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Episode 15: There is no warrior who does not have moments of weakness or defeat.

By the time we get to episode 15, the main couple has already gone through many difficulties together. And together they have learned a lot about each other. But, by the time we get here, we definitely realize that they have an understanding with each other that no one else has. This is the first time that the male lead is truly at a disadvantage and weak. Even in the face of danger, he does not let his well-planned plan go astray. But... in these well-calculated risks he needs the help of his beautiful beloved, who will not leave him alone. He makes yet another confession from his past (very similar to the struggles of the girl with the pearl), they two have more in common than we imagined. And the pirate woman? From one trouble to another, she only gets worse. (I think you are the male lead's sister. Am I right, or not?).

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Episode 10: We are from different worlds.

This beginning of the episode was quite philosophical. The conversation between ZJR and DW shows the difference in their worldviews, and where they both came from. He asks her how she became so insensitive and she says: I've always been like this, if it weren't for them in this place of punishment, it would be us (as if she were saying: it's fair that it's like this, it's what they deserve, this is justice). Then, he leaves and says he's going to look for another place to live. She orders someone to keep whipping the tormentors who mistreated her brother. But her eyes are full of tears.DW takes Mr. Zhao to the secret basement where YZJ has hidden the riches. Although she received the blood pearl (the one worth 3 million), she did not give up on her mission to acquire all the pearls (as YZJ wants). She will only use part of the treasure to achieve the mission. Kang Ju went to visit YZJ in prison and told him about DW's plans. YZJ admired her calmness. And she did not allow Kang Ju to stop her. Kang Ju warned YZJ that the family is even selling stores to acquire that whole batch of pearls. YZJ comments that it is because there are only a few days left for the tribute pearls, only 10 days, and this family would really invest a lot in this. But Kang Ju asks YZJ about what they are trying and so does DW (is the stake too high this time?). YZJ did not answer. His friend gives him the medicine and asks him not to forget to take it. Cui Shi Jiu and her father argue over what happened to the pearls (he blames her and says the loss is too high). However, there is another dilemma between father and daughter (he wants her to behave like a woman and wear women's clothes). But she says that she can be a woman and a negotiator, that is possible. But her father does not accept this choice of hers and slaps her 3 times and orders her to change her clothes, but she always says no. Until she leaves, but her father feels bad and falls down sitting down, and the assistant asks him to calm down.At the auction of YZJ's assets, the final card was played by DW, who gave up on making the last bid. Mr. Cui did not listen to his daughter's advice and signed the purchase contract, but when they opened the treasure chests (they found only trash), the signed contract was irrevocable. Mr. Xu had made a deal with YZJ, who appeared at the end of the auction, free from prison and next to the female accountant whom they thought he had murdered. On the deck of the ship, YZJ, DW and everyone else rejoiced and he decided to give each of them rewards. The master asked for the retirement reward. He was praised for his loyalty and was given a store in a certain city as a reward to continue his retirement. YZJ said that in the Yan Trade Board, it is always the rule of punishment and reward. And he added, but the law of the jungle continues.Then, in the office, YZJ and DW talked and praised each other. She explained that she had realized the master's trick because the pearls were not from the South Sea, but from the city of Hepu, and that if she sold all his possessions he would be ruined, and he would not be so careless. She then politely said that he was intelligent and sharp-minded, but he corrected her: You can say straight out that I am cunning. But... trade is like war, there are always winners and losers.DW went to the bow of the ship to enjoy the view and from there she could see the window of YZJ's office. He began to play the music of Trieste on that harmonious instrument. His eyes filled with tears, he saw her there on the bow, and she smiled happily, enjoying the music, the sky and even the raindrops that began to fall.Xu Nan Ying talks to Mr. Cui and gives him an ultimatum that will mean the complete ruin of the Cui family. Mr. Cui doesn't seem to accept it. And his daughter, Cui Shi Jiu, gives him advice that he doesn't accept. He orders her to be confined to her room. And there she cries and says: I couldn't save my father, nor my mother, nor myself. She remembers a conversation with her mother, on a certain day in the past when she suffered another punishment from her Father. (She reminds me a lot of someone else from the drama, YZJ, the male lead of the drama.)Cui Shi Jiu will try a desperate action to take the Cui family's ledgers from Zhang's hands and that she will prevent him from leaving the city. She claims that the Cui family is willing to admit guilt over the tribute pearls and will prepare the pearl lotus for King Tan. And that Xu should trust her, because the Cui family definitely doesn't want to die. (She asks Xu to intercede for her family because in a few days everything will be resolved).Zhang and DW are at the fair enjoying the taste of candied fruits and find themselves caught in a trap. DW comes face to face with his mother's killer. But the two, with the help of Zhang's subordinate who arrives in time (manage to defeat the enemies who attack them), but one of them manages to escape. Zhang holds DW who still wanted to run after her mother's killer and she shouts: Zhang, is there still justice in the world? But Zhang reminds her that the Cui family's mistakes in pearl collecting can still be resolved, prevented by their actions. And that there is justice, yes. Zhang shows love and care for Duan Wu and the moment the two of them together face the enemies they really seem like a couple. The enemy even says: What a beautiful couple! (Could this be a premonition for the end of the drama???). Cui Shi Jiu hears the excuses of the henchman (the killer of Duan Wu's mother) and her look is that of a stoner who has not given up the hunt yet. The episode ends with Zhang calming Duan Wu down and handing her a document that could put an end to the corruption of the Cui family who failed to deliver the pearl tribute correctly every year.

