I managed to totally forget the particulars of this explosion plot development, and was pleasingly surprised by it/enjoyed connecting some dots. This makes me think actually that in the paranoia about spoilers, we misunderstand how brains work a bit, how much we forget or don't take in in a glance, and how much good there can be in revisiting the same information with increased knowledge. I've seen this whole show twice, but this still surprised me because knowledge isn't an on/off binary, it's shifting and layered.

To be honest, this isn’t a BAD plan from Marquis Yan: it’d simultaneously kill like 4 shitty people REAL FAST. [EDIT: No, apparently just the Emperor and one random stand in for the Empress (though no one mentions this?).]