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Her disdain of Ziyu is apparent not only because she looks like it (in fact, let's be honest, she respects him enough to not look at him with disdain) but because she blatantly said it's over between them.

Subtle acting is ZWY pulling that hairpin from his chest and putting it back on WCR's hair after cleaning the blood off. Speaking with just his eyes. I've never seen WCR look deeply in love (at least not after waterfall scene) or deeply hurt by restraining herself from going to CXZ. So it's either, LMT's character just doesn't have that enough love (like you all have been claiming) for CXZ or WCR is not good at acting.

The only reason we all know she loves ML is because we want to believe that it's what she's feeling (and that one moment of her looking at the hairpin she stabbed him with) and this series, is in fact, a romantic series. Otherwise, we all have wasted our time watching a romantic series that didn't have love in store for the leads. She had no reason to humiliate and belittle him at every turn if she loves him. She can just shut her mouth when he's around. I'm sure that's a subtle way to say "get the f out" if we're talking about subtleties.

Ditto. It hasn't been clear what FL's motivations are for pushing ML away. She just says they walk different paths (without making clear even to the audience which different directions are those) when there's just one road (both are targeting Prince Sui). 😅

Why doesn't MDL have 'haha' reaction button? 😂

Idk, I guess I didn't have energy to exchange ideas before. I also didn't have that much free time. xD

I used to be a ghost reader too. Now, Idk anymore. 😂

Agreed. But again, it's CXZ's choice if he wants to be implicated or not. It's not for her to assume that. But, I get that as someone who loves another person, you don't want them implicated. Let's just not forget that CXZ isn't someone who can't fight for his life.

I'm also not asking for them to be lovey-dovey. And I don't even expect them to do that even after everything is finished because it's not in both their characters to act like so. When you can be given the option to see them together harmoniously, why would you choose to see them broken up? I also didn't say I want her to take him back. I just said she need not push him all the time cause they can be allies (without being lovers).

You mean 13 episodes left. Seems like a lot. And maybe it is. Idk, I just don't want it to feel rushed in the end. In fact, the timeframe's the one thing that makes me irksome that this push and pull arc is dragging. We're all really loving this series and I don't want it to end with us feeling like we're robbed a few more episodes because the ending was squeezed.

Agreed. 😂

IDK. Prolly not this one. 😅

I agree with you about the lengths that we can do for love. I just don't think she's distancing herself because she doesn't want to implicate him. Of course, I can be wrong here since we're not really privy of her motivations for distancing herself. But she, of all people, who has been CXZ's rival for 3 years, knows his capabilities. If she fears for his safety, she can say so. It is for CXZ to decide how to assure her he will be safe.

I agree she isn't playing hard to get. However, it appears like that without motivation presented. She just said they are taking different paths when they aren't (as Prince Sui is a common enemy they have).

As for CXZ, he is annoying. She told him she doesn't want him around but his tenacity prevents him from relenting. In that sense, I can agree with everyone here that it's his fault he's hurting because he's doing it to himself. He's pursuing someone who kept rejecting him.

But let's not delude ourselves into thinking there are more than 40 episodes to this series, and that they are not end game (because they are). In which case, since we all know they are going to reconcile anyway, why not make it now? That way, instead of laughing at CXZ groveling (cause he is hilarious), we can instead laugh at them bantering (battling with their wits if you will) while trying to defeat the enemy. This is not a very serious drama to begin with. But for comedic purposes, please, the groveling is getting old.

+1 Lol! I feel you. I am so done with people bashing LMT (though at this point in time, she is hard to like all the way), more done with people cancelling CXZ's show of remorse, and I am just dead and gone with people thinking I'm bashing LMT (when I'm not) because I'm supporting CXZ. 😶 That's why I said somewhere, that we can all agree to disagree. It's like people here are not watching the same thing. 😅

Yes, I know that's what you meant. And I also mean it when I said she has a platter of angst instead. It is true that she's pushing for high level treason. But we can't take out CXZ from the equation since he is already a part of that. Through Ziyu, and even if not, CXZ already has beef with Prince Sui (as he's someone ML never trusted even at the beginning of the story). When these two characters already have the same target and they don't even hate each other, the most logical thing to do is make an alliance.

The reason why they have to reconcile now instead of dragging it with their push and pull is the fact that there's not going to be much time left to build on how they are post reconciliation to justify their happy ending. Not everyone is asking her to take him back immediately. And we're not insensitive to the idea that she has a lot on her plate. She can take her time but that can be shown in a montage (eg. Carl's and Ellie's love story from the movie UP) instead of a bunch of episodes.

