Michelle Topham

Thanks. ) And actually you just reminded me, after reading your comment, I thought I had missed adding a Spoiler on a comment down below. (I do try to do it every time as it's irritating if you come across something you don't want to know accidentally).

So I went down to check and, yep, forgot. Added now. Thanks again :)

He's SO damned good in the role. Cannot imagine anyone else in it. It needs a stockier, more non-stereotypically handsome man in the role to pull it off properly. And he's definitely done that.

It's 11:30 here in Vienna. I normally start work at 9am on the dot (I work for myself). It's now 11:28, I've watched both of today's episodes instead of starting work, and now I'm on here discussing them. :) Yep, living for this drama indeed :)

Hahaha, isn't it annoying though? I forgave it the second time, but it's literally happened about 97 times. TWICE in one scene in one of the last episodes. Somebody should have told the writer "enough is enough, think of another way to move the story forward" :)

She did it deliberately because she knew how he would react. She had zero intention of ever divorcing him but, when he wouldn't come home and face her, she had no choice. And I would, actually I DID now I come to think of it, pretty much the same thing.

I called off my wedding with my now-late-fiancé three weeks before the wedding because he was behaving like a spoiled child (from a very wealthy family, spoiled rotten by his mother), and I was having none of it. If you don't nip that behavior in the bud, it continues.

As my mother always taught me "Start how you mean to continue". I hadn't even started (ie: wasn't even married) and, no, just no :)

My fiancé had the same reaction CYY did. Wedding was back on in 24 hours when he came back groveling. Works like a charm :)

And the secret is you HAVE to mean to go through with it. ie: she would have divorced him if he hadn't responded the way he did when he finally gained consciousness. I would have called off the wedding permanently if my fiancé hadn't responded the way he did. In other words, empty threats don't work. A willingness to go thru with it does :)

I love this drama so much as, if you notice, NOTHING gets dragged out for more than an episode, or two episodes at most. I'm so sick of dramas where there's a misunderstanding and the couple still aren't speaking 8 episodes later, even though it all could have been fixed with a 30 second conversation.

This one is SO refreshing :)

And yep, agree with you about the FL. The writer hasn't neutered her at all, she's as feisty as she ever was and not afraid to stand up to her husband if she's in the right. And let's face it, that's what he loved about her right from the start :)

Why should he? The ML had NOTHING to do with any of that. He only did what he did to protect his nephew, and that's how his nephew repaid him. No guilty conscience needed. He had ZERO fault for the situation.

Hahaha, I know!!

And I started it after reading in several places that "people said it was bad", but started it as I like Ren Min, and thought I'd see how she did and then drop it after a couple of episodes.

OBSESSED right from the first 8 minutes of Episode 1. Best drama of the year for me so far, NO competition :)

No, he would be bothered no matter who it was. He's a stereotypical Alpha-male, and wants to believe HE was the only one his wife ever had feelings for. So it wouldn't matter if it was the nephew, Chen Yi, or some dude living down the street, his feelings would be exactly the same.

Remember, this is the first woman he's ever really loved, and you can tell by his reaction to her, not only now, but right from the minute he first saw her. (Has he ever mentioned his late wife? Not once. Not until his mother tried to push him to marry someone other than GJZ, and he used his late wife as an excuse).

Unfortunately for him, another man had already realized his feelings for the FL three or four years previously, whereas it took CYY longer to figure out his. He knows deep down he can't blame GJZ for that, as he himself wasn't even in the picture back then. But...he's still jealous, and jealousy makes you do stupid things. Even men as upstanding as CYY.

Besides, he always liked his nephew, raised him well, promoted him where he could, and did the best for him, even warning him not to go after the woman he really loved (he didn't KNOW that was GJZ) as he wanted his nephew to marry into the Yao family so they would protect him. And that way his nephew wouldn't have to worry about the truth about his real father being exposed.

He began to hate his nephew when his nephew went after his WIFE and, by doing so, not only threatened his wife's reputation, but that of his own family.

If his wife had once had feelings for any other man, moved on, and then that man had gone after her, he would have had exactly the same response. He adores his wife, and would never allow anything to happen that would either hurt her reputation or hurt her. And so any man doing what the nephew has done would have had the same response from CYY.

Oh and BTW, I TOLD you what was hinted at in the teasers yesterday would NOT happen today. They always twist reality in teasers to make people be obsessed to watch and then, when the episode airs, it's "sort of" like that, but not really :)

Ooh, things are getting good :)

And, honestly, the only thing I don't like about this drama is that the writer has not put just ONE instance in it where, people are talking about something not going to happen, and then a servant rushes in to say it just HAS, but about 97 instances.

It's at the point now where, if anyone is discussing something that may not happen, I start counting to see how long it takes before the servant rushes in with the news it has :)

Somewhat shoddy writing that takes away from the brilliance of the rest of the script. But.... it still hasn't dissuaded me from my 10/10 for the drama, IF it continues as superb as it has been right till the end.

I never thought he was remotely handsome in previous dramas, but he's absolutely stud-ly in this. My favorite ML right now :)

Oh you're correct, I'd forgotten that as it's about a year since I watched that drama. She's so damned talented, isn't she? :)

Saw some hints about what was shown in the previews for Eps 33 and 34 (haven't watched them, don't plan on doing), and I will GUARANTEE you what the previews are supposedly showing is very likely not what actually happens :)

Really happy for her. She started out being very welcoming when Jinzhao first arrived at her father's house, but was then pulled in a bad direction by her stupid mother which was not entirely her fault. Happy to see the sisters getting along, and pleased that Gu Lan has found a lovely man who actually loves her AND understands her :)

Huang Yi, btw, is doing a fabulous job in the role. 2nd drama I've watched her in in the last two weeks, and she's brilliant in both.

He's so great. My favorite ML in a long time. An incredibly cool character performed by a superb actor.

Thanks for the clarification. And, again, very interesting :)

I love to learn about other cultures' idioms. There are so many very colorful and cool ones :)

Yep. They apparently do :)

Sadly, its not on WeTV in my region (Austria).

I kid you not, I once had a guy AT HIS WEDDING ask me to dance, and then cry on my shoulder "What am I going to do without you?" I mean, I kinda knew he liked me, but his freaking new WIFE was right there!!! And she was lovely, and a friend of mine. WTF, dude. 🤣

And, honestly, I'm not saying this because I think I'm hot stuff, far from it :). I just think some men are very very weird in how they express or don't express their feelings :)