ShortCircuit

We didn't get to see it, but he has a black hole in his pocket. So anything he puts there gets forever caught in the event horizon. It would definitely never come in the way of a good a** kicking. Heh.

I want to bet you he'll die one day stung by his own meth+alcohol syringe, but I couldn't give a f*** at this time, pardon my French.

WTH is this? Is LMS being the main villain the endgame? Is he trying to play CTS and bring him down - why isn't he confiding in KHW if that's the case?

UNLESS he's gotten so bored stiff with the antics of the always-plotting-never-finishing dream team, he decided to overtake the whole drama and become the main hero.

PS Mr Park mysterious-ex-special-forces-agent or whatever suddenly-turned-hacker has more chemistry with the FL (or she with him) and they'd fit each other perfectly.

Make it so, writer-nim!

Episode 13: Wherein Kim Hee Woo gets the s**t beaten out of him by Dr K (again).

Also, PPL in the middle of the ep, with some water painted blue with some crystal things. I was so enticed I felt a sudden need to trim my nails. *yawn*

Well, the necklace did serve a purpose, it's just that it was in the beginning, when he used this memento of his mother to short out the circuit in the vault so he wouldn't die there. And in the end, giving it to LZY, well. I guess someone wanted to throw in a pinch of romance LOL.

The message is definitely from his father, LJ told him he'd cut off the relationship and anyway, what would LJ congratulate him for?! They had a chance to talk directly, he told him what he meant to say. So it's definitely the silent one who wasn't ever found, and didn't want to risk the police finding him now either. If there's a second season, I hope it's about the father-son dynamics.

And non-spoilery comments - it seems cdramas have found a certain stride in contemporary non-romantic dramas. Reset, Hunter, Under the Skin, now Be Reborn - they're all pretty good. I want more. Where do I get more of these?

Particularly after the tease with the too-cute too-sweet possible love interests of both MLs that I don't care about, but yes!! A secret message finally. There's no one who could send it, or even care to, EXCEPT for Zhuang YaoBai. If this means there's a chance for a second season, YES PLEASE! I mean, ZY's body still isn't found, and someone so resourceful as him wouldn't have just easily died...

We'll just have to pretend the university wouldn't expel WJ for being a criminal (even if pardoned), or that he still had a chance in the legal field. I mean, we pretended that waterway was at least 50m deep LOL. So why not?

The setting for the desert city reminded me a lot of the best ep of Hunter - ep 6 - when there's a desert shootout. If you haven't watched that series, give it a chance, it's very much worth it!

My favourite relationship (sorry LJ) - that between WenJie and his father, hands down. You could see the love and care for his kid. Kudos to the actor, Pan YueMing. He made me really understand why would WJ still yearn for him after being left alone for a dozen years.

And then, second favourite relationship, WJ-LJ. They just clicked. Thinking about it, it's almost retribution for WJ not to trust LJ with the painting, given LJ's angry words about trust... I can find an excuse for him. But I loved LJ placing his trust in WJ, over and over again. They were definitely acting like mentor-mentee, at least on LJ's side. If there's a second season, I want them in the police force together (and not, say, on different sides of some heist...)

YES!!! I knew it ! That was such a satisfying ending.

WJ is being desperate. He WANTS and NEEDS to trust Mr Xu because he was duped into believing his father is still alive and sending him messages. It still might come true, because why should Mr Xu know about his nickname? But also, Mr Xu has an eavesdropping habit so he could know that detail already and use it to further convince WJ.

And WJ is smart but not cold-smart. He wouldn't make a good lawyer anyway, I guess he could just switch to being a police officer, if his contribution toward catching at least some three major smuggling organisations and recovering the lost treasures stolen a century back would count toward his rehabilitation. LJ never lost trust in him and in the end it came through for both of them. He - WJ - is allowed some growing pains.

Mr Xu on the other hand is really a chimera - he organised all these intricate plots, defused other orgs' plans, ensured all competition takes a walk, danced around the police for a dozen years or more, had so-called pupils - like Li Anfu - in order to pass on his skill, etc. and he still can't help himself but be crude and violent. I bet he killed Old Fang, and ZY, and that he'll attack Ma, his accomplice too. It seems to be in his bones.

