Big_Red_1011

To be fair, they did show how she was without contacts and Mr. Glasses Cloth handed her the cloth. Did they cut something else important about that?

Sonce they had to edit the series from 30 episodes down to 23, they should have done everyone a favor and removed 95% of Episode 17 and related parts of Episode 18 (and 19 too). It’s painful to see such a good fun drama resort to such a trope (and they didn’t even do it well) 😔

Yes, the breakup is absolutely ridiculous

Yes

Shan Shan and Dai Duo are also super sweet (Shan Shan is super nice 😊). Let’s enjoy the rest of the series together 😀

Blank days are to make people want to spend money to Express Package to watch all remaining episodes early (it becomes available on Saturday).

You are welcome! Supposedly the government doesn’t like overly long episode count and YOUKU wants shorter series. So this drama was originally planned for 36 episodes, had scripts for 33, shot material for 30 episodes but during final review/approval with the government it got only 23 episodes (I may have misremembered something but that’s basically why the pace of the drama is so quick).

It’s not explained very well (presumably because episode count dropped from 30 to 23). It’s either: (a) Nanfeng treated it as a fling but Yan was too serious; or (b) Yan flirted with other girls (he’s a player) and Nanfeng didn’t like it.
Someone mentioned in the novel both of them are kind of players and not into serious relationships (also, the storyline of him knowing her during childhood wasn’t in the book).

101% of commenters here agree with your opinion about the Evil Grandma. The last person to inspire such unity was probably the mother in The First Frost.

Sounds like drama creators made the script a lot more like a typical drama (with typical tropes/cliches).

Why does she want to leave her agency? I haven’t kept up with the news 🥺

Maybe it’s just going to be a separation due to him going to the national team to prove himself & earn approval from her parents?

Does Zhi _really_ want to learn? Or does she just want to fall into the arms of her coach? #SheHasAPlan 😉😊🥰

Shan Shan and Dai Duo are such a sweet couple. They truly are the second leads as opposed to Nan Feng and Yan.

Sometimes (well, oftentimes!), drama writers/creators make very puzzling choices that seem highly illogical or clearly questionable. I think with a little bit of polish, the script could have been improved and make more sense. And, oh, proposal on the big screen at the end? How? What? Why? 🙄

Being an engineer doesn’t preclude him from doing some research or publishing papers. But in the show he’s shown doing more practical tasks (location, drones, self-driving, etc.). I suspect on Baidu he would be working on algorithms for determining location or something related to the operations of the whole Baidu system. But that’s not super clear in this drama as opposed to You Are My Glory where ML had a pretty well-defined main project (even though he had helped with a couple of other things along the way).

At-will employment principle in the US makes it much simpler to fire people (with some exceptions, of course). But, as you mentioned, even in such situations it may be preferable to have an employee quit on their own.

There are only two episodes left so it’s possible Evil Grandma may become Less Evil Grandma. Although, everyone on MDL would rather see Grandma have an encounter with a white truck 😉

They cannot fire FL without a good reason (that was explained in first episodes when ML was trying to get rid of her). Otherwise, FL can file a complaint or sue them. So they gave her that low-level job hoping she would leave on her own. This is similar to how in Japan some companies do not give you any work to do, move you to somewhere where no one can interact with you, and hope you quit on your own due to boredom.

If Gradma doesn’t want to have a meeting with a white truck, she should retire to Hawaii or something.