Snail that arrived

I think the boat date was a perfect stepping stone. There was a bit of romance and some opening up on both sides.

I expected that at this point we would have her heritage come to light and that would bring the notion that she too has a reason to go after the seal.

This doesn't just represent a problem for Zanghai. He wants revenge but he is not a traitor and Dongxia would use the seal to attack. But XAT has the opposite problem. Zanghai or her kingdom? That is such an amazing growth line for her. As we are half way there I really expected us to already be deep in these ambiguous waters. Not this. I hope you are right and we will be moving on quickly now.

Yes, I agree, in fact it's what I expected. That her own plotline connected to her heritage would come into play and then intersect with his revenge which would cause both conflict and possible alliance. I don't know what this is right now apart from a drastic tonal shift that really does water down the otherwise tense atmosphere.

I really don't understand this way of writing the FL. Immature, manipulative games, as if she's a teenage girl not a serious head of a business, not to mention her side-profession. It's luck the writer had him keep his self-respect because this is already heavily trampling on the tone of a serious drama. Are we watching a revenge or idol drama here? It's also a disservice to JGY who can act.

It's simply not your place to tell people how they should engage with the content of this drama. You don't get a say in how people spend their time. It's their right alone to decide that. You have no say in it nor any right to tell them what they should do. What is wasted time to you, is not to them.

You think some "need to read" about your opinion on how they do that, as if they aren't adults capable of their own thoughts and opinions. Your opinion isn't the right one in general, just as theirs isn't. You all engage in this content in ways right for you and you alone.

Again they aren't saying anything to you while you feel like you have the right to tell them how they should do this or that.

If you claim you have no wish to debate over fictional couples, then let people be unhappy about this aspect as they please, for as long as they please, as many times as they please. It's none of your business.

If they start getting on your case over enjoying romance, I would say the same thing to them. You are allowed to, as much as you please.

This talk about the FL has me thinking. It's true that as the Dongxia princess she probably has ulterior motives, one of which is to find the seal. We don't know the role of her mother in all this just yet.

I hope the director will have a care in how he handles the FL's motives and actions. Right now, they are very sweet together but if she did approach him with ulterior motives, that would make her another manipulator in his life. I trust Zheng Xiaolong to handle it well so I hope he is worthy of that trust because it's so easy to push this situation into a sour one.

Why so aggressive?

Posters below your posts are expressing their dislike for romance in this drama. They aren't saying anything about romance lovers.

You on the other hand are talking how they shouldn't express their opinions. These are very different things because they are addressing the happenings in the drama while you are addressing them.

I understand how it can be annoying to see them dislike something you like but that is just how things are. And until they start attacking you or other romance posters directly, there is nothing wrong with their posts.

There is no need to be aggressive. You like what you like, just like they like what they like. There is room for both.

If people are allowed to gush about romance and heavens knows they do then others are allowed to be unhappy about it and think he doesn't need a romantic partner.

There is literally no reason why you are allowed to express your happiness and they are not. It's a discussion board, not a fan page. Each of you just skip the others posts and everyone's satisfied.

Gao Ming has his own agenda.

Zanghai needs some light in his life. The real question is why is Gao Ming isolating him from that and therefore making manipulating Zanghai easier?

I have wondered about that myself but I suppose considering we are mostly focused on the official departments and officials, the lack of women seems plausible because they weren't in those positions in those days. Maybe we will see more once he hits the court, like the Empress?

You can watch fifty dramas for all I care. That's irrelevant and not my business.

Yes, that's promotion of unrelated dramas on this page. You continued to do it after people tried asking you to stop over and over again. Once is mistake. The amount of times you did it is was purposeful promotion. So, your promotion worked on me 😁

Or woman! We mustn't forget that option. Plenty of good disguises in this drama.

I stopped once you stopped promoting that other drama here. I can always continue, plenty of episodes I left untouched if you want to give it another go 😁

She could be because it's her birthright but she is not the third person. She was a child when the fish was split in three. We can say we potentially have 5 people searching - zh, her + 3 fishes

The emperor isn't omnipotent. There have been many times in history when they were just eunuch 's puppets.

We know here that the Emperor fears rebellion from one of the princes who has court support. So plenty of reasons to act in secret but it wouldn't be the emperor himself but one of his men.

Not possible. It can be an emperor's person but not the emperor himself. He can't move about just like that.

I know people wish for ML and FL to get together but apart from all else, another thing that needs to be kept in mind is that if they do, she would be in horrible danger.

Seductive? Where did you read that, I am curious.

It shouldn't be the reason, live audio has different requirements like projection, emphasis, being clear enough.

There will be more bad guys apart from him, we still haven't encountered the real big bad. It's such a good drama!

He killed two kids without batting an eye. He has their parents skins stuffed with straw on personal display.

You are falling for his lies. He is faking it. But that just means the character is well written and the actor is doing a great job!