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i'm done with the 30th ep already so only 5 more left. I'll get comfy tomorrow and binge😭

the thing is I feel like I don't want my obsession to get over quickly so i'm hesitating but at the same time i need to inject more episodes into my veins 😭 i'm going to do it tomorrow

I'm so jealous of everyone watching rn. I've been holding myself back from watching the past few days so I can binge. It's killing me ahhhhhhhhh

I might hate Ji Shuran but she always serves in the looks department. Every outfit of hers is just *chef's kiss* . The costume designer needs a raise for the color selection of her clothes

"If I can afford to lose, she can too" what do you mean??? what does that even mean in the context of that conversation???? help lmfao

These mfs keep talking in riddles, metaphors and double meanings that its giving me a headache. It's so good and I love smart flirting like these but spare me please this is really testing my comprehension skills😭😭

Everyone is being dramatic af. We're probably going to get express for the last 4 eps like we did with Shen Li. They've already edited the latest eps to 40-ish minutes. There's no way they're cutting down full 4 eps. It would make more sense for them to add an extra special ep than cut any.

I was wondering why the actor for Duke Su's grandpa was so familiar and then I realized, Jackie Chan movies!! Karate Kid! Police story!! holy crap how did they get such a big veteran actor like him for a really small guest role???

That would be nice but I want the Jiang family to suffer for what they did to Jiang Li. I want them (especially the father) to feel crushing guilt for abandoning her. I also want XFF to tell them what Jiang Li's last words to her family were.

I think the violent scenes (which really isn't gory or even shown properly) are very jarring for people since c and k dramas are mostly pg 13 and mild. It's quite funny how it doesn't even have 5% of the violence that shows like game of thrones have and yet seems to affect us much more since we're not used to it in c dramas.

I think you might be right. It makes his entire family horrible human beings. I hope they get what they deserve as their end.

Exactly!! You put it so well. There was also something that bothered me in the 1st ep so i just rewatched that scene. When SY says to Wanning he buried her alive, she says he's so cruel to do that, and she was thinking of promoting her to a second wife to serve them forever. He then says Wanning forced his hand since she ordered the mom and sister to ruin her reputation. I almost didn't catch this in the first watch and thought Wanning was being sarcastic and no way he would kill her out of his own accord. But watching it again, I actually think he killed her without being asked to??? Maybe in a way to 'put her out of her misery' since reputation really mattered to her?

Pathetic is right. This one word describes his whole character perfectly

I don't think he would have either. Our girl gave up literally everything she had for him. Sold everything , her qin, her mother's pendant, everything she ever valued just so he could study and enter the palace. If he had even an ounce of respect for her, he would have atleast killed her in a painless way. Seeing him crying and reminiscing only pisses me off.

ep 2!

He's seen her before. Way before everything happened. There's a flashback of that when they meet for the first time in the nunnery

I've been thinking about how cruel Shen Yurong really is. Actually killed his wife to save his own neck in the most horrible way possible. He could've given her poison or even shot her in the heart and it would've been a quick death. But he hit her head with a shovel and buried her alive. And he has the nerve to feel guilty?? He's actually worse than the psycho princess in some ways.

Ya'll weren't kidding about the rain scene omggg. Actually had me kicking my legs and giggling 😭😭

tysm i've been looking for this but couldn't find it at all

The first half was perfect. The second half on the other hand...none of the bad guys' defeat was satisfying after all the shit they put the main characters through. I love me some good and well produced fight scenes too and really looked forward to it here but the ml and fl always seemed way too under-powered. The last ten episodes were so cringey that i couldn't even feel the cringe and could only laugh at how ridiculous some scenes were. This was such a disappointment.