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Welcome to the long haul of getting completely lost in the immersive, mutually exclusive world of Chen Yi & Miao Jing. ❤️ They have eyes only for each other, and we’re here happily losing ourselves in their world 🫶

Ok then my dear pal, rescued by MJ/CY , sending virtual hugs to u. Hope u have an awesome weekend ♥️

The award goes to #Song Wei Long 🤣🙈🔥♥️

Btw, lovely to meet you here. 😊

Did you say something? I’m currently on Episode 17, and all I seem to be seeing is Chen Yi’s anger, then those tears suddenly appearing in his eyes because MJ chose a career that could put her in danger… followed by MJ’s little dare—“What can you do for the both of us?”—and then THAT scrumptious kiss. 🔥🙈

Umm…okay, I’m not sure why, but apparently I’m stuck in a constant replay mode. 😂🔥

Anyway, I genuinely hope you get to enjoy all the shows you invest your time and heart in. And who knows, maybe LFY will find its way back to you someday. 😊

Of course, you are absolutely entitled to your opinions. 😊 Honestly, when I truly dislike something, I don’t feel invested enough to write this much about it. So, in a strange way, I think the fact that LFY irked you and left you feeling let down simply means you had expectations and were invested enough to wish it had flowed differently.

And I completely agree with you—both experiences can be true at the same time. ❤️ I truly appreciate that we could have this conversation without turning it into a debate about who is “right.”

I would only ask that, somewhere down the road, when the drama has had some distance from you, give it another chance. I genuinely believe LFY is like a classic whose value reveals itself a little more with every watch. For example, on my third rewatch, I noticed something I hadn’t fully appreciated before—the way CY’s eyes soften with compassion whenever MJ reveals her struggles or sadness, no matter how much anger or frustration he is showing toward her in that moment. Song Wei Long was emoting so much through his eyes that I could just swim in the depth of them. 🥹

Maybe one day you’ll see something in LFY that speaks to you differently. And if not, that’s okay too. I’ll happily keep rewatching it for both of us. 😂❤️

I can understand why you felt that way. I actually had a very different experience watching LFY, so let me offer another perspective on some of the points you raised.😊

**CY could have taken the police exam later and gotten his life back on track.**

CY could have, if he had been thinking only about himself. But CY chose to live with the debt that MJ’s mother had thrown at him. He completely devoted himself to paying it off while trying to give MJ an alternative—a safe, educated, dignified and peaceful life in another city. His tragedy was that he genuinely believed sacrificing his own future was the price of giving MJ hers. That is why, to me, his inability to simply “move on” wasn’t a plot hole; it was the consequence of how deeply he had internalized his responsibility toward her.

**Half the series was spent auditing.**

I actually thought the writers did something quite interesting here. They showed that an illegal giant business could be brought down by someone who chose to work within the system rather than becoming a thug or a goon himself. MJ wasn’t going to fight CY’s world using ZB's methods. She came back when she was strong enough to stand on her own, and through auditing, she ultimately helped dismantle the very system that had taken away CY’s freedom and, more importantly, his self-respect.

- **The story became repetitive**

I think the repetition was intentional because CY’s emotional wound was so deeply ingrained. CY truly believed that loving MJ meant depriving himself of the happiness of having her beside him. He had almost no sense of his own worth, whereas MJ was the person he valued above everyone else\. It took time for MJ to make him understand that he was equally precious to her—not because she had no other choices, but because, despite having every choice in the world, **he alone was her choice**. For me, that was the emotional journey of the story.

- **Half the series was spent auditing\**

Necessary evil🤣🤣 I will admit, even on my third rewatch, I occasionally thought, *Okay, ladies and gentlemen, can we please get back to CY and MJ now?* 😂 But I also understand why the writers used that storyline to bring down the larger system that had trapped CY.

- **His friends added nothing to the plot.**

I actually think they added something important to CY’s character. CY grew up surrounded by hatred and deprivation\. If he had somehow emerged from that childhood as this perfectly self\-sacrificing, angelic human being, it wouldn’t have felt believable to me\. His friends showed us that, despite everything he had been through, CY was capable of giving and receiving unconditional love outside his family.

They also showed us that CY wasn’t completely alone in the world\. He had people who loved him simply because he was *him*\. That was important because CY had spent so much of his life believing that he had to earn his right to be loved\.

