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I finished the show but it's so annoying; this includes most of the characters and the plot. The theme of "self-sacrifice" was so overused... everyone and their mothers had multiple moments where they "sacrificed" themselves in order to try to resolve a situation on behalf of another character.. but only to end up creating an even bigger mess.
One true solution = Kill Weishang Yan. This dude was exposed as the final boss behind EVERYTHING like half-way into the show and every character had infinite chances to kill him and be done with it but somehow they all end up following his plans or making deals with him.. which only helped to further his own plans. Nobody actually kills him in the end.. lol wtf.
The "heroes" in this show didn't do anything heroic at the end.. The emperor, ling long, her father.. were having fcking dinner and long chats all while knowing the city of pingting was being ravaged by evil souls. like bruh c'mon.

The show premise was good but the writing and direction it took was not. We went in a circle and achieved nothing.

yea before his 1st wife passes away she had a plan to have one of her sister (ends up being FL) be married into the family as an legal wife to look out for her son, she also made it so Qiao Lian Fang who was the biggest threat to become the next wife could only come into the family as a concubine. legal wife is in charge of all the shiznits in the house so it was important for his 1st wife to do all that to keep her son's future in good hands.