TaliaToo

Unfortunately, Yu Zheng (main director) and this particular director's dramas don't seem to have those kind of scenes.

The beauty of the this romance is in the dialogue. This couple was making love with every word pun/subtext in their dialogue, from straight up calling her private family nickname (very intimate) to calling her his wife (in a wordpun scene). If you count the progression, the Duke slowly gave a piece of clothing to XFF from hanky to his undergarment to his cloak to finally, she was wearing his whole darn outfit at his home, heh. She was also the only one allowed to play with his "fan."

He was indeed very cute and the BTS scenes of him with WJY for this episode was also very couple-lish, especially with the shoestrap help. Look it up if you haven't seen it.

I have to end midway--got to do a pesky thing called WORK. Pfft.

Omigosh! SYR's Fu Heng and Xiao Heng reference! That was SO apt! Ahhhhhhhhhh!

Oh! Poor SYR heartrate LOLOL. He was acting so jealous HAHA.

Omigosh The Heartrate Game! Teehee. WXY hugging his chair in glee is the cutest thing evah.

Watching H!Saturday on Youtube now! No subtitles yet. Be patient--the subs come later.

https://x.com/dramapotatoe/status/1812708418991337898/video/1

Ahhhhhh! Those photos on a pillow are even making me being into them as CP, heh.

It's hard for me too. It takes a lot of listening for me. I'm more a Cantonese and Fujian speaker. The hardest part is when they are quoting famous lines from poems. But practice/listening makes perfect :).

Please read my reply below. The two lis are two different words. The two names have different meanings and the two girls have different nicknames given by their families.

YW. Yes, this particular drama is particularly fun (for me) to watch because of all the wordplay and clever subtext. Last night, on another thread, we did a deep dive of the rain scene in Ep 17, going through the conversation. It was really fun. Well, for me, anyway, LOL.

I never understood the reason for commenters to be that vile--why spend an hour of your life on something you're not enjoying?

Nice review, thanks!

Yes

Be patient. There will be subtitles eventually.

Here is a copy and paste from a previous reply I made:
Episode 2 Dialogue after she confronted him for her pendant:




Jiang Li's LI is written as pear. That's why you see the flowers. Coincidentally Fang Fei's nickname is A'Li, written like a civet, which resembles a Raccoon-like creature with spots like a leopard (go look with search engine of choice). Both words/names sound alike.

SO IN EPISODE TWO,
our Duke Su had in his possession, Fang Fei's pendant. It has the face of the civet and her nickname is written on it. That's how he knew to call her A'Li. BUT THEN HE INSINUATED MORE. He called her a civet and it's in reference to a famous story (and you know our Duke loves a good story) in which an evil empress exchanged a concubine's baby with a civet. XFF was startled because he was implying that he knew she was a replacement, a fake; she hadn't been prepared for this man to be that smart.

So the civet nickname fit the whole story--her fate, his suspicion and her personality (because she IS like that civet!)

Hope this helps.

Her nickname is written as li in li mao. A leopard cat/civet That’s the animal on her pendant that belonged to her mother. Jiang Li’s li means pear.

Did all the WXY and XFF loving crash MDL? Heh, just kidding. Sure kept me refreshing the page looking for y'all this morning, though, LOL.