Apparently my cousin wasn’t the only one disappointed. 😂 I’ve seen quite a few people saying they expected…
Even if you anticipated heavy romance story, this is airing on CCTV, so keep your expectations low. You won’t get full-on kiss scenes. I obsessively watched all the promos trailers and bts and it showed mostly multi generation everyday life filled with dialogues and some added actions scenes. It was not romantic but very grounded.
I think the Chess piece LanXiang developed at Du sister rooms is the main source of Poisoning.
One of the commenter mention it might be the bath water. After coming back from the camp, lan xiang was supposed to clean herself but she gave the hot water to yuchan. Jinqi was also supposed to take a bath but avoided it after trying to avoid Cuique.
I need to get this off my chest - that USELESS womanising good for nothing tub of LARD father of the ML had 1…
When he came in yelling that his son is a wretched beast and acting like an entitled diva, I give him no grace. Your son is in prison can’t you think of a way to get him out than yapping like a drunk man child.
Why are they all listed as (1st to 4th) sisters when they are not all sisters? Is this a translation issue? Or…
The translation is actually quite good. It’s a Chinese thing. I called my cousins who are a few years older than me 姐姐, jiejie(older sister) or 哥哥,gege(older brother)
i seemed to rememeber in the earlier episode, there was an eldest sister that was married away in haste because…
2nd branch of the family: father, mother(Madam Wang Lingxiao). She had 3 children. Jin Qiao(3rd brother), Xiu Wan(2nd sister), Jin Cen(4th brother). So they are the cousins to ML.
i seemed to rememeber in the earlier episode, there was an eldest sister that was married away in haste because…
First sister, Xiu Lai married to Lu Jian, is a concubine’s daughter. Lin Jin Lan(2nd brother) born to another concubine. Lin Xiu Ru(3rd sister) born to a concubine (deceased)
K-Drama 
I obsessively watched all the promos trailers and bts and it showed mostly multi generation everyday life filled with dialogues and some added actions scenes. It was not romantic but very grounded.
Lin Jin Lan(2nd brother) born to another concubine. Lin Xiu Ru(3rd sister) born to a concubine (deceased)
ML’s father have a main wife and 3 concubines.