phoenixfrost

if you really were a fan of his, you'd see his sincerity and how well he acted in this drama. you're not a fan, has never been and like all haters, a liar

they're already giving off the vibes of a long and happily married couple 😂😂

It appears so. The negative comments on Weibo and Douban have been propagated throughout the web. Even Avenuex's rant echoes what I've read in Weibo and Douban. It's really sad how easily people can be swayed which is why yxh and water armies are proliferating.

yes, he does! she triggers his naughty side 😂😂😂

I was actually on Weibo lapping up the praises being heaped on the drama, mostly about Dylan's handsomeness and the high ratings on Maoyan, Datawin, Vlinkage, etc when I saw the first black comment. It was in a hot search item entitled "ugly" (translated by google). It was about the bad camera angles and filters. I didn't take note of it coz I didn't notice those flaws when I was watching so I thought the comment would just fade away. But then more and more black comments came up, and I had a premonition something else was going on. When I saw the Twitter post about HunanTV/MangoTV being blackmailed by the yxh and water armies, everything clicked. This drama is a victim of a smear campaign.

lol 'love it when he teases her

this is so exciting. i didn't ship them when lbfad was showing because i thought it was just promotion for the series. but this has been going on long after the series ended and there are more and more evidence that it might be true. i actually had a hunch that his song seaside tango was written for her. doesn't it say something about somebody looking down on him? i was wondering if it's referring to her rich family? and if that's the reason he set up his clothing company, to show his business savvy or that he can support her outside his acting career?

yup, isn't it? I like how the misunderstanding got cleared

Good point. I noticed too how Dylan and Esther, Bai Lu and Linhge were on different tables, which increased my suspicion that they are real couples. I didn't notice how Bai Jingting and Song Yi were seated. They have admittedly publicly they're a couple, right? Did you see videos showing Dylan leaving his seat to go out of the hall and Esther following soon after? Wonder if this really happened or just made up by fans?

yeah, he had a twinkle in his eyes when he was trying to explain her mom's sketchy travel arrangements

This is what happens when viewers have been conditioned against a drama. They probably don't care about the story coz they believe the smear campaign that it has "no or bad plot". So they probably just watch the juicy bits.

these rules are full of bugs. i usually skip the opening and ending credits. i double the speed to rewind and fastforward to locate scenes i want re-watch, even the first time i'm watching, coz sometimes there are scenes I fail to understand. For #3, what if i can only watch, say, 15 minutes at a time, and continue the show at another time?

oh, Yunhe is only counting non-vip subscribers? this doesn't make sense. Is MangoTV the only one locking VIP episodes? Or, does MangoTV's way of locking VIP episodes different from how other platforms do it?

I usually rewind to revisit previous scenes that I have forgotten or not have understood that well and I sometimes need to keep rewinding and fast forwarding to locate the scenes. So I'm sure some Chinese viewers do this. And I read many viewers' comments on Weibo saying they kept missing some dialogues because they were getting distracted by Shi Yan's handsomeness. So they had to rewind then fast forward. So these probably did not get counted.

what is meant by episode being locked?

We watched the drama throughly that's why we liked it. You're the one who's blinded by what, is it envy? money? Who is your idol? Bai Lu and Dylan are just trying to work, leave them alone! Is this how you get your idol to move up, by bringing other actors down? Can't your idol go up with his own talent and charisma so his fans have to defame other actors? Or are you one of those yxh and water armies paid to smear this drama?

I'm here hoping to stymie the wrong done to this drama by haters who have been trying to defame it. I hate injustice and this drama does not deserve such abuse. Anybody sensible and reasonable would know that this is better than many cdramas with higher ratings.

Regarding the douban ratings, see this https://kisskh.at/discussions/cuo-liao/121285-who-still-believes-in-douban

the break up was needed for Shu Yi to grow up and for their relationship to restart from a pure beginning

there are a lot of romantic and funny scenes in between I didn't mind.

I had some questions about this scene too. It seems Shi Yan brought the mom over, contrary to what they told Shu Yi that they met at the airport by accident. Note how they lied. Might that be the mom's idea?

Actually, this scene gave a clue as to where Shu Yin might have gotten her tendency to lie from. Shu Yi mentioned that when she was in junior high, her mom went to Singapore without telling her, saying she was going to Niupengpore. This seems to have a marked effect on Shu Yi seeing as how she still remembers it with resentment. If it did trigger her tendency to lie, getting this out in the open could help her overcome whatever bad habit she picked up because of it. Her tendency to lie is a big roadblock in her and Shi Yan's relationship so it's important that she gets rid of it.

her growth is a big piece of the plot