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While I do understand you feel that way, but from the perspective of ML, he feels FL considers him a friend, telling her the truth that he is actually the tyrant king might make her fear him and not trust him! He finally found a person of his world, he doesn't want to be alone or doesn't want FL to be alone!
ML will himself tell the truth to FL, if they abide by the novel, its not FL finds out by herself and has an angry confrontation! In the novel, ML wrote a letter to FL, where he confessed everything, that was such a teary scene, I cried buckets! But by then FL and ML were in love, she understands him! Its a little angsty because FL and ML were not in the same place then, I don't want to spoil more so that you enjoy when the episodes come. But its not that bad, FL will find ML and reunite with him!
In the novel, FL and ML do not fight a lot, they do not have breakups! There are some scenes, some things happening but they do not get dragged, so don't worry!

I don't know which episode, but its not soon. Like there are a lot of plots before that happens.

He was 13-14 when he was transmigrated. He was drugged, poisoned, abused, and raped. A maid was forced to have the a child with ML when he was just a teenager as orchestrated by his step mother. After the child was born, the maid was killed so the step mom can control the crown prince!

Yes absolutely! I guessed it earlier, now its confirmed!

Yeah lets see!

I am so sorry, I don't remember this! I don't even remember if Dan and Duan's mothers were killed by the present Empress Dowager or previous one (Dan's grandmom). I read the novel long back, so now I just remember the key facts, rest all the other stuff I don't remember. I will wait for the drama for that! But if Donghua says that, then it should be correct!

The drama is following the novel exactly!
I will give you an example! FL and ML are around the same age! You can say both of them are born supposedly in 1997-1998 in the real world! Dan studies in school he transmigrates to the novel world in 2010-11. From then to now he spends in the novel world. FL transmigrates in 2026. Hence their ages are similar, its just both of them have grown up in different dimensions!
Again, the years are not exact, I am just giving an example to make you understand!

That is not the only reason. He also thinks FL might not consider him as a friend if she knows he was the tyrant. Plus he wants to hide his pain of 15 years. Its his own son, but ML was for sa for that as orchestrated by his step mom!
FL wouldn't care. She loves ML. She knows the pain he went through! So don't worry about her reaction!

In the novel it was said, that Prince Duan believes his mother was killed by Dan's mother. No proof or anything, but he believed that! Dan's mother was also killed due to palace politics! It was indicated that all these things were orchestrated by Empress Dowager.
Duan and Dan were step brothers, Dan was elder hence the emperor, step siblings will for sure have the rivalry for the throne! Some times he said he was also tortured, and hence was angry at Dan, but it was not due to Dan, Dan was also tortured by Empress Dowager, so yeah, not much information is available!

He will tell the truth to FL on his own, via a letter, when he sends FL outside the palace far away for her safety!
Don't worry, FL doesn't care about the lies, she read the letter felt bad for him and then went to find ML again and they reunite!

Are you asking if ML is Empress Dowager's son or not? No he isn't! Even Prince Duan is not her son! Either she is childless or her child might have died or something, there was no mention of her having kids!
Prince Duan and ML's mothers were killed in palace politics, might have been orchestrated by Empress Dowager. In the novel it was written that Prince Duan believes ML's mother was responsible for the death of Duan's mother. Again no proof found nothing!
I think she tried manipulating ML and Prince Duan but failed because they understood her intentions, had mothers previously so! That is why she forced ML to have a child, whose mother she killed, so that the child since day 1 can be in her control! Hence she retains powers!

I read it months back, so except some key details, I forgot rest!

I did not watch that! I just read the novel! So for one second I was confused, but then I tried to remembered, but had no such memory that the crown prince was transmigrated too! Hehe! Brilliant move!

So our theory of the cases being interlinked is true. Because the second case closed with the death of the guy who ran away, and FL mistakenly killed him; but there were people who orchestrated that. Next case also is related to the palace! So there are a group of people responsible for all of these and even FL's parents! I highly doubt the imperial consort though!
In such dramas, the climax has to be really important, hopefully not rushed, because they have to close the loose ends of all the cases, and incorporate it together! I hope they are able to do that!
This is a nice watch!

There is a plot twist to the killing of the minister thing! Secondly ML and FL want to survive. They have no intention of killing SFL and SML. Also if you have watched latest episodes, SML is a very bad person! FL and ML know that if they don't do anything they will get killed, hence they are trying to change the script, while helping others, like the scholars are saved who are good people, they will eventually stop the drought as well!

He never read the novel. He clicked the notification and he transmigrated. The plot was only known to FL because she read it! He was a kid, he never knew what was happening! He was abused, manipulated and poisoned, forced to have a son at the tender age of 13-14. Those things lead him to be untrustworthy to others!

15 years!

So generally, child of a maid is not considered to be crown prince. But if the emperor has no other children, yes they will consider then! That is why Empress Dowager forced concubines to have a drink for protection against pregnancy! In novel that was clearly mentioned! But they may have omitted this here due to censorship! Plus here they did show ML was not interested in concubines! But I don't know if you remember there was a scene where Empress Dowager asked her servant if FL and ML spent the night together, and her servant said that because no one is allowed near the chamber by Mr.Bei, so they don't know about sharing bed, but they both were together in the room, and empress was really concerned!
Her main agenda was to kill the ML, and have his son who is manipulated controlled by her since his childhood sit in the throne, so that she can enjoy power throughout! So yeah, she is very disgusting, but don't worry she will soon meet her end, I think by episode 20, because even in the novel it was in the middle!

He was just there, as he said to FL, he was just looking at the flowers. FL gave him so many hints about the modern world, he could not catch any! I think they deliberately did it to make people be in doubt! Hence even made the same actor play father-son!
But no, he is a 2D character. Just have a rewatch in those scenes, ML always wears black, his son wears white!

Yup as a novel reader I got confused! Brilliant, they made father-son being played by the same actor to create the confusion!