I am pretty satisfied with it all, TBH.

He got another one. Probably just switched the SIM card to the new one so that his contacts were all there. After all, he's kind of obsessed with being able to contact people.

Not that my last theory isn't probably wrong, as in, ZY is most likely dead.

But Mr Xu is fkkn Monsieur and I KNEW IT. I had a victory yell moment when he whacked WJ over the head LOL, poor kid. But he had it coming because WHY DIDN'T HE TRUST LJ? I just hope he gets some allowance from the law since he's cooperating like crazy and letting the police know everything just in time to catch Mr Xu when he thinks he's won.

BUT if ZY does turn up alive, I'll just do another victory dance LOL. This late in the game though, I guess they won't do another huge twist like that.

So, highlights. The thugs finding LJ on the roof, and he - exhausted - showing them his badge, then, barely breathing, D-don't run, it's the police. LOL. Yeah that would stop them. Then falling asleep in the surveillance car - I wasn't sleeping honest, I'm up, I'm up, LOL. Sure you were.

WJ being crazily stupid, finding the hidden weiqi pieces - I had a second yelling moment right then (the first yell actually was when he decided to not trust LJ but Mr Xu and leave with the painting. The fact I was yelling at him not to be stupid didn't help, since the episode was probably filmed some years back and there's probably no direct connection in space-time from my computer to wherever the character was at the time, so I could tell him directly how stupid he was being, so that he'd stop) and TELLING Mr Xu the secret. You know, WJ, for a quiet guy, you run your mouth a lot. Just sayin'.

The dead man walking - LOL, does that Dai person REALLY think Mr Xu will let him live now?! I mean, he (or DSH, THAT was another interesting piece of info) killed a cop, and he has a very mean streak, why would he leave any witnesses behind? As for the other one, it looks like DSH is really going to be left rotting in prison, well, comeuppances and the lot. Good riddance. I don't think it was DSH killing Old Fang BTW. I bet it was Mr Xu, he's way too impulsive in such matters, strangely, like he can't help himself. If anyone killed ZY, I'd bet it was also him.

The drowning - please stop drowning WJ, can we please, show? Or if not drowning, having him electrocuted to death, or in risk of falling from heights etc. Thank you. Also, am I crazy or did Mr Xu made the car go in the water exactly where the other car went in, 12 years back?! Like making it a full circle and ensuring he wiped out the whole Zhuang family. He really did hate them all.

The moment WenJie realized who Mr Xu was. The pleading in his eyes that it be not true, that if Mr Xu had to be a swindler, at least he'd be an underling and not the big boss, the person responsible for his father's death. (And maybe his mother's). My heart broke for him.

WenJie and Luo Jian putting two and two together - I just BET those are coordinates to the other artefacts, just as I previously suspected. And I hope LJ catches Mr Xu red-handed on that. And that he doesn't get to kill anyone else (maybe his accomplice.)

How come WJ was never told of the necklace though? Was it his father trying to keep him away from the underlife, but trying to have some insurance? Sadly it (very probably) didn't work. What if he's still alive somewhere though? That would be... amazing, though very improbable...

BTW I just realized where I knew Mr Xu's actor from, LOL. Yin ZuSheng played one of the bad guys wolf runners (contrabandists) in Hunter / Wolf Hunter, that I actually loved. No wonder I didn't trust him, even though I didn't remember him immediately LOL. He wore way too many (and different) clothes in that series, but now I remembered, it's really strange I didn't recognize him from the very beginning. Oh well.

So... Please please please Luo Jian put a good word in for WenJie so that he doesn't pay too much for being too young and stupid and hoping his father was alive. And also, let every good guy also stay alive. Let's go on to the finale!

Not that I wanted to brag, but. I TOLD YOU SO.

*crowing in victory right now*

Counter suggestion - original version is better, a lot of nuance and details are gone in the special edition, with just a few extra scenes or longer edits of the same scenes. The SE is good for someone who would like to see the more romantic part first and mostly, but the OE is where all the goodies are hidden :D

No, this is strictly a police/heist/revenge story. One of the female characters is WJ's friend (there are hints but nothing very obvious), and the other two are police officers, pretty self-reliant too. The story doesn't really need a romance plot anyway, TBH.

