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From spoilers I saw, she does suffer quite a bit of humiliation, both from emperor (a little bit) and XJS (quite a lot). Posted a comment with more spoilers below if you're interested but be warned, they're full on. But again spoilers are unconfirmed so until we see what actually happens in the drama, we don't know or sure.

Yeh to be honest I agree felt the same for him in the novel, I didn't hate him in the novel either. I understood him.

These are spoilers I saw, again not confirmed but seem to be going around quite a bit so seem likely. Major spoilers ahead for the whole story if true!! Careful!



In the drama XJS treats princess really badly. They end up divorcing. Mean while princess and emperor form a connection as they're both having a difficult time. When princess finds her father and brother are dead, she begs emperor, saying she will give herself to him if he can help her find out who killed them. Eventually XJS rebels, kills the emperor (he begs XJS not to hurt princess as he dies), then XJS stabs princess. Apparently princess is pregnant and this causes a miscarriage.

Again, these are spoilers but not confirmed and till the drama actually ends we don't know for sure. But I feel like they kind of swapped them around if that makes sense. They make the emperor more like XJS from the novel, and made XJS just more like a pure villain. I prefer XJS form the novel so I am holding out hope right now.

Spoilers I saw, XJS treats princess pretty badly. They end up divorcing. In the mean time princess and emperor form a connection as they are both having a difficult time. After divorce, princess finds out ML and her father died, so she promises to give herself to the emperor (thats the wording the spoilers used) if he can investigate who killed them. Eventually XJS rebels, kills the emperor and stabs princess. Apparently princess is pregnant at the time and this causes a miscarriage for her.

Oh sorry, my mistake. Monday is the scene we see in the trailer. Where he gets betrayed, stabbed and buried. Seems like MYR's father attacks him, then he gets stabbed from behind by someone else, not sure who but probably MYR. He then gets buried by MYR.

Btw for anyone interested:

Heat peaked at about 8700-8800 tonight, didn't check for sure.
Hopefully we see 9k and 10k soon!
Show definitely deserves it and with LA express tomorrow, hopefully more viewers will watch this after that.

End of ep 22, ML and MYR had a massive converssation and argument, when ML confronted MYR about being the masked person. Pretty much MYR admitted it, saying he has always been jealous of ML, pretty much how he hates him and his family. Just hurt to see ML getting betrayed by his best friend and finding out the truth.

Yeh princess definitely gullible and immature, and she will learn her lesson, as many people do when they have been sheltered too much and enter the real world. I agree with that 100%. I read the book as well, only thing is I fear they have changed a lot compared to the book, especially regarding the ending fates of XJS and princess. I saw some spoilers, not confirmed 100% but seem to be going around about princess and XJS.

In the book, I agree XJS especially was much more sympathetic, closer to a grey character, I feel like they made him more of a villain in the drama (for better or worse we'll wait and see till the drama ends). I hope both him and princess have strong charter growth and development in the second half though. I do think getting a peak into XJS's backstory in the recent eps definitely helped.

I have seen spoilers, not confirmed but apparently roughly what happens to the princess, XJS and emperor relationship. Can let you know if you want. Again spoilers I saw, not confirmed but saw many of the same so I think it's pretty likely.

To be fair, XJS secretly ran a death camp for kidnapped children, wanted to sacrifice 300,000 innocent civilians and shot the women he supposedly loved of a cliff to protect his secret.

Princess betrayed her brother and father by stealing the token and helping XJS escape the capital.

We understand that they are flawed, but how their flaws shaped their actions makes them dislikable. To be clear dislikable as characters, which is actually a complement to their acting and storytelling. Some characters are made to be dislikable/hateable, some aren't. For instance, ML has a flawed childhood as well, and is a 'killer god' but we see the contrast compared to XJS. He cares for the innocent and is loyal to his people. So he is made to be likable.

Just my opinion though, dramas are subjective so differing opinions are normal and what make MDL great.

I agree. It's fine to love someone else, but betraying your own family for them is insane, especially when she only met him once before. She doesn't know the real him, where as ML and FL got to know each others true selves before falling for each other.

Man ep 22 was rough, feel so bad for ML. The single tear, him suppressing his clear hurt. But by god him cutting that mask was so badass.

For those that know what happens, I am dreading Monday's 2 episodes though, those episodes are going to be painful.

We see Dong Si Yi's character at the end of ep 7/in previews finally. She was great in Rise of Ning, looking forward to her character in this. Calling it now, second romance with FL's brother.

Hahaha ikr, unsure if its real or an act as well, even now still a little nervous 😂

Didn't realize it wasn't up yet, I put it in the discussions section, only the first week one is out right now

Maybe she leaves but we don't know for sure and we also don't know she doesn't come back, can't judge that based only off the intro song. Can be many explanations. Also we see in the intro song as well they got married. Many explanations, like maybe she returns to be with him. Way too early to say he remarries and all that. And the marriage they had you could see was attended by many people, so she wouldn't be an untold first wife, as it seems many people knew, and he has a high position would have been big news, the history would have got passed down. Hell who knows he might not even be their real ancestor, all they have is an old portrait and what the grandpa said. Many mysteries and twists still to come I bet. So too early to judge and say he remarries yet, they purposefully had the portrait of miss Shen blurred/not clear, so could be her, could be someone else, we will see.

Yeh exactly, and I like how everyone thought mother in law was evil but turned out to be so nice. Theres a funny scene in ep 27 with her, when you watch.

Same started following her in I am nobody, none of her dramas have had insane popularity like views or heat wise (thats normal, after all she's pretty new), but they've all just been pretty good dramas and she's played different roles in all of them and showcased her ability. Still young and pretty new. So she's done really well so far, and in time she'll get bigger and bigger roles.

100% like Twelve letters, didn't get much attention but so good

Hopefully, we know angst is coming so at least them being together would make it a bit nicer

Hahaha same here, and I hope they don't either, I don't think they will I feel like in the preview for ep 28 is the ML's confession and apology, so surely they get back together officially after that.