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I really enjoyed the character dynamics in this first episode. At the company, Mr Seong fought for one producer of Napa cabbage to make their product nutrient rich and tasty. His wish is granted and he finds himself transferred to a location that has been deserted for a decade and the locals hold his company responsible for trashing the land and leaving. He is surprised by the appearance of his wife and three sons and they all find themselves living the country life now. The eldest son is actually enthused with the location, but he is in a party of one. The comedy is exaggerated but not to the point it is annoying. It is just fun watching them interact and it leaves you smiling.
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Ren has figured out Jiang did something to YuCi. While Jiang said she got permission for a leave of absence, he let her know she and Yu were allowed to be together only if they towed the line. Ren is the best one on her feet with curves shot at her. She notes the change and can’t hide the initial reaction, but then returns to business as usual to protect Yu. Jiang even got rid of his clubs along with the carpet. Ren surmises that he has scrubbed any surveillance footage to hide what really happened. When they meet with Chen Mo, she shuts Yu up knowing it won’t be helpful to include him til they know what really happened. ChenXi’s character was handled well. She thought blackmail could serve her and was surprised he called her on it by putting his wife on the phone. She had no clue whatsoever the bullet she really dodged. His contempt for her business acumen proves she was there for decoration only. She was allowed to embezzle funds to keep her in fancy clothes, but she had no other purpose than servicing him and for once he told her straight up that was it. I absolutely hate what they did with LiangLiang’s mom’s character. 😝🙄 LiangLiang was her weakness, but that tragic mess they made of her just did not ring true. How is Mr Xu supposed to go on without her? If she actually did end herself, he was betrayed by both of them in the worst ways possible. I am glad she called her daughter out for wrecking YuCi’s life but helping YuCi would have served her better. Even YuCi’s mom endures to survive. They hinted of how empty she felt with her nice house but her daughter not family. This yearning for a specific vision of family was the thing mother and daughter had in common. Both preferred the dream to the reality. Their difference in character is that LiangLiang chose to blame others and use that for her advancement while her mom chose to take the blame and punishment on herself. YuCi and Mr Li meet at the street vendor renovation project and all the vendors show up with samples. She knows how Li started his business and he confirmed that this was more his leadership style for Lysen. When the company bottlenecked for stock price increase, the board was far happier with Jiang than him. He and YuCi are well aware that it is more façade than substance, but finding his overseas slush fund will be a difficult task. She is ready for next round and taking it to Lysen.
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Some of the beginning was over the top and right when I was ready to move on this episode happened. This drama covers family court and it’s difficult because family relationships are messy and complicated. Judge Shen feels slighted because he was expecting a nice place in criminal court where his fast close cases would put him in high standing. Rather than that, he was stuck in family court because his mentors believed he needed to learn empathy. Lawyer Qin is stuck in a small and cheap law firm where she desperately wants to prove herself. She needs money for her Gma’s meds so she will take any case that comes her way and this doesn’t always put her in the best light. What won me over was how the drama includes their own family struggles and how that impacts their decisions at work. This adds a nice depth to the story that made me decide to stick around to see what happens.
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YuCi manages to make it home after her beating. Ironically LiangLiang’s mom had a bday cake waiting for her. She sees YuCi hurt and YuCi begs her to not involve police. She calls Chen Mo who gets YuCi to the hospital. After being treated she runs into her dad in the hall. He has completely lost it and when he sees the mark on her arm he continues to warn her twin to be careful and hide from her sister. YuCi confronts them when she finds out she is the only one who had no clue. She cuts herself off from them and leaves. LiangLiang’s mom was in an adjacent hall and heard every word. She gets the rest of the story from Han CongFei. He had to live with the devastation he brought to YuCi with his quest to be a big shot reporter. I am truly loving the three friends in the hospital. They are good guardians for her even in their fractured states. The pretend wine was a sweet gesture, and I had a laugh out loud moment watching them ‘meditate’. 😂🤣 She mastered his Cryptex and that gave him the last letter from his son. It is hard to believe that sweet old man was a prior Jiang. Watching him laugh with his buddies about people jumping off buildings because of the stock crash was surreal. He treated his son like Rao did YuCi about needing help and he was like Mr Li finding that his wealth cost his child his life. He had to be tempered through that tragedy to become a human that cared about people over money. This is why he recognized the help YuCi needed and went all in to support her. LiangLiang’s mom was filled in on it all, backed up with pictures and documentation. She now sees how her daughter orchestrated all the bad happenings in YuCi’s life. She must now acknowledge that her part was taking her daughter from the rich ‘father’ and causing her to have such bitterness and ambition. One thing about LiangLiang’s mom, she is not a wilting violet. She took her daughter’s abuse because she felt it deserved for losing her and having no say in her first 6 years of life. However, we will now see what course she chooses knowing that her actions contributed greatly to this sequence of manipulated