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Episode 8: I don't want anyone to sacrifice themselves for me.

Tasks between friends should always be for mutual benefit. And you shouldn't let anyone sacrifice themselves for you. (This is expressed in the conversation between the little brother and the little sister). Duan Wu's hairpins are a success and her friend is very happy, but Duan Wu asked something more difficult of her, a favor that her friend did not refuse. Mr. Zhang is thrown out of the inn and accepts Yan Zi Jing's offer to stay on his ship. Zhang witnesses Yan Zi Jing speaking rudely to Duan Wu and asks the pirate to act like a man and not take his anger out on a young girl. The pirate also says that Zhang is also humiliating himself by needing his help in that situation. They face each other at that moment. Zhang suffers an assassination attempt and finds ways to discover that it was his noble friend who planned it all. In a fun moment at a candy store, the jewelry store friend says to Duan Wu (Haven't you noticed that Mr. Zhang likes you?). But Duan Wu says that she is not of the same ilk as him, she is just a humble pearl hunter. (Who is of her ilk? The tsundere pirate?) But her friend emphasizes, "Mr. Zhang would be a great choice of husband for you." Mr. Zhang asks Yan Zi Jing what resentment he holds against the Cui family. YZJ gives DW a new mission, to buy all the pearls from a certain merchant. Duan Wu tells Zhang that she is part of the same law of the jungle that YZJ is part of. Zhang says in frustration that he doesn't want her to become like YZJ. YZJ cleans his sister's memorial tablet. (This is a character totally stuck in the past. I don't know if by the end of the drama he will be able to free himself from it.) Duan Wu's little brother falls into a trap set by the enemies and ends the episode being beaten up. Duan Wu sets out to fulfill her mission, not knowing what is happening to his little brother.

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Episode 7: I left no way out for myself. That's the meaning of life.

Will the competition for the pearl at the bottom of the sea (Duan Wu's specialty) happen? The villains changed the script and the pearl girl had to face a different fight. She almost succeeded, but was sabotaged. And the heartless pirate saved her at the last minute, preventing the worst from happening to her. And the protective clothing that the master had previously given her cushioned the impact of the blade. Mr. Zhang worries about Duan Wu; if it were up to him, she wouldn't be in this competition. Yan Zi Jing confronts his opponents, emphasizing that they were dishonest but decided not to revoke their victory. Mr. Zhang took Duan Wu to a hospital and tried to dissuade her from her plans, inviting her to go with him to the commercial city of Chang Yan. She refused, as it would go against her true plans. Yan Zi Jing plays his sad instrumental music and remembers how his relatives died. And he says to his friend, a perhaps premonitory line of this drama: “I left no way out for myself. That is the meaning of life.” She always wants a reward. And ends up getting it with her negotiating charm. He says no. He says yes. How contradictory. (And the friend says to Yan Zi Jing: “She is looking more and more like you.”). He listens and seems to like it. The two brothers dream of the big store and the fireworks in their innocent optimism. Duan Wu gets his place in the trade board, and the first one shares it with his friends, and with that old man (who once tried to scam her).

