I think she is an illegitimate child of the fourth Mr Su. Her birth mother was from the country and when her birth mother died, she was brought back to the Su mansion. Her father’s wife is the fourth Mrs Su aka her stepmother. But because she looks like her father, her stepmother feels compelled to care for her as she is reminded of her dead husband. Hence everyone is confused why her stepmother is so protective of an illegitimate child. I think it’s also because fourth Mrs Su is childless

That’s Tan Mo who married Wei Zhiqian (head of Wei family)

Haha, he low key threw shade in her by calling her Auntie instead of Sister.

Guessed it!

I think maybe Lin Wan was bullied in school and maybe that led to her depression and suicidal thoughts

Would that be the child of the ghost and demon they were searching for?

Sounds like they are discussing condom flavours 😅

Wow, I thought parallel universe too, like in Mr Major General

It’s just they way parents sometimes refer to their kids, addressing them from their children’s generation level rather than from the parent generation level. Much like sometimes, a parent will sometimes refer to their own brother or sister as uncle or aunt (addressing from the children’s generation level)

Chicken in the Chinese language is a slang for a prostitue

It probably means improve your brains by eating nutritious food

Her system is kinda broken

Father’s surname is Xi. Mother’s surname was Yan. One child took the father’s surname and the other took the mother’s surname

I think if it’s not a typo with the surnames. Her father must be surnamed Xi and her mother was surnamed Yan. Hence her brother took the Xi surname, and she took her mother’s surname Yan. To honour both families, her brother is named Xi Yan, and she is Yan Xi. This was fairly common for families to do this with their children if they had more than one child as the parents generation usually came from the one child policy era. And the mother’s side surname would be broken if all her children were surnamed after the husbands side

Omg, the names are so coarse and country like 😂 So the sons are: Big Ox, Second Ox, Third Ox and Fourth Ox!! 🤣🤣

No, farmers or common and poor people did not usually have concubines. They usually have only one wife as it was too expensive to support multiple wives. Only the rich people would have concubines

I also cried buckets of tears with Xie Yun and Qiao Ruoyi’s story

Qiao Ruoyi and Xie Yun’s story is so sad 😭. It was tragic that Xie Yun had to exchange his life for a wisp of her affection. She was so stubborn until the end. I think she did have a bit of affection for him after 15yrs together but she guilted herself into only loving Lou Wei.

No. More like 2 nd cousins if they are actually related by blood. However, it may just be an honorific title to show the level of seniority

Lu Zhaoying mother is unrelated (by blood) to Qin Ran. She just happens to have a resemblance to Qin Ran’s grandmother (Qin Hanqiu’s mother), who is the long lost sister of Tang (Hacker chairman and Lu Zhixin’s father). Tang is the husband of Lu Zhaoying’s grandfather’s sister.