AmandaSchultz

Right?!?! Ugh Here, grab an oar and a cup of coffee. We in the same boat… 🛶 ☕️ 🤣

I love me a good revenge drama with a strong FL and this has that. It has twists and turns and I love that it isn’t full of just the basic Betty’s that pull the same old tricks. Okay, to be fair, the FL didn’t start off coming off as smart and independent, but she was so pampered before that she didn’t have to. She was made to feel (and her wacky mother pushed for) she could live a life free to enjoy rather than work for her security, happiness, and freedom. A sober reminder to all women!!

The husband is just a menace to women all over haha like dude… all you had to do was be the dutiful husband and collect your money before cashing out. But noooo had to get greedy and stupid 🙄

Overall a pretty good drama that keeps you wanting to see what happens next. There are previews at the end of each ep but I stopped watching them after a few episodes in because I enjoy being surprised with what happens next too much.

For those who want to know, it has a good ending. Nothing to leave you frustrated or questioning anything major.

I won’t say much more. This drama deserves to be watched unspoiled. If you’re questioning whether or not you should watch, I hope you do. Enjoy :)

Oof… I caught up too fast. I tried to pace myself but daaaaaang, this is a good drama so far! The twists and turns. The backstabbing and secrets. The discoveries and truth twisting. Oh lawrdy!! Haha I can’t wait for ep 16 to drop. I should have waited to watch. Who knew ep 15 would leave me at the edge of my seat 😂 Just a few more hours…

Exactly. All of that was said, expressed, and felt without a single word. Brilliant.

@ibisfeather Exactly.

I think so too. He was also there when Han was paraded down the street with the other 2 top scholars. Their paths keep crossing but the time has not yet been right…. Yet…

If she said it, it could bring death to the Lin family. She is supposed to be dead, don’t forget. The Lins could be seen as harboring her and that would be too irresistible for anyone who wants to wipe them out. Same with his secret. Both of them carry a silent grenade….

Ep 42 was another good ep… I quite like that both our leads know eachother’s deepest secret yet at the same time neither have said a word. The relationship isn’t based on just love. It is based on mutual respect, understanding, and trust. He didn’t expose her secret and she did the same with his. They both know it, the other person knows they know it, no one outwardly says a single thing, yet they both still know. Hahaha so deep. So flipping brilliant.

It’s sad the third bro’s wife wants to stir shizz up in the family. Sigh…there’s always one drama 💩 stirrer…

Ohhh the preview for ep 43… does the 2nd Lin daughter finally meet her future husband? I hope he is worthy of her…

Ugh why can’t they just drop the remaining episodes?! This one day drip is FOR REAL the worst torture 😫

I really enjoyed this episode! Ep 41 delivered full circles on relationships that were happening in the background and were only hinted at from time to time. I love that all her friends found good men too.

Dude, the ML who stared death in the face multiple times and went to war multiple times, fainted….FAINTED at his wife’s birthing bedside. ROFLMAO 🤣. His kid took him out before she was fully born!!! He is gonna be in trouble because of course she will take after her mama’s wit and her daddy’s stubbornness hahaha

I loved the conversation with the ladies outside the birth room. How FL’s mom looked so worried when they were told it was a girl… and having that worry squashed and disintegrate in milliseconds. I love that.

The conversation between third sis and her husband was so good too. So deep and pointed. She loves him but loving and surviving do not always coexist well. She must do what he cannot and will not - protect his daughters. I mean yeeeesh! Look at them! They are wolves and hyenas waiting in the wings to greedily take. Honestly, he can blame her for scheming, but what choice did he leave her with?

I am so concerned about the MIL… the preview only fans the flames of worry even more. Everyone is so happy right now…

I agree. I love her change and growth the most. She went from the bratty, annoying, small-minded, basic Betty to this smart and sassy, my SIL can do no wrong 🦸🏻‍♀️, I am fine being an unmarried spinster because men are useless and will just chain me down and hold me back, wild and free spitfire. Love her so much now!! 💪

I’m worried for MLs mom…what the heck is that on her arm?!

Ok. After 39, going into 40 was “ok, they better have pulled themselves together…” And they did!

They explained so much more in 40 that I wish they had just done in 39. Most of the smarter viewers caught on that he gave up his position at the forewarning from his wife (smart man!) but dude, I couldn’t have known that without watching 40 where he and other characters said it multiple times 😂

I loved the closeness between the ML and his dopey 3rd brother. That conversation where ML apologized… what a heartwarming moment.

I think the best part of this episode was when ML’s BIL challenged him with “if you were 40 years of age and without a son, wouldn’t you take up a concubine?!” (Yes yes that was not verbatim. Don’t come after me!) and ML considers the statement before looking his BIL dead in the eyes with the best speech EVER while giving off the aura of both IDGAF and “I dare you to come at me” with such calm confidence. And he has such a good point! Why toss your loyal and loving wife aside for a son you have never met? There are many examples of idiot sons out there… pick one. Is he worth losing the woman you love?! Our ML has done some selfish and questionable things, but this right here… perfection.

