This was a subtle but hilarious physical joke in Tiger & Rose that I missed the first time I watched. This is a prime example of the smart gut-busting comedy that this show does so well.
 
He poisoned his cup, thinking they would feed each other wine from the cup in their own hand (his hometown’s custom), which means he thought he would feed her his cup. But she was used to doing the cross-cup way, and thus was going to drink from her own cup. That means, HE would have to drink the poisoned cup.
Realizing his fuck-up, he faked a cough, and switched the cups!
She, meanwhile, thought his awkward weird behavior was because she didn’t follow his custom, and switched to HIS way. Again, he was almost forced to drink his own poison.
Mind you, this whole time, she WANTED to be poisoned LOL
 
And that, everyone, is how we have two idiots who are meant to be together.

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    This show is so much fun. I missed this too. Also I’m kinda liking how the city gives women an upper hand they are blatantly telling how terrible women were treated back then but it hits more when it’s reversed with men.

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      I love love love the world she created! In her world too, it’s men who have to cover up! In her world, it’s men who are courtesans and have to entertain women. In her world, it’s women who educated and leading the army and basically the world! I love it! But how she’s not a perfect scriptwriter either and how she’s slowly seeing the flaws in her writing. That she had to think of “logic” because now that she’s living in it, some of her plot doesn’t make sense or draggy! lmao

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    Typo! He poisoned his cup first, then got stuck in the switcharoo!

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    How far is everyone into this drama? @dokutokunaneko @wapz @13infamyss

    I’m just asking because I’ve checked on YouTube & Tencent’s website and not many episodes have even been released but y’all already seem REALLY into the drama as if it’s already been airing for a while now with many, many episodes out 😅😅😅😅

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      We saw the latest released episodes this week, Bebe. Ep 11-14.

      Next week for VVIPs, all episodes will be released.

      We are watching from here! https://m.wetv.vip/play?cid=0gpq7pz3r0sjxf0

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        What she said! Sometimes wetv eng sub is kinda too simple so I also watch on Vietnamese sites (with Viet sub). And yes I paid vip for wetv for this drama 😂😂

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        Ahh I see…. I might have saw wrong, then 😅😅😅 I was also on the same site earlier to check how many episodes are out, and for some reason, saw that only 3-4 episodes were out— I guess I wasn’t paying attention 😅😅 It’s almost at it’s halfway mark, then!!! As Wiki Addicts lists this drama as having 24 episodes total 👌🏻👌🏻

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      I’ve only seen 5 episodes yet but it’s such a hoot. I liked it since the very first episode. So i guess that’s why everyone is raving about it.

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      I’m going to start ep 3, but it’s goo from the first 5 minutes.

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        *Good
        But I was goo from the first 5 minutes! Lol!

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    I noticed this! He thought they would “feed” each other, then when she did the arm entwining thing where you drink from your own cup, he switched them! Then she saw her mistake and tried feeding him where he did the opposite thing again! Then he just said “to hell with this!” and got rid of the poison altogether and was going to stab her neck with the chopstick. 😆 She fell asleep because the residual poison was still in the cup when she mixed the two and she drank both of them! Also, when his servant described the poison as colorless, Odorless, and completely dissolvable I’m water, both my daughter and I shouted IOCAINE POWDER!!!!” 😂

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      I think she just got drunk lol and that’s so cute about you and your daughter!! I wish my mom and I liked the same things haha

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        No, I don’t think so. Her servant even even said the next morning that she can usually hold her liquor so it didn’t make sense she would be drunk on one shot split into two cups.

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          And my daughter dies like the occasional cdrama.

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          The one who can hold her liquor is Chen Qian Qian, the one who can’t (and has no martial arts) is the writer, Chen Xiao Qian 😀 I think despite being sucked into the script world, she only inherited the looks, and none of the physical qualities of her “host”.

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            Ah, ok. That makes sense then. I’m on episode 4 now.

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