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If you are not WeTV VIP, or watching on YT, despite the muting of songs there, you are having a lag since the WeTV and copycat sites ("cool" or "nice" or kiss" are all at episode 14, now)
As for spotting the quote, I have watched the 5 versions of the Hana Yori Dango manga adaptation to drama, and it is one of the famous quotes. For other iconic ones, have fun listening to his clip from the 2013 reunion of the F4 gang : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv2saLCRkHg

If you are not familiar with Meteor Garden, you could head to dramacool to watch the original TW adaptation (unfortunately in low quality), starring Jerry Yan as Daoming Si. .
Each version has its merits:
* the Japanese one (available in good quality on Viki) is admittedly the closest to the original Makino Tsukushi /Dōmyōji Tsukasa/Hanazawa Rui love triangle characters.
* Both the TW and the PRC Chinese adaptations translated them to Daoming Si/Shancai/Hua Ze Lei, adding more substance to the Xi Men and Mei Zou other members of the group. The PRC Meteor Garden 2018 featured Dylan Wang Hedi in his breakthrough role as the explosive Daoming Si, with Shen Yue as leading lady. It is the longest adaptation (I see you completed watching it, so you could have spotted the quote too?),
* The South Korean version (available in good quality on Viki) has them as Gu Jun-pyo/Geum Jan-di /Yoon Ji-hu and
* the Thailand one, shortest but most modern one, has them as Thyme/Gorya /Ren +Kavin and M.J.
For more info, there is an article on MDL, among the many that can be found online.

ep14 11:29 The mother of He Ran, Mrs Chou (played by Huang Yi) is watching Dining In The Kitchen on her iPad!
Fun fact: the screenwriter Zhao Xiaolei was also screenwriter for that 2020 drama, which starred Zhao Lusi and Lin YuShen.

also check the "unedited/cut scenes" in the discussion section above, for more links.
Thank you to AnswerMePorsche who initiated it and to those who added links there!

Episode 14 08:53 a quote from Meteor Garden/BOF !!! ("If apologies are enough, why do we have the police") 😂😁 but, yes, I am also finding the beginning of this mother's arc not the most engaging here. Especially contrasting it with the steamy windowsill scene just before, that Jerry Yan mentioned in this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBwoQsGoJEQ

Tick tock - like on the cloud
Tick tock- we're running out of time
Tick tock - please stay with me
Tick tock - don't be away from me
Tick Tock - you're all l need
I need you here (....Right now...)

Next episodes please 😂😁😉

Exactly like my feelings for that song....We are more or less like-minded 😄

And, in episode 12, she traveled to highland Qiang area north of Kangding without bringing warm clothes. Showing her lack of knowledge about basic traveling concerns, probably caused by her over-protection in semi-tropical environment. Up in the Qiang district, phones did not work well in the village, and presumably, there was no high speed fiber connection for computers and availability of fast delivery. So she had to be thankful to get Xiao Han's coat, winter jacket, and outfits borrowed from the local Qiang family, which endeared her to them....

Summer to winter next Lunar CNY (usually in late January or February, if CNY 2018 it would be Feb.16, year of the dog) ; yes, about 6 months.

Not strange, he is not cosplaying for the tourist crowd and the character being part Han lives up to his main ethnicity.
Perhaps he would dress as Qiang for a formal wedding if He Ran decided to embrace the minority customs that she only toyed with, not having been informed and studying them beforehand. Although she did have Xiao Han's "hometown address" on the edge of Tibetan plateau before. Dressing as locals do would not be felt as "cultural appropriation", a recent Western concept that is not embraced by Chinese people in the PRC, where dress-code only applies in certain circumstances.

The "Tibetan village" in this episode 12 s is also shown in one/some of A-Lan's songs like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyrlvXQfe4w
It is nicknamed Beauty Valley and it is located north-west of Kangding (you may know the famous Kangding love song? If not, here's a recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTqfXtqgRCI + a clip about its composition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3f1ASIMIZo)

Digression about the singer I mentioned above:
A-Lan is the stage name of alan dawa dolma, a Qiang-Tibetan ethnic singer and entertainer who promotes Tibetan culture as a participant in local Tibetan TV channels. She was educated in the music academy of Chengdu, before graduating from the University of Minorities in Beijing, once performing the song Heaven's Road together with famous Tibetan-Han singer Han Hong. (ref. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwst9gQ9Xgw). Next, she was under contract to sing in Japan for a few years (and learned quite some Japanese and Japanese songs) and to sing on the OST of the Red Cliff movie, before returning to China. The Chinese version of this song is one of my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc7Mr2oseP8 🥰-- it's long to wait till next episodes of Xia Hua, so I am listening to some favorite song playlists... Sharing with whoever might be interested 😎

