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worse, not even a concubine, a whole mistress!

I know we're all focusing on the Yu of it all, but Yu dad's meeting with FTY and ZL in the novel is also a lot of fun if y'all want to read it. You don't really need to know the rest of the novel's plot to read it. It starts here. https://mydramanovel.com/hua-kai-jin-xiu/chapter-181-jiadao-street/

Madam Yan and Madam Mo are parallels so the question is whether being someone the Zhaos care about will impact them positively or not. Both were greedy because of their children, but one was at complete odds with her husband, while the other couple does love one another, but don't communicate. (Once again, the show is "if you listen to your wife you won't be a hot mess" LOL)

Plots different now but most of their original moments were in the temple. She didn’t actually get to do much until the very end.

love that miss wu and fty meet at the temple like in the books!

finally watchign the ep and general mo was kind of a dummy in the novel too and actually didn't end up super besties with ZL (well not that they're super besties here but y'all know what i mean) and was also annoyed he couldn't marry one of his kids to the Zhao children LOL

yes!! i can understand why the screenwriter made the choice to change it but, sad still

the previews are superbly cut for maximum drama because the one for ep 31 mentions the funeral for the person who dies this ep, but there was NO implication of how so I thought maybe it was because of the fight between then yan and anzhou merchants!

he loved her at the start! and then he couldn't stand her, he just never was home and when he was he got sick of the drama between her and the two concubines, and then well I don'twanna spoil you. LOL

yes her sisters and cousins are great!

yessss, and the end of the newest batch of previews with discussing "what does the Tian family really want"

her saying she was sick is also foreshadowing i think, will Yu dad take care of his wife as she has taken care of him and the family all these years or say idc i need to take out ZL!

This is way more engaging than the novel because it's a totally different medium. the last thirteen chapters are ALL about taking down the Yus with some stuff about long-term planning for the kids weddings. (Though the stuff with YJX starts even earlier, in the late 200 chapters

yes in the novel he was too busy helping some other lady who ensnared him and orchestrated her betrothed murder so not enough time or space to develop all that so it looks like instead his parents will probably throw him under the bus

I'm hoping the last ep we'll get happy family time and it's not just tacked on at the end for sure!

I don't think she meants literally living separately, that they're on separate paths right now.

The formal mourning period during the Ming Dynasty was three years so I wonder if we'll see him shave soon or it'll go away during the next time jump, technically ZL would have had to leave his job for that entire period so they'll probably shrink it and in the previews we see he's still working 👀

they aren't separated, he didn't grow his mustache, it's that he wasn't allowed to shave during the 100 days of mourning for MIL

Because a slice of life historical drama isn't really what does well, they gotta get their viewers!

Biao ge and Chuan ge are us in the comments rn 😢

all the chaos about oh his friend is dead and it was just mil he didnt cut his hair for, aiya!!!