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This is the reason why everyone is mad and rewatch the episode and chronology of events carefully in the episode, it only looks like from the RESULT that she outsmarted him but in reality she just got lucky -

Sea calamity is about to arrive and everyone is in danger and LF be like,"TZ, time is running out , if marrying you will make u happy, I will marry u." What does TZ's happiness has to do with sea calamity and everyone's safety. Some are saying this was LF's clever strategy. What strategy? Agreeing to marry TZ was never a strategy. She only got to know something was off when AFTER AGREEING TO MARRY she saw Miaoqing in wedding dress and noticed that knocking powder in her dowry and THEN she decided to pretend to faint and sabotage TZ's plan. When she decided to marry TZ, no strategy whatsoever was involved, she was marrying him willingly.

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Is this Cen Ye guy some kind of psychopath? Cleaning his hand with a handkerchief after that handshake with Chen Yi and he even threw that handkerchief in the dustbin. And he and his team is looking down on Chen Yi just because they are more educated than him while he(Cen Ye) himself doing such shameful acts. Utterly disgusting!

NO... Not at all.... No connection whatsoever.

There is that scene in the drama (ep 12 ...26:40) when Miao Jing is talking to someone on phone (most probably Cen Ye) and then Chen Yi enters the house. In that scene, Miao Jing is clearly heard telling that person on phone,"I never said I came back because of you." This audit project is CenYe's project so he might be thinking that Miao Jing has gone to lead this project as a deputy because of Cen Ye so here she is telling him that the reason she came here for the project is not Cen Ye.

So the most probable scenario could be that Miao Jing company had this project related to Teng city and as she was already missing Chen Yi so she decided to join this project so that she could come back to her home and reunite with Chen Yi.

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@Ryaan
Definitely not. It is not a flop and nowhere similar to Ashes to Crown.
And this character Bu Shu Lin doesn't have that much screen time and is introduced quite late in drama so definitely not possible for this character to carry the whole drama.

It is definitely not an overrated drama and the ML character is quite unique and very amusing to watch, just check out few episodes and you will find yourself laughing now and then. It's a refreshing sort of drama and different from the dramas that we see nowadays, which are quite intense.

If you remember there was a scene in ep 8(32:45) where two people were kneeling before Wuyi including his current father and Madam Liu Yue when he was a child and both had token in their hands. Third token is with FL's mother and they are looking for fourth and last token and token holder.

They were married in the starting episodes (ep 4) by the imperial edict and are still married (as of ep 14) and as to what will happen to their marriage in upcoming episodes ... I dunno 😅

Romance hasn't started yet, except for occasional scenes where the ML looks lovingly at the FL.

Okay...let me explain...so in the sense of validity all the three marriages are valid... that is exactly why there is a talk of divorce (divorce can only be there where there is a valid marriage). Till now, we have heard that the divorce letters have been prepared by Wuyi only for He Yuan Ji (which she can take whenever she wants) and Xie Jia Yu (though Wuyi is reluctant to give that to her). Wuyi has already decided to take care of Rui Sheng and her son for rest of their lives as it would not be appropriate to free them because then Rui Sheng could be targeted by society (not because there is some problem with Rui Sheng or Wuyi just because society is shallow-minded and Rui Sheng also has a proper job in military).

Now coming back to the scenario , it was a slang by Xie Jia Yu that he has been married three times (and is a fact that he has been married three times) but none of his three wives love him. So, here, Wuyi replies that he has been married only once because in his heart for him his marriage with Xie Jia Yu was real for him and what he wants is the love from this marriage and the other two marriages has nothing to do with him in terms of love. Wuyi here answered in context of LOVE, just try to understand the feelings of a lovesick guy 😅 and ignore the logic for once.

Of course the one with FL because the rest two were purely fake, one for securing military provisions and the other to protect the dignity of his fellow comrade's wife so in his heart these two marriages were never a marriage but more like a comradeship.

