I know people think he's an idiot/get mad at him for remaining oblivious for so long, but I just get furious at MCS for lying and gaslighting him.
He does figure out scheming by the time of his father's birthday celebration (with a clear nod to having absorbed MCS' arguments in Ep. 33), so ... better late than never?
Nihuang both lacks Jingyan's particular hang-ups about the imperial court and has an incentive to manage politics in that she has a lot of people and a baby brother to protect. Jingyan, by contrast, is thoroughly unmoored by the death of Prince Qi and the Lins; I think he's kept in line a little by a need to protect his mother, but it's not the same as needing to learn enough to protect an entire province.
I kind of suspect Prince Ji told him about Tingshen in part to get him to stop being quite so passive-aggressively suicidal in court.
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Date: 2020-04-11 09:01 pm (UTC)He does figure out scheming by the time of his father's birthday celebration (with a clear nod to having absorbed MCS' arguments in Ep. 33), so ... better late than never?
Nihuang both lacks Jingyan's particular hang-ups about the imperial court and has an incentive to manage politics in that she has a lot of people and a baby brother to protect. Jingyan, by contrast, is thoroughly unmoored by the death of Prince Qi and the Lins; I think he's kept in line a little by a need to protect his mother, but it's not the same as needing to learn enough to protect an entire province.
I kind of suspect Prince Ji told him about Tingshen in part to get him to stop being quite so passive-aggressively suicidal in court.