Wait- I don’t understand why when Xiao Jue confronted He Yan about the Mingshui battle on the bridge, she lied…
XJ asked HY whether she was the one who arrived late at the Mingshui battle & she replied yes. XJ didn’t ask her whether she delayed the reinforcement. Hence, she wanted to find the truth & evidence to set the record straight.
@EP 29: HY, show your exceptional skills but please don’t make it easy for the opposition & should thoroughly humiliate & degraded him for others to doubt his competence.
Genuine question for those who did NOT read the novel - are you still enjoying the drama? Is the story coherent…
Didn’t read the novel but I’m thoroughly enjoying the drama so far, especially all the fight scenes, FL fighting with different weapons. ML has always been suspicious/curious of FL as he deems there’s more to her backstory. He just did not connect her to HRF because the thought of HRF being female never crossed his mind until ep 22/23. I see He Yan as more approachable & relax by being more herself as she restarts her journey (& not the person she was expected to represent or carry the facade she’s grown up with who was more serious & disciplined). At beginning, she claimed several times she wanted to be herself, hence a rather different character of her former self.
Well, after today’s episodes, I finally have an inkling Chu Zhao may not be all that evil. He is patriotic and…
Wish it were just that but based on some sneaked stills of future epi & today 22/23, he’s super cunning, selfish, self-serving. When he’s usually cool & polite towards his master’s daughter, today he purposely gifted her something before his meeting with his master, knowing she might come & look for him if he’s with his master too long, hence saving his ass. He’s slowly burying ML’s reputation & causing trouble, ie to sow discontent among the subordinates of ML & sow discord between CP. He can’t outright complain about ML, so he’s very pretentious trying to be objective & supportive of him in front of the Emperor. Super manipulator. Preview of future episode showed even FL fell for his guise while previously she did not believe he was oblivious to his master misdeeds considering he’s his master’s top aid. She said that to his face.
Sooo satisfying to see FL took revenge & killed Ding Yi & not wait towards end of drama for it to happen. This would undermine her evil stepbrother’s strength as well with 1 less close aid.
I just hope that it got resolved fast when the anger & misunderstandings about FL not coming to ML’s dad assistance which caused ML’s death is revealed by FL’s bro to purposely cause trouble for the couple.