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No, he is a very good boy. Not as smart or as strong as main leads, but he is doing his best and I wanna protect him!

I think in first episodes he still admired her quick thinking and strong will, and it irritated him, because objectively she seemed not the best person and yet she dared to call him out a few times, that's why he was sometimes really mean to her.
I hope that after what he did for her when her mother was ill - begging on his knees and taking whip punishment, - and also due to the fact that QY knew that he and Yuan Lang were enemies, she immediately understood why he behaved like that in episode 16, and I can't wait for the next episode to not dissapoint me)

For me the concept they have in the drama (and which I like very much) is that you first like the person and then slowly develop love, and love is even growing when you already aware that it's love, there is always something more to feel - more respect, more admiration... But there is no one certain moment, when you - bang - fall in love, it's a process, and it started even during there first case, when they felt more anger than anything else, but still, they were not indifferent, and it continues now when QY is in trouble, and will continue in later episodes.

I told ya, our Liang Yi is too smart and he will break wedding arrangements, and here we go 😀 as easy as winking.

I'm on episode 15. Cabbage Head is falling in love with rocket speed, he can't say "no" to QY anymore 😍😍😍

What if QY is not their family's daughter at all, but a royal child? It was told that she was left by her mother after birth, but survived - what if real QY actually died back then and was switched to another child , whome monk needed to hide because of some danger?..

Travel using their imagination!

Ah, ok. For me that's too obvious. There should be something more complicated, and also I still believe that QY's dad is a good man and he is very worried that she will find out the truth, so in fact this truth might hurt her. But is it because of QM? Not sure.

But QY is concubine's daughter, if there was anything between the legal wife and the monk, it could be only about QM, as she is her only biological child.

Great episodes 13-14,the scene in the temple!, whip scene! (gonna rewatch 10 times), and the whole finale of episode 14, so intense. It's so hard to wait for next episodes. But reading comments here helps))

I agree, I especially liked that he hid the key before she told him anything. And how fucked up he looked after that, but at the same time, there were no over exaggerated emotions. No cringey angst.

He is too smart for that.

I think the more things you don't like in the drama, the easier it is to write a review. At least I might write my first review about this drama, cause I can rant about it for hours...

Yeah, this is like the first time, when I can understand why main leads don't trust each other. But even while thinking the worst about each other, they manage to be so honest! Great script.

Yeah, he was definitely not looking for love and he is not a romantic type, at least not yet 😁 Girls obviously prefer softer Qin Xuan, who would never tell them something unpleasant but true.
Smart fast thinking men are always hot 🥰, but this one is also very handsome ☺️

I don't find him cold, I mean he doesn't do the stone face, he laughs and smirks a lot, or looks sad when he is sad. He just gives very strong masculine vibe ☺️ and talks honestly and directly, maybe he hides certain feelings from everyone, but I wouldn't call that coldness. Very cool ML, not pretending to not feel anything, finally. 👍

I never expected him to really fall for her (maybe because I know that she is not his love interest in the novel, but a very close person), and also didn't expect him to change for her, cause that's a bit cheesy. /but I do ship them anyway/ I am even not sure that I expect him to change at all, because I don't find him too evil - why should he take Kong San or mermaids side? He was raised by Cang Liu, and he wants to be respected in their army, he doesn't have any reason now to change side. But if they do give him reason (like that Cang Liu lied him about his past or if his sister gets hurt), then he might go against them, but that would be his rational decision, not because he became softer or something) At least I see it like that, but god knows what their evil scriptwriter prepared for us. 😁

I also love that main leads first develop mutual respect out of prejudice and suspicions 😍 and only now they start to fall for each other romantically. I was quite tired of dramas where love develops in like 2 episodes just because FL accidentally falls in ML's hands and they stare at each other in slow motion 😁

I really like SML too, and don't want him to be hurt. But in fact FL likes him as well, she likes spending time with him and always happy to see him, it's just that she doesn't have romantic feelings for him. Now, when she doesn't have to become concubine anymore, she can see that SML has high hopes about her feelings and it's her fault and she feels not ok about that, you can see that in bookshop scene. I am curious how it's gonna develop, but it feels quite realistic as well. As for SFL, she needs to find strength and fight for her happiness, and for that she needs at least to be honest with the ML that she loves another man. If she can't do that... then she doesn't deserve to be happy.

No, I already knew that he will stab her, but I was waiting for croton subs. That was actually hot scene 😁😁😁 hot in a dark way. His conversation with Fei Lian in the next episode explained some of his actions: he got an impossible task from a very powerful person and his own life, and his sister's and Fei Lian's are at stake. Even if Xiao is dead (I hope not), well, it couldn't continue like that, he couldn't have a spy so close all the time, even if he knew she would never hurt him physically, she would pass information. He was angry like hell, but still he didn't dare to finish her. 🔥😁