Everybody already knows the painful path the FL took and is still taking. The viewers aren't dense. This is why some feel like it's unnecessary. It's like, repeating countless times what you said to a person who already heard and listened to you the first time. It's annoying.

Agreed. And it's also quite a stretch to say FL has more on her plate than ML does when he has been responsible for keeping the land protected for quite some time now. But if we're talking about more angst on the plate, then yeah, sure, FL has a platter.

He's actually been in mostly quality dramas both as support and main throughout the years. It's just that most of them are either not mainstream (as in there's a specific market they're targeted at) like Awakening Age (which I watched because I'm the type of viewer who likes to watch stuff that has historical basis) or it's not an idol drama like PLA Air Force and Fantastic Doctors. These however, don't help actors gain popularity the way idol dramas do. Hence, people barely knew him despite ZWY playing his previous roles well and have showcased his versatility as an actor. So if by good opportunity, we mean getting traffic (therefore, also getting more work that is projected to generate high viewership), it feels like LYF and Are You the One is helping him reach that.

I also don't really think she wants to protect him. But I intended to look at it that way as him being nuisance is also questionable. She already knows his capabilities in strategizing, in combat, and she even has a gauge of his will power. For an intelligent (and reasonable, though I don't see that really) person as LMT, she, of all people, knows he can, and will be an asset to her cause.

Yes, the writers could've done better. We will see them fighting together in the next few episodes anyway, why drag this on, right? Allowing them to reconcile not only gives us chance to see them more in the same frame, it will also justify their sweet ending because we know what course they took to make it happen. And that course isn't them playing cat and mouse. It's the life and death situation they have braved together that would lead them there.

Also, didn't they already establish they no longer owe each other? It means all animosity between them, both as LW/LMT and CXZ/CJ, is erased. So I don't understand why people would want her to not forgive him when there is nothing to forgive in the first place. At this point (when they are not clearly discussing what motivates the FL to distance herself the way she does), we're seeing an FL trying to play hard to get which isn't very tasteful. They're saying she's a different FL but what her actions show is very typical of a female playing coy with a guy.

The only reason why I still like LMT and can watch it without rolling my eyes is because I'm telling myself she's deliberately distancing herself because she wants to accomplish her revenge without dragging CXZ (who she loves) in the mix. The thing is, it's not very clear both in the viewer's perspective and ML's perspective (obviously).

Again, she doesn't have to take him back (or forgive him for whatever) immediately, but like everything else, that can be shown in a 5min montage of back and forth (groveling and whatever the heck she's doing) and then going back to the original task of cleansing the kingdom of bad people. That was both CXZ's and LMT's purpose as their true selves (love life or not). They just happened to have different approaches on it. And since they both want to serve and protect the people anyway, why not reconcile (don't have to be lovers) and defeat the enemy with the advantage of their combined smarts and strengths?

Loved him after watching him as Chen Yannian. Traced the older dramas he's in, and followed his new ones after. 😂

I agree. I want her to already take him back not because I'm forgiving and too kind. If they can squeeze overtaking the throne to a few letters on the screen, surely they can pace the chasing/forgiving arc as such. I love slow burn dramas because I don't like being surprised asking when and how two characters developed their relationship. This one already did that in the beginning. We all know their feelings for each other and there was a long time used to build that (amnesia or not, the feelings were true). Those feelings should be and are enough to brave through this back and forth that's getting unnecessary. I'd rather watch an ML/FL dynamic where they're facing the world together (because they're confident they can) than having this chase when there's a task of settling score with a greater enemy.

Everyone's bringing women empowerment into the mix but FL being blatantly unforgiving is nowhere near showing an empowered woman. Granted, them being together is quite impossible (as their statuses forbid it), all the more LMT, as an empowered woman, should strive to break through that. It's not as if she doesn't like him. She does. Yet as an empowered woman, some people here want her to just accept the rules. Lol! So she can plot with Ziyu to take the throne (and prolly end the royals in the process, thus changing the whole kingdom's system) but she can't be bothered to face embarrassment from the people who would look down on her relationship with CXZ? 😶

Taking feminist roles isn't the problem. The problem is how those roles were written and how well do these writers know what actual feminism is.

We're the same. I have been checking for years and finally made an account because of this drama. 😂 Welcome to the club!

You read my mind about Ziyu. 😅 I just can't like him still.