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The return to TongZhou

The one thing this episode proves is that even in burlap JinZhao is beautiful. Lord Chen arrives and offers words of comfort from his family. Yao gave her comfort about not calling her mother before she passed. He remembered two incidents in particular when JinZhao was four and had visits, she not only addressed her as mother but also as mom. This was to prevent grief and remorse from taking root in her heart that it had never been said. Outside the mourning area, Rong and Lan were fighting about YuPing’s return. Rong indirectly was used to find her whereabouts. JinZhao informed them she had plans to sue their father. If done, 40 lashes were endured by the child bringing forth the case. Rong agreed to accept the lashes since he was also responsible. Yu ping was found and confessed before Lord Chen and JinZhao. The two servants were at odds and the conflict was between them not the peripheral nobles. Chen helped her get a signed confession. He had also been gathering sources of cited cases to provide defense in court to rescind the 40 lash requirement of children suing parents. Daddy Gu overheard his children talking and decided to end things prior to punishment. Reluctantly, JinZhao’s maid rescued him. JinZhao had a contract made where he would not be able to remarry without her permission, could not interfere in his children’s marriages, and agreed to an amicable divorce with his wife. He was given the choice to sign or she would sue him. After signing, she could return her mother’s body to TongZhou with no interference from Gu family. Ye Xian assisted by providing ten guards to accompany them. He also brought his wingman white kitty.🤣😂 These two have an understood friendship. He wants the idea of more, and she understands being subjected to family expectations. They help each other out when fate brings them together. I think from the moment they met fate intertwined their destinies, just not in the way YeXian hopes. I see it as a complementary alliance to weather the political fray between merchants and nobles. The two political factions are arguing about canal and sea routes for shipping. The storms are causing chaos with overflowing rivers and Chen’s mentor will deny help to ease difficulties of the flooded areas, thus pushing the agenda of sea routes. Chen uses this to his advantage by returning to TongZhou to pay tribute to his family. It will also get his mother to TongZhou and incidentally accompany JinZhao’s funeral procession. He is again surprised that YeXian has provided ten guards and has his men make room to house them. As the storm increases JinZhao is overseeing the protection of her mother’s coffin. Chen notices and plays her a sad soothing song on an ocarina. She follows the music and tells him she changed her mind about suing her father and further reflects if her own actions resulted in the early death of her mother. He doesn’t offer unsolicited advice but asks if there was a song she wanted to hear. JinZhao is returning home come hell or high water.

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A very eventful episode. First off, Su Mang's…

A very eventful episode. First off, Su Mang's pregnancy becomes publicly known and rumors that it is Zheng Chu's are flying. He wants to transfer to another team to create separation to protect her from rumors but she insists on facing things straight on so won't let him. This all seems fine ... until the two Tang siblings just mess things up so awful. First, Tang Guo Guo barges into Su Mang's office and starts a terrible argument with her and refuses to leave. Zheng Chu shows up and tries to escort her out but she gets crazy physical and pushes a weekened Su Mang down to the floor - which angers Chu so much he actually slaps TGG!! This is something that is probably years overdue but unfortunately will have repercussions. Su Mang feels like she needs to avoid Chu to protect HIM now and tries to go to the hospital without him but Chu is persistent and follows her there and is there for her to see the first ultrasound images of the baby. This is all super sweet again ... until he has to go meet with Dr. Idiot, Tang Ming, who is furious that Chu slapped TGG. Chu lets Ming beat him up. This scene just adds one more reason to dislike Tang Ming who just continues to be an absolutely stupid, idiotic a**hole. Earlier in the episode he did pretty much the lamest 'apology' to Yan Xiaoqiu and now he does this. He doesn't take into consideration that maybe there were _reasons_ why his sister got slapped. He just throws punches. He's a horrible, stupid blockhead about so many things, how can the show writers expect us to like him? Yan Xiaoqiu deserves a better man than this jerk.

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A bit of an emotional up & down episode…

A bit of an emotional up & down episode but forward progress on both the main and secondary romances was made and they also finally got rid of the annoying Auntie so overall a very good episode. I really like how the episode closed with a strong emotional moment between Zheng Chu and Su Mang. I also have to call out the acting performance by Zhang Wei, (the actor playing Mr. Yan, Xiaoqiu's father). In the scene in Tang Ming's office, when he tells the story of his family's past and breaks down remembering Xiaoqiu's words .... that was very real despair and regret in his voice. That performance in that scene by itself was worth watching the episode. On the flip side, I'm pretty much done with Tang Ming. He's so infuriatingly stupid and does not really deserve Yan Xiaoqiu. She consistently does nothing but the 'right thing' for everyone but her reward is to get just emotionally stepped on by both her sister (expected) and, worse, by idiot Tang Ming (not expected). She deserves a better man than him, though I know that the drama is probably going to make them end up together. So he had better do a lot to make up for the crap way he treated her.

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