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We are told XXF is a Cai Nue. A Cai Nue (Talented Woman) in Ancient China is rare and XXF is the most talented of her district (where her father was magistrate). A Cai Nue could write, do caligraphy, play the qin, paint/poetry, play chess and was basically very, very smart. XFF suppressed her talents and personality for her husband, who wanted to be a court scholar. You'll see in flashbacks how XFF hid a lot of her intelligence by giving hints and using offhanded pointers to help her husband achieve his goal (passing his test, getting a writing assignment done, giving him a script idea). The idea of XFF slowly (and deliberately) suppressing herself is also shown with the selling off of all the things that made her unique--her qin is one of the examples. The final act of selling the pendant, with her nickname (and civet emblem), was her total loss of ego/self.
The XFF that came back alive was the real XFF. Her ex, SYR, did actually kill his wife that night because that woman was gone.

They had a long talk at the end

IKR? 🤣😂

You’ll be like, oooooh huh. 🤓

She actually didn’t look jealous to me. To me, She just looked curiously at the concerned Xiao Heng which triggered his anxiety to explain 😂. She was actually teasing him and he went all “tui tui, tui.” LOL

I found it amusing that A'Li wasn't jealous of Poison Princess' close relationship with Xiao Heng at all, but a woman giving him back his jade pendant in a brothel made her so mad she castigated him days later with words so sharp, our Su Guo Gong had to soothe her with an explanation on why he was there. LOL. And then later, at the night market, he was still asking her whether she was still mad at him. It seems to me, A'Li, being the more experienced woman, was jealous of any sexual relationship her Duke might be having with any female. Poison Princess was no competition at all, heh heh.

You mean leopard cat and mouse :).

Well, I believe those two moments were in different episodes, since she didn't fall in love until after feeling hawt around Su Guo Gong, LOL.

oh, no! Please hide all the shovels. Kidding aside, I'm sorry you're having these problems.

I'm not sure. I noticed part of todays were covered over with audio. I'll rewatch in a few days to see if the whole show hadn't been edited in yet.

Instead, it went like this:-

JL: Want to see a cool play?
XH: Sure!
JL: I need someone who could throw her voice, though.
XH: Sure!
JL: Are you sure?
XH: You can ask anything. I can afford it.
JL: Hmmm, Xiao Heng.
XH: A'Li.
The Ji Bros taking a few steps back....

Heh

Still the funniest reenactment of the love “triangle.” 🤣
https://youtube.com/shorts/RGzwNpKfQKw?si=3B6sdJlHLLfdFMa4

https://kisskh.at/736749-di-jia-qian-jin#comment-18090855

For your fun 🙃

Sexually aware or in love? Cos there’s a difference. 🤣

Patience. English subs come later.

I’m not sure but I’ve seen some excellent subs where they explained subtext in parenthesis, especially insults! 😂

Pls do scroll up and check out under the Other Topics of discussions topic called Couple Scenes and Dialogue. You might find the posts in there to your liking🙃

In this drama, esp, yes, since WXY as Duke Su kept asking to kiss the character XYY in the BTS in different episodes and the director kept saying no.

Unfortunately, Yu Zheng (main director) and this particular director's dramas don't seem to have those kind of scenes.

The beauty of the this romance is in the dialogue. This couple was making love with every word pun/subtext in their dialogue, from straight up calling her private family nickname (very intimate) to calling her his wife (in a wordpun scene). If you count the progression, the Duke slowly gave a piece of clothing to XFF from hanky to his undergarment to his cloak to finally, she was wearing his whole darn outfit at his home, heh. She was also the only one allowed to play with his "fan."

He was indeed very cute and the BTS scenes of him with WJY for this episode was also very couple-lish, especially with the shoestrap help. Look it up if you haven't seen it.