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Ep18, and a lot has happened. The scene where chen yi and miao jing was riding bike with high speed, it's like they don't have fear of speed and risky things as life has already mastered them at that. What follows is miao jing's attempt to close the gap by getting to know how much chen yi has suffered wheh she was away. The scene where chen yi told miao jing " ask me whatever u want to know just don't investigate zhang bin and logistics company." And she said I don't want to ask anything today I want u to sleep properly and then she gently tried to make chen yi's furrowed expression while sleeping smoothen. This is peak care anyone can give.

Then we had theatre scene one must hear the lines of that play as it tells miao jing and chen yi's story. " The drifting clouds are blown away, i climb the flower steps and see the full moon,my heart longs to linger and speak with him, but the rules were set long ago, i must not stay any longer, you climbed over the wall, get back to the camp, do not forget my heartfelt devotion". These lines tells the story of them before separation. That how miao jing has to leave to protect her as that was the rule that was set even without her consent and as if she is asking quietly all that time to not forget her devotion for chen yi she had. Like she is complaining to her lover just like in theatre play.
Then they said "after six years apart, my love has never changed.it winds around my heart, binding us together. This sword is only for my beloved, your heart, like mine, remains unchanged, together hand in hand, together for life" like it's miao jing acknowledging their relationship that they both still love each other and the promise and dream they saw 6 years ago to share all good and bad together for lifetime it still remains unchanged.

The whole Convo between chen yi and zhang bin is more like threat just handled very diplomatically by using metaphors of fish. That how zhang bin thought he fed chen yi so that he stays loyal to him but he is getting smarter. Then he very cleverly brought the Convo that how he trust chen yi ( which he don't) and indirectly threaten to harm miao jing( as someone new in his life) to get chen yi investigate who is leaking the info about his logistics company and again bringing onboard in his dirty business by hiring him to his company. Chen yi took the clue and that's why he agreed again to do something that he wants to stay away just to protect miao jing. When he knows if this time something wrong happen he can actually loose miao jing and he is afraid that he lacks power from stop happening that considering how big zhang bin is.

Apart from chen yi coming to the rescue of tuli and her son. And while starting of jealous era of chen yi from cen ye and miao jing. I guess we are forgetting that even though cen ye has/ had feelings for miao jing. He is very professional when it comes to work. He understood that there is clear misalignment within team and it can impact company and this project. The project leader trying to get info out of miao jing but failed to do so. But he still is like a snake in his house. Killing his own babies.

When it comes to auditing, it's a key that before auditing team completes the audit and reach conclusion the financial records, cash ledgers and tax returns should not handed over again to auditee as they can always tamper the data in the name of review and that project lead did exactly that. Plus cen ye didn't shy away to call out miao jing about missing gross margin formula( an indicator used to measure or check the health of company and identifying any frauds, scams by using raw data) and to avoid blame game as project leader was saying he did gave all raw data from inventory( meaning whether couriers and goods are matching shipment orders or not) to miao jing for consolidation and use metrics to complete her reports. But we all saw that how cen ye don't trust project leader and how miao jing was also investigating in inventory and fleet areas. So basically from auditing purpose the team is in misalignment and they need to again do thorough reinvestigation and report preparation before green pass that this logistics company is good to go for ipo and is credible to worth investing in with no scams.

Deep into auditing terms:-
It looks like drama references The "Ghost Fleet" and fake revenue to move smuggled goods or hide dirty money by creating fake shipping orders. like we saw in earlier ep that one of courier was saying suddenly how they are getting more boxes to pack and deliever.

If their revenue is spiking but their real fuel costs, driver payroll, and truck maintenance aren't matching up, their gross margin will look ridiculously high or unnatural. Exposing scam.

Then we have seen how tuli was getting cheap materials. Zhang Bin's operation labels crates as low-value, legal goods on the manifest to pay minimal tariffs or bypass heavy border inspections, while secretly transporting smuggled goods underneath that. All these to bypass custom duties and heavy tax paying.

Wow. I really really enjoyed reading ur comment. I watched the video u shared and i can't help but to do three things.
1. Appreciate and admire as to how cdramas are portraying such cultural exchange and realism with the world. I didn't even knew that Shazou( i always forget name) is actually a real place in China. I thought along with fictional dynasty this city is also fictional. Plus the naan and cuisine that was shown in video i never knew its preparation and cooking is almost same as Indian naan but also diff as shown and told by the guy Flo in video. Even those thread work in thin paper or net sheet as we see in drama is so same. But ig the heavy food makes sense as u need energy to survive in that vast desert. Also the Han empire i recently only googled or came accross this dynasty name while searching for salt and iron monopolisation and trade that somehow i discovered while watching and surfing this drama. And I got to know it's located very near to Shazou so quiet like story linkage. I am appreciating this drama more.

