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Yup. 😔 He knew there was discord, and the "emperor" doubted him, but he didn't know the full truth so can't do much about it.

For sure but it is just so funny to see because time and place sir. 😅

He meant inherit the title of Prince Rui aka still a royal title. It is a translation error again.

Oh, the flashback scenes with Prince Rui and Yan Chi are SAD.

Empress Dowager: *Talks about her other sons because one just DIED*
Emperor: WHAT ABOUT ME

💀💀💀

And once again, therapy was needed in this era.

The coverups and corruption makes my skin craaaaaawl. These people are doing this to each other, imagine how they treat commoners/the people they are supposed to serve.

He is not wrong because him and the actual emperor did have deep trust. It just so happens this emperor... is not the emperor he knew...

Feel so bad for Prince Rui. 😢😢😢

The Qin family hasn't seen Qin Wan since she was a child, Qin Liang (he himself was into medicine) then took her and went to the Medicine King Valley to treat her sickness for years. It was also there where they met the Shen family and Shen Wan became friends with Qin Wan (along with Fu Ling). Barely anyone knew what Qin Wan looked like. Shen Wan herself was also pretty secluded and used to dress in man clothes in the valley to make practicing medicine easier. Yan Chi's men also wasn't able get into the Medicine King Valley to get any witness descriptions of how these two girls looked like.

It is. 😅 The novel just has a loooooooot, and they were able to get away with it since it is a "secret" relationship.

There were insiders who get to watch these dramas ahead of the time and they give repo about the drama before it air. For example for this drama, one repo basically said the cast is a visual feast, the mains have chemistry, and they find the palace conflicts more interesting than the cases.

There is like a 3 second scene where they showed the real Bai Feijue set free by officials at the end of the arc but it was quick so it can be easy to miss.

Yup, I have plot points I side-eyed myself too in this drama and think certain things can be better but some of these surface level complaints are such nonsense because I don't see it when it is MLs having MC halo at max or having more knowledge/experience than older men in their lives.

It is already so rare to have a FL who is considered a genius already in these types of C-dramas to then complain about it when it does come along.

I rarely see these comments when you have these MLs who are top generals who have been fighting in wars since they are 10 in every other period idol dramas. Why is it more believable to have a genius ML in war tactics than a genius FL who is not only a prodigy, but who has also been trained/surrounded by that environment since she was young? Shen Wan/Qin Wan has been doing this for at least 10 years.

Not to mention in idol modern dramas where we have these young 20s MLs running businesses as CEOs.

At the end of the day, this is a FL-centric period idol romance drama, it is meant for the female audience to feel good especially if they self-insert onto the FL. People complain about "stupid" FLs all the time and when you have one where at least on the surface level, let us see her skills, you got people trying to talk about it being unbelievable. These are idol dramas, none of them are "believable".

Huazhong University of Science and Technology's official Weibo account posted about Qin Wan and promoted their own forensic program: https://weibo.com/1663414103/5192353264703790

In the novel, Yan Li's dad and the actual emperor are twins.

In the drama, it seems like they are setting that up as a reveal too but first giving us the information that Yan Li's dad is a farmer's son (which is not the entire truth).

In the drama, it is likely the Empress Dowager had twins and send one away (Yan Li's dad) to be raised by someone else. Prince Yu having twins now probably reminded her of that.

In the novel, Yan Li's dad and the actual emperor were twins. Yan Li's dad found an opportunity to replace the actual emperor with himself as the current emperor.

In the drama so far, they are saying Yan Li's dad is just a farmer's son but that is probably not the entire truth. Back in ancient China, twins can be considered as bad omens so usually one twins is kept and another is sent away. It is likely that in the drama, Yan Li's dad was sent away to be raised as a farmer's son but found out the truth so came back to take over. It is also why the drama never showed the face of Yan Li's dad in those flashbacks. They have been dropping breadcrumbs.

Some of them know. The drama gives some hints with their facial expressions like the Empress talking about how the Crown Prince must ascend the throne "for the people" and Empress Dowager's facial expression changing when it was mentioned Prince Yu has a newly born pair of twins.

Thinking about it more, I think Prince Cheng's original intention wasn't to SA her. He set it up so his cousin was going to do that so that he can save her in time aka hero saving the beauty. Seemed like he was hoping she did be thankful to him and then agree to marry him (and I guess do the deed while at it with consent). But then Qin Wan didn't succumb and instead talked back so he ended up choking her. Idk if he would go as far as actually SA-ing her if say Yan Chi didn't come.

I am just rewatching the scene of Qin Wan and Prince Cheng non-stop, they ate up that back-and-forth scene because Prince Cheng's dialogues are actually so "oily", but he made it work, and I am on my knees for Qin Wan. Scold me too please. 🤭