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Are you talking about the end of My Mister? His wife goes to live with her son, so they are effectively apart and so that is why the meeting with IU has a hint of promise.

I watch a lot of the youtube videos of he Legend of the Female General.

If you haven't seen it already, Rise of Her Lady Physician (2025) alo has a stong FL and supportive ML. But the romance takes a back seat in that one.

The Old Madam of the Li Family (Zhao Qingru) has a son. ep. 4 7:28 she refers to him as Jinxu, but the cast doesn't list his name. This MDL cast list is very incomplete. The maids aren't listed either. The two concubines are a strategic alliance with the (powerful?) Tang and Qin Families. Ep. 3 3:43 alludes to a conflict (with Yanchu? or the concubines jockeying for position within the Li Mansion?) as the ML was discussing with Vice Gen. Shu after leaving Yaochu during the first wedding night. He had to let her in as her position in the Shen Family is precarious and she might not survive. and "The Tang and Qin Family are already involved." No need to drag a helpless woman in. He thinks of Yanchu threatening him with her hair pin. No she is not helpless.

Parted as an infant she probably has no idea who her real Mother was. You are right, What threat did the addled minded Mother pose to anyone in the Li Mansion. Alive she could have been used to put pressure Yaochu. Her death doesn't seem to have put caution or real fear in Yaochu. Alive, she wouldn't be a strong ally. I suspect she saw something and that person needed to silence her. I keep thinking about Guanyin Nunnery. If so, then why poison the Banker. Was it concerned with the forged banknote? Did he frequent a brothel?

Very late to the party but Ruoyu doesn't connect with with the ML. She connects with another character. She goes abroad and at the end returns to the company. But the guy she is with is kind of a jerk. She ends up at a higher position than him, so his pride may not allow him to reconnect with her.
For some reason I can't find it anymore so this us from memory.

For me I liked her in You Complete Me and Winter Nights. This one not so much.

I also enjoyed that. This reminds me in part of The Substitute Princess's Love (2024)

Li Jingchuan's sister Li Xingwan is adopted. Shen Yaochu's younger sister Shen Yunge was given away as an infant said to be a brothel by her Stepmother. Xingwan and Yunge may be the same person. Xingwan was supposed to be at the Guanyin Nunnery where Yaoachu's Mother was poisoned. She is very affectionate with Jingchu and being an adopted sister may be playing the long game.

Their relationship is still guarded and standoffish. One tries to get close and the other rejects and vice versa. And the Li Mansion and the inner harem is complicated. Battlefield enemies are an open book by comparison.

Episode 6 1:48 General Li offered to bring the Mother to the Li Mansion, but Shen Yaochu decline. Saying the Li Mansion is too complicated. So the Mother was probably returned to Guanyin Nunnery. But what happened to the men who were supposed to be protecting her?

If this is the first time seeing her. Amy Sun was kinda the same character in The Resilient Dr. Ling (2024) but that throat grabber ML could have been written better. She was the BF in Love in a Loop (2022) but her nicest comedic drama was The Blessed Bride (2022) Smart but silly. Her maid is a gem, too. To understand the ending, see the conversation with her maid in the carriage just before.

kisskh uploaded the final episode yesterday 5 jan 26

Yes basis idea and characters, but different interpretation. The beginning is pretty funny.

Friendship with Chu Qiu. Arm holding friendship. Ep. 30 37:35.

The actor Zheng He Hui Zi is listed as a guest role. The comments generated about her acting compared with Ju Jingyi caused her to issue an apology. Zheng He Hui Zi was the FL's bodyguard in Wonderland of Love. (2023) She was Luo Ning in Song of the Moon (2022) She supported her lover by holding him from behind in the final battle and both were stabbed by a force sword. But the after scene seems to show them being reborn. The drama that she was the FL was Ugly Beauty, (2021)

Watched until ep. 9 and peeked at ep. 20. This drama is engaging and the three main characters are doing fine. The brother seems to have the greatest arc. Wonder what his fate will be.

Ep. 8 when they were taking the photos and he was very close they seem to show him falling for her. And at the candle lit table, her eyes flutter when she looked at him.
XinTong comes across as assertive/pushy but I suspect it come froms growing up in an orphanage. Be interesting to se the romantic version of her. EP. 8 was sweet. Ep. 9 felt a little cringy, But the series is still good. This drama charts its own course after initially looking like A Business Proposal.

Julia Xiang did very well. She is building on her portrayals as a strong female.

Some pretty funny moments. In ep. 3 at the window when she knows not enough and he knows too much.