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<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nGu Chusheng\u2019s jealousy sees him walk into the drinks place to confront Wei Yun about his presence, suggesting the inappropriateness of him being with Chu Yu at the place so late at night. Wei Yun shoots back that he\u2019s just there to take her back home before questioning his presence at the place when he should be focused on investigating the assassin at the Court of Judicial Review\u2014which Gu Chusheng assures he\u2019ll report the findings of to His Majesty once he discovers the truth.<\/p>\n
Gu Chusheng speaks about how the place used to be something she shared with him. There was a proud tone initially, meant to cause some jealousy in Wei Yun, before it dropped to a nostalgic one to refer to the relationship they had.<\/p>\n
Wei Yun becomes resigned to the fact that Gu Chusheng and Chu Yu had a past together, whereas it was just a one-sided relationship with him. But the past is not the present. Wei Yun counters with bringing up the fact Gu Chusheng has a wife by asking whether he was upset before he and his wife had a fight. He uses this to suggest Gu Chusheng return home to deal with it (instead of standing there bothering him) and end their interaction.<\/p>\n
Gu Chusheng\u2019s not done. He was there to dissuade Wei Yun from pursuing Chu Yu and bluntly reminds him of the fact that Chu Yu is Wei Yun\u2019s wife. He questions Wei Yun about whether he cares about this fact. He accuses Wei Yun of confining her despite Wei Jun already having died.<\/p>\n
Wei Yun, firstly, makes sure Gu Chusheng knows his family does care about Chu Yu, telling him that she was one of them the moment she walked through the gates of his family’s home. He then fires back with the fact Gu Chusheng\u2019s married and wonders whether he was thinking of divorcing his wife for Chu Yu. He then moves to argue that they both know that the marriage between Chu Yu and Wei Jun was just a cover. Chu Yu didn\u2019t marry Wei Jun because she loved him and couldn\u2019t see why Chu Yu couldn\u2019t be his wife.<\/p>\n
Wei Yun\u2019s words had Gu Chusheng raise his voice, angry at Wei Yun for having such a thought. He seemed to have forgotten that Wei Yun wasn\u2019t disregarding Chu Yu\u2019s marriage to his brother and stubbornly going after Chu Yu now that Wei Jun\u2019s no longer alive, but that the marriage was never real, nor were there any feelings between them.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThat had Gu Chusheng silent, unable to counter this fact. Chu Yu had walked over then as well. Her choice to stand on Wei Yun\u2019s side and accept his support when they both reached out to help was seen as yet another defeat against Wei Yun. His final defeat came when it was Chu Yu who had suggested Wei Yun return to their home.<\/p>\n
As Wei Yun left with Chu Yu, Gu Chusheng sadly laughs to himself. The sight of the wine (that was revealed to be called Rose Dew) was a drink he had with Chu Yu in the past. She had once said that because the rose flower represented lasting forever and they had Rose Dew together, it meant they\u2019d always be together. But now, not only were they no longer together, Chu Yu had ordered the drink to have with Wei Yun.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nChu Yu’s mind is still on the battle that led to her father\u2019s death and her brother suffering debilitating injuries when she and Wei Yun return home. She rambles on dejectedly about how he could have been a great hero fighting on the battlefield. Unwilling to think of her brother as not being a hero, she corrects it. She declares with a raised thumbs-up that he is still a hero, causing her to stumble backwards. Wei Yun reflexively moves to grip her arm to steady her. Despite being drunk, Chu Yu is sober enough to refuse Wei Yun\u2019s help because\u2014as she had claimed earlier\u2014she never gets drunk.<\/p>\n
So, as Wei Yun had Wei Qiu (who had greeted them at the courtyard) go get Wanyue to bring Chu Yu back to her room, he continued to watch Chu Yu persist in walking on her own and Wei Yun quietly at her side, trying to stabilise her with a light grip on her arm.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nWith the Chinese flowering crabapple near, Chu Yu refuses Wei Yun\u2019s support again and goes off to hug the trunk of the tree. Wei Yun keeps watch. The gentle gaze of Wei Yun seemed to capture Chu Yu, as her gaze lingered on him for a brief moment before she switched her gaze to the crabapple blossoms, noting how beautiful they were.<\/p>\n
Chu Yu plucks a branch of blossoms and starts performing a dance. Around and around she spun as the crabapple blossoms rained down. It has Wei Yun mesmerised and softly mutter how beautiful her dance was.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nChu Yu comes to a stop, and the branch of blossoms transforms into a sword. She wants to see whether Wei Yun\u2019s fighting skills have improved and invites him to spar with her. Clumsily stumbling towards him, her branch of crabapple blossoms collides with Wei Yun\u2019s chest. The branch of crabapple blossoms returns to being just a branch of flowers, which she now presents to Wei Yun.<\/p>\n
