Shuyi

yes, but she doesn't know it herself

It was originally just a trade between them, Xie Zheng is repaying Chang Yu the favour of saving him

The attack was orchestrated by his uncle (Wei Yan), because Xie Zheng was looking into the tragic fall of Jin Zhou and the death of his father from 16 years ago, and Wei Yan has stuff that he wants from back then to remain hidden

16 years ago, because of the evil schemes of the previous emperor to kill the current crown prince and make his favourite son crown prince, Wei Yan inevitably became a pawn and caused the deaths of the Xie army and the Meng family who were then also labelled traitors, also the death of the crown prince etc.

Wei Yan did all of that in order to protect Shu Fei, the emperor's concubine who is also his lover, but Shu Fei dies, and Wei Yan went sort of crazy and killed a bunch of people in the palace

Then in order to protect her name even in death, Wei Yan decided to become the evil prime minister he is known to be currently

oh also Xie Zheng's mother (who is also Wei Yan's younger sister) traded her own life in order to protect Xie Zheng (she made Wei Yan take Xie Zheng under his wing and train him), but Xie Zheng doesn't know that and thinks she abandoned him which is so sad

Not sure if the drama will change any of these plot lines but it's what I can remember from the novel

Woke up and the first thing I did was check how long it is to 6pm😭

Break another innocent pair of chopsticks😔😂

he leaves at ep.16-17

Yea it does get kind of confusing sometimes, esp. when they switch names without explicitly stating it haha

Li Huai An is also known as Wenkan, it's his name, his 字"Zi", just like how Xie Zheng's "Zi" is Xie Jiu Heng

The fact that Chang Yu doesn't even remember who gave her the book makes it even funnier 😂 And the aftermath of Chang Yu finding out about the reason behind his jealousy, and going to comfort him by affirming her feelings for Xie Zheng, so sweet I could get diabetes...🥲

I wish I could erase my memory of this drama so far so I can rewatch it from the start...it's too good🥲

Yes! They finally end up together in one of the novel's epilogue chapters

Enemy prince

In the novel qian qian absolutely hates qi min because he's extremely self-centred and would get rid of anyone that he views to be in his way of reclaiming the throne, including his own son

Both of them are generals at the end, she is not part of the Fan family but the Meng family, and General He Jing Yuan knows their true identity and is protecting them in secret

And the ep.9 kiss...OMG...I need to go rewatch it again....😂

She is the granddaughter of General Meng, who was a subordinate of Xie Zheng's father

Unfortunately they never find out...if the plot stays true to the novel a lot of them will die, as for her ex, he finds out towards the end of the novel and the chapter is so satisfying hahahaha

Hahaha I see, yea he is a villain in the novel but I think that his character has been changed significantly from the novel so he might or might not turn evil, I kinda hope he does hahahaha

The little sister was not referring to Li as a villain, she was referring to Song Yan as Li Huai An rented Song Yan's empty house

He is the father of her son, and she is scared that he will kill her son