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If you want justice, think with your brain. Destiny is what we make

The two protagonists pursue their destinies and goals. Each of them shows their strength, determination, courage and even madness to reach their desired target. A girl so brave that she faces her enemies like a hunter in a forest who doesn't let his prey go. A male protagonist who seems to be so relentless, but is also like a tutor taking care of his female ward so that she can also reach her target.A cunning scrap metal saleswoman. Should I trick this troubled soul? She is me. I will help her. I say: Destiny is what we make, bad luck or good luck comes from ourselves. A survivor who uses all the tricks, but will not lose herself. A friend teaches the heroine and stops her in time, so she doesn't do something she would later regret.

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If you want justice, think with your brain. Destiny is what we make

The two protagonists pursue their destinies and goals. Each of them shows their strength, determination, courage and even madness to reach their desired target. A girl so brave that she faces her enemies like a hunter in a forest who doesn't let his prey go. A male protagonist who seems to be so relentless, but is also like a tutor taking care of his female ward so that she can also reach her target.A cunning scrap metal saleswoman. Should I trick this troubled soul? She is me. I will help her. I say: Destiny is what we make, bad luck or good luck comes from ourselves. A survivor who uses all the tricks, but will not lose herself. A friend teaches the heroine and stops her in time, so she doesn't do something she would later regret.

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About episodes 1 to 4: (pieces on a board that fit together perfectly).

About episodes 1 to 4: (pieces on a board that fit together perfectly).This is a worthy pirate story.These 4 episodes are intense. We have a true red flag here. He is sincere, sensitive and ruthless at the same time. The anti-hero seeks revenge at any cost. The heroine also seeks revenge on someone, but she dreams of freedom, independence and success. The girl with the pearl, Duan Wu, is truly different, determined, and wins over everyone around her with her courage and strength of spirit. The story of the two complements each other harmoniously. The plot is coherent, like the pieces on the board always fitting together and organizing the elements coherently. But who is Yan Zi Jing's sister? I think it is the woman who fought with Duan Wu, the pirate woman. I loved the poetry recitation scene. Does Yan Zi Jing have an illness? What illness is that? The hero/anti-hero needs to have some vulnerability, right? In addition to the emotional one that he carries with him.

