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Or maybe she used her mad chemistry skills and dog’s level sense of smell to create some contraception thing…
This is classic Chinese plot, every character is not entirely human, tropes are troping, blood gets coughed in gallons and yet everyone has a strength of a lion

I think somewhere in comments people who read the book wrote that she married him politically and didn’t have a say in it. It’s clear that she never promised to love him and was very explicit about it. He said that he met her in the forest, fell in love and proposed.

I mean. Imagine if your boyfriend was overseeing your family execution even if not by his own choice. It’s a memory that’s hard to get over, and it requires some heavenly love for a person, and she didn’t love him romantically to begin with.
He could’ve given her a chance to save her family, he could’ve risked his own life to save her family. Many things could be done, all of them would’ve defied the emperor, but it’s still a choice.

I loved her in New Life Begins. She was a bossy wife of a simp who worked on himself to make her happy. Her husband was played by Chang Long, and he is always the goofiest one

I love it. It’s a typical bloodbath with treachery and passion, leads have almost supernatural abilities and simple feelings. No new tropes, but everything is executed perfectly.

Or maybe she didn’t love him because she got married to him out of political arrangement, there was no chemistry, and then he executed her whole family, so the political arrangement didn’t work either. Just a thought.

You forgot that FL also has a nose of German shepherd trained to find cocaine. Every episode she is sniffing some wild stuff out of every incense.

Same producers, many of the same actors, Zoey Meng

The story is turning towards more of a Kunning Palace direction, except Bai Lu FL wanted to be deserving of a pure heart man, and Zoey FL thinks she needs safety.

I know people criticize Zoey for lack of face expressions, but her eyes says it all. FL is just sorta like Plum Fairy in Ashes of love, except her affectionate side wasn’t blocked by magic, it was blocked by her life experience, so she can’t recognize her own feelings.

I traveled for M&A deals to Middle East and Asia too, and not many places have business hotels. We once supported an acquisition of the textile factory in Indonesia. That whole city only had one hotel, and we stayed in there.

Comment section makes me want to drop the drama.

The drama portrays 2 characters who had extremely traumatic childhoods, what kind of fairy tale do people expect? In real life they both had more than 50% chance of becoming addicts.
Drama softens edges a lot, but they both also were never taught how to love by their parents. CY was constantly beat for imaginary sins of his dead mother. MJ was in a vicious circle of her mom constant switch between caring for her and abandoning her.
So they both are really emotionally unwell, struggling with their identities and forming attachment.
CY freaked out of her being endangered and dying like his mom, even though MJ wasn’t even close to dying; and then he did to her exactly what her mom did - cared for her and abandoned out of nowhere.
And on top of that they had this fake siblings part where they shared a home during ahem puberty and sexual awakening.

So anyone looking an escapism drama about one true love with no hint of reality should watch something else.

When we go to JP Morgan conference in San Francisco, we always book suits with extra room to have work meetings. Lots of investors in town with now place to meet confidentially. When I traveled with my team for M&A deal, the suit was booked for me, and the whole team constantly worked from my suit, because doing due diligence on site of acquisition target isn’t a good idea.

When he followed her to her meeting with her boss 20 min after and lied about soup

She is not dying, his expression of his desire to keep her alive is borderline controlling. He manipulated her application and pretty much stalks what she does.
Personally, he is in much more danger than she is

I agree with every word. I also think that emotionless face corresponds with wisdom in Chinese tradition, so maybe that’s it. Shrug

ML is toxic too. He obviously has PTSD.

Yeah, the storyline is essentially about toxic past, enmeshment and hopefully healing their traumas, so that checks out.

I know, we were just counting princes. XLoveW said all princes fell for her, I pointed out that only 2 out of 5 did, and then we added Fifth prince who is also prince 3/5 to fall for her.

I was making a joke