So how did the little girl know the big bad man was in the cave? It's heavily guarded.I can't blame the FL and…
Someone pointed out it seemed some choppy editing was done on this episode which implied scenes were cut and skipped. I agree on afterthought that some scenes that would have helped pull events together seem to have been cut, leaving us to imply and infer. They might be feeling the time constraint of 40 episodes after spending 17 of them with our leads in a village slice of life story. 😅
I'm just as annoyed as the rest of you about XZ not telling Changyu his identity (it's been one of several of my gripes with this drama so far), but I'm also trying to see how he'd rationalize this from his perspective:
His wife makes a military mistake that's partly his fault (because she has no understanding of military discipline, has been allowed to run around the camp without a predetermined job, and also because she didn't know that her hubby was the big guns; if she had, she wouldn't have dreamt of acting like this without consulting him first as she would know more about his plans).
So, he doesn't want her to get punished for a multitude of reasons, and there's no way he can get punished as the Marquis (it seems most of the soldiers at this camp don't know his identity because they're technically General He's soldiers?), so he plays Yan Zheng so he can 1) show Changyu that acting without orders is a big deal, 2) make sure she doesn't get punished, and 3) still maintain discipline by having "Yan Zheng" take the punishment for his wife's recklessness so discipline is maintained.
It's his own men doing the punishing so he can kind of get the job of discipline done while not jeopardizing Changyu's safety and compromise discipline by letting this act go unpunished.
If he was the Marquis offering himself (firzt of all, who would dare beat him?), it would probably cause an unhelpful stir amongst the men watching him get beaten for his wife's recklessness?
I don't know... trying to think through what his rationale is here. 😅
You are not wrong. But Xie Zheng is not us, or a common person. He is not allowed to think like that. Fan Changyu…
It is a reality of war, yes; I realize that, but my point is that it's hard for me to root for people who think and act this way (even if what they do is "needed.").
am i missing something? I thought he lost 200 men, not 1000.
He assumed, though. He was willing to risk them all and there was a chance all of them could have died. He didn't even give them a fighting chance, see if any of them could swim, etc. They were bait, and he hoped for the best. I think that's reckless and did not value human life the way I wish he would. Somehow it made it "better" in everyone's eyes because he was with them and taking the same risk (which it does, but it doesn't suddenly make this strategy "wise and clever").
Regarding Yan/Xie Zheng: Agreed! I was very shocked when he suggested that and everyone decided to go ahead with…
Yes, agreed! It shocked me and frustrated me. I want him to be not just barely ahead of our villains in decency, but light-years ahead, un a way that makes him someone that stands out as a general, but as a human being. Might bt too much to ask in this drama?
And Episode 25 was funny and sweet but also a little rocky. The guy just needs to tell her who he is as his hidden identity is causing all kinds of trouble! 😅
Guys, the main generals know who Changyu is. They know she's XZ's wife, they can't go against her. This is exactly…
But him getting punished will incapacitate him and make him unable to do his job as well/lead effectively if we add these injuries to the ones he already has. I like that he took her punishment for her, but he should have told her who he was sooner and all these problems would have been solved and he never would have had to do this. 🤦♀️
You are not wrong. But Xie Zheng is not us, or a common person. He is not allowed to think like that. Fan Changyu…
It's just this kind of reasoning that I appreciate media challenging, though, and not just using war as an excuse to do morally questionable things. It's easy to say that this and that is acceptable "during war," because it's the lesser of two evils, but even if you were to fall back on, "This is being done for a greater good,"--is it, though? What is this war even for? Isn't it hust a bunch of poweful nobles scheming for power and the throne? I just struggle with plans that justify sacrificing innocents in order to save "more" innocents (somehow, somewhere).
His wife makes a military mistake that's partly his fault (because she has no understanding of military discipline, has been allowed to run around the camp without a predetermined job, and also because she didn't know that her hubby was the big guns; if she had, she wouldn't have dreamt of acting like this without consulting him first as she would know more about his plans).
So, he doesn't want her to get punished for a multitude of reasons, and there's no way he can get punished as the Marquis (it seems most of the soldiers at this camp don't know his identity because they're technically General He's soldiers?), so he plays Yan Zheng so he can 1) show Changyu that acting without orders is a big deal, 2) make sure she doesn't get punished, and 3) still maintain discipline by having "Yan Zheng" take the punishment for his wife's recklessness so discipline is maintained.
It's his own men doing the punishing so he can kind of get the job of discipline done while not jeopardizing Changyu's safety and compromise discipline by letting this act go unpunished.
If he was the Marquis offering himself (firzt of all, who would dare beat him?), it would probably cause an unhelpful stir amongst the men watching him get beaten for his wife's recklessness?
I don't know... trying to think through what his rationale is here. 😅
And Episode 25 was funny and sweet but also a little rocky. The guy just needs to tell her who he is as his hidden identity is causing all kinds of trouble! 😅