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To add to the very good responses to your comment by Eszter and Tsukiko, Technician Pei couldn't be allowed by the censors to benefit from fruits of the poisonous tree. So she had to die and make us regret her story.
Plus in her letter to Peiyi, she left a record of her reflections and analyses of classical prescriptions to be forwarded Physician Liu at the Imperial Medical Office and she said that she was tired (of the constant prejudice because of her gender, I expect)

Prosecutor Gu was the ML in Butterflied Love (2023) He was pretty gentle towards the FL. Both the FL (Rain Lu) and the 2FL (Bao Zhu) were mostly feminine.
Not a costume drama and not a cdrama but in the Korean movie Be With You (2018) the ML So Ji Sub is a big guy that is surprisingly gentle towards the love of his life. A father and son struggle in the shambles of their home while the son clings desperately to the promise made by his late mother to return during the next rainy season. A remake of the Japanese Be With You (2004) Bothe adapted from the novel "Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu" (いま、会いにゆきます) by Takuji Ichikawa (市川 拓司) There is also a Chinese adaptation. Gift From a Cloud (2025) But the flavor is different. Watch the Korean version first.

Baike Baidu list the FL as 林霖 Lin Lin. She is not listed on MDL.
This is her page on Baike Baidu.
https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E6%9E%97%E9%9C%96/66727705?lemmaFrom=lemma_starMap&fromModule=lemma_starMap&starNodeId=66051d8812a74cd29bdc9a71&lemmaIdFrom=65261586

I guess that if they had filmed her emerging from the tunnels into his trap and then being killed that it was part of the six episodes worth of time that was cut.
I think the clean up that the mysterious person ordered may claim one or maybe two of the gang. I wonder if it was the ML's father or the Emperor that was the hidden man?

Ep. 19 and ep. 18. Was anyone struck with similarity of Master Wu's corpse hanging from the bar and his bloody crotch with the was Ms Liu was hanging from a bar giving birth?

When he killed himself for her, I believe that she then determined to follow him. Perhaps there was no point for her in staying alone in the Palace. That was a sachet that she gave him that she clutched?
I thought that it may have been what he sacrificed to become a eunuch. Makes her grief more emotional.

How far have you watched? In the drama, Luo Shu's past warp her present. in ep. 12, she says that she wants someone who will love only her in this life. She breaks up with Han Muzhi because he can't give up his fiancee which will make Luo Shu his concubine. What made her insecure? After her parents died in the fire, she was taken in by Wuniang who later became Madam Yu of Mingke House, and who lived at the Qin Mansion. It is not made clear in the drama, but in the novel, Madam Yu came from a brothel to become Second Wife but was expelled by the First Wife. Qin Yi might be her son. In the drama, Luo Shu's Father could not be moved by bribes and young Qin Yi to establish his usefulness the Qin Father and Governor Qi, the ML's Father offered to take care of Luo Su's Father, a minor official. He set the fire to their house and later sent men to look for Luo Shu and ultimately pick her up. That is why the placements of her past in the drama are significant. When in ep. 17 she is forced to play the pipa for Han Muzhi's fiancee and the other rich wives it cuts to her being forced out of the Qin Mansion and no one will help her. (People who say that they are close will betray her and the gulf between rich people and someone who was a courtesan at Mingke House) And in ep. 23 at the Qi Mansion with Menglin and the servant girls having a party it cuts to her living with her Mother and Father and then the fire. (Good times are temporary at best.) So as late as ep. 26 during the Lantern Festival when Mengiln says that he loves her and steals a kiss, she slaps him. But in ep. 29. he says the magic words. "He will only marry her. And if she doesn't agree. He will wait a lifetime for her."
Muzhi and Menglin are a contrast in fate. Muzhi climbs the ladder to success but he is alone. Menglin loses everything, is exiled and in poor health but Luo Shu comes to him. She weds him and it is significant that she recites the wedding vows.
Here is a link to the novel.
https://www-kanunu8-com.translate.goog/book5/fengyuejinnang/?_x_tr_sl=zh-CN&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

The last episode, ep. 16. Try kisskh to view the whole drama. In that episode he asked his friend, the Reaper, to kill him at the beach before the blood moon rises and to drink his blood to free his friend from his own curse. But just before he could do that, the FL is there so the ML grabs his friend's hand holding the knife and stabs his heart. He dies in her arms. It is not known if his friend was able to drink his blood, but later he is shown helming a foundation to save children with heart defect, so it must have been done. We are lead up till the very end that his death would sever ties with her. She runs the hotel and after looking in on his empty office/room, she emerges to her party but sees him standing at the second floor balcony. They smile at each other but when they show her smiling the camera focuses on a picture of them at the beach. It that earlier scene she says that wishes to live a life with him and to explore the world together. So we can imagine their future from then on.

