ML's half sister is so annoying. I hate her more than the mom
In this one the little sister isn't as hostile toward the FL. She doesn't blame the FL for her fall down stairs. In this one it's very clearly a mother using one child against another, and then a young child being afraid and confused after no one will let her see her parents & clinging to her older brother for comfort. We haven't really seen much of the little sister in the time jump, but she is unaware that her brother moved. She thinks he's on a vacation and begs their mother not to bother him during this time as he needs a break. So even though she's still a student she's matured in some ways. We'll see in the next episode how she takes the news of her brother's permanent move. We don't yet know if she's aware of the abuse he's endured the past 10 plus years. Nor if she's fully aware of the circumstances of her half-sister's death and how her mother blamed her brother for her mistakes. The OG sister, was unhinged.
I think the show lost its edge after the timeskip. After showing such a strong bond between all these characters,…
It wasn't explained well in this version. It's the only thing that I think has missed the mark in this adaptation, but I understand why they shortened it the way they did. (For those who don't know the original story, if you do disregard) In the OG, Hae Jun's bio father blackmails Hae Jun by causing issues with Jeong Jae's restaurant. Only after agreeing to to to England does the bio dad relent. He goes to England for college/where his bio dad's family is, but soon after his bio dad is able to have another child with his wife, and Hae Jun becomes redundant. He has to have multiple jobs to make ends meet because he refuses to take the bio dad's money, and it takes him a while to get back to China. San Ha's character has to move to Singapore(aka a different country) to help raise his sister and take care of his mother because like in this adaptation she keeps trying to kill herself when left alone. He tries his best to protect his little sister from being abused. His mother steals and hides his passport so he is unable to leave the country and go to the FL. The communication gets less and less because of how busy everyone is and just ends up being New Years and Birthday texts. San Ha's character gets regular updates about FL from 2FL. In the OG there is also this somewhat toxic mindset from the boys where they base their entire future around the FL and her wants/needs aka very co-dependent mindset. 2ML opens a bakery because FL loves sweets. ML became a dentist because FL was afraid of the dentist, but loved sweet things. ML was laser focused on getting back to FL and FL was the ONLY happy thing in his entire world to the point of obsession. I'm honestly grateful that they changed this aspect as it was repeating similar patterns that his mother showcased with him. And because they never went in-depth with mental health and the need for some serious therapy I'm glad they toned those plot points down a bit. San Ha is less overbearing(not really the word I want but the only one that comes to mind right now) than the ML was in the OG story.
In Hae Joon's mother's defense...being the child of a murderer is very stigmatized in Korea. She didn't want him to have to live with that, and knew how loved he was by his father(Yoon Jeong Jae) so she thought she was doing the right thing. She wasn't being selfish, but selfless, but misguided none the less.
The other two mothers(San Ha's and Dal's) are selfish and only want what their kids can do for THEM. One uses suicide as a way to blackmail her child into staying, and the other has a set standard that her daughter should fit and mold herself into, and nothing but that is good enough.
Midway through episode 8 rant in spoiler tag below.
Woman gets karmically punished repeatedly and doesn't realize that SHE is the problem. Exhibit A-C: A)You left your children alone for DAYS while your husband was doing shift work/on an active investigation. Your daughter dies as a result of YOUR negligence. B)You then blame your young son for the death of your daughter, resulting in you choosing to divorce your husband because he didn't want to treat his son like crap like you were. C)You remarry and have another daughter like nothing ever happened and decide to show up on your son's doorstep daughter in tow TEN YEARS LATER and try to take him against his will so your new daughter has a play toy in the form of an older brother. You don't care about your son or his feelings and again double down on blaming him for a death that YOU caused with your ADULT decisions. You then get into a deadly car accident, killing your new husband & causing you severe injuries that will need rehab so you can walk again....and you have the whole grain AUDACITY to question what you've done to deserve this? Are you fucking dumb? You narcissistic POS.
I really like the leads in this show, but the last show I watched with him I was disappointed by. 'Everyone Loves Me' is the show I'm talking about. I'm debating whether or not to start this one before it's finished airing. This one is airing very rapidly compared to the other shows that I'm watching daily/weekly. Anyone have any thoughts yet on this one? I think this one hits the midway point tomorrow. How is the pace and character development going?
