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