events. YuCi is at rock bottom now and mustering her last bit of courage to continue on her own. Ren and Yu now know YuCi won’t be back but no clue why not. LiangLiang is all happy to be back with her crazed smile and eyes and Gma Bai has now joined the ranks and she is just a cold hearted individual. She doesn’t give a damn about anybody, but she does have the clearest view of everything that has happened and most of the why’s. She puts things into better perspective than most of them. Knowing that, I still have to wonder why she tossed Jiang into the midst of things given his dynamic of using and abusing women. He doesn’t seem like a first choice for her. This episode filled in some blanks and left a lot more questions. YuCi has to stay solitary, but I sure wish she had a benefactor that could help her. She is in desperate need of assist. Here I am just so angry with Chen Mo. He knows what kind of person she is and has a pretty good idea of how she thinks and processes things, yet thought her left in the dark about her lost sister was in her best interest. That arrogance of thinking he knew best for her protection may have cost them both everything. With this I really wish YuCi had LiangLiang’s mother. Her mother does a lot of wringing her hands and accepting everything as beyond her control. She lets herself get led by others in just about everything. Other than truly loving her daughter, this story was very unkind about giving her any relevance at all. LiangLiang’s mother is quite capable and refuses to stay down even when life keeps throwing her curves. She has a quiet strength that takes life head on and keeps her kindness and humanity as her greatest features. She made a serious error when taking her daughter back the way she did because that event resulted in all these others. Now to see if they give her a bigger part in how things play out or keep her a spectator.
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PengYu reopens the street vendor renovation project and has a hard time accepting that’s all YuCi wants for her shares. She simply wants him to take on his most difficult task of being called a good man. He even agrees to team with Li if it will oust Jiang. Things looks bright as Chen Mo and YuCi enjoy a sunset, share a kiss and make plans for her bday. She dares to see the sun for just this short while. Jiang has a temper tantrum in his closet and Li has suggested he leaves Lysen. That’s when Jiang comes back that Bosi is a done deal so he didn’t renege on his promise. Li knows something big happened and he’s not happy. LiangLiang knew when the street vendors returned that YuCi was behind the shares. She also tells Gma she is the flip side of the coin with YuCi, daring to go where YuCi would not. She finds the info on Market Master and his crypto text fund and hands it all to Jiang. She also says that YuCi had him in her revenge plans all along. YuCi never cared about Jiang’s placement at all but he believes LiangLiang’s lie that he was part of YuCi’s revenge. He never stopped to think it was countering his lie to fund her projects if she got Li to back them. He knows LiangLiang lies, but because they give him what he wants, those 10% shares, he willingly falls in line with them. They all richly deserve each other. Lysen is literally hell. 🤬They all leave the building so that YuCi is confronted by Jiang’s putter. After telling TianTian to trust her instincts, I wish she would have done that when she paused knowing something was up before she entered the room. Even the Gma thought she was hit too hard. Liang Liang and Gma show up at the scene to observe his handiwork and get their turns. Liang Liang read all about the twin in Mr Rao’s diary. She was just waiting for the proper time to share the news. After the daddy reveal for her, she is more than happy to return the favor on why Rao loathed YuCi. He mourned the child that wasn’t. The Gma took her turn about MuRan’s death and how she was instrumental kinda ignoring the fact that her grandson and LiangLiang were instrumental in Qiang’s demise. She mocks her 4% shares and says children shouldn’t get involved and this mess is the result of two bickering little girls. Jiang denies her answering Chen Mo’s call but challenges her to call the police. He promises to end everyone and thing she cares about and that he can do it. With the Gma’s comment, the three of them witnessing her psychological breakdown, I am thinking she will find herself back in the psych ward but it will be different now. Her friends have been exposed and may not be able to help her. I hope Market Master gets to keep his hiding place and doesn’t get hurt by the snake trio. He knew it was a risk and hopefully has connections to shield him. I am super annoyed that Chen Mo interfered and didn’t let YuCi know she was a twin. This was a huge disservice that LiangLiang got to blindside her with. I’m betting YuCi’s mom doesn’t know about the diary. What we don’t know is if YuCi did. While all this is happening, Mr Rao wakes up. This is a horrible place to end and only one episode for next two days.😝This drama has been scorned by some for being a Makjang. If that is what this is, I am a fan. The twists and turns keep me interested and even with this annoying change of events, I am riveted to my seat wanting to see what happens next. Kudos to cast and production crew for making me feel so invested in these characters. 👏🏻
