Counterattack (The source material)

 ecstaticeratic:

Can anyone summarize the Kidnapping and Prison subplots from the novel? 

The kidnapping:

After they reconcile, CC decides that WSW should learn self-defense(kind of already taken care of in the drama via WZ). On the way to work one day, WSW gets ambushed by a bunch of hired kidnappers. They were expecting an easy target and weren't supposed to hurt him, but he fights back and they beat him up. Turns out they were hired by CC's father.  Not to control CC or get CC to break up with WSW.... but CC's dad decided to stage his own version of a intervention/conversion camp in order to save WSW from 'going down the wrong path' with his son. He thinks its too late for his son, but is determined to save WSW. He tells WSW he will let him go as soon as he promises to leave CC and marry a nice girl and produce babies. WSW thinks the whole thing is too funny.  WSW and CC figure out a way to communicate via their synchronized watches. CC figures out where WSW is and shows up to save him, but WSW doesn't realize he is there and takes a chance to escape and runs off.  CC figures out he took off and goes after him.

Prison:

Someone reports CC to the police for bribery and illegal business activities used to give their business a leg up (the charges are real, but I'm sure in the drama they wont be, if they even go there) and he gets arrested.  Simultaneously WSW's business and assets get frozen. Guo bribes an official to get in to see CC and get the paperwork on CC's arrest. Guo tells WSW that CC is facing like 3 years in prison, but if WSW is willing to bribe the (corrupt) official in charge of the case, the charges will get dropped. At the same time, CC's dad has their lawyer transfer all of CC's assets into his mothers name so WSW can't sell any of them to get the funds to pay the bribe while simultaneously CC's dad decides to let CC rot in jail.  The bribe amount turns out to be the exact amount of money WSW has been keeping in a safe for his and CC's retirement, plus from the forced sale of his childhood home. Which indicates that the person behind this seems really to be after WSW or WSW's money. WSW doesn't hesitate, he pays the bribe money and CC is found not guilty at trial.  It turns out that the person who reported CC to the police, was actually his own sister. She assumed that WSW would take the money and run instead of bailing out CC, effectively breaking them up. When CC is released from jail, they no longer have a place to live because all his assets were seized by his dad, so they temporarily live with Guo and JXS. CC feels guilty that WSW had to sell his mother's home for him, so he borrows one of Guo's street racing cars (because that used to be a thing they did together), and goes out to win a street race to buy back WSW's home. They move in there, and essentially WSW and CC start their business over again once the company is no longer frozen.

Now that they’ve talked about it on the show that CC “will never bottom in his lifetime” - please tell me when and how does in fact come to bottom (says Twitter). 🙏🏽

 Kamuigan:

What? CC bottoms for WSW at some point? 

In an extra. 

 Kamuigan:

An extra off the novel?

Yes. There are a couple extra chapters after the epilogue.

 tregetours:

@Nope As I consider you a bit of an expert on the novel, I want to ask... What are your feelings about Wang Shuo? Specifically, I mean regarding the many complaints from people about WS taking up too much space in the show. Are there other characters or plot points in the novel that should have been giving more space on the show in comparison? 

WS is a major plot in the book. It’s really the biggest plot in the book. Even after it’s resolved WS and WZ still pop up front time to time and cause trouble. It was a part of the book that I really disliked so I was glad that once WSW and CC reconciled it was toned down. 

My biggest complaint is that the show really should have been 26-28 episodes so the climax was given more room to breathe and they could have devoted a smidge more time to the MT plot.