I dont think his wife got manipulated. She clearly knows what kind of man he is.
She got. Rewatch the scene again. He acted afraid of the idea by the Duke and even telling her the horror stories of the ex-wives (meanwhile he’s only acting as if he was against the idea). This was to get the wife to push the idea forward and also she wanting to help him from his distress (which is a lie). He knows the wife very well and knows she also wants a Duke as an in-law. This is how manipulators work. They make you think the ideas are yours, meanwhile they’ve been subtly leading you there.
In previous episodes the other wife (FL’s mum) warned her and told her she was being used as a blade, she apparently didn’t understand get it. Just look at how she called the Daoist when FL was born, it seemed like her idea, but events have shown it was her husband’s idea from the get go to cover for his own crime.
The father actor is the biggest manipulator. A real psychopath 🤮. After inviting the Duke (obviously to marry his 2nd daughter), he manipulated everyone around him to come up with the idea themselves. The same conclusion he already had and planned from when he sent out the invite to the Duke. A real snake.
I dropped it the first time because the translation was so bad. However, found a decent translation and fell in…
This wasn’t about translation. Just the general slowness of events and I keep waiting for something to happen (even in the business part of the show) and it falls flat.
I'm also wondering these things lol. I mean did he ever love yunxi throughout their marriage? Or if his wife was…
Wife has been dead for 5 years (their child was a baby when they were mourning her in the scene shown). It’s realistic that people fall in love again after 5 years of losing a loved one.
I don't think I've ever waited on the release time of a show before. This show made me do it. On the platform I watched it on, it releases daily by 1 pm, and each day, once it is 1 o'clock, I start to refresh the page to see if it has come online.
Phew! What this show did to me. An all-around 10/10. The MDL rating does not do it justice (maybe it is the age of those who are majority users of MDL or their superficiality), but this show deserves to have the rating of all the highest-ranked C-dramas on this platform (10 miles of peach blossom, Nirvana in Fire, Story of Milan, Joy of Life etc.) Even Bai Lu exceeded my expectations. It seems she's transitioning to take on serious actor roles and not be typecast into Idol roles like other actors her age and get stuck there. Apart from that Mystique show, which is idol drama, she's been in more serious/proper drama roles to prove her worth (e.g. Ordinary Greatness and now this one). Good for her, I like her, she doesn't have the typical childish look-mian and can't wait to see her in more proper acting roles.
Kudos to the other cast and crew of this show. I was drooling over grown-up Ou Hao styling (I hardly drool over actors 🤭); he was that hot 🤣. The actor who played HaiKuo was in Six Sisters and was good at it; I am glad to see him here, too. [He reminds me of the actor who was in Heroes (2024), Qin Jun Jie (who is a very great actor, too).] ChenRui's actor was in Tender Light, and I hope he gets more roles that will allow him to showcase his talent more and more. XiangChi's actor was in She and Her Girls (another great C-drama), and I hope he keeps getting proper roles, too. I hope Siyi's actor will continue to grow in her acting pursuit (this is my first time watching her, and she's quite capable).
Of course, let us not forget the seasoned older cast members who were like the oil that kept this show moving even better.
All in all, I doff my hat to everyone who made this show the beautiful piece that it is.
I'm coming in the middle of today's episode to say that Ruan XiWen (FL's mother) is such a good actress. My gosh! I enjoyed all her micro-expressions so far.
It’s so slow-paced and I can’t seem to enjoy the actions that are ongoing in the show.
Some dramas are slow-paced yet the events going on in the drama keeps you interested and the story flows. But, not this. The actors are good but the events going on aren’t interesting and it’s also slow. The script and direction seems to have been the problem.
This is how manipulators work. They make you think the ideas are yours, meanwhile they’ve been subtly leading you there.
In previous episodes the other wife (FL’s mum) warned her and told her she was being used as a blade, she apparently didn’t understand get it.
Just look at how she called the Daoist when FL was born, it seemed like her idea, but events have shown it was her husband’s idea from the get go to cover for his own crime.
Phew! What this show did to me. An all-around 10/10. The MDL rating does not do it justice (maybe it is the age of those who are majority users of MDL or their superficiality), but this show deserves to have the rating of all the highest-ranked C-dramas on this platform (10 miles of peach blossom, Nirvana in Fire, Story of Milan, Joy of Life etc.)
Even Bai Lu exceeded my expectations. It seems she's transitioning to take on serious actor roles and not be typecast into Idol roles like other actors her age and get stuck there. Apart from that Mystique show, which is idol drama, she's been in more serious/proper drama roles to prove her worth (e.g. Ordinary Greatness and now this one). Good for her, I like her, she doesn't have the typical childish look-mian and can't wait to see her in more proper acting roles.
Kudos to the other cast and crew of this show. I was drooling over grown-up Ou Hao styling (I hardly drool over actors 🤭); he was that hot 🤣. The actor who played HaiKuo was in Six Sisters and was good at it; I am glad to see him here, too. [He reminds me of the actor who was in Heroes (2024), Qin Jun Jie (who is a very great actor, too).] ChenRui's actor was in Tender Light, and I hope he gets more roles that will allow him to showcase his talent more and more. XiangChi's actor was in She and Her Girls (another great C-drama), and I hope he keeps getting proper roles, too. I hope Siyi's actor will continue to grow in her acting pursuit (this is my first time watching her, and she's quite capable).
Of course, let us not forget the seasoned older cast members who were like the oil that kept this show moving even better.
All in all, I doff my hat to everyone who made this show the beautiful piece that it is.
Goodbye Hua Jie (Flower Street) and the Canal.
Some dramas are slow-paced yet the events going on in the drama keeps you interested and the story flows. But, not this. The actors are good but the events going on aren’t interesting and it’s also slow. The script and direction seems to have been the problem.
5 episodes in and I’m sorry I have to let it go.