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The battle for Bosi continues. I would like PengYu to get his justice but he still comes across more as a petulant child. LiangLiang has shattered him. While he waits for his ace, Liang Liang has a press conference saying Bai stock will support Bosi. She and Gma are trying to force PengYu to give his shares to them. He is highly encouraged to back down. Pengyu finally sees the B side of LiangLiang. He saw her the most clearly, but even he overestimated having a 1% interest in her heart. She has successfully burned this bridge and for the first time, might have even harbored a few seconds of regret. Since she saved the tearful look til after she departed, it might even have been genuine. Mr Li has game. He is not as cowed by Jiang as everybody thinks. He knew what would happen with his money. He funded YuCi’s projects and Jiang diverted the funds. YuCi confronts him directly. Jiang and LiangLiang always expect their stepping stones to be too shattered to retaliate. They always make sure to have the upper hand to prevent that possibility. When she confronted Jiang about diverting the funds from her project, she told him bluntly he just used her to get the funds he needed for Bosi acquisition. He didn’t bother to deny it but he was on the defensive to justify his ‘diversion’ of funds and promised her projects after Bosi purchase. YuCi reminds him that since his faith is only in numbers not people, she is now aware of his real position and that no faith in him is possible. She leaves for plan B. Unlike most others he conducts business with, Li is probably pleasantly surprised when YuCi apologizes and admits Jiang took his backing for Bosi. She lets him know that her next move may be harmful to Lysen and apologizes. The one thing she has never wavered on is that her only interest is funding these two projects. She has no interest in the company’s machinations for Bosi. Here I was pleasantly surprised when he knew what would happen when he promised her the funding. He accepted that loss to have YuCi see Jiang’s dealings clearly. He is satisfied that this will bring YuCi to his side. This was his win/win scenario that LiangLiang thought she was providing. The Mastermind has a hidden fund that he gives to YuCi. Mr Zhou let her know of its existence and she has asked mastermind to give it to her. I mocked the existence of these three for conveniently existing to help her, but I have to confess they are becoming my favorite sidekicks. Beauty Pearl society approach PengYu with 4% shares and tells him a woman will further assist. YuCi is ready to have a chat with him. They are aligning to help him avenge his father. Mr Jiang gave two letters to an aid if he didn’t make it out of the building. One to his wife and one to his lawyer. For the first time he might recognize his match or better in a business deal and he is staying prepared. What I found interesting is his cobra chair did not seem so impressive or dominant when she was in the room with him. She quietly deflects his power and reminds him of his place in the scheme of things when she exits the room. I am sure she will toss some numbers his way since that’s what he values. PengYu is surprised that YuCi has an ace. She reminds him that good people are just more careful in using them. That does not mean they don’t have them. They are getting ready to have a chat when the episode ends.
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Pengyu warns Jiang about the dangers of hyenas. He did score points for his detailed account of a heart attack. That struck a chord with Jiang later. How fitting that Jiang’s chair is fashioned like a cobra. This is how he feels and what he wants to project on the stock floor. I was surprised along with Ren to find him hiding out in her office. They have PR flu and nobody from the dept showed up for work. I also think he was rummaging through her laptop to see what he could find. It is interesting that the ‘Market Master’ was hiding out in the same treatment hospital that YuCi was sent to. He has been tracked down by Beauty Pearl Society, but he refuses to reveal his intentions if any to the hellfire that is Bosi. They did say he owned the hospital earlier, and given the level of clawing for the top, a mental hospital would prove a good hiding place. So the mother and daughter at home is ChenXi number 1. I am thinking his handkerchief had the last remnants of his wife’s scent and a treasured possession. I am disgusted that he beat her and agreed with daughter that mommy was bad again.🤬 It is even more reprehensible that he encourages his daughter to be a monster. She is headed to be LiangLiang 2.0. PengYu has no clue he has been betrayed by LiangLiang. They have absolutely no intention of giving him control of their stock. This is the first time I have seen an origami spinner. I found that an interesting detail. ChenXi is getting nervous but when spinner was opened, Jiang had already predicted 19%, he just knew that was as far as they could go. PengYu missed the press conference where Gma Bai has stated they will not be involved with Bosi takeover. I was not happy to see YuCi back in Jiang’s office. He had to reluctantly admit he had no intention of renewing her projects. He pushed the matter towards Li saying if Li funded it, they could move forward together. As if.😝🙄 She walks to the beat of her own drum and she has no more intention of moving forward together than he does. She did, however, approach Li with her business proposals. I am sure he knows who ‘really’ did the legwork for finding out about his son. Unlike others he shares tea with, YuCi commented on how the tea makes you feel drinking it. She did come with hat in hand for money, but she backed it up with what she had already done for him and the benefits of putting her projects back to work. Pengyu had plans for LiangLiang and not only did she slam them away, she didn’t even bother sharing the meal. He’s just another stepping stone. He realizes he’s been used but I don’t think he recognizes that she’s set him up to lose as well. I would like him to put the vendor floor back in operation to spite her, but there is no telling how broken he will be when he realizes the full extent of her betrayal. I am waiting for YuCi to prove to all these amoral predators that they are very mistaken to think good people lack game. The Bosi Director is looking like a wounded animal with the vultures circling. I really want somebody to bail him out and kick both vultures to the curb.😝I am also especially disgusted with LiangLiang for putting TianTian in that position knowing damn well how it felt.🤬 She has no shame at all. Something like that should have made that restaurant memorable and who rescued her. However, PengYu thinking a place where she was almost assaulted as romantic was a huge misstep. The other was her having any appreciation for any of his efforts or that she ever considered him her hero. He was just another stone discarded when no longer of use. I am hoping next episode finishes up war for Bosi. I don’t want either of them to get the company.
