Going to wait until this fully airs, the plot is quite unique and different, it just makes me super curious. lol. Feels like I’m about to lose my mind. Haha
I think Ye Xian is probably the most interesting and multi-layered 2ML I’ve came across in historical Cdramas…..
But the childishness is also quite realistic. lol. Actually a lot of guys are kinda childish until much older… the other guy is a little creepy. Actually his role was also written pretty well, but I think the execution or probably the way he was directed, it came off as kinda odd…. They should have just made it outright that he has a split personality/bipolar, but instead I think the actor tried to merge those characters, so it comes off as very unrealistic or odd…
The plot was so good, esp all the political storylines…. This could have been as good as Story of MingLan…. But for these kinda storylines, 40 episodes is way too short… the last few episodes were so good, but the ending was cut super short and rather abrupt. Ren Min’s acting has improved! The 2ML’s story is so solid and interesting here…. Everything felt so realistic…. Esp all the battle, fight scenes, CGI… but the flow and pacing isn’t as natural as SoML because of the editing to keep it within 40 eps…
LU Fang Sheng is really amazing in this role….. ultra impressed, esp coz they didn’t dub over…. But damns, not only his Japanese language, even his mannerism and body language….
I actually don’t think Xie Mei Lan did anything wrong….. don’t think what she did is considered cheating either…. Equally I don’t think Shen Lei is wrong either…
but it is sad that they have grown apart…. Actually it happens to a lot of university couples and high school sweethearts….. everyone matures differently after starting work, when they start earning a living…. Hence why a lot of them eventually break up….
It’s the Tengger desert in Inner Mongolia…The actual hotel is here…https://hk.trip.com/hotels/zhongwei-hotel-detail-121658133/tengolhotel/
It’s really new, which is sort of implied in the design…. Was only completed in 2023… I remembered it because I’ve seen it featured in another Cdrama last year I think or was it beg this year….. Can’t remember which one…
lol, I thought about it too…. And wondered wot I would have done in that situation at work as a senior manager….…
I think most people would have just clarified it if it was a social/friends kinda setting… I mean it’s no big deal…. But in a corporate setting, esp when it’s external and client facing then it’s totally different…. New clients would be sensitive and more so as a service provider…
I do think they are kinda foreshadowing and keeping it consistent to try to shape Ji Feng’s professional beliefs/personality…. So this is sort of his third time doing it…. The first time was the “mistress” situation, the second was the “ring” situation, and now this is the third….
Why is there only 1 episode today? 😭😭😭 I'm really enjoying the workplace storylines.
Same!! The workplace plot is so realistic yet sprinkled with just enough drama, I do wonder if they can sustain this for 38 episodes though. I feel 32 episodes might be more befitting unless the plot is really solid and intricate….
WTF did Ji Feng not correct the mistake when the letter was read that she was addressing the wrong person for…
lol, I thought about it too…. And wondered wot I would have done in that situation at work as a senior manager….
I probably would have also handled it the same way as Ji Feng and speak to the client privately at a later occasion to clarify things…. Because if otherwise, it’d just be awkward for everyone in the room. In a way the client might feel he/she is dumb, Ji Feng obviously was also at fault for not checking first, making him also look dumb infront of the client, and Lu Zhenzhen was explicitly called up to the room for something she was unaware of….. I think he managed it correctly by confronting her privately to take the card back, when there was only 2 of them….
Damn, this is really good. My cousin used to work for Intercontinental for 10 years…. Everything depicted here is really quite close to the hotel industry…. Honestly it’s a rather unique industry because the directors and GM are basically at the hotel like 18 hrs a day… and they even have to work on the wkns… it’s super taxing… he even lived in the hotel for one of his 3-year abroad assignment…
And once you go to a “local” hotel brand it basically becomes quite political, because it usually has business owners/families behind it and they just want everything catered to their style, often disregarding professional advice… they can’t be fired but yet they continue to work in the hotel in various roles…
Honestly, probably the best romance albeit very subtle and only really shown in the last episode…. Or maybe just in general, the best Jdrama I’ve watched in the past decade or so..
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the other guy is a little creepy. Actually his role was also written pretty well, but I think the execution or probably the way he was directed, it came off as kinda odd…. They should have just made it outright that he has a split personality/bipolar, but instead I think the actor tried to merge those characters, so it comes off as very unrealistic or odd…
Most Cdrama plots nowadays are so similar and just being recycled.
but it is sad that they have grown apart…. Actually it happens to a lot of university couples and high school sweethearts….. everyone matures differently after starting work, when they start earning a living…. Hence why a lot of them eventually break up….
The actual hotel is here…
https://hk.trip.com/hotels/zhongwei-hotel-detail-121658133/tengolhotel/
I do think they are kinda foreshadowing and keeping it consistent to try to shape Ji Feng’s professional beliefs/personality…. So this is sort of his third time doing it…. The first time was the “mistress” situation, the second was the “ring” situation, and now this is the third….
I probably would have also handled it the same way as Ji Feng and speak to the client privately at a later occasion to clarify things…. Because if otherwise, it’d just be awkward for everyone in the room.
In a way the client might feel he/she is dumb, Ji Feng obviously was also at fault for not checking first, making him also look dumb infront of the client, and Lu Zhenzhen was explicitly called up to the room for something she was unaware of….. I think he managed it correctly by confronting her privately to take the card back, when there was only 2 of them….
And once you go to a “local” hotel brand it basically becomes quite political, because it usually has business owners/families behind it and they just want everything catered to their style, often disregarding professional advice… they can’t be fired but yet they continue to work in the hotel in various roles…