OMG Gao Yang!!!! I mean, Xin YunLai, LOL. Please don't let this be on Mango, please don't let this be on Mango *reading info on drama*

... Dammit, it's on Mango :((((((

Ep 22 was AWESOME. I mean, WJ still has an acute case of the stupid over Mr Xu - how COULD he tell him his dad's nickname?! He didn't need to know!!!! - but the code number system he told LJ about before worked like a charm.

And they're now working together, yay!! I love, love, LOVED LJ patiently waiting for him on that back building, just because WJ told him to. That's trust right there. And then in ep 23 when LJ got WJ and touched him, my heart stopped. And then WJ got LJ back on the ledge later, awww. Bromance FTW!

I am ashamed to say that I LOLed for real every time LJ had to go up, then down, then up again, then down again, then through the vent system, then on a rope, for dozens of levels LOL. Poor guy. I felt the pain. Hang in there LJ! Your gym time for the whole year was annuled, you don't need it any more :D

I think fkkn ('scuse the expletive, I am still on a high from the eps) Mr Xu IS the real deal. He had some shmuck play at being Monsieur, and set up all that play act just so he remains anonymous himself AND drags out WJ's dad. What else would he be there for? And he even knows the code name of the guy he whacked in the computer backroom (he's way too violent that one. He's definitely the one who killed Old Fang.)

And WJ, this stupidly smart kid who managed to guess the whole theft plan AND get in the action, AND involve the police, AND fit seamlessly with LJ, just HAD to go and tell him Luo Jian is there too!!!!

I mean, WHY?!!! WHY, WenJie?!!! He's going to kill LJ if he can, too. DAMMIT!!!!!

Now they're both on a ledge, and Mr Xu has only to wait until the painting is retrieved (by WJ nonetheless, dammit!!), maybe LJ is killed (not on the roof, 'cause WJ is coming, but soon), AND WJ's dad appears :(((((

I don't want to see a repeat of the events 12 years back...

And where is Ding ShengHuo all this time?! Is he really all spent? Was he just a puppet in Mr Xu/Monsieur's hands?!

The wait is killing me...

PS Not only did WJ get a full year's workout in an hour, LOL, his poor phone is toast. They were Dumb&Dumber in the vent system LOL. And WJ was even cracking jokes that the phone is done for, while LJ was so SURE it wasn't. Shows what LJ knows about phones LOL. Definitely the carpet's fault.

PPS The only two elements of the plot that appear in the trailer and not still not in the show are LJ being attacked on the rooftop (definitely where ep 23 leaves them off) and the whole police force with guns out stalking the underground parking lot of the hotel. Nothing more. Total surprise from now on.

NOOOOO don't tell him!!!!!!! G!@$#@$@%# and @!@!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!

But also, yay, team work. Too bad people in this series keep dying falling from heights.

Edit. Wait. I have this thought...

You know that Chinese proverb, the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind it?

You know which twist would definitely be the greatest for this drama? What if... just what if, it's not Monsieur hunting WJ's dad, but the other way around? I mean, Monsieur is using WJ to try and find ZY, but it might be that WJ is the cicada (though he's definitely aware of the mantis), Monsieur is the mantis... and ZY is the oriole? :D

The painting definitely is the bait someone's been using to draw out their enemy. It could be just Monsieur, but then, ZY is in the last second of the trailer telling us how you can turn the whole game around if you offer someone the right bait... I want a good twist!! (And nobody dying, on the good guys' side anyway).

I still think he is... it's way too suspensful LOL

Oh, he definitely is a bad guy. I mean, he sold out WJ's dad, and keeps pushing WJ into making dangerous moves. And he's so fake when he's pretending to care for WJ, he definitely doesn't have good intentions.

In other other words, it's a cat and dog bromance :D (with LJ being the dog and WJ being the cat).

There's a hint of something silvery there, but I don't think it's the cane. He wouldn't be so stupid to leave it in the open, though, if it's him.