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But even when I read the novel, I feel like Chu Zhao doesn't even like He Yan. I mean, even when the emperor granted marriage to he yan and xiao jue, he shamelessly proposed to he yan and when she asked why he said "because I love you". I didn't feel like he was sincere when he said that, he just wanted to annoy xiao jue.

Yeah because that's what happened in the novel, the scene where she told her the ten immortal secrets (because of the water god festival tradition)to xiao jue. In the novel she said: “In my previous life, I was a female general.”

the moon represents xiao jue, so basically she told him "I like u, but u don't know that I like you."

it's his courtesy name (name given after reaching adulthood (someone correct me if I'm wrong), xiao jue is his birth name *I also just know about courtesy name after reading the novel youthful glory (another c-drama adopted from the novel with the same name)

in the novel, his name is chu linfeng, and chu zhao is a chu family's bastard (his mother is like a woman from a brothel iirc), chu linfeng took him in because his other three sons doesn't have any resemblance with him (like they're not as handsome as chu zhao)

yes, he yan rejected him when he asked to meet her privately because she likes xiao jue (and then xiao jue barged in and he yan drag him out after chu zhao left), and no, the maid never confessed, not even when she asked chu zhao to kill her (because at some point the crown prince want her as her maid, but the crown prince abused her even poisoned her, so she asked him to kill her)

Even I as a reader of the novel am confused by Chu Zhao's attitude every time he appears ._. Like, his character's gray

even in the novel iirc, chu zhao only confessed to he yan when the emperor already granted imperial marriage decree between xiao jue and he yan (idk, it's like a final desperate move from chu zhao ._.)

I think they keep that part if I remember correctly when I watched trailer of ep 8 or 9 on wetv website

In the novel, it's at the end of chapter 100 when he said the line "should I call u He Yan, or Young Lady He?"