Thuc Duyen

Love him. He is even better in the novel. What I mean is he is LY 2.0 when LY was younger but this time with lots of maturity, kindness & wit.

Great summary, I look forward to reading your summary of the remaining episodes which I have already watched whilst doing my work LOL. I will make some observations between the drama & novel. The drama is relatively well done, has retained more of less the main features of the novel. However, I prefer the plot in the novel as it has a lot of suspense, heartbreaking moments & love between MZH & LY.

No worries. I really enjoyed reading the novel. There were a few chapter that I really liked especially from chapter 66 onwards.

In the novel, LY survived the fake death. LY told LC ( young emperor) of how his father died that night by poison in the palace. Dowager empress wanted to kill LY by putting poison but the old emperor came back on time to prevent his mother from killing LY. By doing so, the old emperor deliberately drank the poisoned wine in LY’s place. Mama empress was crying & held her dying son in her arms whilst screaming at LY & telling him to get the hell out of the palace. He did also tell LC that he left well before the dowager empress’s wing in the palace was on fire and that he did not kill the old emperor nor the mama empress. LC was still very upset with LY at that point. LY came up with a plan with LC to let SJH accuse LY of killing the old emperor, the mama empress in addition to rebellion, corruption, rape. & abuse of power to kill his subjects. LC gave SJH the authorisation to investigate in the death of his father & dowager empress and the fire that burned their bodies & killed hundreds of servants. For these crimes, LY should be condemned to death penalty. LY even gave LC the fake poisonous pill. Since LC was still very upset with LY, he wasn’t sure that his nephew would follow his plan.. SJH really wanted to kill LY quickly so that they could execute RJ’s plan to make her become empress. MZH cam3 to prison too late as LY already drank the poisoned wine. Since LY was accused of these crimes, the funerals cannot be arranged like the royal family members nor officials so it was like an ordinary person. This would allow ZM & ZJ to switch LY’s body with another body that looks like LY. This would help the doctor to care for LY to wake up afterwards.

In the novel, It was part of LY’s plan with LC (Liu Chen) to falsely accuse LY of rebellion, corruption and all the crimes. These alleged crimes were concocted by princess RJ & SJH. LY was then sent to prison, accused of these crimes & condemned to death penalty. Since LC did not want people outside of the court to know that they also accused LY of killing the old emperor & dowager princess so accused him of rebellion & all other crimes.

I forgot to mention that MZH’s father’s wife did some dirty business with Zhuang Zhiaofeng, then the Sun’s family. They got found out & were sacred of being punished by the young emperor. MZH’s father & the step mum came to ask for her help with the young emperor. She refused & they got upset, went to look for princess RJ’s help as they got people to follow MZH.

Agreed, hopefully they will release the remaining episodes tomorrow.

Thank you for a great summary once again. Well, I hope it is just her illusion of sitting on the throne because the biatch was given the power by the traitors ministers ( which SJH has managed to make LC alienate all of them & create discords) should something bad happen to LC during the battles against the norther army in the novel. She never had a chance to sit on the throne. I agree with your assessment on the death of her shifiu Sheng. The Suns are corrupted but I don’t recall of him being assassinated by the Sun family. On SJH, he was all I down with her disgusting shenanigans and the both of them have no remorse whatsoever and have stuck to their guns till death. The spoilers may be just deceiving as he did not switch sides even after being caught by the ministers’ people. MZH came to visit him in prison and asked him whether he had any remorse of creating these chaos and to which he laughed at her. On LC making LY the regent prince proves his father & uncle right that he is kindhearted and is cable of making the right decision.

I forgot to mention about a scene that we see in the spoilers of the new episodes released today was LY was forced by SJH to admit publicly that he used his power to kill, rape and oppress people or else SJH would chop ZM & his brothers hands off. LY’s army is very loyal to him as they knew that he was framed by SJH & young emperor Chen and they decided to rebel, hence LY had to speak to his men to defend the country and be loyal to young emperor Chen. In the novel, ZM & brother did not attack RJ so she & SJH were not aware of LY’s plan. They thought he was dead by the poison. When he unexpectedly returned from the battle with chen, she was like wait was he not dead yet, kind of like the mama empress saying in one the episodes why did you not die LOL.