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Omg I have no words how disgusted I am with Jiang and ChenXi. 🤬They made a mockery of his wife so he would look like a human instead of a shark. That she came up with that idea makes it even more unpalatable. These two deserve each other. I really loathe both of them as much as Liang Liang. He promised those green companies they could stay intact and then halted production because he and PengYu are in a race to see who will have majority shares to get Bosi. They both are neglecting all other projects to have maximum holding of shares in a race to see who will gain the stock advantage. We get the backstory of PengYu’s dad who used to be a friend of Jiang. They were in business together until Jiang used him as a stepping stone to get Lysen. He undercut the business transaction so that PengYu’s dad was put out of business by the ‘friend’ he trusted the most. Like LiangLiang he uses all around him as stepping stones to claw his way to the top. He does this brazenly making no apology for his actions and no remorse (other than for show) for the people who become collateral damage. I don’t think he takes pleasure in it like LiangLiang does, but he heartlessly accepts that as the price to continue his climb. He proves this sentiment in his talk to Ren on handling YuCi if she doesn’t come back to Lysen. He wants to be sure she cannot work independently away from him. He is a disgusting piece of work and that painting behind him is so truthful of his real character. LiangLiang has double pronged the attack by making PengYu close down the street vendors renovation project so he can use her Bai stocks to beat Jiang in getting Bosi. He is so caught up in revenge for his father that he gladly accepts the condition and all the vendors are homeless. This is how Lysen conducts business. They make an offer too good to be true and then yank the rug under the ‘commoners’ expecting their very small portion of the business deal as promised. The promise is only valid til the paperwork signed and then they are pebbles to be tossed away. YuCi is out of hospital and has quietly looked into things. She doesn’t conduct business like Lysen and she is determined to see her two projects put back on track. She has a very candid conversation with PengYu’s mom hoping she can push PengYu into doing the right thing and reopen the street vendors location. His mom gives YuCi the Readers Digest condensed version of her history up to MuRan’s suicide. She doesn’t see them as enemies but she also makes it clear her son makes his own choices. She is willing to wait to see how the Bosi battle plays out. YuCi hopes for the best but she is a bit stunned with the closure. She knows who is behind it and has to be careful with moves because Gma Bai is included in Liang Liang’s actions. Chen Mo tried to talk her out of doing more for the vendors and to just stay out of it entirely and live a happier life. She refuses to let them be collateral damage and is well aware she and LiangLiang are not done yet. Her parting letter with Chen Mo is read again. She has tried to cut ties. She says he will be a weakness if they continue, but she is protecting him and distancing herself from everybody. She has been warned this round will be personal and the street vendors eviction is the first salvo. Jiang meets with PengYu and really thinks they are going to shake hands and be friendly. I do wish PengYu would have brushed him aside but not look like a petulant child while doing it. The gloves are off and it’s unclear where YuCi will position herself while these two enemies exact their own revenge. I am curious if she will be spectator or add her own nuance to the battle and who she will side with? I am thinking Jiang doesn’t consider PengYu an enemy. He is of the mind ‘it’s just business and nothing personal.’
