Key to the Phoenix Heart Episode 13

Parting ways

Many things I wished for after the previous episode happened in this one! 🤩Firstly, it turned out to be true that the Eagle King liked Li Lejun. The way he said it to her actually was quite nice and made me wonder — maybe he's just like Xiao Wuyi and has a terrible reputation which everyone fears, while actually being a quite caring and good person? 🤔😏And secondly, Jiayu and Mao met alone and talked about their future plans. Thankfully, it ended exactly the way I hoped — with Jiayu rejecting his offer to stay in the palace. 😌The sad one in the end was Wuyi, because Jiayu asked for the divorce papers again and was about to leave... 😢 But at least she's not staying with Mao, right? 🤷‍♀️

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25 year old grudges

Arrangements have been made for Consort An to meet Mulian Ying at a restaurant. Before they can exit, the Eagle King has sent guards to keep her secluded for her ‘protection’. Tutor Xie showed with guards of his own and managed to get the consort on her way. He sends his son there as it was the last chance to rescue his sister. Consort A lied to Tutor Xie that the An and Lu families had indeed colluded with the northern king and that there was irrefutable evidence with no framing of the families. At the restaurant, the once lovers now enemies both came prepared to kill the other. JiaYu interrupted after the tea to say she had swapped it and no poisoning happened. WuYi shows up at the wedding and says everything will go the general’s way once he signs the agreement. The royals brought up an argument of it being beneath nobility status to marry LeJun to a barbarian. This was knocked down, and the Eagle King countered with his plan to kill consort in Ye territory to kill the peace talks. Prince Ji enters with a decree from Consort An. It sets forth officially the turnover of the three precincts and the reforms WuYi wanted to establish. He was quite pleased with himself and smirked at Eagle King’s strategic loss. In spite of trying to kill the consort, he was the leading general for their people so she let him live. He asked the same question Tutor Xie did with a very different answer given. It was a great miscarriage of justice and Mulian Ying was well aware of that. She herself outlined the plan to have the emperor carry it out on the families. This is why he had that huge poison pill to kill consort. JiaYu’s interruption wanting them to reconcile let both of them agree to let bygones be bygones. It is worth noting that the Eagle King offered Lejun marriage that she would not be forced and a door always opened at his place up north. Here I wonder if she will consider it. JiaYu and Mao have a chat and she reveals her knowledge of his plans to stay in the palace and his arrangement for a consort from Cui family. She also acknowledged she had never asked him his preferences. WuYi is still delaying the divorce decree. He wants her to stay as long as possible. She looks him in the eye wanting to know about the woman he loves and he betrayed himself had she been the least bit aware of how he really felt. They are making deals for his forge and she is making plans to leave with her mentor and discover what her skills can become. Both men that love her realize they cannot keep her there and it’s just about time for her journey to start. When consort An referred to those in place in the south I wonder if she referred to the Tutor or the Regent?

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