Living Tribunal

It's not only in South Korea but in many Asian countries that an older man dating a younger woman doesn't have any social complications, while the opposite is greatly frowned upon.

You will get it in the end of the page.

No one, because Li Chuan gives the throne to his sister. Thus, LR becomes the Empress and rules the kingdom. After that, LC goes north, where he reconnects with QZZ and marries her.

Rather, I feel like she didn't mind SRQ killing her because she thought she deserved it, as her brother was the one who ended the whole Su family. Her gestures and actions towards SRQ do seem to reflect her inner conflict about her emotions towards him.

Oh ok sure. But it didn't have any significant spoilers though.

I just fast-forwarded to the rain confession scene in episode 11, and the writers outdid themselves. It was much better than what was written in the novel. Both characters apologized to each other, rather than just PWX. I was right; the writers toned down LR's aggressive and arrogant nature from the novel. This scene has become one of my favorites in the drama because, in the novel, LR never chased after PWX. Instead, PWX sat in the carriage after his monologue, which in my opinion made him lose his dignity in front of LR.

Actually, there are clear indications even in the drama that she has affections for the SML. For example, see how the ML behaves with QZZ in the drama and how the FL behaves with SRQ. So, it is not wrong to say that she has serious conflicting love emotions for both leads, more for the SML than for the ML.

Watch it; it will be just as fun as this one. The tension and their kisses during the fighting were very good.

Yeah, I have watched the Cunning Single Lady. It was good watch. So, it was a misunderstanding between them, then I will watch the drama and FF the last episodes. Thanks 😊

I didn't watch it because I heard the male lead was super toxic to the female lead with multiple and ridiculous amnesia plots. Is it good? Should I watch it? There are some good second chance romance dramas that I watched like 'The Love You Give Me,' 'Begin Again,' '18 Again,' 'Hospital Playlist' (Both Seasons), 'Go Back Couple,' '20th Century Boy and Girl,' 'Cute Programmer,' 'Emergency Couple,' 'Queen of Tears,' 'Familiar Wife,' 'My Strange Hero.' All of them feature second chance romances; some are decent while others are my absolute favorites. Also, the first two cdramas have cute children.

No he didn't poison her, SRQ did.

As I mentioned, he became delusional and ill after QZZ died, so control of the aristocratic family passed to his sister. The Su Family did betray the king in a conventional sense because Su Ronghua, the eldest son of the Su family, killed QZZ. He had an affair and a child with the queen, Shangguan Ya. To protect his child, he accidentally killed QZZ (while intending to kill her son), so the king wouldn't discover it was his child. In his grief, the king killed every other member of the Su family. Both the queen (SGY) and SRQ were involved in the plan to poison FL because they wanted the illegitimate crown prince (son of Su Ronghua) to ascend the throne and proliferate the Su family, as he was the only one who could.

In the past life, the crown prince ordered SRQ to kill her because he became delusional after the death of his concubine, QZZ, and feared the power possessed by both her and PWX, believing her to be power-hungry. He was dying, and he did this so that the kingdom wouldn't become unstable due to infighting.

No, she won't if the drama follows the novel then Li Chuan will get married to Qin Zhen Zhen at the end and the siblings also has a very good relationship with no misunderstandings between them in this life.

He did kill her in the novel though.

Yeah me too at that point! 🥺

Yeah, no issues, it happens. We just had a miscommunication. Actually, when I read the novel about 1-1.5 years ago, it quickly became my favorite because second chance romances are my favorite genre. I even thought that as there was no physical cheating involved by the main characters, just misunderstandings, I really liked both of them. Even the translator at that time didn't translate chapter 170 because he knew it would make readers hate the FL. When I reread the novel just before the drama aired, I stumbled upon chapter 170, so I'm pretty conflicted about how I feel about the FL. Commenting on this page has become a way for me to cool off. It's also why I'm waiting for this drama, because due to strict Chinese censorship, they will not show scenes like that, unlike American shows where they would surely include it.

Your opinions are your opinions, and don't think I can change that, so I will not reply after this comment because you are not understanding my point, even though you said you have read the novel. You mentioned in your previous comment that emotional
attachment is not cheating, so I
don't think the point applies to the ML as well. It is clearly written in the novel, with glimpses of FL kissing SRQ and doing other intimate gestures such as oral s*x, as seen in chapter 170 of the novel. So it is called cheating whether penetration is involved or not.

Even when everyone else used her, the ML never used or abused her at all in the entire novel, whether in the past or present. Yes, he made mistakes, even significant ones, but the one thing he never did was use her; it was always a mutual partnership for gains between them. There are several lines in the novels from FL's perspective where the FL acknowledges that the ML never did anything bad to her and always told her the truth. And even if she was used by everyone for political purposes, it still doesn't make sense for her to cheat, right? Two wrongs can never make a right.

I never said it was in the drama. It was in the novel where I read it. And from what I know of C-drama censorship, even if it was filmed, it would never pass the censor. But as the drama is based on the novel, it should be considered canon, and not everything can be shown on screen as it was in the novel. Dramas have to follow more strict regulations, so I don't think we will get proper intimate scenes between LR and SRQ. However, if the makers are smart about it, they will imply it through various small gestures.

Penetration is not the only way to cheat. Emotional attachment and doing intimate things like kissing or oral s*x can also be considered cheating, so I don't know why you are saying that she didn't cheat if you read the novel. She could have divorced the ML and even gave him two options after learning about ML and QZZ: either divorce her and lose everything he has achieved, or become her partner. Also, I don't remember her being condemned to 20 years of solitude. If she was and I forgot, even then she had other options to divorce before cheating.