Lilybilly

Viceroy's RL sarcasm at the wonderous malaria strain that only attacked certain, cough cough people. While the imperial citizens miraculously were all fine... 😅😅😅

Gotcha! You were asking about the why, not the who. I'm also curious as to the why as well...

I knew actors and musicians (prostitutes and major criminals of the imperial court mentioned as well) were looked down upon... but did not realize that they were barred from taking the imperial examinations for 3 generations! 😬

As @Totoro888 spotted in a very early episode... For a "merchant to know how a scholar thinks vs how a merchant thinks. He's got to be a scholar before to know and describe the difference."

How are you liking it?

Only on ep 30. I started laughing when LQ received the signed donation slip for the 200,000 taels from Rui Lin. Well played Rui Lin... Well Played... 👏👏👏

Almost at that part... I'm on ep 10 of Returning Pearl 👍

Brilliant to have the two different types of ceremonial weddings, was not expecting to see that❣️❣️❣️ From the BTS, we know the Mongolian ceremony was spot on historically accurate too 👍

I def get it now with your's and PBG's response's. Thank you again for taking your time to write a lengthy post. It was quite a clever scene... but I knew I missed some important aspects. 👍👍👍

Thank you for this response! 🫶🫶🫶

I'm curious to see if he first started working as a bookkeeper for the Li family business which ultimately led to him having ambitions of marrying the Li family daughter, or he stalked the Li family daughter first. He def has the intelligence to pull off either option...

Can you please explain the reason why Li Wan Tang and the other non-Mr. Hart official knew they ultimately lost against Gu Pingyuan and Mr. Hart in ep 26? I'm trying to appreciate all the writer's cleverness in this scene, but know I'm missing some of it.

I absolutely adore ❤️the insights we see into the reasons why the Li father/son do the things they do and the decisions why... These are not just the usual black and white characters that we see! (*Well Li Wan Tang is still an almost 99% all black character...) 😅😅😅

Hi! 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️I'm a card-carrying, primarily romance drama watcher, and the director is doing an absolutely FABULOUS ❤️❤️❤️ job in providing feels and more than enough romance for enjoyment. So downvoting cannot be blamed for lack of romance...has to be another reason... I'm guessing because you have to actually use your brain (Yes, most of us romance drama watchers have one 🧠) to enjoy this type of sweeping epic drama??? Or people are just onery and have nothing better to do than downvote...

Oh wow! Ok, I’m still in the funny/cute stage- thx for the heads up 👍

Only on ep 3, but def a good mini-drama to fill time

Anyone else besides me, start Returning Pearl just bc of the 2ML? 🙋‍♀️

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I wondered the same exact thing... If you scroll down and look for posts by @PeachBlossomGoddess, @AleksandraSucur, @Salwa Nice and others- there were some wonderful lengthy discussions on this exact topic 👍

I have seen a lot of really great actors, land a lot of really great dramatic roles, but the subtle comedy bits that CX executes here as well- is a usually rare and deadly combo! 👏👏👏