MadelineMaureen

I'm sorry, but whomever styled Song Wei Long for this needs to go back to the drawing board. The suits are ill fitting. The tie is too wide for his neck. I really don't know how they managed to make a model look frumpy, but somehow they've succeeded .

Is the ML really bullying his employee because years ago when FL was a teenager they met and she can't remember him? & because he was excited to see her again and got in an accident? His friend must have lied about her wanting to see him, because she has no memory of him whatsoever.

Not gonna lie, the back half and the editing(possibly writing) is going to affect my overall rating for the show. There were a lot of technical bumps in the road that caused the landing to be less than smooth. Would I still recommend the show? Yes. Is it the best one this year? No.
The last episode was just so...meh...in comparison to earlier set ups. It felt more like a penultimate episode rather than the last one. I think the main issues all come from having to cut things for time and censorship reasons. So there were a lot of "wait what?" moments I was having throughout the entire show.

Just watched the BTS and it looks like all the interiors other than his garage were filmed in the middle of winter in China on unheated sets. They would go from fully padded big winter coats to strapless/sleeveless outfits.
The reason I know they filmed the garage scenes in Thailand is because poor He Yu was literally dripping sweat on to Esther.

"Mike don't break character" had me on the floor

Aint no way in hell that house is in Canada....the amount of gaps in the door frames would have them frozen dead by November.

Not enough anger for me right now. Not enough calling out. Not enough apologizing, not enough pleading, not enough groveling, not enough begging, not enough kicking of shins or slapping of faces with all the audacity. Not enough petty revenge. Again...why my girl acting like a doormat, getting walked all over and saying "welcome home"...someone needs to be hit at least emotionally with the weight of their life choices hurting others.
The whole grain audacity of these men I swear to god. "You've grown up." BIIIIITCCCHHHHHHHHHHH....yeah one does that after SIX FUCKING YEARS and you would have known that had you CONTACTED HER. Oh, girl....do something...a little food poisoning...something...anything.

Where the fuck is their dog? seriously....does SanLai have shared custody or something. They've been at the cafe and in his house for a whole two days and no Lightning. Production....i'm side eyeing the fuck out of you right now.

dude....iqiyi glitching and most likely getting overwhelmed with streaming activity.

this is my yearly petition to have her and Do Kyung Soo play brother and sister in something.

I can definitely tell they had to do a lot of editing for time. There were so many moments things were accidentally mentioned that were never shown or followed up on because editing. It was giving "oh no we need this line in but it's tided to this other plot we had to cut...oh well leave it in."
This is one of the main reasons "pick ups" exist on productions. When they go to edit a show/movie and realize shots are missing to connect moments they go back and shoot more footage to use.
Some aspects of the editing is great when it comes to the shot chosen for a more intense or emotional scene mainly thinking about their romantic tension scenes. Hand placement, showing the breathing and the holding back. So I can tell the director got good footage/coverage of scenes, but once the censorship/time constraints came down editing got a bit sloppy.

Dude if I was Jiang Mu this would be the beginning of my villain origin story. Lied to and gaslit by EVERYONE for 6 years. I would crash out. Imma need her to be even more petty. Imma need all of them to beg for forgiveness...grovel and plead.
Also did she cut ties with her bestie Nana, the little cousin of Lin Sui? Cause I swear if they kept in touch and she ALSO kept her in the dark I'm going to lose it. The jerks even made her think her DOG was lost forever. Is she a joke to them?
Like, I get it. He's embarrassed about his injury. But all of them saw what his absence did to her. All of them witnessed how broken and lost she was and they just go along with it? Even little sis who was on their side has kept her trap shut for 6 years. This is so much more fucked up than the show is letting on. The stupid music playing as though it's funny when they see each other again. Weird choice from production on that one.
Every lie she tells him I'm happy. You don't like to hear it...GOOD. It hurts you...GOOD. SanLai you're also on my shit list....the fucking dog. What the hell was that? Was he trying to put himself out there as a potential romantic partner because Jin Zhao didn't want her anymore? Was it pity? Was it love? I swear if I don't get a tearful apology from each and everyone one of the people who left her out to slowly drown in loneliness and heartache I'm throw another hissy fit in the comment section. Of course I had to catch up when no one is home and so I have no one to yap to about this. So sorry chat, but you are now getting the bestie download that is normally given to a human as i pace back and forth with animated hand gestures.

For the love of all that his holy, take the dog's damn harness off inside the house. & now he's just dragging his whole leash around too. wae wae wae?(yeonjun voice)

Jin Zhao: "It hurts to hear."
Me at the top of my lungs: "GOOD!!!!!!!"

The English in the early 20 episodes is so painful. Why was her class in Vancouver completely in Russian(not even sure it was Russian)? I'll be tearing up because of how sad the episode is and then BAM water's coming out my nose because of some unhinged "English" line takes me so off guard that I'm laughing.

I know of even Eunuchs holding power over an emperor. What I'm frustrated on is the fact that there were multiple times where they could have acted differently and gotten a better result. The King could have held him for more that like what 6 hours before release. Even if he was going to need to let him out because they can't kill him without the "secrets" getting out...the King could have held off one business day.
It's a frustrating plot and it's frustrating in reality. I don't escape to fictional worlds to be frustrated repeatedly.

Had to start watching it on another platform just so I could watch it at 2x speed. Episode 10 dragged more than any other. I think it was because half of it was spent with the King in self pity and the other half was with Lee Woon and Plank I mean Woo Hee.
The episode pretty much repeated information the audience already knew as it was explained to a character in show. It felt super filler like. And made me realize this show could have easily been 9 episodes if they had cut out the spoon feeding of the plot and repeated scenes/descriptions. The supporting plots just aren't interesting enough to keep me engaged fully in their story. Maybe if I could actually decern the expression Woo Hee is trying to portray I wouldn't be hitting the right arrow to fast forward. The length of time the camera holds on a character with zero expression or change in expression was astounding. Sadly the other good parts of the show are being dragged down.

I have never wanted to be able to watch viki at 2x the speed more than when trying to get through episode 10. I do not care about the king's "reasons" nor do I care about the LSM's daughter running off with the other prince. & the pace of the dialog is so slow its putting me to sleep, so im scrolling the comments hoping for a light at the end of the tunnel. as tbe plot just stagnates and tells us the same thing for the 4th time.

I think what I always struggle the most with in these royal stories where there is someone below the status of the King or Crown Prince holding "power" over them...the shows ALWAYS have moments where the badie could easily be killed. & there isnt someone else behind them etc. it just frustrates me when watching shows where people are killed left and right with little to no punishment but the show is like "oh well we can't kill this person because reasons". makes for a very sluggish final leg.

YES that one!