- It surprised me that Changsu's people don’t all know Lin Chen’s background in the book. Is it different from his backstory in the drama?

- It's very weird that Madam Wei absents herself from this conversation about her husband--just an odd moment of self-regulating sexism that sits oddly in a text where Duchess 'as good as a man' Nihuang exists and Jingrui's birthday party shoved many women into such discussions neck-deep.