If you choose to be dressed in your royal garments first (the maid styles your hair) and then choose the option to check your appearance in the mirror it still says that your hair is messy and unkempt.
Also could you tell us where the dress and hair styling is inspired from. Which dynasty I mean are you referring to here. Or is it more of wuxia fantasy look?
Great update! Loved the appearance customization and reading the backstory for our mischievous little cat was a delight. Finally meeting Lady Yun was the highlight for me and I’d be lying if I said her little nickname didn’t make me swoon, glad she likes stuttering messes because I’m totally playing that up now.
Oops! That’s definitely a bug, I’ll see how I can fix it…
And I’m glad u asked! Ancient History 101:
Firstly in Ancient China, famous philosopher Kongzi (or at least it was historically credited to him, these days there’s apparently some debate about the author being one of his disciples) wrote in his Classics of Filial Piety that 身体发肤，受之父母，不敢毁伤，孝之始也 basically that one’s body, hair and skin are given by one’s parents, so preserving them from harm is the basis of filial piety. And thus basically no one in ancient China ever cut their hair unless they were becoming a nun/monk etc.
The masculine look’s bun is the major male hairstyle in ancient China all the way until the Qing Dynasty where men switched to those bald low ponytails. It’s basically tied by sticking a hairstick (materials vary w purchasing power) through a topknot(?) and wrapping the rest of your hair in a low ponytail around it. Of course throughout the different dynasties there were different trends: but usually court officials wore a sorta hat kinda similar to the one the Emperor is described to be wearing as headgear but less sequined of course, while some less important personages wore a scarfs folded into hats. At one point during the Ming Dynasty men even secured their hair with netting like the ones we use now for wigs! Avant garde af amirite.
(I hope the pics are sized properly on preview they look huge lol)
The male accessorizing of jade I can’t find the time period in ancient China, but jade was seen as the representation (and therefore sole bearing rights) of gentlemen. Confucius said in his Book of Rites that 君子无故，玉不去身basically that no well bred man should be seen without his jade without a proper reason. It is usually worn near the sash around the waist.
And now on to female!! Hairstyles!! I love but also hate how long it must’ve taken the noble ladies and their maidservants to get ready in the morning w these extravagant hairstyles, but also TBH I’m kinda jealous I don’t get to go out everyday w my hair styled like that lol. The hairstyle I used was the fei xian ji, aka this (Fan Bing Bing is gorgeous <3):
But it can get way more dramatic lmao:
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As for the female accesorizing, the jade is purely fictional bc women in ancient China weren’t really supposed to bear jade (gentlemanly privilege) but hey they had their pick of every other kind of jewel, especially if you were a noble lady. But for plot purposes I decided to keep it to jade, unless y’all think this is too egregorious then I may change it later on down the road;; and well the hairpin fits bc as you can see these flamboyant hairstyles require lots of hair sticks etc to stay fixed in place.
The non-binary hairstyle is written as a chuiji which basically is a very vague term bc strictly speaking it is an androgynous style for childrens’ hair, but there are various variations of it for both women and men. For example, a high chuiji:
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The non-binary accesorizinf necklace too is fictional, as people didn’t display necklaces because necklines of attire were too high to show them. But hey maybe they wore protective charms underneath (I honestly don’t know about this lmao shh)! Anyways, I wanted to write something specific and special for NB folks as I did for the masculine and feminine styles, so here. As usual if yall have suggestions pls do share!
Also if y’all r interested in these mini fun facts from ancient China I’ll be happy to do more! I actually learn a lot more while doing research for them haha.
Edit: as for wuxia inspired stuff, that’ll be the magical community arc(?) the entire setting there will be a homage to the Big Three’s writings lol.
Thank you so much! I love to watch Chinese historical dramas so I’m really into reading about this stuff. I was actually referencing The Empress of China when I was trying to imagine the characters clothing. So yay for me haha 
She is absolutely beautiful!
and yes please please give us history lessons. I love to learn! (I might be the only one but oh well)
Nah, I find this super interesting too
Hehe finally haha sorry for the long wait! I’m glad you liked Fang Yun so far and yes that’s one of the ways to romance her 
Yesss I tried watching Empress of China but didn’t get past the first few eps cause of my short attention span for dramas lol.
Im super unqualified for actual lessons lol but fun facts sure!! I might do an info post about the Imperial Kitchen next then haha
I don’t think I know anyone who has watched the entire thing. It’s like 70 something episodes long haha. So I don’t blame you.
Imperial kitchen, yum! Can’t wait. 
In today’s update:
Problematic Royal Family Feels:thinking:
Hall of Trials
Meet Crown Prince Long Qing!
Btw, I just realized that all the currently planned ROs are around (older ofc) MC’s age… Hmm I kinda want to add older ROs, bc that’s what I always wonder about when playing other COGs lol. But none of the currently planned characters are particularly suitable to be upgraded to RO… Is anyone even interested in an older (30-40~) possible minor RO for MC? Or is the age-gap a turn off?
My comfort zone would be probably around 30s for a 18 year old MC. But more than that, I’ll probably shy away from that RO unless I found them interesting.
I have more problems with younger ROs… expecially male ones. If a guy is more than two years younger than my female MC, I feel uncomfortable. Problably because I never found myself enjoing dating guys younger than me.
As long as the age-gap is less than twenty-twentifive years, I have no problems with older ROs.
Oh yeah… I have some reservation as well of my 18 year old MC is dating younger than them. XD
Yes of course in the context of this game all ROs will be older than MC 
even the potential cat minor RO is a spirit, so who knows how old they are(?)
Thank you for your responses! I’ll continue considering if I will write in a much older minor RO, but don’t worry - there’ll still be other choices for romance lol.
It said I failed the trials even though I passed two of them.
I found the trials confusing.
The text not changing after each trial, the emperor saying to choose two, but being able to choose more.
Do we always fail, or did I do something wrong?
If anyone has problems with the age difference, they can always choose not to pursue the older RO…
I must say I’m also confused. The text says I completed 2 trials like my father demanded, but I can choose to do more and fail or go straight at the bottom to end the trials and also fail. Do I do something wrong? 
About the ROs, I’m all in for older ones if they are around 30ish or so. The younger ones I find critical especially when they are minors.
This is my opinion, but I think it’s better if you focus on the current ROs so their romances are round and realistic, instead of adding more ROs.
I’m also confused by my inability to pass the trials, even when I pass two of them (religion and wit)
Also, is Administrator Fang an RO? Yowza.
I hope so, that’s the one I’m interested in anyway. Isn’t the other one their bodyguard?
Hello. I found game-breaking bug after new update, If you puck blue eyes game will show you this: “Chapter1 line 965: increasing indent not allowed, expected 8 was 10”. No other choice seems to matter, only eyes,