Experience shows that dramas often depend on a twist. So it became natural to not take the Princess's death at face value. Same when the 'night soil' lover declared that he killed her. Also sometimes the moment of unraveling the mystery is so good that you feel that you have to preen. Sometimes the detective in me is sparked and other times I fell happy to be lead along. And I have made many errors in predictions, but that is part of the joy and I'm enjoying this drama. I wasn't enamored with the ex-hand maiden story because it is too close for comfort. I don't see a way for the second story to be educational, in fighting a poor hand beyond being kinda cautionary. None of the young women, girls, had a chance.
I guess I say walk your own path and when spoilers that aren't hidden bother you, You can ask until blue in the face and they won't change. Take care.

Ep. 4 made me care for the ML.

Any other actor it would have been blink and you would miss him. But recognized him when they showed his face with the Ministers. Too short. Too short.

How long was he undercover and if so why?

Did the Sister-in-Law have a child and is it the ML's niece?

I hope that you don't mind, but I thought about your comment about the ring on his finger. That was seen leading to and during the crying scene. There are two scenes with him after that. In the last one where he meets Yu'an, they show him keeping his left hand in his pocket. And before that his left hand is partially covered by a book. There may or may not be a ring there. Two episodes before he walks with his left hand in his pocket. I think that the Chinese version puts the wife and their relationship in a more positive light. When he and the wife meet while he is playing soccer, btw not at the funeral, there are more smiles exchanged and the beer comment is there. In My Mister after the hug, in which IU hugs back, (here Zi Feng doesn't) he calls his wife where she asks for beer. It gives the feeling of him settling for number two. And in My Mister, when he is eating before he cries, we see a large photo of he, his wife and son. And the photos on his desk show his wife and son but not them together. Here, in his apartment before and when he cries, we don't see a picture of the three and before that, the pictures on his desk show none of his wife. I guess that the dramas give mixed signals. The wife parts on better terms and the ring during the crying scene hints that they are still married, but the photos on his desk show that she is not part of his life. My Mister shows that the missing ring implies that they are not married and his desk photos show her with his son, but not her and him together. The crying before the large picture of the three of them emphasizes that that is why he cries. I guess in Chinese drama, they don't want to emphasize breaking up unless it is a main point of the plot.
Thank you.

Zhou Yu An dramas that I like. Heart of Genius (2022) is very good but the kids stole the show. Homesick (2022) is good, but sometimes dark. Taro leaves are used in Hawaiian Lau Lau. If you've watched it you will know the connection. Begin Again (2019) AKA Happy New Year, a movie, is pretty good. She is the 2FL and I watch it every now and then to get a sweet and bittersweet feeling, Take care.

They're back in their bodies in ep. 8. Someone may not be the loving person that she had imagined.

Synopsis from kisskh
On the wedding night of Crown Princess Gu Qingyao, a cold-blooded assassin known as Shiyi suddenly attempts to assassinate the Crown Prince. By accident, their souls are swapped. To protect her husband, Gu Qingyao engages in a battle of wits and courage with Shiyi, as a deadly game of assassination officially begins, uncovering a thrilling power struggle between the martial world and the imperial court behind the scenes...
Synopsis from baidu
On the night of her wedding to the Crown Prince, Princess Consort Gu Qingyao suddenly finds herself caught in an assassination attempt orchestrated by the cold-blooded assassin Eleven. In the chaos, the two unexpectedly swap souls. To protect her husband, Gu Qingyao engages in a battle of wits and courage against the assassin Eleven, launching a deadly game of assassination. Behind it all lies a breathtaking struggle for power, entangling both the martial world and the imperial court...

The sister was sent to a brothel by the stepmother, but she claims that she lived with an old woman in the streets. The FL's real Mother tried to protect her son who supposed to have died. So she took the drugs that addled her brain. I think that the banker who was killed may have seen the sister there. Working or living in a brothel may prevent her from marrying the General. Unless she is playing the very long game and will help the other brother.

Tangli is what Mingshu would have been if Lu Chang hadn't used her amnesia to protect hr. sigh