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i can't promise the orchestral music will touch you like it did me, but I hope you enjoy the drama regardless :)

Last 8 or so episodes really lacked substance. Can you imagine how few people would have made it through more than a few episodes were it not for LYS and XZL? I would not have watched it at all.

sorry I meant to reply yesterday but now I saw someone say you were the only one that thinks this way I wanted to say i definitely see the FL as showing wide eyed blank stares the whole series. the ML's expressions haven't bothered me, but i do get what you mean. I haven't had any sort of emotional connection in the episodes so far and I would lean towards that being from not sensing any emotional resonance from the leads. Yes you and I are heavily in the minority about this, but that's fine as everyone has a different personal experience watching something.

TOTALLY agree

no romance as of yet (ep 18). FL admires ML (non-romantically as a role model) and ML only cares about money atm.

damn sounds like a 4 day wait until the end 😵

Completely agree about the cases in the first half being the best, and the latter completely uninteresting. They could have dropped Xiao Yun's character completely from the drama and it would have been a BETTER drama. P.S: A lot more of Xiao Yun to to see in the last 5 episodes :(

a few songs from the OST can be listened to on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%E5%B9%B4%E5%B0%91%E6%9C%89%E4%B8%BA+ost

They could have done a bit of "fan service" her resting on his shoulder at some point in the end scene like they were a couple, but hey it is what it is. I 100% see them as a proper couple if the story went further. He took ice from her spoon with his mouth when they were out with Xiao Yue for lunch, so they aren't afraid of showing PDA, but that's as much as we got for affection in all the later episodes (unfortunately!). Also, no more kisses to be seen :( :( :(

Very little of Peilin for the rest of the series (unfortunately).

Yeah thats a great description of the drama.

id say very likely because iqiyi was one episode behind mangotv's supervip. iqiyi is likely to do the express for the last 5 episodes just like mango did.

yes but maybe express tomorrow on iqiyi

Spoilers regarding TYY and KJ's relationship for the remaining episodes (26-30). Skip to last paragraph for ending relationship status.

Ep 26. TYY goes to Beijing with her Senior Chen for his surgery. She meets KJ's former law partner's wife and finds out that KJ took responsibility for settling all the problems caused, once he came back to Beijing, after running away.
EP 27. TYY comes back to Shenzhen. KJ and TYY talk on the beach. TYY mentions tomorrow is KJ’s last day before he leaves the firm and asks him to hug her. They side-hug, sitting on the beach. Next day we are shown TYY is moving into his office and he has left.
EP 28. KJ meets with the partners of the law firm he plans to join. He said he will give them an answer soon. He video-calls TYY after that. She is doing a headstand when she answers. They talk a bit and then he asks if she misses him. She asks him what he said (as if she didn’t hear it). He changes his question to a generic comment, and she said he hasn’t changed, but still says yes that she does miss him then she hangs up. KJ goes to see Senior Chen. Senior Chen wishes TYY had someone by her side in the difficult time in the firm. KJ says he plans to follow his heart. At the end of the episode, TYY is staying back working late (11:30pm), KJ shows up sitting in her chair. He asks her for a position as partner, and says he has an apartment in Shenzhen now, she is welcome anytime, and has finished his business in Beijing. TYY asks if that is his answer, he says its a new beginning and he will start that new beginning by working with her on her current legal aid case. TYY smiles and is happy.

EP 29-30: Relationship remains "undefined" for the last 2 episodes. They are working side by side and happy. In ep 29, they go back to her place for a good time. In the final minutes of the show, TYY asks KJ why he stayed and he asks whether it matters. The writers try to push this "go with the flow" mentality. The show ends with TYY's voice over about what it means to be a lawyer with a and flashback to the cases. This pushes the point that the drama was 1st and foremost about her journey on becoming a better lawyer and growth as a person. Its possible that there was no physical contact in the final scene to emphasise this and make it not about the romance.

The show ended with an "undefined" but supportive relationship, and them working together at the law firm. In Ep 28, KJ said she could come to his apartment anytime, and in 29 they sleep together at her place. Due to them not defining the relationship, the closest would be a "friends with benefits" stage at the end of the show, as they still refer to each other as Director Tang and Attorney Kang.

Express package now available on MangoTV, otherwise looks like 1 episode per day until the series end.

Yeah the handbag thing was quite confusing. What I recall, is that her ex-husband wanted to buy her the fake one (ep 9 start) but she insisted on buying the real one (which she paid with from her phone so i thought she paid for it). The irony was, the girls on the train still considered it a fake despite her buying a 2nd hand legit one. The poop is going to hit the fan in future episodes with Xiao Yun so get ready for the drama.

I completely forgot that we still haven't been told what happend with Kang Jun's old law firm. You are absolutely right. In his "decision" discussion with TYY I dare say those details are going to be revealed. Smart thinking.

I would hardly say Fang Wei'An was a fling for TYY. She was comfortable with him and trusted his warmth and care. He was "safe", but wasn't someone who passionately lit up her heart.

How did KJ unsettle TYY in ep 1? I just watched ep 1 and the start of 2 again and she was extremely confident and headstrong against him in their first 2 meetings (ep 1 and 2). I know later he got under her skin but from what I've watched, she was just treating him with as much confidence as she could their for her client's sake in their first encounters. I don't ever feel like she has felt like KJ "get's her"; i'd say instead she feels love from him and a support that brings light to her life. When they were on the bed in the hospital she said something like "your eyes shine bright as stars" which was right after saying the darkness that her mum locked her in. It isn't about him understanding, it's about him being a light in the darkness.

You are spot-on regarding it's genre. I was just thinking today how this is a real melodrama.
I personally have enjoyed what air-time Lin Yu Shen and Xin Zhi Lei have had, but rather than showing their lawyer prowess, the majority has been story telling and flash backs of guest actors from case to case. If the drama had them on screen a lot more, it would have made a big difference.

As for the strong female lead, her being in a relationship and KJ being a support system... i felt differently about it and that it was quite ok and natural. TYY really didn't like KJ at the start, why would she even consider him a partner back then? The story line made sense, some guy wanted to date her so it happened. I think its realistic. Also I don't think the "love-triangle" troupe was like a huge "ratings booster" as the relationships literally took up less than 10% per episode. My biggest crticism of the drama (and yes there a few) would be that the FL and ML didn't get enough screen time. They were good enough and engaging characters to show more about them rather than making them almost side characters.

In any case, I appreciate your thoughts about the drama and think its a fair assessment.

totally with you - ep 25 has equally no progress as the episode is all about case for the two girls. TYY and KJ only speak briefly at the beginning but about work related things.

Eps 26 and 27 i think TYY is in Beijing escorting her mentor with his hospital visit so I don't see anything progressing for those episodes. Best I think we can hope for is a discussion in ep 28 with 3 episodes of them being together.

Totally agre it feels unnecessarily stretched out. Would have rather they were already together and sorted out the issues together.

thank you so much for your analysis of the episode. that really helps me make sense of a whole bunch of the things that happened.

hmm im a bit blind to understanding if its a well written complex character or whether its sloppy writing just trying to drag out the story.

if you want a relatively large spoiler, i think the music video containing scenes from the drama at 32 sec - 38 sec gives us an indication of where we are heading https://w.mgtv.com/b/762213/24097830.html

definitely only 1 ep tomorrow.

No release plan on weibo yet for the express, but what you say is the likely scenario. MDL has written 3 ep's are releasing the day after tomorrow and then the final two the day after that.