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I find the drama has been fairly even-handed wrt to most of the flaws/virtues of the mains so far. (Yes, even LY to some degree. The initial depiction of his family life with ZZ constantly wasting money and prattling on about the importance of networking in kindergarten was like nails-on-chalkboard to me, as someone who grew up in a similar environment. LY was an ass and deserved to be dumped, but he was also Not Wrong about ZZ wasting money and kissing up to assholes.) As for LSY and CYM, they both have their flaws and are equally to blame for their relationship falling apart. They're both prideful as hell, for starters, and they both want to have their cake and eat it too without compromising wrt their bottom lines. LSY shouldn't have been manipulating CYM into staying by dancing around the subject of marriage and leading him on from Ep. 1 until their breakup, whereas CYM has been awful at communication (a combination of his emotional constipation, his propensity towards being a doormat, and his narrow-mindedness). Tbh, I'm wondering how the hell they'd been together for five years before the show. They should've broken up long ago, but I suppose part of what this show is about is figuring out what one needs vs. what one wants out of a relationship. These are young adults who are still confused about what they want out of life, and that's part of what makes watching them so frustrating at times; when they click, they click, but when they don't, it's messy, it's repetitive, it's filled with blunders, broken promises, and resolutions that aren't actually resolutions so much as strategies of avoidance from both of them. Which is realistic, in some ways.

Anyways, all that aside, I'm in the minority in that I like WZR. I think she's great. In a show where so many of the characters don't know what they want, she knows what she wants and goes straight for the throat. Refreshing after watching all this hemming and hawing by the main leads.

In the end, I think I just want them all to end up satisfied. Don't really care so much about the endgame "couples."

That's how I understand what's going on as well, though I'm still confused as to why the three aren't already together at the beginning of Reunion given that ZQL is done with his gate duties. Does it have to do with his recurring amnesia? Did he lose his memories again when WX and PZ went to get him after Sha Hai? Did he go off on a journey of self-discovery, leaving WX and PZ behind to get on with their lives? Is any of this ever addressed?