AleksandraSucur

yup. The girls are like that bc of grandma who truly thinks she has a leverage over RSB if they constantly question or undermine RSB's authority. I don't know if grandma is stupid, unaware that - opposed to RSB - she just holds a handful of air or just bluffing in a poker game while having bad cards...

you've probably missed our previous discussions on grandma and her total failure as a person in charge of their education and the general respect of roles and rules. We've analysed the threat you've mentioned as well.
Grandma talks big and indulges her granddaughters as a leverage over RSB, as the two of them (the old lady and RSB) are essentially "parallel powers", as the first is in charge of household and the latter is in charge of family business. RSB is in charge of business for a good reason: the tea bone, for which we know isn't an innate gift but an acquired vast technical expertise regarding tea and tea business, no other Rong girl has. This fact makes RSB a breadwinner and gives her the top authority in a hierarchical cluster called "family". So, whatever the grandma says in this regard are... just empty words. Each of these girls has a personal problem and reason why cannot be in charge (one is bratty and unruly, one is blind and servant's daughter, one is a concubine's daughter with servile mind, one is mentally impaired, one is surnamed Shen, while males are not allowed to be in charge and the one we've seen is so dumb that cannot qualify even if he were a girl) and even the one we've all perceived as a rival is so stupid to collude with family's enemy n°1 in a crime against one of the Rongs.
And both grandma and RSB are clever enough to know all as above. If RSB decides to leave the Rong mansion, taking her little sis and nanny the old lady perceives as "a mess left by RSB's mom", with her level of tea expertise she can always live well as a manager elsewhere, while the entire Rong mansion will collapse in no time due to their infightings and lack of respect of roles. Ofc., there are some advantages of living in that mansion: Rong is a powerhouse with family rules providing protection against abuses women could suffer after married. But protecting the Rongs so devoutly and selflessly as RSB does is bringing them no good either.

Indeed. And the show in front of the granma when she "punished" the two sisters with a chess game and drinks? I was fuming. Instead of making them kneel in the ancestral hall asking them what they've done wrong? But, hey, we've already analysed that part, so we can only hope the disaster will knock some sense into those arrogant, cocky heads

thank you. I am certainly not like RSB, I have to share my thoughts and worries with other people 😂

LJL knows her better than she knows herself. I agree with him she is acting cold but is too soft hearted towards her family members while being too hard on herself, constantly worrying about the people she protects, tea trees, family business etc. This attitude of hers will create a rift between the two of them, bc this isn't how persons should be handled and LJL is again right on spot when he said that.
A modern doctor would diagnose her pneumonia as "a collapse of immunity system due to overwork, exhaustion, stress and lack of self care". A psychologist would say "she wears that cold mask to hide her overprotectiveness and incapability to establish clear and effective boundaries between herself and everything she wants to protect." I've always thought the grandma is to blame for the mess in the Rong's family (and she actually is the n°1 culprit for it) but RSB is also at fault. She never complained, refused to (over)work, delegated a task or soundly "f*ck off-ed" sisters' unreasonable and poisonous remarks. That's how she silently indulged them as well, saying: "it's ok, this is how the things should normally work", so they'll never learn how to behave. Above all, she never contraddicted her grandma, in front of her she is always composed, calm and stable. And that troglodyte continues to add burdens on her, she even tasked her to write letters of gratitude for the gifts anybody can write. Instead of sending that pile of papers back to the old lady with a message: "if you can't do it yourself, task some of your idle granddaughters, I have no time for this crap".
She literaly gives vibes of a deity who doesn't need to share her thoughts and worries with anybody. And LJL is again right: she is not a deity, but made of flesh and blood. Now that she has LJL who is willing to share her burdens, she shouldn't hide mrs Yang and Wanwan from him. She should instead plan with him a way to solve the Wei case with a minimum damage for these two. The storm is coming, folks, not only on that plantation but on the plot as well.