- **The supporting characters, including the woman he kept helping, didn’t contribute much to the story, and there were too many scenes with them**

I’ll be honest—I found some of those scenes annoying too\. 😂 I loved CY and MJ so much that, if it had been entirely up to me, I would happily have watched 32 episodes of just the two of them sitting in a room and breathing🔥

But I did see a purpose in the woman and child CY protected CY had been deprived of that fundamental love and protection from the adults who should have provided it. So he became determined that no one else should have to experience the same thing. His instinct to protect wasn’t limited to MJ; it was part of who he had become because of his own suffering\.

The same goes for his friends. CY gave them a livelihood through his billiard club and was genuinely nurturing and generous toward them. Those relationships showed that underneath all his darkness, he was actually someone who wanted the people he cared about to have a better life—even when he couldn’t imagine that he deserved one himself.

- **It was unnecessarily drawn out for 32 episodes. The tone was gloomy from start to finish**

That’s fair. 😊 LFY definitely isn’t a coming-of-age story about high-school sweethearts where everyone gets to live happily ever after in a pastel-colored world. 😂 It’s a much more complex story about trauma, guilt, survival, sacrifice and two people trying to find their way back to each other after years of emotional damage.

And yes, the tone is heavy. But then again, we were also given an extremely handsome heartthrob in Song Wei Long and an amazing sweetheart in Zhang Jing Yi, so naturally, one expects the whole experience to be beautiful and rosy 🤣

As for 32 episodes being too long, that’s completely subjective, and you’re absolutely entitled to feel that way\. It’s my third rewatch, though, so apparently my personal equation is now **32 × 3 = 96 episodes of emotional suffering that I willingly signed up for** 😂

- **The ending was convenient and predictable**

I can see why it might feel predictable, but for me, the ending worked because the final episodes finally gave us the missing pieces of CY’s emotional history—the truth about the fire, his inability to save the police officer’s fiancée, and the guilt that ultimately shaped his belief that he had no right to promise MJ a safe and happy life.

Once you understand where that belief came from, the ending isn’t simply about everything conveniently falling into place. It’s about CY finally confronting the belief that had controlled his entire life\. The external problems could be solved, but the real battle was always inside CY.

- **The male and female leads were wasted**

You managed to watch all 32 episodes, so I would argue that perhaps the leads were *too* effective❣️

Honestly, my biggest complaint is that CY and MJ were so addictive that they had absolutely no business keeping us glued to the screen for 32 episodes without our consent. 🤣

For me, their characters weren’t wasted\. The story gave us two people who loved each other deeply but had to learn that love isn’t only about protecting someone else or sacrificing yourself for them. Sometimes, the hardest thing is allowing yourself to believe that **you deserve to be loved, too**

But I do appreciate your perspective.I think LFY is one of those dramas where the exact same elements can either make you deeply invested or make you impatient, depending on what you connect with as a viewer. For me, the emotional journey of CY and MJ outweighed the slower parts of the story, which is probably why I’m now on my third rewatch instead of running away from it 😂❤️

My 3rd rewatch is about to end, and I don’t think I’ll be able to move on so quickly. From the very beginning, in every tense interaction between MJ & CY, the moment MJ mentions her struggles or sadness, you can see CY’s gaze soften with so much compassion. Song Wei Long was phenomenal at emoting so much depth through his eyes alone. You just never want to swim back to reality.

Okay, thanks for posting this comment. I had to do the honors—and oh, the tedious and extremely difficult task of rewatching Chen Yi, carefully investigating what could possibly have caused those provocative dreams. 😌😂

So, earlier that day, some pervert was taking pictures of MJ. CY got possessive, scared the guy off, and then proceeded to scold MJ for wearing a short skirt. Umm… so perhaps staring at that short skirt, replaying the Titanic scene in his head, and remembering how he lifted MJ into his arms and maybe kept her there just a tiny bit longer than necessary… eventually led to the inevitable adult dream. 🤭

And then what does our poor suffering man do? He drinks ice-cold water straight from the fridge and stares at MJ’s closed door.
The audacity of MJ! 😂 How is she sleeping so peacefully while this man is over there absolutely burning up because of her? 🤣

You felt the pain & that is exactly the point of the scene. The pain that they both are in. So if you ask me, that scene was fundamental , even though it was painful to watch. MJ wasn’t making CY come to that old factory simply to tell him she hated him. She knew exactly what one phone call from her would do to CY—he would drop anything, even Zhang Bin’s business dinner, and come running if he thought she needed him. And that’s precisely what she needed him to understand.

