Is the sister he was looking for a blood relative or someone else’s child that he was close with? Could Duanwu…
DW is not his sister because she wasn't born yet when his parents were killed. I remember DW's mother was pregnant. YZJ's sister was already born at that time.
This is very unlikely now. The modern Chinese censorship dept discourages dramas from promoting certain themes and practices including marriage between maternal, blood related, cousins even though it was acceptable in the past in reality.
Zijing knew about the “lost shipment” of pearls. In fact, my bet is it wasn’t even in transit. The sample…
He's most likely a real merchant; otherwise it would be hard to trick CSJ. He WAS selling HEPU pearls, but those pearls were provided to him by YZJ to trap CSJ.
It's not Lusi. More scenes were shown in ep 7 or 8 that Lusi's mom was pregnant with her when the bandits raided their campsite, stole the valuable tributes, and killed ML's father.
I also like this setup more because if FL's were the daughter of ML's family maid/servant, in historical time, it would be frowned upon for him to marry her because of the big gap in class. Not that he cares if he really loves her, but I don't think the author would set it up like this so be more inline with cultural heritage and practice of the olden days.