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Question: I haven't finished episode 30 yet, but how is HT allowed to merge Xingchen and Hanhai without approval from JX and SZZ, don't they have majority shares. How can HT even talk about doing a merge? I am not a business or investor aficionado, so pretty clueless about all this.

This exactly was how I felt. I could not see any chemistry with Xu Kai and Seven Tan in the trailer and I just thought what an unexpected pairing, but I am biting my tongue now. I am loving this. I almost did not start watching it either. This is probably one of my favorite pairings of both of them in a very long time.

I never wanted SZZ to get together with Lili, they just don't seem right together. She is a very powerful woman (as you said) and confidant and knows her self worth, he on the other hand is still growing up. To me, his affections seem like puppy love, not mature love, which is what Lili needs. I liked Lili with XYX at first, now it is like he is purposely sabotaging what could be a good relationship. I think he still has issues he needs to work out.

yeah he does, definitely different than what I have seen him in previously

I guess I have never heard it before.

I think he lost a lot of weight. At least that is what it looks like to me.

I never score until the dramas are over. If I drop a drama, I won't score it at all, unless I watched at least half of it. I think once the drama is over it quite possibly will go up.

luckily it looks like they will bounce back from it, JX turned a bad situation into one where it might be profitable.

lol I love your gorilla glue term

I will have to check it out. I have heard a lot of good things about it.

I agree. I was so mad at XYX, when he said that to her. Why even agree to let them meet then? XYX seemed so serious about Lili but now he wants to put the brakes on. So frustrating, I think it is time for her to end it as well. I really liked this relationship at first, but the more it progresses, it is getting aggravating.

yeah I have been on a long drama break, haven't really come across anything to keep me interested, just finished watching The Double a few days ago, then caught up with this.

about as fast as her ex and friend getting married as well

The drama of The Story of Ming Lan is one of my absolute favorites, right along with LLTG, I have rewatched both several times. I haven't read the source material for both. Sheng Ming Lan in the drama is not physically strong, but she is very smart and patient, she sees several steps ahead and can wait for the "villain" to get what is coming to them in the end.

I think that is the reason I couldn't watch Anle. I did not like Dilraba's character or voice over actress in that series at all. I never read the novel, but I couldn't get past the 2nd episode of the drama. I usually for the most part like Dilraba's costume dramas.

I agree, I think she does better in her historical dramas, or rather xianxia type. I liked her in The Flame's Daughter and Three Lives Three Worlds (both TMOPB and TPB), she was ok in The Long Ballad, but I haven't really liked a lot of her recent works.

you do better than me, I can't make it past episode 2 and it has an amazing cast, besides Xu Kai, there's Leon Lai, who is one of my all time favorite actors (although he hasn't been in much lately) among a few others.

It is very good. It is a Republican Era drama, it is actually the only Republican Era drama I have ever watched and liked. I can't really get into those dramas that much. But the chemistry Xu Kai and Bai Lu have has always been amazing for me. I really would love to see them in something else, but unfortunately I don't think that will ever happen.

I skip all scenes of Yi Chen and WQZ, their scenes to me are so boring. WQZ's character was boring to begin with and then putting her with Yi Chen, just added to that. Which sucks because, I love the actor playing Yi Chen, he was the 3rd prince in LLTG and he was in Falling into Your Smile with Xu Kai.

He didn't break up with her on her birthday, they broke up in episode 8, I think. He just felt they didn't have the same goals anymore, she was concentrating on her startup and he was sort of being ignored. Basically, he wasn't wanting to support her anymore at least that is my takeaway. The birthday episode is where she found out one of her best friends was dating her now ex.