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ironically or not i dropped the Thai version,…

ironically or not i dropped the Thai version, but saw enough of the start to notice that this was something i knew when i started watching this... hope this isn't as annoying & have to drop it too. but this is very short so wont be too bored/annoyed & as am watching while this is airing that's another plus cause then can watch it as a palate cleaner & not have to binge watch & then it will be overly annoying. **************************************************************************************************************a lot of character's & other then the mains how the other character's r gonna be paired idk (as i didn't watch the Thai version) so will have to watch & see. cute, even though i hope Hinata loses his 'people pleasing' ways ASAP cause that's gonna get old fast - already did in this ep...

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Unrequited love, undercover mission and crimes of Zenan District

I really enjoyed the focus on second leads in this episode. The undercover mission, being imprisoned together, taking care of each other, trying to escape — all of that letting them learn more about each other and bringing them closer… 🥹✨ I loved the choice of their cover names — Lin went with Cui ErGou and Cui went with Lin TieNiu. So clever and funny! 🤭But there’s something illegal going on in Zenan District, where the guards are arresting shabby-looking people for reasons only they know, sentencing them to imprisonment but then “releasing” them the next day because, I quote, "cells are too full". I bet they choose only those who don't have any relatives or anyone close to them in the military or government to avoid unnecessary trouble and investigation into their disappearance… 🫣😟And that’s why they wanted to kill Qi Pei, the gravely injured boy in Gudu Garden. I wonder who is behind the slavery in the mines — but as always, the only person with suspicious deeds mentioned is Noble Consort Rong, though I can’t really overlook Prince Ding and his consort Li YanHui as they also have some secrets no one is really telling anything about yet. 🤔But, uff, the bedroom scene with XiHe and HuaYong — so intense and electrifying! And their lines? 🔥🔥🔥After she hesitates to drink the medicine he has brought, him asking her if he should feed it to her with his lips, her telling him she never yields to threats, and then him leaning in until he can feel her breath on his face, whispering:“I have been very restrained. I don’t want to offend you, nor do I want to despise you.” 🫣😏Then her saying his name and him leaning in for that kiss, but her turning her head away at the last moment. Then him trying to insult her out of his own disappointment:“Commandery Princess Zhaoning, who always prioritises the big picture, abandoned me to choose another. But who else is a better match for you than me, who has a legitimate imperial descent and a short life expectancy?” 😏Then her starting to lean in toward him, and him leaning back while her gaze is locked on his, their faces as close as they can be, feeling each other's breath on their skin:“Legitimate imperial descent can be changed. Whether your life is short or not can be orchestrated.” 😳🤭Welcome to XiHe’s unrequited love club, HuaYong! 😂👏👋

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Mystic Nine strategy and mystery creature

As the meeting comes to order blame gets tossed at Zhang QiShan for not finding whatever the Japanese did and losing Wu. Huo looks a bit guilty because she has the item. Chen picks up annoyance factor after general’s departure. This actor is very good at playing self righteous annoying characters. He did this in Paper Dreams in Ink too. Zhang QiShen finally gets their full attention reminding them what will be lost if the Japanese succeed. So now that the childish taunts can be thrown aside they ask how to assist. It is agreed that merchants and informants will garner intel and Ban will assist navigating the underground waterway. This is most likely how they escaped undetected from the tower. Xie agrees to continue dealing with General Huo. Zhang and Huo have a chat where she reveals Ding QianSui as her contact. She acknowledges supplies her clan purchased and that she learned he was colluding with the Japanese and now has her clan implicated. When asked what she found, she did not disclose. She wants to know what she’s dealing with to not be used as a pawn. She made it clear she was tired of that role from all of them. Zhang is candid that he gave her this time to talk as a colleague but that if anything became public he would be forced to deal with her in a military fashion with no mercy. She understands the terms and leaves to assist with the search for Wu. Qi mentions the picture of otherworld patriarch and hair. He noticed such a person visited his father, but he doesn’t know where she came from or where she went. Qi is good with ambiguous supernatural details. Zhang QiShan wants to target Ding QianSui because he believes the eunuch is backed by the Japanese and Americans which is giving him a stronghold in China. I gotta say I am hoping Zhang is successful in wiping out that old lech—the sooner the better.😝😡 Xie is left to greet the general when he wakes up and calmly tells him why mystic nine visited and how Zhang had admonished them and guards for oversight. General Huo is left to reprimand his men as he sees fit while Xie leaves early as not feeling well. General Huo is advised to rest well so he doesn’t become ill.😝 In the divination hall Qi is pouring through notes on the hair statue. The woman with the lustrous hair is traced to the Xishan monastery. Qi leaves a letter and preps to go. General Huo is tattling on the mystic nine like a bested bully. 😝🤣🙄The top ministry of war leader respects the mystic nine but acknowledges their days are numbered. Xie and Chen have a chat about that very thing. Xie is already well aware that General Huo is desperate to cut ties and that mystic nine will be ended because they no longer have a reason to exist. However, Wu gives them a new variable that changes things. The scene changes to Caopan Mountain where Wu is being held. Hatoyama says they have a creature they want him to tame. His refusal is countered with the lives of Unit 401. He is reminded he cannot gain his wish if Zhang’s men aren’t returned. The Japanese dealings with Ding started four years earlier when the Huo clan were eventually purchased and provision providers. Their logistics were outside Zhang’s view, so delivered to the tower secretly. Hatoyama is almost as annoying as Gen Huo.😝🙄 His sleazy laugh at how clever he is manipulating Wu. They do keep the creep factor going with their many armed creation. 👀He is also told the Huo will have to deal with the spy execution squad if her clan’s provision assist is made known. He thinks he has every angle covered to ensnare Wu. Third Master doesn’t seem to be appreciated at home. They want him packed up and gone with Zhang ASAP. 🤣😂 We aren’t told why they don’t like him home. He and Zhang are within a few days of waterway entrance. He won’t retire because he has even more wanting to kill him than he supports. His killer isn’t born yet so he bides his time doing what he can in the interim. There is a deceptive peaceful Mountain View that is soon going to change to a warzone of waterways. It is still unclear what the Japanese plan, only that Hatoyama is quite confident of their success. The mystic nine hold secrets from each other even as they ally to find Wu and how he serves Japanese and American plans. The one who knows Japanese finds no records of the eunuch locally. He remembers that American backing is involved and thinks of a new place to look, but we aren’t told where that is. Both sides are bracing for impact and both sides want first strike. Hatoyama disposes of the supernatural theory and replaces it with technology. One the Chinese have forgotten and that the Japanese want to perfect. The eerie factor still stays up there because of their creation and what exactly do they want Wu to tame?