For six years, CY had convinced himself that his love for MJ meant he had to disappear from her life, that he was somehow unworthy of her and that protecting her meant sacrificing himself. But MJ had already seen the depth of his love. When she was away in another city, it was CY’s money that allowed her to live comfortably, even though he stayed hidden from her life. She knew he was still taking care of her from a distance. So when she says, essentially, “Why wouldn’t your earrings matter?” she’s not really talking about earrings. She’s saying, Why wouldn’t you matter? Why do you keep treating yourself as if you don’t matter to me? If our relation does not matter?

That’s why she brought him back to the place where they first kissed. She was taking him back —to a place where there was no Zhang Bin, no underworld, no guilt, no excuses. Just the two of them and what they had always been to each other.

And then she says she lost something. She isn't really talking about the earrings here. Everything is about their relationship. CY needed that emotional blow that finally cracks CY’s defenses. MJ is forcing him to feel what his decisions have done to her, to them. He spent years deciding for her that she would be better off without him, while never asking whether that was what she actually wanted. She needed him to understand that his self-sacrifice wasn’t noble from her perspective—it was devastating.

The poor man searching through the garbage in the dark and rain is heartbreaking, yes , but that’s also the point. The moment MJ calls, he doesn’t hesitate. He doesn’t care about Zhang Bin’s dinner, the rain, or anything else. He thinks she’s in danger and goes frantic trying to find her. MJ already knows this about him. She isn’t discovering his love in that moment; she’s making him see it.

I think the deeper message of the scene is: You keep believing that I am the precious one whose life must be protected, while you treat yourself as disposable. But why wouldn’t you matter? Why wouldn’t what happens to you matter to me?

MJ was finally fighting against CY’s belief that loving her required him to erase himself. The old factory was where they first found the courage to acknowledge the love for each other, and in a strange, painful way, she was bringing him back there to make him face the fact that she was still choosing him too.
The key to that scene is that MJ wasn’t trying to punish Chen Yi or make him suffer for the sake of it. She was trying to force him to confront something he had spent years refusing to believe: that he mattered to her as much as she mattered to him. (i hope this helps♥️)

Thanks♥️

True that! for the second watch, I only see it if the hot leads are on the screen otherwise, who cares

Oh I see what you are saying now. Sorry, I have never been part of this hate agenda so didn't understand at first that this account is only made to write bad review & give the show lowest rating. I reported their account form the review. Kindly do the same please

That's freedom of expression. They are welcome to write anything but it doesn't make it true 🤣

It's needed as Miao Jing is fighting for Chen Yi's freedom & revenge. This was a legal way to bring down an illegal setup

This is such a beautiful reflection. ❤️ I think that’s one of the things this drama does so well—it makes us pause and look beyond the romance and the story itself. It quietly reminds us that the struggles we’re watching on screen are a reality for many people, and that gratitude is something we can so easily lose sight of in our everyday lives.

And I have to give so much credit to Song Weilong for bringing Chen Yi to life with such depth. He made CY’s struggles feel incredibly real and human, which makes those early episodes all the more heartbreaking to watch.

Thank you for sharing this. It’s a lovely reminder to appreciate the things we often take for granted. ❤️

But picking up on paragraph 6, I think there’s another layer to CY’s actions that the drama gradually reveals. He never truly left MJ to fend for herself. He made sure she had the means to live, while also taking responsibility for paying off her mother’s debt. His outward image of a reckless, bad-boy “I don’t care” attitude was, in my view, largely a deliberate attempt to push MJ out of his life. And, of course, we eventually understand why he felt he had to do that.

I think that’s where this drama differs from the usual industry formula. It deliberately withholds crucial pieces of the story, so the audience is meant to see things differently as the truth unfolds. One really need to watch the entire drama to understand the reasoning behind both CY’s and MJ’s choices. It’s difficult to form a complete opinion about their actions until the final episode —and I actually think that’s what makes this story so interesting and different from the standard approach. ( also one small note about early childhood, remember when CY pulled MJ out of the water. She sadly never learned it was him who saved her as he really didn't want to see his caring side. So he never hated her from the start. Only that MJ & CY's parents had a creepy relationship & he even over heard his father talking to MJ's mom before their arrival- yuck)

I like how you picked up on the moral of the story ♥️🤣

Not sure which review but nops that is not true. This show is not something that can be abandoned & judged, one has to watch it till the last scene to understand & enjoy the depth of it.

Thank you for showing the understanding towards their dynamics & the importance of the audit. How it was weaved into bringing down legally an illegal business & free Chen Yi from the shackles of his past & ZB's hold forever 👏🏼 I wish we could pin your message. So everyone can understand it & appreciate the depth of the story. Kudos to you for posting the accurate summary ♥️

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