Scandles are her best shoes. But her main reason was that she was hurt before. And like she said she had given…
I think Excalibur got it right. SZ just did not want to appear as dressing up for him but not for the reasons you suspect. I don't agree that SZ truly believes JX still thinks about her as a kid, she has doubts after coming back to the dorm and that's also why she let herself talk it over with dorm roommates to sound them out. I maintain SZ simply and now certainly just had "cold feet" again, insecure issues about being too young compared to him, so she felt tongue tied about letting him know her repressed feelings that are certainly not yet dead. Also afraid that if she blurted out the truth to him, she'd make him uneasy and scare him away. So, she was prepared to continue the 'meimei' charade until things evolved naturally. If she was over a supposed past puppy love and she had grown indifferent, she would just have joked about her past kid's infatuation and told him upfront how she put the toys away and ghosted him to not be bothered by too many calls, instead of coming up with lame excuses that she was too busy. And she would have upfront asked him even that long after the fact, who was that woman at the airport, and why he let himself be rumored to have a gf, and now "could they perhaps just stay 'putong pengyou' with no further misunderstandings?" The fact that she chose not to tell him means she still had something important to hide, that was far from dying, and well growing too. Hidden love indeed. And what happened at curbside before they took the taxi will have it grow stronger.Plus the wiping face moment too, of course.
Her friend said," if you like someone, you want to look good in front of them" Sandals was her best shoes and…
No, I think Excalibur got it right. You got the timeline wrong, Angie: she could not know she would need a pair of practical shoes to stay there at the time when she chose those.
Did anyone have an explanation for why she chose sneakers/tennis shoes instead of closed toed sandals ? It did not look like it was weather related : dry and warm, from what they were wearing. Was it because the heels would be signaling too much that she was an adult open to dating, and had she a sudden nostalgy for the "safe" meimei status?
The accidental kiss on the forehead was adorable! Poor DJX have to go through the funeral of losing a family member...…
In the drama, it is not yet quite clear what his background was (was he an orphan with his mom in hospital and he had to pay for fees and for funeral, so turned to Sang Yan family for help and loan? I know the trailer showed more, but I did not want to watch it before so perhaps should do it now for the murder story?),. As Sang Zhi understood well after taking Duan Jiaxu to hospital, no one else would be coming to check on him in his time of need. So her realization that he indeed had no girlfriend or near family was confirmed. Playing compassionate volunteer nurse is a dangerous game for those who just want to stay polite, grateful for past kindness, and unconcerned. Of course there's the accidental "kiss" with lips touching her forehead while they stood waiting for the taxi, which certainly will lead to more, as well. Jiaxu is supposed to stay in hospital for a few days more : can he work on his urgent and difficult project that needs overtime, from there? Ep 10 is tomorrow.
I was wondering about that closing scene. What it was suppose to mean.
tks, ikr 🤣 Those seemingly disjointed clips before end credits are, if not a new feature (other dramas uses them too), an interesting "precision", not-to-miss part of episode. Those who skip to next, as soon as the episode reaches what looks like end, may miss these, so I consider them as a bonus for those who don't derail. Anyway HL is so good that I don't feel bored and tempted to skip any part, adding those pieces to the puzzle, so it is fun also to see where they fit in, and what had been left as a slight, easily overlooked gap in the main story.
It is fun too, how well this drama ties in with the manhua version that serves as storyboard (thanking those who posted links to it here in conversation!). ZLS, CZY, MBQ, cast and production, are doing a good job, bringing HL to life for us.
I was wondering about that closing scene. What it was suppose to mean.
Means he cared enough for "meimei" that he got the pot for her while she was finishing with the birthday party, came back with it, loaded her in his car to drive her to the dorm, and gave her the pot to have honey water cure ready in case of hangover. (Drunk females are so common in c-dramas, tsk tsk tsk... ^+^) Ok : so this was a bit like the mine wagon jumping the gaps on broken rails in the Looney Tunes cartoon .... Watching c-dramas is an exercise in imagination.
I totally agree, I was shocked that she's supposedly 14 as I was certain she's 8-10. The character itself is not…
Noted. Europeans don't watch that kind of shows, but you know that's what the girl might risk to stumble on if she was watching shows on tv or online in China. So you still see her as from your cultural perspective.
I totally agree, I was shocked that she's supposedly 14 as I was certain she's 8-10. The character itself is not…
It depends a lot on country and upbringing, and economical circumstances.
