Nana

They had a very prudish kiss two times, that is it. And, yes, romance is not only about kisses, but the way they behaved is not compatible with a young couple in love, they looked like close friends, even alies sometimes, but there was no passion at all. Also, some scenes like the aphrodisiac are so out of place what was the idea behind that scene, what was the writer's goal? Because it didn't give anything, no passion, no romance, sounded like getting rid of some bothersome business. It was bummer.

The romance wasn't a sugar fest, it was nothing, not even kisses, and to the point that they doesn't seem like a loving young couple, it is not realistic.

After so long, I'm still not over the divorce arc and find myself thing about it someday or another day. The way the ML reacted is so out of place with his reason. He spent days ghosting her, then when he comes back, he burns that paper, that represented how she saved his life when he was in his lower point in life, in her face. He then says he can't accept her coming to him because of guilt. So at this point he really believes she does not love him at all and thinks giving her the divorce letter is giving her freedom. First, isn't it such a huge overaction from him? If this is his reason, was it enough to make him burn the paper and ghost her for days? It was an arranged marriage, he didn't love her at first too! Also, how can he really believe in that when she looks so desperate and sad in front of him, she does not look like a person that wants freedom? He is so smart, how can't he see it? Second, she is always so good with words, why she suddenly doesn't talk, why she didn't say she loved him, again, because she had said days before, but why can't she say it again during the fight? So OOC. Third, two days later he goes to her senior, then goes to Lishan and says he regrets it, so, he now believes she loves him, he doesn't think it is only guilt anymore? What made him change his mind about that?Just discovering Lishan is deserted does not change her feelings about him. Or he just decided to be with her even thinking she does not love him? So he stays with her out of guilt, the same thing he accused her of doing...We don't get this answer because after they comeback to the capital, it is as if nothing has happened, they don't talk about it again, they don't even show what happened with the divorce letter. I know it was a plot they used just as an excuse to comeback to Lishan, but at least make it make sense! It ends up a an arc that everyone wants to forget it existed, because thinking about it makes your head hurt for trying to tie it with the rest of the story.

Sounds like these people have nothing better to do, go touch some grass.

"over the top" as if Chinese dramas has ever had any over the top scene, it always had just the bare minimum to make the romance between the leads believable. Their distance is one of the reasons people questioned if the FL lead really loved him, it shows that they were so distant that it damaged the plot to some extent. Fortunately this drama does not have a love triangle because it if had and the SML was an popular idol I can't imagine the war it would have created among drama fans (looking at you Splendid Match).

With the current regulations for CDramas they can't really show the leads killing the monarch.

The romance part of the plot is definitely the worst one. Not because it didn't have appeal, but because it was not developed, only one kiss scene (I won't count the forehead kiss or the fish lip touch as kisses), no bed scene, very few hugs and skin ships. Having these two actors paired together and not developing their romance just feels like a waste.

So the medicine YeLi is now taking is probably Chinese medicine antidepressants.

People are getting addicted to short dramas and feel anything with more context than 1 min scenes is slow paced.

Lol EP 35 MXY competing with the eunuch for who catches the biggest fish, he would love having Instagram to post pictures of his fish and having everyone see it.

Why?

I bet this drama will set a trend for future dramas to make protagonists with mental illness. They used to only use amnésia, but we will see more delusions and hallucinations now.

So, by the EP 37 preview, the Lishan plague was not a plague, but a poison?

I need a final chapter of happy faces and a chubby baby to compensate for my emotional damage

I agree, and I would add he feels a weird insecurity towards Lishan academy since the beginning. He would get mad if she talked about it and tell her to go back there if she liked it so much in the bath scene. He also said he should be grateful for Lishan grace when he found she planned the bandits thing. He would always bring it up when he got angry with her. As if a person of Lishan was a higher standard than him and that he did not like her having Lishan on her background. Only after knowing everybody there was dead he could forgive her, as if now he could believe she did love him, not pitied him, because she didn't have that strong backing as he thought she had.

The divorce had their fingerprints though

I don't think I ever seen a character as pitiful as YeLi in CDramas, compared to her, LinShu had it easy in Langya Mountain full of friends and hot boiling water.

That was a punch on his face, ML has been getting angry with her so many times since she married him, and she never got angry with him, but he never realized that.

Right? At least you admit it!

Would you believe me if I told you I'm still not over the trauma of seeing YeLi crying last episode? Because I'm not, my poor baby