Soryuu Aya Brea

"Overprotective" is definitely too kind a word to describe a man who can keep you prisoner and take away your freedom and free will "for your own good." He’s just a weak-minded man who has no concept of respecting boundaries. There’s no way he truly loved her, either in the novel or the drama. That kind of behavior isn’t love. Thankfully, in the drama, she shows no romantic interest in him, because I'm sure in the novel she probably did since novels often like to romanticise abusive and weak men. In that sense, maybe Chinese censorship has its perks 😅🤣

I hope in the drama, PY will see the light before going too far with the crazy kidnapper part 😅 He is already annoying me so much, so suffocating

I don’t mind changes, as I see dramas as something different from the novels they are based of, as normally all the characters give different vibes. I only mind if I’m watching a drama and feel the story is terrible and then I discover the novel had a good plot. (Cough…Fighting for Love…cough 🤣🤣🤣🤣). So these changes in the drama so far are still interesting even if different from the novel, and I hope they will not ruin it in the second part. I’m always scared of the second part and the ending.

Yes and no, I guess 😅. You can definitely view the 2ML as a typical man of power for that era, someone who, by those standards, isn’t all that terrible considering the time period. But at the same time, you can also see him as a creepy stalker who views women as property. Similarly, the ML can be seen as an assassin on a mission to bring justice to his people, determined to stop at nothing to accomplish what so many sacrificed their lives for. Or, you could see him as a ruthless man who attempted to murder an innocent eyewitness multiple times 😅

I totally agree! I really hope the writers stop his descent into creepy psychopath territory if they want us to care even a little about him. Ever since he started showing interest in the FL, he’s become completely unlikeable. It’s such a missed opportunity! He could have actually won her over by respecting her and treating her as an equal, but instead, he went down the worst possible path. What an idiot!

"Everything has a beginning, but few can see it through to the end." It was written on the dragonfly that 3ml picked. he said, that its meaning is that in this vast world there are often good beginnings, but it is rare to both start well and finish well. I guess it is foreshadowing how her beginning with ML is bad but it will be good at the end and how her beginning with 2ml was good but it will not end well

Haha, exactly! 🤣🤣🤣 Glad to know I’m not the only one picking up on those intense psycho stalker vibes from him! It's seriously unsettling!

And she never showed any romantic interest towards him. He is like those men you are friendly with, and they think they can own you or that you need to give yourself to them because they helped you.🤢🤮🤢🤮

I really want to read the novel, but they say the 2ML is like a main character there and a lot of the story is about him. But if his character toward the FL is like the one in the drama (or worse), I don't know if I can go through it. I want to punch him every time he is so overbearing and suffocating and treats her like property

Yes I'm hoping ot will stay strong storywise in the second part too 🤞🏻

Unfortunately, reparation marriages were still common practice well into the 20th century across many parts of the world. It's disturbing to think about! And given the mindset of that time (and him being a man), he genuinely believes this is the best possible outcome for a girl like her. How disgusting 🤢

Omg! Not incle pei 🤣🤣 I’m still holding out hope that the writers will surprise us and make her just a regular lower-class girl with parents who aren’t connected to the main plot in some dramatic way. Let her be talented and clever on her own, without needing to be secretly related to the upper class for once! That would be such a refreshing change from the usual cliché! 🤣

He doesn't understand that the FL wasn't really manipulated to trust him, as she did give him trust and the benefit of the doubt in things concerning herself. But when other people were hurt in the process (like the old couple), she was wary of him. Now with Ayan, it is going to be worse. Her vision of a nice gentleman that she had about him is almost completely gone. He thinks he is so much cleverer than she is and always underestimates her, which is strange considering his own mother is a very cunning and clever woman. Dont understand why he treats FL as if she was brainless and weak

No, definitely she wasn't in love or anything. She did admire him as a person and was grateful to him and really wanted to help him. She really thought he was worthy of her time and concern, even if she said to the ML she didn't trust anybody, she did actually trust the 2ml enough. As well, she didn't seem attracted to him at all while she did feel attracted to the ML (physically) even when he was just her enemy

I can't wait for the rest of the plot to unfold! I love when the story is engaging, and there's a slow-burn romance that isn't the main or only focus. It makes everything more rewarding when the romance develops naturally alongside a good plot

I mean, it definitely could happen, they’ll probably come up with some crazy soap opera twist about who JC really is. I’m really holding out hope that, for once, the FL’s parents turn out to be nobodies and her backstory isn’t connected to the rest of the plot. That overused twist, where every time the FL is an orphan, she somehow ends up being related to powerful or important figures, has gotten so predictable and annoying. Let her be an amazing nobody from the lower class 😅

I really appreciate the 3rd ML; he is such a nice person so far. I like that they didn't make him fall for her just to add the usual quota of guys falling for FL for some fetish reverse harem trope 😅🤣. I like that FL here met somebody who truly appreciates her as a person and is really her friend, platonically. Because come on, men and women can be friends and just because you appreciate somebody's character doesn't mean you need to fall in love as a result

He definitely has no idea, but I'm not sure if she is lying or not. In the end, it's not even important because if she says he is, then for all that matters, everybody will think he is. The truth is not even that important. The emperor certainly believed her when she dropped the hint. Just hope they are going to spare us those DNA tests in the water with blood; that is such a bad trope 😅

I guess she wants him to rebel and take the throne. The only thing I'm not understanding completely is whether he's truly the emperor's son or if she's pretending he is. 🤔 She has such a poker face and looks so scary and calculating, a very interesting character.

That's what I thought at the beginning, but they are different actresses, and they said his sister died in childbirth. Her master is one of these Yan sisters who were involved when one of the princes disappeared years ago, so they were part of some kind of conspiracy at the court