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Change of roles

Oh no, he's turned into an ak-gwi? Was it because of how much Yang energy he has lost? I know he was already low on it, but I wouldn't think it was this low already. 😨🫣Saeng-Gang entering the spirit world to save him made me like the girl even more. 🥹 She's not a passive bystander who can hear things and occasionally lend a hand. She's actually becoming the only one who can save Gu-Cheon. How will she be able to do it? 🤔The palace intrigues are just getting thicker, showing us new layers of how rotten the royal family is. There are deaths upon deaths, yet they look like they are living with a much clearer conscience than they should! 😒And our little guy Ggeomeoksali showed some skills! He's becoming part of the team. Love it! Just please don't drain any more of Gu-Cheon's Yang energy... 🙏🥺

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The unbreakable oath

There is an exchange of intel between Zhang and Wu. They are each given an offer they can’t refuse and both agree to a third option. Zhang will leave the mystic nine in exchange for his wife and men. Wu doesn’t believe him and doesn’t want a paper trail, so they agree to have Qi witness the oath to make sure all parties comply and the penalties for not. Qi finds dealing with both of them a royal pain in the ass.🤣😂 Wu makes it clear he is still owed a life but will rescue the missing. Zhang exits in that pristine uniform that isn’t allowed a speck of dust. Qi gets to find his own way back for not favoring Zhang. 😂The plan is to set out next morning to rescue the men. Ms Zhang, Yin XinYue, greets her kidnappers with a nice set of traps when they come to release her. Wu claims not to hit women while she soundly slaps him.🤣😂 She easily finds out what the deal was between them and applauds. 🤣😂 I like her! She mocks him about an invitation to XinYue Restaurant as a corpse to be sold to highest bidder. That he has so many enemies he would fetch a good price. After leaving a last hit to the three men, she lets loose her last trap and leaves unescorted. Zhang returns to his office at headquarters to find his wife calmly sitting at his desk. He is reprimanded for thinking she couldn’t escape on her own and he counters with a tray of sweets specially purchased for her making note of which successful and which not. 🤣 These two are an interesting pair. He returns her bracelets. She wants him to stay safe and plans to take off to Beiping to help her family business. He promises to comply and go immediately to Beiping when he’s done. It seems Zhang has not won over her father and warned to keep that in mind and do better. He assures her he will make a better impression this time. Zhang gets a message from the Ministry of War that wants him to make a decision about the Mystic Nine. He doesn’t look happy. The next scene is at Taihe Pleasure house where we are introduced to Huo Xian Gu representing the Huo clan of the mystic nine. She is blackmailed by Ding Qiansui who is a wretched old lech with a lien on the Huo household. He offers to pay the money her aunts need and cancel their old debt if she will spy for him while accompanying Wu and Zhang behind the wall. He threatens her with Wu following up about her debts if made aware of them. 😝The women of the clan want her to resign to her fate and if she wants to be officially the leader of the clan, she will have to deal with the old lech and maybe give up on Wu. He gives her a dance and view of fireworks including their departure time of 8Am. We are taken to the site where the guards are fixing a flickering light. The stopped clock and sacks of something are stocked there with a message from a 401 soldier how to fix the light. Is the flickering light a key or indicator of what takes over the men? Story continues to be interesting with peripheral plots converging on this scene.

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Missing —- Unit 401

The Chief Commander, Zhang Qi Shan, arrives on the scene at Changsha Military Hospital to find a freaked out nurse, a child’s ball and all clocks stopped at 12:08AM. We are walked through the nurse’s rounds which go from a routine check on women and children to a spellbound unit of men, eerily silent and filling the entranceway. She is sent out to gather herself and returns to find everyone gone except her. The commander’s unit 401 were right on schedule until they weren’t. The nurse is too unstable to account for anything except the location where everybody disappeared. Evidence points to her truthfulness with medical supplies littering the floor. Further investigation leads to a cavern under the hospital with evidence Unit 401 had been there and now behind a wall. The scene shifts to a temple where 8th master, Qi Tie Zui, has already figured out Zhang is looking for him and tries to escape city posing as a plague corpse in coffin. 🤣He believes he escaped to find himself relocated via coffin to the wall site. 😂 He is told he will be buried properly if he can explain why Zhang was led to the wall. 🤣😂 Here a special seal is noted with a living house on the other side. Unit 401 and medical staff were invited to enter. Here Qi points to 5th master, Wu Lao Guo, having the means to open the mechanism—his dog. There is a flashback where rescued people ate the dogs that rescued them resulting in Zhang killing Wu’s brother right in front of him. Ironically the people that can help Zhang the most with this mystery are those he offended most. Qi is sent via coffin and deposited in front of Wu’s home. 🤣Negotiations met a stalemate. Further clues lead them to Liuyang Kiln where the gold wire basalt bricks were made, a group of self sacrificing brick makers found and two wall messages. Karma will uncover itself. And My Sovereign awaits you. The scene shifts to Wu watching a play where a monkey is opposing the wrong rules inflicted on him by making a mess. Wu never watches the end because the monkey is always caught. He doesn’t like that nobody ever questioned why the monkey made a mess. He is curious why Zhang would request his help with the enmity between them — so he agrees to a meeting as episode closes. This introduction acquainted us to the main players who have very good reason to not get along. Interesting clues and a mystery introduced. The only thing that truly mars this are the very pristine uniforms of the investigating officers as they explore all these ancient, dusty sites. That does take you out of the story a bit as they are doing rather than narrating. Other than that misstep, an interesting introduction.

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Still wasting time on these stupid misunderstandings

This strange drama world where over half the characters are hiding either who they are (such as ShiYue hiding that she is Shi Yan's niece) or hiding their relationship with some other character (most of all the other characters) is just so tired and exhausting and it shows up as pure stupid in the moment when Shu Yi walks into the conference and all three of Shi Yan, Yu You and Yi Yang surround her and want her to sit with them. It's supposed to be funny, I guess? Someone somewhere on the planet thinks it's hilarious? Mostly it just feels exhausting and boring as the same plot conflicts get rehashed again and again.

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Episode of many farewells

We finally got rid of that annoying Censor Zuo. 👏 But everything else in this episode was so sad... 🤧The Empress asking to be deposed so she could take the punishment for the Crown Prince and save him from any humiliation, and also make the Third Prince becoming the Crown Prince happen in a more reasonable way. 🥺💔ShaoShang and BuYi going their separate ways — him going into exile for 7 years and her confining herself in the Cold Palace for the rest of her life. 😭💔ShaoShang's mother finally realising how wrong she has been with her disciplining methods. 🥺An episode of many farewells... 😢🤧 But I do believe ShaoShang and BuYi will be together in the end because there are still 5 episodes left and plenty of time for time skips and other stuff to happen. 🤞P.S. A wonderful touch that Huo WuShang decided to keep his name as Huo BuYi to honour his cousin and let his name live the life he never got to live himself. 🥹

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