Well yup I saw that coming too. He absolutely cannot risk anyone knowing he has a weakness...

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh

Ruh roh Raggy...

Oh of course there is a possible cure... but it will be terribly pain and shorten his lifespan. This is cdrama after all...

And the pain starts pretty much immediately he swallows the pills... don't even need them to start digesting to start causing pain! 😂

Hahahahaaaa ofc just what he needs to distract him from terrible pain is the story of how you and your boyfy met... 😂😂😂

God LORD child, can you read the fucking room? 😂😂😂

He's having nightmares...

Oh mama Xiao deigned to drop off some medicine but won't go in to see him...

Dang. He recognises the taste of his mother's soup.

I wonder when she last actually made soup for him...

Wuyi doesn't do talking. With anyone.

And being yelled at and blamed by your mum when you are just a kid is the kind of formative shit that is really hard to get past.

Aaaand ofc he lashes out...

Yeah her hubby was one of Wuyi's army commanders...

Oh shit and she was a military doctor (hence what she said about the Princess Consort raising Ziqi while she was away with the army) and was captured by the enemy when her husband was killed...

Damn, he married her and took Ziqi as his own to protect her reputation.... (because people were ??? accusing her of sleeping with her captors while she was held prisoner for a month??)... even though it damaged his own reputation (in the indictment by the ministers he was accused of being lustful and stealing his subordinate's wife...)

Oh shit, even worse, her own family and her husband's were going to make her die along with her husband rather than bear the stain to their reputation?? And Wuyi saved her from that...

Daaaaaamn, he literally damaged his own reputation to save hers and claimed that he had raped her and the child was his!

And he offered to set her and Ziqi up with new identities and set them free... or for them to stay and be part of his family and she could continue being a military dr...

100% this. Which is SO not a healthy way to behave. But I guess is kind of understandable given his circumstances/upbringing...

Ooooh are things about to kick off with the Northern Qi delegation?

Hmmmmmyeah that's... not good. That's suspicious AF...

Hmmm yeah... how exactly did that happen...?

Uhoh....

Ohhh this guy's gifts have a habit of being....

I don't get why giving ?dogs (it looked like? It didn't show it clearly) is offensive to Anmin? I can see that it was (as is totally on brand for the Eagle King) intended to cause offence... but I don't get why? Or why they didn't properly show what was in the cage?

Wait... did one of the dogs have a missing leg?

Ooops daddy Xiao's being a bit hot-headed...

Yeah I was right...

Hahahaaaa oh clever... have him playing flirty blindfold catch with his consort and gaggle of dancers to cover up him being blind...

Oh and ofc the fucking Eagle King is taken with YaoYao and making eyes at her...

Oh shit...

Woww, this asshole really is trying his best to needle and aggravate so that the talks can be called off and Ye be at fault for it..

Oh what the fuck, did his sight come back just in time for the pitch pot game but he's still playing blind for her benefit?!!

Oooh time to share some secrets.

Oh shit and it was Northern Qi who killed her biological parents...

A-Mao is dreaming if he thinks the two of them can run off after the peace talks...

Awww and big bro also came to give some medicine... but also (like his mum) didn't want to go in and actually see Wuyi...

YaoYao singlehandedly trying to fix the dysfunctional Xiao family...

Awwww he wants her to be able to make her own choice. Even when he (thinks he) knows that choice won't be him.

Busted...

...or so he thought. LOL! His utterly flabbergasted face! This is not the love triangle she is thinking of since neither of them is in Fangs of Fortune anymore.

But alas it is not meant to be.

Xie dad, what the hell are you doing?

Plan escape from the royal spider web is a failure!

Meanwhile at the palace.

Changstupid is being… well, stupid.

I had to check what episode I was on at this point because isn’t this some end game shit?

DAYUM!!! Spill that tea you royal dumbass.

I mean… I dunno… is it?

Get your mind out of the gutter, this is his 1st consort and his Dr. He married her and adopted her son when her husband, who was one of his soldiers, died.

This is his legal wife who manages his household and is a self confessed book girlie, loved the scene where she couldn’t stop talking about her books.

I have been in Hou Minghao phase since watching Love in the Clouds so this is the first time I believe we are all seeing him as a seemingly ruthless character from the start.

From the beginning I love the way this drama shows the characters actions which portrays their personality. Xiao Wuyi is angered by Prince Changsha's actions leading to the death of his soldiers, and he expresses that during the poem appreciation thingy. No regrets of his actions despite knowing the possible implications. He seems detached from what a normal heir of a prince experiences and even looks down on how sheltered some people are. Fair, considering what he has seen in war. My interest is in his distrust towards others. Why is that the case, and he seems to only be himself in front of his physician, Rui Sheng.

Then there is Xie Jiayu. She's so cute imo. She has such a endearing cheekiness to her and all her actions, from scaring a lord away from marrying her, attempting to save strangers is so fresh to see in a female lead. Of all people she should be the one of the most sheltered that Wuyi has seen but even he finds her interesting. Her naive attitude towards others contrasts with him, but her maturity and attentiveness she shows to her craft (i think) does surprise him.

I am very interested to see how this drama goes, though it seems very fast paced in the first 2 episodes. I was struggling to keep up with who is related to who and the many princes and princesses. But tbf it is only 28 episodes (whyyy I would love to see more of them). I really enjoyed seeing such dimensional characters right off the bat.

First date idea: expose a trafficking & smuggling scheme

She tells a guy holding a big ass sword

When the drama opens like this, you just know there’s gunna be some instant murder.

No tell us?!

Lmao give Mother of the year award to her 😂

To be fair her daughter does things like:

- pretend to murder a maid in front of her suitor

- been selling her deadly inventions to shady people

- tries to run away from a marriage issued by imperial decree