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This may sound like a weird question, but in episode 4 when Duan Jiaxu takes Sang Zhi home on the bicycle, they are riding under some trees with beautiful pink and white blooms. Does anyone know what the name of the tree is? They don’t show it long enough for me to screenshot it so zi can look it up. Thank you for your help!

The BEITD ending was very misleading. In one part they were putting up decorations with 2 people that had died, but in the last scene at her dance performance he was there but then gone. Even if he did die, I found the ending quite touching, that she was dancing for him, and had his customary seat in the back ready for him, just like he would always have a place in her heart.

It was his tears over her performance that I think threw everyone off and when he wasn’t in his seat they automatically assumed he had died.

They were choreographed so well. Now you make me want to watch it again also. Right now I am on a Johnny Huang addiction after rewatching Bright Eyes In The Dark. He’s another that people called ugly, but I find him very attractive. And he has cute ears 😂

She is my favorite actress. Almost every production I have seen her in (except Autumn Fairy Tale with Xu Kai) was so good. Whether her character is fighting for her life (Pearl Girl), Cooking up a storm (Dating In The Kitchen), or young girl who protects her first love regardless of anyone’s opinion (Hidden Love), she masters the role and makes the characters believable and relatable. I have a feeling she will be back, maybe even forming her own agency like Yao Ming (who also had similar abuse from the same agent as Zhao Lu Si.

yes it was! Hopefully this will be out very soon. I am really looking forward to seeing them together.

I first saw him in a drama called Novoland Pearl Eclipse and I was instantly hooked. He is very talented, and I also find him very handsome. He is manly, and not so thin a stiff wind would blow him away 🙃 He was also in a drama called Adoring which is about pets and learning to love and protect them. He’s very versatile and regardless of the role he always excels.

Pairing him with Zhao Lu Si is a stroke of genius and I look forward to this drama.

PS - Did I mention William Chan is very handsome?? 😍

As to the number of episodes being discussed, China’s National Radio and Television Administration has capped the number of episodes at 40 and encouraged producers to keep it under 30. This regulation was implemented in early 2020 to improve the quality of TV shows. These longer dramas in 2020 were probably approved before that regulation went into effect. Plus, it’s a business first drama, the romance is secondary and not the sole focus, it’s a side story.

I think people set their expectations on everything focusing on the romance and ignore the order of the genre(s) that align with the drama. This is listed as business THEN romance, not vice versa.

As this is a rewatch for me, I am now on episode 8, and there’s a scene in a restaurant that has white floors and tables, clear chairs with glass and silver walls and ceilings. It’s like being trapped in a box of aluminum foil. I never noticed that before. 😆

I will give it a try!

I had to check to see if I did the same 😁

I really enjoyed him in Love Designer.

I have not seen that one yet. I tried watching it a few years ago and put it on hold. I will try it again and see what happens. I loved her in Blossoms of Adversity too.

PS Johnny Huang is very manly 🥰

Thank you for your review on this drama! I have never seen a role played by Johnny Huang that I did not like. And Zhang Jing Yi also has a very likable presence. I like the roles she’s undertaken as she always seems to play strong, capable women who isn’t afraid to love or stand up for her principles without turning into harpy, an overly domineering cranky woman or into a pampered princess who expects her man to emasculate himself just to please her.

I agree also that this was every good drama - even the ending. I think people rely too much on the princess dream of romance rather than the harsh reality that relationships take hard work, compromise and commitment - even in disappointment or difficulty. So when the ending doesn’t fit their expectation they grouse and whine and give it a bad rating.

1 official wife, 3 concubines

His wife was poisoned by another woman, and the girl he married replaced her position as his wife. She was not his concubine.

Abandonned or abused puppy is a good analogy for both of them. Fear makes them bite and snarl and protect themselves because they have no trust in people. They both had to relearn how to get along without constant suspicion. Trauma dies that to people - which they both experienced, especially with their work and how they were trained. Imagine having to get close to people in order to end their existence. You’d probably live in anxiety all the time and protect yourself from everyone. His heart is more open because of the people he worked with but still guarded against her because of her profession and pushing him to father a child for her initially, while she was obeying the last wishes of the one person she trusted and had no idea what it meant to be a loving person. It was an interesting dynamic as it unfolded.

I am in the US

Yes - and once she figured out that she was no competition for the FL.

That Censors daughter was so very annoying.

This very rarely happens. What can be expressed with words in a novel is very hard to translate into moving images. There are constraints with people, censorship and time it would take to turn the exact representation of the novel into film. A drama could end up being over 60 or so episodes in some cases. It’s the same with movies. The books are adapted to film. Even Hollywood with all its experience in movie and television leave things out and , inject other things in order to make it work on film.