2. I remembered a lot of concepts after watching this video and ur comment. I only read about yardans, sand dunes ,attrition and abrasion but in video that was reflected. Somewhere i can't help but just compare to the desert in my country. In my country i have only seen one hump camels but i never knew even in China we can find double humped camels. Also camel lengths are small than i have seen in my country.

3. This whole Convo made the girl in me awaken so as to get the motivation to study geography again tomorrow morning 😂 although my fav subject but it's eating dust for so long.

But sandflies are so dangerous. And i understand about whole flight situation. In my country before summer when strong winds comes from West Asia all the way to carry the sand from the desert located in west of my country. Even me who is living in east has to close the doors. We avoid going out that time otherwise due to hot and sandy winds people actually die. Can't imagine the situation when stuck in mild or intense sandstorm..

That's where ig i appreciate green screen. It's so deadly to shoot there with precautions it asks for lots of money and safety. Although real shooting places are always appreciated but this is far too dangerous.

Thank you. It was a nice exchange of comments and ideas. It's been long i have enjoyed talking this much.

Idk. Not yet started. I am still at nanyang mystery. 😂 Thriller is not my genre. But i heard it's doing extremely well. Its heat index surpassed 10,000 in first day only. So it's a hit. Plus it was most anticipated drama. U can skip season 1 of mystic nine and directly go for season 2. I will join much later on that. 😂😂😂😂

Mystic nine and genius gf. Both u can try if u are fan of thriller and modern romance respectively

I can't survive past 2nd ep. I really admire ur patience. But i did saw in parts and skipping. Everytime I want them to discuss about relationship and whole concept of how they themselves ( i.e. show) decided to explore how fated mates are bound to meet and u just can't control and loose ur ability to think and act, how they are bound to love and face life and death situation of omegaverse. Not to mention the greed and power hungry people of wanting to produce enigma and dominate the omegaverse world was left so scattered and not well handled. I understand they explored something new like respecting consent in omegaverse but come on move on from that. All i saw from main cp is too much rely on NC scenes which for some reasons felt flat. I thought that's how omegaverse is, like animals but no. It just lack emotions. Even I can ignore plot holes rn reason being lot of only serious shows are airing and I really wanted to watch something on brain rot level. But this is even worse than that. Plus too much side character introduction i mean why u want to introduce those characters if u don't even explore the fights yes the normal ABO fights with power. I just can't help but to remember even in ABO desire it's not always about fights but they did showed how their powers are superior than others. Here the only scene where i felt little bit of showing pheromone and scent thing dominant to win and surrender is when nakhun carried phatsa during bond fever. They actually could have sticked to one basic concept of ABO world and revolve the story around it and it would still be better than this. It has elements here and there but it never took the form of storytelling or serving the plot because looks like the script writer just named the series "Knot" and forget about it. Even acting wise i liked oat emotional breakdown but that's there all to it. I was really excited for this but looks like all i can get from this drama is disappointment.

Really??? Starting now. Should have told this earlier. I was literally scratching my head because all I see are serious drama 😭. This is exactly what i need.

What about Gobi desert?

Tbh filming in desert is not easy. Some scenes where younger meng ting hui and younger emperor is facing sandstorm that can and is actually deadly. Even the scenes where meng ting hui was saving xiang that is also not easy to shoot in desert.

As an audience we really want realism but sometimes few scenes can't be shot in that area. It can literally cost life .

Who do u think is more appropriate meng ting hui or xue fangfei from double ???

Ep3, so maybe coming from a country where salt production was considered as our right and freedom movement during colonial period. I can't help but to search as to why salt production in ancient China was strictly controlled. Interestingly, when I googled i found out that how deeply geography can influence a basic need of human being. That time looks like it technology was not well developed and due to not having access to sea waters except in South and East China from then it was considered highly valuable. So states used to impose high taxes and control salt market. I am attaching reference link below if anyone wants to read. 😅

Iron is tricky. Even till this date iron ore extraction and getting high quality iron along with in mass so as to produce for commercial usage is a challenge. And imagine that time often for military arms purposes it was used in huge amount. Plus high quality iron usage in arms apart from imperial army means threat for all the reasons we saw in this drama as well as in ADWAD. What amazed me in this drama is the reforging concept of military arms. It's a new concept that I have never listened. I mean I get the idea of melting iron and using that iron to shape the arms as transporting arms would be too risky and need more n/w to pass all checkpoints and skilled labour to again forge arms. But looks like reforging in China is not new. They often used to melt iron in order to shape the tools that they need for more smaller and sharper objects. Also it also makes sense in drama as it would help escape away the marks on military weapon so as to understand that no one is reusing or embezzling the military arms as it is to others. That's why in ep3 there was diff emblem also that those shanzou bandits were using.

