✒ Plan-A ◀️⏸️▶️ Eason Down the Road - °7.5° °VG°
“Don't go chasing after happiness. Let happiness find you.” Someone told Ru that awhile back. She believes it's true.
7-11 isn't the club (going to clubs is chasing after happiness), but one can meet interesting people there. That's where our FL is having a snack when a man points out a wallet at her feet. That's got nothing to do with her ~ not her wallet. Still, they start talking. She's gussied up her ramen superbly, so she shows him how. We learn later that Yan was chasing happiness. This wasn't a chance encounter.
LPA&B is a 2016 release that is rated 7.5 on MAL. It is 1 season consisting of 6 90-minute episodes. Huang Tien Jen (Someday or One Day, Amidst a Snowstorm of Love), & Wang Shau Di (Fantome, Ou es-tu) are the directors and the screenwriter is Mag Hsu (Mars, In Time with You). Per AI: “Taiwanese Q Series dramas are a collection of TV series produced by Q Place Creative Inc., with the aim of fostering world-class audiovisual production talent and innovative entertainment in Taiwan. These dramas, supported by the Republic of China (Taiwan) Ministry of Culture, are known for their high quality. ” Ep1 is fine, though it's no feelgood jaunt, but by the end of ep2 it opens up to provocative and impressive depths.
These two start dating. Ru has a chance to go to Shanghai; it’s triple the pay. Yan applies for and lands a position at a Shanghai firm. They start making plans, but right before they're set to go, his father lands in the hospital: Complete upheaval ensues. “Sacrifice doesn't always lead to fulfillment,” Ru's supervisor knows this from her own life. The only reason Ru got the promotion is because her supervisor, married with kids, cannot make the move. The woman goes on about how she's not appreciated at home, they resent her working long hours for low pay, and they nitpick over everything. “I let so many opportunities pass me by because I married young,” she complains. “I just want my life to be less mundane,” Ru whines.
Yan's father will need fulltime help. The family can't afford that, and mom cannot take care of him herself… Yan won't be going to Shanghai. That was Plan-🅰. Plan-🅱 is stay in Taipei, take care of dad, and make it work. Yan wants Ru to stay. In fact, he wants Ru to quit her job and be dad's helper! It would ruin her career and professional reputation to back out now, though. She already accepted the position. Yan's not even her fiance; she has no blood ties to his father. The company will NOT understand, her boss promises. Ru weighs her options. She weighs them again. She weighs for days. She finally decides to “bet on Plan-🅰.” She's going to Shanghai.
Rainie Yang (Devil Beside You) plays the FL, Zheng “Ru” Wei. I've only seen her in Drunken to Love You-7; the show would have flopped without her. She carries it. She can do that because she's adorable. Ru is determined to make her ordinary life less ordinary. Kenny Yen (Happy Enemy, Golden Dream on Green Island) portrays Tang You “Yan”. I don't like one thing about Yan. He's self-centered and weak. He does have good points. He's certainly a wonderful son, but he's not a good bf or husband… Husband? Didn't Ru leave? How does the viewer get to see Yan as a spouse? The show alternately follows Plan-🅰 and Plan-🅱 to see how things work out.
Plan-🅱 is a mess. Yan's mother takes Ru for granted (she's horrid!). Yan's sister flies home from 🇺🇲. For weeks, mom prepares: She's getting herself excited. Their apartment is 3 bedrooms and Ru’s been using the spare one. But sister's going to need it, and Mom won't let Ru sleep in Yan's bedroom. So, Ru is going to go visit her uncle for the holiday week. Given how Ru has devoted her life to caring for dad, it's a gut-punch.
Mom will get her own gut-punch. Sis walks into the hospital room, looking West-Coast-Fabulous in thigh-high boots and a shaggy alpaca jacket. We get to watch mom's face drop as she realizes that sister won't be stepping a toe inside their place! Her husband's waiting in the lobby (‘hates the smell of the hospital’), and he can't be bothered to come up and say “hello”. They have a client in town and they'll be traveling around Taiwan with the client ~ even on the holiday, because the client's interested in local customs and how they celebrate. Yan starts a big argument with his sister (in English, so the parents don't understand). She storms out. Her visit clocks in at under 10 minutes!
