Kaihua

They like it as a power move, showing it doesn't matter how believable the evidence is, if we say someone is guilty they're guilty

iQiyi

Maybe her love is different than for her own child but it feels like she still cares about Mingyim You can tell it hurt her to say those words, she was lying about not caring about her on purpose to get Mingyi to leave as a way to protect her

Guys... Since the 40 episode limit was repealed in August last year, do we have a chance of getting the cut content restored T_T

Everything she said to grandma was REAL! Grandma you earned that
Also, her warning Yunshu was baller

Tonight's episode was so satisyinnggg
I also really like how everything ties into that bigger picture about staying true to one's principles. Their feelings and motivations aren't shallow but somehow no one else understands that. Maybe they don't understand because their own motivations are shallow

Unfortunately I don't know. I'm also dying to find out AAA! But yes, this trope is used a lot, and a lot of the time it's not used well and just used to inject drama for the sake of drama. Many a shoujo manga have made me so angry for wasting my time on useless arcs LOL

I think it's definitely worth it. Especially after tonight's episode!

Omg you're right I misremembered, it was Love in the Clouds I finished recently, I need to stop watching multiple at once I think it's affecting my brain HAHAHA

I'm ready for it! We just saw Yan Bai Luo be the one to hold RSB when she fell and shelter her from the rain, and at the same time this girl is introduced. I think this is their turn to come into the forefront of the story more, and offer basically the narrative counter argument to why RSB and LJL should be together. Effectively used second leads are always there to showcase why the main leads are fit for each other and not just any nice/powerful/etc. guy/girl. So there's a chance jealousy won't factor into it that much, she might not even be a bad person, just someone who likes LJL. Either way by the end they'll have been used to prove why RSB and LJL are best for each other ; )

Really!? The last drama I saw him in was THE Glory so he was in a bun the whole time

Yeah, I also feel like she's lowkey projecting... LOL

It was necessary for the emotional core of the story. LJL was always going to infiltrate the family, but by giving him amnesia, his time in the Rong household - and therefore his time with RSB - becomes sincere. If he had infiltrated normally as another candidate, he would've been no different from all the other men there for hidden agendas. He needed to have this element, and there are very few ways a man can have time and proximity to an unmarried woman, so his role was perfect both for the plots objective development and its emotional development. The only way for them to have any chance at a lasting bond in the future absolutely hinged on him being sincere in caring about her during his time there even if he was also a cunning little liar. Furthermore, he and RSB were always having a back and forth dance of trying to test each other and get a read on the other person. He was never powerless, everything was basically going the way he wanted it to the entire time. As for her being cold and dry, the point of RSB's character is that she's been boxed into the role of being a perfect heir her entire life and was not allowed to be a person or have emotions of her own. Her exterior is a fine tuned mask of composure but she obviously feels things underneath if you pay attention. This is and many other things are plenty of signs that the Rong family's way of doing things is also wrong. RSB has even said herself that the Rong family used to be without hierarchy and was a functioning family, but everything eventually went awry. And based on the recent developments, it's going to be her turn to be in a lowpoint while he has the power to help her. Even if they're emotionally equal, to be able to be equally together in status, the drama still needs time to change the situation. Every story that keeps a couple from getting together right away despite mutual feelings does it with the full awareness and demonstration that the relationship won't work yet until something changes according to the thematic throughlines of the narrative. It's completely true LJL wouldn't have been able to have equal footing in the Rong family if he successfully married at this point, not because of RSB but because of how the Rong family currently operates. And like Wen Can said, Madam Rong doesn't like him and she would definitely find ways to try to get rid of him. The sisters are also in disharmony and still plotting against each other too. It's exactly why they can't be together yet. But I do think emotionally, they see each other equally. It's just their circumstances currently don't allow for them to be together equally, and so things worked out the way they did

Yunshu has been good at weaving her spiderweb in the background and using people as borrowed knives all these years. I swear she hates the Rong family because of what happened to her mother and has long been working to bringing about the entire family's destruction

Agreed~ RSB and LJL are the same type of person when it comes to duty. They both knew it'd one day come to this and dreaded it but I think they both understand they're the type of people to put their sense of duty first. LJL's nerfed hairstyle arc is going to be sad but necessary, I can only hope one day his long hair comes back hahahaha

the family is a matriarchy and yet it still runs on the toxic masculinity of never being allowed to have emotions smh...

This time, Wen Can tells RSB off for going out of her way to do all this [ep 21] for the sake of a man which is completely overwriting her bond with Ms. Yang and spitting on it... When he talks about how she's ruined her perfect performance and perfect image, he's just like everyone else in never once allowing RSB to be human. No one has ever allowed her to be anything other than her role, not even allowed to cry over the loss of her mother, and Lu Jiang Lai is the only person who treats her like a human being and lets her be a person. GOd

If it's a paper message it could be that we will finally see what was written on that blank paper. He wouldn't even let the ml read it and all of his guesses were based on the conversation he overheard so I think the paper could have been bluff and it was about something else.... ooo I CANT WAIT 10 hours till the next eps cannot come soon enough

it really puts the childhood friendship into a sadder perspective, because he has probably spent this entire time feeling entitled to her as if she belongs to him because of it, which might be why he feels so betrayed and offended

exactly, and he's so delusional he doesn't even see it (or more like refuses to)
i cant wait to see karma get him