ShortCircuit

I don't for a minute believe it was just powerplay in Gongsun's case though. He liked her. The fact her mother immediately removed her and set up a blind date thus getting Mr Li out of Lin'an is just coincidence. But he looks pretty smart now doesn't he LOL.

I'm sorry Mr Li, the little sister has put a badge on you - "I'm not getting inside the house of a villain". I guess you're a villain now. Sorry eh. Better luck next time.

I LOL-ed for real when Li's adjunct went "Huh, so that's the Marquis of Wu'an? He's not impressive at all" and then immediately the table broke completely under his light touch. Yeah right, he's not at all impressive hahaha~

And THEN!!! The two Xie soldiers going "you should go back m'lord, before the Marchioness finds out" was amazing :D Yeah Yan Zheng, run back before wifey finds out you're gone :D The LOOK on his face :D (ETA and if that guy can't keep his mouth shut in front of his lord, I guess by now the whole army is aware they got a new lady-in-chief coming hahaha~)

As for Qi Min... if a villain, why so pretty?! Dammit. The poor kid though, hiding away all his life because his dad might be a vicious bastard. I hope they at least don't get a make-over relationship and HEA.

But I'm voting for a Gongsun-Princess Royal wedding sometime soon, who's with me?

When it isn't secret assassins interrupting, it's the cute little sister LOL. When these lovers will finally get to properly kiss or something, they might cause a great earthquake or some meteor will strike China LOL.

We're getting development!! Good! And it's clear spring is coming, everybody's in love.

PS I want one of those rocking chairs Yan Zheng was basking in the sun in!!! They look SOOOOO nice!! I want one, please China production team where in Temu is that merch LOL

Sad news, she fails up successfully. He (not her love interest) gives her the empire to run so she could heal from her broken heart that she got by being stupid.

They're playing XiangQi LOL. Take one piece, round up others, remove them, hunt up the General... Your turn :D

He's poisoned, not weak. And yeah, the poison flares up from time to time. And then he's acting stupid for love from time to time.

If you like morally grey MLs, this is for you. If you'd rather have pure crystal-clear powerful bland MLs, I'd say maybe YangYang filmed something lately LOL.

It's about her family's standing in the Jianghu, not her own choices. She's independent, but not THAT independent. Neither was her aunt, come to think about it.

Well, girls raised to follow norms, what can one do...

Most of the story is clear. Who did what - it's just that there are a few more names to pin to the actions already known.

And they're in love, confessions and all. It's just that she's still a little girl and thinking in absolutes, like a Sith, while he's a poisonous little snake who hasn't grown up human so it's hard to explain himself clearly.

There's plenty of time to solve everything. Actually I wonder what there still is to do to fill up 7 more eps. They're pretty short though, so maybe there's enough for a longer HEA too. (No I don't know if it's going to be a HEA).

I understood the reference long ago, LOL, but my favourite is MAMA. And then basically the whole first mini EXO-K album.

So yeah, EXO fans unite.

ETA And now I'm listening to What Is Love on repeat. This is all your fault.

tHen AgAIn... If he's so PURE and GENTLEMANLY, why did HE know what it meant?!....

*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 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.

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.

Yeah, well, you'll see his hair locks wave gently in the wind once and you will suddenly realise you don't need any mystery and revenge.

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.

CENSORS!!!!!!!! CENSORS!!!!!!! :D

Yan Zheng: *starts healing, might think about actually becoming active again*

Scriptwriter: NOT ON MY WATCH!! *thwack!*

The horror intensifies LOL

I'm watching ZLH in Zhu Yu, he has a softness to him that Hua Cheng wouldn't have.

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

You know what, Zhou YiRan would make a perfect Hua Cheng.

... Tastes like chicken.