holy shit the SYR/XFF confrontation is so satisfying... she's really calling him out for being too cowardly to…
She said all the things we have said about it! That he chose this path and now he wanted to play victim. That he didn't want to right any wrong, that it was just his guilty conscience. He was corrupted and wanted to stay corrupted. Loved hearing her say all that and watch his face.
Ep 31: What exactly is the Duke talking about when he said, "don't compromise to be another person for some one…
I think there are multiple meanings.
1) XFF suppressed herself through her previous life and even though she was the Cai Nue of her city (Most Talented Woman), everything she did was for her husband. She lost her Self. In this life as Jiang Li, she had been regaining her Self and Duke Su knew this. In the performance the previous night, he caught a glimpse of how his girl and her ex- used to be (following his lead) and he did not like what he saw. He told her in this life, she did not need to suppress herself like she did before.
2) It was also to inform her that he didn't see her as a pawn any more.
Maybe he wants to disrupt it from the inside? But you can't do that without first sleeping with the enemy, I guess?…
So, let's first kill off a good and honest official whose daughter you married, yeah, that's the way to fight corruption. Then let's put in that fat bastard that subjected an entire town with terror, yeah that's the way to fight the system. #eyeroll
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1) XFF suppressed herself through her previous life and even though she was the Cai Nue of her city (Most Talented Woman), everything she did was for her husband. She lost her Self. In this life as Jiang Li, she had been regaining her Self and Duke Su knew this. In the performance the previous night, he caught a glimpse of how his girl and her ex- used to be (following his lead) and he did not like what he saw. He told her in this life, she did not need to suppress herself like she did before.
2) It was also to inform her that he didn't see her as a pawn any more.