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Hahahah ikr so satisfying both for her and her annoying mother

In the novel she becomes his concubine, then she and her mother get disowned by the Qin family, completely like kicked out. She gets what she deserves.

100% yeh I agree, also I think to bring in blind prince Yan zhe so late into the drama, plus he's a played by a pretty well known actor not like a newbie actor if that's makes sense, definitely won't have a minor role, he'll definitely be important.

In the novel it's never really explained that well to be honest. But after the rebellion the emperor's face was badly burned and scared when he was brought back, so no one recognized him initially, they rescued him based on his sword which identifies the emperor. However, the empress knows and its hinted the empress dowager knows also he's an imposter, but as for everyone else, never really explained honestly. Probably just use the excuse his appearance changed due to healing from the injuries but they never really say for everyone else. Also it's worth noting, in the novel the fake emperor was actually the younger brother of the emperor (which they changed for the drama). So I'm guessing as they were related they might have looked similar already.

In the novel he's both, he manipulated Li Muyun to report FL's father to test if his theory about the emperor being fake was right or wrong. As a result the Shen family was killed, so he's harmed a lot of innocent people. But at the same time, the emperor killed his mother to cover up his crime and poisoned him, so he's doing it all for revenge, and later allies with FL and ML and poisons the emperor and dies together with him in a fire. So essentially, he's both good and bad. He's trying to expose the emperor and get revenge for his mother, but he's doing it in a bad way, hurting innocent people like the Shen family.

No problem feel free to ask any questions if you have them, looking forward to the next few episodes as well. You can already tell they're gonna be good.

If you mean ML's dad, nah he just is really committed to getting rid of the enemy/invaders, so he wants to eliminate all the threats in the north before handing control over. He's just essentially super committed to protecting the empire, he wants to ensure everyones safe in the North before handing command over, he just doesn't realize what's going on behind the schemes.

Yan Ze was introduced in today's episodes. Nothing to do with the cult, or at least it seems that way so far as he shows up after the case is closed, but he does show up, and the case was not closed fully. Finally though, we have all the pieces for the final case, with Yan Zhe showing up.

In the novel, the emperor is the villain. He's actually an imposter, he's Yan Li's father who took the place of the old emperor during the rebellion 20 years ago we saw in flack backs, when he supposedly died. So he is the villain who killed FL's family, ML's father and Consort Jin and framed Prince Jin. He's a fake emperor, and murdered people to cover up his secret. Eventually ML and FL defeat him and become emperor and empress. Atleast, that's what happened in the novel.

No unfortunately, after his father kicked him Yan Chi just walked out

Going by the novel he's not, he was used by Yan Zhe, the blind prince introduced today. But he was manipulated, in the novel he was a good guy who genuinely thought FL's father was trying to protect prince jin, he had no idea about what was really going on, he just thought he was doing the right thing.

Yeh in the novel he becomes emperor but not sure how will go in the drama but probably one of the options you said.

She was kidnapped by the villain prince, using someone from the Feng family (nephew of noble consort, so I believe his cousin technically). He then pretended to 'save' her and wanted to be intimate with her to take her as his concubine, ruin her reputation and hurt Yan Chi. She was saved by Yan Chi, as she was awake the whole time and left clues. As for ML and his father, he wanted his father to relinquish control of the army, as he knew the emperor was suspicious/didn't trust him. But his father wanted to destroy the enemy invaders before relinquishing control. We learn from tomorrow' preview his father is dead, likely killed by the emperor.

Yeh it was the emperor because he refused to hand over control of the army pretty much, pretty much he didn't trust ML's father.

Ikr, I love how quickly Yan Li and Yue Ning resolved their problem so quick. So refreshing.

In the novel it's explained better but still not really explained that well. After the rebellion 20 years ago, the emperor's face was badly scarred and burned, so they rescued the emperor based on his sword, not knowing it's a fake emperor. In the novel the empress does know the truth and its hinted the empress dowager knows, but have no choice but to keep it a secret. As for the CP he was too young to remember his father's face. I'm not sure if the drama will follow this route, but yeh in the novel the empress knows but keeps its a secret. Honestly the explanations not that great on how it was kept a secret in the novel. Looking forward to seeing how they explain it in the show.

Current emperor is an imposter novel wise, but in the novel current crown prince is the son of the original emperor, so technically the throne is rightfully his. Yan Chi is not crown prince because his father isn't emperor and he wasn't appointment by the emperor as crown prince. The current CP is the empress's son.

Ngl I felt so far Yan Chi had been carrying the romance (not in a bad way btw no hate to Qin Wan) but I felt like Yan chi's character was more romantic, but damn that speech by Qin Wan when she's like till death do us part, and for the whole episodes 29-30 where she pretty much already acts like Yan Chi's her husband and says its him or no one else pretty much, so so romantic.

Yeh that's the one thing not sure how it will work out. Because in the novel also, after the rebellion when the emperor was rescued (fake emperor we know) his face was badly burned and scarred, so they couldn't recognize him, just saw the emperor's sword and figured it was him. But in the flashbacks for the show, the emperor's face was not burnt, so they should recognize he was a fake. But idk, hopefully they explain it later if they do follow the novel.

Thank god Yan Li confront Yue Ning on her noble idiocy moment of marrying Yan Zhe. At least they didn't do would other dramas do and make the misunderstanding go on for ages, Yan Li confront Yue Ning and Yue Ning told him her true feelings. Nice to see and hopefully stops at that.