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Right? I know it takes a couple of 5 stars to balance out one singular 1 star. 💤

The lowest I did accept for this drama is 3/5. I am just glad people gave this drama a chance and got so attached to it that they did go out of their way to rate it. So many made accounts just for this drama and I know new accounts can't rate 5 stars and only 4 stars max. Hope more and more people will discover it and come to love it too!

Director Chen Yue Jin's interview about this drama if anyone is curious, he goes in depth on some of the decisions they made for this drama and how it came together (pretty interesting read!): https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/PpK72QpoeApYn_ZILffDrg

Another detailed hint about SCC's last arc that I didn't catch on the first watch: https://www.douban.com/group/topic/320806549/?_spm_id=MTcyNDQ3OTMx&_i=1899571E0Yryo3

The colors in the picture/portrait TQ drew for SCC started to disappear. 😲

Wow it means the Douban score should be higher than 7.3 then (since the 5th place one is 7.5) but all those intentional 1 stars definitely skewed the rating to the lower side of 7+. Still happy it opened up with 7.3 since it just means the good reviews were able to fight off some of those intentional 1 stars.

I posted this for a similar ask before and:

I think you can just see her as a "symbol". That she represents typical girls who might even fit the beauty standard in certain ways, but they get compared to other girls who fit the beauty standard even more. There are many people you see and think wow; they are so pretty. But these same people are stuck on their "imperfections", or their "imperfections" get pointed out so often that they can't help but hyperfocus on it.

The "beauties" in this drama (and in a lot of industry like the fashion industry) are tall and slimmer. They have fuller hair, make-up on point 24/7, wear fashionable clothes, etc. SCC gets compared to that type of standard so compared to them, she is not considered "beautiful" (not stylish, not super slim, etc.).

And yes, this drama has great messaging on beauty standard as it progresses because the characters in this drama self-reflect with every arc. It is not the typical "Only the inside counts!" either because that is just not the case with our society.

Yeah! She makes them and apply make-up on them (QSL mentioned very early about how SCC just does make-up on the dolls but not on herself).

They really make sure to add in these details everywhere!

Nope. 😂 Just watch, this drama doesn't follow that kind of pattern.

Yup! It is always so nice to see a drama being spread to audience out of the intended demographic!

Another detail people noticed, SCC has Etsy emails and the Esty emails are related to her doll making hobby. She was looking at her emails to see if she got a response from her job applications but most of the emails she received were from Esty. This gives more background of her wanting to work in the beauty industry + her knowledge of cosmetics (and her mentioning that she likes to watch make-up shows) and people also think this serves as a contradiction of having hobbies of your interest yet inability to find a job of your interest: https://www.douban.com/group/topic/321075391/?_spm_id=MTk5MDcyNjYy&_i=1823213E0Yryo3,1823323E0Yryo3

LOL, a cab driver recommending "Filter" and explaining the episode he was watching and the themes explored in the drama: https://v.douyin.com/i5pDVh79/

This is a slow burn drama for sure. You are not really supposed to feel the leads' chemistry until later on due their own filters of each other. If you don't like this type of character development/slow-pace slow burn drama, it just might not be your cup of tea. 😔 But I think for most people who actually watched their journey until the end, we understood why SCC and TQ ended up together. It wasn't just because they are the leads of the drama, and they needed to end up together because the scriptwriter said so. Their development and growth together allowed them to compliment each other as a pair.

Plus, LY is so the type to prioritize her child over GY, so she did drop GY if he ever affects the child in a negative way for sure.

Yup, he was basically saying if it doesn't work out in the future, just be honest about it. It reminds the audience that no matter how good it seems right now, that can always change in the future. People were also pointing out the differences between how TQ and GY are. TQ seems to be more sincere and opens his heart while GY is still a businessman at the end of the day and approach things in a more calculating way. But thankfully, LY is not as naive as he thinks she is (the QST arc with her calling SCC letting her know GY is onto SCC is a good example).

Aging her own face would probably make it easier for TQ to see through her (especially in the later episode where LLD actually put on aged prosthetics for the real grandma!SCC scenes and you can recognize that it was her) + choosing her own grandma might cause another split personality arc LOL.

Most people support the explanation that "she" was a scientist conducting experiments and SCC was a selected test subject due to TQ's phone convo about private labs and the "old woman" thanking SCC for participating in the experiment.

Yup, especially because their ending can be interpreted in so many ways, so it is meant to be a bit vague and not concrete like SCC's and TQ's happy ending.

Tong Hua (桐华) is a homophone of 童话 (fairy tale).

Yes, many people see it as something that doesn't need to be explained in depth. It parallels with the scene of SCC helping out the little girl and the little girl going, "Are you a fairy?". Sometime good things happen and there is no need to really pursue the "truth" any further.

Another theory I saw going around is that the "old woman" is the SCC who never gave up the bracelet and kept on using it until the filter glitched and she got stuck as the "old woman" form. That she went back in time to give younger!SCC chances until SCC finally let go of the filter herself.

No problem! I love the amount of discussion this drama has generated because it is A LOT. People are still talking about the "old woman" who gave SCC the bracelet and some people made jokes that it is Tong Hua lol.

Definitely, especially with how the camera angle filmed the predator on the floor and his face underneath SCC's legs as a reference to "The Goddess".