Tense shifts a bit weird here. More could be done to bring a declaration like ‘Princess Liang’ (bio) into alignment with English prose norms.

This weirdly figures subservience to her husband as the particular ‘joy of family life’ the Princess would be missing out on. Wouldn’t want to skip out on that one.

This wanky ‘oops!’ Go loss

And here's what I said last time:

- 'Princess Liyang, the only living sister of the Emperor' *living* doing a lot of work, here
- So what's up with Liyang's manor? Is it just so she can have property in her own right, as status or economic protection device, or does it play a ritual role that enables her to visit her family in the palace and perform religious devotion? The book mentioned it in re Buddha.
- I like this weird little wrinkle of tension between the brothers, where Xie Bi is more assuming and less gracious. Not in a mean way, more, he's the younger brother, he works hard but lacks Jingrui's delicacy
- Rolling my fucking eyes at 'o no somehow I lost the weiqi game' Changsu, bitch I'm sure.
- What no one is saying, bc of how tight the author is keeping the arc plot at this stage&bc the Emperor is a Queen of Hearts model, is that marrying Nihuang has to be a REAL FUCKING WEIRD prospect bc her last fiancé was Lin Shu