MadelineMaureen

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The Lords(Princes) own massive amounts of land. They rule over that land(region) and will typically have armies to protect that region. There are governors(and other governmental positions), who deal with the legal side of things within those regions. The Emperor owns the whole country so the Lords answer to the Emperor.

In very basic dumbed down modern version that someone thought me...Think of the Emperor as the CEO of a company and the Lords as a regional managers, governors as general managers of a specific store and the other officials under governors as senior assistant managers and assistant managers. Officials in the emperor's court would be members of the board who make larger decisions for the whole company(country).

Cui Xing Zhou's mother was the first wife(princess) to the former Lord Huaiyang(prince) aka CXZ's father. His father had many concubines...CXZ is the ONLY child that was born from the princess aka lawful wife. He is the only one who could inherit the Lord title from his father.
His father got the Lord Huaiyang title after ending hardships in that area during the reign of a previous emperor. Though they might be distantly related it's not as close a relation as Prince Sui, who I believe was the uncle of the child emperor.

The emperor fears any Lord who is more popular than them because of the armies that they command and the people that they protect. Get enough power behind a Lord and he could change the Emperor for the next in line. Which is exactly what ZiYu did to get back on the thrown after his father(former crown prince) was killed when the Empress Dowager came into the picture and gave birth to a son.

Before amnesia she had left ZY and it was discussed how decisive she can be when she feels betrayed by someone while referring to ZY. She no longer had feelings for him...he killed them dead when he was "with" Yun'er and LMT saw them. The dream she had was a flashback of actual events. As he had joined forces with Prince Sui he excepted his adoptive daughter Yun'er as one of his people aka she was going to be on the wife roster. Lui Mian Tang was and has always been against plural marriage. Aka she will not be sharing her husband with ANYONE, no matter what HER rank is. She would rather be alone forever than marry a man who would take a concubine or make her a concubine.

CXZ realized that he not only loved her as Lui Mian Tang, but respected her as Lu Wen and found his equal. That's exactly what LMT wants in a marriage, an equal. The fact that he repeatedly got himself out of marriages assigned to him by authority figures(his mother/Grand Empress Dowager) to be with HER also adds points to his favor. He listens to her ideas and takes her into consideration before doing anything now. They play chess(go) as Lu Wen and Lord Huaiyang(war) and as Lui Mian Tang and Cui Xing Zhou(teasing)...the back and forth that confused the heck out of the other Lords. They understand each other in a way that others never will. She spent less then a year with CXZ and he knows her....she spent almost 3 with YZ and it's like he doesn't know her at all.

Emperor petty as hell. He about to show his a** when he sends that decree. I just know it's coming in the next episode. (About to check the teasers for tomorrow)

Literally crying when she was like "is this my last meal?" like sir...stop scaring the nice girl. She's so precious I don't want her to stop enjoying things because she's afraid of offending someone.

I just watched the teasers for the next two episodes....I'm about to throw hands. He needs the swiftest kick in the butt. Like dude stop it.

I now understand what people mean by the subtitles being unhinged. Up to episode 3 it was subbed by a human. But 4-6 as of now are only Machine subbed and dear lord....not good. Even my very limited Mandarin understanding is helping to fill in the translation better in my head than the subtitles. But the second something is said under someone's breath...I'm lost.

I'm enjoying the show, but looks like this is going to have to be a wait til the weekend to watch all the episodes that came out instead of watching daily. Which is unfortunate as I was looking forward to episodes 4-8 after work tonight. Oh well. Mango...people hire humans...the international audience is begging you.

are the subs bad on mango or something. I'm watching on a different site and haven't seen anything supper wrong or annoying. But I'm not good at Mandarin so for all I know it's bs. But the English sentences are making grammatical sense.

Honestly it's a bit vague there for a while. The loaded conversations with double meanings. From 21-23 he is uncovering that she has her memories back. They part ways in episode 23. He wanted her to stay even after knowing she was the real Lu Wen. But she stabs him with a hair pin and he cleans it and puts in back in her hair....intense.

The characters together mean 'Willow Boat' I think based off of translation. But like the other's said it's the last characters of the ML and FL's names
Be interested to know if the Willow portion comes from her name. Willows bend, but don't break and can withstand harsh storms. So it would be cool if it's associated with her.

By 18 she knows he's not who he says he is. By 21(edit; looked at my notes) she has confirmation that he is Lord Huaiyang based on his story/scar on his hand.

There are so many puns and visual jokes getting lost in translation with this one. The green leaf falling on his head while he watches FL talk with his cousin and the painter. I couldn't stop laughing. I wish they would include translator notes in their translations, but that's not as common anymore.

These relationships are plot spoilers so beware. short answer at least 3 OW and 1 OM.


ML is engaged to his maternal cousin, who does want to marry him. ML does not want to marry her, but is willing to because before meeting the FL he honestly didn't care about marriage/love. He thought of marriage as a duty and nothing more. He finds her annoying.

Second FL (He Zhen), has had a crush on ML since he saved her years prior from kidnappers. ML barely knew of her existence, and does not hold any feelings for her. (His paternal cousin, the "doctor" falls in love with He Zhen)

ML is "gifted" a betrothal to a princess by the Grand Empress Dowager(Zi Yu's great grandmother) in episode 28....tbd on where this is going...nowhere hopefully as ML has sworn multiple times that he will never marry anyone but FL in his life. If she will not marry him, he will not marry...ever.

FL was very close with Zi Yu and Zi Yu "loves" her. He knew how she feels about monogamy and betrayed her anyway. (either on purpose or accident yet to be decided) But homie knew he was going to be Emperor soooooo.....monogamy is kind of a no go for that title. I think FL at one point had feelings for him before she knew who he was related to.

Rewatching. Can't believe I almost forgot about the Chicken-Duck arguments in otherwise extremely serious conversations/situations. I'm dead.

If you're on your browser click the WeTV under the "Where to Watch". Second page of videos teaser 30.

Stay calm...home girl about to regret stepping into that room...it's giving teacher reprimanding student vibes in the preview. Or "oh...how nice of him to send me a secretary. I do have about 50 things to write, and I'm too drunk to hold a brush so you'll do perfectly. "

Pretty sure the last shot of the show is the last shot in the credits.

He really about to make that poor girl sit and write lines...yall I can't with this man.🤣💀 The uno reverse lord is in the house ladies and gents.

I was not prepared for this...🤣🤣😆

Our little simp Lord is going to be making a comeback tomorrow...can't wait. Also can't wait for the reaction to him from her family members.

I for some reason just can't be ambivalent about it. The over talkative fury rant that comes out of me when it's brought up in conversation.