Apart from that in ep3, we got to know the despite king surrounded by person like chancellor xu he also has someone like shen who is so loyal to the country. That heartwarming reunion of shen family and king enjoying that moment tells how much tuff life inside palace is all glamour no peace and happiness.

I just knew it how governor will escape first when he will be in problem. But one thing along with freeing shanzou ig this is where king has fallen for her. Earlier he was just interested but now he looks friendly and smitten by her. Start of their friendship. Interesting to see how story will unfold from here on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourses_on_Salt_and_Iron

PS- This drama is a paradise for people like me who is very much interested in geopolitics and administration. It's like a hitting home to me.

Someone down in the comments explained that. That he has some bad past experience that gave him trauma. But even if that's the case story didn't told it properly as to let viewers feel empathised with his fear.

Thanks for reminding that he is SML from shine on me. I am loving him here but hated him there

Transfer this power to me for some time as a loan 😅. Lot to catch up on .

Actually it did happened like that. Those who didn't liked their opinion can't say anything. But who cares. Idk if it happened with other dramas or not but I saw it here for the first time. 😅

Because looks at the ratings itself. People who have earlier high ratings they downvoted it. Maybe backlash is just too much that people were forced to downvote 😅

Don't include me in those people who are more upset with her than human trafficker. I beg u.

Also understand one thing if people are not day bowing the king so u know where the problem is. Somewhere someone needs to acknowledge his authority and start doing that. We cannot simply say if no one is doing then why should I? It's wrong. Maybe fault in writing. No matter what this is utter disrespect to the position of the king itself and not the emperor who is ruling.

Yes justice is more imp. Emperor understand that and that's why he don't say much.

I am ok if she talk in private like that if not respect then normally but in public no. She needs to. Only queen can ignore knowtow but even then she just can't disrespect.

Emperor is not upset i get it. Idk how and why this Convo is even coming up. If never even shown in drama itself. No one objected in drama itself. I see it poping up in comments section only I have zero idea why. But the idea of defending oh it doesn't matter when we have justice being served is wrong.

Imagine u are meeting Chief Justice of apex court u are ques his bad decisions which is fine. But disrespecting when Chief Justice is on duty is disrespect to the position itself. Same logic. If he is talking like a friend yes. But if acting and talking on behalf of king no.

No matter her bg. Even if she comes from country side she is not dumb to not know that she need to talk with respect to the king.

Compared to knot this looks like once in a decade work 😂

But there is a limit. Emperor loves her that's why he is understanding. But understand this emperor is all mighty. And disrespect should not come even from his other half. Like in today times we ques our prime minister but disrespect is not tolerable. Otherwise u imagine he is already too much binded with ministers and he is already questioning his authority and taking decisions in his behalf if meng ting hui also will do that then people will say a person who let's his queen disrespect himself why to respect them. Like in ep2 he visited governor's house but he saw that governor has no respect for him and he don't even want to knowtow then why that time his aide wanted to slash him with sword? Because disrespect to king is not tolerable. In private as a wife and as a queen who is concerned about the empire yes can. But in public it will be too much. And always also will be. As even in husband wife one should not disrespect each other

Yes. Agreed there. About immortal part. Ting ting and others also needs to understand and take others feelings into account that they too are human beings and they too get hurt. That's why I said they also need to adjust.

That's what. Maybe this drama is dealing with romance as it's centre and adding lots of comic tones when dealing with serious topic. But drama actually is showing all realism and all types of people and struggles along with good things a person with good IQ but low EQ suffers. It's one way of approaching drama when u think everything from ML and FL perspective. But this drama so far has done well in showing how people also gets affected by them. And that's the issue here. ML doesn't need to be perfect always be can always do character development even more so when we are on early ep. Same FL can also improve. Not all story needs to begin with ML being perfect. That's also the key here. This drama actually is diving deeper in social pysche