Yoruka

I agree, but i also heard this drama is airing on the central Chinese television station or whatever (not Chinese so have no idea how true that is) so it must have to have gone through alot of scrutiny and changes to result in 6 episodes of content here and there being thrown into the wind. It's my orginal point is the cut content has made the continuity of the drama feel shaky and they have done a poor job editing to mask those issues imo.

So they cut content and poorly edited around it on purpose you say? It was clearly cut for a reason they did not expect which usually means censorship of some kind in China.

The answer for most cut content is usually censorship but to what extent I am not that knowledgeable.

The cut content is just so obvious and pretty badly edited at times. Multiple times they have brought up consort names like we know who they are. Characters appear and dissappear like the wind also due to the cut content it gets frustrating.

They are for the palace cases specifically, but its pretty funny to have her just flat out say yea "Our prison is empty hang out if you want" since every single case they are either killed or kill themselves.

This current case of the palace epidemic and random murders every second is probably my least favorite case so far. The mystery isn't engaging and while im not a action nut i feel it missing due to it just being alot of talking this case so far.

Don't waste your time if you are debating watching, I regret spending 12 hrs on this. The choice is yours though.

That's why its called a plot device, if they weren't fitting this all into 6 eps, RSB would have had to come up with a clever way to prevent the duke families schemes and fight them, not just show them a seal and they all kneel to her.

Having just finished the last episode I see it even more as a boring plot device cause it was used to conveniently allow Bao to maneuver due to them condensing the capital and duke story to the last 5-6 episodes.

I feel like they should have involved the duke's family into the plot much earlier instead of separating the two and condensing it to the very end. Felt like we ended one story and started another but ended it fast, the characters had no importance to me as I only cared about our leads and their ending at that point.

Im happy how it ended, but it didnt satisfy me enough for everything it took them to get to that ending. Enjoyed the drama for the most part.

Thats why its called a convient plot device and I think its boring. It's just a way to make Bao quickly be able to disrespect and go against the duke's household and continue her own actions without resistance.

The imperial seal thing is such a boring plot device they introduced to be used for Bao in the capital.

At this point im just hoping the ending is satisfying, I have enjoyed majority of the drama will be sad if they end poorly.

Told him it was risky but kept every actual real detail to herself, the whole accused of murder plot he thought was real cause she kept it from him, Bai being her spy kept from him, her burning the tree herself kept from him, her knowing the governor had the real book kept from him. To me that isn't "working together" she was using him for her real plan.

That misunderstanding comes from the core values of having to be a heartless leader of the Rong family and is in my opinion where the family is wrong to begin with. The grandmother's teachings are biased and rotten, if RSB was able to change those core values even if she kept her cold stoic personality with others I would be OK. However to me she is still caring on those toxic family values that dont allow her to show emotions.

When she was crying in the her godmothers arms after her mother passed away declaring she must not cry as the next heir I pitied her, that isn't strength to me but toxic masculinity being perpetuated in the families values. Ofc, she has to be weary of bad people with intentions to hurt her family, but that can be done without being emotionless husk of a leader. She has emotions but she refuses to show them even with the man she loves. I can settle for RSB if she wasnt so set on continuing their toxic teachings from grandma.

Now in complete charge she can start changing that like bringing her cousin back into the family, but it seems she still continues to placate the grandmother's ideas. YunShu saying Shanbao is right her father didnt deserve to be her son cause he loved her mother and was to personal affectionate is to much. The other sisters are changing while Rong Shan Bao isn't which makes it even more frustrating as it goes on.

Im sorry I tend to struggle articulating my thoughts and ramble, but to sum up my main issues is RSB hasn't changed much and LJL has changed to much from what we were presented in ep1. It feels to lopsided and I find myself annoyed with their interactions as the drama has gone on.

I am glad we can respect each other with this. And while I do understand him breaking the "trust" they had with the og marriage are we just forgetting how much she has taken advantage of his memory loss? She knew everything about him, who he was, how he operates, and why he was there. She also knew he got his memories back. So when he takes the logical choice of saving his friend and continuing the case he is 100% wrong and needs to work and beg for that trust back? And when I say logical choice I mean she would have done the exact same thing and she is literally worse in terms of lies and deception so it just feels like a double standard. My issues with her stem from her own hypocrisy is, she constantly says he is cunning and unpredictable that is why she doesn't want him around her, and in my first comment that shows she wants to be 100% in control which i find to be toxic. In the end we won't ever agree cause I find her personality to be insufferable (man or woman), i have issues with unchanging people who can't open up for the life of them. I feel like her earlier antics with memory lose him let me believe she could be that person I thought that could let others in, but in these last span of episodes she is back to who she originally was. Which, I understand now this is who she is fully. Again no disrespect my orginal comment was to show she can be frustrating to watch.

You have certain points i can agree with, but it all comes down to do you care about her character developing at all? Cause she is still the same stoic manipulator from ep1 and still only let's her guard down for her family. She still has no trust for the ML and only let's him follow her coat tails. For it to be ep 30 of 36 and she still doesn't even trust the ML to let him in on one of her plans shows she hasn't developed and only wants to be in complete control of every factor. She sees LJL as a outer factor that she can't 100% control so she leaves him out and gives him very little respect in terms of their relationship. Also to say he benefits everytime is not really the truth, she is the one that benefits and he just along for the ride. The governor was his biggest threat but his only factor is beating him was bringing the Wei granny, thats it. Other then that RBS was in complete control moving all her pcs to her advantage including LJL.
This drama was advertised as 2 cunning scheming characters that use each other to their advantage through the story, however the show is nearly over and LJL has been a non factor in her plans and just along the ride that is why people are frustrated 1st.

So you are just gonna ignore her clearly keeping him in the dark on both of her last 2 plans to expose people? For what reason at this point in the drama would she keep him in the dark on these things? We are 30 episodes in like her character has zero development at this point with him and LJL has been relegated to a side piece? Yes all her plans work and she did things for a reason. Well then explain her reason for not telling him anything other then she doesn't trust him.