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It is very frustrating.

Do you guys remember that LMT and Ziyu were also lovers and he betrayed her more than CXZ did, which led to her almost dying, and losing the ability to perform martial arts? And the person that saved her in every way is CXZ?
You know what, CXZ did not even deserve what she did to him at this point. If he did and if you are praising her bloodlust, then she should have started with the root of all the problems, Ziyu.

The Ziyu one has me extremely baffled. It is obvious that the writers lost their minds.

Yes. They deviated in almost everything at this point.

So, yes, we are mad because this is character assassination for both leads. And it is especially painful because the chance to show us something different, but still entertaining and worthwhile has been lost. An original reduced to regular programming.

I'm posting the next here because I find that it may be easier to read in breaks than to read a single long post.

Novel LMT knew when to count her losses and get on with her life. She came to the right conclusions very quickly. And no, she was not whining or dragging her feet around. She found out she was lied to, confronted the man immediately, refused his offer to be a favoured concubine, accepted his help for saving her uncle and left quietly, when he did not expect it. She was hurt and betrayed, but that was not going to be the end of her life. So she went back home to see her precious grandfather. But she wanted to return better than she left, so from that village, she as a wonderful business woman, did trade until she went hime, so she had accumulated quite the sum of money. Then she reopened/rejuvenated her family escort agency and focused on chasing her bag.
LMT and CXZ did not care about the politics in the capital or in the country. To them, their lives were more important. So even when they were targeted, when they were attacked and others, they did not go out seeking revenge. Revenge takes the focus off you and gives it to the other person and they were not about that. LMT in the novel was also very consistent and logical. No matter how hurt she was, no matter if she lost or recovered her memories, she analysed every single thing, down to the root. So they never had her chasing things that were not worth it.

Novel CXZ was a man man. A real man with power and used to having his way. As much as he loved his mom, sister and LMT, her never let any of them disrespect him. And LMT never let anyone, even his mother, belittle or stress her man. She was fiercely protective and it only made him love her more. He had manly strength, but she was so strong even when seemingly gentle and calm. When she needed to lead or save others, her entire fierceness came out.

Now back to the story.

I think that if novel LMT were to see what they did to her in the drama, the writers would have to watch their backs. You guys don't want LMT to show sadness for what happened because you count it as her not being strong or badass. You want her to go on this hunt that is both hypocritical and energy wasting. You want her to look down on the ml and belittle him. But then you want the ml to lie in sadness, to yearn, to grovel. What is this thing about wanting all men to submit to women and wear their hearts on their sleeves, but have women wear the pants in the relationship and not show weakness?

I am trying to tell myself that the writers got inspired by the story and wrote different characters, but now they keep taking too much from the novel plot to make that lie believable to myself, so it's just hard.

If LMT was actually serious, she should try getting back at Ziyu too. She may not be able to get far because he is the emperor, but do something that would hurt him. Starting with not returning the money. But they are making her inconsistent and stupid. If she was also serious, she really should have tried again to kill Prince Sui. She went into that place alone and of course, after an attempted assassination, they would block off the place. She should have known she would not make it out alive in the first place and tried to take him out by all means since it was a suicide mission anyway.

And if you say she had Ziyu as her way out because they plotted revenge together, then you are agreeing with me too. Because thinking Ziyu was on the same page as her was another kind of stupid. I could not believe she was plotting revenge with Ziyu against Prince Sui that is his uncle, the favoured son of the empress dowager and a political pillar Ziyu is holding onto rn. Especially after calling him out on his involvement in what happened to her brothers. My original girl is not this stupid.
What was the point in making her chase Yun'er and Prince Sui for revenge when she did not successfully kill even one of them? Especially Yun'er. The opportunity was very well set up and she failed????????? Now Prince Sui and Yun'er have gotten stronger and more guarded. Which also means that they have a greater desire to ruin her and CXZ's lives.

From reading the comments about this show, I have something important to say.