It was sinister... blind sis has that trait in her character, lol

Their convo was about the clouds. ML said "there will be unusual heavy rain within two days" and she made a remark on clouds which bring hail (i.e. unrelated to what he said) and then instructed him not to burden RSB with bad infos and not to allow people who may say bad infos to visit RSB. She doesn't want RSB to intervene. Bratty 4th sis already cleaned and fertilised the ground instead of letting the water already present under the ground to flow away and will provoke a waterlogging disaster on the plantation and Yunshu enjoys the fact 4th sis will be held responsible for that disaster, metaphorically expressed with her last phrase that she enjoys that "little drizzle" and finds it refreshing.

That butler's surname is Cheng

Number 3. Those assassins were Lang's people and the scene was previously agreed with LJL in order to deter her suspicions.

She was looking forward for her two sisters currently in charge to fail their tasks due to the weather, totally careless what will happen with the harvest and the plantation

Tnx. Yes, I agree. The exchange of opinions is very important bc it helps us to improve our owns.

Hi! Yes, I'm up to date.
The writer evidently wanted us to condone Yunxi's collusion with family's enemy n°1 which led to her cousin's "murder" depicting her as dumb as not to know what kind of psycho He was. And we feared her all the time as a master of schemes and top rival. I agree with you, total disappointment.
And I despise grandma even more: she continues to add more burden to already worn out RSB like tasking her to personally write letters of gratitude just anybody can write. Lets just hope the tea plantation disaster during RSB's illness will knock some sense and discipline into these unruly girls...

And he told her well: she doesn't know how to keep in check her sisters. They are unruly bc their grandma never disciplined them and indirectly wants them to challenge RSB's authority, but RSB's fault is her handling the business alone, never assigning tasks to her sisters and establishing the hierarchy of roles and the system of merits and demerits. As Lu said: she isn't a deity, she is made of flesh and blood, she'll just crash from exhaustion if continues to wear herself out.
And that grandma is truly despicable. As RSB isn't burdened enough, she even assign her additional task anybody else can handle like writing the thank you letters

De nada, me alegro de haber sido de ayuda 🤓

I agree with your conclusion but not with all the premises you've exposed to reach that conclusion.
1. I think we can all agree with your last statement, that we enjoy this "Mr and Mrs Smith in costume, but 10x better". Just kidding. 😉I've meant the statement before "they’re both cats trying to catch a mouse". Indeed, they both have their own agendas. They like each other (the mutual attraction was there even when she walked out from the bandits' den) but even more, they NEED each other. He needed her to recover his injuries and memory, to hide from the corrupted officials who tried to kill him and still needs to stay in her place in order to find "the missing wife", retrial the case and gets his reward from the emperor. She needs him too, maybe even more badly. Not just to catch a knife and kill the person who just kept that knife under her throat or to protect her annoying cousin, keep her suitors and other annoying people in general at bay, cheer her up when she is in a bad mood, be an acting husband, respect her right to have her own secrets and ways in dealing with issues, respect her as a human being in general (women's needs are more complicated in general), but above all - she needs him to help her clean the mess in her house, a task no other man except ML can help with. And this need is the reason why she was ready to pick him as her "husband" during the tea tree ceremony and was stopped only when she saw bead bracelet in Yang bull's hand.

2. Now, let's see the part I disagree with. You've said he knows her enough bc also knows "her mercy, honor and kindness" referring to "her willingness to take on and nurse back to health someone who was her family’s perceived enemy at the time". He wasn't her family's enemy (her family just didn't give a sh*t to account to some unknown official about their relations with the "missing wife"). As for her kindness towards him, we just presume she just felt a bit of compassion in the moment he grabed her coat and pleaded to save him. That's probably what we would have done, but RSB is not us, we are unable to scheme or use persons like she does or be "10 steps ahead" as you've said. The only fact that we know is: SHE KNEW WHO HE WAS when she saved him and that in that moment she didn't know he lost his memories. And what if she saved him EXACTLY because he was the official she already knew as upright (bc she saved her from the bandits' den) and who was highly probably in charge of investigating the "missing wife case" (for which other reason would such a high official be pushed down from the cliff?)? That identity (of an upright official) combined with the fact corrupted officials attempted to his life and the fact she saved his life can be put to a good use. His memory loss was a small complication along the way to put her plan in practice, but what I've wanted to point out is that the drama gave us more reasons to believe it was his "potential use" and not her compassion the main reason why she saved him. She wants him to restore his memory and contacts, that's why she didn't even check the message he sent to his mentor.