\u201cFlowers for you,\u201d Chu Yu says. As Wei Yun accepts them with a look of surprise on his face, Chu Yu confuses Wei Yun with her next words: \u201cYou\u2019re more charming than the flowers.\u201d<\/p>\n
At first, Wei Yun smiles hearing these words from her, but the next second, his brows knit together into a frown. He’s thinking that maybe these words weren\u2019t for him but for Wei Jun.<\/p>\n
He moves to cover her eyes with a hand and asks her who it is she sees in her mind, perhaps in her heart, rather than who she sees standing before her at that current moment.<\/p>\n
Chu Yu removes his hand and begins to answer with “Wei”, but that\u2019s as far as she goes, as she suddenly vomits onto his shoulder.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhen Wei Yun returns to his room, he reveals his intention of liking Chu Yu without the expectation of having his feelings reciprocated. As he placed the branch of the crabapple blossoms in a vase, treasuring the gift from Chu Yu, he revealed a selfless kind of love, where he\u2019ll be there for her\u2014be her safe haven\u2014so she doesn\u2019t have to face things alone. He wants to provide a place where she can bloom freely.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s not ignoring the fact that public opinion won\u2019t be kind. Wei Yun going after his oldest brother\u2019s supposed wife is unthinkable. He tells Wei Qiu (who was concerned) that he knows his limits. Wei Qiu was concerned about Wei Yun, but it\u2019s likely that when Wei Yun said this, he was primarily thinking about not bringing trouble that could end up hurting Chu Yu because of his feelings.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nChu Yu is showing signs of being a bit interested in Wei Yun. The next morning, Chu Yu learns from Wanyue that Jiang Chun\u2019s gone and held a small banquet to invite a group of ladies for Wei Yun to choose from as a potential candidate for marriage. Chu Yu shows up despite not needing to and claims she\u2019s there to enjoy the fun. However, there\u2019s no amusement in her expression when she takes her seat. Her gaze is kept ahead, coming off as uninterested (but could actually be quite interested internally).<\/p>\n
One of the ladies\u2014Miss Zheng\u2014takes the initiative to approach Wei Yun to have him try her homemade pastries. (She\u2019s taken an interest in Wei Yun ever since the auction banquet that was held at Qinxi Valley in Episode 14.) Wei Yun stares at it, not wanting to accept the pastry. Instead, he passes the decision onto Chu Yu.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nChu Yu encourages Wei Yun to take it, expressing that she didn\u2019t see any reason for refusing. To show further support, she throws in a compliment towards Miss Zheng on her beauty.<\/p>\n
The scene all comes off as a test of one\u2019s feelings and an act to show no interest\u2014Wei Yun being the one doing the testing while Chu Yu is the one doing the act of showing indifference towards Wei Yun.<\/p>\n
Miss Zheng seems to read it as needing to get past Chu Yu before she\u2019s able to have Wei Yun consider her. So, she turns to Chu Yu and offers her the pastry. Chu Yu accepts a pastry and holds onto it. She doesn\u2019t eat it, giving it to her maid at the end of their exchange.<\/p>\n
With Chu Yu not refusing a pastry, Wei Yun is forced to take one himself. He\u2019s watched by Chu Yu, her eyes tracking the action that she decided for him. After seeing this, Chu Yu returns to stare blankly ahead, back to an act of a different kind of indifference.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nUnable to get help from Chu Yu, Wei Yun knocks himself down by telling the ladies he\u2019s not a good choice for a husband. He reminds them of the reality of marrying someone like him. He\u2019s a general of Great Sui, which means he needs to always be ready to die on the battlefield and could die anytime, like his father and brothers.<\/p>\n
It sees Chu Yu tell him off for thinking about himself in such a way. Jiang Chun jumps in and agrees, discouraging Wei Yun from thinking like this. Even though Wei Yun\u2019s goal was to get out of this situation of picking a potential wife, it was not just a hypothetical situation but a situation that\u2019s very real and a situation that seriously concerns the ladies. They didn\u2019t want to become a widow so young.<\/p>\n
To make his point and put an end to the banquet, Wei Yun turns to Jiang Chun to have her see the fact of the matter. He tells her that she should know exactly how it feels since she\u2019s been through it.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nJiang Chun doesn\u2019t give up on getting Wei Yun on the path of marriage, though. After the guests leave, she asks Chu Yu if any of the ladies caught her liking. As this matter concerned Wei Yun, her answer is that whether he likes them is what matters.<\/p>\n
Jiang Chun\u2019s interest in what Chu Yu thought about the ladies at the banquet is not simply to get her opinion on who appealed to her. She appears to have picked up something between Chu Yu and Wei Yun. When Wei Yun had passed the decision on whether Wei Yun should take a pastry, Jiang Chun was looking between the two and appeared to be wondering what was going on between them. After the guests left, Wei Yun\u2019s gaze was on Chu Yu the whole time, which Jiang Chun had noticed.<\/p>\n
