MaryB23

She refers to it in episode 16 though she mentions her mom and dad and her third aunt and uncle as a match made in heaven and they are lucky to find each other. But she is unlucky and if she misses out on A'yao no other man may want her

He has been mean to her from the start. Maybe because she returned his silk ball. he is being such a Tsundere but in a very not cute way at all.

Basically, she is bullied by a lot of the princesses, her character gets her in trouble because of the rigid rules of the palace e.g. things like concubines, eventually, they have to call off their engagement, and they are separated for 5 years during which she gets engaged to someone else.

I agree and disagree at the same time. The General had only met CSS a handful of times. LY proposed after spending months by her side rebuilding Hua County. When LBY and CSS were JUST getting to a point of seeing each other more/ familiarity i.e. when he rushed to Hua county to give the decree, she was basically already engaged to LY. So TBH like her mom said he barely even had time to recover from his injuries. So while you say LY was courageous, I agree because he definitely put effort into pursuing her, I don't think it's a standard to judge by. From what we have seen of CSS character she likes adventure and a challenge, something I am not sure if LY can give. As of now they seem very much like friends

Just read a few excerpts and chapters from the book and we are in for a long long journey. My head and heart already hurt. had to go cheer myself up with bts videos, screen shots and GIFs of interactions between the leads in future episodes on the Tencent page