Bowties are cool

Don't be put off by the cliff hanger ending - its more like an end of a chapter when you are reading a novel. I like the way it ends and the only frustrating thing about that is that the next chapter isn't available yet.

Also, the ML has seriously strong plot amour.

The thing about Avenue X is that she everything she says is to be taken with a grain of salt. I realised after her biased critic of the love and redemption fandom and even her review of Go Ahead while providing a glowing review for the production of a drama I dropped that we have different tastes in dramas and that's ok.

Dude, pick better scripts!!!

Well that can't be good! Imperial Palace always means trouble!

no worries. It takes alot to piss me off but that MIL has done it.

I actually meant the mother inlaw, she is the one that I am through making excuses for.
I understand why Shiyi behaved the way she did. You actually see that once she gets time to think about it she immediately dismisses that idea.

Sooo, the ML is a Gary Stu character, right. He is perfect in every way and the only faults he has are justifiable

lol

Simple. Don't watch it if you don't want to watch it. You don't need to justify your decision on how you entertain yourself to random people on the internet. Am the same way about some popular dramas.

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Let's be fair, some one put ALOT of effort into producing circumstantial evidence that Hou Ye killed her mother. It didn't take her long to think it through and be like but that doesn't make any sense. As far as she knows no body knows that she is investigating her mother's death so that can only mean that the person who made that set up must have been present at the time her mother was killed. Like it was too convenient- the coroner was taken off the case before he could mark it in his notes and the one who replaced him didn't make the same conclusion.

That's the nice way of saying it - I would just call her a beach. I am officially out of patience with her and I gave her the benefit of the doubt for so long.

so, some clarification. while he did eventually get a concubine because Minglan was put in a position where she couldn't refuse the gift of the concubine without being considered disrespectful to his family elders. He never even looks at the concubine twice so she is a concubine in name only. And he got very mad at his wife for accepting the concubine but while he can get away with being disrespectful and not caring, she can't. so its a fine line she has to walk.

As to the length, the story is that long because its a character driven drama. There are things that happen even in the first episode that explain why the FL behaves the way she does in episode 60 and so on. Its a slow start, the earlier episodes are character building for both the ML and FL.

Nope, season 2 has the similar premise but different characters.

here is the link to the machine translated novel -https://novelmao.com/concubine-raiders/
There is also an ongoing translation, I'll edit this and add the link if I find it later.

Strictly speaking, the synopsis should be changed from saying "Adapted" to "loosely based on"

I think even if it was an accident its still constitutes a serious offense against her husband so someone looking to make trouble, her mil would be justified in punishing her for said crime. He is a peer of the nation so causing him bodily injury directly leads to consequences that can affect the lives of citizens.

I think they have used that same shot in an earlier episode to denote time passing. At least I am sure it not the first time that I have seen it. Good catch, thou

There is a discussion page that goes into detail about the wives, concubines and children. Read at your own discretion since you are in the early episodes and all that info you will know by ep 8 but still spoilers duh!

Dude had a whole onesided relationship in his head with her imagining what might have been and now finding out that she is off the market has really been such a disappointment. If you recall even in the earlier episodes Shiyi has never entertained the idea of liking him even way before she got married. Remember what she said to Hupo about making sure to repay his kindness after he helped with the rice incident.