Love in Between Episode 22

Five Stars

The romantic tension being built in the relationship between Shen Man Qing and Wen Si Yuan is so thick. Both actors. (Deng Yu Li and Zou Ting Wei, respectively) are really delivering fantastic performances. Especially because it has all been built up slowly with subtlety and nuance and not overt romantic events. Both characters have been walking tightropes and forced to stay controlled. But then Shen makes herself so vulnerable, exposing her fragile heart, when the rain puts out the lantern, it's hard not to burst out crying with her. Ironically, amidst an episode where everything else seems to be going in the favor of the bad guys, her actions are low key the only thing that goes against what the bad guys want. Meanwhile, a potential train wreck feels like it is coming in the up & down relationship between ZQC and SYL due to the plot-contrived dichotomy forced upon ZQC between saving SYL's life and his promise to save her master's life. And then there is the inner demon that Zhu Yan is fighting as they seem to be building him out as the cliche' unrequited '3rd wheel' of the relationship. Will the writers send him on a full villain arc?

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