Weixi's flashback at the start of chapter 12 is nagging at me, because it implies that Lu Weixi and Su You are cousins: in the flashback, Weixi is addressed as "Princess" and calls Zhu Wunchang (the usurper emperor) "father", meaning that she is his daughter (see also the rest of their family tree).
Not necessarily. I don't recall whether her family has been brought up since but she could just as well be just the Empress's daughter and got brought into court when Zhu Wunchang married her mother. Could be either really
That is possible, but from what I have read about dynastic politics in Imperial China, very unlikely. Zhu Wuchang does not strike me as a man who'd marry for love, and I do not see any other reason why an ambitious second-in-line-for-the-throne would marry a woman who has another man's child and then adopt said child, too.
Plus, Weixi and Wuchang are the only characters with blond hair, which seems highly uncommon in this setting.
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