Thuc Duyen

My thoughts exactly.

YJX & FYK are a match in heaven LOL. They completely deserve each other. FYK pretends that she is part of the rich, yawn. The girl is so delusional & didn’t even know her husband tried to get FTY.

She’s also very beautiful actress.

They’re both very sweet. I have not read all the whole novel but the chapters I have read so far have shown that they are very much in love with each others & have a very balanced & sweet relationship.

Exactly, it really shows in ep 16 on the gates/maze formation that he has no common sense, no strategy & no practical thinking the minute General Mo decided to change the formation, he couldn’t find the way out. Madame Yu, his mum is smarter in her schemes than him.

I would say that he maybe a book smart guy but is last in life. He is a scumbag & doesn’t need to harm FTY if he doesn’t want to marry her. He nearly ruined her life & has the audacity to use some lame excuses to get her back. Yu Jing Xiu & Yake is a perfect match in heaven, they both deserve each other. I’m glad that FTY just laid it in his face.

I’m afraid he will be a pain in the a$$ for ML & FL. He thinks that with his family’s rank & title, he could squash anyone beneath him. No wonder, FTY thought he was a book smart guy but a very bad judge of character in the novel. I hope the scriptwriters would give him a bad ending as in the novel [I.e accused of having an affair with a married woman, manslaughter (killed her husband) so that he could be with her. He was stripped of all his exams titles, become a commoner & exiled for his crimes.]

I like that drama but the ending was so so for me.

Has anyone watched ep17 trailer yet? Yu Jing Xiu put ZL to prison & wants ZL to let FTY go, say what? Does he want to take FTY as a concubine?

LMAOOO, true.

Agreed, it’s so entertaining. I kind of feel bad for Zuo who hates the grandma & Fu family but chooses to take her anger & revenge out of the wrong target.

Ikr, he looks like a horrible bum.

Grandma wants to use Zuo’s chastity to get the emperor’s award & regain their family’s prestige they once had & build that gate arch.

I may be wrong but Zuo made a big fight against the grandma Fu in front of Madame Yu whose family is now higher in status than her family that killing her would have made her suspect no one as obvious. The other reason is with the rumours that FTY was intimate with her brother even elevated Zuo’s status & tarnish the Fu’s family name which is already in decline. Hence, she decided to kill her own granddaughter & made Zuo sign the agreement that her brother married a dead FTY which brings bad luck for a family.

The Fu grandma who hates Zuo ( being a widow in her family) & when she blackmailed grandma, she decided to kill her own granddaughter instead of letting FTY marry into the Zuo family. After FTY’s death was announced, grandma’s close maid made Zuo sign her release letter from the Fu family & signed an agreement that would give her some monies, cut ties with the Fu family & accepted that her brother married a dead FTY. She went to Ganlin to work. She took her anger & revenge out on FTY who is young, grandma’s favourite granddaughter & has all the rich guys that want to marry her. In comparison, she was promised by the grandma to have wealth should she remain widow, keep her chastity which are women’s virtues during the Ming’s dynasty. The Fu family was a prominent family in the region is in decline & in order for them to regain their position grandma tries everything including using Zuo’s chastity to get the emperor’s award with monies & they could build a new arch. Instead, Zuo only gets loneliness, hatred from the Fu family. I am not quite sure if the Fu gets to build a new arch thanks to Zuo or not.

I’m not quite sure as I may have missed that detail.

Zuo’s husband died so normally, the Fu family should have signed a agreement to free her so that she could the fu family & remarry but the grandmother wanted power since their family is in decline so she promised to Zuo that she would have a share of compensation should she remain a widow & preserve her chastity in the Fu family. After a number of years, the fu family would be awarded by the emperor of this title, hence the Fu family could build another gate shown at the beginning of the drama. Fu grandma was just using Zuo as a pawn to keep their family’s name & prestige. Zuo was bitter of wasting 10 years of youth to remain widow.

Hey, welcome on board.

When FTY was announced dead by her grandma, the Fu family cut ties with Zuo & allow her to go back to Galin where she is currently teaching. She also signed the agreement that she took the death certificate of FTY based on their body recognition.

Ep 16 trailer is sweet. Yu JingXiu will come in their small military town to create trouble for ZL & FTY.