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It wasn't said they were sisters though.

This is so true. And I love Yeli for this so much. In most of the dramas, FLs refuse taking gifts except some which are cheap or just hold emotional value. Anything expensive, they are like I don't want that, what should I do with that. And I used to always think, you don't like money? So weird, that's your husband/bf why are you shy of taking gifts from him?
Yeli fulfilled my dream. She took 1 mili second to say yes. I love her.

Yes, even in teasers and trailers, they showed them in mountains. But it seems not very soon, as you said.

Mo Xiu Yao and Yeli in the modern world
https://x.com/BennyLwge/status/2066751819779543297?s=20
https://x.com/czhouye/status/2066756645154382010?s=20

It was shocking to us, even though they took us through the entire process. His bestie's reaction was😂😂, he finally knew why the shops were taken away from him.

Its not too fast, or too slow. I think it just has a natural pace. Like sometimes a lot is happening, but there is a lot of calmness to it. But if we see by episode count, a lot of things has already happened. So the pacing seems exact.

I really like the direction in the drama. Its nice, if you see closely, initially ML would limp while walking. Now the limping is a little reduced, but its still there.
I am so glad they did not show him running just after he could stand. They showed him falling down, again standing up, practicing. His entire cure is done really well, in "drama standards", but it was not draggy as well. Plus the best thing, he can stand up before the drama has reached its half. So we get a lot of episodes seeing him in activity as well.
I am a little scared about Yeli's healing, because this is much of a sensitive issue than physical healing. But they have started it well, taking a calm approach to it.

This, when Yeli came back home and was looking for him, and found him standing in front of the pond watching fishes, it was so weird for me at first. We all got used to him in the wheelchair, that it will take a little time for us to get used to the new variant of him.
Especially the scene, remember she was writing letters, he came via his wheelchair, and left it, walked and sat beside her??😂😂He is using it as a bicycle now, lol.

So true

The upcoming scenes with many teasers for next few episodes, seem to be very sweet. This scares me because angst would follow soon as well then.

yes

Cousins

I have just started watching cdramas since the last 2 years, so I do not have a lot of knowledge about it. But I don't want to deny, I really like idol dramas. In fact, I think @MariaB even pointed out in one of the replies, dramas like these are a lot of work, people are lazy, so its understandable. As I said target audience is different.
Surprisingly they took idol actors and made a drama like this. So many idol drama watchers thought the drama is for them, but eventually they realized its "boring", when its just not their taste.

Mo Xiaowen was never a traitor. That's why he could never instruct his army to fight against other armies (of the same country/empire), causing deaths amongst themselves. He and his army was imprisoned regardless, when Yeli's mother met him and asked for the location.
Marquis Muyang's faction was too powerful at that moment. So Mo Xioawen did what he felt was correct.
I do not want to reserve my judgement before full information is out though. I actually commented the same thing, few hours ago, after watching episode 16. But I got around 80% of the answer I was seeking. So lets see.

Exactly. He trusted Lishan. That's why today Yeli told her third uncle, that her mother and Lishan have this debt to repay to Mo Xiaowen.

I agree to you. Target audience is mostly different, though there are some common people as well, like me. I love those dramas, because it gives me the fun aspect. I ignore a lot of plot holes, to see beautiful people on my screen.
But that doesn't mean I cannot appreciate real good stories. If they continue the same thing till episode 40, this might be the best Chinese Drama I ever saw.

Yes I actually saw comments that Leizi and Lulu have a lot of chemistry offscreen but surprisingly not during the scenes as MXY and Yeli. I feel very different about this. I had mentioned this 3 or 4 days back as well.

In this drama, every thing is done very naturally so is their relationship. In most of the arranged marriage trope dramas as well, if there is a sudden hand touch or something, they flick, with over dramatic music they make a very romantic atmosphere, show sexual chemistry, through sudden falling, pulling, saving scenes. In this drama they did nothing of it. They stare at each lovingly. The day they slept in the same bed, it was so realistic. In this drama, they have kept the entire thing as close to reality as possible in regard to their relationship. Nothing was awkward between them, sudden heart bursting moments, nope nothing shown. This is the reason people thought kiss had no chemistry. In fact we just got the kiss for 2 seconds.

They had so much chemistry when she held his hand and slept in the temple. When he put his other hand on her, kissed her forehead, and had teary eyes. Haha with red ears.

They did not clearly explain this part. I think when ML knows the truth, we will get a little more explanation as well.
But it seemed to me, that ML's brother always knew it was a trap, and hence he hid the edict somewhere. Empress Dowager had him arrested, and accused of treason. I think he feared the edict being taken away from him, so he hid it.
FL's mother told him her father was coming from Lishan. Her father was an influential person. Not only he was the headmaster, but also teacher of Empress Dowager, had relevant power in the capital. He was ready to plead on behalf of ML's brother. So ML's brother told her the place where he hid it. But eventually it was snatched away, and we know the rest.

He always nails it.

As per the teasers, we will enjoy the Ferrari for few episodes more, while MXY is busy pretending being a cripple. Haha.