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This is very hard to watch without skipping episodes and fast forwarding. There are too many villains.

It's not just that his father married another wife, it's also who he married. He slept with his cousin, whom LBY considered an aunt, and then married her.

I also love Story of Minglan, but I love that this drama has so much more humor and comic relief.

Oooh, sounds like her parents' attempt at matchmaking?

Does anyone know why CSS and her dad go to visit LBY at his house in ep 23 preview? Is that in the novel?

LBY's love for CSS is very selfless. He helps her without being asked or expecting anything in return or even needing her to know it was him. Even after she is already betrothed to another, he wants to help her gain status with her future in-laws. That is some serious devotion.

Yes, thank god for these previews! And so glad to see the emperor get involved!

I asked this a few days ago, but are we sure the series trailers cover only Part 1? We have previews up to ep 20 where it looks like ML is going off to war. How will they will fit all those intimate scenes from the trailers in the last 7 episodes?

Isn't he the same emperor from Dream of Splendor? He was a nice emperor in that drama, too.

Yeah, I would take the first opportunity to get away from heartless mom and crazy grandma.

That mother is really just...arggh. The way she dismissed all of CSS's amazing accomplishments. Her daughter held off an army! She gave people the will to live! She led reconstruction of an entire town! If anything, I thought she would at least be impressed by the holding down the fort and keeping her aunt safe. But nope!

What I really wished CSS replied to her mom when she asked her if she loved Yao: "How would I know what love is? I've never been loved."

Come on! How can she not be head over heels in love with him after that rescue? After all those deep gazes, she's going to get engaged to someone else?

Maybe he was just uncomfortable kissing Dilreba because of the age difference?

Who is LHY?

Do all the series (not episode-specific) trailers and teasers released cover just Part 1 or do they also include Part 2?

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Ep10 made me cry. I shed a tear exactly when CSS did when she said "It's a deal."

In WRTW, Zhao Lusi loves to eat because she's a glutton. In this drama, she loves to eat because she was starved all through childhood. 😢

CSS's analogy of giving bread to a starving person or a half-full person was so moving and so dead-on, made me want to cry. Her mom is just too heartless. I'm glad she has her brothers now.

Not only is it so sad she was abandoned by her parents, she was separated from her twin and never even knew her brothers.