In which Feng illustrates that he would rather be feared than loved

So the Flame Villa descends into evil--it's sort of like how a revolution happens--the aftermath is always cleaning house, and the ones watching it have this sick feeling in their stomach, like maybe this is a bad idea?

1)Flame lord invites Feng to sit down and asks him why he is so quiet.  Feng's face is like icy anger as he asks him why his parents died, and the flame lord insists that they took their own lives.  Feng clearly does not believe this and then asks him why he summoned soldiers, and the flame lord states it's because he wants to help him leave Anye Lyo.  But Feng defends him, and states that this is his maternal uncle, which causes the flame lord to be super tirggered as he angrily reminds him that he took him in, raised him, taught him martial arts, how is it that Ge'er can believe him but not Feng?  Feng dismisses her as naive, and so flame lord asks him what he must do to gain his trust, and so Feng'er states he has to give him a reason to trust him.  Feng raises his weapon as if to behead him, and this makes Flame lord break down into laughter as he tells the memorial of his brother that his own son wants to kill him.

2)Housekeeper stabs him the back!  Literally and figuratively!  Flame lord calls him a rat and knocks him down.  He dies in Feng's arms, who is shocked, and his last words are for him to leave the evil palace and to have no regrets.  Housekeeper forces him to leave and then uses explosives to blow the place up.

3)Zhongli visits Ge'er, and she knows that this is bad, and she listens as he reports that her father is dead.  After fainting, Ge'er leaves with him.  She arrives to find the hall in mourning.  She puts on the white clothes and all eyes are on her as she makes her bows.  This is when Housekeeper Li says that villa bussiness should be addressed, and he suggests that Feng be appointed as hall master since she lacks experience.  The only person who speaks up for her is, surprisingly, Ji.  Feng'er is silent (COWARD).  Wu Xia rises and says that he believes that Feng'er is a good choice because the sudden death of the flame lord robbed him of the chance to properly train Ge'er.  With no one on her side, she has no choice--she decides to appoint Feng'er as Deputy Master and leaves.  Ji calls Feng out for not respecting their master's wishes.  Feng'er yells right back and accuses him of not being supportive.  Ji said that he supported him when the master was alive to give him a fair chance, however, since he is dead, he is honor bound to respect his last wishes.  Feng'er then says well what if his last wish was a mistake, do you honestly believe Ge'er is qualified?  He wants to know what he will do to Ge'er, and Feng says he will give her a carefree life. 

4)That night she visits the place her father dies, and Feng follows her. She has a fever, he tries to make her leave, but she refuses.  She wants to know how explosives were planted in the room, it is supposed to be the safest place, how could no one have known?  She returns to her room, and summons Zhongli who reports that her father had all the elite soldiers summoned back while sending Feng away.  He also reports that her father died the same day as Feng's return.

5)At the next morning meeting, Zhongli is the only branch master not present. All the hall masters state that Zhongli never attends the meetings, and Feng says that he was spoiled in the past and this will change.  He sends evil housekeeper li to bring him by.  Zhongli states he is unwell and cannot attend--and in a flashback we see that Li and Zhongli entered the place together.  He reminds Li to not harm the trust their master had in them, and this actually seems to make Li a smidge guiilty.  He reports back that Zhongli will not attend, and so Feng decides to send a strong message.  He initially plans to expel him for disobeying him but because the branch masters are defensive of him, strips him of his title and gives it to housekeeper Li (who is like a child in a candy store when he learns this) but it seems that Zhongli burned (I hope) the most important secret documents.

6)Die Yi goes to see Zhongli but seems to have packed his bags and left.  Ji is apparently banned from attending hall meetings, which leads to a violent conflict with housekeeper li who seems hungry to do him some serious harm.  

Oh, in this episode, I forgot to add, there is  a monologue where Feng reflects on how he has what he wanted, the master is dead, he is charge of the villa, but he is not happy and Ge'er is utterly miserable....

---So Feng'er continues to reveal to the audience that he is a spineless coward.

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