I think she had promised Wuyi to help him find remaining phoenix token in return of her daughter's freedom so most probably she is looking for them.🤔

Okay,so Prince Qi, as powerless as he is,if he really thought he would be able to bargain with Emperor and Empress Dowager to help Wuyi and they will stop targeting Wuyi is already enough amusing and delusional not to mention the fact that he wanted to save the world from war but as soon as his sister's marriage came in question, he instantly forgot the people of this world whom he was vying to protect. We all saw how he attacked the people who were raising funds. These are not the actions of a man who accepted to be a regent to protect people from suffering. Let's see, is he the one who stopped the civil war here or an origin of a rather even bigger civil war in the future.

And why would Jiayu won't be there? Has she diappeared somewhere?Dude, she is waiting for him already safely with Wuyi. And yes, he may be caught in a scheme up till now but the Emperor already exposed the intentions of Grand Tutor before him. Now, whatever choices he is making and the guidance he asked for from Grand Tutor are his own free choice, neither manipulations nor any schemes.

So, Wuyi has a bad reputatoin?Really? Jiayu also thought the same that Wuyi has bad reputation. And when she entered his mansion she herself found out bad reputation was a bluff to protect his people. So, here, you are saying Wuyi gained power by being 'bad' and that is why he also has a bad reputation.Are we watching the same drama?

So, actions of Prince Qi are good that he is trying to adjust to politics for power and gain and asking for help from Grand Tutor and being a vilain. He trusted Wuyi this much that he became a regent to protect Wuyi and world. Now, neither he wants to cooperate with Wuyi to eliminate evil nor he wants to save the people of world from suffering instead he himself wants to become evil. He doesn't have a choice... seriously?

@Shreya

You are absolutely wrong here, just watch the beginning of episode 4 again, Wuyi clearly warned him not to accept the edict and Jiayu was waiting for him and if he accepted the edict he won't ever be able to leave. Yes, Grand Tutor forced him before the emporer but the emporer himself gave him the choice to accept or not. Now, you will say he did that to protect his friend Wuyi and people from war. Dude, Wuyi is far more capable to handle any variable that comes his way and he was all prepared to handle any situation that day because he had came all prepared and was aware of the trap. The only thing he missed that day was that Li Mao will enter the palace and accept to become regent.

Prince Qi's want for power was definitely not inevitable, it was his desire that was deep hidden in his subconscious and he was clinging to every bit of power whenever offered and reluctant to part with it whenever anyone questioned him and even his sister was sensing that. Was he seeing Jiayu slipping away? Definitely Not. He himself is saying that Jiayu will stick to him wherever he is. The idea to conquer Jiayu has already been planted in his mind. This is already enough to prove that he definitely is selfish.

So, he wanted power to protect everyone around him? Ok , I got it but seriously does one has to turn into a bad guy and a villain to gain power and control? Are there no just ways left to gain power as he is a regent now? Does trying to gain power means to lose your empathy and become inhumane? Is he really protecting anyone here or has he set on a path to destroy everything around him?

What's more pissing me off here is that they actually gave the ML and FL a happy ending by marrying them. The FL didn't deserve the ML at all. She should have been left with the SML.

It is more like the FL marrying the ML after having a tacit affair with the SML for a long time.

The writer has most probably turned into a psychopath while writing this story and created two psychopath characters ( TZ and LF ) to torture the viewers and the writer was forced at gunpoint 😅 to bring LF to her senses in the end and marry LXY so that the story could be completed otherwise this story was heading into an abyss.

Exactly.. And he is facing everything as it is nothing.. Always keeping a brave face.. And his expressions at the end of episode 8...........Just someone go and tell him that he can atleast cry or vent out!

Is it just me that this Li Mao character is already looking quite pathetic even when he is yet to turn evil?

Writers be like competing among themselves to see who can break up and get back together the lead couple the most times in a single drama. 😅

And I think they are damn serious about it!