Back to Plan-🅰. Ru is settled into her new place & new job when she gets wind that Yan was in a car w/ a woman, and it looked “off”. It looked intimate. Ru panics & submits her resignation. Her new boss, "Eason” (Johnny Lu) is sex-appeal in a 3-piece suit. His baritone is so rich he is close to a base. He probably does Barry White in Karaoke. So many of these Asian actors have divine voices. He asks her why she quit? She's evasive. So he suggests they discuss it over dinner. He narrows it down to the issue at hand, but Ru isn't /certain/ she's been dumped - not 💯%. “Your Heart probably knows the answer,” he supplies. ~💡~ Ain't that the truth! If we're constantly running around busy & emotionally charged w/o a care to logical analysis, we'll never figure it out. Stop. Reflect. Act accordingly.
I sometimes look at these situations as a simple case of mistaken identity. Ru had identified Yan as a good life mate, a person who was committed to her and would be loving and loyal for the length of their lives. If Yan can cheat on her so quickly, he can't be the things that she had projected onto him. She had loved a lie. What does one do when one realizes that one chose to believe a lie? Some will get angry. True idiots get angry at the other woman/man, a practice that I've always found completely ridiculous - /that person/ isn't the cheater. But some will play it smart and just walk away. What's going to provide more fulfillment later? An emotional scene or silence w/ dignity? Some cannot handle loneliness at all. That isn't an excuse; the same circumstances and challenges are completely different for different individuals. I don't subscribe to the concept of there just being one perfect mate out there for everyone. Potential
love interests can be analyzed as 1-99% propositions. It looks like Ru and Yan are a 70% match. They get along great, but they fall short of being optimal. She has dreams and plans. He really doesn't. She's thinking big. He's thinking small. To be together forever ~for them~ means one or both of them will have to change - sacrifice. It's usually the woman. It's better to hold out for a 85%+ match. Invite the left brain in to analyze your love life. The right brain cannot do it alone! In Yan's case, he's probably the type that would be true - as long as everything goes well. He has a soft core: He'll cheat the 1st time something goes wrong. We see who he is when he pushes Ru for sex when she's sick in bed from exhaustion (Plan-🅱 scenario). He sees her more as a possession, not a human being. Ru is a tuffy. I don't think she'd ever cheat on her mate. She's projected that part of herself onto Yan. She saw what she wanted to see, and not the truth. This is a human failing. This is what we all do.
Back to Ru & Eason. “You insist on hearing him say it,” (Mr. Sexy Voice sounds more like a berceuse). “But why? Why should YOU be the one thrown away?” Why indeed. His solution: 📌❇🔸 “Don't focus on the things you've lost. Count the things that you could have.” He promises to give her the next step once she learns the first one. The entire scene is riveting.
Ru starts alleviating her sense of loss with possessions. Shoes. Bags. Clothes. They're a temporary high, but ultimately, they leave one more hollow, not more fulfilled. The Goodwill stores are full. Our hearts are empty. She says she has the things and the look that she wanted. She equates that to having the life that she wanted. The only thing she's missing is a person to eat dinner with, she reasons. An inebriated Ru shows back up at Easton's place demanding to know the second step. She wakes up the next morning on his couch and tries to slink out, but he has breakfast set out for her. 📌❇🔸 “Break up with him. That's the next step.” He'll later say, in the post-break-up-break-down, that they sound more like 2 people who “don't hate e/o and are afraid of being alone.” He wonders if people need love or just a way to ward off the loneliness? He suggests they experiment together. “Do you hate me?” She shakes her head. “PERFECT.”
📌❇🔸“Don't allow anyone in this world to really understand you,” is his next tip. “Won't that make you feel lonely?” She wants to know. “It's human nature to feel lonely,” he replies. “Only love, as well as marriage and family, can comfort the fear of being alone. It could never solve the feelings of loneliness.” “One day, you'll have an epiphany. Even if there was a person who understands you completely, you would still feel lonely. Therefore, being afraid of loneliness is the most stupid thing.” I know this is true. Get sick. Struggle mentally and emotionally from it. Watch all your relationships evaporate. On one level, I understand it. I never expected anyone to be there for me, primarily because I never expected to be in need. My experience has turned my sights upward, spiritually, and backwards to what I learned in Sunday school. “From a really young age, I trained myself to enjoy loneliness and to enjoy the feeling of not being understood,” claims Eason. Ru studies him, but she doesn't understand him.
