La Gata

Oh, for goodness sake, do you really need to moan about the treatment of men in a case where the opposite is blatant? Who's being degraded in this series? ! Here we have a clearly misogynistic portrayal of the female character as an out of control, no boundaries, no filter, obnoxious woman that needs to learn self restraint before she can be released into society. Her counterpart ML is a clearly androphile character, dignified, moral, righteous, responsible, calm, collected and very handsome. But somehow you still find that it is the ML that is being treated unfairly? Please, give your head a wobble! I will be watching the next couple of eps before I decide whether to drop it or not, as this type of story tends to develop into a redeeming change of personality for the main character concerned with negative behaviour.

Just finished ep 1 and I find the FL character infuriatingly absurd and entitled. Why does this woman grab a complete stranger by his cheeks, squeezing hard and then spills a whole glass of wine on him in the middle of a party? Answer: Because she's trying to pass unnoticed by her manager who casually just walked in. Effect: Everybody in the room is now staring at her. Then they get drunk and have sex. Next time she sees him she walks straight to him and violently grabs him by the lapels of his suit and starts screaming at him. At this point returning violence would have been justified as self defence on the part of the man. Why do k-dramas insist on trying to portray this type of unhinged people as cute?

LOL Of course not. Giving the lady a hand to help her climb the stairs, that's exactly a butler's job. She never gave the butler a second glance.

I can think of one I would have dropped hadn't it been because Ming Hao was in it and his performance was masterful as usual, the problem being a poor script. I watched every single minute of it without skipping like a trooper and don't regret it, since his most impressive acting happened in the final episodes.

But you fail to see that's only your personal perception of it that you are projecting on others, hence your non sequitur assumption 'if you like this yo must hate that'. Also you are establishing a false premise in portraying those two characters as opposites but, even if they were, liking something does not automatically entail hating the opposite. Liking black does not mean hating white, All that unnecessary polarisation does is limiting your own choices and making both characters poorer.

LOL!! Then I agree, she does have the worst possible taste in men 😂

You forget that 'small' detail of the reason why she slaps him in the first place. It's because he's grabbed her arm forcefully and won't let her go.

She didn't select YBL, her grandmother imposed the marriage on her and she just pretended to go along with it because she was about to expose him as an impostor.

I've already enjoyed 30 eps and I'll be binge watching the grand 31-36 tomorrow, then I can start re-watching the whole series. Neh-neh, neh-neh-neh. 😂

She's slapped him twice in the whole of 30 eps. She's always made a point of soft slapping him without hurting him, he didn't even blink when she did and on the latest occasion he even offered his cheek with a naughty smile. She couldn't resist his charm and lowered her hand without slapping him. Then he kissed her. It was very sweet.

She told him about the fake book, they planned it together. She gave the fake book to him and he gave it to the old Wei lady.
LJL: Who he was after he recovered his memory kept from her. His real reason to infiltrate the Rong mansion kept from her. Using her to trap Madame Yang and Yu Wan, kept from her. Both of them have been playing games with each other, they just have different personalities. He's extrovert, she's reserved. To me that's a main appeal of the series.

Someone: "I like croissants". Someone else: "So you must hate cinnamon rolls". That's your logics.

LJL must have contacted RSB by other means. He already knew steward Cheng would do his best to block any contact between him and RSB; Cheng had already tried to throw away the wild tea leaves LJL picked for RSB, didn't tell her he was waiting outside and got the grandmother to stop her running after him. Why would Jun Dai give an important letter to just any servant at the Rong house, knowing it would fall in Cheng's hands? I don't buy it.

No, they didn't. Through the whole series and up to when he had to leave for the capital he's been consistently the cunning, shameless, daring, scheming, bragging LJL of ep 1. Why we had that glimpse of him in mid ep 30..., we'll have to wait to find out tomorrow.

If you watched ep 29, it's not just his heart that she accepted. For her to take that step she must have been sure LJL was the one.

That's a terrible ending. LJL and RSB are destined for each other, neither of them will accept anybody else.

I'll help you hold that grudge 😂, he's really getting on my nerves. It's crystal clear to him she loves LJL, how dare he destroy his letter to her!

He is impossibly good looking, I look at him just for the pleasure of contemplating beauty. The combination of this with being one of the best actors in China is a reason for me to watch every single drama he's in.

LJL's personality hasn't changed at all. Up to when he had to leave for the capital he was still the extrovert, shameless, daring, scheming guy he was on ep 1, including turning up with his stuff at RSB's front door, announcing to all and sundry he was moving in with her and warning her he was going to sue her because she had 'sullied his purity'😂 . In ep 30 there is a glimpse of him in a different state (spoiler) that we don't know what it is about, we'll have to wait and see.

I don't think standing her up at the altar was the big issue with her, but the fact that he used her to catch Madame Yang and Yu Wan. She did open up to him when she let him in her plan to trap the governor with a fake book, that was a massive leap of trust she took there. We still don't know why she's not showing any interest in LJL after he's been gone for a month, but I'm sure we'll find out in the next episodes.My wild guess is the emperor suspects LJL of being biased in favour of the Rong family in the Yang-Wei case, so RSB is purposely not trying to contact him to prove his equanimity.