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But in the novel, didn't she hear CX whispered XY's name during their bedtime? She thought she'd imagined it at that time....

Give Love Like The Galaxy a try. The set up is different, yet feels similar. The ML is a duke/general, powerful with two bodyguards who are brothers who are similar to the Jis. The ML, though smart, is different from Duke Su in the sense that he is just not a family/talky kinda guy, having spent many, many years at war. Our heroine, Cheng ShaoShang is very different from The Double's FL. Because she was left behind by her generals/parents who went to war, her grandmother and aunt had basically bullied her and left her uneducated. However, she is a skilled "engineer" and shows how smart she could have been had she gotten the schooling Xue FangFei had :). I love LLTG, which came out in 2022 and it is in my top 5 of my Best Drama list. Maybe this drama might interest you. If you start, just a quick note--this drama has more family stuff going on in the first five episodes before it settles on Duke Ling BuYi's and Cheng ShaoShang's courtship. Those episodes show how bullied CSS was before LBY's appearance in her life. Cheers!

Yes, they made the most equal partners intellectually in all C-Dramas and I love how they sparred and then slowly fell in love through their sparring LOL. He did "save" her and she did ask him quite a number of times, but she was never shy of taking advantage of anything to survive as well as to achieve her goal of revenge. She was honest enough to tell him at one point then he was going lose a lot (meaning she was going to ask as much as possible) and he understood, telling her that he could afford it. He later brought it back in a later episode that "she might afford to lose (everything for the sake of vengeance) but he could not (because she was the one thing he did not want to lose)." It is their conversations/dialogue through this whole drama that made it what it is.

Now, since you brought up Zhao LuSi...she is my girl. I've followed her since her very early days. She debut about the time WJY became the IT girl for Yanxi Palace. LuSi was able to slowly climb up in popularity by playing sassy characters, with a certain cunning, but she did it with a very humorous and girl-next-door facade. WJY's characters had never had this aspect; WJY excels in giving her characters a calculating demeanor.

However, I believe LuSi is currently the more rounded actress. When I first watched her, she was the villainess in Untouchable Lovers. That was one role she had never returned to because she then hit it big with her following projects, but it showed me she was capable of doing more than the faces she portrayed in Romance of Tiger and Rose and Love and Immortality. You could see the turning point when she chose to play the shy princess in The Love Ballad, displaying something different again. And then, in one quick leap, she was Bai FengXi, showing her ability to play that kind of character before morphing into ShaoShang of LLTG. In these big roles, she certainly showed a few more cards up her sleeve than WJY. And what's more, I'm betting she might give WJY a run for her money in edgy heroines with the upcoming Pearl Girl. What say you? :).

But, back on topic, WJY and WXY definitely created a memorable couple in The Double. I'm a total fan for this CP!

We are told XXF is a Cai Nue. A Cai Nue (Talented Woman) in Ancient China is rare and XXF is the most talented of her district (where her father was magistrate). A Cai Nue could write, do caligraphy, play the qin, paint/poetry, play chess and was basically very, very smart. XFF suppressed her talents and personality for her husband, who wanted to be a court scholar. You'll see in flashbacks how XFF hid a lot of her intelligence by giving hints and using offhanded pointers to help her husband achieve his goal (passing his test, getting a writing assignment done, giving him a script idea). The idea of XFF slowly (and deliberately) suppressing herself is also shown with the selling off of all the things that made her unique--her qin is one of the examples. The final act of selling the pendant, with her nickname (and civet emblem), was her total loss of ego/self.
The XFF that came back alive was the real XFF. Her ex, SYR, did actually kill his wife that night because that woman was gone.

They had a long talk at the end

IKR? 🤣😂

You’ll be like, oooooh huh. 🤓

She actually didn’t look jealous to me. To me, She just looked curiously at the concerned Xiao Heng which triggered his anxiety to explain 😂. She was actually teasing him and he went all “tui tui, tui.” LOL

I found it amusing that A'Li wasn't jealous of Poison Princess' close relationship with Xiao Heng at all, but a woman giving him back his jade pendant in a brothel made her so mad she castigated him days later with words so sharp, our Su Guo Gong had to soothe her with an explanation on why he was there. LOL. And then later, at the night market, he was still asking her whether she was still mad at him. It seems to me, A'Li, being the more experienced woman, was jealous of any sexual relationship her Duke might be having with any female. Poison Princess was no competition at all, heh heh.

You mean leopard cat and mouse :).

Well, I believe those two moments were in different episodes, since she didn't fall in love until after feeling hawt around Su Guo Gong, LOL.

oh, no! Please hide all the shovels. Kidding aside, I'm sorry you're having these problems.

I'm not sure. I noticed part of todays were covered over with audio. I'll rewatch in a few days to see if the whole show hadn't been edited in yet.

Instead, it went like this:-

JL: Want to see a cool play?
XH: Sure!
JL: I need someone who could throw her voice, though.
XH: Sure!
JL: Are you sure?
XH: You can ask anything. I can afford it.
JL: Hmmm, Xiao Heng.
XH: A'Li.
The Ji Bros taking a few steps back....

Heh

Still the funniest reenactment of the love “triangle.” 🤣
https://youtube.com/shorts/RGzwNpKfQKw?si=3B6sdJlHLLfdFMa4

https://mydramalist.com/736749-di-jia-qian-jin#comment-18090855

For your fun 🙃

Sexually aware or in love? Cos there’s a difference. 🤣

Patience. English subs come later.

I’m not sure but I’ve seen some excellent subs where they explained subtext in parenthesis, especially insults! 😂

Pls do scroll up and check out under the Other Topics of discussions topic called Couple Scenes and Dialogue. You might find the posts in there to your liking🙃

In this drama, esp, yes, since WXY as Duke Su kept asking to kiss the character XYY in the BTS in different episodes and the director kept saying no.