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i hope they dedicate an ep or two towards the end for just our leads family life when all is said and done.

the Yu couple really are formidable foes. If you think about it, everything that's happening to the leads since they've entered the capital is all because of the Yu family pulling the strings behind the scene. The salt reform itself is taking the leads for a spin and then it's one thing after another all stemming from this couple.

she's getting sent a cats eye earring. it's joever..

i love reading your long detailed posts! i remember reading one from KTTPH about Li siblings from you as well 😁

the 5 year time skip was done really well but the reunion leaves a lot to be desired IMO.

the chen here what those officials refer to themselves which is 臣. he's a tiger 臣.

is the ML's increasing unhingeness going to come into conflict with the FL? i feel like that's the path it's currently taking us down.

i think it's because he realized she's nothing like what he'd imagined she was. he thought she was another snobby controlling noble woman like his mother but come to find out she can get down and dirty.

the fight on the boat happened organically. i don't think that fight was part of the plan. the guy he gave the token to simply gave it back to him and introduced him as jiuweijiao to the backup that arrived.

he became the official one on the boat when he told them to recognize the face and not the token before he sliced it in half.

WTF i saw the new previews and ZL went to the capital alone! that stupid 2ML actually managed to cast doubt on their relationship that easily?

im willing to bet madam yu's weakness is also that her and her husband are not united like madam yan. does anyone know if their relationship is rocky?

i see it as it's not that ms yu sees her as an enemy it's more so that ms yu makes the FL uneasy. she even said herself that the FL could've just asked for it. so it's like firing a warning shot to let her know she's not easy to mess with and to not include her in her plans so that both should just leave each other alone. none of it matters because by ep 10 ms yu everything seems to be going according to her plans lol. i think her character is very interesting.

for sure. but this is how I feel about cdramas lately where they want to show a strong, smart and independent FL but it almost always comes at the expense of the ML. it's almost like the ML is only in the drama just to give opportunities for the FL to show how capable she is. i have high hopes that this drama won't turn out that way.

that's the beginning of the decline of hollyweird. look at how helpless they made the only man (spiderman) while these strong independent women show up one by one aura farming at his expense. it was so forced and cringe!

you mean superhero movies like this? 🤣🤣
https://youtu.be/L7Y0ucw7bGk?si=JOcJv5lAMsbT4Ek6&t=20

wrong. china's birthrates are lower than japan's now. you don't think popular culture has an affect on society? well, we can disagree on that then.

it's lower than japans now. a chinese couple barely produces 1 chinese baby on avg. 8m chinese vs 22m indians born in 2025 and as a canadian i am terrified.

and people aren't tired of these unrealistic spineless MLs? i'm very tired. it's literally 3 dramas in a row this summer where the ML was some spineless guy going to the other end of the world for the FL from blossom of power to love for you to whatever this lobotomy slop is in exchange for not even the bare minimum from the FL. is this what people in asia like to see? maybe that's why asians seem to mature later and like all these cutesy childish things.

maybe the teenage girl who goes goo goo ga ga over some good looking guy putting up with their obnoxious behavior is appealing but in the real world it makes you un-datable. this is not the message you want to send to a young impressionable audience when your birthrates are at rock bottom.

the 2010s was peak stoic ML ceo and clumsy clueless FL and the 2020s is literally indifferent FL paired with spineless ML who does everything for the FL. when will this trope get old and run its course? you would think a country with crashing birthrates would stop promoting to a young impressionable female audience this type of nonsense where men would go above and beyond to do everything for the girl in exchange for maybe a glance from the female side.