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I don't trust the rating either. It's too high. :)

Did I see that one of the products was actually named "Bright"?

Of course not. Hope springs eternal. :)

LOL that clip is hilarious even without subtitles.

Thank you. I also get the sense that we're hearing their real voices, but once in a while the ambience of the sound goes really quiet "behind" the voice, as though the speaker is in a studio.

In some of the Cdramas that I've watched the dubbing is pretty obvious, and I swear I'm hearing voices that I've heard being used for other actors in other series. :)

'My Huckleberry Friends' is a must :)

For those who are experts in Chinese dramas ... are you able to tell if any of the characters' voices are being dubbed such that the person we're hearing talk isn't the actor we see on screen?

In this show, though, you can be sure he will be happy at the end.

If you're a fan of Steven's [I sure am!] then you shouldn't miss out on his phenomenal work in this series. His performance here is one of the reasons I was disappointed when he started doing mainstream dramas like 'Skate Into Love'. They don't make him reach for his most nuanced acting skills. A series like this lets him really show his talent.

I know his character will be happy in the end, and because I also know he's one of the best actors of his generation he will make us believe it right down to the soul.

I love that image of her that comes up first during the opening credits. That joyful, smiling face.

I think it's possible that in addition to addressing the mistakes from the first season, one of the missions of this mini-series is to give the people more of what they liked about the first one.

In the first season, Sarawat kissing Tine by surprise during the Pocky game was the best kiss in the entire series, so this time around we got it again but with more flavor, so to speak.

Similarly, Win's acting for Tine's emotional breakdown in the first season won him lots of recognition, so I think they wanted to give him a chance to do that again here, but also with more flavor.

I think they're trolling us tbh. :)

For me this got less interesting as it went along. Toward the end when they trotted out the little girl and her dying mother again I started to skip entire scenes.

I realize I didn't give the series a very good chance, though, so I'm not going to give it a bad rating. In fact I think there are much worse dramas that have been awarded much more than the 7.5 that this one has right now, and that's ridiculous.

So I'm going to grade on a curve and give this one a 9 lol. I'll justify it by saying I'd enjoy seeing every single member of the main cast in another drama -- I just wouldn't want it to be a sequel to this one.

From the start I think ZQ referring to JJ's dad as his own dad established a little tension.

(And can I add that the scene where the young ZQ first calls out 'Pa!' to Hai Chao -- it gets to me every time I watch it. How could anyone not love that kid.)

I'm going to be honest, I have a hard time summoning up a lot of sympathy for MY. When she brought that manga book out to the breakfast table it was just plain mean. I think she's still bitter and we haven't seen the last of it.

You might have just outlined someone's film appreciation term paper for them. :)

I recommend 'Wait, My Youth' (on here it's simply 'My Youth'). It starts as enemies-to-lovers in high school but when the leads get older there is a period where the ML spends a long time away and then comes back. (And, like LX, for the entire time he's away he remains focused on the FL.) There's a decidedly happy ending too, no ambiguity whatsoever.

this unpopular opinion is welcome as long as it doesn't prevail ;)

Notice how when she talked about the family registries she made a point of saying that LX was not part of her own family registry - instead he was the eldest son in a different family - whereas she considered ZQ to be family without a registry being necessary.

She seemed to be subtly setting the stage for when ZQ finally learns what's up.

For me, aside from "the kiss", their lunch together was the key scene in today's two episodes.

I was caught up short when LX pointed out to MY that through all the years that he was in Singapore and exchanging messages, she never asked him how he was doing or what was happening with him, so how could she think that she really "liked" him.

The new eps on iQIYI are released at 12 noon where I live so I schedule my lunch for that time and watch one.

I must be one of thousands doing something similar because even though I have a very good internet provider, iQIYI always hangs so much that I have to drop down first to 720p resolution and sometimes to 360p in order to keep watching. :)