5.0/10 - The lead is more tolerable.

The lead is more tolerable, or at least less creepy. Not constantly drooling over the male leads in ways that I think she needs a shock collar for. *ZAP!* "Bad Lin Luo Jing! Bad! We don't objectify people like that!" She acts like a real person more and I appreciate it. Maybe some might say her interest in a smutty book might be "creepy", but I think that's perfectly normal and healthy. I like my leads to have the freedom to explore their sexuality and thoughts about it. Especially after her "father's" talk of purity and what not.

On the male interest fronts: Lin Luo Jing gets tricked by her half sisters into going to the King's party where she will be optioned for a bride. Liu Xiu Wen (her bodyguard) checks to see if this mysterious man who rescued Lin Luo Jing stole her virtue, and pretends like the bath scene did not happen. Blaming knocking her out on a branch falling on her. Lin Luo Jing buy Liu Xui Wen a dagger that I'm sure is going to be some kind of dramatic back story. Now lady's man iang Xuan Yu sees Lin Luo Jing dressed up as a boy as she buys herself dirty books. He also sees her admire a hairpin and I"m pretty sure he buys it. So I feel confident that he knows the "man" was in fact Lin Luo Jing. Poor Hua Ying Chi (the sword deity in white) is just a back burner thought and I'm sure his character will remain so.

The writers do a lot to keep up this world in the game and to keep puzzling Lin Luo Jing about what kind of game this is. Which makes me very curious. She spies her "father" having an affair, but only the viewers are pivvy to what is being said. Which is that her own father tried to have her killed after she found out about the affair I assume. She was gonna do something to jeopardize her father's affair and apparently he will do anything to make his mistress his real wife. Yikes!

That ending though! Lin Luo Jing teasing her poor maid about reading the dirty book while the maid is "pounding away". Was hilarious and very odd choice.

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