ebonwilde

when they talk about the 'crown prince' fifteen years ago, is that the current emperor, or was he already emperor then?

i can't imagine anyone besides the emperor having the power to do this, and if it's not him, he's definitely aware/involved to some degree. he also has a motive (if prince of duan was older, wouldn't he have a greater right to the throne?) but if it is him, i also can't figure out why he'd be fatherly towards peiyi. from what we've seen, killing his daughters/marrying them off are his specialties lmao

okay on ep 20 now, and all the culprits dying so that they don't have to confront whether someone killing rapists and baby traffickers should be jailed is very much a cop out. that should also be a conversation.

the stalker? who broke into people's homes?

yeah i watched the rest of the ep and i guess he had an excuse (his headaches/injuries/whatever) but is he going to act like that every time he has a headache?

anyway watched the rest of it HE'S SO BORING

atp he's the same as prince duan, like idgaf about your sad backstory, duan also has a sad backstory, that doesn't give either of you the right to be controlling misogynist egomaniacs? it always kills me when the sml is (correctly) portrayed as evil for his abusive actions and then when the ml does the same thing, it's just dark romance 🤪

ik by antagonist you mean the killer of peiyi's family, and he's not that, but he's definitely an evil-adjacent character to me. from i've seen so far, he's failed his daughters, his wives, and the random palace women he keeps assaulting a hundred times over. and as the emperor, he *is* the system, no?

but wu ren isn't a princess though lol? like i do agree the time period is extremely restrictive towards women, that's literally what the drama is about. i just don't get why there can't be *one* female doctor when she's supported by the chief imperial physician (i think that's who that is?) especially when there's another nonprincess detective walking around with even fewer challenges to her career than li pei yi

not to be shady but this is miles better than twd. with twd i lost interest in the middle of ep 6 like i couldn't even finish the episode. uvjw is brilliant storytelling however

they've got female detectives though, why not doctors

someone getting killed every two minutes but not a single person killing that fuckass emperor... oh alright

exactly i can accept this! even though i think he was more partners with her dad, i don't she had much power in the firm in the past life, unless i'm forgetting

did we watch the same drama? he consistently made decisions to protect companies abusing their workers over a ten year career, knowing jang tae shik he probably also made rulings to defend rapists; he harmed hundreds if not THOUSANDS of people. meanwhile the only person she did anything to was him. her dad's sins are not her own. he was a billion times worse and if he gets to be redeemed she gets to be an angel lol. like what even.

"only his majesty can read the list" you are not a serious person 😭

those two freaks (eunuch and chief justice) are absolutely colluding and if the emperor doesn't know, he's stupid asf

i agree with your comment! i think the culprits can be obvious, but the specifics are very twisty/intriguing, i honestly don't know why people are complaining

i am so sorry lol i forgot that wasn't revealed early on

i'm on ep 5, so i don't know about the rest, but it was obvious wanshun faked her death. but the guard and cui manshu's involvement was definitely a twist

the concept of fake crying when your daughter literally kills herself to avoid marrying a foreign prince and then immediately marrying your other daughter off to the SAME prince the next day... hsjfhkdfj these emperors hate their daughters down