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I usually don't follow up on actors' news, so I didn't know about this until now. But the ex's scenes have been unusually unbearable to watch. I thought it was because he was a hypocrite (said Qian Fei providing the apartment made him feel pressured but being with a heiress is fine?) and just SUCH a doormat.
But now I'm wondering whether part of that was due to the use of AI... 😅

Yep, it's too close to stalking for me to watch it comfortably...

or, maybe, rather than being sent back, she fled back to Lishan after finding her mother killed, hoping to find a safe haven, only to find it being an even more lifethreatening place...

I'm absolutely with you on this. PTSD and DID seem way more plausible to me than some preexisting condition.

From what I understand, her father's family killed her mom, her mom's maid Yunluo, and her own maid Qingsheng over that edict. Her father not just stood by and watched, he even supported it. With no time to process or mourn, Ye Li was sent back to Lishan mountain alone, where god knows what awaited her. I remember a memory fragment where she was trying to flee but was caught again. And also several where she's alone in a dark rundown hut, battling monkeys just to get some water or food. In that scene, Qingsheng was also "there".

So, I'm guessing there were still some people alive when she returned to Lishan mountain, but something (someone) had them eradicated soon after. Ye Li survived, all alone on that mountain, where all her loved ones had died a potentially horrible death, and unable to leave because Lishan was "closed off". For eight years!! Anyone would be traumatised. She must have "created" Qingsheng during those years to cope. To battle the loneliness, but also to dissociate her emotions. I noticed, in those emotional moments, it is always Qingsheng who is scared, sad, etc. while Ye Li is the "strong and rational one" who consoles her. That's a classic trauma response.

What I still cannot reconcile is that Ye Li seems to have studied how to treat leg injuries after the elder brother asked her to heal his brother's legs. But if all of Lishan was dead shortly after her arrival, where would she have learnt that?

I'm sorry for the rant that will follow, but this steam has to go somewhere!

Those insufferable Li family members!! My Ghaad!! (ofc, excluding the few sensible ones). She saves them time and time again, shows that she has an incredible talent for the craft and for management, and yet they doubt her again, as soon as the tiniest thing comes up! Every. Single. Time!!! Like, can you grow some brain cells please?!? Or, if not, just shut up?!?
And what? "This needs a man to negotiate, so please give me the family seal"? And after what he'd done?!? The sheer audacity!!

I'm so glad, Li Zhen blew her top, at least a bit! I'm fuming just from watching!

Ok, rant's over. Now I can happily continue watching this amazing show. I always love these craft-tropes.

I assume, you're talking about the Grand Prince, Ian? However, in my original post, my theorising was actually actually about the PM. My theory was that the PM wanted Ian dead.
But I guess, after today's episode, I guess we got our answer in both regards. Not that I find the PM's motive very convincing though...

"It is your fault that I turned out this way"?!?! The lion the witch and the audacity of this b!tch!!!

Also, this was a good show with so much potential. But what is with this lukewarm resolution and where are all the answers to the open questions? Like, what happened to the PM? Who sent Truckkun after the former queen mother and why? So the PM's motive was just jealousy? Really, that's it? How did that prosecution get resolved?

I'm still in denial that it was all Lord Inpyeong's doing all by himself. Please don't let it end with such a cliché and anticlimactic resolution! 🙏
I think it would be much cooler if the PM or his father had some leverage on him and he was just their lapdog all along. I still can't think of reason why Lord Inpyeong would call Truckkun upon the former queen mother... But maybe the former PM, the current PM's fater, who was supposedly the best PM ever, had a reason? Or maybe I just wish Jo Jaeyun wouldn't be the villain for once XD

Also, I need to know why the hell the PM wanted Ian dead! If it was just because he wanted Huiju, I'm throwing my laptop! Before today's ep I was also suspecting some crap like "I wanted to abolish the monarchy/class system for you, Huiju". Not like I think the abolishment is a bad thing, but not by unnecessarily sacrificing lives...!

Ok, all these mysterious snippets that created speculations but didn't really prove anything were a fun rethorical device at the beginning. It raised the tension and got the conspiration theories going. But if they don't start giving us the missing pieces in between and start resolving the mystery in today's episode, this is not going to end well... Either we'll get an anticlimatic, clichéed resolution or a rushed ending. Which would be a shame because the initial premise had a lot of potential.

That is what I was wondering too! Like, how did that piece of paper make it out relatively unharmed, while the king died? There was definitively more going on than what we've been shown so far!

Exactly! But they could also be playing exactly on this prejudice of us... 🙈

And agreed on the PM. We know so little about him; I can't read him at all!

Maybe, but it just feels so obvious, idk...
All we've been given so far is circumstantial evidence at best. So, it could also be a red herring. It still could go either way.

She did. But she could have also said that to protect someone or she could have wrongly assumed it was her fault when it was someone else who actually dealt the decisive blow. For example, she could be thinking that the edict she burned accidentally started the fire, making her think that she "burned everything to the ground" in her fit of anger. But in fact, that small fire was put out, and instead someone else deliberately set the place on fire that same night. That would at least explain why the edict wasn't burned to ashes.
Or it could be her fault after all. I'm just saying it is too soon for me to condemn her. :)

Maybe she is... I just can't tell for now; there's still too many missing puzzle pieces. So, I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt.

That's exactly what I was thinking. My problem is, I can't think of anyone else with a motive... we'll see :)

Ok, so from the way the the servant girl seems to be a nervous wreck while watching the wedding, I'm guessing she poisened the makeup or something. The question is, who ordered her? The queen mother seems genuinely surprised. It could of course be an act, but still I feel she isn't that kind of person. Her dad, maybe? Or someone else entirely.
Same about the fire: Until they show her actively burning down the palace, I'm keeping my mind open to other possibilities, e.g it having been an accident or her protecting someone instead. For that flashback scene with Ian clearly shows she wasn't a mean person originally. To me, she comes across more like a hedgehog.

Sameee!!!

Omg thank you! Yes that was what I was looking for!

I'm going crazy trying to figure out which song Shin Yirang is paroding in the recording at the end of ep 6 😭Can someone please save me and tell me which song it is? If I'm not mistaken, it's an old classic.

I think her point wasn't about her own title. Rather she was considering the effect her illegitimate status has on her partner. She knows that marrying up with her background will implicate the social image of the person she gets married to. In the 2ML's case it might cost him his career. But grand prince Ian's social status is given by birth, he would stay a prince regardless. So, she wasn't talking about the benefits for herself, but considering the potential losses of others.