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Finally, the Confession We’ve Been Waiting For After 10 Episodes!

Finally, after 10 episodes, we got the confession we’ve all been waiting for! Serizawa’s group of friends are so supportive, and I absolutely love how they’ve been shipping Serizawa and Suzuki all along. They’re honestly the best group of friends anyone could ask for!Thank goodness the series didn’t end with the confession because we still have one more episode to enjoy their relationship!Honestly, everything would have been so much easier if these two had just communicated their feelings from the beginning and simply said, “I like you” to each other. But then again, if they had done that, we wouldn’t have an 11 episode series full of misunderstandings, longing and romantic tension!I’m really not ready to say goodbye to this series next week. I’ve grown so attached to these two, and I just want more of their sweet moments together. Luckily, we have School Trip Season 2 airing this week to help fill the void!

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Preparing to leave for capital

Lan Xiang is still telling JinQi at every opportunity that she has no intentions of going with him to the capital. Everyone else is happily packing and planning. Yuchan is happy her shop has been doing so well. Mr Han is the good luck charm next door. Everyone wants to buy same supplies he used for luck. She just happens to be the seller of those items.😁 JiuGao is so cute when he puts the flower in her hair, but I laugh out loud when she thinks it’s a bug. 🤣😂 She still sees the mischievous boy and he wants her to see him as a man. When she saw the flower in his hand she softened and agreed to share one with her friend. There is a beggar at the door and when confronted it turns out to be Zhi. Her parents kicked her out when she returned saying she was an embarrassment. Her feet and hands are in terrible shape and LanXiang and her mother assist with soft food and healing steps to thaw her skin and help it heal. Lan Xiang knows she’s been adamant about not going to capital but she plans on telling JinQi she changed her mind after dinner. He did a good job buttering up the parents and acting like a pleasant son in law in the cloak Ms Xu made for him. His gpa call for a meeting in ancestral home and reminds him of the double edged sword working for emperor. He tells JinQi he let all the siblings go so JinQi wouldn’t be rash and do something that could endanger them all. His mind goes to the prince he helped sneak out of the country and gpa wants plausible deniability. He wants no knowledge of whatever it was. He just warns JinQi to think of his responsibilities and to get a further position from emperor rather than closer one. Zhi happens to know where Ji’Er is so LanXiang said she’d head out to capital next morning. Jinqi would have been overjoyed with that news had he bothered to ask her one last time. Instead, he tells her he will make every effort to get reassigned to Jinling as she passes out from being drugged.😝🙄😳🙈 This man, he has no sense of self preservation with her. And to top it off he thinks she has feelings for Han and wants her to understand Han has no part with them. He didn’t even really have a part with LanXiang 😝🙄She’s not about to tell him that because he’s too busy thinking he knows how to make correct decisions for her when he didn’t even make the right choice about a damn robe til the maid informed him of its significance. I think he’s known as a military strategist but his brain turns to sludge with her. Even JiuGao knows he’s failing with the girl and doesn’t want to make the same stupid mistakes. LanXiang wakes up on the ship and calms down when told Zhi is with them. She still hasn’t had a chance to explain why she is heading to the capital. Mr five children guy gives JinQI some husband advice. I don’t know how it will go over with LanXiang but it sure livened things up.🤣😂🔥Preview shows the lovely family sold from Lin house. They seem as awful as ever.😝😡

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Making the Lin residence a home for empty nesters

