Reviews

Who is the "Royal Nemesis"?

Our female lead just keeps impressing me. Even though she is thrown into a very unfamiliar environment—without luxuries and forced to live very humbly—she still strives... and, to be honest, the results are pretty good. 😉👍However, her backstory is quite sad and disturbing at some level. The way she was bullied was quite hard to watch. No wonder she had to grow thick skin and her villainous, ruthless character—it was all to survive so that no one would bully her anymore. 🫢😔Another interesting point is that she apparently fell in love with her saviour, the guy who looks exactly like Cha Se-Gye, and to make things even more interesting, his cousin Choi Mun-Do is an exact copy of the King. Does this mean those two guys are reincarnated souls of the Joseon royalty? And I wonder why Kang Dan-Sim didn't recognize Cha Se-Gye as the guy from Joseon? Which one is the "Royal Nemesis" the title refers to now? Or could it be all three of them to one another? 🤔And please, give us more scenes with our leads hugging under the rain of petals or other nice, romantic droplets! ❤️

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Matchmakers and dowry lists

Frost is being pampered with treats by YeXian and young Emperor. It seems Fu is quite comfortable having his favorites in standby and can get his food faster than the crown prince. Ye Xian told him that there were records kept on everybody in court except for one and wasn’t that odd? After agreeing YeXian had the most odd story the young emperor tells the court he is abolishing the position of inspector. That was unexpected news. Fu is seeing he is making his own decisions without consulting him first. Chen is speaking with his former colleague and it is decided that his wife will be the matchmaker. He also wants Chen back in the office. Lian is doing her best to try to draw attention to herself. She wants opportunity to brag about her upcoming wedding. The other Gu girls let her know they would rather she vacate the room than brag about her wonderful fiancé. The matriarchs are talking and Ms Yao is graciously suggesting the wedding gifts could be kept as compensation for the broken engagement. She is getting more and more snide when a servant runs in announcing Ms He. Ms Yao is escorted out but makes excuse to stay. Lian hears all about YanYun’s proposal to JinZhao and has a tantrum that would make a three year old jealous.😝🙄Ms Yao is changing her tune because there is no way her husband can outshine Chen in any capacity. So I think her miscreant son will not be enthused to hear he is marrying the wrong Gu girl. Lian is forced to make the rounds apologizing and gives Lan her favorite hairpin. Lan tries to get her to keep it since it was a gift from gma. Lian is the epitome of ingrate and tells her to keep it or toss it. Lan was at first smug about getting things broken off, but she did try to warn Lian that her fiancé was not a nice person. Lian has known him since grade school bla bla bla and won’t believe anything but that Lan is jealous. JinZhao has a meeting with gma and cousin where they make sure this is her real choice for a husband. Gma Ji was persuaded by the divorce decree at the ready and cousin was convinced when each question received a louder yes. Gma gave her the bracelet she received as a bride and cousin hands her a huge roll of cash saying half her daowry. I was surprised he didn’t tease her if she was going to burn this batch of gifts too.😂🤣 He looked her straight in the eye and watched her closely for any doubt and she passed his test of being happy and convinced with her decision. She is nervous later and Chen is there to support her. She finally tells him she likes him and ready to take the gamble. There guards are so cute wanting to stay and peek and equally hide and give them privacy. 🫣🥰Ye Xian’s sister is concerned about how their marriage will effect her brother. JinZhao has been trying to contact him personally because she wanted to tell him face to face of her plans. Unfortunately duties kept him busy and he is finally hearing about it. At the end of the episode JinZhao is walking with his sister and having a chat. The biggest change of things from the Gu’s is gma handing over every item JinZhao’s mom had left for her. She realized that JinZhao would hold them accountable and she wouldn’t get credit. 😝🙄 But even if Lian felt shorted, she did the right thing albeit for a selfish reason. She also encouraged her daughter in law to discipline Lian. I think it’s a bit too late for that but if her fiancé will leave Lan alone, those two deserve each other.

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Auditions

The drummers had their own thugs to beat up the other one. These two knuckleheads. The uncle gives him a shot to vent his rage if things aren’t settled between them and he decides they are beat up enough.😂 Uncle is pressing an alliance with Huang’s wife to get their kids pushed through auditions. He even buys a hog to seal the deal and get meat for the entire troupe. Against all odds they both got their misfit kids included. The cook’s son sharing the sugar candy was a sweet scene until security’s thug son showed up. This time Laidi scored points for thwacking him upside the head with a 2x4. As little as she was this was a fair hit. I’m tired of him picking on the little kids. That shiner of hers will make her even more popular for holding her own against him. Huang’s wife congratulated her and commented how he beat on her kid too so nobody is upset except thug’s mom. The examiners had interesting reasons for keeping these two and it always finished with Huang’s greenest grass comment.😂🤣 The lead is pushing for them to seem a small family and uncle doesn’t go for it. She is married and there needs to be some propriety shown for the child’s sake if not her own. Huang was more accepting of things until he heard the drummer getting top accolades from the troupe. They were not best buddies to start with and this has put Huang in an especially vengeful mood. I did have a laugh out loud moment when he thought he was going to return the hog head his wife had been cooking all day. She didn’t say anything but slammed a cleaver into a butcher block cutting board and he quietly returned it to cooking spot.😂🫣The one significant thing of Laidi’s audition was her venting all her anger and angst about leaving home. She screamed that uncle and sheep song at the top of her lungs and let it all out.😂😂This is not the destiny she wanted, but this was her accepting her fate and doing things her way.

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