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She definitely should have, time is really wonky in this drama, but if sufficient time had passed since he said "i'll take care of it', it's slightly more reasonable that she stopped waiting.

I honestly didn't drop it because i read spoilers beforehand so i expected it lol. As for her child, she did it not as punishment to him, she did it as punishment to herself, she's said "i'm not worthy" to Charlie. i can only speculate that in her mind, she need to finish her quest for revenge + her being in love with ML enough to sleep with him makes her feel guilty. Anyways, all this should be shown and it still doesn't really excuse the abortion.

lol, I like them as business partner, but they are very much playing up the love after divorce and her trying to spend time with Yizhi again. If I could erase the terrible lead up to divorce, I'd probably buy it, since it's meant to set them on a more level play field + fresh start.

I'm super late but it's not a recent rule, it was put in place after some kids committed suicide thinking they could reincarnate or something, the rule was in place I think 2012 or 2013? PRC in general went through huge efforts to rapidly stamp out superstitions and lot of old practices from imperial times, and that's usually the reason whenever you ask "why doesn't china do modern fantasy/supernatural/ghost" etc. Reincarnation technically falls under this too.

The whole thing is very dumb, but with huge population, there's bound to be some dumb people that believe dramas and other media, and somehow they'll blame all these stuff for everything that they think went wrong and expect government to do something, the government also responds even if they are outrageous. (e.g. parents once reported cartoons for having colourful hair that made kids have unrealistic expectations or whatever, and then said cartoon had to be taken down and redone with natural colours)

Here I was thinking how we are going to do 20 years in 40 episodes, when first 20 episodes seem to be stuck in 1926 to 1927, but oh, ep 24 it's 1932, that time skip was a little unexpected.

She knows that he didn't help Huang kill her dad, but she doesn't know if he helped him do anything else, like cover up? He does have bit of issue where he doesn't share information even though he knows she's up to something, that's his way of protecting her, but it's not what she wanted. The premise is pretty sound, the execution is absolutely terrible. I quite like her after the divorce LOL.

Yeah I don't know why that parallels was necessary? I mean Cheng Yizhi and Huang Ruhong parallel is enough to stand on its own. I love Lan Jie as a character, and I love that she stands up for herself, despite technically having no backup anymore, I think setting her up as parallel reduce her tragedy + her strength.

Yeah I think it would have been better if they took the abortion part away. But I guess to the scriptwriter, Yizhi wouldn't actually divorce on just failed suicide mission + her trying to kill Huang + accidental miscarriage, so it has to be abortion. He basically agreed because he felt immensely guilty, not just due to keeping secret so she went on failed suicide mission, but he thinks she hates him and he just forced the entire thing to happen. Divorce has to happen so they would be on more level play field and actually learn to communicate, but to get that to happen yikes.

Oh yep definitely, that's why I like the base concept of her and why I don't dislike her as much as a lot of cnetizens. I got bombarded with spoilers anyways since I go and check for reception of the episodes + tv ratings

I'm really mad about Hunan TV's editing, it's SO choppy. ep 17 and 18 had several major conflicts that were spread over 2 days and chopped off really badly gah.

I've watched the up to 20 now, I feel like she's being used as a parallel compared Lan Jie? Huang Ruhong's wife, which is interesting. It's very weird, I can take the unstableness and the abortion in theory but watching it, I still think it could be better somehow.

Oh you are in for a fun ride XD

I do wish the writer would write her more consistently? I love the base concept of her, and understand most of her actions, but I feel like I have to fill in gaps myself to smooth things out? I haven't watched the latest couple episodes that's been pissing people off too.

Small note, Glory of Tang was filmed before he got married, and he's absolutely a traffic actor now (smaller than yang yang, but he's still traffic thanks to Under the Power), who got popular from romance dramas, so I think it's fair to expect certain things.

iqiyi learnt from wetv, I expected them to fast track all 8 ep next week, instead we got this, this sucks. I take back "iqiyi is the nicest to consumers when it comes to fast track" D<

I saw the comments mentioned subscene, could try that, could be subs ripped from netflix?

Oh if you like Steven, for down to earth ensemble cast school drama, you could also try My Huckleberry Friends. His historical drama Young Blood was super fun too. Have fun with the dramas!

it's because this is a daylight drama, and they like working with familiar actors, there are lot of returning cast members from other dramas

for family drama, romance of our parents, the 2014 drama
for sort of similar to nothing but thirty, ode to joy? rational life (should be on netflix) might work too but it's more idealistic, also less ensemble cast

for family drama; i'd rec https://kisskh.at/25162-romance-of-our-parents even though i've never seen it, cnetizens loves it to bits, little rough getting subbed episodes though, there should be subs at subscenes?
for down to earth slice of life featuring ladies working in big cities: remembrance of things past, the beginning is bit depressing but i promise the general tone is fairly uplifting. I heard the subs are little iffy though.
for slightly happier slice of life featuring 30+ ladies (the romance is NOT the main point of the drama, it's there though, with a young guy): Rational Life, should be on netflix?
hysterical romcom if YAMG isn't grabbing you: the day of becoming you

https://www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=1650977 this is the official link, it's partially paywalled though

Glad to find a fellow TVB fans, I need to rewatch the classics to rerate those dramas to be honest. Hope you like Cross Fire and Winter Begonia, they were definitely both very unique and amazing.

chinese web novels have fair amount interesting concepts and they've all been around for awhile, but not a lot of them gets adapted into dramas. e.g. romance of tiger and rose use the matriarchy as a plot gimmick so it's pretty fresh, but it's an entire subgenre in web novels.

I personally liked a lot of concepts in JoL. As long as you enjoyed the story, it's all good :)

did it on purpose for extra surprise, I feel like it's been used before honestly? but I can't give you proper examples. closest might be japanese scifi novel/anime shin sekai yori.

mainland is little different, the super rapid economic development caused significant part of the population to be rather materialistic. If you live in a big city, it's not uncommon for twenty something spending most of her pay on brand bags just for the status symbol, or say, use it to fish for rich boyfriends.

Tangently related, a fairly down to earth modern cdrama recently called remembrance of things past touched on this and peer pressure to get plastic surgery and such (appearance anxiety) amongst other things girls living in big cities tend to encounter. I've been told the subs aren't very good though.

Aside from that, your complaint is fairly on point, cnetizens often complain about way too expensive outfits and bags for characters, and even more noticeable, massive apartments for newly graduates or something lol.