Jinqi truly does not value his life when he teases her about the bed clothes and sharing a bed. 🤣🫣 He loves her angry look but I don’t think he considered the trade off in greeting the elders. Lan Xiang is being judged, but it’s not due to any words said. She is determined to not say anything at all but simply bow respectfully. This did not go over well with the gma. Jinqi is making moves in the right direction when he changed his clothes to less fancy garb. He understands how important Lan Xiang’s mother is to her and that she should choose the handmade coat from her rather than the fancier one he had YuChan prepped to give her. Here YuChan understood better why not chosen after her friend explained how lovingly stitched her mother’s coat was. That was a lesson for YuChan to remember what’s most important and that LanXiang still remembered even tho lady of the house. LanXiang was touched by her friends saying she had got up before dawn to prepare the fish soup for the elders. It was obviously a lie but the attempt was made. There was much slamming of bowls as tempers rose with each refusal to speak. Jinqi pivoted as much as he could with the situation but finally came down to the bottom line that shut them up and moved things along. He was taking a post for the emperor and would be moving to the capital early before the canal froze. This was a shock to everybody but it worked out as the plans within plans started filing in. Second madam asked for her son to go so he could hopefully find a good match and of course she should accompany. Then there was pleading for XiuWan who has honestly done such a spiritual and character growth since the Du debacle. Gpa was ready to refuse but then JinQi returns with the idea of JiLan going to capital and possibly finding better treatments for his heart condition. As the realization that he’d been set up sunk in, gpa gave the go ahead to all of them considering how quiet the house would finally be. This was a major win for the Lin children. I love the quiet grace XiuRu always shows and now that she is expecting she does not flaunt it to her sister but worries for her staying out in the cold. The Marquis is told to consider them family and the single child now has multiple siblings 😁His days of peace and quiet are certainly gone now.🤣😂 Lan Xiang takes this opportunity to let JinQi know she has no intentions of leaving. She wants to be near her family and serving the elders lets her do that. I am sure JinQi has something up his sleeve but it’s not revealed yet. JiuGao 🤣😂Dude looks like a lady🤣😂🫣😱 poor Nanke got suckered into this walking around town with JiuGao looking quite pretty actually.🤣 He has plotted to appear off the wall when his mother shows up with his would be bride. They can’t leave soon enough and his mom has every right to beat him now.😂🤣 He experiments with the hairpins on his head for which would look good on YuChan. His mother is putting a major kink in his plans to marry her, but he is determined to find a way. He just does not want to pursue the decree route after seeing the aftermath between JinQi and Lan Xiang🤣😂 This time he is wiser than his master is. 😝 His mother and Madame Lin talking and here is where Lan Xiang and JinQi think the unreliable remark is towards her. As did I in the preview.🙄 But I really think she is referring to the bride candidate that ran away and comforting a fellow mom lamenting a unfilial son not listening to his mother. They can honestly sympathize with each other. Lan Xiang and the ever moving dowry boxes.🤣😂 She has made it clear she has no intentions of going but JinQi acquiesces too easily. He has some sneaky plot she is not going to like. If he’s smart he will find a way to include the parents. He even resorted to letting her know Han would also be in the capital. Here she really should find something to beat him with. I will admit to a happy smile when they are fighting over the coat her mom made for him. This I think JinQi will actually appreciate because he knows the loving effort her mom puts into everything she does. One moment of cuteness in the midst of a lot of anger and resentment. 🤣🫣

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Unexpectedly good

This show was not at all what I was expecting. I was expecting the standard weak-guy-prevails-against-adversity story arc. Instead I got the chance to experience one of the most beautiful meditations on violence, pain, and revenge I've ever seen in a TV drama.The idea of "cathartic justice" that the show totes as its main premise is just a veil for its deeper messaging about the endless cycle of despair and retaliation that human beings seem incapable of breaking. Si-eun is framed as a brilliant student who uses his prodigious intelligence to best stronger and more numerous foes. Contrary to my expectations, he isn't just an overpowered MC who always gets saved by plot armor (though let's be real, he does rely on it quite a bit). The beauty of Si-eun's character is that he's the only one who is able to understand everybody's feelings, yet he is powerless to do anything about it. He suffers from human failings just as much as the other characters, so he also perpetuates the cycle of violence, all in the name of upholding his personal standard of justice. In the climax of the show (which I will not spoil, it's really a sight to behold), Si-eun finally understands the limitation of his worldview, as he finally finds a situation where he cannot easily categorize others into heroes and villains. His frustration at how love and bonds of friendship complicate morality is refreshingly human, and a welcome deviation from the usual fare. I can't recommend this show enough.

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