NickB

At least 10 episodes less. The love and trust was there by ep. 13 and in full effect by ep. 23.

Oh, I've been saying that. She clinging to her secrets identity against her husband brought on so much unnecessary drama, sacrifice, and suffering. It all could have been avoided if she had just been honest with him like she was with her best friend.

He figured it out on his own and saved her life. Which means everything she did was self destructive, foolish and in vain. But they always have the leads break up over some dumb s***t anyway for the sake of drama.

It was as I suspected. Sticking with my earlier analysis. She should have just been honest. She had multiple times to tell the truth and control the narrative. But chose the worst path.

For one thing:
1. ji B. Already loved her and didn't care about who she really was.
2. He respected her male persona as a worthy opponent and would have been honored, I'm sure, to have saved so many ppl by fighting alongside her.
3. He was also willing to let her leave if she needed to because he loved her.
4. 4. She proven to be someone he trusted and he knew she didn't want power.

With those things working for her, she could have told him the truth and he would have understood why she needed the GMD. Unlike everyone else who wanted it for power, she needed it for life. He would have given it to her, knowing his master would have understood . Especially since he introduced her to his master as his beloved wife.

But no, instead she chose to:
1. Betray his trust with more lies and hostility.
2. Cause a rift by making him angry from a broken heart
3. Waste her last leaf fighting him.
4. Made him think she was the worst by betraying his love and trust so terribly that he destroyed the GMD to stop her from getting it for whatever reason she was trying to steal it for.
5. Damn near die on the streets in the middle of the night.
6. Have her faithful companion sacrifice himself so that she could live
7. Worry her friends who want to save her and have them help her to find a cure and made them mad at Ji Bozai for not giving it to her.
8. Travel while sick and in pain in the dark and rain trying to find a cure for herself. And losing consciousness, but got saved by her husband, to which she continued to lie.
9. Risk losing her title as CP and being labeled a criminal for desertion.
10. Fight off beast in the forest while searching for the spell books to make the cure. Then have to find a other book that is missing in order to decipher the cure for the code.
11. Miss being with the man she loves because of her actions.
12. End up in a trapped underground with hubby who was wounded and poisoned because he protected her.
13. Have to search far and wide for a bunch of rare and maybe extinct ingredients just to make GMD.
14. Allowed another man, who is obsessed with her to find a cure.

All of this is a direct result of her foolishness, stubbornness and habitual lies.

Her first excuse was because she didn't want him to betray his master? But I'm sure his master wouldn't have mind if it was used for good to save the woman he loved.

Everything she did was self-destructive and counter-productive to her goal by ep.13 IMO. And especially by ep. 23, She was STILL clinging to the frayed edges of those secrets for dear life. She told her best friend, but not the person who really needed to know, and the fact that he figured it out on his own and saved her meant she really should have been honest a long time ago. This is why secret identity tropes kind of annoy me. It feels like an excuse to break the happy couple up for the sake of drama.

They always have the person refuse to tell the truth, their excuses become flimsy after a while and the other person always figures it out. But by that time they make themselves suffer and everyone else around them too. Trust goes both ways.

Ji Bozai not telling her the truth that he is the one who saved her with GMD, allows her to manipulated by Situation, thinking she owes him for more than she does. The man already used that to his advantage by making her promise him something in the future which will probably be marriage.

Keeping secrets in a relationship of this magnitude doesn't help only harm. Both have suffered because of these secrets and lies.

Sticking with my earlier analysis. She should have just been honest. She had multiple times to tell the truth and control the narrarive. But chose the worst path.

For one thing:
1. ji B. Already loved her and didn't care about who she really was.
2. He respected her male persona as a worthy opponent and would have been honored, I'm sure, to have saved so many ppl by fighting alongside her.
3. He was also willing to let her leave if she needed to because he loved her.
4. 4. She proven to be someone he trusted and he knew she didn't want power.

With those things working for her, she could have told him the truth and he would have understood why she needed the GMD. Unlike everyone else who wanted it for power, she needed it for life. He would have given it to her, knowing his master would have understood . Especially since he introduced her to his master as his beloved wife.

But no, instead she chose to:
1. Betray his trust with more lies and hostility.
2. Cause a rift by making him angry from a broken heart
3. Waste her last leaf fighting him.
4. Made him think she was the worst by betraying his love and trust so terribly that he destroyed the GMD to stop her from getting it for whatever reason she was trying to steal it for.
5. Damn near die on the streets in the middle of the night.
6. Have her faithful companion sacrifice himself so that she could live
7. Worry her friends who want to save her and have them help her to find a cure and made them mad at Ji Bozai for not giving it to her.
8. Travel while sick and in pain in the dark and rain trying to find a cure for herself. And losing consciousness, but got saved by her husband, to which she continued to lie.
9. Risk losing her title as CP and being labeled a criminal for desertion.
10. Fight off beast in the forest while searching for the spell books to make the cure. Then have to find a other book that is missing in order to decipher the cure for the code.
11. Miss being with the man she loves because of her actions.
12. End up in a trapped underground with hubby who was wounded and poisoned because he protected her.
13. Have to search far and wide for a bunch of rare and maybe extinct ingredients just to make GMD.
14. Allowed another man, who is obsessed with her to find a cure.

