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Justice for daughters’ inheritance

This episode was all about pressuring XiuRu to allow a concubine for her husband to gain a son. Too bad they were unaware that the reason he had four girls was HIM.😝🙄 If XiuRui never had a son thanks to hubby that would allow the branch that did have a son take over the title. Not just that but everything else would go to clan and not Marquis descendants. 🙄😝 So a separation was put in the table to get XiuRu out of the situation. When all the needed officials collected at the Lin house, the Yuans had to accept the conditions. The Lins would pick the concubine, any son would gain the title, but all properties and money would be held exclusively for the first wife and children. The second wife would gain nothing but title for her son. I absolutely loved JinQi’s response to the Marquis about how much a title was worth compared to his wife and what if no son? He explained in great detail how the titles were earned by both of them. He spoke of all the occasions LanXiang had supported and stood by him. If he did not have a son at 40 he would return the title to emperor rather than have more than one wife. She deserved better from him and what kind of man would choose a son the never met and a title over a loving wife? He gave his friend some thoughts to chomp on. It is also in this episode that JinQi had given up his post to return to JinLing with his wife. Considering the fickleness of emperor favor, his wife gave him good counsel and the play let him reflect on history and how it tends to repeat itself. He also had a treasonous act under his belt that could come back if discovered. His little brother also lost his job once JinQi left. He was good natured about it and admitted he was not up to the job and had no regrets. He was all happy with a new venture idea til JinQi and Marquis informed him that the only way it would work was illegally trading with foreigners and the penalty was prison or beheading. He quickly excused himself after that.🤣With the mother in law’s fight for a grandson, I am not sure if she saw that as the only means to keep her son’s family assets with him. What is really sad is willing to cut off his daughters for a son that may never be. What ultimately happened is they agreed to the Lin’s terms to keep properties with his daughters ….period. This would keep the clan and third branch son from taking it all and leaving the women as pawns and bargaining chips in forced marriage alliances. Very like the Zhao situation. Here XiuRu did what she married into the family to do, take care of his daughter. His mother made him lose sight of that. Now XiuRu will get to choose the concubine. That will make things interesting. I loved watching the leads walk hand in hand after their chat with his mom. XiuRu wanted them to be her swords with the Yuan family and they came through for her. Here I was disappointed in the Marquis after XiuRu had done everything the Yuans required from her and she was still found wanting. There is a debate whether these two loved each other or not. The mom indicates maybe not. I know she loves her daughters and would do anything for them. Her husband was not as inclined until shamed and forced. I have not seen enough of them together to really speculate, but his cowardice with his mother did not put him in a good light. There were sons for the title. She did not have to interfere and split up their family. She truly saw no worth in the granddaughters and that’s a damn shame.😝

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“My Boyfriend” Has Become His Favorite Phrase

Watarai and Hioki are now a couple, but being in different classes gives them a new challenge: simply getting through the school day apart.Watarai keeps appearing whenever he has a chance, with “I’m your boyfriend” and “You’re cute” practically becoming his catchphrases. His affection can feel rather possessive—“Don’t talk to anyone” is quite a request! Yet Hioki remains wonderfully natural. He knows Watarai loves him, but seems completely unaware that anyone else might find him attractive.That difference makes their interactions so amusing. Watarai plans precious time together at their study camp, only to discover that their classes have different schedules. Watching him wilt is almost as entertaining as watching him fuss over Hioki.And Tsujiya has exactly the mischievous energy of that one classmate everyone remembers. A fun start to their life as a couple.

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Intense!

I've nothing much to say about KHOM KHLANG Ep 7 'coz it was so good, it left me in awe and SPEECHLESS! Instead, I'd like to share something which I found quite interesting, about how fast the night changes.... Puinoon:When the pilot aired, my mom said, "Puinoon, that's enough. You can come sell amulets with me. You don't have to stay in the entertainment industry and let people criticize you like this." Out of nearly 10k comments, there wasn't even a single compliment. Bint:On the day I became Miss Thailand and went to Miss International, the only group of people who supported me was the LGBTQ+ community. 🌈 Back then, no one was ready to support a Miss Thailand who was criticized for not being pretty. But I've always believed in the power of the earth, unpolished gems can shine brightly and go far. It doesn't take star power to lift someone up. There are plenty of talented people, but my true ride-or-die friend, there's only her. Honestly, I mean it. I want to see us grow old together. I really want to see what Puinoon will be like when we're in our fifties or sixties. 👵🏼🤍Puinoon (Singing):Is it pure coincidence, or was it destined to be? Is it real, or just a dream that brought us together in this world? 🎶#CttoREPOST https://x.com/Flutado/status/2112159752394572264

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Let's talk about The Slap.

My take on The Slap (tm) is as such. First off, he deserved it and he admitted as such. He broke custom and bypassed getting permission from her parents, causing them a lot of shock and distress. And that is something that is really, really important to her. She cares so deeply for her adoptive parents that it upset her deeply to see them scared and distressed like that. So she was rightfully very upset and she probably had bottled it up to a point where she just had to let it out. Second, by slapping him in front of most of the rest of the household, it established right off the bat that she was now at the same social status level as he was. That she was no longer a servant. So those two purposes were served by The Slap. Now, some commenters have made a big deal that he did this without ever asking what she wanted and that's true. But that isn't the key issue because, well, neither did Han Liang. He also did not ever ask FL whether she wanted to marry him. In fact, he blatantly admitted that he _knew_ she didn't have feelings for him but he went and pushed his the parents to quickly force a marriage. He pushed fast because he could see clearly that Jin Qi was already deeply in love with her and almost certainly going to ask for her in marriage. So if you ask me, Han Liang's motivations and actions were not one bit 'purer' or 'sincere' than Jin Qi's. And if anything, Han Liang's aggressiveness at forcing a marriage was a big reason why Jin Qi did what he did. He had originally planned to woo her gradually but because of Han - along with the circumstances of his duties taking him away from her for stretches - he had to act fast and in a way that could not be countered. At any rate, in either marriage proposal, Lan Xiang was never asked what she wanted. But because she loves her parents so much, she was probably going to be fine with Han's proposal because he went through her parents. That was the big difference.

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Oh my god. So disappointed in the script suddenly.

This show has been SO SO SO well written up to this point that what happens in this episode is just awful and disappointing. A total let-down as the writers lean into to a massive 'plot-induced-stupidity' moment, making Lin Jin Qi do something so absurdly stupid and out-of-character that I'm kind of left speechless. It makes no sense other than a stupid, cheep contrived way to create a much wider 'lack-of-trust' gap between the ML & FL that will now take many episodes for him to fill in. The purpose is so blatantly obvious and the means is so lazy and disappointing. Look, we see this kind of stupidity in a lot of dramas so it's nothing totally new. But when a show has been so well-written as this one up to now, for them to use this now is so glaring and disappointing. Like spilling a bottle of black ink on a white sheet. This is a stain on the show quality that is going to be hard to wash away. For that matter, the way that Xu Lan Xiang's character has behaved the last couple of episodes is also barely resembling the girl in the prior 25 or so episodes.

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