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As noted in comments earlier, sites like dramacool are illegal and could have malware as well. I believe iQiyi still offers a one-month free trial and a "cancel any time" option. Viki is also not that expensive for a one-year subscription especially if you get a promo rate.

They are also on viki.com - where did you watch the earlier episodes?

One of the best scenes together with LY’s face when he got the plaque.

Do you have a VIP account? Cos these episodes require VIP membership.

Yes he's brilliant in The Bad Kids. I started watching that after seeing him in Song of Glory and was really impressed by that drama - really excellent if a bit high in body count towards the end. Qin Hao is a really versatile actor cos that character is so opposite to the Pengcheng Prince.

Soon we will see evil shifu team up with Lu Yuan................will probably get more hints then.

Yep I'm referring to the consort's brother too - he seems too weasely to be the mastermind and like I said too young. Based on it being the least likely suspect at the moment, it could be the old man Lord Wang like you said - we've only been given a glimpse into the sons' deaths and so not enough info yet. Perhaps Pengcheng was also involved and then W hatched a super convoluted revenge by kidnapping Lige from the Shen household to groom her as head assassin knowing that because of the previous Emperor's decree the Shen daughter would marry Pengcheng one day.............it's cdrama so anything's possible - LOL.

You can still access them if you use VPN location in Asia for eg Singapore/India/Phil - I posted the latest episode links below.

Hard to say - I don't think it's the brother cos he seems a bit of a coward and I think he's too young. The plot has been in planning for a very long time - basically the shifu recruited/possibly kidnapped a bunch of orphans and brainwashed them into assassins to take down Pengcheng Wang - it would have to be someone harbouring a grudge or planning for about 10 years? It could be the former friend - but why attack the Pengcheng Prince unless he also had something to do with his sons' deaths.

Yes, truly FANTASTIC, poignant and even funny! What was kinda surreal/hopelessly romantic depending on your viewpoint was the way Pengcheng Wang kept talking about finding her with a great big knife stuck in him....... Also now we know why Xia Nu didn't want to talk about herself or find out about Fourth Brother since she had already decided to kill herself to protect the Shen family. To see Lu Yuan get the plaque about servitude and Lu Yuan's No 2 get a face full of water was truly hilarious and satisfying. And who's the real mastermind behind the awful backstabbing shifu? Episode 22 was so worth the wait...........

Ep 21: https://www.iq.com/play/19rzhtp504
Ep 22: https://www.iq.com/play/19rzhtqxtk

ROFL................

Well actually all of us have to be wondering about that cos she became so fixated with Lu Yuan for most of story so far that it felt like hating and killing Pengcheng Wang is something she's been taught to recite by rote by her shifu. Also the other thing I wonder about is how come 6th prince doesn't know his own cousin.............but then it doens't pay to overanalyse C-dramas which usually bend reality willy-nilly.

Aiyah, can lah, even if we all know it's a plot device that's stretched. She herself is burdened with so many secrets and lies and she's got this big mission to accomplish where she might die or at the very least have to be a fugitive, plus we've all noted that she's refreshingly different.....besides cdramas always ask us to believe 6 impossible things before breakfast, for eg like how no one can recognise a woman disguised as a man for 3/4 of the drama etc etc

The wait will be over tonight in Ep 22...............

Well the prince was on the verge of telling her his identity a couple of times, but she shuts him up. And of course she confesses everything to him when he's passed out drunk. So that's probably the writer's sop to the audience, knowing that our patience is stretched beyond the max with the whole hide-and-seek thing. But it's ok, they're very sweet together afterwards and go off on battles together, of course after going through some more near-death experiences etc..........

We've seen other consorts who just get ignored by their prince - remember Lost Love in Times and the sidelined and finally discarded consort of Joe Xu's 7th Prince and he was so reasonable and civilized in all other respects? What to do when women are forced into these horrible harem systems? So many of them in real life must have suffered similar fates with no escape.

After the upcoming stabbing as per the trailers etc, the action moves away from the court to the battlefield - probably fighting the Northern Wei army, I think - (I watched the Mandarin previews so just guessing). So from domestic we probably move over to foreign threats for quite a few episodes................

The team at Viki is actually subbing this drama quite fast - they seem to be able to post within the next 1 - 2 days after the drama is aired, and that's considered pretty fast by Viki standards. Unless you bingewatch up to the latest episodes in a couple of days, you should be ok. Besides there're only 6 new episodes per week...........if you wait to watch over weekends you should always have some new episodes.

Don’t think she will be, looking at the previews - so far she remains devoted to the Prince. Think Consort Sun will continue to plot with her nephew........