You Are My Fateful Love Episode 11

Sigh ... the dreaded love triangle ...

This episode had so much potential to be as enjoyable as the previous 10 episodes. But it took a stupid, annoying turn by leaning into the dreaded 'love triangle' drama trope and spending far too much screen time on the pathetic and annoying Li Shi Can. I don't understand why so many drama writers think that a romance story needs to feature a 'love triangle'. Most of the really great romance dramas do NOT include a love triangle or if they do, it is only given the most brief appearance before being dismissed. Because the strength of a romance story is in the romance between the two leads. Not with contrived distraction from some character who is obviously NEVER going to win the girl (or guy, in the case of stories where the 3rd wheel is a female). So all the effort and screen time spent building up the character's candidacy as a potential love interest always feels like a giant waste of time. And the introduction of the Li Shi Can character is already going through the torturous dumb hoops that is so typical with this trope. On one hand, to bolster his potential candidacy as a love interest the show provides backstory about his positive interactions with the FL in the past and try to portray him as a good person who has overcome his own difficulties, blah, blah. But the show also has to hedge all that with the flaws that will ultimately provide justification for why the FL does not choose him and that's where the show gets tied up in knots with this kind of crap. Despite his charming good looks and apparent nice guy visage, there are cracks in Li Shi Can's facade already. Just as a starter, the basis for his obsession with Ruan Yu is so incredibly weak: Yes, she was nice to him when he was young, helping raise money among friends to buy him a guitar. But he does the cliche' SML thing of confusing a simple act of kindness with being a basis for romantic love. So that right there is simply pathetic. He otherwise has only scant interactions with Ruan Yu ever and has no real basis for love. Next, little things such as, after Si Si tries to commit suicide and it becomes unsafe for Ruan Yu to stay at her own home, he tries to convince her to come stay at HIS place -- but this is selfish and not thinking at all. If she went to his place, the paparazzi would surely find out and that would blow up everything even more and SHE would be the one put at more risk. Another awful thing he does in this episode is when he goes to visit Cen Si Si in the hospital he again and again triggers her psychopathy with the things he said. He basically taunts her with not only his refusal to admit that there is NO ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HIMSELF AND RUAN YU, he doubles down telling Si Si that he intends to pursue Ruan Yu. Regardless of whether these things are true or not, they are pouring gasoline on the fire burning up this mentally disturbed person. He should never have been allowed in that hospital room. He is selfish and irresponsible.

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