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I felt like that when I watched Wu Lei's previous costume drama, Love Like The Galaxy, although he himself prefers the previous one again, The Long Ballad. In terms of modern dramas, I think his previous one Nothing But You was quite sweet, but this one is even better, yes, in terms of story flow.

It goes with the territory, c-dramas always lace the show with more or less loud and obtrusive bgm, with lyrics showing on the side, but subtitled translations not always managing to keep lyrics and dialogues separate, which is the most annoying on some platforms, in addition to machine translation that end up looking almost like transliteration from Klingon or other weird non existent in reality artificial lingo.
Just overlook it or rather, turn a deaf ear to it, mute the episode if that bothers you too much ?

not very consistent with his poor boy rising out to make gold, though.
A box of chocolates would have been more appropriate in the circumstance.
That moment made me disconnect briefly.
of course, she could become his manager of finance savings, but as he pointed out she should have saved on long term higher yield investments instead of putting her money on almost no yield accounts.

yeah lol

The first one is too blurry and short?
The second one is amazing : 20 seconds long kiss, oooh. How could she say she felt they had grown away from closeness, in the room, then? And it was when or before Xiaodong came to drive her home after the visit and birthday gift exchange, a little too long for having elder cousin watch that. I suppose that's why it was cut for consistency, to audience who are fond of tons of kisses deep regret. :)

Lin Lin is Xiaodong's on and off girlfriend.
You meant Lin Yiyang - no family ties to the other girl.
Let's just use LYY if it's too complicated to remember all those Chinese names ?

you are right to mention that !

......over two years !!!!! (I mean, time flew before LYY could return to China after having settled his business in China and started earning as much as he could through tournaments. In between their meeting in the hotel when YG was worried that they had grown out of closeness, and their next encounter for Qingming family duties at cemetary, it is mentioned that they had not seen each other for one and a half year. 18 months without seeing someone is a very very difficult "long distance relationship".

even the grandma may be influenced by the holier than thou, bitter, frustrated, cow of a sister that poor YG has to deal with. And the rigid mom. We can easily understand why her cousin who does not hate LYY despite of what happened advised her to secrecy for so long .......

France, Annecy and vicinity, to be precise. Look in the https://kisskh.at/discussions/during-the-snowstorm/122953-shooting-location for more info on locations.

Oh no!!! not Yin GOU (gou could mean "dog" and it's both not her name and not nice to read). Her name is Yin Guo. (殷果 as in dark-red fruit, that's why he wanted to bring her cherries in last episode, 18)...
Use plain YG if it's too much trouble to remember ?
Yes it's a sweet story, and we are always thrilled to see how they look at each other as if they wanted to devour him/her naughtily, hahaha!

Such a strange question!
Of course Scandinavians do NOT use English as " the automatic tongue that they will speak daily."
It is just an important tool for international communication. That's all.
They are not vassals of the Anglosphere to live and dream of US or UK culture and English language!! In international conferences, at the UN, or European business, they will often demand interpreters even when they could communicate in English directly. Because they are proud of their own culture, their own language, and use English as a convenient key to do business or other international relations with outside world.

As for Emma personally, she may use English to write here, but her answers make it clear that she is a true blue Finn identifying with the people of her country, and even correcting the commonly used words for their local specialty pie to get us to know its name in Finnish which she likely uses much more than English, and of course, as a rule in her own birth family and among school peers. English is not used as a native language in schools and even universities, despite colleges may (like in other countries too) have specialty lecturers who use English to teach some classes or parts.

Just for your info, here's an excerpt from the European Union guidelines to language and translations or interpreting :

"The European Union has 24 official languages: Bulgarian, Czech, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Irish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish.
Under the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, citizens have the right to communicate with European Union institutions in any of these official languages. In addition, under the European Parliament’s Rules of Procedure, Members have the right to speak in Parliament in the official language of their choice, with these speeches simultaneously interpreted into the other official languages.
Using 24 languages creates 552 possible language combinations. To cope with these, the European Parliament uses a system of ‘relay’ languages: a speaker or a text is first interpreted or translated into one of the most widely used languages (English, French or German), and then into other languages. As a rule, each interpreter and translator works into his/her mother tongue."

I assume they could find her by asking Wu Lei Studio.
Although some people may participate in projects despite not wanting to turn professional or be too well known.
Word of mouth anyway could already be incredibly powerful in China, even before WeChat times.... Everyone is the "brother-sister" cousin of somebody who is etc.
Today, when someone wants to find somebody, it may be even simpler.

nice

true, I thought the same, when I looked up the 8 pages of Baidu list for cast that reference Finns in at least 3 pages down to "taxi driver" and "old person". That's also why I think she is not a Finn but a young Chinese guest actress from minority, or an expat who participates in small roles, not credited.

Yes Finns are good at English, and other languages too. Many Scandinavians are like that too, not just from learning it from relatively early in school, but from being convinced of the usefulness of communicating in foreign languages, from using the languages more, not being immersed in "one exclusive language bubble" as many English or other big country language speakers are.

All the Finns I've met speak English rather fluently, albeit with a tinge of accent, and other languages too : Swedish, very often, Russian or Polish, not seldom, even German and French, often. Not so the other way: Finnish is just so hard to pronounce and different from the other languages.
Even Wikipedia transliterates to "rice pirog" although "pirog" comes in varieties according to where they are crafted in the historic Karelian area, but acknowledges that it is a traditional specialty throughout Finland while the Poles also have a close cousin to that special food.
It's a delight to have a real Finn give us informed comments! Thanks for your interest in sharing! I hope you agree with the recipe I linked to pictures and GIF in the Discussion section, paired for season's sake with the amusing jiaozi, the most traditional of which (ingot) does remind me of the folds of the riisipiirakka :)
About seasonal delights Wu Lei studio has some nice pix of Leilei having fun folding jiaozi and being pictures with dragon shadow on his lovely face. I shall try to squeeze that in, on a new GIF in Discussion, so it will be easier to hunt up, despite sound can't be added. But I'm a bit busy these days.

ah yes, and true, Lin said he had read and watched videos about her as a professional nine ball player, but not so sure he had bothered doing the same for the other guy. 😅
Just using YG is safer for the dyslexic posters who go to the trouble of typing A instead of U when keyboards are not putting those keys so close that it's a simple mistype....
Well, it's ok : meaning did not get too lost in context, and the worst (Gou) was avoided :)

yes

Yes they do seem to move in an "expat bubble" of sorts. But it's true that even those who live in such bubbles have some moments when they hear and react to local language (announcements broadcast in train stations, public places, speaking in shops, people cheering after the local sports competitions... ) A touch of more there would have added nicely, instead of just mentioning the "rees peerog" (rice pirog) local specialty.
But a good part of the cast for those episodes are really Finns.