Her Blaze Episode 12

One is the loneliest number

Chen Xi comes into her office to find Meng busy at her desk and nobody else. Turns out she has been caught in inside shady money deals that were discovered when Meng audited their past projects. It was serious enough that her staff is in HR being questioned. She is in trouble and the project has been returned to dept 3. Meng is pleased with herself for helping her real team get their project back. That made up for some of the humiliation Chen Xi dished out. The team is doing a happy dance and calling Yu director. YuCi has LiangLiang’s mom deliver takeout and shows her her home. YuCi invites her in and we don’t get to know what they talked about. YuCi is contacted by a mystery consortium called Beauty Pearl Society. She asks why she should trust them and they sent a pic of LiangLiang with her dad as proof of their sincerity. This raises a lot of questions. Jiang and wife make appearance at the deaf school where Chen Mo is a counselor. The two men are surprised at being introduced and Chen Mo says he handled the stress test at Lysen. They are making significant donations to the school and want the children’s choir to perform at the Lysen event. We are shown a comparison of dress choice for the event. YuCi has a black dress suit and LiangLiang is all about gold and sparkle. They each have their own strategy boards where they plot against each other. This time, LiangLiang is most familiar with Jiang’s tactics. She already knows he is going to stage things to isolate YuCi from her team. She opts to sit back and watch it play out. YuCi is starting a wedge between MuRan and LiangLiang, but she needs something that will permanently break them up due to greed. She is still pondering the point. MuRan thinks he can bribe Ren with a designer bag.😂 She doesn’t even look at it and recommends he give it to LiangLiang. Here again he is told that resting is his best option because he will not be included in the new project. Today is Chen Mo’s bday and he tried to celebrate it with YuCi. While that didn’t happen there was a sweet scene with Nuan helping him light the candles. MuRan picks up YuCi and says he will work with her. She brings up Beauty Pearl Society and their 1.1 billion investment in HengXing. She tells him that Beauty Pearl Society is his way in with Jiang. He follows suit by asking his gma about them. She doesn’t know much because they are newly formed and keep to themselves. I think she is surprised her grandson even knows they exist. I did not catch who Mr Han represents but LiangLiang and MuRan both made special effort for introductions. MuRan even offered a meeting with his gma. Mr Yu is cute wearing Ren’s tie. I love these little exchanges between these two. Jiang and YuCi make their grand entrance. She comments that she doesn’t really enjoy the performance and sees Chen Mo taking pictures. Jiang comments about rumors he’s heard of her and Chen Mo. MuRan runs into Chen Mo and warns him that YuCi is a ladder climber and love isn’t her priority. This is funny coming from him.😝Jiang makes a grand opening to introduce YuCi on stage. Here he announces her VP of Lysen and overseer of dept three. She is quite stunned and simply says thank you to audience and Mr Jiang. Her team is shocked and happy at same time. Once again, Mr Yu is overlooked and that hits hard. They keep him company til Ren shows up and then gratefully leave him in her care. These two have a candid conversation. He wants to know why she threw out ten years of love. She takes a shot before responding because Yu just doesn’t get it. He was the one that wanted to stay at Lysen. She never did. But to stay there she had to isolate herself and toe the line. She sacrificed to keep him his job and the dumb lug doesn’t see that. She finally just admitted that the more she tried to protect him, the more she had to give up. YuCi and Ren are now in the same boat and both of them understand that solitude is the only armor that protects you at Lysen. Ren has already walked the walk. Now YuCi is making the same choice. She gets that she has to completely bury who she really is or her friends could become weaknesses. This will be especially hard because she was finally opening up to a kinder world. She knows that she will be most under scrutiny with this position and mistakes are not an option. Maybe Yu is finally starting to understand Ren a bit now. He wants her to walk with him and the episode ends.

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