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He’s amazing, which makes me always want to laugh at the actor who plays the CP… he’s so very good actually. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Depends how you look at it I spse. I didn’t think it was only revenge but more of….. “letting off someone easily”…. Cause you think they can do no harm + they’ve learnt their lesson. If he can be manipulated so easily the first time…. He won’t change and is basically a ticking time-bomb…. And because he was let off so easily the first time, the next time if someone manipulates him the outcome would be even more disastrous.

Hurm…. I don’t know. With the jade pendant emblem I would still have went to look for him. The outcome might be the same…. But doing nothing and leaving it until the end is just….. 🤔

Yea I thought of the same thing, coz they showed a flashback that Jiang He got the note earlier and realised he was his son….. I don’t know, this bit of the plot I found it slightly far fetched. Maybe coz it wasn’t a small revenge plot, it was poor LZS’s entire lifetime basically…..

For sure it will be a different ending…. Sighs, poor LZS…. It’s like basically telling the person who has prepared for an exam for his entire life “oh dude sorry, you got the wrong textbook, and your answers are off topic, so disqualified”…… 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

Wot really?? No man, he aced the role. He’s not evil by nature, just blinded by revenge….. though that bit is debatable…. He isn’t doing it for money, power etc. yes, defo ‘ face of good, and do evil’….

Yeap. He has always been upright although super hard-headed and unreasonable at times…. 🤣 I still find it very sad he and his best friend never had a real moment before his passing…. It kinda ended with discord + misunderstanding….

I’m sorry but I’m with him in the sense, I can’t believe he didn’t kill Fan Yu, I would have regardless….. someone apologising isn’t enough to just gloss of atrocities that one has committed.

Liu XueYi embodied the character perfectly, he’s sucha good actor…. and coz he has quite a number of scenes with the CP… the actor playing the CP is too big of a contrast, he’s kinda bad. Lol. I sometimes don’t know wot to make of his expressions.

Ok, Mr. Zhou Gao Lang is defo very unsuitable to take over. His cynical, suspicious, rigid nature is suited as a forever-general. So VERY wise choice on the ultimate selection.

The little girl playing Liu Yu Ru is sooooo cute…. ❤️

Yea. I kinda….. I don’t know, I mean it was a good plot but sucha big scheme based on like a misunderstanding…. I mean he kinda got a very small portion of it right, they are related though the relationship is very far off for a father….. I’m pretty sure he’d still do something to Jiang He and ruin his life….. but the domino effect of that is so much smaller…..

I feel kinda….. dumb (I’m sure LZS feels dumb too, and he probably wants to laugh) after watching it in that sense coz it’s kinda hard to relate to. Maybe coz of how illogical it is for our times now versus them whereby they have no means of communication, internet or technology.

This is so messed up because unlike Penthouse (and most dramatic makjangs), this is actually partially plausible…. Shitz. Super scary.

Yea! I noticed that Snow Leopard name too!!and thought it was so similar to the Cheetah team name.

It’s not the kiddy-ness in China… it’s more of a certain stereotype… youthfulness and their version of “a female”…. Or even a “male”. So more than sounding like a kid…. Youthfulness and never-aging is the goal of life… amongst other things.

“ for china the old man does want to rule as long as he lives so has to order them to live like he wants them to.” —》this I agree, lol. As proven by Chinese emperors. And the funny thing is it applies in modern times. But wait, it also applies in other countries… patriarchy is not limited to any country… it is mostly global. But totally well said, I personally think this is like 70% of every guys dream.

Sighs, yea, another thing I realised is…. Parents don’t change overnight. Esp Asian ones. This is also where I respect the Western culture, they are more reactive, responsive and open…. lol, funny thing is my best friend also only has one sibling and she is an elder sister and she’s always been apart from the family since graduation. Wells… her parents aren’t all that bad. Pretty good actually and I’m kinda close to them…. There are somethings that just will never change I,e they’ve never recognised my friend’s fashion business… so wrt career they have been kinda strict even after all those years. There is no serious trauma, but she did tell me something last year which I couldn’t fully understand then but I understand now (hence why I said she is a ‘ Su Mo’), she told me ever since the whole fashion thingy… she never trusted the father which she has the utmost respect for…. She said she learnt a very hard lesson in life whereby she will never trust him….

