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Very good assessment! The writers had a field day creating the Sui princes, and the two actors showed their wide acting range, and they are in their 20s.

When they met again, Marquis Wu-An towered over Song Yan. The haughty Marquis looked 7' tall, and the ninth ranked official Song looked 4' tall. Song Yan got kicked to the curb. LOL

Karma came knocking on his door. LOL I did not see when he was fired. Was it an actual scene or the voiceover summation?

The town crier would also do it the Capital. Director and Writer might have forgotten to add a scene.

Song Yan had to make an reappearance. I hope he does not have any future screen time. How did he lose his job? Emperor is spineless. He knows his days are numbered. General Fan put him in his place. She would make a good Empress or Emperor. Marquis Qu An looked dignified, riding into the Capital in his dress uniform.

I was also bored with the politics. The battlefield had more excitement.

His PR staff must have arranged the flashmob. There were busloads of fans mobbing Deng Kai.

That might have been his motivation to overthrow the crown. The emperor stole his woman! First, he got rid of the Crown Prince, Chengde. I am curious how and when the old emperor died.

I finally saw the Yan Ki Kuan, who I remember, in episode 34, today. Before, Prime Minister Wei Yan was just flitting in and out of the plot. He was commanding the room today. He and Xie Zheng look like father and son. Even the son! Lot of handsome men in the drama! Who is the woman that he loves?

Did Emperor spend the last seventeen years afraid of his own shadow? He was bouncing off the walls in episode 34.

Is that, Grand Tutor Li's masterplan? He's copying Prime Minister Wei's playbook.

Earlier in the drama, PM Wei was holding a two parts of a tiger tally, that did not match. In the next scene. Qi Min was holding half a tiger tally. I guessed it was the other half of the real tiger tally. Did Qi Min give it to Yuan Qing? At the time, I wasn't paying attention.

Me, too! I was surprised that the writer brought the two characters into the plot. They must have something important to contribute to the plot, or it is just to rile up the angst between Grand Tutor Li and Prime Minister Wei. The director and writer wanted to add more eye candy (... fresh meat, flower boys) for the viewers.

Qi Min is delulu cray-cray. He wants to kill his biological son. Doesn't he know he will not live long as Emperor, and will need a biological heir?

I wonder if Consort Sui was responsible for Qi Min's ill health all these years. Did she poison him slowly? She hated him and his mother, who killed her son. Even Lord Chang Xin hated him for years.

Yuan Qing has many lives. Qi Min stabbed him three times, and he was still alive to talk to the Female Bandit. I hope we have seen the last of him. Two new bad boys showed up at the end of episode 33. They might have been introduced at the beginning at the drama. Li and Wei!

The music composer created some incredibly beautiful mood music. He's a music genius. I was searching YouTube, but couldn't find the music,

That was a split second assault. It looks like the director doesn't want to show Xie Zheng sweating. LOL

I was surprised when he revealed his alliance to Qi Min.

So, is Grand Tutor Li helping Qi Min's overthrow in the court?