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Pretty sure that's what their implying so far. And that would make Xue Shu his half-sister. They also seem to be implying there's more to the rebellion 20 years ago than the world was told since Xie Wei (assumedly) pretended to be the crown prince and dude obviously didnt kill everyone - then Yan divorced Xue but he remarried and had daughter only 7 months later.

5. She knew YL and why he did what he did... it was because of her own actions in her minds. However even to her death there were still things she didn't know about our dear ML aside from his visible actions and her belief that he wanted nothing more than to kill her. So she only has a surface level understanding of him going from a "meek and mild" guy in everyone's eyes to a "blood-thirsty", rebellion leader who always kept his eye on her for an originally unknown reason and has "some" connection to her best friend's family that he refuses to acknowledge.

They explain very early on so you might not have gotten there yet. He's worried about what she wants with Yan Lin because he's "in love" with her but Xie Wei thinks she's probably using him for something. He's also worried that she remembers what happened when he took her home four years prior (he was sick, she "saved" him by feeding him her blood but it was snowing when he woke up so he went "crazy" and tried to kill her because he has red eyes and red splotches in snow which apparently means he has "dementia".

yes

I'm thinking same thing but I think the relationship is cousin isn't it? Yan Lin said aunt and aunt had son who "died", would be cousin?

I'm thinking yes, it was just a way to bypass censorship and get it out of the way at the beginning instead of shoehorning it in as a "twist" at the end.

When FL wakes up her internal self isn't all "what's going on am I actually in my book" but rather "what happened, I went back in time after I died and came back to life" indicating to me they are going with we (the viewers) are watching the writer's story play out on screen as she dreams up how she wants the plot to play out this time.

Didn't watch Scent of Time yet so I'm not sure which "all things are dream not real" route you mean but I think they are going with that we are watching a visualization of the writer's story as she's dreaming up the new plot so not really the same since it seems established that the past is what was already written in her novel and it's not a transmigration because the "writer" didn't "wake up" confused, the character in the book woke confused having just died and come back to life in the past. Plus having inserted that outside "Real" world they don't have make the "inside" story all a dream.

IQIYI saying eff your life right now, you only exist to watch dramas apparently

Because Viki has a couple of teirs. There are shows marked "Watch Free" which means you can watch the entire show with just watching their ads. There are shows marked "Standard - Free Episodes" which means they let you see a few episodes for free watching ads but then you need a Standard membership to watch the remainder. Shows marked "Standard" mean there are no Free episodes; and shows marked "PLUS" are for their higher subscription their so those with only a Standard subscription can't see it either.

Okay, I understand what you meant now. In that case, if you are taking the ending at literal face value of she woke up and the entire drama was a dream... there is zero supporting evidence one way or the other about if any part of the story is "real" other than that the ML and FL are married to each other. We can't "technically" even say for sure that he's still a Prince in that last end scene or that he has a brother or she has a sister or stepmother who treated her badly etc.

Honestly, I personally took it as they threw in the line about it all being a dream literally as a throw-away line to appease the censors. If you take it all at face value then you're right, it doesn't make much sense that she knew ALL that was about to happen and it actually paints her in more of a negative light since "technically" the sister and SML didn't get a chance to do nearly as much as her revenge called for lol.

As for the rest of the questions, I think you might be misremebering or misunderstanding how it played out. "Originally" she was married to the ML and poisoned him in collusion with the SML who she was in love with. At that point SML married her and she did more General stuff while he took over more of country and became Emperor then he married her sister as concubine with a BS excuse while still using her war fame. Eventually everything settled down and she got pregnant and sister and him didn't need her anymore so...

It's finally uploaded on IQIYI in US!

Loved this one! Their chemistry and acting were really good especially compared to other microdrams. The storyline is "mostly" coherent with only a few jump cuts that might give someone whiplash... again, quite a feat when one of these are so slap-dash put together you have to wonder if you skipped multiple episodes while still in the middle of one 3 minute ep. 😅

Extend the bed scene any more seconds and I'd have been fanning myself, as it was I was blushing 😂 That was some "nice" censoring sensual content.

Lol I know I'll be watching it while airing

Definitely seems to push the envelope on what's allowed. I liked the overall plot and revenge but I'll admit I wasn't one of these people gushing over the MLs. Personally I thought both ML and FL each only had one flat expression through most the series and it distracted me.

That's what I took from the last episode too so I'd say you're right

🤣 Loved this! To answer your lingering question the dude who bought the paintings and kidnapped the kid in the end was the MLs brother who had been in love with the FLs twin brother who would cross-dress as a female. That was the brother who had supposedly died in the car accident so zero idea where he'd been all those years. He wanted them to be together though since the FL brother DID actually die in the plane crash.

Finished it and I think it definitely got better the longer it went. Almost dropped it the first couple episodes since scenes kept jumping around but that stopped "relatively" quickly once the main storyline starts to pick up. Cute and easy watch.

I work 😭 Oh well... something to look forward to for after! "What's that manager? A countdown sheet? Don't know what you mean..." 🤣

Both comments left already are 100% accurate. Most of the movie is a pretty good "bad" movie. Then the end happens and you wonder if you can leave the "pretty good" qualifier in front of the word "bad".