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😭 that's literally just her mouth shape? if you look at her old dramas from when she was a minor (flourish in time) her mouth has always looked like that. how does that have to do with professionalism.

super excited for her next dramas! in the beginning of trts there were a lot more netizens praising her, but she’s gotten a lot of hate on xhs in the latest ones 😔let’s keep supporting her!

this! sometimes the leads do get emotional and use that to guide decision making rather than logic, but they are flawed characters struggling with the upper echelon of society who have the upper hand. it’s normal for them to make mistakes and have setbacks especially when they’ve started from nothing but now have everything to lose. I personally enjoy how they’re not able to see through every trap their enemies set for them and need to stand together to fight back.

it was a trap set by mdm yu but this sounds like a dig at fty. the yu and wu families told the grand empress dowager about fty’s grandmother on purpose so that she would also pressure the emperor about being more filial towards her, which he didn’t like.

oh rest assured he doesn’t, he just hates being forced into something against his will

it’s different in Chinese! In one of the eps when they were fighting, FTY calls him “Zhao Daren” which means Lord Zhao, and that’s a really formal title. normally she calls him “Jiu Ye” which is Ninth Master, which is his title amongst close friends (like his close soldiers and household members) not “Mr Zhao.” she only calls him by his full govt name “Zhao Ling” when she’s being very serious or mad.

we’re seeing this show from an outside perspective but it’s normal for teens to be like that. also as he explains in 25, he forgave ZL long ago but couldn’t help feel distant from the new him who was gone for 5 years. I think that’s normal considering even FTY feels that to an extent.

I wouldn’t say evil but he’s also not good, like any person with a high level of authority. the leads are subject to his whims and wants.

also how could YJX say that he envies FTY for marrying someone she’s chosen when he literally did the same thing?? it was him who chose FYK back then… crazy to complain about his own choices. every woman should just be subject to his whim 🙄

no. he grows it it out for a reason.

I really like how long and detailed the wedding is! thank god they didn’t just get it over with in half an episode after building up to it all series.

yeah she was an outside mistress that madam mo did not let through the door. it’s strange though because they did say that general mo actually married her.

I think it’s normal considering that ZL’s fate depends on those very politics 😭he’s literally a gov employee

I love that about her character. it’s her son’s fault that FYK married in and she knows that it all comes down to women not being able to be responsible for their own fate.

I mean considering he kept losing his fights back then and the salt merchant industry is a mess which is why he's now leading the reforms as a minister, he probably would have had a hard time as jiuweijiao too 😭

this! I've seen complaints about this becoming a court politics drama, but the entire point is that he's playing with fire.

Agree, but I don't think it was completely no contact. They both wrote each other letters during the time skip, but I'm sure it was more comforting each other than detailing hardships.

the two characters in huchen mean tiger and minister. essentially it’s a very powerful sounding courtesy name granted by the emperor himself so everyone knows not to mess with ZL.

wow 27 is just as shocking though, he looks like a teen

civil officials and military officials have different levels but I remember YJX being somewhere in the 5th rank? he wasn’t scary because his rank was high but more so because his family had a lot of influence (his mother and father are a lot higher). ZL is now 4th rank which is above him.