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I think you are one episode away from seeing her sending that banshee packing... Its a good moment, trust me you will enjoy it.

Well... when he was pompously ordering Jin-er to betray Wang Xuan for him I was thinking this is why you are a 鸡蛋 dude - only a silly maid will look at you with stars in her eyes.

He thinks that just bc he took a knife for her and arguably saved her life he owns her. Both he and Wan Ru are very ungrateful. I can understand them targeting the Empress Dowager - she directly or indirectly caused his mother and her father's deaths. But Xiao Qi and Wang Xuan saved their sorry asses so many times.

Yeah and from the way things are going, they should have let him...

Nice article - I dropped this but I think its more because I am just in a slump-y mood. Will put it on my revisit list after reading this.

I would add that HZ also chose Wang Qian bc he has an alliance with the Empress. The Empress wanted to prevent her from marrying the Emperor per her mother-in-law's schemes. Everything is working out too well for HZ. :(

Don't worry when the rubber meets the road, she stands by her man.

This 鸡蛋 is such a sad f**k the only explanation that I can come up with is his mother must have dropped him on the head when he was a baby... It was bad enough when I was struggling to think of any character that has gone from hero to zero in so few episodes but now even Zilv looks less pathetic than he does! Slaps forehead!

I am sorry but 42 was nauseating. I did not need to watch the Wang clan siblings show off their talent as pimps.

My mom married her teacher. :)

I think its complicated. I think Zilong made a lot of mistakes but he has good intentions and he tried to make up for them and he treats her with respect and consideration. But he is afraid of his mother. And his mother did cause her father's downfall and the death of her aunt. She is a conflicted character. Later she will be forced to choose between her son and her family/Zidan. In that sense she will turn into her mother-in-law - torn between her son and her family. Also not that unlike Wang Xuan. Let's see what choices she will make.

Nice article! There are quite a few I missed that I will check out.

It is quite good but it has a fair bit of propaganda and its quite a glossy account with rather plump impoverished peasants. Read Out of Gobi for a more realistic account of how difficult life is out in those areas.

Indeed... at first I was watching Minning Town to kill time but the dialect is not always easy to understand so I had to read the subs. It got too tiring I have half given up... luckily I found this.

Yeah it is confusing bc the spy that Awu found out about works for her father... Maybe the guy is a double agent - which means he is just all out for himself. Only someone like that will marry to maintain their cover. I must admit though he makes for a good villain or a good grey character. His motives are not known yet...

That is good to know tyvm :).

And indeed too much inbreeding explains Zidan stupidity and increasingly, A'wu's stupidity as well.

The marriage was arranged by their father. So both of them are reluctant to break their father's promise. Although the guy seems very shady, he cracks me up.

She is alright but neither her or the ML are that interesting. Many other characters are though. This is a good "filler" drama - good enough to pass the time but don't have super high expectations.

Ikr.... not the kind of thing I expected to see in a c-drama for sure!

Me too... This show is very interesting. What cracks me up is the ML and the FL are the LEAST interesting characters. Everyone else is fascinating; they are likeable but uhm kind of boring... and I don't mind at all.