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From the conversation, ZBW killed the emperor, he told ZH he arrested all his eunuchs for incompetence, that were there to see emperor was still alive when ZH left him. So silencing them.
ZBW literally died of a heart attack, it was all so real for just him. So no open wounds.

They are going to do both. Find out more and destroy it.

I thought it was poetic justice. He fell into a trap by the truths he kept going on about and death by the thing he plotted so long for and wanted to have possession of.

I don’t think he was ever portrayed has someone who had it all together, he was human and not perfect, his master kept saying he was not ready. Him knowing what the food did and his master saving him really showed the relationship they had in the end, how strong it was. the master knew he going to be killed by ZBW and died being true to himself saving his disciple. I thought it was beautifully done.

Agree they are answered in the series, I am too lazy to respond to the questions as it will take a lot of explaining. Easier if it was irl conversation.

Oh, that’s sad. Thanks for letting me know!

I was thinking the same lol

Cao Jiang Xian a eunuch and Zhao Bing Wen who is a minster and his benefactor.

Put under spoiler tag please.

I liked how we were on this journey with Zang Hai. Every few episodes they would remind us how he was young. When we met him he wasn’t the final product of his training. We were not meeting some seasoned strategist but a young man, on the job training lol. They kept reminding us how he entered the capital prematurely, not emotionally trained and how young he was. We watched him grow and take out some seasoned players.

Yes, when he said let’s destroy the seal. Then he helped lure him into the cave, for the illusion to kill him. ZH told ZBW a truth, that if you enter you will not come out alive.

They would have to add more episodes and it would be a bit of a drag. I liked the poetic justice and Zang Hai being the ultimate puppet master just watching him die without putting a finger on him. I was like mwahahaha 😂

I thought it was poetic justice. Being killed by the very thing he had been chasing all these years. And being told truths that he didn’t believe, which he kept saying to Zang Hai- about he tricked him with half truths.

Yes two. One from Cao and Zhao put his there too. So completely framing shi yi ping to be behind Cao’s death and being the one with the other fish.

Honestly , I was in the no need for romance camp. But it totally makes sense why it was added, it really came together well in the end.
Zang Hai needed someone he could truly count on. It was also the right amount of it, it didn’t take over the plot
Antu should be called the eunuch adopted son/daughter slayer. The way she stopped that Lu Yan from escaping, was pretty cool.

He literally has the seal as hand luggage, they can totally do a season, to show us what he discovered about it and the journey to uncover it’s origin.

Answering your second question since first one was answered by @amanah.
He figured out it was an illusion when he was there with FL. There was no wind produced when the zombie he was dodging swung the sword, the flame on the candle didn’t go off or move. So he cut himself to get out of the illusion.

He had one from the marquis and then the other two were planted on shi yi ping. So all 3 were now accounted for to frame shi yi ping.

Solid 10/10. Truly a masterpiece. Every actor delivered!
Xiao Zhan’s performance was outstanding. Hope he gets an award for this.
Excellent storytelling and all the villains were worthy of their villain title, I thought the marquis would be a hard act to follow, was I wrong, all villains very well written and they were all formidable not your average bad guy. The drama was full of twists and turns kept us guessing and anxious. Will miss them ❤️

That wave from Master Gao Ming! My heart gosh!!