Lizzy

I hope it will be, too, but I’ve noticed that censorship is a lot more lax if the sexual content is depicted as “bad” or “wrong”. I obviously hope I am wrong, but I’m not expecting something that spicy with our leads. I think the second leads got away with it because it’s technically abuse.

It’ll be a long road until the pretenses are gone.

The vast majority of them are just trolls.

I was worried that I would lose sleep when I found this out yesterday 😳It’s so… yeah chilling.

Ohhhhh probably between episodes 26-28.

Apparently it’s not that far off of the novel. The ML did pretend to be a regular soldier in the book as well.

I hate love triangles and find this one very unnecessary. So I’m a bit disappointed that they went this route.

Thank you, this also helps me. I WANT to understand this because this is shaping up to be one of my favorite dramas of all time and I do not want to start disliking it. I appreciate this perspective as well.

I appreciate this perspective, actually, thank you. You mentioning that him believing that “she fancies scholars” makes sense. She was engaged to one for a long time and then she believed that XZ was one when they were living together in the village. And then Zheng’s jab in 17 about her liking scholars when they were fighting also makes sense in this context. So he would be afraid to tell her, because as a Marquis he doesn’t believe that she will still want to be with him. This is helping a lot, actually. Thank you for this perspective. A lot of other pieces and scenes from the first 16 episodes are connecting as I think more about it.

Yeah it’s disappointing. I am still trying to understand it so it won’t dampen my love for this drama. But overall it sounds like XZ never really gives a clear answer as to why, not even in the novel.

Unfortunately I’m in the same boat. People are suspecting she will find it out in episode 26-27. They reunite in like 24, then he creates a fake Marquis to keep hiding the truth from her. 🙄She finds out a couple episodes later I guess.

Interesting. Does the Marquis ever give a reason why he kept the secret from her?

I am totally at a loss by this point why he is now actively creating a ruse to maintain this lie… it doesn’t make sense to me. The lying / keeping secrets tropes have had me drop dramas that I started off loving. Like does the novel ever give a reason why he did it? And you’re saying that he did not create a fake marquis in the novel?

ep 24

Does he ever explain to her why now he is going out of his way to lie?

They are probably gonna reunite in 24 and she will find out who he is. They will get back together I’m assuming… but then XZ discovers that her parents are connected to his dad’s death, right? So they kinda break up AGAIN at some point later on? Any idea how long the second separation will last and how close to the ending of the novel / drama it happens?

So clarification about the timeline of stuff coming up with the leads—

Seriously thank you for this. I didn’t know what to make of the cliff scene until you gave your interpretation of it and it makes SO much more sense to me now! I was wrestling with it for a while feeling pretty stumped by it. 🙏🏻I also like your thoughts on his reasons for keeping his identity a secret. It would make sense if he liked how she treated him like a normal person and didn’t want that to change. And perhaps there is an element of him worried scout letting her down. I do hope that we get a scene of him explaining his reasons to her later on.

They were really XZ’s men, but she didn’t know that. The last thing she remembers was being chased by the crazy psychopath, so she perhaps thought that she was found after falling off the cliff.

Yeah this interpretation makes a lot more sense than if he truly didn’t know about the wristguards.