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We finally find out why Rao hated YuCi. She was a twin and absorbed her sister. After seeing a mark on his newborn daughter with the nurse so matter of factly describing the death of his other daughter, he gets a call that his mother was dying. And after he locks the factory there is a fire where two die and all materials inside were destroyed. So his view of YuCi is she was a parasite and jinx even before her birth. This finally makes sense as to why this couple clung so hard to LiangLiang. Even she didn’t understand the dad’s hatred of YuCi. But she sure chose to exploit that to her advantage and YuCi’s family was a major stepping stone for LiangLiang’s elevated status. She continues this with stepping in after MuRan’s death to make further headway with Gma Bai. Had she accepted YuCi and her family, they could have lived as sisters and she would have had her well to do family. But we see the contempt she has for them. They are merely stepping stones on her way to the life she really wanted. I did not know YuCi’s feelings towards her mom. I thought it was fear from the stabbing incident. While that was a factor, she saw her mom as weak and her dad as overly strict with an unexplainable loathing for her. Here I am not sure I agree with Chen Mo. He does not think YuCi could bear the news of knowing about a lost twin. It would be a staggering bit of information, but I think it would finally enlighten her to her dad’s perspective and put a reason behind it. It also has potential to be used by LiangLiang. Would it be better for YuCi to learn that from her?😝 Mr Rao should have explained to his wife what was going on so she would have been better prepared. He did his family no benefit from this secret and then clung to a false dream of LiangLiang’s making. I don’t know if LiangLiang’s mother’s dream was reality or not, but Mr Xu would never be comfortable with them as a family unit, nor would he ever explain why. I feel sorry for her that she chooses to see her daughter in the best light. After working so hard to find her, it had to be heartrending to be so denounced and rejected. She really did not consider her child enough at the time and really believed that her daughter was better with her. Now that she finally has the home LiangLiang wanted growing up, she just feels sad and lonely. Both of these mom’s have suffered because of LiangLiang and neither would understand why. Chen Xi is back at Lysen and is charming as ever. I wonder if Jiang plays Bolero for her in the office.😝Is he divorced or not? I can’t believe he talks of his great love story at Lysen gathering while his lover watches from his office and wife and daughter from home.😝 Yu and Ren are doing well at Lysen and he visits her in hospital. He warns her of gma Bai and that she should not return to Lysen. He both wants to protect her and not lose his temporary place as overseer of dept 2 and 3. Chen Xi of course is dept 1 and LiangLiang has disappeared with no one except gma Bai knowing where she is. Liang Liang is all ready for next round and YuCi’s buddies at the hospital are preparing her as well. She is warned that this round will aim at the people she cares about. I gotta laugh at their plot to get her there and his comment that who knew you were crazier than we are.🤣😂 Chen Mo is helping behind the scenes, I hope. I am still not convinced her not knowing about her twin is the right choice. I am glad to see that she and her mother are making progress. Liang Liang has aligned herself with Gma and Jiang has managed to acquire the means to obtain a good portion of Bosi stock. The company is almost within his grasp and he is determined to own it. He will do whatever it takes to get this prize. He is like LiangLiang with his refusal to lose any ground from where he has established himself. But he may come to regret taking ChuXia away from its true founder. The one he did not meet prior to its acquisition. Next episode will probably continue his speech about his wife. But when he mentions his wife’s cancer and ChenXi smirks, I really want to smack the smirk off her face. 😝
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Even in YuCi’s dreams LiangLiang stays true to herself. This episode shows the three mentors that helped YuCi when in hospital first time. This made for good storytelling about how she learned the techniques that serve her so well, but it really is a stretch in the believability of the story. As doped up as inmates are kept, how did they keep their wits enough to draw her in with math? And they just happened to be the very type of people she would need to give her the hope and skills needed to combat LiangLiang and work her way out. This was too convenient but still better to have a reason behind her abilities rather than she just innately had them with no training or assist. YuCi’s mother’s trust in LiangLiang is so heartbreaking. She still sees them as the two little girls that are absolutely best friends. This rings true and how LiangLiang intercepted the call that would have eased the mom’s heart. She had no worries about YuCi contacting her dad. His contempt for her was already established and he fell right into place denying any assist other than whatever LiangLiang planned for her. The last thing that rings very true is how easily she took MuRan’s place and has poisoned the gma towards YuCi. This is a much bigger enemy to contend with. LiangLiang is very like a cat with nine lives and always landing on her feet. She has always kept the determination to make her own fate by changing the fate of others. Too bad their changes are always for the worse and she always benefits. I think she tends to consider this negative impact on others as a fringe benefit of her success.
