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Yes I can confirm. Every Shen member minus the little brother will turn evil

Technically all of the princes minus #6 want to kill him. But It's prince #2 this time because he is secretly making details with the enemy country and wants to get rid of General Wu who is at the border.

Dowager makes her a princess in name to protect her.

There is a foreign country we are not there yet. The Hua family men will regain their status from exile by enlist in the army to defend the country. Joining the army is the only option of reversing an exile.

Dowager will try to protect her and give her a princess like role. The emperor will exploit this by marrying her off to a foreign country as bargaining chip.

political move not sexual. Before the royal tutor thing, the empress dowager will try to protect her openly but it also puts her in the emperor's crosshairs.

i didnt mean sexually. I meant politically

Yeah the restaurant owner is in jail now for stealing because they cant openly state that Qin was raped or else it would destroy her even more. Cause she basically committed suicide. And of course the Hua Aunt being main culprit is now ruined in reputation.

Emperor and his grown princes are the main antagonists.

No there are no weird affairs in this show. The hua family grandmother is just friends with the empress dowager. The royal family is just really messed up.

The emperor is going to make a move on Hua Zhi in the upcoming episodes. This is what will make Yanzi will turn on the emperor.

The emperor's Gu family and the Hua family go back one generation prior. Hence how the grandmother and empress dowager are best friends with those letters. The emperor/Gu family have a paranoia and inferiority complex problem towards all of the other powerful families. The Hua family will be kept alive by Hua Zhi till the end with 100x more hardships. The hua men will not be coming back till much much later. The Gu/Royal family will be going through a lot of deaths and be fixed by Yan zi.

It's fine that they are allied together early. The real fight/story is about the 2 of them bringing down the royal family.

The main wife and her children will earn a higher share inheritance and status. The concubine woman made the stupid sacrifice long time ago.

yeah also no missing arm

criticize the emperor in public and possibly in league with empress dowager who the emperor hates

strong female characters

So I guess the main villain black smoke monster Liu Mei just got purified or is he stuck in the sealed world? And Fu Shen the other smoke monster just got burned by Shen li and wont come back even though he kept coming back before? I wish we got a bigger defeat of the main villains.

Yeah not related at all. She is just some obscure ancient goddess who just happens to be used by Shen Yan as a crystal battery. But technically she could have been used to resurrect Bai Long but we never went there. In the source material, the crystal mountain powers that was meant to resurrect bai long got used by Shen yan to restore his ancient god powers and 2 other dragon gods.

Other stories the MCs just hide their feelings and then do something stupid like ignoring the other person or pretending to be evil to push the other person away for the greater good. I hope we are done with the era of that crap