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The song Mr. Zeng's wife sings at the end of episode 9 is the same from Coroner's Diary. A muder will happen at any seconds, I can feel it.

I watched until episode 12 and honestly not much changed in those 5 episodes.

That makes sense with only Jin An being the ML. I still wish the story around the romance, not the romance itself, was more interesting. Or maybe if they only want to develop the romance, cut out everything else. I thought about continuing while skipping all other scenes with the empress, ji ran, etc. But I usually only feel like skipping scenes towards the end and this is very early on.

And I'm also excited to watch How Dare You!

As I said, I like the main couple, they are not the problem. But I have not been attached to any secondary character. It's hard to watch a slow burn romance when you don't enjoy the other 30% of the show involving the rest of the characters. The military storyline holding things together is also very shallow. I had the same problem with TPOB. Great leads and chemistry, great group of generals, but awful villains that were just an annoyance with a very basic land conflict.

Sometimes I feel like the writers/producers focus so much on the main couple that they forget the rest of the show also needs to hold our interest.

I'm in episode 12 and I think I'm gonna drop it. I like both leads and do have fun watching a lot of the scenes, but I can never watch more than 1 or 2 epsidoes per day even though I have time to. I keep procrastinating because I just don't care about anyone else or the repetitive main conflict. I was hoping he would get his memories back early on and they would have a back and forth as enemies/allies or something different at least but that's obviously not happening, I know his memories will take a long time to be back yet and the spoilers for the crown prince make me even less excited to watch. It's a shame because Cheng Lei is so great in this, I hope we can see more of his comedic side in his following projects.