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As for FL has not done anything stupid.... Getting herself in danger when she was specifically warned against not getting alone with the lecherous client was more than stupid. It looked that she was willing to get raped. She both disobeyed her boss' instructions and forced him to act with his fists, possibly causing him disbarment. Is not that serious stupidity ?

Yes Chen Xiao Yun is "Cheng Xi" in this drama. I also find her character puzzling and the blatant domestic abuse very unsettling. It is one of the serious reproaches I have against this "light hearted comedy"...

actually this was discussed by medical professional audiences as acceptable emergency procedure in third world country far from hospitals. Read the comments on the drama page. It was one point that was carefully researched before used in show.
Same pb for AIDS disease sufferers: FL was going to help knowing what med the boy needed, which is not arcane knowledge. Anyway, she does not steal the med, since ML catches her trying to find it. He, who is a neurosurgeon, has the boy get to hospital,and treated...
She is not a neurosurgeon, but was a gifted student who went on reading up on her own stuff when she could with a view to become a HD trial med guinea pig if ever a med could be found.

But let's get away from discussing other dramas here, will you?

well perhaps ZRN acts and uses dialogue as she is told by director from script?
but I have to admit I am leaning to your views.

Nice interpretation !

I beg to disagree totally. The HD sufferer in LIP was not dumb at all, but intent on chasing former crush (from years before at medical school) ML away for both their sake since a relationship held too much danger of sure heartaches (HD is incurable and carries a strong chance to be carried to offspring). She had tried to make a different living, away from her initial calling, in which she had been defrauded of her merits by a false friend. She was valiant but despairing, feeling time running out on her despite trying to get back on the HD research team when she was given a chance.
ZRN was not very convincing at times with her acting, and botched the peak of romance (the close up of fish kiss was painful to audience, and that was stupid acting from ZRN. LYX is usually very careful with acting partners and was fire with Bai Lu who knows how to play)
CY in My Boss rubs me absolutely like a stupid one, even if she has the weak excuse of being an underachiever who only got her law degree with passing grade and let herself believe she needed to act as servant to seniors in her (short term) former job. If QH was not a rather impartial boss who only punished reasonably (she invaded his privacy, breaking cohabitation "contract", he had paid the rent which she had not), and already felt gruffly something for her (since the evening run with the fountains), he would have fired her, even before all her "acting cute", blatant groveling, and doing bad in her job. She has yet to prove her worth, at ep.19.
To me, it is slapstick comedy with a lot of clowning ; I boiled over once, now look at it jadedly. In case it gets better. Cho Na mentioned a warning that romance starts in ep22?
I can endure.

ehhmm what do you mean by "FML sister" ? Cheng Xi (FL CY's sister)? no. she has no security cam, uses her phone to record her abusive ex in front of his nose, glass doors too and not even a can of spray pepper, like CY used on QH bodyguards who we saw once and never again (wth?)

I started early but got held up, so have not reached enough episodes to give a definitive opinion from my view.
All I can say is it started strong although diametrically opposed to My Boss, in mood. The FL is a strong woman who suffers from having rejected the ML 8 years before (reasons are not immediately clear, they are slowly going to clear up this dispute) and ML appears spiteful but it may be not exactly that.
The focus on interpretation business and translation as threatened by AI tools is interesting, and I like the epigraphs from literary luminaries like Byron and Tagore, and the discussions about poetry and novel title translations. So it is very different from My Boss, more serious, few laughs.
Interesting variations on impeccable hairdo for ML in the two dramas: anyway CXX always looks very good and Victoria Song can be stunning (go check out her New Year song clip with Wang Hedi : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orf42YAcMHA if you have not watched it yet). She is an experienced actress so I have some confidence in Our Interpreter not to be just wide eyed stares and lip to lip close ups of fish kisses, like ZRN had us suffer in LIP (yes:Love is Panacea!!) and A Date with the Future.

