9/14/24 TBH I don't think the relationship was ever properly devloped. Man - both were clearly using each other, and knew it, and were like "DON'T CATCH FEELINGS" but both OBVIOUSLY caught feelings even if they weren't willing to admit it. [ML ... moreso than FL, but also ML was WAY MORE CRUEL than FL.]
I thought it was pretty obvious - like from the first time one of the concubines asks FL "did you break the rules? Did you allow any light in during your night with him?" I knew it that ML wasn't the guy having sex with all the concubines. And I was right. That doesn't excuse the time(s) he rapes her though. Also why does he also get to feel aggrieved but she doesn't.
One big thing that annoyed the shit out of me - and I note it - is these super smart characters all of a sudden become INCREDIBLY STUPID. So annoying on the part of the author - like she just wanted to splash dog blood everywhere and make it angsty so she ignored all the intelligence and so on. Ugh. And GODDAMN WHY CAN THESE FUCKING PEOPLE NOT FUCKING TALK TO EACH OTHER OMFG. OIEGAH;EORGSN;RGJKNSBEGK I also didn't feel that ML sufficiently made up for his shit. Also disliked the ending what with all the loose ends, like sure dude ~reconciles with his shit ass family who moves to the foot of their mountain .... BUT WHAT ABOUT FL AND HER SHIFU? AND FL AND ML'S BABY GIRL? Like AYFKM? The Shen family was somehow more important? It also didn't make sense how her brother died in like a few months not the five years. I did cry buckets but I was so annoyed. Grr.
I dunno. C-- => not mad I read it, will watch the drama, really hope MZY brings her A game... LXY should be able to kill it ... and don't see myself re-reading this drama. So much ugh. FL would've been so much better off with the last emperor, though without knowing what was going on with ML *sigh* shit wouldn't have happened like this. But seriously THERE WAS SO MUCH STUPID AT THE END. LIKE HER BROTHER GOING INTO THE PALACE AND JUST ALL SORTS OF IDIOCY. AND FL NOT KNOWING SHE WAS PREGNANT FOR THE LONGEST GODDAMN TIME. AND REGOJKNSRGNSRG;KJN JUST UGH. UGH. It's like everyone just turned their brains off. So irritating. ~*~*~*~*~ 165 I’m stressed! They only gave her 12 pills which will only last her half a year!
168 welp now he knows she’s poisoned
172 ugh Lan whatever poisoned the emperor & is now going to make ML take his place in treating her well. Poor FL. She stupidly won’t leave I know it. And she’ll be hurt by them
174 😒 I guess I’m glad he has people searching for his harem but without FL they’d all be dead
176 😐 I actually didn’t want to hate Lu ZhiLan yet here we are. Poor FL, hurt but unable to show or maybe even acknowledge it
🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ 177 guy better not listen to idiot Xu. Only he will. 🤦🏻♀️
😐 178 I want her to see he’s being petty but this is all just so shitty to her
Ugh 180 I hate he gets to be shitty to her but she still has to appease him for Zhao. Why does he never suffer.
182 🙊 so is Mu WuXin really a prince of Wu? We’ve got a FuYao situation here?
183 guy is stupid to indulge Lan. I hope FL ices him more than the arctic
184 well they talked but it wasn’t satisfying. Somehow she’s always the one in the wrong & having to offer appeasement. Really disappointed in the author now
185 poor girl, but I’m glad she’s hopefully clear eyed now. And this stupid ass man. I hope his idiocy really makes her put walls up. Also I’m going to be so pissed if she just forgives him in the future cuz everyone thought he was dead but he isn’t. Cuz I imagine him being way more shitty.
186 Oop and confirmed “Even though he had lived peacefully as Mu Wuxia for over two years, he would never forget that he wasn’t the Prince of South Wei, but the Ninth Prince of Wu, Nan Tang Jingzhe.”
188 Lan only just realized she incorrectly blamed dude. But I think/hope all this has totally chilled FL. Girl deserves out.
190 eeee I hope her master stays a good long time! 💪💯
191 O.o does her shifu like her? lol I hope so - MAKE GUY EAT HIS HEART OUT. Writhe with jealousy! Lol Xu YanGui pouting at ML for asking questions/nearly getting beaten half to death by Qian BaiMei
Ugh well I’m super annoyed guy handled her shifu so easily in 193
194 Bleh at least LZL killed herself. Still annoyed though & I hope FL leaves guy
197 oop QBM once told FL she could only be his daughter. The face slapping there ☠️
C203 holy shit what? All this has only been three months?!?!?!?!?!?!?! No… does she mean just the last three months were peaceful and sweet? It has to be. Anyway I’m glad she left. Annoyed ML is just mad not worried he’ll lose her though
208 I’m so pissed FL’s little brother was poisoned too. Also HOW STUPID was he to go into the palace omfg
212 tbh considering FL just said someone of another surname can rule… ugh I guess she still wants a Zhao citizen but… And 😖 to ~ML still attacking
215 🤦🏻♀️ I really think FL actually is pregnant but doesn’t know it. Idiot. Granted she’s under a lot of stress but. And these other idiots around her. Ugh
Interesting. “Buried together, to be husband and wife in the next life.” (Her bitch as evil half sister and trash ass ex deserve that)
221 lol of course he’d sneak into the city to see her - but seriously what is he plotting?
223 yup - knew it. As soon as she left the Wei capital & had the stomach pains I KNEW she was actually pregnant. And lol to Doctor Xue giving guy the eye about “being incapable” 😹☠️💯
226 I don’t love that they fought this whole ass pointless war - but at least FL’s little brother will be safely on the throne… 😖 till he dies. (Seriously how did he handle the poison? Or did the author forget that whole monthly thing?)
227 😹☠️ ““Are we going back to Great Wei?” Taohua asked him. Shen Zaiye hugged her, his voice suddenly softening. “We can go wherever you want.” Huh? Taohua looked at him oddly and said, “I want to go to the Moon Palace.” Shen Zaiye: “…” Here he was, speaking tender words of love, and she couldn’t play along? How were they supposed to go to the Moon Palace? Throw her up there?” -glad there was a treaty & FL is going back though. I guess ML did win me over. The whole helping FL in his own war etc helped.
228 hm a bit full circle to stumble upon the house where the former crown prince is living
Awww basically immediately after she says “Some things need to be said directly to be effective. Always making people guess can lead to overthinking,” Taohua said seriously. “As a man, you should speak your mind. If you like a girl, tell her clearly, then keep her by your side. What’s the use of regretting it now when you didn’t sincerely try to keep her?” He says/this happens “Shen Zaiye gazed deeply at his receding figure for a long time before turning his head to stare at the person beside him. Feeling his intense gaze, Taohua looked at him puzzledly. “What is it?” “I think I fell for you from the first moment I saw you at Hefengwu,” Shen Zaiye said very seriously. “So from now on, stay by my side and don’t leave, alright?” Jiang Taohua: “…””
233 ok her slowly dying on the peach tree mountain already had me sorrowful and her fighting death while in labor & making ML promise to look after their child & ensure a happy life if s/he survives… made me cry
234 omg this emotionally manipulative author! lol I was legit crying at the scene where he took her cooling body into the peach blossom grove
235 😹☠️😩😭 dammit author! Got me at least 2x more with the talk of prepared coffins then ML weeping when she actually finally wakes up - her realizing how much he loves her And huh the poison transferred to their daughter and o.O turned her purple
237 Fuuuuuuuck her brother really is dead. But… it hasn’t been five years! WTF! Ok sobbing now at the letter her brother left her - the one that lied and said he abdicated. And oof her reading the real one.
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