The primary theme is complications of womanhood. There's a huge disconnect between the lies we've chosen to believe about how women should live their lives and reality. Like rain falls from the sky, everything falls on the woman. This is true even when she works full-time. At the end of ep1 they have a Plan-🅱 scene in which she becomes a wife & a mother. She's treated like a servant, nothing is good enough, and she's practically criticized for the way she breathes. At the same time, she's being pulled in a dozen directions.
Women are sneered at if they choose to be housewives, though everything a housewife does is work that must be done. It's not just full-time, it's overtime work. For career women, they're criticized for how they don't keep it together or give enough. Most careers are not fulfilling. The workplace can be dismal. Spending a third of your life in a cubicle is a level of hell. How much of what we do, do we do because it's expected? Are we really happy with our choices? Most of us seniors would do things completely differently if given the opportunity. There's no one-fits-all answer. Before a woman makes a decision between Plan-🅰 and Plan-🅱 she should weigh it for days. Following a career path for which you have a passion has a great chance of being fulfilling. Following a career path only for pride has almost no chance of being fulfilling! Being a housewife for a man who adores and appreciates you is fulfilling. Being a housewife for a man who fails to love and respect the wife will be crushing. Carefully weigh the costs. After factoring in wardrobe, transportation, lunches, and childcare, most women are hardly making minimum wage. Your job will never love you back. Even if you're the CEO, it will go on without you. You build love and fulfillment through your family.
Another theme is that one should not mold their life around anyone until one is married. Until that lifetime selfless commitment is spoken and sealed, work on yourself and become the best you can be. Some women will be happy as a housewife and raising kids. That can be a beautiful life but Ru isn't ready for that yet, and holding e/o back is not the way. That only generates resentment.
Back to Plan-🅱. She’s feeding Yan's father. He's depressed. Ru mentions how devoted his wife is. “We stopped loving a long time ago,” Dad dolefully admits. “We just feel bad about leaving.” At work, things turned sour since she turned down the Shanghai opportunity. Her future at her job has faded to black. She is going to quit. “I don't want to drag you down,” says Yan. It's a little late for that, though, isn't it?
There's no better feeling in the world than having an adult child who one is proud of. In Plan-🅱 we see parents who spoiled a child so badly that her life is a mess. Nasty divorce. No friends. No prospects. No skills. She fights with her mother and blames mom for all her deficiencies. Raising kids is hard. Growing up is hard. But the alternative is the WORST. Back at Plan-🅱, the marriage is on the rocks. It's about his family all the time. Yan complains how awful it is to constantly feel gratitude and guilt (HUH😬?). It's too much pressure. He tries to claim that he's made sacrifices too, and they've made them together for a better life… that ain't fair! Everything is for his family, and while his father is extremely appreciative, his mother and sister are repulsive.
Plan-🅰 is fraught with lonliness and loss as well, though she ends up with plenty of money. The show continues toggling until the end. Actually, both plans work out in their own ways. Taiwan has the second highest divorce rate in Asia, and the birthrate is very low. I suspect they're trying to encourage people to stick with their families. The main message seems to be that life isn't easy, and it's up to us to find a way to make it work. I'm Plan-🅰 all the way. Yan and his mama can have themselves.
QUOTE🗣
Your Heart probably knows the answer.
You can't save a love that's already expired.
You have to smell with your nose and observe with your eyes, but never listen with your ears.
You can't exchange sacrifices for happiness. You have to find yourself first. Then, your happiness will approach you.
IMHO〰🖍
📣7.4 📝7.6 🎭7.6 💓6 🦋6 🎨6 🎵/🔊7 🔚8 🤗4.5 ▪ 🌞4 ⚡3 😅2 😭3 😱1 😯3 🤢1 🤔7.5 💤0
Shazams:
年輪說 by Rainie Yang
Age 13+ Rated 15+
Re-📺?
