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Thanks for the shoutout! Glad my comment resonated.

Oh boy, saw the teasers and saw some upcoming noble idiocy due to the hidden identity and misunderstandings 😳 Ughh OMGGGGG

There is a scene in the bonus chapter 2/3 of the novel where XZ takes his jealousy of Li out on FCY s€*tally because Li had given her an annotated book for one of her classes. 🙊

yep

True. I don’t admire toxic love whatsoever. But, their tortuous dynamic, the story, and the gorgeous charismatic actors themselves have me locked in. Toxic relationships exist in real life. This drama depiction is extreme, of course, and exaggerated for effect; but, certain elements of this story ring true unfortunately, the way some men are crazy, possessive and manipulative. It really happens. And the women who have kids with these crazy men, doing what they gotta do to survive—it clocks. The drama is nailing it.

true, they can’t even help it

True, but Qi Min was part of that lineage himself. Why not let him ascend to the throne? Because she saw he was sick in the head. Better to let his son be the emperor.

He had issues well before this incident with his son. I believe his nanny turned against him because she could see how demented and sadistic he had become.

agree, the violence is intense, I had to cover my eyes during several scenes, like when the inevitable was about to happen to Bao’er’s nanny in the forest

Story of Kunning Palace, Prisoner of Beauty, Shadow Love, The Rise of Ning, A Familiar Stranger, Butterflied Lover, Melody of a Golden Age, A Dream of Splendor, Flourished Peony, My Journey to You

Baby Girl was literally thrown in the air about to land on Dimples Sui’s sword when she was adeptly retrieved and save by Xie Zheng. That was pretty explosive and dynamic to me. Exciting!

It must be amazing to be this charming and awesome. 😎 She’s so cool.

From what I can gather thus far, they are members of the previous imperial family. Qi Min’s father was the previous emperor who abdicated (Qi Min’s own words). So, who is Prince Changxin to him? Adoptive father? It appears the Sui brothers are not really brothers, but not sure if Dimpled Sui knows this.

Red-accents are the bad guys working under the Sui brothers. The Sui brothers are trying to overthrow the current imperial regime by diverting grain from the military and overthrowing various city strongholds. The ML intercepted the grain scheme and is fighting the bad guys in ep 16. The bad guys were trying to overthrow the town where the FL lives. Yes, Li is on ML’s side. Yes, your observation is correct—the Sui brothers are working together, but one of Sui brothers is trying to sabotage his brother as you will see in later episodes.

Not even worth it to waste time on any subpar others when this is the standard

Many people swooned and appreciated the coin gua sha scene. It was all the rage when that episode first aired. Every provocative scene, the loving ones and the toxic ones, has its moment of commentary and hype and excitement.

Did they know CPR in ancient times? 😄🧐🤷🏽‍♀️ QianQian was very advanced.

I agree with your perspective on “Blossom.” I wasn’t wowed by that one either. I didn’t understand the hype at all. But, this Director is outstanding nonetheless. I have enjoyed many of his other dramas and now especially “Pursuit of Jade.”

That hasn’t been mentioned in the drama yet.

There are many smoking hot bath scenes in cdramas—My Journey to You, Love in the Clouds, Butterflied Lover, Kill Me Love Me…