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ben gong is for royal females: (I of ) this palace; benwang '(I ) this king' but don't forget that in some historical states / dynasties, princes call themselves ben wang.

See my post below for an explanation.

See my post below where I explain it.

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Well, Ben gong means '(I of) this palace' the same way that Ben wang means '(I) this king', and ben guan means (I this) official. The humour is entirely in the status mismatch (the butcher is a semi-literate commoner) and the misinterpretation of a royal pronoun as a name. But the word 'Beholden' supplied by the translator does not reflect this joke at all other than to show that she has committed a social faux pas (pronounced 'fo par' for those who don't know).

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Yes. Link to episode 1 https://kisskh.co/Drama/Riding-on-the-Wind?id=12608

It is on Kisskh. I have looked on Dailymotion and on Bilibil, but no sign of it (yet).

IMO she is not untrained. She was secretly trained by her father to fight the same way that the ML does - and that's how he 'knows' who her father is.

I know this - and don't need wrongful assumptions from anybody. Rather odd comment coming from someone who swears at other people!

Pretending to be a man - or as a woman?

Definitely a 'frisson' moment!

Do you not know the rules about threatening behaviour on MDL, Lucius?

I wondered that, too. He may have been continuing his slur against @mephisto.

Why would you tell someone who just says, "disengage" to "f off". There was nothing negative or rude about the remark. It was no different to saying, Why don't you drop it?

(Of course his/her response to your swearing is a different matter and is not being discussed here.)

I have been watching on Kisskh - no buffering there. (That does not mean that Kisskh does not buffer at certain times with the odd drama.)

Hated Charlie's Angels - the original series, anyway. Three overdressed (for work), well made up women 'under' a mysterious male. I felt that the original series was just an 'eye candy drama for men' and actually did very little to empower women in that time period.

It is on Kisskh and is subbed. You could try Dailymotion and Bilibili, too.

Definitely an infinite cycle of something... Hmm. Twaddle fits the bill. Dropped.

Female lead can be really annoying / hypocritical at times. Doesn't find touching and hugging her husband as an excuse to look for and steal a 'jade token' as wrong, but gets all high and mighty if he innocently touches her in any way - as if he is being indecent (even though they are married). Doesn't want to be in a fake marriage but angrily has a go at him in the street when he comes out of a brothel (on account of investigating a case) without bothering to ascertain the facts - all this while she is spending time with a man who is not her real brother (even though the husband doesn't know that they are not related. Her occasional 'He can't be that bad if...' asides do not offset the many 'He is a bad person, he deserves what he gets' mutterings.