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Novel JX actually seduced HT to sign the papers without knowing the content. Then she stole his seal while he was at the office and stamped the papers. She had a moment of reflection when she stole his seal. She knew that with his personality and their relationship, he would give her the shares of the company if she wanted, but she wanted to make him angry and punish him. She also knew that he would not make things hard for her and would not charge her for the crime of stealing his seal. Novel JX was really a spoiled brat. There is something he said to her. That with others she can be compassionate or something, but with him, she uses all her selfishness to get what she wants.
What made HT really scary was that he knew what she was doing and let her do it. When she was seducing him, when they slept together afterward. He knew. That's crazy. HT was scary and JX was bonkers. HT and XYX lost about a billion to make the exchange for XC.

Adapting the novel as is without the changes they made would have caused an uproar. The audience can't take this kind of thing well when it's on screen for this kind of show. If it were in a show like Lost You Forever though, you could even go further because it is costume fantasy and they are already working on extremes.

In a way, I wish they kept some of their conversations and did not chip off some of their personalities for the adaptation. Because they follow the plot of the novel, but the full weight of the plot is not shown because of the changes.

Whether he told her or not is not the point. He was not misleading her. He was clearly acting based on his feelings, so why do you say he was misleading her? Who was even the first to say "I love you" in this relationship? He did not lead her on and make promises he could not keep. He did not even want to lie to her to tell her that his version of love was the same as hers when she asked that question. He was being as honest as he knew.

He liked her in college. Not since then. Unless he tells her that he has nursed the crush for 10 years, with all showed us and he said about their past, he only had a crush on her then.

She actually was betraying him. She knew and did it on purpose. That is why she asked him if he was angry after doing it.
She gave majority of the company shares to TongKe. With the new investment, HT's shares were reduced to 23%, she had 26% and Tong Ke had 30%. Is that not a betrayal? She initially wanted to find a balance with a neutral trust institution. She held on to that option until she let ZD get into her head and she ran with her emotions. Here she gave the company to his biggest competitor instead.

You say misleading like he was lying to her. You forget that he's liked her since a year ago.

I agree with everything.

He did not need to tell her when they started dating, but over time. Timing here was not in their favor. And I understand why he didn't. She would not have reacted well. How would he have even convinced her on the merger without a break up? JX started this company because of her pride. She did not want to work under anyone else. It's not because of her dreams because HT gave her good offers to even be the head of a department to focus on what she was doing. She would have had all the resources and support she wanted and needed there. But she declined. She also did not apply for any other job before deciding to start her business. She could have applied to Hanhai to do 3-D printing too. There were options. So I understand his fear in not telling her early.

Everyday I see the wisdom in the production making adjustments to the characters of both leads. Novel HT would have been more well received than JX, but there would have been many eye brow raising situations.
I wish they kept JX's condition of Chang He giving her 7% of the shares he was given immediately. It was a good move novel JX made. At least then, he was not the majority shareholder, she was.
In the novel, you could better understand JX's insecurity or fears concerning HT because of how hard and cruel he could be, but also also because even after they started dating, HT did not discuss important business things around her. If she walked in on HT and Fang Song having a discussion, they immediately stopped speaking or changed course. Then there was their age gap which was 7/8 years and difference in maturity.
I think they did well in adapting the storyline to fit the changes in characterisation.

Exactly. The only one safe is Zeng Di because he likes her and wants her.

Did she talk to him and greet him lie old schoolmates and he ignored her? Do you not even remember how he saved her at that dinner party ZD tricked her into going for? How he conceded his win because of her? How he looked fondly at a picture of her on the project booklet in ZD's office and smiled. How he let her go and told Tang Song to collect her number after the accident, and how he was the one talking to her via text and did not give her a hard time about the car? Sooo many things.

The more I think about this, the more questions I have. JX said love was to die for the other person, or that her world would crash without the other person. Does she mean the man to the woman, or them both because she survived well after her break up with YC and now after her break up with HT, she will bounce back. Does it mean she didi not love them?

If someone with HT's personality told me his view on love in relation to me, I'd be in the clouds because to me it is very poignant and matching with his personality. It would be more weird for him to say that he'd die for me or can't function without me.

I understand all that. The personal part of this fall out is not even my main point. They were surely going to clash on this Hanhai Xingchen issue even if HT told her before ZD fed her lies.
My issue, and why I maintained that she was not fit to run a business, especially so far, is because she mixes emotions with business too much. She just can't separate herself and her feelings. That can be very detrimental. Your emotions only work in some situations, but not in others. She did not need to trust HT because like LL said, love is love and work is work. For their personal lives, she only needed to go through all he had done for her, all he and had told her, what his grandaunt told her about him. Couldn't she have thought that ZD was acting like this because HT did not go so far for her? He already even told her that they were family friends. But that is a separate issue. HT is very secretive and they have not known each other long, so it is easy to be very unsure and be swayed.
But for her business, she planned with Chang He to deceive him so that Chang He would get 30% of the company, making them the biggest shareholder. Of all things. Unlike in the novel, Chang He did not transfer the 7% shares to her to make it 23%. So here she was even more at risk.

That is what I can't wrap my head around. ZD of all people. In the novel, HT always said to JX that disagreements should be timely communicated and resolved or it'd lead to sourness in the relationship.
Even though one of JX's problems with HT was that she did not know him well, especially because he did not open up enough and was very hard, she should have thought that what he said about his understanding of love was in line with his personality. Why did she think it would match hers perfectly? They are very different.

Kisskh has the machine translation of ep 31

It was such a terrible move. She used her company to punish him for what she presumed he did to her.

Zeng Di fed well into her insecurity. Now is the time for everyone to calm down and reflect.

Chang He played a very nice game, can't lie. He played on the weaknesses of the women. I'm so happy what HT used in exchange was something he already did not want. Han Yuan is finding out that she was foolish to trust him. She is lucky she is related to HT or he would have destroyed her too.

They'll get back together after 6 months.

She needed his signatures for the papers, so she lied that the papers were reports from the company and he should sign where she circled, and was seducing him in the process to distract him. I think she also stole his seal to stamp the papers, but I'm not sure about that.