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I feel ya. A lot of shows become quite draining mentally and emotionally. After watching enough drama series you pretty much "know" the general plot devices and just want to fast forward all the up and down bs to the ending haha.

yea death flags all over the place for Fu Rou's little brother and sister. I'm gonna guess either one or both will die by the end.. they're in some risky business right now.

yea nothing good comes from imperial palace lol. this must be the part from the series trailer where she goes to prison

@Alma, these are arranged marriage btw.. the parents (mostly head mom) decides what goes on. remember, the first time they all went to Xu family for the "party" it was to test which one of the sisters would be mature/smart enough to replace the oldest sister once she passes away. The 2nd sister failed the test when she left the music performance for the "distraction" that the older sister offered. Shiyi stayed behind to watch the play and was then led by the oldest sister to witness the scheme to make Qiao lianfeng a concubine (ruining her reputation). That's really how 2nd sis ended up being arranged to marry Wang. other than telling her to runn away (which shiyi tried).. shiyi wouldn't have been able to help her 2nd sis get out of the marriage in anyway.

I think at the end of 34 her 2nd sis told her husband that she had ran away from their marriage before. This furthers his misunderstanding that she's only good to him to repay his kindness and lessen her guilt of stabbing him etc. beginning of 35 she told him sorry for hurting him and she didn't want to lose him then they made sweet love lol.

I think you need the subs asap lol. he actually confessed to her husband that he did in fact liked shi yi but had given up pursuing her after finding out she is married. I think he's well mannered enough to be telling the truth and has been only helping her afterwards as a friend. (he probably still has feelings but from what he said to her husband, he's not pursuing those feelings)

I finished the show but it's so annoying; this includes most of the characters and the plot. The theme of "self-sacrifice" was so overused... everyone and their mothers had multiple moments where they "sacrificed" themselves in order to try to resolve a situation on behalf of another character.. but only to end up creating an even bigger mess.
One true solution = Kill Weishang Yan. This dude was exposed as the final boss behind EVERYTHING like half-way into the show and every character had infinite chances to kill him and be done with it but somehow they all end up following his plans or making deals with him.. which only helped to further his own plans. Nobody actually kills him in the end.. lol wtf.
The "heroes" in this show didn't do anything heroic at the end.. The emperor, ling long, her father.. were having fcking dinner and long chats all while knowing the city of pingting was being ravaged by evil souls. like bruh c'mon.

The show premise was good but the writing and direction it took was not. We went in a circle and achieved nothing.

yea before his 1st wife passes away she had a plan to have one of her sister (ends up being FL) be married into the family as an legal wife to look out for her son, she also made it so Qiao Lian Fang who was the biggest threat to become the next wife could only come into the family as a concubine. legal wife is in charge of all the shiznits in the house so it was important for his 1st wife to do all that to keep her son's future in good hands.