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It's an interesting roller coaster of emotions, this Tale of Rose...
For added info, you can look up the brief bio of the author that I added in my companion piece, section 1 and her experience and views about womanhood and love...
https://kisskh.at/discussions/the-story-of-rose/126207-the-story-of-the-rose-miscellaneous-details

(I am still tinkering with the Portrait gallery in section 4, where some pictures are not familiar to me . Yet. If you have clues, that I can check, don't hesitate to tell me here. Otherwise, come back later to check how I finally solved those riddles :) )

You are welcome. ☺️

This is 4th drama I watched where he appeared. The first one was To Love, second Princess Agents, but I stopped half way because of various reasons and the often regretted cliffhanger ending. I very much liked Master of My Own and The Legend of Shen Li. I am far from having watched enough to think I am totally familiar with that actor and his style, but still, his name is now a reason for me to check out what's on offer. Did not regret it here :)
Of course, I am never emotional over fiction : I tend to look at it analytically and sociologically, sometimes just visually. This one has beautiful pictures and filming that aptly conveys the atmospheres of cramped spaces or comfort, freedom (the skating into the beginning), and all that: well done.

Besides, it is an "international school"? So, strange that they did accept his honey words for true, and not ask to hear it from herself. But it's a drama,and some thrills were needed ?

Well, it's a drama. Audiences should be offered something uplifting. Fictional characters are not cut out, thankfully, to the worst of what reality can bring.
What was on offer were some moral values such as the value of calm in the face of insanity, and the reminder that the police, the law, and network of friends should not be forgotten.

Just a short visit, and back he flies to his home abroad.... No more.

Do you mean Xiao Bai He had a child and you suspect it was with Huang Zhenhua ???

I agree about "independence" training, and that letting Taichu in the care of ZGD for a very short time was harmless, but also that, given they would have to drive back, she should have made sure the child did not need the bathroom too. :)

Have a look at the writer's life and beliefs then. Section 1 in my Companion piece to the drama :
https://kisskh.at/discussions/the-story-of-rose/126207-the-story-of-the-rose-miscellaneous-details

You can have a look at section 1 of my companion piece to the drama, in Discussions, where I found interesting details about the novel (which is not translated) and the author.
https://kisskh.at/discussions/the-story-of-rose/126207-the-story-of-the-rose-miscellaneous-details

(I am still tinkering with it, esp. about the Portrait gallery in section 4 where I am not sure about some pictures, so if you have clues, feel free to reply here, so I can check and fill in what is still with question marks. ) :)

Yes. But when faced with the notion that he could be held responsible if things went wrong and his wife died from over exertion, he did relent. Fang had already told his mom that he was not "hiring a maid", so he did value HYM in is weak and twisted way. He also had been rebuked once about the anti radiation suit idea, so could also be swayed to doubt the peasant ideas that women need to suffer to give birth, for their and children's sake. HZH put it starkly to him twice now. Of course Fang would resent being put to rights about his mistaken beliefs, but he was still reasonable enough to accept that these mistakes were his own and that he should change attitude and try to save face otherwise.

It must be lively in your household 😅
Don't tell me the neighbors went to bang on your door or called the police to save you !!!

I am more of the sphinx type, observing with glee how all this develops, and interested in the resolutions of the problems and the model behavior that is proffered : stay calm in front of the guy who thinks he's got the upper hand, don't get into fistfights like Fang once did, don't destroy other's property... Call the police and use the law, accept help from family and friends if needed, find a way to support yourself and be independent. These seem to be the moral values that are being offered as models for those who like to watch the drama, don't you think so ?

That was indeed some of the take-out from this drama : the value of a calm and analytical mind, not boiling over and flying into a rage like Meigui did for simple suspicions about ZGD in her "youthful" first episodes.
The value of a consensual divorce in view of the best interests of spouses and child.
The value of not losing original goals and intentions, despite hurdles on the path of life, and accepting that others may have different ones, even this means that passion can't survive and being reasonable should not be over used.

Lin Gengxin is a great actor. Really. He was not meant to be cute or lovable in this one and achieved his role perfectly well. He has more depth than many: who can boast (he doesn't, Tong Dawei did it for him) to have earned recently a PhD in cinema studies and acting, from Beijing Film Academy.
Respect for the actor, and personally, I like his not subscribing to the "cutting to size", dieting, exercising, etc to fit conventional stereotypes of handsomeness. He is very attractive but does not live on that. His voice does not bother me, although I usually like those who can sing too, like BinBin or Xiao Zhan or some other guys. But they are often more shallow. LGX was an excellent choice for this drama, and one of the reasons I went to watch it.

I watch dramas like this one mostly on WeTV, checking sometimes for different subtitling elsewhere (YouTube, Viki, a confidential peer to peer stream that unfortunately sometimes omits subtitles, and the usual re uploaders: kisskh, dramacool, Dailymotion, Duboku etc.)
Some of the links to these platforms can be found in my companion piece
https://kisskh.at/discussions/the-story-of-rose/126207-the-story-of-the-rose-miscellaneous-details

It is.

No. Heart condition. He has had an operation for it and is recovering with the medication that had Meigui think he used it for other reasons.

Up till now, BXH was not really an important character anywhere, so that's no problem if you skipped those parts.
Skipping the growing toxicity that led to the divorce, on the other hand, will not help with going on with the rest. You clearly mistook a lot of what happened : no, Taichu is not the daughter of Zhang Guodong who had exiled himself to France for career purposes.
She is the real love child of Fang and Meigui, even though the basis of the relationship turned out skewed. That's also why ZGD feels absolutely no connection to the child when he encounters Taichu and her mom. But also why Taichu acts as a litmus test to reassure Meigui that Jiaming is indeed better than he first appeared: his handling of the childish grief over TaoTao won him the mom's heart.
Perhaps you should go back to ep.10 and fill yourself in on what happened in the next ten episodes.

I don't think the gold digger will get her way with Fang.
The "new guy" musician is certainly more along same vibes as Meigui but yes, the medication is a clue to his life hanging on a thread, and his brother having qualms warning Meigui is both compassionate and hard: Jiaming's expected passing will surely leave a bigger hole than that of rabbit TaoTao.

Don't worry, she is going to find a way to get what she wants, in spite of those who tried to cut her to size.. It is more a story of resilience than sadness.