Best Choice Ever Episode 16

Chenghuan finally breaks free of her mother.

This episode deserves a 10 purely because of cheap gratuitous emotional satisfaction. It's more than a bit artificially contrived and it's definitely over dramatic, but this episode brings everything to a climactic final reckoning between Chenghuan and her overbearing mother, as the latter not only crosses the line again, but this time crosses it to the point of no return for Chenghuan. So the latter finally realizes that she has to cut herself loose, since her mother will not let her loose. To free herself, she gathers her strength and rises like a boss queen to take ownership of her life. The acting performances by both Yang Zi and He Shei Fei (her mother) in the climactic confrontation scene were fantastic. Yang Zi's steely determination, despite tears coming down her face, gave me chills to watch. This episode also sees Chenghuan (and her father, for that matter) declare with about as much clarity and finality as they can muster that they will no longer have anything to do with the Xin family. So this is a major character development moment for Chenghuan. And it is the threshold of growth that her Grandmother has been waiting for her to reach because she wants Chenghuan to ignore the meaning of her name and to begin to live for herself. To value herself.

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