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Ooooooof this post makes the Emperor a very scary character 😨

If it helps the teaser for episode 22 includes a very sweet and tender scene with them 🥹So it will likely be resolved very soon.

Oh this was very helpful! Thank you! You make a lot of really good and thoughtful responses in this thread and I read them and appreciate your insight 😊

It’s one of the drawbacks of limiting the amount of episodes. Gosh, if they were able to spread this story out over 50-70 episodes it would have been amazing!

Watched episode 20, and all of the stuff that went down at the Willow shooting event went completely over my head 😅

Yeah I miss his old self too, but I think that’s the whole point of this part of his development. I do like his character regardless, though.

Okay so I’m not crazy for assuming there was no contact during the time he was at war. I hope that for the rest of the show we hear a little bit more about what he experienced.

Hmm - I was under the impression that her letters to him were not sent? Granted, I have no idea why I thought that.

I think we are supposed to feel uncomfortable with the choices ZL is making and the person he is becoming, so the writing must be good :) I think what you’re feeling is exactly what the writers are going for.

Which makes sense for a lot of reasons, I think. No contact for five years would create some distance and uncertainty, and also Zhao Ling and TY has changed over the past five years and their dynamic is different. They have to re-learn each other in a lot of ways, and ZL is not the same person he was before he left.

Lol like that is ever going to happen 🤣

Oh nooooo 🫣Does it have a nasty cliffhanger?

Omg it sounds like we have the same tastes in dramas!! This drama is SO GOOD. If these things are turn-offs for you, then watch this one!!

I mean this director created the two 🌶️ kisses in The Prisoner of Beauty sooooooo 😉

I don’t disagree. I think what meant the most to TY was how Zhao Ling protected her reputation, but in his endeavors to protect her she became laughing stock.

Yeah and we know they’re totally sweet with each other by episode 21, I believe. With the back hug in the preview, he still seems a bit distant.

I’m excited for some conflict! I would have mixed feelings as well.

Oh boy. She’s not happy to see him 🤣

When we get to their first night together in the drama I might have to read that chapter to supplement 😙

Oh my 🔥Yeah that’s not passing censorship 🤣