Shine on Me Episode 28

The cracks are showing — power plays, control issues, and karma warming up

Episode 28 is pure satisfaction as the cracks finally start to show. Watching the scheming “goddaughter” edge closer to being scammed brought me an unreasonable amount of joy. She doesn’t have money of her own, so when it inevitably happens, it’s going to trigger a domino effect that impacts her mother and, by extension, the FL’s father — and honestly, it’s well deserved.

The main tension centres on the ML’s grandfather and his plan to transfer shares in the company the ML is working in alongside the FL. Naturally, the uncle is scheming in the background to block it. And like a puppet, the FL’s father does exactly what he’s told, convinced he’s holding all the cards. His attempt to threaten the FL’s mother over her shares in the company they built together is particularly infuriating — as if he still believes he can control her.

What he fails to see is that the FL’s mother is done. She wants to cut ties, and she clearly sees the potential in the company the FL is working on — not just financially, but in purpose. The FL’s passion is genuine, and this move will only make her father look worse in everyone’s eyes. If the mother succeeds independently, it will prove what’s been quietly true all along: she never needed him to thrive.

There are also subtle hints that the FL’s father may not be well, which only adds another layer of irony. If something were to happen to him, it’s hard to believe the people currently clinging to him would remain. Control, once lost, doesn’t come back so easily.

It feels like this episode is deliberately setting up a cascading collapse — where financial schemes, health scares, and power struggles converge, leaving those built on manipulation with nowhere left to stand.

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Family negotiations

This episode shows XiGuang’s project progression. She was a bit down that the contractor saw her as the figure head gf. But she is being recognized for her attention to detail and product/costs knowledge. Those old geezers did not expect someone to know their exact costs and how much padding was added.XiGuang is coming into her own and the way she presented her project at the opening and with contractors shows her intelligence and capability as a leader. Lin has helped her grind through the study part and she is reaping the benefits. She is very surprised that mom and auntie show up at the groundbreaking. She is almost going to tell Jie when her friend pops up with the power couple capability. She decides to go with that. Mr Hua is so much the absent minded professor.😂🤣 While he is very anti social to the corporate luncheons he is top tier in his work. I like that Lin steered auntie’s questions to XiGuang so they could compare notes with technology prospects. Lin is sitting by her mom and aunt at the groundbreaking with such a big smile. He is not the least bit flustered and quite pleased to be showing off his gf’s business acumen to family and shareholders. XiGuang’s mom sees her daughter’s potential and refuses to let ex hubby spoil things. Nie is missing an opportunity for daughter and business, but that seems to be his modus operandi. He is simply incapable of working outside the box and seeing true potential. He wants a fast buck and willing to sell a company he founded because real estate is so stable.😂🤣😝He is pulling a fast one by making her mom give him her founding shares and she is considering it. Ya gotta love her chat with ex showing him to his face how inept and short sighted he is. She does it flawlessly without pause and tripping him up with his own logic and word choice. You can’t call it a battle of wits because that would require two😂🤣 She was not surprised at his poor business reasoning for wanting to bail out and sell the company. What did surprise her is his resentment of her having founding shares and getting dividends. She hadn’t expected that. She has considered it and even talked to her lawyer about it and XiGuang sounds like her parent demanding she not sell. 🤣 She is rushing over to talk sense into her mom, but I think her mom is seeing things quite clearly. I think she is ready to let go of the initial dream with her ex and take on a new one with her daughter. Fake daughter has an outing with friends and investment comes up. I am not sure if they are just being rich kids playing with stocks and including her, or grooming her to invest in their projects. Faux gf realizes ex wife got her half and her sugar daddy is about to run out of money. She is wanting to whisper everything is Lin Yusen’s fault in Nie’s ear and he will probably be more than willing to hear it. That his ex lets him know that tactic will simply increase the distance with his daughter is at least a warning for him. He is not likely to listen but he can’t claim ignorance anymore. He did not whine better than Xu, but he sure was on the same page. It would be nice for him to bow out and make his excuses with the Sheng’s. Let him plot over real estate and leave business ventures for those more capable. I wish we had one more episode to see that conversation with XiGuang and Mom about her shares. XiGuang and YuSen are having sweet exchanges and he is not above bribing her friends to get time with her. I just wished his friend was also along. She surprised him with the briefest of goodbye kisses, but he is very happy with the gesture and her calling him a more familiar name. These two are so adorable and my happy pills.

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