In order of ~lite & trite~ to ~heavy & serious~ you may also like:
🌐💓 -
C🇨🇳:
A Little Thing Called First Love 8.5;
Find Yourself 8.9;
The Romance of Tiger and Rose 9.8;
The Sleepless Princess 9.1;
Wait, My Youth-8.4
K🇰🇷 :
A Witch's Love 7.8;
Love To Hate You 8.9;
Touch Your Heart 8.2;
Crash Landing On You 9.1;
Oh My Ghost 10;
It's Okay Not to Be Okay 9;
Hospital Playlist 9;
My Mister 9.5;
🎎 -
C🇨🇳: Overlord 8.4,
Under the Power 8.6,
The Rebel Princess 9.1,
The Sword and the Brocade 8.6 (in ancient Chinese opera style),
The Rise of Phoenixes 9
K🇰🇷:
My Only Love Song 8.7 excellent comedy;
Mr. Queen 8.5;
My Sassy Girl 8.5;
The King's Affection 8.3;
Mr. Sunshine 9
Japanese🇯🇵 lite romcoms: Maid Sama-10, Mischievous Kiss Love in Tokyo-7.8, Love, Chunibyo And Other Delusions-8.4, Toradora-8.5
Romance junkies only: Accidentally in Love-6.5 ‘18 B-level scripting, acting, and directing, but still fun/strangely relaxing to watch,
Well-Intended Love-7.5 Rom-porn - extra points for the dopamine but many object to an outrageous stunt the ML pulls,
Boss & Me-7
When I Fly Towards You-7.8,
You are my destiny-6.8 cute and sweet and 1/2 padding,
Meteor Garden-7.4 - 70% flowing 30% dragging and BOF is better,
Hidden Love-7.8
🇹🇼Taiwan
Age of Rebellion-9.5,
Autumn's Concerto-7.2,
Back to 1989-7.1,
Black & White-6.8,
The Fierce Wife-8 - worth sticking with,
Inborn Pair-4.2,
Love, Now-3.6,
Love You-7,
Office Girls-7,
The Perfect Match-5.5 (ep 1-9=8,1-17=7.5,1-22=5.5)
Two Fathers-7.5
7-11 isn't the club (going to clubs is chasing after happiness), but one can meet interesting people there. That's where our FL is having a snack when a man points out a wallet at her feet. That's got nothing to do with her ~ not her wallet. Still, they start talking. She's gussied up her ramen superbly, so she shows him how. We learn later that Yan was chasing happiness. This wasn't a chance encounter.
LPA&B is a 2016 release that is rated 7.5 on MAL. It is 1 season consisting of 6 90-minute episodes. Huang Tien Jen (Someday or One Day, Amidst a Snowstorm of Love), & Wang Shau Di (Fantome, Ou es-tu) are the directors and the screenwriter is Mag Hsu (Mars, In Time with You). Per AI: “Taiwanese Q Series dramas are a collection of TV series produced by Q Place Creative Inc., with the aim of fostering world-class audiovisual production talent and innovative entertainment in Taiwan. These dramas, supported by the Republic of China (Taiwan) Ministry of Culture, are known for their high quality. ” Ep1 is fine, though it's no feelgood jaunt, but by the end of ep2 it opens up to provocative and impressive depths.
These two start dating. Ru has a chance to go to Shanghai; it’s triple the pay. Yan applies for and lands a position at a Shanghai firm. They start making plans, but right before they're set to go, his father lands in the hospital: Complete upheaval ensues. “Sacrifice doesn't always lead to fulfillment,” Ru's supervisor knows this from her own life. The only reason Ru got the promotion is because her supervisor, married with kids, cannot make the move. The woman goes on about how she's not appreciated at home, they resent her working long hours for low pay, and they nitpick over everything. “I let so many opportunities pass me by because I married young,” she complains. “I just want my life to be less mundane,” Ru whines.
