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Acting is decent. There are worse. Story is great. Script is not bad. Both main characters are not your normal nice and kind characters. They are manipulative and very grey.

FYX knows ZHY killed her foster parents, but he didn't arrest her. Instead he returns the only evidence, her hair pin, to her. With this knowledge, he uses it to, kind of, blackmail her to give him information on what has been transpired between her mother and Yuwen Chang An who was her mother's lover before she married to the current husband.

Apparently the mother also found out that the downfall of the Ruan family (her mother's family) could be related to the husband, ZHY being sent away from birth, her mother's maimed legs etc, are all committed by the father. So she hated him biggly.

Now all her mother's nastiness towards ZHY is just an act to deter her not to come home. She (the mother) is planning some thing and doesn't want the daughter to get hurt. So far so good?

For a moment I thought he was getting up, and then he went for it. Brave boy :D

Don't take it too seriously, I was just teasing. Yes, I agree, he could be stiff at times. Until now, we still don't know who was responsible for his wife's death. We stipulated earlier that Zhuang Shi Yang tried to poison him but killed his own daughter instead. Probably he knows Zhuang Shi Yang is the villain, his concubine and children are bad too, so he has no qualms when they were to be executed as long as Zhuang Han Yan survives. As for Ruan Xi Wen, she was adamant to bring down everyone except her own daughter, there's nothing much Fu Yun Xi could do. What do you think of this explanation?

Ahh... Our time at Goodbye My Princess 🥰 How are you my dear? Long time no see. Nice to see you here.

Did she brush it off? It was him telling her that it's an accident, obviously not 😁

Why don't you like the ML? Not pretty enough? I like faces like ML's 🤣

We get our chop today 😀

Not only she got the badge, she managed to fool FYX's other side kick to take her to the place. That's really funny.

hahaha! Good call. That feels a lot better 😁

There could be other reasons to kill his father, but as of now, this is how I interpret the killings.

Killing his own father allows him to be the head of household. That's a big deal. As head of household, he has all the control. He could dictate which house to live in etc.
To kill FL, is to control his wife, Ruan Xi Wen. To save her daughter, she agrees to have her legs maimed, never to walk again, and to have her daughter sent away, at least she's alive. This is to separate her from her daughter so that she is all alone, no one could help her. Also, with Zhuang Han Yan "captive" in a place only he could access to, Ruan Xi Wen is under his mercy. She can't simply do anything against him even if she wants to because he's holding her daughter to threaten her.

It's very likely that he's the one behind all the killings: killing of Ruan Xi Wen's family, killing of his own father, attempted killing of Zhuang Han Yan, maiming Ruan Xi Wen, killing of his oldest daughter (Fu Yun Xi's wife), killing of Fu Yun Xi's father etc etc. There could be more killings we don't know yet. He's a monster.

They are never enemies though she's tried to kill him to silence him, and he keeps twisting her arms to extort info from her. They respect each other, at the same time, they have their loved ones to protect while seeking the truth. I think after episode 14, they are going to work together. So the up coming wedding could be a marriage of convenience, for now at least. We are already seeing the sparks flying everywhere. So whether it's for convenience, it's more like an excuse as both are too proud to admit they have fallen for each other 😊

The concubine and her half siblings are just a distraction. The siblings are annoying but they are not the real villains. Their mother are more vicious but she's the knife, not the person holding the knife.

What I understand is totally different from yours on the same scenes, not saying you're wrong. All she wants is a home, her home, not a home given by someone else with no blood relationship. She wants to understand why her mom behaves like this and keeps chasing her out. She's got the answer. She knows her mom loves her and tries to protect her. She doesn't want to lose her mom just like that without spending much quality time with her. She has been yearning for her mother for 17 years. That's enough for her to help her mom back.
On the other hand, she isn't so sure about the father, but for a second, she thought her father still concerns for her when he told her that he was the one making her favorite mung bean cake and sent it to her in the south. But then, various evidence shows her that her father is not what he seems to be. For a starter, he let his concubine do her and her mother harm. Then of course she finds out that he could be the person behind his own father's death. Putting all these together, it's hard to want her to be her father's daughter because there's too much coincidence pointing a finger at him, all negatively, and she doesn't know him at all in the first place. Clever as she is, she knows she can't trust what others want her to see.
I don't know about you, but daughter and mother have unspoken link than daughter and father.

I don't feel they are enemies at all. She tries to kill him because she wants to survive. He twists her arm to try to squeeze info from her. They don't hate each other, rather, they respect each other.

Yeah, in episode 14, his tail is beginning to show. Look at his expressions when he asks Zhuang Han Yan to pay tributes to the ancestors. These are the most dangerous characters.

Yes, the meaning of those gifts are so deep, only if they could get it.

Listening to her mom means let her mom die. Would you do that?