Women, please don't let the internet slowly guide you into hating on men. It has become so cool to hate on men, to absolve women of all their own problems, but shit on men for even existing. It is true that many men commit heinous crimes and because of their nature, said crimes are violent. But women commit crimes too. They do things that are wrong too.

I think that the best way to strike a balance is to be very mindful of your safety, from both men and women. But also to think fairly no matter who it is you encounter. If you think all men are not worth it, you may never find one that is. That may be what you attract. For romantic and platonic relationships.

I'm mad.

Ziyu is exceedingly shameless. He knows exactly what LMT is like, but he is still trying to keep her as a mistress or concubine after marrying how many women? He wants to eat his cake and have it too.

I want to understand something. So LMT took revenge, but did not successfully take out the two at the helm? Then she also didn't try to act against Ziyu, but instead gave him the money he left with her when she knew that he was also at fault? So the main culprits are still alive and good? Please say it ain't so.

That is why I said it is a version of her that exists. And it is primarily the three years she forgot. She still remembered her family.
And yes, they definitely need time apart.

Oh, it wasn't me. I read the novel for this show some days ago. From like Sunday.
But for the question, I think we'll have to wait until the end to say if it is ruined or not. But at the moment, I do not agree with a bit of the creative liberties they took with the characters.

They were still bandits and were acting against the country. That was the whole situation until after Ziyu got recognised as royalty. And no one knew they were the remnants of the former emperor. And even if they did, as long as they were not in power and did not make the rules, then they were criminals.

You are not negating my point. No one told her to be a wife that would love her husband enough to not care if he was a dandy like he said. You are forgetting that she was told several times to leave the desire to care for her household, that he would provide for them. But she wanted to by all means and it caused problems for them.
Teaching her etiquette, what females in noble families are taught is not giving her a personality. If that is your argument, then all the women born in privilege, like Miss Shi, Miss Lian and Miss He do not have real personalities because they were raised in a way befitting women in their time. And you know that is simply not true. And you can see the difference in the actions of all three ladies. Including LMT, their dispensations, desires and actions are all different.

The devoted wife part is a version of her that does exist. If the show changes this after they get married, it will actually be inconsistent with her character make-up. She only lost 3 years of her memory. They did not reprogram her entire life or engineer her personality. Everything she did was from her own thoughts and feelings.
The Mount Yang experience only adds to her personality, not make it brand new.

Now that the show has made her bloodthirsty to show strength, I have lost faith in the writers and their understanding of the characters, so I expect anything to happen now.

In the beginning, his actions were justified. Especially because of the distance he kept with her. He needed to catch a criminal and she was his enemy. Sparing her life and treating her wounds so dedicatedly are already too much grace to your enemy. That was until Mount Yang surrendered. And then all the times he tried to tell her, something happened. He tried to divorce her and send her home, but she insisted and followed him to war. The man held back because he did not want to let her go, but we can't say he never tried to tell her a couple of times. Still, the entire world of lies were terrible because she was sincere and she caught feelings and also because they persisted for a really long time. By novel and drama time, it should be 2 years. That's a lot.

But he absolutely did not create her personality. No one ever told her to act like a devoted wife and take care of her household for her husband. That is just who she is and it showed. It is the same kind of thing she did for Ziyu. She became a bandit to aid someone that was using her and was young and naive and did not know.

If this is so, it is another thing the drama is doing to take away from her intelligence because they want to achieve their love triangle plot. In the novel, she only needed her Lu Wen memories and CXZ, & her bandit guy's accounts of what happened to be able to piece things together. Which was that Ziyu played her effectively. And she said this in the one conversation she had with Ziyu after getting back her memories. It was so short and she did not seek him out for it. She was very quick and did not give attention to those that didn't matter.

I don't hate her. I am just saying she was naive when she was young and so she was easily used to commit crimes. But she committed those crimes nonetheless. And CXZ had to be quick and ruthless in order to protect her and her uncle.

The rebellion wasn't even discussed in detail in the novel. It happened like a summary. CXZ knew something was brewing in the capital and deliberately delayed his return. Then he stayed out until things cooled a bit. They decided to focus on this here.