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Maybe he's cold to her to dissuade her from trying to win him over, again... or he could be testing her, again... to see how far she would go to try and win him over.

Haochen doesn't know and she'll find out in epi 13

He's afraid to fall in love with her because then he'll lose control.

Her reaction to those words was heartbreaking.

If someone is trying to fact check me, I'd certainly turn around and find out who the heck is googling me. Since she did her little research on him. He could certainly do his own homework on her. Which resulted in a custom scissors that's personal for him and a jam that's personal for her.

I'm with you—he’s not a full-on villain, more like a morally confused gremlin. But episode 14 really had me clutching to hope. That line, “I admit your acting is superb, but you can only fool me once, not again” (unless the subtitles betrayed me), felt like a man disillusioned by a woman.

His words in Episode 14, kind of debunked that spoiler for me. But who knows, there may be a twist down the road.

Xu Yan lied about her parents, she lied about her sister, she lied about Zhou Ze Yuan, she lied about her past, her history, which resulted in him perceiving her to be a fraud. While he lied about his son. Not saying one is less of a liar than the other, they are both liars. So, in the grand scoreboard of deceit, both wore masks so convincing they barely recognized themselves while they were playing house.

Xu Yan went from wallowing in self-pity and blaming herself to grabbing the unhinged Fang Lei by the collar and turning her into a personal attack dog against her own husband. It was like watching a fragile little house spider suddenly molt into a full-blown black widow. Love it! And you could also see that her move caught his interest... again. And it only cost him 3mil 😂

It might have looked like she sought him out, because of her persistence and the lengths she went through to secure the interview with him.

True, they need to break free from it all and then meet each other again as themselves.

So maybe that whole “SHM and Mommy Dearest are targeting Xu Yan first” conspiracy theory isn’t holding up the way we thought? Honestly, Shen Haoming is the poster child for someone raised on cynicism, with a worldview that basically screams: trust is a scam, love is a liability, and everything has a price tag. His late girlfriend might’ve cracked that armor once—showing him a softer perspective—but she conveniently died under “drama mystery circumstances", leaving him stuck in his default setting: jaded and transactional.

Enter Xu Yan. From his skewed lens, her questionable choices and lies just confirmed his bias—ah, another schemer, just like me. So convinced of his own “100% correct” reading of her, he literally blocks her from even trying to confess. Why let her talk when he’s already written the ending in his head, right? No need for drama in an otherwise amicable marriage of false perceptions and hidden motives. In his mind, she’s guilty until proven… well, actually, scratch that, there’s no proving innocence in Shen Haoming’s manual at that point in time.

But here’s the kicker: Xu Yan doesn’t fight his narrative—she leaves. And that absence flips the script. Suddenly, her silence shouts louder than any love confession. Turns out, she wasn’t chasing his money, power, or connections. She wanted him. And nothing stings a cynic more than realizing the person you dismissed was actually the one holding the most honest hand all along.

His Shen Haoming is captivating. Now that we're beginning to experience his pov, I'm loving his acting style.

Holy, is Fang Lei the endgame villain? Because if so, in the second half of the story, she needs to crank up the chaos a notch. I’m talking full-on Macbeth spiral—paranoia, guilt, insanity. If she’s going down, let it be gloriously ugly and messy.

Shen Haochen

omg, all these twists lol. My bad, I read it as driving instead of diving. She drowned.

oooh i read it as driving. lol will edit

So let me get this straight—Fang Lei’s late sister was Shen Haoming’s girlfriend, tragically lost in a diving accident. Now, Fang Lei is shamelessly weaving together two threads: her sister’s memory and her ties to Shen Haoming’s son, all to guilt-trip him into submission. Shen Haoming clearly loved the sister deeply—just look at how a simple bracelet cracks his composure wide open. And Fang Lei? She’s milking his grief and survivor’s guilt like it’s a bottomless ATM.

But here’s the most disturbing part: Fang Lei’s obsession didn’t start after the sister's death. No, no—this has all the markings of the oldest drama trope in the book: “covet thy sister’s man.” Shen Haoming, meanwhile, is stuck in this tragic loop of obligation—treating Fang Lei as the little sister he must protect in honor of the one he lost. Which, let’s be honest, is practically an engraved invitation for manipulation.

And seriously—the sheer density of schemers, guilt-peddlers, and emotional extortionists in this drama could power a small city. At this point, is Xu Yan’s grandmother the only sane, normal human left in this chaos? 😂

That would be wild if they targeted her from the very beginning.

Holy, how did he know about her in the first place? They must have met before and something about her stuck in his mind. He did looked surprised by the scissors. Same look of surprise about the bear. She is constantly doing something that surprises him, which could be part of the reason he will start to slowly fall for her.