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Well, that’s what he says. I suppose he might have been deceived but what’s the point? And, of course, his Master’s widow now has a much stronger reason to try to cure him herself, whether he wants to or not. She wishes to meet her husband in the netherworld and apologise for giving the wretched man the cover for him stealing his Master’s power. All in all, taken with the lie about finding the sachet with a body, I think the script writers were giving clues for people treating it as one of the mysteries to be solved…

I think it’s 9. Since it comes from the person who poisoned him in the first place, and is shown at the end to have been working with him since he returned, it’s nice to have found it again.

There’s a lot to be said for rewatching the entire series. For example, how could I have forgotten the first ever cure mentioned for Bichu poison? “wuliao's golden brahman needles”
Thank you, scriptwriters…

It didn’t come over that way to me. He had no realistic choice about going underground in the sense that his Nanjin royal blood made him a threat to the Emperor, which in turn made the Emperor a threat not only to himself but to his closest friends who knew this. So it was inevitable; he just wasn’t prepared to allow someone unworthy to get his hands on that sword. But going incognito again doesn’t mean that he’s dead…

A very sensible viewpoint! My problem is that I read Combined Honours in Drama and Sociology at university, which is why I never write reviews. Inflicting academic analysis on people who didn’t sign up for it is really unwarranted. On the other hand one can’t do a brain wipe and forget everything one has learned so one will always make judgments, including the conclusion that Cheng Yi is one of the very few people who can wear bright red costumes and look stunningly good…

Have just checked the title on Viki and realised that I have watched it. I enjoyed it but in my view the lead actor doesn’t wear fur nearly as well as Cheng Yi. Or move nearly as well, or fight nearly as well, or act nearly as well…

I think I’m hooked!

Thank you! I will check it out when I’m less focused on MLC; it wouldn’t be fair on any drama to start watching it at the moment…

I don’t know what TBOY is!

But would she have changed without the realisation of what he’s really like? Would she, for example, have pointed out extremely forcefully that it was her mansion, thank you very much, and anyone who didn’t like it could shape up or ship out? That’s one of my favourite scenes…

I have watched a lot of C-dramas - it was a long pandemic- but Mysterious Lotus Casebook is only the second that I have watched without skipping anything. The first was The Untamed.

I really can’t see myself ever saying goodbye to either of them, but it’s been great fun watching it in such enthusiastic company!

Absolutely! As soon as I heard the line about ‘taking it from the dead’ and recognised it as one of LLH’s (many) lies - the one about the sachet - I cheered the scriptwriters. And really, who believes that he wouldn’t have eaten all the sweets whilst he had the chance?

Not according to IQIYI when I signed up today. Mind you, they also took 10 hours to process my membership so maybe they had come up with a new money making deal during the interval…

In England you have to sign up to the premium VIP service if you want to see the subbed ep 35 + You can’t just pay a one off fee…

I thought she was at the fight with the sect she leads in support of her son when he headed in with them to extricate Di Feishing and LXY from the insane lady with the marriage fetish and her sect. And having won that fight they all headed to the palace in the capital together and fought it out there, before discovering that neither FDB nor his father had the royal blood. I really don’t think that there’s a plot hole there…