PeachBlossomGoddess

Spot on - Xia Meng is indeed playing Li Qin's spoiled delulu princess from PA.

Yes I always look at the script and director first - that is a given and then the actors. The only reason HS is a maybe is bc of Guo Jingming but the dude is usually either very good or very bad. I watched IA even though I had reservations about Yang2 bc I knew the IP was good. FP I didn't have high expectations bc its an original script.

I skipped Si Jin and Hidden Shadow is only a maybe if nothing else is airing on my list. Wang Churan is very pretty but her acting is not good. Not really a fan of Li Hongyi’s acting either he is a Cheng Yi Lite. Super busy this year no time for sub par idol actors.

It was probably touching the nekkid shoulders that sent him over the line…

Her acting is so bad I just want her storyline to end. I don’t really care how.

Same. Just wish he would lose the silly lopsided smirk. It’s making his facial expression a bit off in some scenes.

Ikr? Cry me a river. 🙄

Li Qin is really tall.

No then she’d have more screen time… For her I am sticking with the falling rock. Splat. The end. No flashbacks.

That was a puppet emperor executed by the regent who held more power than him for his ideas. It’s not usual to have that kind of setup.

Since MY is colluding with someone in Jinxiu it makes sense to me that that plot
moves there.

2. Yes the emperor may just be terminally ill but it’s a bit shady this happens same time his first wife dies so I leave open the possibility of poison.

1 The death squad belongs to XJS and he gave control over them to MY when he left Susha. MY seems to be working with whoever is controlling XJS with poison. Probably the Junxiu emperor or dowager. Maybe MY’s mother abandoned him to marry the previous Jinxiu emperor. That would make her the Dowager Empress Jing. In history something like this really happened it was featured in Qin Alliance.

Agree the Zhuang’s are only after the throne for their heir but I do think they were the ones who framed FSG’s mother as a traitor years ago. MY was too young to have done that. There are multiple conspiracies afoot and they may or may not be linked.

Honestly, bro deserves it.

Same comment - if it were that easy to kill off womanising emperors (there were lots of them), Chinese dynasties would have fallen every other year. Fictional still has to be grounded in some logic and realism. If it were that easy there is no story to tell bc the Susha empress would have bumped her husband off long ago and PM Zhuang would have been regent over her silly son and XJS would already be Jinxiu emperor and this would be an entirely different and rather unwatchable story. 😅😂

Seems he has been poisoned for quite some time now and needs to hoard the antidote. And its not like even a prince can waltz into the palace with a sword, much less an army. If it were that easy, Chinese dynasties would have toppled every other year.

Botox can make face movement and micro expressions challenging.

Meng Junran is the just the name of the merchant that FYX caught colluding with XJS during the Battle of Pingling. They have been trying to uncover his identity all this while.

I don't think he will stomach being under the thumb of MY any better than he would his brother emperor. He clearly has grand ambitions to overthrow him with his death army. These kinds of people don't hangout in an enemy country as an ignominious hostage prince for a clingy princess bride.

Lord Ling also mentioned that the emperor is not welcome at FSG's mom's organisation and they would not accept him as a patient. That suggests to me that the former empress is dead and her organisation blames the emperor for it.

Well he seemed to be controlling XJS and had the antidote to his poison. So he must be in cahoots with whoever is poisoning XJS.

No it is not, but so far there are no overt links between them either. He is definitely however working with someone on the Jinxiu side - either the emperor or the dowager.