Yan's father will need fulltime help. The family can't afford that, and mom cannot take care of him herself… Yan won't be going to Shanghai. That was Plan-🅰. Plan-🅱 is stay in Taipei, take care of dad, and make it work. Yan wants Ru to stay. In fact, he wants Ru to quit her job and be dad's helper! It would ruin her career and professional reputation to back out now, though. She already accepted the position. Yan's not even her fiance; she has no blood ties to his father. The company will NOT understand, her boss promises. Ru weighs her options. She weighs them again. She weighs for days. She finally decides to “bet on Plan-🅰.” She's going to Shanghai.
Rainie Yang (Devil Beside You) plays the FL, Zheng “Ru” Wei. I've only seen her in Drunken to Love You-7; the show would have flopped without her. She carries it. She can do that because she's adorable. Ru is determined to make her ordinary life less ordinary. Kenny Yen (Happy Enemy, Golden Dream on Green Island) portrays Tang You “Yan”. I don't like one thing about Yan. He's self-centered and weak. He does have good points. He's certainly a wonderful son, but he's not a good bf or husband… Husband? Didn't Ru leave? How does the viewer get to see Yan as a spouse? The show alternately follows Plan-🅰 and Plan-🅱 to see how things work out.
Plan-🅱 is a mess. Yan's mother takes Ru for granted (she's horrid!). Yan's sister flies home from 🇺🇲. For weeks, mom prepares: She's getting herself excited. Their apartment is 3 bedrooms and Ru’s been using the spare one. But sister's going to need it, and Mom won't let Ru sleep in Yan's bedroom. So, Ru is going to go visit her uncle for the holiday week. Given how Ru has devoted her life to caring for dad, it's a gut-punch.
Mom will get her own gut-punch. Sis walks into the hospital room, looking West-Coast-Fabulous in thigh-high boots and a shaggy alpaca jacket. We get to watch mom's face drop as she realizes that sister won't be stepping a toe inside their place! Her husband's waiting in the lobby (‘hates the smell of the hospital’), and he can't be bothered to come up and say “hello”. They have a client in town and they'll be traveling around Taiwan with the client ~ even on the holiday, because the client's interested in local customs and how they celebrate. Yan starts a big argument with his sister (in English, so the parents don't understand). She storms out. Her visit clocks in at under 10 minutes!
Back to Plan-🅰. Ru is settled into her new place & new job when she gets wind that Yan was in a car w/ a woman, and it looked “off”. It looked intimate. Ru panics & submits her resignation. Her new boss, "Eason” (Johnny Lu) is sex-appeal in a 3-piece suit. His baritone is so rich he is close to a base. He probably does Barry White in Karaoke. So many of these Asian actors have divine voices. He asks her why she quit? She's evasive. So he suggests they discuss it over dinner. He narrows it down to the issue at hand, but Ru isn't /certain/ she's been dumped - not 💯%. “Your Heart probably knows the answer,” he supplies. ~💡~ Ain't that the truth! If we're constantly running around busy & emotionally charged w/o a care to logical analysis, we'll never figure it out. Stop. Reflect. Act accordingly.
I sometimes look at these situations as a simple case of mistaken identity. Ru had identified Yan as a good life mate, a person who was committed to her and would be loving and loyal for the length of their lives. If Yan can cheat on her so quickly, he can't be the things that she had projected onto him. She had loved a lie. What does one do when one realizes that one chose to believe a lie? Some will get angry. True idiots get angry at the other woman/man, a practice that I've always found completely ridiculous - /that person/ isn't the cheater. But some will play it smart and just walk away. What's going to provide more fulfillment later? An emotional scene or silence w/ dignity? Some cannot handle loneliness at all. That isn't an excuse; the same circumstances and challenges are completely different for different individuals. I don't subscribe to the concept of there just being one perfect mate out there for everyone. Potential
love interests can be analyzed as 1-99% propositions. It looks like Ru and Yan are a 70% match. They get along great, but they fall short of being optimal. She has dreams and plans. He really doesn't. She's thinking big. He's thinking small. To be together forever ~for them~ means one or both of them will have to change - sacrifice. It's usually the woman. It's better to hold out for a 85%+ match. Invite the left brain in to analyze your love life. The right brain cannot do it alone! In Yan's case, he's probably the type that would be true - as long as everything goes well. He has a soft core: He'll cheat the 1st time something goes wrong. We see who he is when he pushes Ru for sex when she's sick in bed from exhaustion (Plan-🅱 scenario). He sees her more as a possession, not a human being. Ru is a tuffy. I don't think she'd ever cheat on her mate. She's projected that part of herself onto Yan. She saw what she wanted to see, and not the truth. This is a human failing. This is what we all do.
