Lela2004

I don’t minn fantastic storylines or I wouldn’t watch c-dramas, for all I care they can throw a unicorn in, but whitewashed (in my view) toxic relationships irk me - and I know there are way, way more severe such relationships in c-drama land than this rather mild case, and those dramas I then do actually drop. I have just seen some really toxic relationships that friends of mine still clinged to, so I’m really sensitive when I feel this kind of stuff is normalized or even idolized, which happens way too often, across cultures.

You bet!

Ah, got it, thank you! Well, then it pretty much gets released when I wake up, anyway…. Oh well…

Yeah, I really need (!) to know how it all will be resolved 😂. One episode a day is truly a drag.

Well, I’m still interested in the overall plot and her endgame regarding the crown prince question, even though the couple’s dynamics suck. I don’t mind a FL who has attachment issues, however, just like in real life, the OBVIOUS, healthy reaction to such a person is to steer clear romantically. And if the plot chooses to have someone unhealthily clinging to such an avoidant personality disorder person, it could do so without selling like some sweet love story, cause it isn’t. It is unhealthy, and yet not depicted as such, which makes it an unhealthy- albeit luckily minor - story line.

…it looks like even as she marries him, FL still holds that she doesn’t love ML and might not in this lifetime. And he is like, ah ok, as long as you are mine … Their “dynamic” is starting to get on my nerves. 🙄

From the teasers I have seen…

At what time of day does Netflix release its episodes of this drama? When I wake up it is already on Netflix, but I wonder how early I should wake up…

That’s what you think. Just like we all thought they would kiss today… 😉

Noooooo!I was so glad when Jundai was gone. She had become repetitive. I very much prefer FL is now fighting powerful evil, compared to an ultimately inconsequential, powerless evil, bullying girl.

I think he has yet to find out. And I hope they show his face when it happens… 😂😂😂

Yeah, but Wei Rao rightly argued that this alone would not be enough reason for Miss Xie, given her education and socialization, as this was considered normal in royal households. I basically follow Wei Rao’s reasoning, it makes sense to me.

I don’t mind cliffhangers. But I think for a proper build up to some emotional scene it is better not to cut it off, cause the build up and angst will be wasted, and the next episode will have a hard time recreating it.

As for that one prince that Xie doesn’t want to marry. Wei Rao mused something must seriously be wrong with him that Xie refuses the marriage. But from what I saw, his “flaw” (in Xie’s eyes) is that he won’t send a servant away that was very loyal since he was a kid? Did I miss something? For if not, that would make him the worthiest CP of the four in my book.

I regularly make fun of those typical testosterone movies, like Rambo, where a guy gets beaten down and humiliated again and again, only to ultimately strike back and go on a revenge rampage.

This drama is the “female perspective” version of that. And I’m here for it. Heck FL even channels the “I am a lonesome cowboy and won’t even share my plans with my love interest - and if I get killed in the mission don’t cry for me” stick of the male leads in those movies. 😂😂😂

To me Netflix shows one episode per day, with the final episode November 6th.

It sure makes more sense interpreting her tears as an act. I was really disappointed when she started going on about “wha, I’m losing face if that guy talks about my past…”. As a way of gaslighting it is in character.

Oh, I had already given up on them getting together again before the last minute of ep30…

I particularly enjoyed the “tantrum” Wei Rao convincingly threw, when that general of the Northern Army barged in and “interrupted her tryst” with ML. Zero shame for being caught in a man’s bed as an unmarried woman, all self-righteous. 😂😂😂

Ok, ep 23 was funny. 😊

Well, I actually think she was and has remained consistent. She is willing to let go of any grudges, thoughts of revenge or anything for the “bigger picture”. She was fine letting her mom’s death go and making up with Wei Rao for the bigger picture of rising along with her husband, and for the same reason she is fine playing along with and assisting her husband’s depravity. I am sure she would prefer not having to warehouse and discipline his sex slaves, but she still does it for “the bigger picture”. A very well written villain, I think. Talk about the banality of Evil.