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yes, he yan rejected him when he asked to meet her privately because she likes xiao jue (and then xiao jue barged in and he yan drag him out after chu zhao left), and no, the maid never confessed, not even when she asked chu zhao to kill her (because at some point the crown prince want her as her maid, but the crown prince abused her even poisoned her, so she asked him to kill her)

Even I as a reader of the novel am confused by Chu Zhao's attitude every time he appears ._. Like, his character's gray

even in the novel iirc, chu zhao only confessed to he yan when the emperor already granted imperial marriage decree between xiao jue and he yan (idk, it's like a final desperate move from chu zhao ._.)

I think they keep that part if I remember correctly when I watched trailer of ep 8 or 9 on wetv website

In the novel, it's at the end of chapter 100 when he said the line "should I call u He Yan, or Young Lady He?"