AleksandraSucur

if we agree on almost everything you've stated, I truly can't see what bothers you.
ad 3) ofc he "incited" her: because, your words "He mistook her as GP", these are your words. I'm not saying "if someone mistook you for someone else then you will let the misunderstanding continue as long as it benefits you", I've said she had tried hard to shift his loyalty, she didn't actually want the misunderstanding to continue, she just didn't come out with the truth, and that's what she has in common with the ML.

Btw., I don't like the actress, or more precisely, I don't like her voice. But her acting capabilities in this role made me forget what I see as a shortcoming in her performance, in general.
And I'll repeat: this character is very well written, she (the character) is prone to great sacrifices, well written (as the audience can understand), well directed and well performed

may be, but I doubt this emperor is definitely not his father 😂

How can you forget ML is lying... well, continuously? Lets forget he is Yang Ling, ok, within "the game" he has another identity, but when he goes to the brothel or recites (btw. plaragiarized, and even badly plagiarised, because he remembers just two verses of each) poems, he either uses his original name or the name of a fictional Jin Yong's character Chen Jinnan from The Deer and the Cauldron. Not to talk how he conceals his identity from the members of the Realm Sect - to the point he'd rather lie N°3 is his cousin than admit he lied.
He is a born manipulator, he is a salesman in "real life". Manipulation is not always a bad thing and not all the lies are meant to harm. Psychologists say that even a newborn baby is capable of manipulation: a baby is not crying because someone harms it, but because it's hungry and even if it isn't hungry or anyhow discomforted, it cries because it simply wants to be cuddled and have already "learnt" that - with crying - someone will show up and cuddle it. Parents also often manipulate and lie to their children for their own good (sc. "white lies") and so on...
FL lies were not meant to harm anybody and they were incited by ML himself. She wanted him to shift his (apparent - because that was ML's manipulation - if he knew he was in front of another princess, he would have pledged to her as well) loyalty towards GP in every possible way,

For the rest... yes, being ambitious is not a bad thing in itself, but Lin'an is ambitious, too, her problem was she - as a woman in a patriarcal society - projected that ambition too much on her brother. Untill ML explained her she should focus more on herself and what she wants for herself. Deep down, they are very similar (that's why I think they match each other), the only difference is... ML is more experienced 😁

Thanks to GotD, I've learned that haters aren't only vicious but also very stupid persons. To hate something or somebody can be understandable, to hate for no reason is not understandable, but to make a sensless hate so obvious as to downrate unaired episodes, could they be more stupid than this?

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." (A. Einstein)

I think the writer (I refer to the screenwriter, who adapted somewhat different relations between the ML and female characters in the original story) made perfectly clear why she was the way she was. Her mother and brother spoiled her greatly because they wished her to be childish, uninvolved and ignorant of court affairs - for a good reason: the emperor. Being such, spoiled and cheerful, she is the only child the self-centred emperor isn't wary of and doesn't intimidate. The emperor knows she acts before thinking, that's why he pardons her (and finds even amusing) for the "kept man" story.
Besides, she is not that spoiled nor stupid not to know that for XQ is better to obtain a noble status than a one chance pardon. Her initial lies were actually triggered by XQ's misunderstanding (and manipulative desire to get a backing from Grand Princess - thing Lin'an understood very well).
Combined with a personal growth we see after her best friend's death, which changes her focus from a superficial and unrealistic competition with her sister towards less superficial and more important things in life, we can only conclude that her character makes a lot of sense, therefore, it is well written.
Finally - but this is just my personal opinion - such a character is well matched with XQ's character, we feel she will literally sacrifice everything for persons she loves

Le mie più sentite condoglianze. Possa tuo padre riposare in pace

we have 12 eps left and imho no way to solve the open issues in this season independently of the original source and number of its books. That's why I think S2 is inevitable

Tnx. Now I'll brag like XQ.
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This isn't my opinion, this is the finding of two (Chinese) telecommunication engineering scholars regularly published in a (Chinese) scientific paper, I've already mentioned here https://mydramalist.com/702953-dafeng-garotan#comment-20177552
I'm actually not sure (I have no means to measure these things) how much the haters and the bots influenced that downrating, and how much it was influenced by a lacking mechanism.
But I was sure from the first few episodes this drama gonna be top entertaining: its comedy is hilarious, the templates used with balance and grain of salt, together with the impeccable direction and performance (the whole cast is brilliant, not only Wang Hedi, who nailed the "isekai" character), witty storytelling... this drama was destined to be a great hit, "no matter what it takes" (again quoting an Italian Mario Draghi.