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Findings in the tower heart

When they reach the bottom they find Hatoyama and entourage dead by seppuku. The construction site was never completed by the rules of Fengdu. While they ID the bodies Wu has gone off to find Huo. While that is understandable, he’s already splitting up the group and Zhang is ok with it. He finds Huo and they chat about loss of important things during exploration. For her, it was her faith. They agree to part ways with her promising to report he findings to him. He returns to the group and Qi is the first to note he returned alone. They start piecing information together and learn that Hatoyama became interested in a mural that showed Changsheng’s methods and a spell that could turn back time. Via the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and XinXue restaraunt he was given permission to inspect the mural. He initiated Operation Changsha to learn more about the time reversal spell. In top secret reports he launched operation copper meteorite while planning Operation Changsha. They have not yet figured out its tie to operation catch all. Cox Hendry was in charge of operation copper Meteorite while Hatoyama started operation Changsha. Here Zhang QiShan and mystic nine eliminated the Japanese spy operation topside leaving Hatoyama in the tower. Two years ago Hatoyama confirmed they had found what they were looking for and had reached the location but that it seemed no escape from the tower was possible. That was his last transmission. Zhang and Wu realize they are led to the pond area and here is an eerie display of the long dead bodies being restored. Zhang said two more spells needed performed and Wu confesses he already did them. And now the weirdness starts. Time is reversed for them and Hatoyama mocks the two leaders about how he had orchestrated things. Both leaders tried to kill him but he used others as decoys. Operation Catch all completes and that was getting the dog. Wu and all the Japanese soldiers disappeared. We are given a glimpse of unit 401 but they are in the same limbo status. They too disappeared. Huo comes out to see them disappear. She and Xhang are the only two left in the pond area. This scene was a good creep out session with the eeriness and unexplained disappearances. Not to mention watching mummified suicides becoming live persons again. Hatoyama discloses he has had three years to learn the ancient Chinese wisdom. For reasons unknown, the entire expedition was a ruse to kidnap Wu to complete there operation Catch all. It does not reveal how the exited,but that after turning the city upside down Wu has still not been found. They know he is the key to their ongoing plans, but no one knows what those entail. Huo returns home to find she’s leader in name but not power. In the tower she found a vial with a warning that the Eunuch is colluding with the Japanese and the formula will endanger her life. She did collect the item but we don’t know if she gave it to them. Qi is collecting his thoughts and drawn to the statue with hair. The scene the. Goes to a wanted poster of Hatoyama and a missing poster of fifth master Wu. Zhang’s men have mobilized check;lints to search or Wu and reward monies to gain assist from the general public. News is needed of Otherworld Patriarch and Hatoyama. Zhang knows it will be difficult to find clues they need and wants to mobilize mystic nine to search for them. General Huo is still holding 9th master Xie and the scene moves to Xie’s residence where he is still under house arrest. Huo is trying to force him to sign a confession letter and Xie calmly continues his chess game as Huo laces back and forth saying what a kind benefactor he is keeping him alive.😝His aura is more of a schoolyard bully without henchmen around than a commanding general of the Ministry of War. He is the lackey for somebody, but he is far from being the mastermind of any of the current happenings. He flips the game board and goes in full tantrum mode, but even gun in hand he does not instill fear. His threats are interrupted by the mystic nine members showing up. He tries to invoke Huo clan privileges in having a prisoner and they remind him the women rule. Qi asking if he’d changed his person.🤣😂 And he folds like the bully he is when his guards do not respond to his call. 😝Zhang QiShan makes his appearance and his guards tote out the chatty general now unconscious. The mystic nine’s meeting begins as the episode ends. The creepy vibe of the tower is now going to topside strategist mode and we will get to see the mystic nine (minus 5th master) at work.

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