I started early but got held up, so have not reached enough episodes to give a definitive opinion from my view.
All I can say is it started strong although diametrical opposed to My Boss, in mood. The FL is a strong woman who suffers from having rejected the ML 8 years before (reasons are not immediately clear, they are slowly going to clear up this dispute) and ML appears spiteful but it may be not exactly that.
The focus on interpretation business and translation as threatened by AI tools is interesting, and I like the epigraphs from literary luminaries like Byron and Tagore, and the discussions about poetry and novel title translations. So it is very different from My Boss, more serious, few laughs.
Interesting variations on impeccable hairdo for ML in the two dramas: anyway CXX always looks very good and Victoria Song can be stunning (go check out her New Year song clip with Wang Hedi : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orf42YAcMHA if you have not watched it yet). She is an experienced actress so I have some confidence in Our Interpreter not to be just wide eyed stares and lip to lip close ups of fish kisses, like ZRN had us suffer in LIP (yes:Love is Panacea!!) and A Date with the Future.

check here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOiyPGjpszk&t=881s

and here : https://kisskh.at/discussions/ni-ye-you-jin-tian/122277-my-boss-full-ost-with-eng-subs

No he is not really treating her bad, she is very nosy and easily biased, so gets punished as expected, but not fired. Furthermore, that boss is rather nice to his employees, defending them and their earnings.
The first episodes are unlikely but fun, it depends on each viewer if they stay laughing at the slapstick clowning despite plot holes, tropes, and other "damning flaws". Both leads look good. It is just as announced: light comedy.
If you don't have any other watching project, or want to compare CXX acting in the two romances (Our Interpreter is diametrical opposite in mood to My Boss), you can start, and see whether you like it or not for yourself.

The "villa" (designer architecture mansion) was impressive, and also the tea growing terraces around : was this filmed in Hangzhou or somewhere like that ? Does anyone know which filming location was used?

I think it is someone else's gift she was recycling. Without even have checked contents? So careless and unprofessional is that was from a client... She comes out as air-headed and downright stupid now, sigh. These "lawyers" are like in a clown slapstick show, crying included. Tropes again with the upside down book... But the scenery is nice, as is ZRN's dress.

Ep19. They are both watching a snippet of the 2023 c drama Nothing But You, starring Wu Lei and Zhou Yutong.

Am curious. Who is "The Boss" ?

About CKD I also looked at her Watchlist and was also thinking wtf? Watching 24 dramas at same time? Who has that leisure, and calling herself "influencer", from Japan...

I am not a big fan of either FL in My Boss and Our Interpreter. Was looking at the first because it came out first, and I had good memories from other dramas in which CXX was starring. Liking his modern haircut 哈哈哈！Laughed a lot in the beginning of MB so was going to be rather lenient about the tropes and devices,but suddenly (probably the mom intruding and the friend suicide rescuing) burst my bubble (no pun intended, I love bubble tea, sago pearls and spicy teas) and I grew almost bitter for having slightly put on hold Our Interpreter, which has a strong start despite diametrical opposite : cold FL, spiteful ML vs "MB" cold ML, deliberately clueless FL.

I always like c-dramas that care to showcase literature, poetry, culture. The epigraphs from Byron and Rabindranath Tagore at beginning of episodes are thought provoking. Mentioning the various translations into Chinese of the title of Gone With the Wind in the conversation about AI translation, between Xiao and clients in ep3, also caught my attention.

I liked Fall In Love and CXX in "commander uniform". In TSL, the xianxia white styling was not so good for CXX (he played well there too, of course).

that's fun indeed!!!

same likes and misgivings.
My Boss started as funny and light hearted, this one almost opposite, but I was keen to watch CXX who I liked a lot in some previous dramas. But I grew irritated by My Boss accumulation of bad devices (childishness, coincidences, plot holes, misunderstandings, toxic ex, suicide threat, various big and lesser tropes...) by ep.18 when things seem at last to point to getting on better romance track.
In OI, it is Victoria Song who started with a rather chilly stance against her former suitor but I think that, despite that and some (rather unforgivable given subject matter) translation quirks, the love story could develop more interestingly.
So I am still watching both.

Ah, salute to fellow hailangs? I also like Z.Tao in many of his screen works even if it is his C-pop songs that won me over since T.A.O., One Heart etc. His concerts are very good too, the November one in GZ was dope despite he just was recovering from bad flu: so cool with the wirework and the crowd chanting with him. And I am the proud owner of some Ace-YKYB pieces, one lovely white T with flowers, one pink with mermaid, two hooded sweatshirts with the latest dragon design reminding of his tattoo 哈哈哈!