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We just have 12 episodes left...just TWELVE!!!!

I am not Chinese, but in my culture, hundreds of years back, there was a concept of the purification or activation of swords and weapons with blood. This is closely tied to the concepts of divine energy (Shakti) for the destruction of evil (Dharma).
So maybe even Chinese had a concept like that in their history.

Okay without spoiling what is not shown till now-

Previous Emperor and Prince Changxin (rebel king) were cousins or something, because Prince Changxin has the prince title, hence he needs to be part of the royal family. But he has Sui surname, he is Sui Tao, so maybe Prince Changxin's mother was a princess, because if his father was- then he would be surnamed Qi. But this is kind of what I assumed.

Previous emperor abdicated the throne 17 years back after the death of his son Crown Prince Chengde. Other Children of Previous emperor were Qi Shu/royal princess and Qi Sheng. He might also have other children that we don't know as of yet. Prime Minister Wei Yan supported Qi Sheng to be the puppet emperor.
Prince Chengde, crown prince and ML's father General Xie died in a battle together.
Prince Changxin's consort and their son Sui Yuanhuai visited Crown Princess in the eastern palace. Crown Princess feared the death of her son- Imperial Grandson Qi Min, after his father's death which she considered a conspiracy. So Crown Princess burnt her palace and Changxin's wife and son died with her. Crown Princess burnt her son Qi Min's face and sent him away with some subordinates and Nanny Lan. Due to burnt face, he was unrecognizable. It was presumed that Crown Princess, her son Qi Min , Prince Changxin's consort all died in the fire, the only survivor was Sui Yuanhuai. Qi Min grew up as Sui Yuanhuai in the Prince Changxin's household. Prince Changxin later got married again and had Sui Yuanqing whom he wants as his heir.

This makes current emperor Qi Sheng and Royal Princess Qi Shu, as uncle and aunt of Qi Min. Qi Min is the rightful heir of the throne, and after him his son Bao'er.

Yes in China, NRTA has a strict 40 episodes rule for dramas since 2020. But now they say its not strictly implemented since 2025, they have relaxed the rule. They said with prior permission and expert review process, maybe some dramas can extend beyond it, but the process is not guaranteed, plus with longer schedules, budget problems, generally now 40 episodes is considered the benchmark.
Some dramas submitted for 38 or 40, sometimes cut down 4-5 episodes by the censor board due to their various complicated rules.

Haha right.

rightttt

yayyy

I was okay with it, though I did not find them having a lot of chemistry, but they were sweet. But after today's episode they are kind of dragging their romance, like first she was interested, he rejected, now the opposite, and the moment I though everything is fine now, suddenly there is a misunderstanding again? Maybe they cannot let them date so easily, but the last misunderstanding part bored me a little today.

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Maybe I am in the minority, but honestly I completely understood him. But I am glad we don't have that in the drama. Yipeee!

Ohh yes, they were completely added into it. Princess just was in the last few chapters.

Which one? When ML broke up with FL? Or when ML rejected Princess Royal?

Which one, QQ and QM or GY and QS? Actually there a lot of characters as well, to fit them, 50 episodes would have been the best.

Hahaha this is true. Actually it should have 50 episodes if they want to do it properly, too bad China doesn't allow.

I am just happy we are done with 1 episode per day AS OF NOW!
We will get 2 episodes finally for 2 days. Monday, I will rant about you later.
I will say this for the millionth time, the schedule SUCKS !

Yeah true. Hopefully they meet again, just like in the drama.

I saw the preview of ep 29, Tutor Tao makes her understand importance of battles, and in ep 30 she is fighting, so hopefully she doesn't think about Linan now, her identity is supposed to be revealed as well, so she will have other objectives now.

That shouldn't be time skip. Now the drama may add it, but in the novel there wasn't.

I cannot be 100% sure, because some hot scenes are allowed like in case of QQ and QM, plus our lead couple also have hot scenes coming up.
I don't know if hickey is allowed or not though. It can also be a cut or something not shot, but because it was there in the novel, they just showed a later part. They do not have much time as well, they have to fit a lot of things.
Though I have seen hickey scenes in modern cdramas.

In the novel, there was no time skip.