Bowties are cool

solid chemistry metaphor!!!

He never smiles at home. He only has light moments when he is teasing his deputy general or that errand boy of his. It kind of seems like he carries the weight of his family and the people on his shoulders and the people at home don't relieve his stress instead they add to it.

I am not really buying He Hong Shan's acting as the evil concubine Qian. Something feels off about her portrayal. She keeps giving me the impression that she is a child throwing a tantrum because she has not got the toy that she want but now she is getting more dangerous because she has been left unchecked.

I have seen her in something else but she was ruthless in that as well. Some actors/actresses play the villain so well.

These types of dramas remind me how far women have come and how far we still have to go.

I don't think she did stay neutral - the scheme to bring Qian in as a concubine was too well executed for me to believe she stayed neutral. Besides with a mother like that, no way she doesn't know the tricks. And having seen how Qian behaves I believe that the first wife was warranted in her concern especially in not trusting that her husband would be able to hold off their schemes and protect her son. In the earlier episodes I wasn't a massive fan of that scheme but then I was left asking myself what would I do in her situation if I knew I only had limited time.

I had exactly the same thought yesterday!!!

Not a bad one to have.

It does feel very meh-ish but I still want to know how it ends.

Why is this under a spoiler?

she is a baby, playing around in the games of adults. She is only getting as far as she has because both ML and FL are taking the path of least resistance with her for now especially because ML's mother favours her. But I think if she continues like she has been they will pay attention to her and she won't like it.

Am a little tired of the bandit arc!

There isn't supposed to be a delay on the subs. They probably haven't finished subbing the episodes.
They released all the rest of Go Go Squid 2 with complete subs so I guess it took priority or rather this drama didn't have priority

Its more like get it done - but I don't care what means you use. Strickly speaking he would have no issue with how it was done since he didn't seem to mind that they blew up his mansion with the scientists in it.

Am glad I didn't have to wait long for the bad guys to push Vincenzo over the edge. Can't wait to see what happens when he stops taking the path of least resistance.

my two cents - I think the ML doesn't like having so many women in the inner courtyard because they create drama. From what I have seen he had a child with Concubine Wen because while he and his army were fighting up north they couldn't get supplies and so her family bankrolled his army at the time and it saved his soldiers lives so he took her in as a way to thank her family because they were merchant class and it would help them to have an offspring who was from the noble class.
It seems to me that once the older concubines had a child he felt he was no longer obligated to be intimate with them - He didn't really seem to be super into his first wife either for that matter.
The other concubines child passed away and it seems she cant have any more - probably some scheming happened there.
Anyway he always ends up sleeping alone even before his marriage to FL.

YES! So refreshing- because its so realistic.

agreed - the chemistry was off the charts.

Episodes are early, may this continue

Let's hope her character here has more dimensions. So far not bad.