RJ & HJH deserve each other. They will get what deserve at the end. I wanted to punch them with their evil plan of deceiving people & killing innocents to get her to the empress position after reading the novel. I understand that she was not being taken care of by the old emperor when her mother got killed by the dowager empress, that she has resentment that her father does not think that she deserves the empress position but her younger brother Chen. She did not even pull her fingers out when her father rushed back to the palace tryong to save LY from his mother’s evil plan. RJ knew that her father took the poisoned wine given to LY by the dowager empress. She was there waiting for her father to die and then called in SJH to kill the mama empress & set fire in the palace and destroying all the evidences with a view to putting all the blame on LY. She did not even care about her own father let alone her half brothers. She does not even show any love to SJH during the whole time but only towards the end when both of them got exposed and killed themselves.

I love reading your summary. You have a real writing talent. Your spoilers make me laugh 😂 a lot of times.

Chen telling MZH that she needs to bring real evidence was part of LY’s plan to falsely accuse LY and put him through death penalty with a view to exposing crazy RJ’s whole plot. In the novel, young Chen was so moved by MZH’s honesty, begging and also to some extent trust for his uncle that he did pardon LY by giving MZH the token so that she could go to prison and save LY from death penalty. Young Chen was about to give in and wanted to tell MZH about their plan but couldn’t.

They have slightly changed the plot in the drama in comparison with the novel. In the novel, dowager empress got killed by SJH under the order of princess RJ the night the old emperor died from poison. SJH set fire in the palace and burnt both the dowager empress, emperor bodies and killed hundreds of servants. She does not show any love to SJH until the end when their plot of making princess RJ the empress got exposed by LY ( lord Ding) and they had no where to go and decided to kill themselves towards. Until then, I wanted to punch the both of them and curse so bad as they were pretty ruthless towards LY and everyone else. The whole soft talk of the princess is just a effing show, pardon my French. Young emperor Chen is completely blind listening to the effing SJH the entire time until LY told Chen the whole truth about what happens that night when the old emperor & mama empress died. He told young Chen that he suspected princess RJ the mastermind behind SJH’s actions. LY came up with the plan with SJH of abusing power, killed innocents and being a complete jackass vis-a-vis his own subjects. He even gave young Chen the fake poison pill to fake his death but was not sure whether young Chen would go along his plan as Chen was still angry about the death of his father. LY did not even tell MZH of his plan with a view to exposing both SJH & the princess. I cried a river when MZH came to the prison to save LY from death penalty but it was too late. Effing SJH was so happy as he thought he really LY before he starts investigating into their dirty businesses. ZM & his. Brother know of LY’s plan and changed the body in the coffins and chose someone that looked very alike lord Ding. Phew, he survived and came back with a big bang by assisting young Chen win the battle against the northern army. Princess RJ was playing dumb in front of young Chen & LY until LY told her that SJH was acting under her orders. Princess RJ planned everything even having a freaking army & servants put in place around the palace. She took advantage of the opportunity that LY’s army was tired , injured a father the battle to take control over the palace & retained LY’s army outside of the gate. Luckily, LY ain’t stupid, he asked MZH to bring the old respected princess (LY’s aunt) to stop crazy RJ. The old princess took care of RJ after the death of her mum. When both RJ & HJh got exposed, SJH decided to kill himself first and then RJ joined him.

