HT's professionalism and restraint in expressing emotions: goes early to the merger meeting in hopes of seeing JX, everyone's there but she isn't, he says let's wait for JX and is told she's not coming, whatever pain he must've felt, just says with a straight face, okay let's start then.
Also however, keenly note his expressions during and after the meeting, you can see the internal sorrow and pain he's feeling although the people in the meeting have no idea. That's XK's acting prowess.
You think so?, but she resigned the job and let him the necklace and earrings he gave her. I'm not very sure about…
Like I mentioned in the last bit, she left everything behind and took an escape route. Whether she intentionally took time off or escaped as a result of an emotional reaction, ultimately, it's temporary from her side, but HT doesn't know that, which is why he'll be devastated once she leaves.
The drama starts with HT's return to China. This happens in the second week of November 2022. This can be guessed…
That ain't misleading then. I know loads of people in real life, who don't really say "I love you" but their love is evident in everything they do for their partner, and nobody questions it. Honestly, it was quite blind of JX to not have seen his love, it was everywhere, long before they got together.
There was a moment of I love you /me too shown in the drama, there could probably be more. The love has already been expressed between the two. The guy literally took her to meet the family and announced to hers saying she shouldn't back out now.
She was oblivious when her relationship was falling apart with SYC and she's oblivious when HT has been showing her all this love.
The drama starts with HT's return to China. This happens in the second week of November 2022. This can be guessed…
@Saydoo thinks HT had a crush on JX back then but it wasn't love. But I'm convinced he fell in love with her in college and couldn't move on, even when he didn't have a hope of meeting her again.
The drama starts with HT's return to China. This happens in the second week of November 2022. This can be guessed…
Yep, I did mention all these in a comment before. Too unnaturally fast. And well, JX was enjoying the ride wasn't she, she could've put the brakes but she didn't. Also, why do you call it misleading? Not like he was really using her as a pawn, he was falling deeply for her too.
Ok, I'm about to drop the actual timeline of events from the drama below for those who still wonder how much time…
The drama starts with HT's return to China. This happens in the second week of November 2022. This can be guessed from JX's calendar and the date on the doctor's report presented during the first meeting on Xiao Bay the robot, where HT and JX first meet
22.11.22 - HT and JX meet at the village (date is on the schedule that HT sees JX's name on and plans to go too)
29.11.22 - Xingchen is registered (date on business license and the message TS shows HT)
14.12.22 - SYC & JX's 4th anniversary, day of the play, HT finds out she has a boyfriend, SYC proposes JX (date on play tickets)
21.12.22 - HT & JX sign contract, she wears the ring and is officially engaged (date on contract)
22.12.22 - XC receives first round of investment money (date on their account info)
23.12.22 - SYC breaks up with JX, JX and HT meet at the event, she gets drunk later (date on event invite)
6 month leap
20. 09. 23 - HT's speech at the event (date on invite)
Germany
01.11.23 - the volunteer's operation (date on the investigation report later made on the case)
03.11.23 - JX's birthday and the subsequent events (HT's passcode tells JX's DoB is 03.11.95)
25.11.23 - HT's birthday, aquarium visit (HT's birthday 25.11.94 is mentioned on the guest information when he delivers the speech) The star gift certificate also has this date and maybe it was meant to be a birthday gift, but they seemed to have moved that scene a few days before.
26.11.23 - XC writes an open letter to solve the HWW employee/shareholder issue (date on the site)
03.12.23 - SYC and WQZ's wedding, next day the girl in the office calls SZZ at night for help to retrieve a report she was working on, and then confesses (date 4.12.23 is on the report)
10.12.23 - Heated exchange between HT and JX (and break up), deal between DongYang and TongKe ( date on their contract)
Ok, I'm about to drop the actual timeline of events from the drama below for those who still wonder how much time has passed between the different parts of the story 👇🏼👇🏼
The makers actually bothered creating proper docs and putting up correct dates on them all, so apparently they wanted the viewers to follow.
From November 2022 when HT and JX met again to December 10, 2023 when they're breaking up. Spoiler below, don't read ahead if you haven't watched it yet.
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Forget the series, KaiKai is always handsome 😍
Drama: together for 1, separated for 9!
goes early to the merger meeting in hopes of seeing JX, everyone's there but she isn't, he says let's wait for JX and is told she's not coming, whatever pain he must've felt, just says with a straight face, okay let's start then.
Also however, keenly note his expressions during and after the meeting, you can see the internal sorrow and pain he's feeling although the people in the meeting have no idea. That's XK's acting prowess.
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There was a moment of I love you /me too shown in the drama, there could probably be more. The love has already been expressed between the two. The guy literally took her to meet the family and announced to hers saying she shouldn't back out now.
She was oblivious when her relationship was falling apart with SYC and she's oblivious when HT has been showing her all this love.
But I'm convinced he fell in love with her in college and couldn't move on, even when he didn't have a hope of meeting her again.
22.11.22 - HT and JX meet at the village (date is on the schedule that HT sees JX's name on and plans to go too)
29.11.22 - Xingchen is registered (date on business license and the message TS shows HT)
14.12.22 - SYC & JX's 4th anniversary, day of the play, HT finds out she has a boyfriend, SYC proposes JX (date on play tickets)
21.12.22 - HT & JX sign contract, she wears the ring and is officially engaged (date on contract)
22.12.22 - XC receives first round of investment money (date on their account info)
23.12.22 - SYC breaks up with JX, JX and HT meet at the event, she gets drunk later (date on event invite)
6 month leap
20. 09. 23 - HT's speech at the event (date on invite)
Germany
01.11.23 - the volunteer's operation (date on the investigation report later made on the case)
03.11.23 - JX's birthday and the subsequent events (HT's passcode tells JX's DoB is 03.11.95)
25.11.23 - HT's birthday, aquarium visit (HT's birthday 25.11.94 is mentioned on the guest information when he delivers the speech)
The star gift certificate also has this date and maybe it was meant to be a birthday gift, but they seemed to have moved that scene a few days before.
26.11.23 - XC writes an open letter to solve the HWW employee/shareholder issue (date on the site)
03.12.23 - SYC and WQZ's wedding, next day the girl in the office calls SZZ at night for help to retrieve a report she was working on, and then confesses (date 4.12.23 is on the report)
10.12.23 - Heated exchange between HT and JX (and break up), deal between DongYang and TongKe ( date on their contract)
The makers actually bothered creating proper docs and putting up correct dates on them all, so apparently they wanted the viewers to follow.
From November 2022 when HT and JX met again to December 10, 2023 when they're breaking up.
Spoiler below, don't read ahead if you haven't watched it yet.