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Yes, I totally gave way too much info no one cares about (and you're right, I didn't even get my details right, it's Vancouver, not BC). 😅

Okay, thanks, I'll stick with it!

Okay, thanks! I'll keep going. I like my angst, lol, but I don't think I'll ever stop being distracted by the make up though!

Thanks so much for the explanation. I wondered, but didn't get a chance to dive too deeply into the comments yet, since it was almost unusable earlier with the spamming.

I don't know what else got removed, but when I popped in here earlier today right after finishing the last episode, it was filled with what seemed liked *hundreds* of posts by a couple of posters who were basically spamming the comment section, making it completely unusable.

Just a nerdy clarification 😅 -- 604 is the local area code for Vancouver, BC in Canada, but local area code is different from the "country code" which in this case is made up. Looking at the phone number that came in, a call from BC Canada would not start with 604, it would start with +1 which is Canada's country code. (In real life, the country codes for say Africa are three digit codes that start with 2.)

*Edited to clarify, I meant *local* area code, not provincial 🤦🏻‍♀️

Woah, what happened to the rating? I avoided this page for a few days since I was behind on the last two episodes, and didn't want to see which way the ratings. After finishing, I expected a dip because of the overkill subplot in the final episode, but not this much! I think 20 bad minutes out of 12 episodes is still pretty good, and the ending-ending was still pretty satisfying. In gymnastic terms: the routine was great, the dismount was a bit messy 🤣, but they stuck the landing for the most part.

I almost never drop anything, but I'm on ep 7 and struggling to continue with this, even though I really want to -- should I keep going? (The very distracting vampire-like make-up /white filter doesn't help either.)

I could read a whole book of your C-Drama thoughts! 🤣 I write for a living and am jealous of your reviews, lol.

I agree that having the FL find out about her identity so late in the series hampered the romance, not giving audiences enough time to fully switch gears from platonic chemistry to romantic chemistry, and left too little time to explore the fascinating Duke of Ying household. But the biggest logic I had to leave at the door was the Marquis not recognizing her just by voice because it is so distinctive! I thought, surely the minute she opens her mouth, he will know...but, nope. Clearly his eyesight wasn't the only sense he had trouble with!

I am watching it on iQiyi in Canada, but it is also available on WeTV.

If she were even a year older, I think might be better? There are a couple of suggestive scenes (FL poses/sends suggestive photos to the ML), a bit of kissing, and some scenes that I think could be scary for an 11 year old (kidnapping, major car accident, fire, a child being drowned by an adult), but they are not overly graphic in terms of violence. I would categorize it as a North American PG13, so your comfort level may also depend on whether your cultural background is more conservative or less conservative. (e.g. Would you be okay with her reading or watching Hunger Games?) But I would say the overall plot might feel a bit convoluted for younger viewers, since even the adults are left constantly guessing as to what's going on, lol!

I found it unsatisfying for the same reasons -- and have the same questions -- as everyone else. They don't explain how we got from everything looking dire in ep. 21 to everything being perfect in 22 (prefaced by the FL waking up and her family literally appearing out of thin air). And then the meaning of the final 30 seconds? Was that a call back to the first episode, where everything was a dream the first time, and the second time the FL learned from the events of the dream? Did that imply everything the followed was also a dream foreshadowing what would happen?

I had also hoped for a clearer resolution for the elder sister. Also, there was a brief scene where it looked like the witch doctor was preparing another face mask. Whose mask was she preparing and for what purpose? It seemed like such a random thing to include unless it was meant to hint at something...?

I really enjoyed most of this and both couples, but I found the last two episodes unsatisfying, despite the seemingly very happy ending...additional comments below. I did like both couples and was glad to see Deng Kai not play the stereotypical villain.

I am liking it a lot more than Mr. Plankton. But it's very different. This is a soapy romance thriller, if you like that genre. The pacing is solid, the supporting characters are intriguing. The main couple have great chemistry and are both very likable (unlike the leads in Mr. Plankton. I love WDH's acting, but his character had obvious issues, while the way the FL was portrayed was incredibly annoying and shrill.)

Yes, I'm so impressed by her sign language efforts. The fact that she practice everyday for two months to get her sign language dialogue down! I can't speak to accuracy, but she makes it look so natural and effortless.

He feels more like a hired hand, tbh. Spy for me, do you what I tell you. He seems too young and green to be the main villain or the "master" of the kidnapper guy. Either way, it's a bit disappointing though because I loved the funny competitive dynamic with the chief of staff guy.

She was doing it to get him to do the opposite, she just wants out of the marriage. But it gets more complicated (and swoonier).

it's fun watching it with others and it gives you time to rewatch scenes and catch stuff you might have missed the first 10 times, but the waiting for new episodes is seriously killer. It's a super binge-y show, so while it's great live, I think it would be even better devoured in gluttonous chunks! 🤣

I say this after the end of every episode, and then Friday comes around and I can't help myself. Rinse and repeat! Gah!

It didn't seem weird to me at all, because if I wanted to get away from the crowd, I could totally see myself doing that if that was the easiest way out of the crowd first...and than slowly moving away from the edge after, but she didn't get a chance to do that.