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Scholar Han has a good personality tbh but his current situation places him in a spot where he and his family would remain dependent on Lanxiang's labour for quite a while. He would have been a perfect match if he had already passed his exams. It doesn't help that he basically describes Lanxiang as a "low maintenance girlfriend" to his mother when she adviced him to wait until he passed his exams.

I think that aspect of her character changed long ago. She started getting actively involved in schemes that would place a lot of attention on her and even put her in danger after she was rewarded for saving JinQi from marrying Du Cuique because she thought it would buy her freedom much faster.
She might prefer to stay out of trouble generally but would rise to occasion when the need demands it.

Yes, Jinling used to be the capital until the current Emperor moved the capital to the North. It's just like how irl, Emperor Zhu Di moved the capital from Nanjing to Beijing.

He was one of the supporters of the deposed Emperor and was probably in the same faction with Lanxiang's and Jinqi's grandfathers.
He doesn't respect Jinqi's grandfather anymore and probably thinks he's an unprincipled coward for capitulating to the current Emperor.

Yeah, the FL married the 2ML in Lost You Forever

Han Liang seems perfect except for his glaring lack of ambition. I think Jinqi clocks it and would always ask him why he was never studying for the civil service exams and he always came up with some excuse or the other.

If Lanxiang married him, she'd shoulder a lot of the burden of supporting him and his entire family (including her parents) for a long time since scholars aren't expected to work and should be constantly studying until they pass all their exams.

Yes. They've obviously changed their names for this drama but that's his real historical counterpart

Yeah, I think it's the consequence of all the billing wars. Fandoms don't even want the actors to share the credits of the drama with their co-leads for the fear of being accused of not "carrying the drama" so there's not much hope the side characters

That's true and it's because it's an ensemble cast. The side characters have their own character arcs and aren't just mere plot devices... something that's sadly missing from a lot of dramas these days

He was married when Yuchan became his maid (like Nanny Wu said, unlike his father, he isn't the type to take concubines) and then sometime within the first 2 years of his marriage he left home for many years to fight against the Wokou. There was hardly a chance of anything developing between them.
Maybe something might have happened between them after she returned to the mansion (highly unlikely she'd become his wife though as she was married to their shopkeeper) but Lanxiang entered the mansion at the same time

You're right. She looks like a classic painting

Yes, she's considered one of the most beautiful 95 liners (actresses born between 1995-2000)

I don't blame him for falling so fast. She's very striking

I mean it's Zhou Ye so I get him so much 😂

Tbh, I really don't buy Du Cuique's whole spiel about doing what she did because marrying a rich man was the easiest path to become rich and wealthy, especially because of what Du Zheng said while unconscious in the prison cell and her comment about how she'd regard it as an achievement if the entire Lin family dies along with her when she refused to disclose the antidote.

She already had a wealthy benefactor that gifted her an expensive Go set and high quality lingerie. Her benefactor could easily arrange a good marriage for her too or even marry her (if whoever it is were a man).

I think their mission was to destroy the Lin family and we're yet to know why. The marriage scheme and seduction of the second Lin sister might have been their way of making sure they stuck around long term to execute their mission.

Episode 8

Yeah, but people still rely on them a lot for now. I heard CVB wants to set up a ratings system for online dramas soon. Maybe people would stop depending on Yunhe when that happens

There at least 7 different rating systems. Each system has their specialty but their functions often overlap.

The most popular ones are CVB (This is mostly for dramas airing on TV),
Yunhe(mostly for calculating the market shareof made for streaming dramas), Maoyan (mostly for calculating box office profits and movie tickets sales) and Kuyun (calculates both TV and streaming ratings).

ISTG the hand holding the book he was reading trembled a bit in that scene

The third Lin sister was probably raised by Jinqi's mother since her own mother is dead and that's why she's smarter than the second sister