After hearing Chu Yu\u2019s response, she followed with a question about whether Chu Yu was okay with looking at finding a suitable partner for Wei Yun. Jiang Chun seemed to be looking for how she regarded Wei Yun.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nWith Chu Yu telling her that she\u2019s fine with things, Jiang Chun has Chu Yu keep an eye out for suitable candidates for Wei Yun. It sees Wei Yun attempt to make his earlier point before and tells her this matter of marriage cannot be rushed. Jiang Chun rejects his point this time, countering that not everyone will be as fearful as he thinks. That is, there will be someone who will marry him despite the reality that he\u2019s a general and can die on the battlefield.<\/p>\n
Jiang Chun moves to use Chu Yu and her love for Wei Jun as her example of someone who\u2019s willing, not knowing that this example isn\u2019t the best example. She had called Chu Yu\u2019s love deep and rare.<\/p>\n
Wei Yun doesn\u2019t refute it, agreeing that such a woman was indeed hard to find. It alludes to the lie about Chu Yu loving Wei Jun, but the dejected tone in his voice suggests he\u2019s probably thinking about his feelings for Chu Yu and how she\u2019s one in a thousand ladies who caught his heart, who he can\u2019t show feelings for freely and openly.<\/p>\n
This tone isn\u2019t missed by Jiang Chun. She turns to face him. She\u2019s likely sensed Wei Yun has someone he likes, and it could be Chu Yu. Wei Yun\u2019s assurance that he has his own plans regarding his own marriage has Jiang Chun ask whether he\u2019s confirming he has someone he likes. As she asked this, Wei Yun\u2019s gaze had briefly looked at Chu Yu, which caused Jiang Chun\u2019s gaze to track to the side where Chu Yu sat.<\/p>\n
After a short moment of silence, Wei Yun brought himself back to his senses and denied liking anyone. “She was overthinking things,” he tells her. Hearing this, Jiang Chun reminds him of his duty as the Marquis of Zhenguo, the backbone of their family. He needs to think about marriage so he can rebuild and carry on the lineage of the Wei family.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nTowards the end of the episode, a day after the banquet, Wei Yun gives Chu Yu a hint to the fact that she\u2019s the one he likes, but she doesn\u2019t pick up on his meaning\u2014or maybe she\u2019s refusing to pick up on his meaning and is attempting to deny what appears to be an attraction towards him.<\/p>\n
The day after the banquet, Wei Yun asks Chu Yu why she made him take the pastry Miss Zheng made. Chu Yu\u2019s response? \u201cWould you refuse it if I told you to? When have you been so obedient to me?\u201d<\/p>\n
Chu Yu\u2019s response can be taken as her simply stating facts about the relationship between them. They did buttheads\u2014\u201cdid\u201d being the operative word. Since Chu Yu revealed her motives, they haven\u2019t been on opposing sides, so Chu Yu\u2019s response comes off as if she\u2019s subconsciously interested in hearing whether Wei Yun would refuse Miss Zheng because of her.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhen Wei Yun implies that he would have refused Miss Zheng\u2019s pastry had she told him to, Chu Yu appears to move on to seeing whether his focus on the matter is because he\u2019s angry she didn\u2019t help him out of the situation or that it\u2019s because of her\u2014at least this is one way we\u2019re seeing it:<\/p>\n
\u201cI understand now. You just don’t like those young ladies, so you kept giving me looks, hoping I’d help you solve this,\u201d she says. \u201cYou’re so angry because I didn’t catch your drift, right?\u201d<\/p>\n
Another way we can interpret Chu Yu\u2019s response is she senses Wei Yun\u2019s feelings and is trying to reject them. She could also be trying to deny feelings within herself.<\/p>\n
Believing in her own understanding of the situation, she moves to try to make it up to him, not responding to Wei Yun, who had expressed his disbelief in the way she had interpreted the situation.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow about this? Tell me what kind of young lady you like, and I’ll help you.\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nWei Yun doubts her sincerity. His gaze was on her the whole time, watching her reaction quite closely. As she offered the help, her eyes were swinging around, not daring to look directly at him when she made the offer.<\/p>\n
She didn\u2019t honestly want to help him, which made Wei Yun decide he\u2019d try her with how she\u2019d respond if he were to encroach on her personal space. He first asks her whether she really wanted to help her, as if warning her that her answer would mean taking responsibility for that offer.<\/p>\n
Hearing her persist with her offer\u2014again in her half-hearted and unconvincing way\u2014he starts to slowly take steps towards her, causing Chu Yu to take matching steps back as she starts being affected by his proximity to her.<\/p>\n
Leaning in, Wei Yun asks, \u201cDo I need to tell you who I like?\u201d His gaze straight at hers, he challenges her to read his heart.<\/p>\n
