Ashes to Crown Episode 11

Finally reaching Yunzhong

Zhao finally reached Yunzhong! Her reunion with her father was very emotional—she cried, her father cried, even A'Jiu had tears. It was beautiful, yet everything around it comes with its own bitterness—her father's fast-progressing illness. And it gets worse by the day, for me only raising the same questions as Zhao—Why? What’s different in this life? Was he already getting poisoned before that?

I know they are galloping towards General Chu's death, because his and Zhao's conversations are mostly about her childhood memories—tricks she played, times she didn't listen to him, and many more... It hurts. More than one can imagine. When she recited that poem while sitting next to his bed, I was afraid this was it... and then he coughed up blood, and I was even more afraid. I really don't want him to die, but I think at this point it really is inevitable.

I know Madam Ge's arrival raised questions for Zhao, but I am not sure if it was the right call to go through her private belongings. Anyway, what's done is done and now she knows that Madam Ge is Mu Mianhong and her father's wife, her mother. I can only wonder and wait to see how their next conversation will go. I think there must be a serious reason why the mother's identity has been kept hidden for so many years and her previous ones are "deceased".

The mystery of the Wei Village keeps resurfacing. Now I have questions—Why was A'Jiu in that village? Did someone from the Cangmu Stronghold save him there? Why does Xiao Xun keep reminding A'Jiu how he had wronged Xiang (I believe that's the boy he saved)? Why was the village burned down in the first place? At least we know now that Xiao Xun started the fire and it happened five years ago, but that's pretty much it... or have I forgotten something?

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