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huayong knew exactly who xihe was from the very beginning. she is incredibly intelligent. she can be kind, but she is often cold and not physically affectionate. she is not in it for the romance, only mutual benefits. and he *LIKES* all of this about her. when he pursued her and married her, he accepted who she was and agreed to her terms (although he keeps crossing her boundaries, but that is a story for another time.)

i want him to melt her icy exterior as much as the next person, and we can see that slowly but surely happening already, but it's obviously not going to happen over night. i am tired of the narrative that she owes him and must love him back immediately just because he loves her. at the end of the day, love shouldn't be a currency and it definitely shouldn't be shackles. if she decides to never romantically accept him, that is her right. again... he. agreed. to. it!!

i don't understand the people who are upset at her for staying true to the person she told him she was. seeing comments shaming her for not sleeping with huayong and giving him a baby is so weird. women don't owe anyone their bodies, they're not incubators for your offsprings, and they certainly don't owe you their hearts.

I see, I see. that is good then. at least the separation won't be too long and the angst won't be too much. thank you for answering my questions!

does she know that he faked his own death? or does she really think he died?

ohhh i see. i must have missed that info. i kept seeing the subtitles mention the other princes' birth order, but not the crown prince's, so i was confused. thank you for answering!

is the crown prince supposed to be the eldest? he looks younger than most of the other princes lol.

phew, okay. that is a relief. thank you!

is the novel a happy ending?

very excited for this one. love meng ziyi especially when she plays sassy characters!

sometimes, it really does feel like we are all watching a different drama lol.

mo jingli might not have been a monster from the beginning, but he was far from innocent. even before people started dying because of him, he was cunning and selfish. as a kid, he purposely got closer to ye li at the academy so he could use her familial connections to gain more political power. treating a person who was kind to you as a chess piece so that you could get ahead? that is the start of a villain, imo.

as an adult, mo jingli killed innocent people and burned down cities all in the name of the throne. these are the very people and places he was supposed to protect if he wanted to be a ruler. he is a narcissist who uses others and feels no remorse for those who gets hurt because of him. this is the kind of person you want as an emperor?

also, mo jingli's servant advised him to work with mo xiuyao once, and he said no, because he was bitter that ye li was mo xiuyao's wife (mind you, ye li and mo xiuyao only ended up together because mo jingli broke off his engagement with ye li first.)

that is the kind of person mo jingli is. in what world would ye li and mo xiuyao agree to be his ally?

these are my exact thoughts too. also, this director is the same one from ashes to crown, so I don't feel very confident in his ability to do the story justice with just 24 episodes. but I am a big fan of tian xiwei so I will tune in just for her.

from my pov, he was trying to distance himself from her because he was losing his eye sight. she has always told him she wanted a life of luxury and for her future partner to pamper her. he was becoming blind, so he didn't want to hold her back with his impairments. it was his way of letting her go, thinking that she wouldn't want to be with him now he can no longer take care of her.

mo xiuyao's father and the current emperor's father were brothers by blood, making xiuyao and the emperor first cousins. mo jingli is a generation after both of them.

i'm currently catching up on the last 11 episodes, and damn guys... because of spoilers from tiktok, i already knew what was coming, but ep32 still managed to make me cry. idk how some of you did it, watching only one episode a day while it was airing and having to let that angst linger until the next day. 😭

that is good to hear because I cannot stand who he currently is as a person. 🥲

thank you for responding. I'll look forward to the later episodes then lol.

genuine question lol...

I'm on ep10 atm, and I'm quite surprised by the amount of love people have for ye xian in the comment section. for me, he's currently the most annoying and entitled character. he has a lot of screentime, and every time he shows up, I just want to skip his scenes.

do people like him because his character will grow into someone more likable in the future episodes or do people only like him because they think the actor is cute?

omg I can't wait to see it lol. hopefully he gets everything he deserves... along with everyone who has ever wronged our couple. 🙏

omg... i know its fiction, but that still makes me feel sick. poor ye li. he is complete trash. 😭

he r*pes her in the novel???

mo jingli's backstory is tragic, but he IS a villain lol. ye li and mo xiuyao have only killed people who have hurt / killed those that they loved. mo jingli will kill even the innocent and righteous as long as he gets the upper hand. is that not the definition of a villain?

as for breaking off the engagement to "save ye li", if you are going to do something for the sake of someone, commit to your decisions until the end. he discarded her to "protect" her, then when she is with someone new, he gets jealous and keeps clinging onto her even though she has told him a hundred times that she is not interested in him and wants him to leave her alone. he constantly tries to emotionally manipulate her with "if you leave, i'm going to hurt / kill myself" antics... so toxic. gives me the ick.

yes. most definitely. 😪