K-Drama 
Yikes. It's pathetic that at this point, the only hope they have is for the ML"s father, who so far in this series has been an absolute idiot whose only approach to problems is to yell and smash things that he doesn't understand. And it's apparent that he doesn't understand much of anything.
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This episode starts off a little rocky with the good guys encountering ... difficulties and not on a good footing. But the Batman Gambit trope comes into play as Zhi Lou. demonstrates her hidden power to dispatch one of the bad guys and a much anguished-over death ... is revealed to be fake.
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After last episode's pleasant couple time moments, this episode starts off immediately with brutal torturing and murder of Chu Xiaoyu by Li Li Lou. Begs lots of questions such as: Why aren't the good guys doing more to protect Xiaoyu? Why didn't they send someone (using the invisibility cloak) along to protect her when she was summoned? This was too obviously a trap she was heading into. And why didn't she just climb along the side rail to avoid the hot coals? And then, when Zhi Lou go to get Xiaoyu's body, why did she go alone? Why didn't Mo Shang go with her? And then how did she get the body all the way back to their safe place? Oh, and don't overlook the stupidity of Li Yan confronting his evil sister. How absurdly stupid his character has to be! I get it. The writers wanted to add a little tragedy to increase the motivation of the good guys and our hate for the bad guys. But the way the tragedy unfolded was just too stupid. This episode is just not well scripted and the events in it are awkwardly rendered.
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This, less eventful episode features the various couples. The romance between Feng Zhi Luo and Chu Mo Shang really heats up, the connection between Li Yan and Chu Xiao Yu gets more flirtatious and Evil Jerk Prince Zhi and Fake Sacred Maiden Li Lou form an alliance. We also get a bonding moment of sisterhood between Zhi Luo and Xiao Yu.
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Feng Zhi Lou finally re-unites with her mother .... and it's just awful and sad. Her mother has been gaslit so badly by Yi Lue and Li Li Lou for 2 decades now, and she doesn't initially believe Zhi Lou is her real daughter and rejects her. It's heartbreaking. Fortunately they eventually get past that. The plot line of how basically Yi Lue and Li Li Lou have treated her mother as nothing but a donor of blood and organs is horrific.
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In all the various fantasy dramas I have watched I would characterize roughly 99% of the 'immortal' type characters - who often have ridiculous power over the lives of other, lesser beings - as completely stupid imbeciles. And the ML's father in this show maintains that batting average, as after what had to be mere weeks of penance, he lets out his proven evil son to go do more harm. What an idiot ruler. But given his earlier behavior in the show, this wasn't surprising. And then the idiot doubles down at the end of the episode by giving the Evil Brother the keys to causing more massive damage.
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At the close of a very busy episode, Feng Zhi Lou finally finds where her mother is and it is heart wrenching for her. Not quite a re-union. That probably is in the next episode. But just the sight of her mother and the realization of what has been done to her breaks Zhi Lou's heart.
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aren't completely surprising. We all kinda could see that there was a fated trajectory involving the FL and the city of Wujing. But the details were interesting. They flesh out some of the parameters of how FL & ML are going to be fully entangled, given the latter's orders by his dad to go get hitched to the 'Lady of Wujing'..
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I got to admit, this was more emotionally impactful than I was expecting. Mostly, the dramatic tone of this show has been lightweight and even at times a bit silly. But a lot seemed to happen in the last couple of episodes to really ramp up the emotional weight of the FL's relationship with her father in a way the new 'innocence' of the now mentally damaged sister and that culminated with this. Combined with the ML being kept away / punished by his nutcase father and the FL's emotional state is getting seriously stressed out, even as she has finally found her true martial arts skills. Overall, this was a very good episode.
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There was a lot to enjoy about this episode. But the overriding theme that just dominated this episode was that: Everybody is stupid. Every single character. Just a constant stream of stupid, idiotic behavior and choices by one character after another. Sometimes this was funny. But other times ... it was just stupid.
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As of Episode 9, both had been reduced to stereotypical unrequitted love trope characters. This episode also firmly establishes both as violent psychopaths. Together with Scarface, there are 3 such violent psychos in the story that need to be dealt with.
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After all the very creative setup for this series, ultimately both the SML ("Kissing Cousin" Byeong In) and the SFL ("Fake So Yong" Jo Hwa Jin) have been reduced to k-drama stereotype 'unrequitted love interest" roles. He is the classic psychopathic, obsessed, possessive stalker-creep type SML who thinks she belongs to him since he has known her since childhood. She is the classic schemer who appears perfect but has always been willing to lie to get ahead and this starts with a childhood lie of stealing the credit (from the FL)for saving the future King. All this is assisted by the drama trope of, "they knew each other as children!". So, after you cut through all the really cool stuff unique to this drama, these basic plots are pretty stereotypical at their core. Still, the delivery is excellent and clever so don't take this as harsh criticism.
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Well, it sort of seems inevitable. At some point, regardless of what 'soul' is inhabiting the Queen's body, the body is (a) that of a female, with all the sensations, hormones and bodily functions of a woman and (b) has the Queens memories stored in the brain's neurons. And smell is one of the strongest triggers for memory so when this body experiences familiar smells it's going to start to recall certain memories!
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Bizarrely, some commenters were 'shipping' the Cousin & the Queen, hard. Are they paying attention to just how much of a psychopath this creep is? He stalks her. Force-kisses her when she was at her most vulnerable and despairing (after which she promptly committed suicide), is almost openly declaring his lust for her after she is married and comes dangerously close to molesting her while she is unconscious! Yikes! What a creepy perverse psycho he is. Another episode filled with LOTS of stuff happening and mostly is another good episode. Downgrading a little because our dear lead, Mr Queen is unconscious and off screen for too much of the episode and we spend too much time on annoying side characters in subplots that, I guess are supposed to be funny but are hard to connect with because the characters act so stupid. And a lot of side-plots seem to regurgitate the same conversation. Example, everyone keeping repeating concern over whether the queen will be deposed. This starts to feel like the show is dragging screen minutes on purpose.
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as we finally learn (confirming what a lot of us fans suspected) that ML is the one who had the Shen family buried. This reveal is very emotional and beautifully rendered as almost a peeling back the surface to expose a deep, gentle and moral side of Lin Jin Qi to Xu Lan Xiang / Shen Jia Lan. She now knows his most dangerous secrets. Next, she needs to reveal hers to him.
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