The distance Wei Yun left between him and Chu Yu was a dangerous one. It was vulnerable to discovering one\u2019s thoughts and feelings\u2014not just Wei Yun\u2019s, but Chu Yu\u2019s. For a bit of time, she stood, not moving and appearing to ponder the answer to his question. Seemingly catching on, she turns away as if troubled by the discovery the kind of woman he likes is her. But as she denies needing him to tell her who he likes because the matter has nothing to do with her, a frown crosses her expression, as if confused by her own internal response to him.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nChu Yu appears to have an attraction towards Wei Yun. However, it might be at a subconscious level at this point. The scene comes off so much like she had wanted to find out whether Wei Yun would refuse Miss Zheng for her. When he said he would, she appeared to retreat and reject Wei Yun\u2019s feelings as she explained it away as him being angry with her for not helping him avoid marriage.<\/p>\n
Having said that, it could be that she wasn\u2019t convinced that she could be a reason he would refuse Miss Zheng and subconsciously wanted to confirm it. She used the excuse of wanting to help him find the kind of woman he likes and suggested he tell her what type that is in order to see if she matched, which saw her consciously sense Wei Yun\u2019s feelings and maybe a bit of her own, too.<\/p>\n
That gaze from Wei Yun sure is a dangerous one. He didn\u2019t just look at her right into her eyes to let her discover his feelings for her, but his eyes also moved left and right as if he were searching for signs Chu Yu was clicking on. Perhaps he was also trying to look into her gaze to find out what she thought of him. Perhaps he had sensed Chu Yu could possibly reciprocate and was looking for her to understand her own feelings. The way he moved back and tilted his head to watch her from the side feels so much like he\u2019s asking in his mind, \u201cAre you sure who I like is of no concern to you?\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nTuantuan makes a move to express her feelings for Chu Linyang. During another acupuncture session, Tuantuan accidentally causes a bit of pain whilst lost in her thoughts about the upcoming coming-of-age birthday in a month’s time. Drawing near is also her marriage to Crown Prince Li Huan, which Emperor Chunde is said to have started preparing for, and something she wants to avoid.<\/p>\n
Tuantuan tells Chu Linyang how she would love to have the same courage as Chu Yu when she stood high on the rooftop in front of everyone and declared her desire to marry Wei Jun\u2014supposedly the man she liked. Chu Linyang doesn\u2019t correct her about the truth of the situation. He only suggests it\u2019s not as it appears, telling her that Chu Yu has her own troubles and Chu Yu shouldn\u2019t be envied.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not so much envy but the beginning of an attempt to confess her own feelings for Chu Linyang in an indirect way. She confesses that her reason for wanting to treat him wasn\u2019t so much because she wanted to thank Chu Yu for her help with Li Huan but because of the above reason. She makes it sound like a kind of transaction. She treats and cures him. He pays her back by marrying her. But it’s quite obvious it\u2019s a cover for her actual wants. Just before, she expressed wanting to be like Chu Yu and marry the man she likes, making it clear that she\u2019d only be willing to marry if she liked someone. Since she\u2019s proposing to marry Chu Linyang, then it means she likes him.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe proposal looks to have frightened Chu Linyang off. He rejects Tuantuan\u2019s request, telling her that he\u2019s unable to agree to such a way of repaying her. His rejection doesn\u2019t seem to be because he doesn\u2019t understand her feelings but because he doesn\u2019t appear to feel the same way at this point.<\/p>\n
When Tuantuan becomes a bit more direct and asks whether he\u2019s rejecting her because he doesn\u2019t like her, he responds that he regards her in the same way as he regards Chu Yu and Chu Jin. In short, Tuantuan is like a sister to him.<\/p>\n
Pain is seen on his face as he says all of this to her. It\u2019s clear he doesn\u2019t want to be this harsh, but there\u2019s an obvious intention to push her away and crush any hope she might hold on to between them.<\/p>\n
He then reverts to addressing Tuantuan as \u201cMiss Song\u201d and refuses to return to addressing her as Tuantuan when she asks whether he could continue to address her in the familiar way he had been before this scene between them. He then requests she head back home.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nTuantuan\u2019s hit a roadblock with Chu Linyang, but Song Wenchang is making quite a bit of progress with Chu Jin. She\u2019s accepted the invite to join him in a game of pitch pot back at Qinxi Valley (Episode 14). After spending a bit of time playing pitchpot, Chu Jin agrees to go on to trying horse riding.<\/p>\n
Chu Jin had enjoyed Song Wenchang\u2019s company so much that despite returning with a sore backside, she looks to be interested in making a husband out of him. As well as having a top-notch family background, top-notch looks and character, she liked the fact that he didn\u2019t have great ambitions, which means he could be tamed to be obedient to her.<\/p>\n