Or, as I've summarized yesterday, first 20:1) Pearl girl pearling2) Pearl girl running3.) Pearl girl slaving away…
Doesn't her new name mean "veiled sorrow"? Did I misread/hear her when she's walking through the snow repeating the words over and over? There weren't translator notes so I'm going based off of the sounds that I heard lining up with the name written later on. My ears aren't yet tuned to Mandarin like they are to some other languages so I might have misheard. Those tone variances really and truly are a bitch to learn.
For those wanting to start this drama. Episode 20 is a true midpoint of the show. Think of the first 20 episodes as a Season 1 and the next 20 as a Season 2. There are some closed storylines by episode 20, but a lot is still unfolding going into the second half. First 20 is the first paragraph in the show description.
hahaha here's the tea, it was very quick. i also felt bad for chen xingxu. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTaZvR1X3Ns
I should have just watched the little piece she had to say about this show instead of letting the video play....girl...the slander on The Rise of Ning and Bai Lu and Wang Xing Yue.....just...wow...wow...she just truly hates popular, pretty people....no matter how good their acting is or improves she just has to say something negative.
Every man that I see on screen is sus AF. Other than the 2 male leads and the ML's sidekick. RIP to the real ones, but damn....The guy who they were staying with when the whole caravan got ambushed...yeah...he the head bandit got to be. The Prince Ying that is grounding the 2ML so he wont investigate anything....so you in on it too huh? Since episode 18 we've had even more assaults on the female lead characters(the 3 female leads) at least one attempted rape each. What I'm getting at is, although I love this drama and the acting....this story is triggering AF and if you are reading a spoiler tag I'm going to assume that you are either watching the show or need spoiler info before proceeding further into the show. So this is me telling you...avoid if you can't handle this type of story. The women have left no crumbs with their performances. Their characters are entering into the cocoon stage of their metamorphosis as they shed their old lives and enter into a new chapter exactly at the midway point of the show. Storyline is still tight as all hell even though we've been given a lot of information we still have LOADS to unpack and uncover.
So after reading the comments more...wow...just wow. I've heard of editors taking artistic license, but if there were contracts in place for a specific story and they editing changed that ending...someone's career is about to blow up in their face. What in the production hell happened. Of all the times I would want AvenueX to be a snarky bitch with the tea it would be for this. (I've unfollowed her because her personal commentary on shows she didn't actually watch was getting a bit too much for me.) Anyone know any other Chinese-English youtube channels that might cover this Drama's drama...if you know what I mean?
I paused this one because I wasn't really in the mood for a modern show atm....the rating was like high sevens at the time I paused. I came back to check on things and it's at a 6.6? What in the derailment happened here?
I've paused midway through episode 17 because people be way too freaking happy and fluffy in a story of revenge before the midway point of a 40 episode drama....I've watched too many of these shows to not know that shit's about to go down & imma need like a five episode buffer to rip some painful bandaids off.
Does the Youku website not work for anyone else? I'm trying to watch a trailer, but it never actually loads. I've tried using my VPN to put me in Hong Kong to see it that would work. Even turned it off completely but still nothing. anyone have a link that isn't the Youku site for ep 16 & 17 trailers? EDIT: literally just youtubed them and was able to watch the trailers....holy crap...not me giggling and kicking my feet.
Maybe it's intentional. I feel like both her and Liu Da Ge look very stiff and expressionless. They're also the…
Yeah. That's what I'm thinking too with it being intentional, because she's too good of an actress in the other things I've seen her in to be this "flat" on accident. I'm hoping that the more we see of Ziqi's past the more rounded Mu Yao's character will be as well. I don't mind the "monster of the week" style episodes we've been having, but I just want to know more about them as people. Not just the two leads but the second leads as well. Because overall the main cast is very small so I want to spend time with them and see rather than be told things. I don't like the early concept of the info dump from the FL about the characters. I'm hoping that at the true halfway point they will feel more like people than like fictional characters in a "poorly written"(FL's feelings on the story) fictional world. For reference I'm also watching Pearl Girl at the same time so larger main cast with deeper connections to one another and true life or death stakes. So the back and forth is a bit jarring for my mind. Both great shows....just very different types of shows. One is an apple the other an orange, can't and shouldn't really compare them to be fair.
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We haven't really seen much of the little sister in the time jump, but she is unaware that her brother moved. She thinks he's on a vacation and begs their mother not to bother him during this time as he needs a break. So even though she's still a student she's matured in some ways. We'll see in the next episode how she takes the news of her brother's permanent move. We don't yet know if she's aware of the abuse he's endured the past 10 plus years. Nor if she's fully aware of the circumstances of her half-sister's death and how her mother blamed her brother for her mistakes.
