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Maomao is a good woman. Mom also likes her as a kind of adorptive daughter, friend of the whole family. However as marriage candidate for young, high potential man like Chengzao she is generally considered as unsuitable. She is 7 year older than Chengzao, divorced and has a child.
In the end I think Mom learns the lesson to respect her children's decision and choice. In the trailer, there is a scene of new year dinner in which Maomao and her kid were there too

We married the loved ones who my mom did not like at all but she still had to accept. I got married oversea so no traditional meeting. For my sister, when my mom could not persuade her to change her mind, she accepted the marriage and everythin went well, friendly family meeting. Actually the couple should have discussed the plan for wedding and common life after that before such family wedding. I don't understand why MCH and XJL did not discuss such matter with each other (taking into account their parents' preference) in advance.

I think the broadcast schedule of BCE will be similar to War of Faith which was aired on CCTV8 and Iqiyi. War of Faith's schedule is 2 episodes everyday on CCTV8, on Iqiyi the 4 eps were released on the first day and 2 eps per day after that. There were no fast track at the end for web viewers

The grandma is her father's step mother. But her father did not get well with her

My asian mom's opinion is that she has lived longer and has more experience thus she always thinks that she is wiser and her thinking is better than mine. In the past, she sometimes mocked me and my sister when we did not take her way is "the egg claims to be smarter than the duck". :)). The funny thing is she still keeps that way of thinking despite I am in my 40s with much higher educational qualification than her and more experience of modern society (both in the Eastern and the Western world). So, in certain angle, she did share some trait with MCH's mom. But my mom is more respectful to my privacy matter than her and we (I and my sister) also don't obey as MCH. Moreover, unlike MCH, I am firm on my choice and my way. So, sometimes she kept quiet as the way to express her disapproval.
MCH's mom did many thing because she thought it would be good for her children (espcially for her daughter's marriage). She also understood that her daughter is too nice or polite thus she would be hesitated to do something and she took decision to do it despite losing face/dignity. Her daughter is at the critical age in Asian: ~30. It is kind of deadline to get marriage and then having children. MCH has been in relationship for 3 years and both love each other. If there is no marriage, her daughter will be in jeopardy situation (some time to recover, some more time to find another suitable lover, loving time etc, then she will be too old for marriage and have healthy children)
Moreover, I guess she and her husband are simple people, they do simple job and have no experience at dealing with complicated society and business. Thus she or her husband (forced by her) did quite silly action

the first 15 eps were aimed to setup the foundation for their love and Shang Gu's maturity. In general, for any drama, it is always better to watch in "one go" without long pauze.
Moreover, I don't know if you started watching it somewhere near the time the drama was first released. There were a lot of poor review on the main leads etc. Such buzzing news may also impact on watching mood.
Last, viewers such as you may also change (more experiences, emotion, patience, etc...) that can also contribute to the feeling and enjoyabitity

the rewatch value/index of this drama is hight, I guess

In my south east asian country, arranged marriage is not common anymore. Of course, old generation complains that the divorce rate gets higher and higher and I know many divorced cases. On the other hand, most of my Indian colleagues had arranged marriage and they are still fine after many years. It might be not so reprenstative since the Indian colleagues had very high education (PhD) and going abroad for studying and working. It is surprised to me that people with such high education still accept arranged marriage

Preview of eps 12: will ML suffer from Appendicitis. In one of the trailer there is a scene that ML woke up and looked over FL who seemed to be asleep

Many asian mothers helicopters and over protect their children. In their eyes, their children are always small sons/daughters. However, violating the children's privacy matter escpecially when they already finished schooling/professionally training is another level. And it also depends on the children's characteristics that tolerate the mother (or father)'s habbit.
I can see many concerned points from Mrs Liu which share with many asian mothers. Nowadays, there are many reasonably considerate parents. They guild their children, share their experience and express their opinion, give the advice but still respect their's children final decision and help their children as much as they can.

the problem for Xin family is they already ordered quite a lot of material which is compliant with the standard of ML's hotel since they had thought that they would get the order as usual (dealing with the previous guy Dennis). Thus that material may be waste because it does not fit other clients

There is another scene in AMA where he ate apple. When he came to see Xia Liang Shen in the hospital after running away from his engagement. It is closer to this. And the scene he ate apple when FL gave him on his birthday
Anyway I lost count on number of dramas where he ate apple

or YZM’s mother is her daughter. It seems that she didn’t care much for his father

for sure NOT. Saifei is famous actress in China. She won golden rooster prize last year. I remember I watched many C-dramas in early 2000s which she was FL or SFL

I did not read the novel. I read some discussion on Duoban which said that FL's grandfather was rich. He and her father had some issues with each other and distance from the step mother. Her grandfather left properties for his wife (ML's grandmother) and did not give any to his son. ML's grandmom was quite selfish and did not care much of her step son's poor condition

I don't know if his grandmother had 1 hotel or a chain of hotel. In the meeting with Mrs Zhang in eps 1, he said he had to accquire a hotel first before going back to the headquarter. Xukai also posted a picture of YZM's journey - chapter 1 back to China in which he specified one of the aim is to accquire a hotel. Maybe it will improve his position and potential so that he can reach to higher position in the hotel chain. This is the picture: https://kisskh.at/photos/4ebRdZ_3

I was thinking why ML brought the gift to the 2-family- meeting. He said sth to give the FL a hand. Was he about to reveal his connection with the grandmother and use the watch as his grandmother's gift to MCH, thus improve her position in Xin Jialiang's family? However, hearing the argument between the two families he thought Jialiang did not deserve her as well as she would have a lot of trouble in this marriage if it still progressed. He left the gift and his business card just to make Jialiang confused and jealous, pouring oil into a flame.
His original intention to help the FL is if she gets married to such rich family, she would focus on marriage life and he will have higher chance to be entrusted his grandmother's properties.

yes, it seems it is a part of his plan

human trafficking, bride smuggling happens. There are a lot of story about women in poorer neigbor countries of China who were lured to China for better jobs but ends up being sold to be wife ( maybe shared by some brothers in the same family). Such family is poor and can't afford Chinese woman's requirement.

I find this topic in Douban group of BCE funny: "Is Huanhuan’s mother wholesale? How can she be exactly the same as my mother? ". Thus, MCH's mom typed women seem to be quite common in China