KevinToronto

sakie and may_may, thank you for clarifying the situation.

One comment that Nie Cheng Yuan made during his tirade against Yu Sen caught my attention: "He is just Sheng Xianmin grandson without inheritance rights." How does he know that Yu Sen has no inheritance rights? Is it part of Chinese law that Yu Sen's uncles will inherit everything and his mother will get nothing?

If I may act as a Canadian tourism guide, I would totally recommend visiting Banff and Lake Louise in Alberta and Revelstoke in B.C., if you ever get the chance.
www.skilouise.com
www.banfflakelouise.com
www.revelstokemountainresort.com

I am not so sure that it was "good daddy" on display there. I took it as rich man wanting to protect his money.

After watching today's episodes, I am seeing some similarities between Zhuang Xu and Nie Cheng Yuan.
-- They both listen to and believe scheming women.
-- Both are dismissive of Xi Guang.
-- Nie Cheng Yuan is clearly fearful of women with character and strong personalities, and I suspect that Zhuang Xu is just as fearful.
-- I think both would be happiest with a wife who stays at home, does the chores, and looks after the children.

The irony was especially strong when Nie Cheng Yuan called the entire Sheng family a bunch of snakes, when he appears to be doing some sort of backroom/shady deal with one of them, and he lives with two parasitic snakes.

Thanks. Happy New Year to you. May 2026 bring you everything you hope for and more.

Xi Guang said that she had been skiing before but was rusty. She started on the "bunny hills" and then on to the Green hill. She did not go to the Blue or Black levels.

Respectfully, having been skiing in the Rockies and in Vermont, I can assure you that it is not something a person becomes proficient in on their first trip. Neither skiing nor snowboarding are not pastimes where people can become so proficient that they can comfortably go on to the black runs within a few days.

You might be correct. I have no knowledge of the legal environment regarding medical consent in China. What I can say s that the Public Trustee in a government official and has no relationship with a hospital. They are an independent third-party.

Apologies for being pedantic. I used to be an editor and sometimes the instinct to clarify things becomes too strong to resist. :-)

I have one question that struck me while watching ep 20. There have been many posts commenting on the fact that Zhuang Xu comes from a poor family, and that has been used as the rationale for his reluctance to reciprocate Xi Guang's approach. This impoverished background is further noted because he did not have the 50,000 yuan for his mother's surgery.

Skiing/snow boarding is not a cheap sport, even in China. For this trip, everyone flew from Shanghai and the accommodation did not look basic. Given that and the above impoverished background, I am wondering how Zhuang Xu was able to afford to go snow boarding often enough to be proficient on the black runs.

Okay, I succumbed and watched ep 20, despite saying I was going wait until tomorrow. My bad.

I understand why there are so many comments about Xi Guang's reaction, and yes, it was over-the-top. However, the show had both sides of the situation running together, with the scenes switching back and forth. We knew that Yu Sen was safe, but for a long period she did not

It would have been interesting to have Xi Guang's perspective run from when she was on the slopes, through the time when she realised he was late and she could not contact him, until the point where she saw him and shouted his name. And then cut to his perspective, starting from the accident, going to the hospital, and again to when she shouted his name.

It might has helped explain her reaction better if we saw her anxiety building without know the actual situation.

I hate to disagree, but I strongly suspect that the day he discovered that his hand was so damaged that he could no longer work as a neurosurgeon would have been the worst day of his life.

It is the same here in Canada, and I suspect that it is similar situation in China. That being said, Yu Sen was asked to advise; he did not operate. After he handed the patient over, he left and told Zhuang Xu that was as far as he could go. He only hung around to see the results of the CT scan. It was only after the municipal hospital said they could not take the patient, and the haematoma was found to be too large, that they asked for his help. He showed them his medical licence and other credentials, so it is not impossible that he was put onto the hospital's staff temporarily.

I noticed one thing that cannot happen in Canada (my daughter is a surgeon and I discussed this very situation with her earlier in the year). As there was no family/guardian present, the lead surgeon mentioned getting Medical Affairs to sign off on the operation. In Canada, a government official, called a Public Trustee, is required. No one within the hospital set-up can give approval.

I think nycali295's comment above provides a possible answer.

To be honest, I find things easier when using the 24 h clock and the international date format. :-) In this case, the next episode is supposed to be released at 12:00 Beijing time on 2025-12-31. This converts to 23:00 Eastern time on 2025-12-30.

My mistake regarding the ski trip.

I totally agree with the view is that everyone has their own perspectives and interpretations, that are usually based on personal experience. There is a classic cartoon image of two people looking at a number on the floor: one sees a 6 while the other sees a 9.

My mistake.

It seems to me that you are saying that Zhuang Xu and Xi Guang should have sat down and cleared up the misunderstandings. That implies that both sides misunderstood the situation. In reality it was only Zhuang Xu who had the misunderstanding and it was his responsibility to clear things up.

I will repeat what I wrote a few days ago: "The congee I had this morning had more spine than he has."

I am afraid that I cannot agree with that assessment of Zhuang Xu. Many of us were born into families that were no financially well off, but for most of us it never stopped us living our lives to its fullest. Both of my parents left school at the age of 15, without any qualifications. However, I have an M.B.A., and have lived and worked on three continents.

You wrote "Rong even said that FL had spread around that she gave him money for his mother's treatment". Rong could only known about the money from one of two sources: Zhuang Xu or Xi Guang. Everything we have seen so far indicates that Xi Guang would not have told anyone, except for her cousin because she had to borrow 800 yuan from him. So, it would seem that Zhuang Xu was the source, which leads to the question "Why would he tell anyone about receiving such a large amount of money from someone?"

You note that "Rong kept feeding him lies about FL". Why did he believe her and not the person who "proposed" to him?

Finally, you wrote "as of now he is being decent and not acting like a psycho SML". Unless I am totally mistaken, it was his suggestion for the company group to go to the same ski resort that he had heard Xi Guang was going to. Whilst not stalker level, it is more than a little creepy, in my opinion.