The OG sister, was unhinged.
(For those who don't know the original story, if you do disregard) In the OG, Hae Jun's bio father blackmails Hae Jun by causing issues with Jeong Jae's restaurant. Only after agreeing to to to England does the bio dad relent. He goes to England for college/where his bio dad's family is, but soon after his bio dad is able to have another child with his wife, and Hae Jun becomes redundant. He has to have multiple jobs to make ends meet because he refuses to take the bio dad's money, and it takes him a while to get back to China.
San Ha's character has to move to Singapore(aka a different country) to help raise his sister and take care of his mother because like in this adaptation she keeps trying to kill herself when left alone. He tries his best to protect his little sister from being abused. His mother steals and hides his passport so he is unable to leave the country and go to the FL.
The communication gets less and less because of how busy everyone is and just ends up being New Years and Birthday texts. San Ha's character gets regular updates about FL from 2FL.
In the OG there is also this somewhat toxic mindset from the boys where they base their entire future around the FL and her wants/needs aka very co-dependent mindset. 2ML opens a bakery because FL loves sweets. ML became a dentist because FL was afraid of the dentist, but loved sweet things. ML was laser focused on getting back to FL and FL was the ONLY happy thing in his entire world to the point of obsession. I'm honestly grateful that they changed this aspect as it was repeating similar patterns that his mother showcased with him. And because they never went in-depth with mental health and the need for some serious therapy I'm glad they toned those plot points down a bit. San Ha is less overbearing(not really the word I want but the only one that comes to mind right now) than the ML was in the OG story.
The other two mothers(San Ha's and Dal's) are selfish and only want what their kids can do for THEM. One uses suicide as a way to blackmail her child into staying, and the other has a set standard that her daughter should fit and mold herself into, and nothing but that is good enough.
Exhibit A-C:
A)You left your children alone for DAYS while your husband was doing shift work/on an active investigation. Your daughter dies as a result of YOUR negligence.
B)You then blame your young son for the death of your daughter, resulting in you choosing to divorce your husband because he didn't want to treat his son like crap like you were.
C)You remarry and have another daughter like nothing ever happened and decide to show up on your son's doorstep daughter in tow TEN YEARS LATER and try to take him against his will so your new daughter has a play toy in the form of an older brother. You don't care about your son or his feelings and again double down on blaming him for a death that YOU caused with your ADULT decisions. You then get into a deadly car accident, killing your new husband & causing you severe injuries that will need rehab so you can walk again....and you have the whole grain AUDACITY to question what you've done to deserve this? Are you fucking dumb? You narcissistic POS.
Anyone have any thoughts yet on this one? I think this one hits the midway point tomorrow. How is the pace and character development going?
Episode 20 is a true midpoint of the show. Think of the first 20 episodes as a Season 1 and the next 20 as a Season 2. There are some closed storylines by episode 20, but a lot is still unfolding going into the second half. First 20 is the first paragraph in the show description.
The Prince Ying that is grounding the 2ML so he wont investigate anything....so you in on it too huh?
Since episode 18 we've had even more assaults on the female lead characters(the 3 female leads) at least one attempted rape each.
What I'm getting at is, although I love this drama and the acting....this story is triggering AF and if you are reading a spoiler tag I'm going to assume that you are either watching the show or need spoiler info before proceeding further into the show. So this is me telling you...avoid if you can't handle this type of story.
The women have left no crumbs with their performances. Their characters are entering into the cocoon stage of their metamorphosis as they shed their old lives and enter into a new chapter exactly at the midway point of the show. Storyline is still tight as all hell even though we've been given a lot of information we still have LOADS to unpack and uncover.
That is all.
I've heard of editors taking artistic license, but if there were contracts in place for a specific story and they editing changed that ending...someone's career is about to blow up in their face.
What in the production hell happened. Of all the times I would want AvenueX to be a snarky bitch with the tea it would be for this. (I've unfollowed her because her personal commentary on shows she didn't actually watch was getting a bit too much for me.) Anyone know any other Chinese-English youtube channels that might cover this Drama's drama...if you know what I mean?
For reference I'm also watching Pearl Girl at the same time so larger main cast with deeper connections to one another and true life or death stakes. So the back and forth is a bit jarring for my mind. Both great shows....just very different types of shows. One is an apple the other an orange, can't and shouldn't really compare them to be fair.