Maybe she/he will miss us, who decided to stay and laugh, lol

I ship those two from their first bickering. Certain couples have more violent-passionate relationship, the two are a perfect match in that sense

ofc you are, who would expect a nerd having a love life? 😂

😂👌
We've seen a "dress-rehearsal" of that ceremony, it would suffice, lol

In Italian (sophisticated version, elaboration of "chi scava la fossa all'altro..."): “Il vilipendio e l'improperio genera odio contro coloro che l'usano, senza alcuna loro utilità" (N. Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy)
In Latin: "qui fodit foveam incidit in eam" (= Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein, Bible, Proverbs 26:27, in English)

I knew it would come close to JOL (34000).
It's such a serotonin booster, espc. when we get a double dose during weekends, lol 😂

I'm talking about ep 28, available on platforms on which all other eps aired.

I've loughed so much watching the spin-off episode titled "Lost lovers on the bridges of Dafeng". More serious a character is, more comical vibes he creates. Pure gold 10/10, I'm still loughing, hours later 😂😂😂👌

XQ has nothing to avenge, while poor HH... But I think Shenshu overeacts, he is a demon, in HH body, he even tried to kill n°4. while in XQ's body... he beated him, no?

Minister Sun (of Justice) can't balance anything, he can't keep in check his own people who arrest and torture people without reporting (remember the one who arrested XQ to ingratiate that Zhou (bul)Ly?), investigation leads get cut, the cooperation with Guardians' investigators suffers because he insists on the grip over cases his ministry is uncapable to handle and so on.
As for the Supervisor, you're right, he certainly has his own agenda and doesn't fear to invent excuses politely saying no to the Emperor. He doesn't trust the emperor and probably hides things from him because of this distrust (which may have smth to do with the "thing stolen 19 years ago" he can't figure out who was behind). His Bureau is not a political force, it reminds me of the enterprise established by Fan Xian's mother in JOL dedicated to invention and production of innovative artifacts, the difference is GOD's Bureau is more magical" and less "economic" compared to JOL.
The forces destined to allign are those sharing converging interests, like Guardians and Realm Sect, Bureau and the Dean of the Academy - people of talent with whom only the Grand Princess formed intrinsic relationship, and ofc. XQ, just in different way

and how they've forgotten the little one out in the beginning, when Xinnian hanged himself? The whole family suffers of an early alzheimer, lol

Wang is not a member of the royal family, but he is an aristocrat and, being a Minister of Personnel, he has a considerable influence on practically all other ministries (ministry of personnel employes or - figuratively speaking - "deployes" people throughout ministries) while royalties have their own power and familiar connection with the emperor and can always question ministers and officials in the court (therefore, many people would prefer being "backed" by a royalty than by a certain minister, who can always be removed in court conflicts and clashing of interests).
So, for the two evil sons of two aristocrats (who were also involved in abduction and trafficking of children and women), her eloping was a rare opportunity to destroy her father permanently, while being quite confident nothing could have happen to them: the girl was running away from a marriage arranged by the emperor (fact that angered the emperor ofc), naively asking for help from her father's foes, thus, they've felt they could have disposed of her as they wished.
Regarding your question "who's exactly part of Wang?", well, these factions aren't political parties, they are more "group of interests", people can easily shift according to a currently raised issue. Today, we've seen a conflict between minister Wang (and other civil affairs ministers) and the army deployed in the North, the first group wanting money and provisions to remain in prefectures, not given to the army.
Wei cut that dispute bringing up the info of a massacre of civilians in the North, while Army never provided such an information, so he asked the Emperor to check this info out first (sending an inspection to the North) and to decide later.
I don't know if the soldiers beaten today by n°2 and n°4 are connected with that specific army, but they were certainly very rude towards the innkeeper