Shreya

Yes, Xiao Wuyi is already married to 'crown princess' who is the Empress Dowager's niece. The marriage was strictly political, and they hadn't even met till episode 2.

The 'crown princess' is a misleading translation, she is his primary consort/wife, the FL would be married as Wuyi's secondary consort.

Yup that's the regular setup for the second male leads. But it's 2026, I'm really hoping they'd do something different 😭

The ML is not a widower, and he is married to three women here. The 'crown princess' is his primary wife/consort, the FL is his secondary consort and there's another woman who is his concubine and the mother of the kid (not his but calls the ML father).

Their ages are not exactly stated in the drama, but it seems to be similar to their real age so the age gap in the drama and real life is about the same.

Given Li Mao's current personality, I don't see him becoming the emperor. He isn't fit for the court politics at all. No doubt he'll have significant character development, just hoping they don't mess up his writing. I'm honestly tired of obsessive and evil second male leads.

I'd assume the main point was to create a bridge between the royal family and Xiao Wuyi & Beifu army, or else the bloodshed would've been disastrous. Appointing him as a regent also acts as a probation period to see if he's suitable to be the crown prince.

The 'crown princess' is his wife, albeit only in name since he met her for the first time in ep 2. I'm not too sure about the ranking between her and FL as I'm only on ep 2 but the FL seems to be the principal consort while the crown princess is the wife so the FL would be ranked beneath her.

'Crown Princess' is a misleading translation. Xiao Wuyi is the Heir Apparent of Prince Jing'an and she is called Heir's wife/consort and not literally crown princess.

It's not? It sounded like his own voice to me.

Just finished the first ep and I'm already loving this! Pacing seems good, it's neither too slow or too short-drama-like fast and the characters look interesting too. I just hope they won't tone down Xiao Wuyi too much.

Huayong probably has the most weaponized coughs ever like man can aggressively cough his way out of anything 🤣🤣

Yes, it seems like it's only available on the website as I couldn't find it on the app either.

Do we know how old the main leads are exactly from the novel? I'm assuming Shen Xihe is around 18-20 and Xiao Huayong about 21 as he didn't have his coming-of-age ceremony yet?

No, it's two eps per day till 14th when they'll release the new schedule for next week I assume. You can find the airing schedule in the discussion section.

You can watch it if you like the cast honestly. It's not that good but it was still pretty enjoyable for me. So, you can try watching it if you have nothing more interesting to watch right now or in between watching another heavier drama as it's not bad as a lighthearted comedy.

Maybe check out the reviews a little more to know what to expect.

Nah the pond scene was so cutee 😭

They are really trying to portray her as super smart and maybe she is but all the talk about incense this and incense that is not doing it for me. It might work a few times, but it gets monotonous after a while

Maybe it's the styling added with the fact that two years is quite a long time for a teen, but Lin Ziye seems to have grown so much since FoF 😭 Loving his dynamic with He Yu.

If it's even possible, I'm somehow more hyped about Rui and Hongxin here after TLoRC.

I don't 😭😭

My edited final review: https://kisskh.at/profile/SadiaShreya/review/582780