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i used to tie a couple of pencils together and write it. takes half the effort lol

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shen che is yan rui/shen run's little bro. He's a commissioner at the palace guards. He's targeting corrupt officials who framed the entire shen family years ago and killed 72 shen family members.

a great actor

her first target is rong mama which comes in ep 5-7. As for the sisters, as you said, they are petty issues that does not take alot of effort. So why not just hit back, i guess?

such a beautiful way of expressing thoughts

starting college today 🥲

because alot of the story details are hidden within literary phrases which can be interpreted in so many ways. Plus the facial/eye acting shows that the characters are scheming inside, but does not show what they are scheming about. So naturally we can only guess until we watch further

especially maoyan

that was before. Now its basically yunhe, marketing hype, platform hype, platform favourites. gotta have all

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Everyone @Phoenix23 has created a discussion thread discussing the plot and hidden meanings behind the chinese phrases and double meanings etc. You might wanna check it out if yall have questions. But there are spoilers
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oh yeah. that was an issue for me especially at the beginning. but i dont know whether i got used to it or whether they did not do it for the later episodes, i dont really feel it now

i know he's real. I'm saying that ONE OF THE MANY PURPOSES of shen che is probably to u know show yan rui's inner monologues and ways of controlling himself. i dont know how to explain it but hope you get it

Spoilers up to ep 12 ***********************************************************************That was right when xie shu sent a letter home warning them about yan rui, about how powerful he is etc. They already knew that xie shu was struggling at the borders. Madam xie already knew about qingyuan's schemes about mother's revenge and how she entered the house using tricks. But still she allowed qingyuan to enter the house because madam xie wants someone from the new generation who can balance the inner house power. At the moment, madam Hu has significant influence coz of her brother's political power. Madam xie gave the house management rights to conc mei as she has two sons so that madam xie can control the inner household stuff through conc mei who comes from a regular wealthy family. But madam hu used qingyuan to eliminate mei's power, so the old lady needs some fresh blood. So madam xie's options to power balance is zhengjun (useless), zhenglun (honest but lacks the scheming guts), qinghe (timid), qingrong (just spoiled) and qingyuan (the right one). Back to your question, from madam xie's perspective qingyuan marrying yan rui (the powerful one) and reduce the influence of madam Hu at home), from madam hu's and mei's perspective yan rui is a corrupt official thirsting over women and wine so he's bound to go bust anyways, which will ruin qingyuan forever. Hence they quickly wrote the letter. But their initial intensions of clinging onto yan rui changed when they realised that he is after the family itself (arresting zhengjun and extorting money). So they act like nothing happened to save face. Plus yan rui himself does not bring it up for qingyuan's rep, and of course xie's themselves not gonna bring it up. When LCX popped up, now the madam xie asks qingyuan whether she likes LCX of YR. LCX is the marquis only son, so him marrying qingru would mean that the first wife can totally crush the house. At the end of ep12, when madam hu asked qingyuan whether she likes LCX, she says that she does not wanna compete with Qingru. But madam xie now wants qingyuan to marry lcx, hence she emphasises that yan rui is short-lived and corrupt (meaning he will not hold power for long and it would not be benificial). She also tells her about xie shu's journey, basically telling her to fight for everything if she wants to climb up.

prob to keep yan in check

i asked around in xhs. And they think the old lady does not want first wife's already political powerful family to be even more powerful through the marriage alliance. she gave the management rights to second conc coz conc had sons and back then a conc with sons could boss around. But hu used qingyuan to get rid of mei's power and now pushing qingru's marriage + using big brother to help xie shu = too much influence. Which is probably why old xie allowed qingyuan to marry shen run later on

yep

when shen run gave the coin to qingyuan, he THOUGHT that his bro was dead. But later when they get married, he recalls everything. His lil bro survived hiding under his mom (acc to og script, not sure about the drama)

i wish someone can analyse it in detail like you so that we can catch up the hidden meanings. i feel like majority of the schemes, details are hidden under phrases and poems that can be interpreted in multiple ways. just reading the subtitles will give us nothing.