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I dont think FL believes they are going to be together foreever.
Only matter of time before ML finds about edict..Now that ML has recovered, will FL use his old fiancee to separate from him?

Princess of cangbei is ruthless i feel.... that friend of ML should rethink.. even lady lin seems not a easy foimg traveller..she is also throwing her weight when speaking to that guard qin.. thats the guy she proposed 1 or 2 days back

He definitely has some complex feelings.. till the time he didnt fall in love with FL..he may have felt bad that not only his family but his bethrothed's family is also harmed..and may have felt aggrieved..if all went fine, she would have been his wife afterall , so how could he not have any feelings
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I feel the same about FL too wrt prince li... atleast prince ding didnt spend any time with old fiancee.. they were young when they were bethrothed..and he went away to join army...FL practically grew up with prince li

Ye li is telling ML few stories. I dont know if he is picking signals... 1. Bird story when he asked her to adopt a dog or a cat 2. Saying she likes only the lighter sugar cubes and doesnt like keeping things that she doesnt like..both stories has a message she is trying to say..
i dont think they consumated. He wanted to, she is putting it off giving reasons.. she is probably worried he may leave when he comes to know truth about the missing edict. and thats the birds story ..she didn't want another bird when she isnt sure if it going to stay or leave and that she doesnt like forming closeness too fast. And seems she is preparing grounds to leave herself by asking him to share the sugar cubes with his ex bethrothed lady... she picked his complex feelings towards lady Su.. and asked him during banquet..he answered without giving away past associations with her.. but FL picked some signals ..she showed up at the guest house Cambei were stationed and got answers to her suspicion..and she is pissed that ML didnt tell her who she is... and wondering if he has some residual feelings towards lady su.. i think may be he has
.he could have ignored her..but by interfering with her punishment, he may have given hope to that lady.
And also gave suspicion to lady lin who accompanied him...and may be FL

Correct!

What did the uncle do?

Totally agree!!! .. so is ML

Though he felt intense betrayal he didnt throw her out or said "he li ".... so things are fine for now..

He is getting used to more information about his wife..
1. She may be expert in martial arts
2. She may be involved in many unusual things happening in the capital since she arrived
3.extent she can go to make things happen... esp to get him get cure for his leg..🤦‍♀️

Me too.. its same as the things she is accusing prince li of... beong responsible for 18 deaths..her family played a role in his family's decimation

So did her father take that decree from her mother forcibly and give it to marquis (the powerful faction by then) to ensure their family doesnt come to ruin..???? Am still struggling with right and wrong in these period dramas..either it was ML's family that would come to harm..or her ye family had they produced the decree in the court and come in the firing line of marquis faction... her father chose their family would survice and not sacrifice themselves to do somwthing right...

Same thing with prince li..he chose to survice and sacrificed 18 lives...

Scary choices these ancestors made....

So, not just decree going missing, ye li has a role in brothers falling apart and ML moving to different army ..general hua's.. what would have happened if he didnt come across FL to rescue..he wouldnt have falen aprt with his brother for rescuing FL and her entourage ..would have still been with his brothers army..and may have saved 3 cities? ..and may have saved atleast brothers life..?..

He is angry she did all that behind his back..though she was doing it for his benefit.what will he do when he realises her mother , ye family involved in decree missing..though her mothers intension is pure , unintentionally she played a role in it going missing..

I wondered about that too..she was running and few chasing her on tue mountain..so was it plague?

There is no master Zhu.. figment of her imagination like her maid..

Jing li's manservant should not have given false hope for his master..seeing how much obsessed he is about FL . He has reason to live ..to take revenge for his family.. so shpupdnt have brought FL to comfort him

Because she doesnt want to say master zhu left mountain ...linshan academy folks are forbiddened from leaving moutain..leaving could be disastrous for them..extremely dangerous..though staykng on moutain was their own self imposed decision.mlater it almost became like theyr were trapped/caged in on the moutain
.and leaving is almost not permitted

I totally get prince jing li POV..his obsession , him feeling devastated.. she finds fault with him for being responsible for 18 people death, who accompanying him.. i understand why he did what he did... he was 13 odd years then.. his grand father is dead..his father, crown prince is dead..his easter palace members all killed.mhe is only survivor.. she had been his only ray of hope for a long time..and now for him to continue to want to survive.. he couldnt have fought back..but want to survive for her(?) Or may be to stay alive for fighting back for revenge.. .. and she is a big part his future for him.... is it right ? Living by exposing to death18 people who loved, supported and protected him... its absolutely not..i understand her anger... but his 13+ year mind took tye easier path to survive.. unpardonable from her point of view... he did the only thing that he could at that point to survive- though absolutely
unpardonable.. he survived ..now fighting back in his own way..

Bybthe way..the marquis has now 3 set of factions ruthlessly pursing him.. FL/ linshen academy, ML and his familys followers, Jing li and his easter palace supporters... i wonder if they have an eye on the empressess dowager.. without her as the face , would marquis have done all this.. good that young emperor is seeking his own path.. also that consort dowager.. she is suspicious.. she seems against young emperor gaining more power and a reign independent of empress dowager... she is a person to watch too.. last episode and this episode she mades important moves

If mo jing li was her childhood sweetheart, they have a lot of history together then.. i understand him better now... she is hos childhood sweetheart and bethrothed...not sure how that bethrothal fell apart. But he seemed to be very devasted.. he should have made his move before their weddings.. may be he had a chance then

Remember she cut a tree in someones house.. that was brother he..who actually died..but she tells her senior brother she sees him too