To me, the character is totally believable morphing from relatively unrestrained tomboy child to shy adolescent, so self conscious as to hide and not send messages. I am even surprised that she had the courage at 17 to take the plane alone to check out the situation in Yihe, but not that, once there, she acted every bit as if she got cold feet. And that she was too tongue tied to blurt out the burning question, so was mistaken. Reacting next to hide away (or throw away) everything that reminded her of crush, is totally natural, and "drown sorrows" and mourning in dogged work, while ghosting former crush, is also very logical.
She is not a North American or northern European girl raised in permissive families and taught how to be more independent and how to think about relations with opposite gender. She is probably not even watching sweet dramas at home because bossy CEOs and ravished secretaries are not what the parents would want her to think about, just focus on studies, studies and studies.
I have a question for Chinese speakers.. is it typical for someone to call an older person gege even if they're…
very common. Although a younger man spontaneously would address a much older (friend of "surrogate family" or more seasoned or powerful ) one as shushu (uncle) or might even use "yeye" (grandfather) like people used to talk about Premier Wen Jiabao back in the days. Nothing to do with crushes, it is rather a form of like including friends in the "extended family". Same goes for friends calling other friends meimei or jiejie according to if they are younger or older females. And girls, even older women, will walk holding hands or arms linked, without anyone seeing anything wrong in this : it's cultural
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But if you are impatient and want spoilers, she has been discussed before in previous conversations.
We'll see in ep 10, but I bet this is what happens, even without spoiling myself by reading on the manhua version :)
I don't agree that SZ truly believes JX still thinks about her as a kid, she has doubts after coming back to the dorm and that's also why she let herself talk it over with dorm roommates to sound them out. I maintain SZ simply and now certainly just had "cold feet" again, insecure issues about being too young compared to him, so she felt tongue tied about letting him know her repressed feelings that are certainly not yet dead. Also afraid that if she blurted out the truth to him, she'd make him uneasy and scare him away. So, she was prepared to continue the 'meimei' charade until things evolved naturally.
If she was over a supposed past puppy love and she had grown indifferent, she would just have joked about her past kid's infatuation and told him upfront how she put the toys away and ghosted him to not be bothered by too many calls, instead of coming up with lame excuses that she was too busy. And she would have upfront asked him even that long after the fact, who was that woman at the airport, and why he let himself be rumored to have a gf, and now "could they perhaps just stay 'putong pengyou' with no further misunderstandings?"
The fact that she chose not to tell him means she still had something important to hide, that was far from dying, and well growing too. Hidden love indeed. And what happened at curbside before they took the taxi will have it grow stronger.Plus the wiping face moment too, of course.
As Sang Zhi understood well after taking Duan Jiaxu to hospital, no one else would be coming to check on him in his time of need. So her realization that he indeed had no girlfriend or near family was confirmed.
Playing compassionate volunteer nurse is a dangerous game for those who just want to stay polite, grateful for past kindness, and unconcerned. Of course there's the accidental "kiss" with lips touching her forehead while they stood waiting for the taxi, which certainly will lead to more, as well.
Jiaxu is supposed to stay in hospital for a few days more : can he work on his urgent and difficult project that needs overtime, from there? Ep 10 is tomorrow.
It's that time again. 10 is tomorrow...
Those seemingly disjointed clips before end credits are, if not a new feature (other dramas uses them too), an interesting "precision", not-to-miss part of episode. Those who skip to next, as soon as the episode reaches what looks like end, may miss these, so I consider them as a bonus for those who don't derail. Anyway HL is so good that I don't feel bored and tempted to skip any part, adding those pieces to the puzzle, so it is fun also to see where they fit in, and what had been left as a slight, easily overlooked gap in the main story.
It is fun too, how well this drama ties in with the manhua version that serves as storyboard (thanking those who posted links to it here in conversation!). ZLS, CZY, MBQ, cast and production, are doing a good job, bringing HL to life for us.
Ok : so this was a bit like the mine wagon jumping the gaps on broken rails in the Looney Tunes cartoon .... Watching c-dramas is an exercise in imagination.
Thanks for the juicy anecdote ! :)
To me, the character is totally believable morphing from relatively unrestrained tomboy child to shy adolescent, so self conscious as to hide and not send messages.
I am even surprised that she had the courage at 17 to take the plane alone to check out the situation in Yihe, but not that, once there, she acted every bit as if she got cold feet. And that she was too tongue tied to blurt out the burning question, so was mistaken.
Reacting next to hide away (or throw away) everything that reminded her of crush, is totally natural, and "drown sorrows" and mourning in dogged work, while ghosting former crush, is also very logical.
She is not a North American or northern European girl raised in permissive families and taught how to be more independent and how to think about relations with opposite gender. She is probably not even watching sweet dramas at home because bossy CEOs and ravished secretaries are not what the parents would want her to think about, just focus on studies, studies and studies.
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