Back to Ru & Eason. “You insist on hearing him say it,” (Mr. Sexy Voice sounds more like a berceuse). “But why? Why should YOU be the one thrown away?” Why indeed. His solution: 📌❇🔸 “Don't focus on the things you've lost. Count the things that you could have.” He promises to give her the next step once she learns the first one. The entire scene is riveting.
Ru starts alleviating her sense of loss with possessions. Shoes. Bags. Clothes. They're a temporary high, but ultimately, they leave one more hollow, not more fulfilled. The Goodwill stores are full. Our hearts are empty. She says she has the things and the look that she wanted. She equates that to having the life that she wanted. The only thing she's missing is a person to eat dinner with, she reasons. An inebriated Ru shows back up at Easton's place demanding to know the second step. She wakes up the next morning on his couch and tries to slink out, but he has breakfast set out for her. 📌❇🔸 “Break up with him. That's the next step.” He'll later say, in the post-break-up-break-down, that they sound more like 2 people who “don't hate e/o and are afraid of being alone.” He wonders if people need love or just a way to ward off the loneliness? He suggests they experiment together. “Do you hate me?” She shakes her head. “PERFECT.”
📌❇🔸“Don't allow anyone in this world to really understand you,” is his next tip. “Won't that make you feel lonely?” She wants to know. “It's human nature to feel lonely,” he replies. “Only love, as well as marriage and family, can comfort the fear of being alone. It could never solve the feelings of loneliness.” “One day, you'll have an epiphany. Even if there was a person who understands you completely, you would still feel lonely. Therefore, being afraid of loneliness is the most stupid thing.” I know this is true. Get sick. Struggle mentally and emotionally from it. Watch all your relationships evaporate. On one level, I understand it. I never expected anyone to be there for me, primarily because I never expected to be in need. My experience has turned my sights upward, spiritually, and backwards to what I learned in Sunday school. “From a really young age, I trained myself to enjoy loneliness and to enjoy the feeling of not being understood,” claims Eason. Ru studies him, but she doesn't understand him.
The primary theme is complications of womanhood. There's a huge disconnect between the lies we've chosen to believe about how women should live their lives and reality. Like rain falls from the sky, everything falls on the woman. This is true even when she works full-time. At the end of ep1 they have a Plan-🅱 scene in which she becomes a wife & a mother. She's treated like a servant, nothing is good enough, and she's practically criticized for the way she breathes. At the same time, she's being pulled in a dozen directions.
Women are sneered at if they choose to be housewives, though everything a housewife does is work that must be done. It's not just full-time, it's overtime work. For career women, they're criticized for how they don't keep it together or give enough. Most careers are not fulfilling. The workplace can be dismal. Spending a third of your life in a cubicle is a level of hell. How much of what we do, do we do because it's expected? Are we really happy with our choices? Most of us seniors would do things completely differently if given the opportunity. There's no one-fits-all answer. Before a woman makes a decision between Plan-🅰 and Plan-🅱 she should weigh it for days. Following a career path for which you have a passion has a great chance of being fulfilling. Following a career path only for pride has almost no chance of being fulfilling! Being a housewife for a man who adores and appreciates you is fulfilling. Being a housewife for a man who fails to love and respect the wife will be crushing. Carefully weigh the costs. After factoring in wardrobe, transportation, lunches, and childcare, most women are hardly making minimum wage. Your job will never love you back. Even if you're the CEO, it will go on without you. You build love and fulfillment through your family.
Another theme is that one should not mold their life around anyone until one is married. Until that lifetime selfless commitment is spoken and sealed, work on yourself and become the best you can be. Some women will be happy as a housewife and raising kids. That can be a beautiful life but Ru isn't ready for that yet, and holding e/o back is not the way. That only generates resentment.