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Did not expect this to be the death knell of Bai MuRan. YuCi was the mirror of LiangLiang in her unmasking of Bai MuRan’s misdeeds. She was as brutal with him as LiangLiang was with YuCi’s dad. She predicted all too accurately how his family and work colleagues would desert him. And this was only for the financial transgressions. They don’t even know about the knife stabbing yet. She was well ahead of the game having a watch to sound her location and that she needed help. Chen Mo found her quicker and gets her to the ER. She survived the stabbing but now is in a hysterical coma due to a psychological shock where she chooses to not wake up. I see Jiang as a refined version of LiangLiang. He is as brutal in his clawing to the top but he is not as wreckless with the exception of Chen Xi. He meets LiangLiang in his favorite noodle place and he reminds her how things can be kept or erased in a beat if no longer needed. While giving her this lesson on her shortcomings, he shows her the listening device she had planted in his office. She finally is bold enough to fire a round back. She reminds him that he may become the next bowl of noodles and whose bowl would he be in? YuCi has now become noticed by the elder Li and gma Bai. One will be thankful and one will have a serious grudge. These are bigger players and there is no telling where this round will lead. Liang Liang trashes her Lego dream and leaves with luggage. There is no telling what’s next on her agenda. Chen Mo has stayed by YuCi’s side and telling her to want to wake up after a good rest. Her mom is being made aware of her condition. All her family is in hospital and I’m hoping Chen Mo will continue to look after them. YuCi has a target on her back from much bigger sources than MuRan and LiangLiang. Here I wonder if Liang Liang will team up with the Gma and be responsible for getting YuCi back in hospital because Rao the fool left YuCi entrusted to LiangLiang. This next round is going to be on a whole other level.
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Mr Rao has just received news of his condition and has finally seen what a menace he’s been to his own family. His favorite ‘daughter’ has ripped off the band aid to expose all her plotting to drive a wedge between father and daughter. He had a final collapse where she promised nobody would come save him because he was so hated. YuCi had the debt collectors lined up and payment arrangements set up. She was taking care of her father’s debts so that her mother could live peacefully. Mr Rao is unconscious with no assurance of waking up. He at least is being taken care of and in no shape to cause any more damage to his family. Beauty Pearl society has helped YuCi gain access to MuRan’s offshore accounts. He probably helped Li Qiang steal the money or trapped Qiang into bad investments. These two seemed birds of a feather in wanting to have a place in their families but always coming up short. Whatever was in the files YuCi handed to Jiang, he handed Li the paperwork at Qiang’s memorial saying it shed light on the truth of what happened to Qiang. The actuary of Beauty Pearl Society met with LiangLiang and promised her how to find her father if she would bug Jiang’s office. LiangLiang has bargained with the secretary that funds would be sent to her husband’s account if she would get the bug in the office. There is a flashback of how LiangLiang framed and blackmailed Professor Han to get into his class. He resigned and YuCi was left wondering how such a nice man could be guilty of such an offense. LiangLiang contacted the actuary who warned her her past may not be what she expected. She received the keys to number 27 and found herself in YuCi’s home. She saw the board with all the detailed data about YuCi’s findings while in hospital. LiangLiang gets a video call from her ‘father’. After she demanded to know why she was never contacted, she learned he was not her biological dad. She was a kidnapped baby that stayed with him until her real family showed up. She was apparently sold off several times to desperate rich people wanting to have children. She had been missing six years and her mother finally found her. So this is why he had no further contact and with this, something should have been set up to protect the child better. Here I wish her mom would have kept him in her life since he was a victim as much as she was. This might have kept LiangLiang from becoming the fractured vindictive soul she now is. LiangLiang has completely lost it as she realizes her dream dad was simply that, a dream. The grownups handled her situation poorly, but that does not excuse her deliberate manipulation and cruelty to those she used to get the life she thought she deserved. There is going to be a future encounter with the knife and this points more to MuRan than her. YuCi has taken care of LiangLiang’s parents for the next three years and says she will be gone for an extended trip. She has given her resignation letter to Jiang and told Yu that he and Ren will be in charge as they should be. She tried to visit Chen Mo at their favorite fruit stall but he wasn’t there. We see a very sweet scene with her and Nuan drawing Chen Mo a bday picture. It is becoming more clear that it was most likely his parents killed in that factory fire. I will really hate it if they make him an enemy in disguise.
