Oh okay now we're (probably) going somewhere. Hopefully. I just also hope they didn't decide to make it into a…
What if it's Uncle Lei? He's way too handsome and pure, and he was one of the original 7 who were trained into the Beidou Formation. Five died (did they all die?) and only MQY's uncle and Lei survived.
WHAT IF Lei didn't actually survive, but also killed the others? AND the uncle? Because if the uncle is the Man in Black it'll be kind of boring - so the Mu family have this habit of mind-f!cking their partners (of the Cai clan LOL), betraying them and getting them eventually killed.
On the other hand - if Lei was in love with PingShu and jealous, destroying the Beidou fellows at the worst time possible just to get rid of MQY's uncle... while a trope, it's plausible. I think the Mu uncle would've fought desperately (and maim Lei as much as possible).
I'll wait and see.
Though I have to say it - PingShu's actress is the most beautiful woman in this drama.
PS I'll be honest, EVERY time they mention PingShu's name... I am thrown back to MuLan. "Ping! Fa Ping!!" LOL.
Oh okay now we're (probably) going somewhere. Hopefully.
I just also hope they didn't decide to make it into a mirror-dance with the previous generation, with the FL going maimed because her ML betrayed her etc. Though TBH I am suspecting something else...
(After 28th), so I guess Mu QingYan is a bit of a lonely, itty-bitty rabid pup. He got his eyes on a master, but the master keeps pushing him away, so he snarls and bites and gets moody but then out come those puppy eyes.
And if he's really really mad he might just go gnaw on someone's bones. Or a chair leg, whichever comes first.
I seriously also don't get it with the toxic-relationship comments - so this guy didn't see people around for 5 formative years in his childhood (because they don't have feral kids stories in Ancient China that's why), nobody paid him much attention (other than passing on some family fighting skills or something), and now we're expecting him to think like a regular Joe?! Because how would that come about? Were I in his place, and surived what he did, I'd be doing a Xena impression on anyone who put the wrong fork at the table or the like. Him being an amoral, go-getter infatuated and obsessive character makes a lot more sense than him being well adjusted out of the blue.
The FL is actually the long lost daughter of General He and her' "dad" is just a subordinate who saved…
General He knows about TWO Fan daughters, if she's his, she wasn't lost. I think they might be somebody's from the city that Xie-the-Father tried to conquer (or defend, I don't remember now), got killed and his body paraded on the walls.
Since it needs more melodrama, if that's the case, then she might be the daughter of the person who killed ML's father directly.
Yan Zheng: *starts healing, might think about actually becoming active again*Scriptwriter: NOT ON MY WATCH!! *thwack!*
These two eps were a bit less tight, I guess the parts of "regular" costume drama with other people are a bit jarring when we've had only those goodie first eps and got used to the better things.
Anyway.
So! She's NOT a Fan girl, then. She said "my parents treated me as well as parents would treat their own" - is she NOT their own? And people already know these two girls are hunted by the PM's secret (very secret, everybody knows about them) assassins' guild.
And her father was/is NOT General He, since General He seems to be fine and dandy and doing political things outside or something.
Yan Zheng's identity will be known by ALL before she finds out, LOL. I expect her to at least give him the "you've been a good pig" talk-to before sending him on his way.
I really really really hope that we get more fighting scenes (and it's still in the snow, because those scenes, maaaaaan they do them so well. I need more. Everybody in cdrama should only fight in the winter and it's obligatory it snows.) But I also hope Yan Zheng gets more friends, one isn't enough. He needs to be teased out of his mind because of the girl who he fell in love with.
Though the one friend he has so far is pretty biased LOL. And his mind works... different hahaha~
ETA PS
Matrilocal husband gets a bit weak (because of reasons.) Wife-Head-of-the-Household: LET ME GET ON TOP.
Oh yes! Or the way there's always snow falling outside in like 75% of the shots? And why do they have ALL the…
There are no chimneys in an ancient house made out of wood. They're always burning charcoal or wood in fire basins, there are no woodstoves in the house.
The only actual stoves are for cooking AND their smoke goes in under the house brick-beds. (His bed isn't one of those, because he's upstairs, but if you're looking at the lower side, they all have Kang beds (or simpler versions of Kang beds). They're made out of bricks with internal smoke funnels, so that the heated smoke goes and warms the bed while the fire is on. Kind of like the Roman hypocaust system, but for beds only IIRC.
So it totally makes sense to have at least some opening to allow the charcoal/wood smoke to escape outside BUT it's a drama, so way too many windows open in order to allow him to spy on what's going on outside (and hear her whispering her secrets to the world, LOL).
In my country's past, peasant homes' roofs were made out of straw, and that (vaguely) lets smoke escape. (I don't know what they did when it snowed and totally covered the straw, maybe they just went to sleep warm and cozy and never woke up or something).
Anyway... I think the drafts are too gentle. None of them managed to make his shirt wave aside yet, or something. I mean, this should be put to the test. For science.
😅😅😅 He's extremely pretty, and very easy on the eyes. So far it's lots of fun.
I wanted to send you a DM to invite you over, but I was being mesmerised by those eyebrows. I think they're magnetic or something, they managed to attract you over here all by yourself :D
So, let's take it slowly. 1. Her father was either General He or one of his soldiers and maybe Yan Zheng was his…
The fight for the infamous city in Beijou (I hope I'm remembering that county's name correctly) was a long while back, some 16 years or so? The one where Xie the Father died and his body desecrated on the walls?
Because Yan Zheng took it back about 10 years back, or so. Or maybe closer to the current timeline. And caused a massacre there (or at least they're accusing him of doing it).
