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Tyvm. He is also MXY’s spy. I think he will stumble on Cangbei scheming again.

Idk for sure but imho she was always dead dead.

Ye Li first met/was rescued by MXY in the year of Jinghe 13 (ep 2). The late emperor died in the year of Jinghe 14/eight years ago. Shortly there after all the other events transpired. A lot of them played out simultaneously so it’s hard to sequence them. But I would say she went to look for MXY with a gift before the late emperor died. When she gave him the pastry it had to be after Sixue pass - at the time her mother should be still alive and about to be tricked into retrieving the information about the edict from General Mo.

I managed to play the ep 33 express on my AppleTV box without streaming it. You have to trick it first by playing a bit of it on your phone or iPad and then turn it off. Then you resume watching it on your AppleTV. It doesn’t work on my smart tv though.

Feng is iust seeking closure and will stumble on something to move the plot forward.

The marquis sent his illegitimate son Qin Cang to kill the prisoner bc he hoped he would die trying. The shit was hitting the fan for him and Qin Cang did a lot of his dirty work for him over the years. He couldn't risk that Qin Cang would throw him under the bus so he sent him on a suicide mission and his steward to finish the job in case it didn't go as planned.

Consort Qin fell in love with Zhou Xiankun when he was escorting her to marry the previous emperor. This fake necromancer manipulated her into supporting Consort Guo (Empress Dowager) for years bc her father is a powerful fief lord in Nanyi. Zhou Xiankun's true love was the Empress Dowager - hence the famous poem he composed about how to him the hibiscus is superior to the plum blossom. Hibiscus was the ED's nickname as a young girl. But once she used him up, the ED chose to let him die instead of saving him. He advised Consort Qin to keep the edict to protect herself - don't be like me, a used up pawn! So Consort Qin made a fake edict which she gave to Marquis Muyang and he burned it. The ED trusted his word. She didn't need to see it bc she is a super cunning villain. She distanced herself from everything so she would have plausible deniability. She can credibly swear on her own life and her clan's life that she's never seen the edict and lightning wouldn't strike her down dead bc technically, it is true.

Honestly episode 33 gave me covid PTSD. Thankfully I am not yet talking to ghosts.

I think it didn't hurt that she was young and social distanced. Did you see those guys all clustered together - it was an ancient super spreader event omg!!!

There is nothing more dangerous than radicalised, idealistic and ignorant young people. They are they ones that actively stopped Ye Li from getting help. Grandpa and the other masters were too ill to do much. And wow - all of them clustered together - now THAT boys and girls is called a SUPERSPREADER EVENT.

Yellow earth is loess (huáng tǔ), a highly fertile, wind-blown silt - from afar it may look like a desert but its not. This fine-grained, yellowish soil spans vast parts of northern China known as the Loess Plateau and the North China Plain, giving the Yellow River its distinct color and name.

The present day sequel was not watchable.

One and Only.

Yes I know all that - I am watching the drama I don't need a recap. Please read again carefully what I wrote. What makes no sense and is not explained is he didn't have it on him and entered the capital.

I don't think you are alone. And its a well written conflict because there are audiences on both sides of the conflict. I think they are both not perfect and realistically written. To your point, I would add that he burnt the pastry wrapper as symbolic that her debt was repaid, that going forward she can choose him or anyone else out of her free will. I don't think he ever meant for her to leave him like that and would have torn up the divorce papers if she had just asked. But she never said one thing to protest or reassure him. He only divorced her to set her free of any debts to choose him again. I think Ye Li understood where he was coming from all along - that she decided to forgive him the moment he followed her. She instinctively went back to Lishan because she knew he would follow her and wanted to show him what she couldn't even accept herself, much less tell him.

She definitely more than just fantasized about him after his hero saves the beauty/英雄救美人 stunt all those years ago.

Same. Hope her xianxia days are over.

For me she only had two memorable roles including this one. All the rest she is just Bai Lu being Bai Lu - charming enough but same old same old. I have watched tons of her dramas but have pretty much forgotten all her characters.

In the hands of a good director, her acting is good. Her problem is she shot way too many Chu Yui Bun and Yin Tao dramas.

No general would be so stupid as to even go near the capital with an army and no edict in hand. As in on his person. Not hidden somewhere. That can and did get him killed.

Of course - generals with armies are never given power at court. Nonetheless they are very powerful because they have an army and can seize power. Prince Ding’s position was exactly that of the third Ming emperor who was the second emperor’s uncle with an army at the border. The difference is he marched to the capital to seize power and became one of the most powerful emperors of that dynasty. In any case since it seems all this makes sense to you, so good for you. 👍🏻