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I am also keen to see how screenwriters will keep this plot running :) it is hard to guess now what will happen in the future. She might not be the main villain after all... but if she still is the one - she is a real deal Black Widow ;) (she was wearing black dress in the ost video that's why that nick name)

when he married her he already had plenty of concubines... She wanted to be a main wife - so as such she took good care of his son and kept all the harem ladies with a short hand. She allowed him to add new ladies into harem and keep his former life style. That's it :)

As Eldest Princes is the main villain - screenwriters are keeping her out of our view - so it will be a surprise when viewers will find out she is sitting in the dark place like a proper spider and weaving the dangerous net and awaiting for the tiniest mistake on FX side.

thats really funny...

I have an impression that best dramas are also the most criticised too... why is that happening? Season 2 is focused on court politics - so some viewers will find it boring - some were expecting much more action or romance - which was never part of the novel. So these viewers will be dissatisfied with S2 when they could still appreciate season 1.
If they could read the novel or the topic about novel vs drama, they would have know that screenwriters already did a good job in terms of replacing/rewriting some heavy and boring arcs from the book.
In season 2 FX is trying to clean up as much of corruption in capitol as Emperor is willing to be done... He has to stay alert all the time as Second Prince is trying to find any opportunity to stop his marriage which will put Neiku into FX hands.
We can see how complicated court mechanisms are and imperial examination arc is just amazing... and personally I am sitting with translator opened on my mobile and watch the latest available episode this way as I can't wait to see what will happen next!
So if someone says this drama is not good enough for them to watch it... what can I say?
Just don't watch it... no one is forcing you to do so
But if you dare to write a review and you believe you are writing an honest one - at least wait till last episode otherwise for me it doesn't count!

I can understand why he is doing that - FX is already powerful official and will become even more as he is going marry Wan'er and take a control over Neiku just after Emperial Examination. Emperor is pretty aware of support given to FX by his shifu as well as a pressure - so he is trying to avoid power concentration in PM's hands and won't allow him to manipulate FX in the future. So PM Lin can't either have such a powerful son in law or can't be PM.

no matter which eunuch did that - it was an Emperor's order as he wanted FX to investigate old imperial exam cheating cases and ultimately make PM Lin to resign from his position and retire to his hometown.

no, he died due to his frivolous life...

Well, he forgot about one thing - its always easy to die from emperors hands but dead man can't do anything anymore for his country, so at his age he should know when to bend a bit and stay alive for a greater good - assuming you don't cherish your life anymore.

knowing emperor - its most likely he did that...
He send the oldest son to the border and raised him up as a general, the guy stays away from court politics and will most likely support father and defend capital in case of rebellion.
now he just needed to make second prince being a threat to CP so both will compete and scheme against each other...
So Emperor now can pull strings when he wants and watch them struggling and ofc to play his own game.

it was either Wu Zhu or Shadow - Gao Da was mimicking to FX that it wasn't his doing but they had to give an explanation to Prince...

it's definitely her mother - so whatever she has told to Wan'er made her crying... I think you can watch Eldest Princes leaving room with Wan'er behind her back on the OST video...

thank you :) I am planning to read the novel after season will finish airing

the best episodes starts just after :) and there will be more interesting plot twists

fair enough :) I do sometimes just for fun ;)

yes, there are some unmarked spoilers unfortunately, so better be careful

and its very good tea apparently too ;)

She doesn't like a lot of dramas and often I found them very good actually... which is ok as everyone has different taste...

Simply GREAT!

Sounds like screenwriters did very good job and spared as some boring plots