The main objective why grandma pushes her into marriage is to get another 'perfect' successor. Everyone wants the First Lady of the Rong Family, no one wants Shanbao but LJL. In a society where a childless woman is considered worthless,only he tells her that she is ENOUGH. #Glory

Leave it to Lord Lu to perform a legal analysis and review of SB's sacred oath, find loopholes in it and and exploit them. If it weren't enough he makes others to make an altar for her to worship her and, finally, hijacks the curse and diverts it onto himself. #Glory #HouMinghao

His master plan to win her back - give her limited edition tea and then tame and train an army of monkeys to give her even more of it because the first time almost killed him. #Glory #HouMinghao #Gulinazha

Lu Jianglai's bathtub thirst trap encore #Glory #HouMinghao

Yet another c-drama cliff fails to kill the ml, and for the second time in the same drama, thus the 100% ml survival rate (poor tea picker extras🪦, though) holds steady. #Glory #HouMinghao

The way they secretly pine for each other from afar... #Glory #HouMinghao #Gulinazha

She (sort of) saves him again... (from being the first ml to die on a cliff...) They constantly keep saving each other, it goes both ways. #Glory #HouMinghao #Gulinazha

🥰Him holding his hands around hers clasping the token of their love - the magnolia hairpin. This must be from the pier scene after he gives up his noble title and sails home with her. #Glory #HouMinghao #Gulinazha

Lu Jianglai: I want you back. Rong Shangbao: OK, but I want the limited edition tea leaves growing on a cliff with 10% survival rate. Lu Jianglai:*throws himself off a cliff AGAIN less than 24 hours later, survives again, saved by her again, and gets her a full basket. #Glory

Lu Jianglai's stalker mode activated #Glory #HouMinghao #Gulinazha

Who is going to tell them he has already transferred the ownership of his mind, body, heart, and soul to Rong Shangbao, the Tea Empress of His Heart? #Glory #HouMinghao

The moment he decides to throw impartiality out of the window, staking everything on the goodness of her heart & inability to bear injustice, and he won. And the moment she realises he's lying with vengeance & publicly committing perjury just to protect her. It floors her. #Glory

The incorruptible Lord Lu providing false alibi and publicly committing perjury to cover his lover's perjury without batting an eye. Absolute purity?He can be downright morally flexible & impure if provided with the right incentive, which is the Rong not Xu Family daughter #Glory

Fighting corruption and meting out justice is only a short-term motivation for him, the main reason why Jianglai requests a cosy lifelong job in the backwater is the short commute from his and Shanbao's bed😂. Becoming Minister Xu's son-in-law is not on his to-do list. #Glory

POETIC CINEMA The way their breakup mirrors their first meeting and falling in love; the autumn leaves swirling in the wind like the snow and petals,Shanbao turning away and leaving him and the desperate step he makes to follow only to be thwarted by his duty... Sedate me! #Glory

and despite her distrust of men and dislike of officials, especially since the ones she previously met threatened her. When she changes her testimony, it's a huge risk and trust she puts in him, she believes in him to do right by her family and Madame Yang. His blissful smile!

This is something she thought of him since the moment they first met, and now,with his dogged, unyielding pursuit of justice while defying all opposition,including hers, he has proven her right and she tells him. She calls him 'worthy' - something she never said to a man, #Glory

The case brings them back to the beginning, to their first meeting, SB sees Jianglai again as the man saving women no other man cares about or bothers saving - incorruptible and fair to the core - it was what made her look at him back then and fall in love with him. #Glory

Jianglai finally getting to see Shanbao in her wedding dress, as his bride, something he has longed for for so long, in the worst possible moment when he is losing her as she's leaving him. The dead autumn leaves symbolising their heartbreak and seeming end of their love. #Glory

So extra af and downbad that he designs his own wedding robe, down to the shoes, and plasters magnolia, which symbolises Shanbao, all over it.