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I do think there are other spies. The cheat org chart says we will meet 6 Chi level spies but only 2 have been shown so far. Maybe the prostitute in Ep 1 is one of them. Maybe she dispenses the antidote. She can't be a nobody character or she won't be in the opening scene. I just haven't figured out which level spy she is.

I think she maybe she got turned, just like SGQ and YWS are being turned. She must have fell in love with GZY and treated him like her own kid. She didn't want to harm him, she wished to protect him until he came of age. That's why she cut off contact with Wufeng. Maybe she even killed Hongyu and Huanyu while CJ was away to make ZY the next Sword Wielder. I think at least part of the secret of the Infinite Fire is in his tattoo. So her next step is to discredit ZY's birth and leave Gong fortress with him and the secret. CJ already promised to let her go and ZY never wanted to be Sword Wielder anyway, he just wants to be free. The fatal flaw in Wufeng is they rule by fear and not by winning hearts and minds. So their spies/assassins can turn against them anytime.

As I said above, I don't rule out the possibility some/all of the murders were not committed by Wuming/Wuji. The family suspected since the death of the Hongyu and Huanyu that there must be a long hidden Wufeng spy among them. No one smart really believed it was housekeeper Jia but the Mei token found in his belongings confirmed that there is a hidden nameless spy among them.

It was some time back so I don't remember where exactly but it could have been when Wufeng (or someone?) discussed looking into Madame Lan's maid.

Fabulous review, very much enjoyed reading it! This is so not my genre but I was actually quite tempted to watch it. Your review makes me feel like maybe I did. 😃

Well it is a suspenseful scene but it doesn't exactly put her at the scene of the crime... I do think she is a suspect but idk why she would murder the Yue Elder.

Which scene? You mean when she went to look for SJ and YZ?

I am not the best at translating these poems but it hints a body left the fortress which matches what happened to Yun Que or the bracelet owner. There may be more clues there but I haven't taken a closer look at it.

I figured you would be on to it early on.😃

You should probably cover this comment.

Yes I did. Your post is time stamped before my spoiler tagged comment. So if you saw it while I was still typing it was a site glitch.

Madam Wuji's goes by 雾姬夫人 Wù Jī Fūrén. Fūrén夫人 is just Madam and the 姬Jī means concubine. So her given name is just 雾 Wù and her surname is 茗 Míng. so her name is actually Míng Wù茗雾 following Chinese naming convention of surname first. If you flip that it is a homonym for Wúmíng 无名 or Nameless/Anonymous. The moment they sneaked in that her surname was 茗 Míng, some people already figured out who Wúmíng 无名was. And when you go back and think about it everything fits. That said, I think she may or may not have done all of the murders.

Ep 9 ending major spoiler re: Nameless/Wúmíng. Open at your own risk if you are not there yet:

Yeah I think if it comes to it, they will just have to digitally replace him later on or blur his face. They can't just cut him out.

Yeah but they really need to start closing some of them soon. Otherwise its just too many open threads.

Stockholm syndrom.

I used to think Yun Que is still alive and was SGQ. But after watching Young Master Yue at the painting and the meaning of poem he was looking at, I think sadly she may really be dead.

She is a consummate liar. She tells the truth as much as possible, in fact if she lies it is by omission.

I think he is interesting bc in his own way he is as reckless and rebellious as Ziyu but Shangjue indulges his bad behaviour I guess the same way Huanyu indulged Ziyu.

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