So ChanYu's dad had a lot of time to go home, married and have daughters. OR he was already married (and her mother is also suspiciously well-read, educated, knows how to do special incenses etc). I expect the father WAS General He (who maybe in drama-timeline conveniently disappeared after the fight was lost where Xie-the-Father died. And maybe her mother is also either some soldiering woman, OR a noble lady who was in love with him or he helped save or something.
And in the meantime... he had all the time and interest to grow (bodily) a lot, LOL.
Lol. Try the pause button and breath. The hi def on netflix is not helping. Staring at him on a freaking big screen…
Screenshots. So many screenshots. Now I totally get that Chinese meme LOL. And the one about licking the screen too, hahaha~ (NO I'm NOT licking the screen, I have cats and they don't know any boundaries. I bet one of them licked their behind on my laptop or something and not even ZLH's face is worth doing that LOL.)
Then again. That face. My BFF isn't even watching it yet and I'm totally already envying her for seeing it for the first time.
3 
*frowning deeply at ML*
I bet it's the only position he saw in that first-night manual. They probably didn't hit the same page, sadly LOL.
WHAT IF Lei didn't actually survive, but also killed the others? AND the uncle? Because if the uncle is the Man in Black it'll be kind of boring - so the Mu family have this habit of mind-f!cking their partners (of the Cai clan LOL), betraying them and getting them eventually killed.
On the other hand - if Lei was in love with PingShu and jealous, destroying the Beidou fellows at the worst time possible just to get rid of MQY's uncle... while a trope, it's plausible. I think the Mu uncle would've fought desperately (and maim Lei as much as possible).
I'll wait and see.
Though I have to say it - PingShu's actress is the most beautiful woman in this drama.
PS I'll be honest, EVERY time they mention PingShu's name... I am thrown back to MuLan. "Ping! Fa Ping!!" LOL.
I just also hope they didn't decide to make it into a mirror-dance with the previous generation, with the FL going maimed because her ML betrayed her etc. Though TBH I am suspecting something else...
And if he's really really mad he might just go gnaw on someone's bones. Or a chair leg, whichever comes first.
I seriously also don't get it with the toxic-relationship comments - so this guy didn't see people around for 5 formative years in his childhood (because they don't have feral kids stories in Ancient China that's why), nobody paid him much attention (other than passing on some family fighting skills or something), and now we're expecting him to think like a regular Joe?! Because how would that come about? Were I in his place, and surived what he did, I'd be doing a Xena impression on anyone who put the wrong fork at the table or the like. Him being an amoral, go-getter infatuated and obsessive character makes a lot more sense than him being well adjusted out of the blue.
Since it needs more melodrama, if that's the case, then she might be the daughter of the person who killed ML's father directly.
Anyway.
So! She's NOT a Fan girl, then. She said "my parents treated me as well as parents would treat their own" - is she NOT their own? And people already know these two girls are hunted by the PM's secret (very secret, everybody knows about them) assassins' guild.
And her father was/is NOT General He, since General He seems to be fine and dandy and doing political things outside or something.
Yan Zheng's identity will be known by ALL before she finds out, LOL. I expect her to at least give him the "you've been a good pig" talk-to before sending him on his way.
I really really really hope that we get more fighting scenes (and it's still in the snow, because those scenes, maaaaaan they do them so well. I need more. Everybody in cdrama should only fight in the winter and it's obligatory it snows.) But I also hope Yan Zheng gets more friends, one isn't enough. He needs to be teased out of his mind because of the girl who he fell in love with.
Though the one friend he has so far is pretty biased LOL. And his mind works... different hahaha~
ETA PS
Matrilocal husband gets a bit weak (because of reasons.)
Wife-Head-of-the-Household: LET ME GET ON TOP.
CENSORS!!!!!!!! CENSORS!!!!!!! :D
Scriptwriter: NOT ON MY WATCH!! *thwack!*
I bet ZLH would have made some great role... too bad they won't ever show us anything, of TGCF or 2ha or any of the others T_T
The only actual stoves are for cooking AND their smoke goes in under the house brick-beds. (His bed isn't one of those, because he's upstairs, but if you're looking at the lower side, they all have Kang beds (or simpler versions of Kang beds). They're made out of bricks with internal smoke funnels, so that the heated smoke goes and warms the bed while the fire is on. Kind of like the Roman hypocaust system, but for beds only IIRC.
So it totally makes sense to have at least some opening to allow the charcoal/wood smoke to escape outside BUT it's a drama, so way too many windows open in order to allow him to spy on what's going on outside (and hear her whispering her secrets to the world, LOL).
In my country's past, peasant homes' roofs were made out of straw, and that (vaguely) lets smoke escape. (I don't know what they did when it snowed and totally covered the straw, maybe they just went to sleep warm and cozy and never woke up or something).
Anyway... I think the drafts are too gentle. None of them managed to make his shirt wave aside yet, or something. I mean, this should be put to the test. For science.
Why?
Because she needs 100 pigs.
Because Yan Zheng took it back about 10 years back, or so. Or maybe closer to the current timeline. And caused a massacre there (or at least they're accusing him of doing it).
So ChanYu's dad had a lot of time to go home, married and have daughters. OR he was already married (and her mother is also suspiciously well-read, educated, knows how to do special incenses etc). I expect the father WAS General He (who maybe in drama-timeline conveniently disappeared after the fight was lost where Xie-the-Father died. And maybe her mother is also either some soldiering woman, OR a noble lady who was in love with him or he helped save or something.
And in the meantime... he had all the time and interest to grow (bodily) a lot, LOL.
Then again. That face. My BFF isn't even watching it yet and I'm totally already envying her for seeing it for the first time.