She did bring a tote bag in which was her letter of admission to university.
We may suppose that she had a comfortable bank account, usable through Wechat or other payment apps on her phone, enabling her to pay fares, snacks, or mail-order with next-day urgent delivery service , to get the needed outfits. But.... she seemed to have left her phone idle for days before she switched it on again, to find the long list of text messages that her mother had left. Still, she did have access to a computer (she checked the amazing "double barreled" love life of flatworms there -have fun with that if you're curious like a cat, like her!). So, online shopping transactions were probably done this way. As for the outfits, her mother threw them in the trash when He Ran did not wear them, so she did not need to carry more home than what covered her body?
She did carry the tote bag with the important letter, when she returned home, didn't she?

The QQ link has MVs but it was tricky to watch them for me too, as my spaceship was not postioned "in" the right region... Fwiw, here's what was listed (I have just added the names the singers go by in "English")

• 1 我的你 (片中版)《夏花》电视剧主题曲 糖妹 (Kandy Wong) 03:36
• 2 我的你《夏花》电视剧主题曲 My You 糖妹 (Kandy Wong) 03:36
• 3 Baby Come Through《夏花》电视剧插曲 卢苑仪 (Vivien Loh) - 04:27
• 4 One More Chance《夏花》电视剧插曲 陈宇祥 (Shawn Chen) 04:16
• 5 Summer Flower《夏花》电视剧片头曲 卢苑仪 (Vivien Loh) 01:31
• 6 The One《夏花》电视剧插曲 卢苑仪 (Vivien Loh) 03:26
• 7 Heartbeat《夏花》电视剧插曲 Angela Zhang 03:38
• 8 Take The Chance《夏花》电视剧插曲 侯丞睿 (Hou Chengrui) 03:34
• 9 If You《夏花》电视剧插曲 王敏淳 (Chanel Wang) 03:02
• 10 Summer Flower (哼唱版)《夏花 》电视剧配乐 天空之城音乐 00.53
You can listen to them on this Youtube link to the album audio recording:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSojJ-D1Iag

yes, JY's got impressive abs too 😁 I was secretly musing about what Dai Gaozheng could do in comparison -you know, the yummy hunk from Maid's Revenge. But the role of Xiao Han clearly required a more experienced actor for sensual subtlety.

That young miss whose hormones warn that she can't wait (may die too early) is quite justified in her choice of an experienced and considerate semi-secret lover, instead of a fumbling greenhorn wannabee rocker, even if the latter is presented as more socially compatible (=agreeable to her mom). The story is interesting & music, cinematography, acting are top-notch.

Okay... My feeling from acting and drama pictures of Xiao Han was also that he was likely to be in his "late 30s".
I also object to guys (F or M) being branded "middle aged" when over 30 and below 50. If people take care of themselves, their expected life span is over 85 in modern societies.

I'm on episode 7, and despite he having had a surprise birthday in episode 3, no age was given. So we have to rely on our eyes and feelings or on the synopsis, which states that Xiao Han is forty or so.

Jerry Yan was born in 1977, so he is 46, but like many health conscious, athletic types, even rockers like Chris Martin (Coldplay), he could pass for 10-15 years younger. In our era, it is quite commonplace. One only looks as old as one feels and decides to be, before 50-60.

Looking forward to the unfolding story, too. It is indeed, very good, maybe better than good.

That would not be surprising. The clash between parents and children can be a cause of anorexia. But there's more to it, since she seems to have already been struck by more serious illness, for which she is still being treated. Leukemia, it's been said. Which explains why the mom wants to keep her as insulated as possible from influences that would destroy the careful "rare plant in a hothouse" balance she has opted for, to her daughter.

So, it's 2 episodes a day for this new take on the sad and tragic Love Story? It will end as we'd rather it wouldn't, but on the way there, will be sweet moments. 24 episodes by March 3. "The taste of love is bitter-sweet"....

Her eyes remind me of those of ... Xiao Zhan!! 😂😂😂

Perhaps there's a clue on the package in episode1. The address was Qiongzhou City. Although I am not aware about one such actual city name, there is a Qiongzhou strait separating Leizhou peninsula in Guangdong and Hainan island, which maybe has another clue from the "Welcome to Love Island" flowered boat standing before RanRan as she is waiting for the blue taxi (btw I was wondering how she paid the fare since she'd left her phone at Xiao Han's dilapidated hair salon: maybe there was an agreement to serve her family on some monthly basis? But since she was "not supposed to go out and roam about" and the mere going to have a hair wash made her mom so jittery, it looked mysterious to me.).