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Mr Jiang has gone to great lengths to have a meeting set up with Mr Yang from Bosi, and like LiangLiang with her real estate acquisitions, he had the green companies lined up on his desk to present to Yang. His tea and cigar were rejected and a call from Beauty Pearl Society interrupted them. It was very refreshing to see Mr Jiang get some of his treatment to others thrown back at him. Mr Yang very aptly got the painting’s ambiance and he put it quite plainly what he thought of it, leaving the question who is acquiring whom up in the air. I am sure Jiang didn’t expect his offering to get tossed to the floor any more than Liang Liang expected her land deeds to be left worthless on the table. We next see YuCi has purchased a three year rental for LiangLiang’s parents. She has even included a rehabilitation area and elevator for Mr Xu. It is very gray turf with her having Ms Bai pretend to be head of Beauty Pearl society. Whatever debt is between them will be paid if she does this for YuCi. She shows her Bai MuRan’s picture and tells her to just say yes to whatever he wants. YuCi has set up an invitational gathering to introduce select people to Beauty Pearl society. She also has set up MuRan to accompany Ms Bai to the meeting. He has no clue it is LiangLiang’s mother because she never disclosed her real family. Ms Bai is absolutely stunning in her disguise. She feels like Cinderella but willing to help YuCi deal with the guy that hurt her. Pengyu keeps telling LiangLiang he knows nothing about Beauty Pearl society and that this Mr Han was a nobody turned super star by his article about them. He offers to take her so that he can prove he has no dealings with them aside from this invitation. Prior to the gathering, YuCi meets with MuRan across from a PengYu building while he grills her on why she wants to work with him. She glances at the building and shows him her pic of LiangLiang with PengYu. At the gathering Liang Liang is stunned to see her mother brought in as the leader of Beauty Pearl society. Before she can say anything of the setup to MuRan he confronts her about her relationship with PengYu. And then she gets the same slam YuCi did about being unfit to marry into his family. So instead of revealing that YuCi had designed all of this, she lets him know he now has two enemies instead of one. She also texts Mr Jiang to let him know that YuCi had lied to him and the woman presented was not from Beauty Pearl Society but a poor street vendor in disguise. In a flashback LiangLiang and MuRan are plotting to get rid of YuCi so they can sell the company. I still do not know how LiangLiang got herself in charge of YuCi’s meds, but YuCi willingly accepted the change in spite of her reaction to them. MuRan further convinced her she’d be better after resting, while hiding a knife in her room. Mr Jiang confronts YuCi and she admits she planned it all. She candidly said they would come to see who dared to pretend to be them just like he did, and at that point, they would all find out who really belonged to the society. What was interesting is that there was a real Beauty Pearl Society member at the gathering. The society decided to play along for reasons unknown. He is the liaison from whoever is really in charge of the society wanting to know what her next move is and how they can assist. It remains to be seen what the fallout will be between PengYu and MuRan and whether LiangLiang will continue any relationship with PengYu after the betrayal reveal at the gathering. This episode is an intricate dance of the three members of ChuXia and YuCi wants to direct their spiraling with her machinations this round.
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YuCi lets Jiang know that she understands that he wants her distant from everyone at the company. That small smile he gives that she gets it. He will not allow company colleague loyalties where he is not in control. This is especially clear in upper management. That he chooses her office attire to his quality while her style preference shows the degree of control he expects. He goes right to the ‘friendships’ of her and LiangLiang and MuRan. He knows it’s complicated and he wanted a reaction from YuCi. When she described her ‘friendship’ with them as a tool to be utilized for the company, he seemed content with that response. She noted her original blindness to the B side of friendships. The A side is where you see the loyalty, support and even love from those close to you. The B side is the reality. It is the face and sentiment they don’t want you to see. Where you really stand in their hearts and minds. YuCi is much better equipped to see the whole picture of ‘friends’ now. I had noticed the last few episodes that LiangLiang had Lego on her desk. This must be a de stresser for her. It was very fitting that YuCi used that hobby to get her attention drawn back to her father. I am curious about why a wealthy man would let his daughter be taken with no further contact ever made. It is a layer of mystery that adds to LiangLiang’s fractured personality. I am both impressed and creeped out that she has a replica of her childhood home in Lego. She has been put in the same position as Ren. Her success at Lysen will depend on not catering to bf’s expectations. They will not be allowed to be allies within the company. MuRan is very like Yu in resenting the demotion. LiangLiang is trying to make things clear to him about the vote being a formality to what Jiang wanted to happen. MuRan is not taking the news well and there is now a definite rift between them. MuRan has ambition, but he’s lazy and self indulgent. This will always backfire on him. We are introduced to Han CongFei. He was the reporter on the scene when YuCi and her mom were taken by ambulance to their respective hospitals. She has him looking into the Beauty Pearl society and keeping LiangLiang delayed from getting the contact she wants to track down her father. He offers to investigate Chen Mo and she makes it clear they aren’t confidantes and are using each other for specific results. She warns him to keep to that arrangement. While he can’t stop the wheels churning with his questions about Chen Mo, he does realize his best interest is to toe the line. Ren is forthright and just flat out asks what YuCi’s intentions are with Yu. YuCi lets her know she will always see him as manager Yu and Ren is satisfied with that answer. After the ‘vote’, dept three was moved up to dept two. Yu is still being recalcitrant in his actions and makes dept three look bad with dept two. Chen Xi is being investigated and no longer with the company. YuCi sets the combined departments straight that good work is the bottom line. The old ways will no longer work for them. Here Jiang is getting some clap back for letting his lover run things when she was not that capable. I liked we were allowed to see the meal with YuCi and Yu. He is still pouting, but he has seen her in action and knows things are not simple. He is puzzled and annoyed when she tells him to listen to Ren. I don’t think he expected that advice. She laid it out for him that at the company they must be distant but that outside the company they are friends. He is accepting enough of it to have a drink with her and have his meal put on her tab. She lets him know that her stay will be short and that management will go as it should with her departure. Winds of change are coming to Lysen. This company was never her choice. But now that her ‘ friends’ got her here via ChuXia, she is making the best of it.
