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it's Foye and Baye!

As a 90s kid, i am ridiculously exicited for the upcoming season. It's embarrasing, but OMG the last season brought back so many memories of my growing up years it was out of this world.

Thanks!

Is this based on a book? anyone has the link to the original - chinese is fine, i dont need the eng translation.

YES. She has a huge ass arc. She's the only villan who made it till the end. hahaha.

This is really LBY's fault to be honest. He didn't want to marry anyone if it wasn't CSS, so he needed a "beard" - someone to keep the king off his back.

So he allowed LJT to hang around him for the entire 5 years he was away. LBY didn't actually say anything to LJT or act in a way which would lead her to believe that he liked her.... she just barged into his house and basically never left. LBY saw an opportunity to make use of her and so he allowed her to stay.

3rd prince had an informat in LBY's retinue (LBY knew him also) and the informant basically told him that LBY had allowed LJT to enter his home.... but 3rd prince never asked the informant whether he thought LBY fancied LJT... so the informant never told the 3rd prince that he didnt think LBY fancied LJT... and this led to another funny scene involving the 3rd prince.

No. The drama has gone off book already.

Wahhhh. This is a difficult question to answer. The 3rd prince does not have an official "wang fei" or wife.... he also doesn't believe in the traditional notion of marriage and love. I use traditional to denote the cultural expectation of men in the age this novel is set in. He believed relationships to be complicated and messy - he isn't referring to male-famale relationships per se but rather the relations that marriage would bring - the clansmen - whom he would be obligated to "give face" to.

He did however keep a "hou gong". So he did have women - multiple, not just 1. But instead of dealing with them in the traditional way, he hired the equivalent of a mamasan to keep them in check. Anybody who made trouble would be dealt with swiftly and without too much drama. The intention was to ensure that his focus could be kept on more important things .... like running the country.

this would be come a contention later on the in novel becaues he tried very hard to get LBY married off to LJT. there was this particularly funny scene where the king, quess (now yue fei) and him are dicussing LBY/CSS and he was basically told that he had no right to interfere in the love life of others until he himself gets married.

So i guess the TL;DR answer would be no.

Even though he's on LBY's side and eventually becomes a good and wise ruler, i could never like him as a character in the novel. I feel as though, had the empress not given up her seat and had the crown prince not voluntarily given up his position, the 3rd prince would have rebelled with LBY and YS in tow. That would not have been a good outcome.

oh wells... all the what ifs running around in my head.

Not the same maid. The drama has already deviated from the novel so i don't think the maid arc will surface this time around. But the maid and LJT are 2 different characters in the novel.

ehhh. it's notttt reallllyyy a redemption per se, but there's a lot of character development coming up.

haha. yes. she gets her just desserts, but there's a whole ass story arc about her in the novels.... be patient!

YS gets better, i promise. he's actually my favourite male character becuase of his personal development.

Yes.

but in essence, totally agree with your prediction.

I may be reading too much into the author's intention, but i think the no-wedding ending in the novel was intentional. In a way, her act of confessing to LBY was significantly more important than any ceremony. It's also - i guess - coming full circle.... acknowledging that sometimes, the substance of a relationship is more valuable than the form it takes (like, chosen family in the king and queen vs her birth family, or love vs marriage - these were all themes explored throughout the novel without being explicitly mentioned).

hahaha. not yet. At this point in the novel she hasnt crossed that boundary yet - they are still advisors. ..... it is pretty much insinuated to the point of no doubt in the novel that she takes them all as lovers after she get married because she hates her husband and her husband is a philanderer.

I agree. The novel doesnt really end in a marriage either.... which i thought was pretty poignant. ...

If the novel is anything to go by, the Crown princess isn't an antagonist in the traditional sense. She doesn't go against CSS - her enemy is her husband's ex-gf and ex-gfs new husband's family. ... but CSS is forced to expose her.... CSS doesn't really get off easy either.

The drama has started to deviate slightly from the novel so im not sure if this is still the case... but in the novel the 5th princess was involved in a financial scandal outside the palace (this has to do with the plot of land that her mother was questioning her about in one of the episodes already released). LBY can't beat the shit out of her, so he reported her to her father in a roundabout way.

This all happens before his exile. A lot more stuff happens before he gets exiled.

The important character during and after his exile is the Luo woman - the one people are saying is super creepy just staring at them?