All of this is a direct result of her foolishness, stubbornness and habitual lies.

Her first excuse was because she didn't want him to betray his master? But I'm sure his master wouldn't have mind if it was used for good to save the woman he loved.

Everything she did was self-destructive and counter-productive to her goal by ep.13 IMO. And especially by ep. 23, She was STILL clinging to the frayed edges of those secrets for dear life. She told her best friend, but not the person who really needed to know, and the fact that he figured it out on his own and saved her meant she really should have been honest a long time ago. This is why secret identity tropes kind of annoy me. It feels like an excuse to break the happy couple up for the sake of drama.

They always have the person refuse to tell the truth, their excuses become flimsy after a while and the other person always figures it out. But by that time they make themselves suffer and everyone else around them too. Trust goes both ways.

Me at the end of ep.19
"Oooh, hot tub sex. Wait. .. don't stop now... Where are you going? Boo, why did she have to come to her senses at a time like this!?" 😂

He needs to make a hurricane or whirlpool to keep ppl from sailing to his home. He lives on an island and still can't have any peace. 😂

Ah, okay.

There is one thing that feels off. In the first ep. They said she was poisoned by Heavenly Grief and because she had Spiritual Veins, that is why she's dying because her veins are fading. If someone is hit with that Heavenly Grief when they didn't have spiritual veins, then they gain them like Ji Bojin did when he was a prisoner. When his hand dipped inside the GH mixture.

So, why is Situ looking for the GMD to gain spiritual veins when he could have just used the Heavenly Grief?

I'll wait until I see how she gets cured and then form my analysis. Then I'll get back to you about this. I'm of the mind, because it happens every time in these scenarios, that once the person is honest, their goal is met faster. Because then the walls come down and the trust and love is built. If he loves her, he won't want her to die.

I'm on ep 14 and she just pledged to help him after they spoke with the princess.

She still hasn't told him the whole truth. I'm not clear on what his ultimate goal is yet.

I still think who poisoned her was the emperor, her father. Only because we haven't seen him yet. Her brother is her enemy and it was implied someone more powerful than MQ is behind him.

I actually enjoyed Shadow Love, but I wasn't watching for the BA FL. She would have lost in the very beginning, because she fell for the ML's trap. She could fight, but she wasn't on his level. He was just better than her with skill and strategy and I was okay with that.

What made me roll my eyes is that SL had the same scenario where a BAF was held hostage and this woman has super strength and yet a man whom she could bench press with one arm was holding her hostage. She could have swatted at him when he came at her and knocked him into the next room.

But they made that scene for sympathy and sacrifice and to give the FL and ML drama.

I think after what he endured in ep. 13 to protect her, he deserves to know the truth. As far as she knows, he respected her as a warrior. Also, her clinging for dear life to her companion pet is really a dead giveaway. At this point, why continue to lie to him. The rock already called you out too.

But this is what I mean when I say I don't like hidden identity tropes that much. It fine if it's not overdone against ppl who should be told the truth.

Anyway, I'm loving the series and looking forward to more. They both should come clean about their feelings. As they've both been lying to each other. she was using him the whole time and having the nerve to be mad at him for using hee. Though, her using him is more problematic because she came into his life under false pretenses. Not the other way around. She had her reasons, but still.

When her identity was almost exposed, she had nothing to defend herself with. Like a deer caught in headlights. Everyone else came to her rescue.

I'm only on ep. 12, but something tells me that her brother, the other prince who is jealous of her is the one who originally poisoned her before the tournament.

Ahhh, not for the "better" reason. I bet it's because someone is used as a weapon, like if you don't leave him, I'll kill him. *Sigh*. Okay, I'm prepared. Thank you.

Tell me, I need to know... They don't break up at all, do they? I'm hoping they just get stronger as a couple as it goes on.

I'm on ep. 8 and already see him crossing lines. Like sir! Sir, what do you think you're doing pulling her away from her man?

I know. I'm only on ep. 8 but I'm having the time of my life. So happy I waited to start this so I can binge.

The wardrobe and set design has been on point. Beautiful costumes.

Ep. 8 the way I've been cackling and grinning at this screen while watching this. I love the characters. I love the way magic is used. I love the world they live in. I love her silly antics. I love how they are slowly moving closer to real love and respect for each other. I love how she is fierce loyal to protecting him, even when she says it's to protect herself --which is also true. But it plays out so well.

This one is shaping up to be one of my top all time favs.