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Chen Xi comes into her office to find Meng busy at her desk and nobody else. Turns out she has been caught in inside shady money deals that were discovered when Meng audited their past projects. It was serious enough that her staff is in HR being questioned. She is in trouble and the project has been returned to dept 3. Meng is pleased with herself for helping her real team get their project back. That made up for some of the humiliation Chen Xi dished out. The team is doing a happy dance and calling Yu director. YuCi has LiangLiang’s mom deliver takeout and shows her her home. YuCi invites her in and we don’t get to know what they talked about. YuCi is contacted by a mystery consortium called Beauty Pearl Society. She asks why she should trust them and they sent a pic of LiangLiang with her dad as proof of their sincerity. This raises a lot of questions. Jiang and wife make appearance at the deaf school where Chen Mo is a counselor. The two men are surprised at being introduced and Chen Mo says he handled the stress test at Lysen. They are making significant donations to the school and want the children’s choir to perform at the Lysen event. We are shown a comparison of dress choice for the event. YuCi has a black dress suit and LiangLiang is all about gold and sparkle. They each have their own strategy boards where they plot against each other. This time, LiangLiang is most familiar with Jiang’s tactics. She already knows he is going to stage things to isolate YuCi from her team. She opts to sit back and watch it play out. YuCi is starting a wedge between MuRan and LiangLiang, but she needs something that will permanently break them up due to greed. She is still pondering the point. MuRan thinks he can bribe Ren with a designer bag.😂 She doesn’t even look at it and recommends he give it to LiangLiang. Here again he is told that resting is his best option because he will not be included in the new project. Today is Chen Mo’s bday and he tried to celebrate it with YuCi. While that didn’t happen there was a sweet scene with Nuan helping him light the candles. MuRan picks up YuCi and says he will work with her. She brings up Beauty Pearl Society and their 1.1 billion investment in HengXing. She tells him that Beauty Pearl Society is his way in with Jiang. He follows suit by asking his gma about them. She doesn’t know much because they are newly formed and keep to themselves. I think she is surprised her grandson even knows they exist. I did not catch who Mr Han represents but LiangLiang and MuRan both made special effort for introductions. MuRan even offered a meeting with his gma. Mr Yu is cute wearing Ren’s tie. I love these little exchanges between these two. Jiang and YuCi make their grand entrance. She comments that she doesn’t really enjoy the performance and sees Chen Mo taking pictures. Jiang comments about rumors he’s heard of her and Chen Mo. MuRan runs into Chen Mo and warns him that YuCi is a ladder climber and love isn’t her priority. This is funny coming from him.😝Jiang makes a grand opening to introduce YuCi on stage. Here he announces her VP of Lysen and overseer of dept three. She is quite stunned and simply says thank you to audience and Mr Jiang. Her team is shocked and happy at same time. Once again, Mr Yu is overlooked and that hits hard. They keep him company til Ren shows up and then gratefully leave him in her care. These two have a candid conversation. He wants to know why she threw out ten years of love. She takes a shot before responding because Yu just doesn’t get it. He was the one that wanted to stay at Lysen. She never did. But to stay there she had to isolate herself and toe the line. She sacrificed to keep him his job and the dumb lug doesn’t see that. She finally just admitted that the more she tried to protect him, the more she had to give up. YuCi and Ren are now in the same boat and both of them understand that solitude is the only armor that protects you at Lysen. Ren has already walked the walk. Now YuCi is making the same choice. She gets that she has to completely bury who she really is or her friends could become weaknesses. This will be especially hard because she was finally opening up to a kinder world. She knows that she will be most under scrutiny with this position and mistakes are not an option. Maybe Yu is finally starting to understand Ren a bit now. He wants her to walk with him and the episode ends.
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