Can't wait. This is my favourite webtoon, and Joy is my favourite female idol. And everybody looks just like their character, I've truly hit the jackpot.
I actually thought he'd at least realised she wasn't who she said the day she mentioned how Han was gonna rebel…
Yes, with all the skills she portrayed, you'd think he'd be questioning some of it at least. How would a simple slave girl understand all the (like you said) 5D chess politics? In the beginning he seemed so smart but really after he fell in love with her, his brain was only occupied with winning her over. When he brought her to the Shen grave, I thought he had finally figured it all out without our knowledge haha. I'm really surprised the mentioned of the time of her birth didn't just went of his head as usual. Personally, I think her secret is very obvious now, with all the information he got.
There was no need to mention India in that scene. Such an unnecessary filler. Racist in my opinion.
Totally agree with you. People tend to write it off as "your own problem" and whatever, because they just refuse to criticize something that they take pleasure in. It's easier to say (gaslight) that the offended is just acting like a victim and looking for fault where there is supposedly none, instead of acknowledging the harmful perpetuation of stereotypes and other continued racist behaviour. It doesn't seem like a problem to ignorant people. For them, racism is only ever loud, aggressive, obvious. It's never systemic, never passive, never clothed into a "harmless little anecdote" (which it obviously wasn't; he was teasing her with a "joke"). It's only obvious to people who were willing to be educated, and to see that most daily life is just the perpetuation of different kinds of discrimination. And that it's rarely the problem of the individual and more often the result of societal education, systems, and upbringing. And it's obvious to people who have sadly learned to see the issues because they've been forced to by life long experience. They didn't think about it; they think it's funny and harmless; because at the end of the day, the target audience is Chinese, not Indian - not the butt of the joke. But it doesn't change the fact that it was racist. It was unnecessary. Could've been done differently, could've been a self-depreciating joke.
I’m actually getting angry at the amount of people defending ML’s tyrannical actions, like “why are you…
yeeess, and would you defend him if he wasn't the ML? if maybe the scholar had been her love interest, and we knew that she'd come to like him with time? The narrative is that this is a romance drama, so of course she'll fall in love with Jinqi and everything doesn't seem as bad and hopeless to the VIEWER, but for Lan Xiang??
I’m actually getting angry at the amount of people defending ML’s tyrannical actions, like “why are you…
omg I said the exact same thing a few days ago, and though people didn't necessarily argued with me, they still agreed more with someone who said that for the relationship to work someone had to cross the boundary and I was just .... ?? what kind of excuse it that?
Usually the wife lives in with the husband's family so that would defy logic. Besides it seems like it was a rush…
yes, but usually they also marry within their class, so I mean, I guess he asked them to join in ep29, but I understand that they woulnd't want to drop their newly life to follow and bother their rich in-laws.
But I believe this can be quite historically accurate, especially considering the practices of the time
Historically accurate that the wife (and even the husband) is unhappy - yes. That the families (who usually decided a marriage for their own gain without reconsidering their children) are unhappy - probably not so often.
I just can't bring myself to like ML because of this. Some comments say that ML prepared himself for the consequences, but did he? It felt like he didn't even consider how unhappy this marriage could make her. He disregarded any feelings she has and may had, and put himself above her. He'd also had to know how difficult it would be for her to now be the wife of the household she worked for. How the older generation of his family would potentially never accept her. How she'd be forever looked down upon. How she'll have to fight for her dignity every single day now. How difficult it also would be for her family to view her as equal. How she'd be the talk of every social gathering from now on. I just pity our FL so much. She's been through so much and she was working so hard to have a free and happy life in the proximity to her parents. Now all of it was taken from her. I'm eager to see how she'll eventually fall for him, I'm hoping it's good enough, that even I can turn a blind eye (doubt it though), and how she'll convince everyone of her worth. I just hope, that his family starts to accept her before the truth about her background comes out.
News 
Let me be in your proximity and lean on you, but don't touch me!
When he brought her to the Shen grave, I thought he had finally figured it all out without our knowledge haha. I'm really surprised the mentioned of the time of her birth didn't just went of his head as usual. Personally, I think her secret is very obvious now, with all the information he got.
People tend to write it off as "your own problem" and whatever, because they just refuse to criticize something that they take pleasure in. It's easier to say (gaslight) that the offended is just acting like a victim and looking for fault where there is supposedly none, instead of acknowledging the harmful perpetuation of stereotypes and other continued racist behaviour.
It doesn't seem like a problem to ignorant people. For them, racism is only ever loud, aggressive, obvious.
It's never systemic, never passive, never clothed into a "harmless little anecdote" (which it obviously wasn't; he was teasing her with a "joke"). It's only obvious to people who were willing to be educated, and to see that most daily life is just the perpetuation of different kinds of discrimination. And that it's rarely the problem of the individual and more often the result of societal education, systems, and upbringing. And it's obvious to people who have sadly learned to see the issues because they've been forced to by life long experience.
They didn't think about it; they think it's funny and harmless; because at the end of the day, the target audience is Chinese, not Indian - not the butt of the joke. But it doesn't change the fact that it was racist. It was unnecessary. Could've been done differently, could've been a self-depreciating joke.
The narrative is that this is a romance drama, so of course she'll fall in love with Jinqi and everything doesn't seem as bad and hopeless to the VIEWER, but for Lan Xiang??
I mean, I guess he asked them to join in ep29, but I understand that they woulnd't want to drop their newly life to follow and bother their rich in-laws.
Some comments say that ML prepared himself for the consequences, but did he? It felt like he didn't even consider how unhappy this marriage could make her. He disregarded any feelings she has and may had, and put himself above her. He'd also had to know how difficult it would be for her to now be the wife of the household she worked for. How the older generation of his family would potentially never accept her. How she'd be forever looked down upon. How she'll have to fight for her dignity every single day now. How difficult it also would be for her family to view her as equal. How she'd be the talk of every social gathering from now on.
I just pity our FL so much. She's been through so much and she was working so hard to have a free and happy life in the proximity to her parents. Now all of it was taken from her.
I'm eager to see how she'll eventually fall for him, I'm hoping it's good enough, that even I can turn a blind eye (doubt it though), and how she'll convince everyone of her worth. I just hope, that his family starts to accept her before the truth about her background comes out.