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Love Rewarded

Episode 16:Timeline 2:Xia Guo lives with her boyfriend Xue Min, who is caring, charming, intelligent, and gives her a cozy life and gives her a lot of attention. But by the end of the episode, she'll realize from a remark made by her young friend, bartender, and her friend, Lucy, that Xue Min, her boyfriend, is probably someone who doesn't want to get married. The two go to a jewelry store to buy a wedding gift for their friend Lucy, but then she sees an engagement ring, and looks hopeful, but she looks hopefulBut he purposely turns away to the other side. When they get home in the evening, he's repairing the lamp to make her job easier, and she says pointedly, I want to marry you. But he, again, pretends he didn't hear and dismisses it. Xue Ming is looking for work, but the only job he can find is in another country, Singapore (he doesn't want to, and tells his friend that he doesn't want to move away from his girlfriend). But, at the end of the episode, we see that he will lie to Xia Guo, saying that he is going to Singapore for a temporary job and therefore will not be able to accompany her to her friend's wedding. He buys her a beautiful dress and gives it to her to attend the wedding.Timeline 1:Yu Jian's parents pay a visit to Xia Guo's mother's house, and for the first time they hold their grandson in their arms. Yu Jian's mother asks her to allow Xia Guo to return home. Weeks and weeks Yu Jian showed his long-distance love for his wife and son, including assembling a wooden baby stroller and leaving it at the door of her house, she accepted. But the time comes, and Yu Jian finally manages to convince his wife to return home. But this time it will be in a house of their own. They won't live in his parents' house. However, his family will have all the access to live with his grandson. For this to happen, Xia Guo's own mother said that she wished that she would now return to living under the same roof with her husband. And also Yu Yan went to talk to Xia Guo, to apologize for everything that happened, that it was her fault, that Yu Jian was not with her at the time of delivery, but was trying to save her, as she was found full of blood, in an attempt to take her own life. Xia Guo excuses her, and asks her aunt to see her nephew, and lets her hold him in her arms. Yu Jian wouldn't want his wife to go back to work but take care of their son, but he won't stop his wife from getting a job. At this point, he asks his friend at the company to help him come up with more projects to increase the money to take care of the baby and his wife. When he gets home, Xia Guo has hired a babysitter. Wen Ya arranges for him and his friend to go to a restaurant where there will be a meeting with potential customers, to help them with what they need in the company. Yu Jian seizes the moment and asks Wen Ya, what importance a woman gives to having a job, because he thinks he would be protecting her from the stress of work, but his wife thinks differently. Wen Ya explains in some ways that this means self-assertion, comparing it to Yu Jian's satisfaction in being an engineer.PS:A very important point of this episode was Yu Jian and Xia Guo's conversation. She explains all the details of the helplessness she felt at the time birth of the baby, in the hospital, without any family and having to sign the hospital document with her trembling hands. They both cry and she lays out her grievance to him, and the two reconcile.

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Sacrifices for Love

Timeline 2:Xia Guo proposes the use of Li Qiu's project in one of the company's needs, uniting it with Xia Guo's project. Xia Guo and Xue Ming get along better and better, and their relationship solidifies despite many difficulties. But Li Qiu has a lot of trouble to disrupt their relationship, (using their daughter to persuade). She always makes Xia Guo feel insecure in her relationship, always pointing out what will happen in the future.Xue Ming doesn't introduce her as his girlfriend when talking to a friend who meets him at the restaurant, Xia Guo questions him for it, and he explains why. Xia Guo's friend is fired after discovering that she is dating a colleague. Xia Guo talks to her mother at the restaurant, and her mother approves of her courtship of the well-heeled boss.Xia Guo realizes that her mother doesn't take care of herself anymore as soon as she used to. Li Qiu keeps pressuring Xue Ming using their daughter as an excuse. Upon discovering Xue Ming and Xia Guo's relationship, the two are implicated. Xia Guo submits her letter of resignation, but learns that Xue Ming resigned earlier to protect her so she could keep her job.

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Point of no return.

Timeline 1:Yu Jian shows his integrity and returns the money loaned by Wen Ya, to avoid Xia Guo's disappointment. He shows that he cares for his wife and does not allow himself to be ensnared by the webs of trap created by the second female protagonist. A sweet moment for the main couple as they chose the name for their soon-to-be-born child. Yu Jian's mother goes overboard this time, changing Xia Guo's medicine, almost causing the child to miscarry. Yu Jian and Xia Guo get some free time to have fun in the middle of a park filled with yellow flowers (the same way when they were teenagers they had fun and talked together). Yu Jian advises his mother not to behave recklessly again. Xia Guo decides to leave her job for the sake of her pregnancy.Timeline 2:I don't understand the intentions of Boss Xue Yu Min's old girlfriend. Is she being honest by telling Xia Guo about the child, Xue Yu Min's daughter? Is it just the interest of uniting father and daughter? Or is there a clear intention to prevent your ex boyfriend's new relationship? But, Xia Guo finds all traces of her current boyfriend's old relationship and decides to give up. Xue Yu Min finds his daughter he didn't know and spends a happy day with her, a father-daughter moment, but doesn't show that he wants to renew their past relationship. Xia Guo finds Yu Jian and Wen Ya dressed in wedding clothes and taking photos in the flower field she knows so well in Lenshan, her hometown. She gives up on meeting Yu Jian again and accepts that there is no return.Xia Guo seems to be finding a possible third relationship with the young bartender.

