Ren Yu Episode 1

Every day trials for Su Lin

We are introduced to Su Lin in this episode. She is a smart, hardworking girl that wants to learn English and go to college. Unfortunately, her family sees her as the work horse and unnecessary mouth to feed while showering what little they have on the spoiled son. She is looked after by a retired police officer that helps her learn English and provides her some real food in exchange for the recorder they use for English lessons. Serendipity had the school doing a play in English and Su Lin saw this as a way to earn college credit and auditioned. She rightfully earned the role of the Mermaid because of her ability, but the rich girl in class felt otherwise and she with her two minions taunted Su Lin and forced her to fall into a water duct. There is a mystery with bodies in the water ducts as we are shown hands coming out of the duct where it flows to the river. I am surprised to see Chicken Fei my favorite doc from Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty being the abusive and neglectful father in this story. 🫣👀 The acting is well done and the characters believable in their roles. It is spinning a unique tale by combining the typical stories of rich bullies and daughters seen as worthless with side mysteries of corpses in the underground waterway and the twist to Su Lin’s fate once she falls down this ‘rabbit hole’, Did she survive the fall? and if so, where is she?

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