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I wouldn't call Zhao Ling a simp. I don't think he survived the harsh smuggling world without some backbone. The way I see it, he is tempted by the possibility of leaving his current life and actually go "legit". He seems like an ambitious man. We see that when he took on that top salt dealer's identity at the risk of gaining enemies. It's just that he never thought of going beyond his world and Ting Yun planting that seed in his head, actually having a plan for it to happen, a whole world of possibility is suddenly there. But he knows he doesn't have the know-how to navigate that world and Ting Yun does. Not that Ting Yun is doing all these for nothing. She had been very clear with her motivations and goals. Zhao Ling is smart enough to recognize that.

From the previews until episode 10, looks like Zhao Ling is resisting this marriage.

Exactly why he would be the perfect trafficker! Because he won't need to convince people to go with him with that face! They'd be practicallt begging for him to take them! 🤭

Ting Yun's hands were bound with rope when she met them.

I am kind of excited to see the Zhao Ling who will be faced with dilemma when the values he has now collide with the things he has to do to fulfill his goals and ambitions.

In terms of social standing, I don't think she was the same level. Ya Ke is the daughter of a scholar hired by the Fu family to run the Fu Academy. They are not of noble class, unlike the Fu family. As she was not a member of the Fu clan of course she was treated differently, but not badly, by the members of that family. I would think, just based on the drama because I didn't read the novel, Ya Ke was treated very well by the family, especially Ting Yun.

Okay that there is a bit twisted. He favors the concubine over his first wife, because she tells him stories about the girl he's pining for but cannot have, the girl whose reputation he ruined because he did not want to marry her and he ruined said reputation by roping her bestfriend - his current first wife - to betray her. 🤨

Yup. Looks like a troll account.

The way Ting Yun played to Ya Ke's insecurities and they way she easily fell into that trap showed the gap that her mother-in-law knows she lacks.

I thank the writer/s with the thing for ears because I didn't know they could be so 🔥🔥🔥

I am still reliving their tension in episode 5 with that temple scene. 🔥🔥🔥🔥👂🏻👂🏻👂🏻 Help!

I knoooowww!!! I cursed out loud when the credits started at the end of ep 6 because wdym it's over????

Yo! So many things happened in Eps 5 and 6 where do I even start? I was immensely annoyed when episode 6 ended because dang it, I need the next episode now!!!!

The preview! Their ears! 👂😱😳🥰I think the writers have a thing for ears....

I liked how Mrs. Yu put it. He doesn't love her, he just wants someone who is like a plant in a pot. Someone who will support him and someone he can control. Aka he can't handle Fu Ting Yun.

Drowned in a well. It was implied that her death was related to how they framed Ting Yun for that affair so it was probably the sister-in-law's brother or Yu.

Unhinged thoughts. Do these families with weak/incompetent/sick sons marry off those sons, then kill off said sons so that they can "produce" these widows?

Nooooo~ baby enxi is already 21. I think she was only 15 a couple weeks ago. 😭😭😭 You know how they grow up so fast.

I hope Fan Yan Ke stubs both her toes everyday, and that her food is always cold, and that her clothes always itch in all awkward places, and that her bed is always uncomfortable.

Dang! Zhao Ling was only in 1/3 of the novel? 😱