Back to Plan-🅱. She’s feeding Yan's father. He's depressed. Ru mentions how devoted his wife is. “We stopped loving a long time ago,” Dad dolefully admits. “We just feel bad about leaving.” At work, things turned sour since she turned down the Shanghai opportunity. Her future at her job has faded to black. She is going to quit. “I don't want to drag you down,” says Yan. It's a little late for that, though, isn't it?
There's no better feeling in the world than having an adult child who one is proud of. In Plan-🅱 we see parents who spoiled a child so badly that her life is a mess. Nasty divorce. No friends. No prospects. No skills. She fights with her mother and blames mom for all her deficiencies. Raising kids is hard. Growing up is hard. But the alternative is the WORST. Back at Plan-🅱, the marriage is on the rocks. It's about his family all the time. Yan complains how awful it is to constantly feel gratitude and guilt (HUH😬?). It's too much pressure. He tries to claim that he's made sacrifices too, and they've made them together for a better life… that ain't fair! Everything is for his family, and while his father is extremely appreciative, his mother and sister are repulsive.
Plan-🅰 is fraught with lonliness and loss as well, though she ends up with plenty of money. The show continues toggling until the end. Actually, both plans work out in their own ways. Taiwan has the second highest divorce rate in Asia, and the birthrate is very low. I suspect they're trying to encourage people to stick with their families. The main message seems to be that life isn't easy, and it's up to us to find a way to make it work. I'm Plan-🅰 all the way. Yan and his mama can have themselves.
QUOTE🗣
Your Heart probably knows the answer.
You can't save a love that's already expired.
You have to smell with your nose and observe with your eyes, but never listen with your ears.
You can't exchange sacrifices for happiness. You have to find yourself first. Then, your happiness will approach you.
IMHO〰🖍
📣7.4 📝7.6 🎭7.6 💓6 🦋6 🎨6 🎵/🔊7 🔚8 🤗4.5 ▪ 🌞4 ⚡3 😅2 😭3 😱1 😯3 🤢1 🤔7.5 💤0
Shazams:
年輪說 by Rainie Yang
Age 13+ Rated 15+
Re-📺?
In order of ~lite & trite~ to ~heavy & serious~ you may also like:
🌐💓 -
C🇨🇳:
A Little Thing Called First Love 8.5;
Find Yourself 8.9;
The Romance of Tiger and Rose 9.8;
The Sleepless Princess 9.1;
Wait, My Youth-8.4
K🇰🇷 :
A Witch's Love 7.8;
Love To Hate You 8.9;
Touch Your Heart 8.2;
Crash Landing On You 9.1;
Oh My Ghost 10;
It's Okay Not to Be Okay 9;
Hospital Playlist 9;
My Mister 9.5;
🎎 -
C🇨🇳: Overlord 8.4,
Under the Power 8.6,
The Rebel Princess 9.1,
The Sword and the Brocade 8.6 (in ancient Chinese opera style),
The Rise of Phoenixes 9
K🇰🇷:
My Only Love Song 8.7 excellent comedy;
Mr. Queen 8.5;
My Sassy Girl 8.5;
The King's Affection 8.3;
Mr. Sunshine 9
Japanese🇯🇵 lite romcoms: Maid Sama-10, Mischievous Kiss Love in Tokyo-7.8, Love, Chunibyo And Other Delusions-8.4, Toradora-8.5
Romance junkies only: Accidentally in Love-6.5 ‘18 B-level scripting, acting, and directing, but still fun/strangely relaxing to watch,
Well-Intended Love-7.5 Rom-porn - extra points for the dopamine but many object to an outrageous stunt the ML pulls,
Boss & Me-7
When I Fly Towards You-7.8,
You are my destiny-6.8 cute and sweet and 1/2 padding,
Meteor Garden-7.4 - 70% flowing 30% dragging and BOF is better,
Hidden Love-7.8
🇹🇼Taiwan
Age of Rebellion-9.5,
Autumn's Concerto-7.2,
Back to 1989-7.1,
Black & White-6.8,
The Fierce Wife-8 - worth sticking with,
Inborn Pair-4.2,
Love, Now-3.6,
Love You-7,
Office Girls-7,
The Perfect Match-5.5 (ep 1-9=8,1-17=7.5,1-22=5.5)
Two Fathers-7.5
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