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This comment made my day, and made coming to the thread totally worth it…

100%

The Magnate and Immortal Ascension went the other way, mostly ML while the FLs had very little screen time. I prefer a more balanced show myself between the leads, so I don’t exactly disagree, just saying those two and others mostly focused on the Male lead. So it’s hardly a one way trend.

Who rules the world, and Dafeng as well… and I’m sure there’s a few others if I really wanted to give it some thought.

Call it lazy writing.

The first question is kind of obvious as there’s only one possible option. The only way she could keep it was to forge a second copy, and have the idiot burn it, and keep the original. Otherwise the Marquise would’ve troubled her for it after chasing it down.

Cognitive science, modal confusion. They’re stuck in a consumption mindset instead of a learning mindset. Not that consumption mode is bad, it’s needed for survival, it just shouldn’t be applied related to stories.

A show is meant to teach and learn behavior to an extent, and the varied consequences tied to those behaviors, it’s why they’re entertaining and why all cultures have stories. Humans are nothing if not imitators of others, it’s how we learn.

Consumption mode relies on shock and thrills. they’d be better off watching short web-dramas only.

Not unlike modern art compared to ancient art, same thing. Modern art has shock value, while ancient art embodies beliefs, traditions, history, and so forth that have deep meaning and move the viewer.

In short, if it’s not too late, they truly can’t help it, and it’s not really a perversion, more a confusion. As for fixing it, I got nothing, call a psychologist!

It’s best to avoid short shock based entertainment, because you become what you do, so they’ve essentially trained themselves into it.

Yep, totally blaming the victim on that. He’s the stalker.

PTSD can include memory alteration and identity transformation, similar to multiple personality disorder. The consensus seems to be PTSD, if only because that one is far more likely to be able to be cured.

For costume dramas pulling a kissing scene back to the closed bed curtains, and then a pan out, is the universal way to show they slept together. They all do it that way, even in some modern dramas they do it that way. If they’d consummated before, they wouldn’t have shown it that way now.

100% feels during that scene. The actor nailed it hard, showing that suppressed deep sadness and concern while at the same time hiding it from Ye Li.

I translated the listening at the door part as her seeking punishment to gain the empathy of the ML. It was all deliberate on her part, getting caught I mean. He’s her aim, and she wants him badly enough that she actually got herself beat up after that. So… yeah, crazy stalker vibe….

Thanks for putting that on the first line! I haven’t seen it yet…. :)

Exactly, it’s not like he was thrown off a cliff or something. Oh, wait, he’d have survived that too…

That wouldn’t work with a doctor. She likely broke rules specifically to be punished, first to kneel where the ML would see her, then to get beaten to make it look like she was mistreated. When likely, she instigated the punishment by breaking the rules.

The only artful part was falling in front of sister in law’s carriage.

She likely had herself beaten by breaking a rule on purpose. The same way she broke the rule approaching them while they were planning. She wanted the princess to force her to kneel for four hours, so she could play the pitiful abused woman in front of prince Ding. I bet the beating happened the same way. Her beating was no more of a coincidence than who she collapsed in front of, of course.

Admittedly, that’s just a guess. Her and Prince Pathetic are quite a pair.

I’ve posted this a few times in other places. She’s likely afraid if she tells him the truth he’ll divorce her. She can’t pay him back if she has no access, so she won’t come clean until she has the decree to set things right for the Mo family.

The love is obviously honest, only if because this has the romance tag on it, but paying off the debt is more important to her than pursuing her own feelings given the associated risks to the plan if she does.

SML syndrome is terrifying!

She never tried to take him down, and she even saved his life when finding him in the midst of a drunken suicide attempt. She just wants him to leave her alone, which is reasonable to anyone save an obsessive stalker.

Her point about him coming back making chaos is because he’s already convicted of treason. So if he dares to show himself that means two things, either his coup is successful or he is executed. Which means a battle for the throne, lots of people dying. So, not so outrageous to say it will create chaos.

Your last point is naive. Every time the marquis kills and breaks the law to maintain his power base and expand it, he’s putting the queen dowager and consort dowager at risk. There’s no longer a joint benefit, he’s expanding his power while all three are sharing the risks should he be taken down or unmasked. Such alliances for power never last, not in shows, and certainly not in real life. Power dynamics are always short lived, and they make terrible mid to long term strategies in life. It’s a common theme in c-dramas.

C-dramas are obsessed with the separation trope to prove it’s lasting love or maybe because they’re masochists. It’s in like every show ever. It used to annoy me, now I just ignore it.

Pointing at other’s bad behavior doesn’t justify your bad behavior. Just saying…. No need to be defensive, just spoiler the comment. I am one of those that don’t watch previews, fortunately I also don’t care if that character buys the farm or not. I’m not upset, just amused at the two wrongs make a right argument.

I think she’s waiting to get the decree and come clean before consummating, just in case it goes badly, out of respect for them both. She can’t exactly say that though. I’ve seen a lot of subtle clues that she’s falling for him.

LOL. Yup, ignore those bumps on my chest and the lipstick, my hair is in a topknot and I’m not in a dress, don’t you know. The only cdrama I know where they made a good effort in disguise was Yang Zi in Lost you Forever.