In the novel, he survived and it was really heartbreaking when MZH thought that he died despite the fact the young emperor decided to pardon him after MZH begged the young emperor. I wanted to punch SJH & the princess RJ as they were pretty ruthless in the novel. MZH fell into coma for 3 days after this dramatic turn of event and she has been informed by Zhimo that LY is still alive and that was part of the plot to expose princess RJ & SJH. When the soldiers of the north was about to invade the south. The young emperor Chen decided to defend his own country as the majority of the army was resentful that he gave order to kill LY ( their general). LY came to rescue of Chen’s army by attacking the head of the northern army ( the guy that came to visit the south and offered his sister to marry LY, I can’t remember his name so sorry for that). Both uncle & nephew joined hands to defend and won the battle against the north. SJH was captured by the people that supported the noble families whom SJH wanted to destroy just to aliénante the noble families against LC ( Liu Chen). Whilst LY was fighting, princess RJ got herself declared by the noble families empress should LC die in battles. When the noble tried to flee the city, she purposely stayed behind to keep the throne . To her surprise when the soldiers announced that LC & the army won the battle , she saw the return of LY with LC. She initially planned to blow the northern army’s inventories up & their army. Back to the palace LY, LC have started to confront SJH in front of princess RJ. She has been silent the whole process until LY exposed her and she started to pull her cards with all the servants & soldiers she & SJH put in place over the years. Her people started to attack LC & LY but unfortunately LY ain’t stupid so he sent MZH go & bring back the eldest princess (LY’s aunt) that took care of princess RJ after her mum died. She intervened by bringing the supreme prefer aka “sword” with LY’s army No one dares to rebel but SJH took the sword and killed himself. Princess RJ then used the same sword to kill hereof as she knows that her days are numbered even the eldest princess offered her to take her back to their palace and live there peacefully. LY & MZH are set to go the north to negotiate peace treaty with the north becoming the protectorate of the south. LY & MZH have also decided to move their to help with the governance, exchange of trading systems between the north & south. The northerners ended up living the couple. They even write to the emperor to let them get married and still work as officials. Our couple will return to the capital, married and have a son and continue their official works. The end.

In the novel, LY & the emperor have planned LY’s fake death to expose the traitors (princess RJ & SJH). LY did not tell MZH of his plan & he was not even sure whether the young emperor would go along with his plan by giving him the fake poison pill). Before carrying out this plan, LY told the young emperor the truth about the night when the emperor died by taking the poison that his own mother intended to give to LY & he told the young emperor that he left the palace well before the fire started at the palace & killed both the emperor and the dowager empress. The young emperor was very upset with LY at that point and have told the young emperor of his suspicions of princess RJ & SJH.

Yes, it is unfortunate that because of his love for her that he is carrying out the evil plots against LY, the young emperor (first prince).

Having read 70% of the novel, he will be a super villain manipulating & killing people for the princess RJ to ascend the throne. Princess RJ does not show any love for him but she kind of does at the end when it is too late for the both of them.

It was the Empress (Emperor’s mother) that killed her own son by accidentY. The Empress wanted to kill LY by putting poison into his wine. The emperor found out about her intention to kill his younger brother LY so he came back at the palace on time. He begged her in front of LY to let his younger brother go but she refused. The emperor apologised to LY on her behalf by drinking the poisoned wine with LY . The emperor died from it and luckily LY did not drink too much. The Empress explained the reason why she wanted LY dead. She told the emperor & LY that LY’s mother (concubine Yu) stole her husband, that he married her as an empress (she came from an aristocracy family) and he never considered her as his wife but he loved LY’s mother. When LY’s mum died, the emperor grandfather lost the will to live and died soon afterwards. Before his death he made her (the empress grandmother) to take care of LY. Hence, all the resentments were towards LY. The emperor died in her arms and she threw LY out of the palace. Princess RJ was there all along, witnessing what the empress did to LY & her father. Princess RJ confronted her on her parents’ death and her plot using Xue Xiaotang ( her fiancé) to kill LY. . The empress was enraged and tried to physically attack RJ and before she even tried it, Sheng killed her with his sword and set fire in the palace. Back at his house, LY was vomiting blood and MZH is treating him. Before his death, the late emperor was contemplating about appointing the second prince as emperor given that he was calmer than the first prince. He has changed his view on the second prince as he was always using his twin brother (3rd prince) to fight against the 1st prince. Princess RJ, has tried to drive a wedge between the brothers by changing the late emperor’s real edict which should allow the 1st prince ascension to the throne. I’m still reading the novel as I go along.

I love your summary. I find the 1st prince falling for MZH. According to the novel, the first prince will fall for MZH but there is only one person in her eyes and that is LY (LD). He will become the emperor before the collusion of the princess RJ & SJH with the enemies to overthrow the young emperor Chen (1st prince). Both the princess & SjH will be executed but MZH still feels sorry for the princess. The young emperor will marry a young girl with modest background. They will have 2 children. MZH and LY will become famous officials in one of the provinces, will get married despite the roadblocks laid out by the officials. The court officials in the end had to give in and let them get married and still remain officials. Our couple have a son. The kingdom lives peacefully and in prosperity.

They’re super cute 🥰 together.