@ yanfeng Well some of the stuff I had to do some research and read up on. You think I knew anything about weiqi/go?? XD I'm way to impatient to play that game lol. So that took a bit of reading. I love doing footnotes though. =D I learn so much a long the way too. I think Hoju's footnotes are amazing as well. So look forward to those. ^^
To use it to his advantage. 14th has ambitions too and he is very opportunistic. He doesn't outwardly do anything but he certainly has a knack for taking situations and turn it in his favour.
If he had given the bracelet back right away 8th would not have reacted as much as he did. However, 14th gave it back only after when Ruoxi started to become close to 4th. This provides more friction between 8th and 4th. I don't have the novel with me right now, so perhaps I can give a more in depth answer later.
14th eventually gave the bracelet back but he purposely kept it for a while before doing so (think it was around 6 months?). He didn't give the bracelet to 8th right away.
You can try to do some if you'd like. If not I'll add the footnotes for you when I'm doing the QC. I love doing them anyways.
I usually do footnotes on things where I think people who don't know much about Chinese culture would be interested to know or need clarification on. Basically I assume my readers know nothing about Chinese history and culture and put myself in their shoes.