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That's what I've been thinking as well. They shouldn't have pushed suggestive romantic scenes here, it just doesn't look right atm. Neither character is ready for it, FL doubly so.

And I've seen too many dramas to tell you that they often forget any further explanations and leave it at that. But let's how it goes here.

No, he entered the capital with an army, which is considered treason, that was his crime. It's often a plot device in cdamas that generals with their armies cannot enter the capital on suspicion of revolt.
He didn't have the edict allowing him to do that, so he was tried and executed. It's implausible that the edict could have been taken from him by force. And if he feared nobody could verify the legitimacy of the edict, there was no point in hiding it either way.
Just either missed information here, or written poorly.

I get all that, but it's not selling it for me. They've skipped a few steps with these characters from newlyweds to stright acting like an old married couple. There was no inbetween and FL's overly cheerful behavior feels very fake. She's way more believable when she's acting all cold and calculating. I'm giving a benefit of the doubt that it's on purpse, as I've seen her acting differently in other dramas.
I'm not holding my breath for ML though, his face always looks like he just woke up from a hangover with eyebags and is glaring dully.

The romance is kinda meh here, tbh. ML should emote more and FL emotes too much, but it looks fake. Not sure what can be done in ML's case, that actor always has samey face. And FL's doing that on purpose judging by her character's story.

Also, FL's is not right in the head, a big turn down for those who want to watch perfect FLs. So yea, lots of people prob dropped it. That's how MDL is.

So what, you think a general with an army at his side to protect him and the edict in his hands, he would have still been imprisoned? Sounds rather implausible. I'm reserving judgement so far. But if that's all there is to it, it's written rather poorly.

Can somebody explain to me why ML's brother got imprisoned because he had no edict, but then told FL's mother where it was and she got it no problem? Why didn't he have it on him in the first place?

Yea, looks calculated. But then again, what's the point? And she's been doing that even when there's no audience.

FL also blackmailed her step-mother well, she was helping all along, even pretending to be possessed, lol.

I dunno, that scene with her acting all shocked and teary eyed before the elders, accusing them of drowning the maid and then looking all stone faced when nobody's looking just screamed that she had planned everything that night. Did she really have no idea that the grandma was sus? I just can't be sure of anything with this FL. She's scheming and plotting multilayered plots with such precision, it's hard not to suspect her staging an accident for grandma as well. Like planting a lightning rod on top of it when nobody was looking, lol.

I think he knows. He's the last suspect they didn't check.

Yea, that episode with her staging all of that stuff at Ye family, accusing the elders of maid's death. Looking all shocked and teary eyed, but when having that stone cold face when nobody's looking. I don't even know anymore, looks so unhinged. And if there's nobody to see it, why fake it?

I hate that character too. They could have written him better.

Ok I'm now questioning even the tree being struck by lightning, lol. Could FL have done something to it on purpose as well? Or was it really just an accident? Because everything else that night at Ye mansion def was her elaborate plan.

I'm so with you now that we can compare dramas. That drama really wasn't so bad, people just liked to hate on the age gap there.

This here based on anything or speculation?

If they gonna add transmigration trope here I swear I’m gonna drop it. I fkn hate it. I’ve started watching because people here assured me they removed it.

I'm just expressing that I'm not on board on this ship yet, like seemingly so many other people are already. They're swooning over something I don't think is even there yet. Just my opinion.

Good to know, but it's now hard to compare to the novel, since this mountain mystery and mental trauma were not in it. We're treading the unknown waters here.

Yea, they want us to be questioning. But the mystery stands in the way of the leads relationship. Personally, I'm mainly for the mystery here, don't really care about romance so far, not digging it because of the above reason.
But I hope they won't drag the mystery for most of the drama either, that'd just get boring and convoluted, and romance will suffer. There'll need to be a healing stage and a final resolution stage, which shouldn't be rushed.