Yes! Only once. But it’s more related to the backstory… lol, ok. In this sense personally I was quite neutral… so I kinda understood both sides of the story coz… she isn’t the youthful, kiddy looking kinda actress. She will never be, and she never was to begin with even when she started her career when she was 20. It is just her natural physical appearance. BUT I have to say… her acting capabilities are…. I don’t know, I personally felt Vengo outshined her in this series. And the range of her emotions expressed are limited. In this sense, I was a tad disappointed.

Lol, I would like to be safe and will ask you after it has ended, haha. I did notice the comments on MDL were pretty controversial.

I followed all of it except the latest one. 😏😏😏 she IS the Shirley Yang and hence why I was so excited before the airing of this drama… BUT… for the character in this drama…. Lol, she might not be the best cast. Lotsa haters if you look at the comments way below. Do give it a chance, think it’s worth a watch.

Lol, baby voiced FL is very bad. I can’t. Not even kidding.

Eh wait, just want to clarify that I agree on all the examples you have provided, but I also realised to govern a 1.4 billion population is only wot most people can imagine but have no real idea wot it really entails. But yes, wot you’ve said so far is true,… but to be very fair is also reserved for a developed cluster of humans developing/moving forward at a similar progress.

My friend….. did well. The grudge was a lot stronger when we were younger…. Haha, yea, she used to disappear in the first year coz she literally would be in a different university on various days. It’s not just a different campus or building. Those were the days.. ummm… I would say because the path and major being soooo drastic… that… I don’t know, it has been so many yrs now. And we’ve spoken about it, there are basically no regrets on giving up on the fashion design undergrad. BUT she is more like a Su Mo. So finally she started her own fashion business (with her own money earned from corporate)… in 2018… unfortunately it was CoVid… so she made the painful decision to close it last year…. and continue with her corporate job. Would say…. It is the path….. half-taken. For a best friend like me, I.e kinda the ‘outsider’….. yea, it was a true crossroad. She is both analytical and artistic..,. And even if I gave it a numerical score, she is really a half and half in terms of talent in both, which is kinda rare. I still think she shouldn’t have closed her business, which is wot I told her last yr but….. sighs…. Like we talked about. In life there is no guarantee I.e there are so many unforeseen circumstances…. She was adamant.

LOL. I feel the 20s is a double edged sword. The plot is only realistic coz she is 27. Sorry but I would have been dissing the FL as REALLY dumb if she was like 35. It would have been majorly childish and ignorant. Haha!! So you also have an opinion on ZYQ playing a 27 yr old. 🤣🤣🤣 honestly I’m neutral, though in this drama’s case I understand. ZYQ isn’t old looking but naturally she does look very matured though… she’s kinda the Gong Li and sensual type. So totally wrong casting.

Ah ok, I’d ask you again once it finishes airing. I’m not a fan of anyone there. Neutral. Don’t hate/dislike anyone either. I’m just in for a good production and screenwriting.

Haha, I’m unafraid to admit I still do tropey until today. 😝 selectively…

‘ this is why govts want to control what can be shown n what not.’ —> oh yea, for sure… hence why I think for certain countries censorship is necessary. It really differs for every country… just like most things in life. Because to begin with even the general adults have vast differences in maturity, education, IQ and EQ levels.

Ah yea, my best friend gave up her fashion design undergrad to pursue Mathematics with me…. And that was when I met her…. When she was ‘rebelling’ against her father specifically… now that we are both older…. We kinda both realised “ah…. Right, that’s why he did that”…. And we also still maintain moments of… “ah….. we would totally still do that differently…”

Haha, it’s not that… it’s more of Zhang Yu Qi playing a 27-year old, 9 out of 10 times in C-drama world…. There is a BIGGGGGG issue when an actress plays someone who is much younger than her real age. It becomes amplified when it’s against a younger ML. So for this case it is already considered cordial, lol. To be fair, I also think for some reason the C-dramaland’s makeup, hair and wardrobe doesn’t do any of it justice….. neither does the lighting nor colour gradient…. So either the viewers are totally independent from K-dramaland… which could be partially possible….. or yes, it’s probably because of the factors I mentioned above coz these issues aren’t much of an issue in K-dramas. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️ and also just visually, it somehow isn’t as apparent in K-dramas. Over here actually I didn’t think it was as bad as wot a lot of the MDL members mentioned though…. I mean…. Yeaaaaa ok… if you really analyse her on-screen.

Oooo…. Feedback plz on The Longest Promise. I was a goody-two-shoes and totally refrained from it, coz waiting for it to finish airing. How has it been so far?

