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I was looking for this Stand By Me but did not find it easily.
Does anyone have an idea when it will be released?
How long usually after distribution license : one, two months, more ?
Also looking for a link to watch it then, if someone knows where....
(YouTube, kiss & cool do not have it or announce it yet)

I was looking for this Stand By Me but did not find it easily.
Does anyone have an idea when it will be released?
How long usually after distribution license : one, two months, more ?
Also looking for a link to watch it then, if someone knows where....

That scene did not impress me much though.
Was not it shortly after she found out SJ was back and had broken with GY, and a good while before finding the secret but recent pregnancy after kissing GY?
So maybe she was still trying then, in the novelty of reunion, to convince herself that SJ long silence was not a clue that he was just callously using her. But she herself had morphed into an undercover Mata Hari- like spy, while working at the Gu's company and mansion. So I think she was testing him when she indulged in the hug. Same as when seemed to want to believe his lies even in hospital. Old routines that already lacked oil to roll on. She readily admitted to GY that she had lost interest in her past story with SJ and in the heart, when she chose to kiss GY. She had some qualms about chasing off GY next, as the crying behind the wall showed, but she did not relent and let the door remain closed.
But surely: not announcing her pregnancy to either of the two does not look like she deeply loved any of those men, but just was in a quandary about which one to accept next as partner rather than lover, or stay single.
Very cold-hearted, that FL, in my view. Like when she just stone-faced looked on during the rooftop fight. And if she was screaming in the car, when GY was being massacred, that was just for fear for herself, imo... Not much chemistry in that romance despite a well executed kiss that was not as fish like as many other c dramas.
We needed a happy end but I am not sure hooking up with FL was in ML's best sentimental interests, although like in the saying "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", maybe he was infatuated enough to overlook the ice. As a business partner, maybe she would prove ok, anyway: fit for Fang mama as daughter in law then, despite the lack of guanxi.

Now it looks like schizophrenic love-hate for that drama 🤣
But that's what SAB does end up like for many.

At that point, it did NOT even look like FL cared for SML : she did have doubts about him after having had time to think about his unexplained absence, and it was not for him that she had cried behind the fence.
She was just planning to have a child for herself, now that she had found this unexpected gift from heavens. Not even informing the dad. Hence his suspicion that she might not have wanted the baby at all.
So imo, she is the truly selfish one despite those who thought differently. Let's not have any pity for her mishap, next, but some for the unpleasant one who got manipulated into a fit of spite and jealousy, and who had to bear the full weight of condemnation instead of SML, because of FL's not really admirable hate.

Yes there are many ways to enjoy watching dramas. 🤣🤣🤣
I did enjoy that one also because of the trying to bridge plot holes (purposefully dug to challenge those who don't dig them? it's a gleeful roaller coaster ride like in the Looney tunes cartoon coal mine of yore: jumping from one broken rail end to the next, whooping in loud jubilation !)

I don't watch that. Can you get soap without soap ?
Yes, perhaps it is the new ecological trend... 🤣

After being kept on edge by SAB, I've moved briefly to (and escaped from) a silly "ecological resort" desert island with foaming waves. But must report those were too brackish ones to stay and Wait for the Sea Breeze.
This was not as rosy scented as the Mr. Insomnia cure with lovely dolls, or the Promise in the Summer cure for MDDNKM style haphephobia.
Now awaiting notification for the forecast midsummer excitements with a better Rosy one.

(Clue to code : MDDNKM is the other need-to wash after MG original and adaptations in the galaxy of tropes models).

Thanks, I thought so too but missed the precision when I checked the Baidu page for the drama. Lianyungang was too unlikely, or we would surely have been treated to Land Bridge information somewhere in the drama.

I did notice that you had posted a second review, but why let stand the disparaging one ?
I did not address you personally when I commented against first reviewers who did not give the drama a proper chance. So perhaps that's why you did not notice my comment then.
And I am the one who granted a "helpful"click to your second review.

It looked like that to me too, although some really were hung up on what they viewed as triggering (esp not seeing what FL did wrong in climbing up to the obvious trap: meeting a near cripple up there ?? .And why not have insisted not going up there without ML and/or other friend?)
Some messages then were really shrill in their hate of ML and absolving FL of any guilt because she got hurt.
I admit SAB can be a polarizing show. I still am not finding it worthy of being burned.

I have a question for the detail oriented. Do you know where this drama was shot?
And which cities would be model for Huaigang and Huining?
Looking at Chinese characters in writing (hospital front...), Huaigang would be a name that means "port city on the Huai river", so that could be Lianyugang which is the interesting "eastern terminus of the New Eurasian Land Bridge and the proposed Northern East West Freight Corridor. The New Eurasia Continental Landbridge continues by land, connecting Lianyungang with over 40 countries and regions in Europe, South Asia and the Middle East by railway networks. " Lianyungang links to Rotterdam , a distance of 11,870 kilometres (7,380 mi).
But the skyline shown on and off in the drama has a landmark skyscraper that looks more like Shenzhen KK100, no? (Opened in 2011,, "Until 2015, it was the tallest building in Shenzhen, when the Ping An IFC was built. That one also seems to feature in the skylines).
Does someone have more info ?

yes on fast track, but am watching as regular VIP user; perhaps, if you are impatient, you can try kiss, if you can tackle the last four in raw.

