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Yes, you are right. It was a scheme to get the emperor to expedite the land equalisation approval. I can guess who encouraged him to do it despite that Chen Yanyun said no to his help since it was a dangerous task & he has a wife & daughter. The meeting in the jail was heartbreaking, both have to maintain their act of opposition.

Don't think he has anyone or a partner because in the scene where his friend, Nie Fengming volunteered to help him achieve his goal regarding land equalisation, he told his friend no because is a dangerous endeavour and he said his friend has a wife and daughter whereas he's single. I think we know who put Nie Fengming to do it still and cost him his life, while angering the Emperor which resulted in the land equalisation plan being approved.

Engaging and entertaining so far, worth watching. FL is exceptionally brilliant, in that she's calculating and astute. Hope it continues this way.

In my view, she's totally against the Grand Prince because she's afraid that her son will not formerly succeed the throne. The Grand Prince is the Regent now, which is the acting Emperor. The son is still so young and yet she wants him to attend and manage formal events himself, trying desperately to garner public's support. She stopped the former Emperor (her husband) from abdicating the throne and "inadvertently" caused his death (not sure of the entire circumstances surrounding that fire and the former emperor's death at this point in the drama). When fire broke out again in the palace at ep1/2 (can't remember which epi), her first instinct was to blame and slapped the Grand Prince, indicating an unwarranted and unjustified fury at him. She wants to control the Grand Prince (and get him to prove his loyalty to her/young emperor or so she said), hence she asked him to marry and of course, to marry someone of her choosing, never expecting the Grand Prince to choose a bride himself, and a commoner and an illegitimate child at that. Obviously, there's a whole chunk of the backstory between the former Emperor and the Grand Prince as well as the Queen Mother which we are not privy to at this point.

Thanks. Thought it might be the case based on what I briefly gathered from the novel.

I only read the ending, was curios about 2nd prince’s fate too but I didn’t have time to read novel in its entirety, so I don’t know. Sorry.

Per the novel, yes.

Making a guess … real baddie, besides the PM of Susha, is the 2nd Prince of Susha (putting up an innocent & naive facade n front of everyone), although I hope the latter is not.

Enjoyed the fight scenes tremendously, especially the FL fighting with different weapons, quite impressive. Great chemistry between the CP.

Worth watching. The script and story arc are better than or comparable to many standard length dramas of similar nature. Very glad that both ML and FL are consistent & trust in their collaborations and not get misled or misguided like many other dramas. The ML looks very much like Hu Yitian but I think he looks better in historical attire than Hu Yitian.

Yep, like the way HY shut that ass down in his mid speech in front of the emperor! She’s truly a general, never minces her words.

Not surprised since I came across such inconsistencies in other Cdramas, some may not be a glaring missteps , happens only in Cdramas. They most likely won’t go back & re-film to make story runs more logically in sequence.

I thought so too about why the king seemed not to be well aware of CP’s love, esp ML had declared his feelings in front of everyone, the king, at the banquet & I think the issue is that dramas/movies are not filmed in chronological order. So, towards the end, where the king mandated a marriage between FL & CZ , these scenes could haven been filmed first, to be understood that the king is simply aware of the CP’s affection & nothing more, unlike the bold declaration made by ML in the earlier episode where the king was impressed by ML’s description of his love & respect for FL. (This should be under the screenwriters, director, producers’ purview. Sadly seen these scenarios in other Cdramas). Misguided, misdirected perhaps.

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Luv how the light hit ML's face in the garden during the moon confession. He looked so ethereal, handsome and in love with the one in front of him. Also, when he was reminiscing with the Emperor about his younger days at the academy with FL and their subsequent separation, his sense of loss and sadness was heartfelt. Both moments were visually beautiful and emotionally resonant.

Dudu confessed to the Emperor 1st & it seemed he himself didn’t know how deep & far along his affection was until the Emperor enlightened him! 😂🤣

@Dami You’re right, HRF & HY are blood related cousins but IN the Novel as per @_Kage_’s explanation. But in drama, no blood relations, see @_Kage_’s 1st reply, 2nd paragraph.

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😂😅😂🤣😂🤣Attendant Wu’an became Marquis 😂🤣😂🤣

I 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 when HY smacked down HRF at the banquet!