Haha, totally agree. Honestly it is truly only from these couple of years that I really understood the whole meaning behind books. So I realised actually selected TV/movie stuff are like selected books. I wonder why my parents never talked to me about this when I was younger, everyone only talked about the importance of reading. Lol. But they never talked about wot to read…. (Well at least they never did to me, maybe they expected it to be common sense…. My senses aren’t that common I spse… 🤣)

Hurm, but to be fair… I think a lot of the progression is also railroaded by women themselves. This is also something I’ve came to realise recently… just coz of the new-age concept of ‘ 媽寶 ’ in Mainland and also just talking in real depth about the Philippino culture to a native female…. On why men and women are how they are in Philippines, causing so many longstanding societal issues. It almost is kinda embedded into their DNA.

‘“And she is proud that she is so hard working and can multi-task without realizing how wrong it is. “ —> I am guilty of this… 🤦🏻‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️ So, many things will require time and education to change, I mean it totally makes sense for something that has been going on for generations to equally take at least half the time for change, esp when it’s cultural, mentality, perception…etc. It took me a lonnnngg time to realise it myself, but fortunately I did…. Albeit slightly late but still better than never.

SAME!! Sighs, why did I fall into the trap of not waiting again,…. Baddd moveeee. It still needs to be stretched out for so long. Seriously normally if it’s a low or mid-budget kinda drama I’d be able to put it on pause, but this really caught me by surprise given how most people hated the first 15 eps. Lol. And subsequently the low rating… I thought it was going to be just a casual entertaining watch! Cliched, tropey, eye-candy kinda thing…. 🙄

Oh yes, for sure. Which made me realise visiting as a tourist is a very very different thing.

🤣🤣🤣 ok. So you deduced I’m male. Based on this, I’m going to deduce you are probably kinda young.😝 lol, it’s cute.

But that is so double-standard…. isn’t Wang Ju A quite the entitled prick too….

Still maintain that I don’t think she did anything wrong. Whether Su Mo and the ML solving their issues is a separate thing….

But growing up with someone…. Is that only butterflies…..? Is it truly on a whim….? No it’s not, it basically is like first love…. for the YiTing person. She also comes from a good family and has something accomplished in her life…. So I’m just deducing that she draws the line at him being still technically single. Plus, she is still young. A person at 15,25, and 35-yrs old for both men AND women, just would do very different things at different stages of life.

So yessss! I totally respect her! My life experiences are completely different from her. I never had someone who is my childhood sweetheart who I was obsessed for decades… even going to the extent of not having a bf…., I mean, no… I never had that kind of dedication, so yes, I respect it because to me it is akin to having an ambition of being a CEO.

Yeap, everyone has their freedom to do or say anything. But only the people who are bounded and grounded by responsibilities have the right to decide and equally should bear most of the consequences…. WHICH is exactly wot ML told YiTing in words and also actions in the half-drunken stupor. He told her, “who I think is worthy only counts when I say it counts…. Not decided by someone else”…

Just thinking about it from a logical (and equally realistic) standpoint.. woteva that forms a wedge… be it a person or an object or a subject… is not the wedge’s fault, at the end of the day it is down to the two people in a relationship. Unless the wedge has really crossed the line, like murdering someone, causing bankruptcy, arson.. etc. that’s a different story.

In this case, Su Mo never came clean to ML even after multiple threats from LiTing. Which I do question why. I mean I have an ego too, and I don’t really want to portray a ‘gf who whines about everything’ BUT… she has done it multiple times, and if I had half a brain…. I would have recorded a few incidents and showed the ML to tell him to deal with it or I’m saying goodbye to you. For the ML, yes, interests esp money and power is all so tempting to everyone in general…. But the lack of awareness is just epic fail. Esp given how your gf has already logically and factually presented all the issues…..

So the big question then becomes…. Isn’t it easier to blame a 3rd party other than the 2 people who really matter….? Yea, I do think so. It ‘s always easier to paint someone else as the villain… as long as it isn’t myself, the person I chose or people I’m close to.

Btw, don’t get me wrong. I don’t like YiTing too. lol. And if I have to work with her I probably need to strangle myself. However, in many ways…. I’m probably in-line with Su Mo. As much as I don’t like it that someone has threatened me for no apparent reason aside from jealousy and it’s annoying…. If I’m serious about ML, there will be soooooo many more of her or even worse than her that I need to deal with in the future…. I mean, if I have doubts in dealing with it, just break up seriously…