Not that good for me, but happy that some liked it enough to not want to throw it into the pits some would like see it thrown into.
Thank you for having expressed your positive view 😊

Enjoy 😊

That's what I meant when I was writing here that people should not take dramas at a compass for their life and thoughts (looking for models on how to or how to not behave in real life). Me, I had fun looking at the festival of tropes, enacted or mentioned as in that "research" moment. Waiting to see how the story would twist one into a new take on the model. Which it did, more or less, even to the shoving booklets into hands in the end although that was too expedited.
I liked yr review, btw, agree with much of what y stated there.
Mine is certainly too long.

My thoughts exactly.
I don't think bipolar disorder can be as miraculously cured as in this drama. Had a real bipolar acquaintance who was using meds all the time and could not drive because of them. And another who did but had to be listened to patiently when sufferer was venting during endless psychotic sounding rants (because I am a "Good Samaritan"). That one could never have acted as CEO of a company (even a wholly owned one).
Borderline personalities I have met a few of. Difficult people but not necessarily impossible to live and work with, even with no acting as their submissive doormat. Decisive and dominating enough to be business leaders, but not necessarily faithful to their company : they may suddenly up and go elsewhere, they don't care is people trust or care about them or not. That looked more like the type Luo Zheng was acting, until the morphing into relatively good guy who was aware of people around him and fell for the pouting FL.

Happy you changed your mind. 😊
Now can you change your hasty first extremely damaging review? (which I wrote I had objections to, a while ago).
Not that SAB is an unforgettable masterpiece to me, but with my limited experience of c-dramas, it is quite okay. It is showcasing Luo Zheng's skills rather better than the previous one I watched. I am more reserved about the idol actress, whose character I did not admire, and this was the first time I saw her. I admired the skill of Guo Jianan, the actor who plays the vicious SML here : perfect two faced antagonist, when in another drama he was an innocent and very sweet one.
I also tried to state my views about this drama in a review, but it is a (probably too) long one, so likely not what readers of reviews look for.

I seem to remember that when QJ said she found records, she was shown rummaging in some drawers in a partly dark place, mysteriously; so that is very puzzling, why would she do that?
Inquiring in every hospital and clinic if her "family member" was there or had been sent elsewhere would be first reflex after knowing there had been an accident. She should have found out where he was then, by describing him, giving information about his size, address, etc, as if he perhaps had been taken in as a John Doe. (although would he really have had no ID on him when he was driving??)
Of course, if SJ had been there under another name, in a coma, that might be more difficult to find, but then when he reappeared it should also have raised a red flag for her: who he was with, why... We saw SJ in hospital with legs in casts : he could not run away, but could have asked for a phone to reassure his lover if he cared about her.
Fang mom explained in last episode that she had tampered with evidence concerning the car accident, but did not say to my recollection anything about tampering with medical records, she also said it that it so happened that when GY was in a coma, there was a heart donor who fit his previous condition. Not telling who though, but as if it was an unknown, and certainly not SJ.
I wondered briefly if this could have been the very sick and dying SJ mom who donated the heart, so QJ was mistaken if there really was a name mentioned on the records she found. Would the records mention the rest of the body had been cremated ? I don't know how such records are made or kept, so as a layman would not know how to look for and find such records in the first place, wondering how QJ would have found them in a hospital, or how such records could have been kept in Gu house if she found them later after having already been hired as trusted secretary.
But then why and when did she apply for the job? Perhaps not because of the heart blabla, but had she got told the accident was linked to Gu Yi who was the other victim, so she suspected there was foul play and Gu Yi had caused it, thus using a providential job offer to get near to them?
Even then, it is not clear where she had found those records : if it was in GY house, when and how and why did she get close enough to Gu family in first place (seducing Gu Yi like a Mata Hari? How did she morph so suddenly from innocent and shy student to such unashamed promiscuous spy behavior?) esp. if she did not know already then that SJ was a son of Gu Nan, nor that GY had got a heart transplant perhaps from SJ. If she was illegally searching in hospital records, how did she get access and knowledge about where to look?
Indeed, why would she have tried to stay with GY despite he not know her, have no feeling for her, treating her not even really as a valued "secretary", but like a slut, and showing his worst borderline behavior to her during that time, if she only had a hunch and no hard proof about the heart and not the rest of the body she was looking for ?
It does stay a buried in the past mystery or big plot hole.
Did I miss something there?
I am not going to re-watch it anyway, because, as much as I had fun and thrills watching the roller coasting drama then, this was not one I was going to go back to : I watched it closely enough that I doubt I missed a clue, and have no time for it any more, too much on my watch-list besides other stuff to do. That some plot holes remain in a drama is not first time, but it will not make me lose sleep once the watching is over, and I have moved on to other ones.

Yes: I am also waiting for those two of course !