I’m not saying it needed to be “Disney” and that the viewers NEED to be incredibly happy, but that they COULD HAVE to close the loop. This isn’t a drama that advertised fluffy sugary love, afterall.

Also the jumps and the montages are jolting and they go against the smoothness of the drama that has already been established.

The story up to this point was told so well and engaging. Then they led the viewers to believe there would be a payout for how the leads would eventually grow to care and love each other. We know her hesitation. We understand her trauma. We all experienced that with her. All I am saying is it would have been nice to also experience her falling for him too. This isn’t about catering to the audience. It’s about the art of telling the story. I was 100% fine with her not accepting his love for her. He forced it on her. He gave her no choice. He took her freedom away without so much of a conversation to even see where she stood (and at that time he 100% thought her heart was with Han, so that made his actions even worse as they were terribly controlling and it stripped away her rights for potentially a happy life with someone he believed she loved). That is no Disney fairytale cartoon. But if that is how they, the writers and production started off the relationship, then they should have a payout that justifies their current relationship. You can’t have a strong, intelligent, free-thinking woman who has witnessed all the trauma and tragedies she has experienced, take her freedom and supposed love interest away and not expect her to fight and be unbending. Something has to soften her. To change her perspective. We didn’t really get that. Even in the rebellion, one could argue that she saved him because her fate, her life, her future is now forcibly tied to this man who had ripped her freedom away solely for his personal needs and ego.

This isn’t me demanding for a “Disney Fairytale Cartoon”. It was me merely pointing out how inconsistent and how poorly executed that episode was in relation to all the previous episodes before it.

And how I regretfully drank the Kool-Aid.

So, I needed some time to think over what I just watched in episode 39. And after reading multiple comments from all of you, I feel like there’s nothing more that I can say that can adequately explain how I feel because all of you had said it already so eloquently.

I will, however say this, I drank the Kool-Aid. I wholeheartedly and happily drank the Kool-Aid and I kept telling myself that the one day break wouldn’t matter because episode 39 provide me with the payoff we all expected. First, I thought the play would be her creative way of telling him her story. It turned out that the play was a warning, a foreshadowing of what her fears were - fine, I accept that. I don’t have any problems with that. I just thought it was going to play out somewhat differently with the Preview they showed at the end of 38.

Second, I thoroughly expected to be shown how she finally dropped all her walls and let him in and the payoff would be what we had seen in the Preview, which was them revisiting the night of their marriage properly. I feel, like many of you, we were robbed of those moments. The bigger cracks in the walls, letting the bright beaming light of his love for her come through. They had the moment. He showed her he still remembered them. He still respected the Shens and the walls she built trembled and quaked. All they had to do was take it one step further and show us she was taking steps towards him too. I stead, we were robbed of any sweet moments between them that would lead towards that moment when they finally drank from the gourd. Yes, they went through life and death situation and yes, she did have some of her walls come down a couple inches but none of that was enough to skip over the moments I think us viewers were really hoping for. I think that was a big miss on the production’s part. It would have been a few sweet scenes, gestures, comments…. But instead we had a prolonged bd gift opening…

I think the montage of the years going by was a bit lazy. It was creative decision to love the story along, but it was still a little bit lazy. They had this drama in 2 parts and with 47 episodes in total, they could have afforded one episode where they made us viewers incredibly happy.

But no. Let this be a lesson to you all. Be aware of drinking the Kool-Aid!

Of course they choose the episode after what just happened yesterday in 38 to do this… they are toying with our emotions. Esp after seeing a sneak peek of 39… gahhh I am going to be grumpy today…

Yes, but now we choose the bear AND fictional men.

SOTB is okay. I think it’s doable to fill the void. It’s a revenge drama but tbh, it’s just…okay. I love a good revenge drama and this one is watchable. Not as good as The Double or other similar dramas. I don’t feel the chemistry between the leads but I don’t watch revenge dramas for the romance, so it doesn’t really matter to me. I just find the story line to be average. Maybe there’s a much bigger unraveling that’s going to happen, but so far it’s just filling a void for me while I wait for my other dramas to become available.

🤣 he is also the least interesting to me, so yeah. i concur 😂

I am looking forward to seeing how FL handles her. I am also interested to see how her identity reveal plays out…. 10 eps left. Still lots to unpack…

I feel these eps go really fast. The FL is very smart and street savvy (very typical of the roles Seven plays). So I find it enjoyable to watch.

Yes. This was a good scene!! 2nd master gonna break my heart when his illness catches up to him….

Also not ALL Lin bros are coughing up blood. We don’t yet know how the other bro is doing…