PeachBlossomGoddess

She is modelled after the Princess Taiping, Wu Tzetian's daughter. If you go read the synopsis of Palace of Desire you will see it is about how she fell in love with a common man so her mother murdered his wife for her. This should be very loosely based on the power struggle between Taiping and her nephew Li Longji who became Tangming wang/Emperor Xuanzong of Tang.
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Its not that big a cliffhanger. SYR will deny she is his wife. If he doesn't, he is done for so he will save himself. A'Li and the Duke both already separately calculated this.

Yes of course. There is a power struggle going on between the Emperor/Duke Su and King Cheng/Wanning/Chancellor Li.

If he doesn't piss off Yu Zheng...

Poor (the real) JL. If only she had chosen more wisely.

This is Jin Yong's most popular work and part of China's cultural heritage. No one would dare chop it up. They were originally planning to air the 5 chapters in a different order, starting with the previous generation stories first. But it seems they have gone back to the original order, which IMHO is better bc that is how Jin Yong meant for the story to unfold.

Ikr? What a jerk! And that is when I looked at his body shape it match Doudou kidnapper body shape. Scary thought - what if it is Bian Meizhen and her bro all along running the ring?

Yes there is a 45mins x 40 episode limit or 1800 mins in total. The Double has exceeded it and will have to edit it down. They can go over on individual episodes so long as in total they stay under the 1800 minutes. Usually no one really checks but unfortunately someone reported them and many of their episodes go over 55 mins so they have a lot of snipping to do or we will get very short episodes on the back end.

Not known as of 11.

Well I noticed Bian Meizhen's brother's torso looks like the same shape as the kidnapper who grabbed Doudou... This is my"eye-ball method of deduction...😅🤣🤣🤣 And I remember he "found" Xiao Qi insisting he is his nephew, providing the first ID.

I think Jin runs the child trafficking ring and his brother in law works for him and is the one who took Doudou. He also identified Xiao Qi bc he knew who he was. Xiao Qi and Bian Jie should be brothers if not fraternal twins.

Idk I don’t remember that.

Wasn’t that to make her lose the competition?

Did he? When?

Yes I was just kidding. The truth is he sees the emperor all the time it’s a hassle to carry a sword around but I am sure when he goes to the border/battle he will bring his sword.

Doubt it. She won’t be that easy to take down. And they still have to go after King Cheng. And solve Xiao Heng’s father’s case. Both those solutions are probably not in the capital but in the border/ King Cheng’s fief.

Yes she did but the villagers all recognize her and know who she is. She told everyone the truth which is she assumed the identity of Jiang Li and once they reach the capital they have to keep her secret. She told her h uncle that XFF saved her and she promised to save her father. So uncle may think Xue is hallucinating and she is just humoring him pretending to be his daughter.

I think that is a really strong pairing.

Ok so ep 11 closes Wang Shuai's arc. Now we need to solve Bian Jie and Doudou's story. I won't post any spoiler comments since it seems the subs aren't out yet. I will only say so many new possibilities arise...

Its ok if it bombs out I will just go back to watch my all time favorite original Wong Yung.