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Snakes and serpents around

Episode 11:Timeline 1:Yu Jian's mother does everything to protect Xia Guo's pregnancy (but she is lovingly) inconvenient. And the interactions that come from this with Xia Guo and her son Yu Jian are funny. I don't feel irritated by these scenes, I find them loving. And everyone acts with love and patience. The complicated thing in this timeline is Yu Jian's rich colleague, she is really a snake, (disguised) who gains her venom little by little. She is deceitful and wants to destroy a marriage, a young family of father, mother and son. May she not succeed. Because of this, there is a conflict between Yu Jian and Xia Guo.Timeline 2:Xia Guo is dating her boss, and now an old girlfriend enters her story, her young daughter. Some details make Xia Guo suspect that this girl is really Xue Yu Ming's daughter. (but a love conflict for Xia Guo in the second timeline?).

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Our son will be born

In this episode 10:In Timeline 1:Liu Xue Yi (Yu Jian) played this sweet and dreamy first-time father. He really wants to have this child and he is very excited when he finds out that he is going to be a father, but completely devastated when he thinks that his girlfriend wants to give up the child. Then, there is that moment, he hears the news that the child is still alive, he goes to see his child born. He cries as if he were a child himself. And this moment is beautiful, Xia Guo even consoles him. His mother who got into trouble is also helped by Xia Guo. The conversation between father, mother and son worried about the debt that Yu Jian's mother had incurred was at the same time comical and a little sad, but still a united family trying to solve problems. What about Yu Jian's friends? They are literally angels, they saved money so that Yu Jian could keep the house rented and for their wedding.In timeline 2:Xia Guo falls prey to the charming boss. Her house is invaded by water, and she is helped by her boss who lets her sleep in his house. The night before he and Yu Jian broke up, she was going to run to talk to Yu Jian, but Boss Xue arrives and dissuades her from doing so.PS: What will we see in the next episodes? Let's watch.

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Break up

Words spoken in the heat of the moment, that cannot be taken back and cannot be erased with an eraser. He returned to Shanghai, listening to his father's advice not to let distance separate him from the one he loves. But his hopes were shattered into pieces. The two said yes to the end of the 20-year story of childhood sweethearts. Someone was already waiting for him at the door of his house, with a proposal: She is never by your side, but I will be by your side. And that's what he said to Xia Guo: who took care of his parents? Who cared about his family? Then she said: you think I have no heart. Didn't I find the doctor for your father? So, once again the seductive boss came to throw his hook, but she didn't accept it. So she went to Le Shan again and there she met her boyfriend and when he saw her he held the hand of the woman next to him, as if to say: she is the one I want now, you are no longer useful to me. But after she leaves with tears in her eyes, he shows his sadness and helplessness as if he could make everything different. When she arrives late in Shanghai, in the rain, she finds the boss who wants to win her heart at the door of her house. He covers her with the umbrella and kisses her. And her voice narrates the moment: When I hug and kiss another man, it's because it's really over now, Yu Jian.

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In any reality: I will always choose you.

But episode 8 made me like the main couple (Yu Jian and Xia Guo) from the first timeline much more. I would like both of their dreams (Yu Jian and Xia Guo) to come true. I liked his insistence on her love. He faced the blind date suitor. He took her to a new home. He said that under any conditions (with money or without money, they would find the solution). And them eating the jelly, the kiss. I found everything coherent with a story that could be real, with its ups and downs, but that love can be renewed each time and not give up on it.The other timeline (it's more complicated) seems like everything will go against the first couple, and a second couple is about to emerge. But I prefer the first couple, from the first timeline.PS:I like those stories, in any reality: I will always choose you. But I don't know if it's the same case here.💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞

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