Amarina

There were issues for sure but OVERALL I found that from beginning to end I personally loved this show. My biggest issues surround Zhi Dai/ Tanghua relationship and the Weapon Spirits where they seem to just disappear and the female one is just "there" with ZERO story. 🤷‍♀️

I agree. I watched it and immediately thought "this is probably the happiest "sad" ending I've ever seen". They doubled down on the fact that she WILL eventually be able to reincarnate back to him again and fulfill her promise, it will just take an unknown period of time.
Personally, while I am happy with the end as it stands I also am confused because her vow was DEFINITELY that she would die with NO chance of reincarnation...

Exactly lol, your thought process made sense based on what little information we were provided when she showed up suddenly on the screen.

Apparently it's just how he uses his "sword" 🙄

If you missed it I did too 🤣 after she woke up the scenes with that girl were VERY vague with just like "don't go near her residence anymore with that face" being said. I honestly was personally wondering if it was going to turn out she was the OTHER other sister that he'd made a face for for the ML but then she showed back up herself so THAT was proved wrong and it's back to her just being a random person he brought in for his own desires to use her and look at her face.

1) So at the time of him taking her to marry Shi'an he still didn't fully LOVE love her and was still using her to an extent. Had he started to have feelings for her? Yes, that's evident, but he kept holding himself back because of "her" role in the massacre. When the peace-keeping marriage was announced he went with her partly because he was ordered to, partly because it would allow him to set that other lord up, and partly because he wanted to spend every last second he could with her.
You also have to remember that right before his subordinate had been "killed" by her in the dungeon right before his eyes...
If you go back and look it's not until he is ACTUALLY leaving her to go back that she feels the LOVE flower BEGIN to move.

As for why he has originally said "No" in ep.19, previously when he found out she had NOT killed his subordinate and had in fact saved and treated him, he was asked if he was going to go take her back and he said no BECAUSE he has nothing to give her right now, he's consumed with his need for revenge and to clear his family's name. He doesn't think he deserves her and even though he realizes he loves her he's still holding himself back. So when she comes BACK and interrupts the wedding he's briefly still in that state of "she's safe and far away from this mess" so he says NO he didn't love her as a brief way to push her away. Obviously that didn't work as he gave into his desires like 2 moments later. 😅

2) We were never told WHO she was, just given a vague idea that she is someone Shi'an is using. If you look down in the comments there are some referring to her as "the prostitute" which, while we weren't given any specific clues (that I remember) specifically and explicitly stating this, it does make sense.

Everything we've been shown so far though says that the origami died by being stabbed right after the switch and was sadly killed by her lover, yes.

100% - at this point, even if they somehow mess up the last episodes (which it doesn't SEEM like they will but there's still that possibility) the show has a rather interesting story, it has revenge, forbidden love despite truly hating the person, angst, a dash of spice (not heavy but more tantalizing and alluded to) and a rather refreshing concept of the ML starting out as a ToyBoy and working his way up rather than the other way around with a FL starting as a low concubine etc for instance.

Gotcha! Well it's not over so I'm not sure how it ends obviously but they aren't really red flags for each other... ML is sort of a SIMP for FL and she does some things deliberately to push him away to further her agenda but it's not really heartbreaking since he knows what she's up against, it's more like "why is she choosing THIS path? Why won't she let me help her" imo.

I think I might end up rewatching it too depending on the final ending. This is definitely going to be a favorite.

I suppose it depends on what you're having an issue with in ep 2. 😅 Are the subs to dense and fast? Is it too confusing? Do you not like the theme of XYZ?

Oh, I turn "skip intro/outlook credits" on after watching them once at the beginning so by now it's been a while since I've seen any of those scenes but you're probably right since that would follow story-wise.

I'm USA region. And I was right that instead of midnight for my time zone it updates later. It shows up at 3am instead.

Looks like they are indeed making it match up with domestic calendar. Today had just one episode (16), so the rest should probably be 1 ep a day til end.

3 eps left... She better get her memories back 😭 Or at least enough of a flash of them to realize who she ACTUALLY is and that Shi'an been lying to her since she woke up with no memory.

it's not out for international viewers yet so 🤷‍♀️

You know, I was also thinking the same thing... she's had sooo many back to back to back and while she's one of my favorites, it's a LOT.

The international version isn't following the domestic calender so no way of knowing. For instance their calender had 1-5 then 6/7 and 8/9 before going 1 ep a day at ep 10. But we had a 2 ep 10/11 today. Maybe it will be 1 ep a day from now, maybe it will be 2 ep for 12/13, 14/15 and THEN go 1 ep a day as that would make the calenders line up again 🤷‍♀️

I just finished 9 myself and this girl is RUTHLESS 🎉 - I'm loving how intricately they are weaving this even with the episodes being as short as they are... A LOT happens each episode.

😭 My heart... you're still so pretty but... You need a hug after everything you've gone through between episodes.

Well the second half had me bumping my rating from a 5 to a 7 so I enjoyed aspects 😅.