots better. But in the end the show felt so disjointed. And don’t get me started on the jade MacGuffin RSB carried around that conveniently embed her with unlimited power. What a ridiculous and unbelievable plot device. The current emperor would not allow someone to have such a power even if it came from the founding emperor. At any rate, it’s a bad plot device because it could have been used to solve all their problems in earlier episodes. So using it in the end felt like an easy button for the writers to wrap up the story faster. RSB became invincible and all knowing by the end of the series. And the ML basically became a sniveling simp without his own agency. Thankfully RSB decided to take that puppy back home with her or he would be miserable. The last few episodes dropped the show below an 8 for me.

Wow. I’m on ep 32 and they have introduced as many new characters in the last three episodes as they did when the show started. Was this show originally set for 42 episodes? 😂

Up to episode 30. Shanbao has basically become Michael Corleone.

To be fair he is playing more of the FL role and she’s playing the ML role that you’re used to seeing in Cdramas. This series is about flipping traditions on its head so it makes sense.

Agree. They need another 12 episodes to deal with the Rong extended family drama in the capital.

He’s an idiot. Why did he give his daughter up to Rong Shanbao in the first place? Then he turns around and kidnaps his daughter and gives her to a stranger. He’s nice but very gullible.

Not everyone is a ML fangirl. A story has to be filled out with other character or we just get the ML/FL pining after each other for 36 episodes which is boring. It’s up to the writers to make all stories interesting though.

Wow. Talk about a turn to the dark side in the latest episode.

She knew who he was from the beginning. Also, since they are a matrilineal clan, I don’t think the male has to be of great status. Although I think they would prefer it.

Very enjoyable watch. It’s hard to take the legal part of this show seriously but I do like that they bring light to many current issues. I hope we get a S2 and all the cast returns.

Yep. I said it a few episodes ago but ep 23 definitely confirmed that granny is the reason for disharmony between the sisters. It makes me believe that once she is out of the picture, they can begin to bond.

It’s nice to see that her character isn’t just a simple villain. There is a lot more to her character than we first see at the beginning.

Still waiting on Netflix to update the new episode.

Sister#6 didn’t get attention. Only Shan took care of her. Evil granny hid her from the public.

So tired of him. He really took a bad turn from the kid at the beginning of the show.

Yep. Have to give it to the writers on this one. They have actually made me a bit more sympathetic to the sisters. They are terrible but they are victims of that family as well. They are really warped by the environment granny created. It’s no longer simple enough to say this sister is bad and this sister is good. I think there is a bit of graying that’s occurring.