3. I agree with you they both keep their secrets and are still a bit wary of each other but this is exactly how all romances start in reality. I usually disdain romances in dramas ff-arding romantic scenes stupidly enforced in dramas I like but I haven't done such a thing here and like a lot how their relationship is developing in this drama. We, both men and women, are not eager to reveal our secrets when we start a romantic relationship, we prefer to test the potential partner before we reveal him/her smth and we all like to have "an upper hand" before we are sure the potential partner will truly help us with an issue that bothers us. This is exactly their situation. She hides Mrs Yang's secret because she wants to be sure they'll solve Mrs Yang's situation in coordination with each other when the time is ripe. And exactly like her, we are honest and share the truths we can share (as she shared the truth about the tea bone with him and is generally honest), now is the ML's turn, as he is regaining his memories.

So, yes, she fell first (logical, she knows who he is and what's the situation and environment) but he fell harder (also logical, he wasn't completely aware who he was and what's the situation they are all in).

He officialy proposed, presenting the gifts, to marry the blind sis at the tea tree worship ceremony. He came to the mansion "to end the enmities between the Rongs and the Hes" which would be considered ended with an intermarriage of two families. That's why he remained around

He was a bad guy in general, a psycho. Yan knew He didn't stay in the mansion bc of his proposal to the blind sis after he posioned the well bc Yan was present when the blind sis said he was secretly meeting 2nd sis. The Monk is smart and can easily connect the dots: He was plotting smth with 2nd sis. No way the two would meet for romantic purposes, bc Yunxi was after him before and he knew she wanted him only bc he was chosen by the old lady, she would never take someone the grandma wouldn't like (He family are Rong's enemies). The monk also saw the scholar entering He's chamber for dinner the previous evening. Hearing smth bad happened, then Bai being taken by the guards and satisfied expression on He's face... that's the most plausible reason for his reaction.

Re: Missing wife case. Mrs Yang Lan, aka nanny Liang is supposed to be dead, not missing. She was abused by her husband and his Wei family but never helped by her original family, in particular her bro we've seen in the latest eps. They've expected her to be killed by the Weis in order to ask them for a compensation for her life. So, she decided to escape asking a friend (RSB's mom) to give her shelter, that's how she became Wanwan's nanny. But the Yangs couldn't easily give up on the idea of compensation, so, when Wei came to their door asking to give him back his wife, they've accused him of murdering her. They've picked some random bones, bribed someone to confirm it was Mrs Yang and Wei finished in prison for murder based on that fabricated evidence, while Yangs won the compensation case consisting in Wei's tea plantations (with help of some higher official, probably the fatty prefect Xu who hid/destroyed a report of a coroner stating the bones actually belonged to a male, so they can't be the evidence of Mrs Yang's murder/death). Before Wei committed suicide in prison, he wrote a blood letter of his innocence and the emperor decided to retrial the whole case.
So, if Mrs Yang is ever found alive and kickin' as she is, the very fact would bring down the entire Yang family (that's why RSB said to the bull the truth would damage more the Yangs than the Rongs), not only in terms of plantations they've injustly received, but they'll be guilty of deception together with the high official(s) they've bribed in the process. She is like a time bomb for the Yangs.

the monk had no opportunity to enter the courtyard or the chamber to poison him

You're right, but she decided to throw herself over LJL that night later. It wasn't a decision, she acted on a whim when she saw the shape of the person she was disgusted with behind the door. She didn't want to face and fight that brute... and exactly bc he felt she wasn't in the right state of mind, LJL refused to make love with her. Yeah, now we know he won't escape that thing so easily, she moved him into her chamber... 🤦‍♀️