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Issues now cropping up with the drama's decision to diverge from the novel.

In the novel, the experiences of the leads are mirrored. There comes a time when LMT finds out that she is Lu Wen quite some time before she actually remembers she is Lu Wen, By then she's already happily married to CXZ and they have a son, so she's in a dilemma as to whether and how to tell him, just as he was in a dilemma during their fake marriage. There is a sense of balance and reciprocity in their experiences. We've now lost that since they've decided to give her back her Yangshan memories straightaway.

SY is just a pawn in ZY's game of Go - she will be discarded when she's of no use.

In the novel, at the end after she finally regains her Yangshan memories, LMT squashes ZY's wishful thinking of a reunion and tells him she knows he deliberately let her catch him in flagrante delicto with SY. He knew she would leave immediately in disgust and he would thus succeed in neutralising her military power and although he didn't know that the others had already planned to ambush her, this is a man who views love and life as a game of Go.

Good trait for an emperor, really teruk for a husband/lover. Whereas CXZ once in, is in for better or worse.

I organised watch parties throughout June 😂😂

Exactly! I watched it when it was airing during an intensely stressful period at work. Mondays and Tuesdays became my favourite days of the week during that period because I knew that LR would make me laugh and feel all warm and fuzzy and restore my sanity. Plus who wouldn't like looking at BWS doing his air kisses? Or having a sudden shower of condoms? And the last episode should be the gold standard for rom coms - everything wrapped up nicely with a big big bow.

Too true! LOL

She's a pretty solid character and not delulu like SY.

He's an emperor, comes with the territory. But as a person and in terms of loyalty, loses out to CXZ.

It's too bad they changed the garment LMT made for him to a cloak. In the novel it was his underwear - that would have been so much more intimate and funnier.

This is a good interlude for LMT - she can take a break from the doofuses in her life. Who needs men when you can make money? 💪

He's a user - always weighing pros and cons. Has to keep Sun close for now cos of Prince Sui.

Zowee - aside from LMT, CXZ really can't be bothered to behave like a gentleman to any other woman - ROFL

Loser user Ziyu is a real biatch

IKR?? 🤣

Hmmmm was LMT really a bandit? I think of her more as a guerilla commander.

History is after all written by the victors and since Ziyu has taken back the throne from the dastardly Empress Dowager and family, then his previous "banditry" is now a righteous struggle to right the wrongs.

Ergo, LMT was not doing stuff for Ziyu out of wanting to be an outlaw but because she believed she was fighting the good fight. Thus, her treatment by CXZ should be framed as treatment of a prisoner of war, rather than just a bandit ie, CXZ does not have any higher moral authority in this instance.

Not that I want to draw too many parallels betwen ZWY's characters, but who can help it when CXZ and CX look so same same......this would definitely be the redemption and growth arc for CX in another time and world, esp the OG CX who killed TSJ.

Yes and most likely (cos at the moment has diverged from novel, so still have to keep fingers crossed).

Loser user lah, worse user than CXZ. Entitled user some more.

Loser user lah, worse user than CXZ. Entitled user some more.

Should be advance eps all the way. The last time I paid for express, got the final releases in advance as well.