The Story of Pearl Girl Episode 8

Emotional start to this episode

Just a comment on the opening scene, Zao Lu Zi as Dwan Wu, experiencing her new top-deck quarters. She doesn't say a word, but her expressions, movements and body language really sell her emotions as this is a massive leap in living conditions and sensory experionce for the former pearl diver who has to this point only lived in squalor and oppression.The rest of the episode is full of drama-ramp-up as. it switches from one of the major players to the next as they plot against each other, amping up the stakes.HUGE jump in the relationship between Dwan Wu and Yan Zi Jing. The jade hairpin was a pretty charged moment. The following scene wihere she helps tend to the slightly wounded Zhang Jin Rin Ran is ... well ... flat. Seems to signal where this series is ultimately going. He's clearly shaping up to be the 3rd wheel.

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Episode 8: I don't want anyone to sacrifice themselves for me.

Tasks between friends should always be for mutual benefit. And you shouldn't let anyone sacrifice themselves for you. (This is expressed in the conversation between the little brother and the little sister). Duan Wu's hairpins are a success and her friend is very happy, but Duan Wu asked something more difficult of her, a favor that her friend did not refuse. Mr. Zhang is thrown out of the inn and accepts Yan Zi Jing's offer to stay on his ship. Zhang witnesses Yan Zi Jing speaking rudely to Duan Wu and asks the pirate to act like a man and not take his anger out on a young girl. The pirate also says that Zhang is also humiliating himself by needing his help in that situation. They face each other at that moment. Zhang suffers an assassination attempt and finds ways to discover that it was his noble friend who planned it all. In a fun moment at a candy store, the jewelry store friend says to Duan Wu (Haven't you noticed that Mr. Zhang likes you?). But Duan Wu says that she is not of the same ilk as him, she is just a humble pearl hunter. (Who is of her ilk? The tsundere pirate?) But her friend emphasizes, "Mr. Zhang would be a great choice of husband for you." Mr. Zhang asks Yan Zi Jing what resentment he holds against the Cui family. YZJ gives DW a new mission, to buy all the pearls from a certain merchant. Duan Wu tells Zhang that she is part of the same law of the jungle that YZJ is part of. Zhang says in frustration that he doesn't want her to become like YZJ. YZJ cleans his sister's memorial tablet. (This is a character totally stuck in the past. I don't know if by the end of the drama he will be able to free himself from it.) Duan Wu's little brother falls into a trap set by the enemies and ends the episode being beaten up. Duan Wu sets out to fulfill her mission, not knowing what is happening to his little brother.

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