MadelineMaureen

I need the context for the situation she witnessed ML kill people. If it was in her home(think hospital) I can understand why she would view that with fear. And with the FL the female physician was first under attack and saved by the FL so different context, different light. Female physician was in survival mode and was recued vs probably checking on a patient only to witness a slaughter.
But again, I don't know when or where she was when she first met the Prince(ML). In the flashback it looked as though he was ambushed in a room & not that he entered a room to kill everyone inside.

Everything I've seen Chen He Yi in, his character either abuses his wife or kills his lover...now we get the double combo.

They got the key lights so bright in some shots that they're looking like a glazed doughnut or a honey baked ham.

I didn't see who the director was before starting but I had an inkling when I was zoomed in on a nostril/eye flare and then zoom-cut to an over the shoulder high key + tornado hair combo. He's not a bad director, but his style of directing always makes me giggle at the most inappropriate times.

I think with one of his people being the godson of another partner/board member of his father's firm, there might be information purposefully left out. I think the only one he can fully trust is his little secretary & I don't think he's the one personally going out to look into people. So if his legal team is compromised others might be as well. But that's just my take away.

I think he feels responsible for her like an older brother. But also because she is the only other person that knows about Chen. So a mix of guilt, nostalgic care, and paranoia.

Han Wei Ping...what are you doing...don't do that.

there is a character map in the photo section as well as descriptions of characters from the original IP.

I love her so much. She's so giving to her scene partners. She's taken so many newer actresses under her wing when working together. The Glory wasn't the same once she was done with her character's arc.

The kiss feels bland because it's performative. The characters are both not acting like their true self. There is a layer of falseness to their relationship. They don't actually understand romantic love yet, so it's going to translate in the performances from the actors.

I'm hoping that we get to see from Hao Ming's POV when Yan first enters his orbit. We already know that he was watching her before she realized with their first conversation. But I want to know when he really started to dig into her family background.

He's repeatedly mentioned things are her work that he shouldn't know. Even mentioned having a source, while playing it off as a cute little inside man. But these are all huge red flags and should have put her on a little bit more of an alert if she was truly as scheming as people would lead you to believe.

She's not a pathological liar. The main lies she tells revolve around her past trauma with her parents, and to prevent herself from being bullied by kids in the neighborhood.
When she's trying to get interviews or guests for her show she lies a bit to get an in...but it feels more like a journalist going after a story than trying to do any harm.

But the one thing that I think no amount of private investigation can uncover is Yan's real feelings about her relationship with her family. HaoMing thinks she's always acting/lying, and in a way she is. She's acting like who she thinks she should be and not like who she really is. We constantly see her holding herself back from expressing anything. For all we know he just thinks of her as an easily moldable gold digger. But what he doesn't know is that she was never after his money or status...she just wanted a family to love her and a place to fit in that her real family could never dream of touching.
I'm looking forward to getting more of his back story about his ex and his dynamic with his son. (Apparently Chen being his son was not common knowledge) If his ex-wife used him and then abandoned their son I could maybe understand him a bit more.
But Hao Ming and Yan can never be close if they are constantly hiding their true selves from one another.
Love the performances from the actors because they are really pulling off the restrained and performative manners so well.

The fact that William actually resembles Johnny from NCT is what makes me question OP's eye health.
Maybe I'm bias because I've been watching William for years and know what he can deliver....idk.

He always stands his own. The first bit is going to be mainly from her POV(and focused on her) so he's going to feel more like a supporting character for a bit, but that's simply how the story is meant to unfold.

I've watched up to episode 6 and I think I'm going to wait it out a bit more to catch up because I can see HaoMing entering his villain era and I just don't think I can take all the people plotting and manipulating Yan right now.
I love that our two leads are both grey characters and that they will go through many transformations, but lord knows I need to see that the tunnel has an end before I just go off into the darkness.

Oh no. It's not going to be a weekly release. It's just going to be a season dump. I hate it when netflix does this. It doesn't allow for fandom building or viewer building. And then they use those first week numbers as the end all be all analytic

This the correlation/connection chart of all the characters. Apparently it's a spoiler given how everyone jumped down my throat for daring to ask the above question without it being spoiler tagged.
https://kisskh.at/photos/yW8N41_3

not the one here at least anymore. the first time i looked this drama up over a year ago either on this site or another it mentioned the characters relationships more.
also I was asleep & then working, no need to yell at someone when a simple "hey, might want to mark this as spoiler"

umm....it was in the synopsis for years. I thought this was known information that was intrinsic to the story. like this was the very first information I learned about his character when the show was originally announced to be filming.

yes, HaoChen is his son, not his little brother.

Has his(Shen HaoMing) ex-wife shown up yet?

It's been implied multiple times even in the first few episodes that HaoMing is extremely similar to Yan when it comes to observation, calculation, and information. He knows things and plays it off as a coincidence, like the fact his mother was cornering her, dropping teasing hints that he has someone giving him information inside her own company about her...etc. He's also already shown that he has more than one side. His own passion and the thing he feels the most control over, the Agave shop or whatever it is he's doing, and the rich heir to his father's empire who though gives good advice is still treated like a kid who is still learning the ropes. I feel like later on multiple masks will be dropped.