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Last 5 episodes so boring I fell asleep 3 times and had to rewind. I was mad I couldn’t find an option on iQiyi TV app to watch at 1.5 or 2x speed 🫩

One is her step mother, and the other is her birth father. They are both part of the murder of her mother, which she has been aggressively investigating and punishing people involved. They are also both evil! In this particular instance they tried to kill her while she was on the way to the wedding to replace her with her second sister as the bride, and presumably the hired thug murderers would have gotten rid of the body and they would have some story about how she ran away and made second sister take her place or something…

If this was anything like real ancient China then the new bride would have an “accident” on the wedding night where she “died in her sleep” and the groom would be able to marry again after the mourning period to a woman he either wanted to marry or of a more advantageous clan LOL

Killing her secretly before the wedding failed so in the moment this was the only thing they could do in front of the huge crowd to save face.

It was also a way to humiliate her (it is a huge thing to go from being legitimate wife to concubine) and keep her from marrying another powerful family and coming for them. If she was a concubine she would be under the thumb of the legitimate wife, the second sister.

The watchdog tells SR at the end of the episode he revealed the Emperor’s secret mission so QY needs to die. But he didn’t really? He never says anything like “the Emperor told me to protect your father so we can root out the big evil behind him”… all he does is lawyer his way around it by telling her that he is working big picture of the overall goal of avenging his family + instating the proposal that got his father killed, rather than focusing on individual people for revenge since that could work against that, and that he is sorry for breaking her trust because of that. Did I miss something? Or is this just some bait and hook set up for obvious plan of fake SR death + watchdog dude going to Villain He to suck up / win his trust to try to secretly get dirt on him, as the trailers suggest?

Confused about this part of Ep 24:

I’ve only seen Zhou Ye in Word of Honour where she is very animated and cute so her performance in this drama has been really confusing for me 😅

I don’t think anyone clued her in on the part of the plan that involved killing her and she’s mad af about that

Don’t forget that in addition to having to deal with harem politics, women had to disable themselves by binding their feet 🫩 It was recent enough that my great-grandmother had bound feet. It’s a dirty and disturbing part of our history.

So is this a 30 act play set in the Xie family receiving room or

His entire character arc seems to be about wanting what he can’t have:
-when they meet she’s the only girl not fawning over him. I think she glances, he doesn’t even register as interesting enough to stop for, and keeps walking 😂
-his parents don’t want them to be together and keep locking him up
-she is even obviously into another guy
-he keeps proposing and she keeps being like …

She is just a beautiful forbidden fruit to him. The ultimate prize would be to get her to marry him and get her to fall in love with him.

Ran out of budget and decided to treat it like a theatre play with a limited number of sets, with this one used the most 😂

They are too alike! Even she is obsessed with 4th Lady 😂 She even tried to take her away because of her beauty 😂😂😂

Is it confirmed the marquis only has the one wife? It does seem like they have a love marriage.

“Qingyuan, there are people that are dying”

It’s a historical cdrama trope! The half-sister or step-sister that is suuuper rude to the FL and plots/schemes against her 😂

If they hadn’t cast a handsome actor the discourse would be COMPLETELY different and everyone would be yelling about what a creepster the SML is 😬😅

After the dad showed up I realised the FL’s smarts and scheming are inherited from him 😬 Except she uses them for good and he uses them for evil 😮

Girl ain’t dodging bullets he’s throwing a whole-ass man at the gun to save her

I dunno I think this lady just loooves her some scalding hot tea drama and she knows there’s always gonna be a good show when this guy shows up 😂