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IKR! But I can't give up anything. I'm too greedy XD

Yesssssss! You nail it. Now it makes listening even more meaningful. Thank you so much!

Hello my friend, just notice you're watching this too! I'm really enjoying it.

He's so adorable and desperate to have a father. Whoever doesn't tear up has a heart of stone :)

I think that's an eastern thing. Never seen any westerners piggybacking like this :)

Yeah, the song Fearless is like a voice from his heart - so sad yet so beautiful. I have the 3 songs played non-stop everyday too. The song I Will Stay Here applies to every parent for their children, but in this case, it speaks a million words of what Li Ba is trying to say to Ziqiu. Ziqiu is the only one who wants to continue to hold on to the family and Li Ba is telling him to let go. Man, it touches every single nerve I have on my body. Haven't figured out which perspective Rain is being written. What do you think?

Unless they kick him out early, otherwise he may have a role to play: helps promote the company and expand it. It seems this is his strength.

These two characters are so different. Ziqiu was abandoned, but picked up by Li Ba who loves and nurtures him. He is strong and recovers better. On the other hand, Ling Xiao is very sensitive and has the tendency to overthink things, and has never recovered from losing his little sister and his mother's abandonment. On top of that, he went through 9 years of mental torture. But his medicine is pretty simple: Jianjian. Whenever Jianjian is in the room, he beams. That tells so much how much he needs her.

Ziqiu wants Jianjian just so that he can maintain the household intact, as always been; no one gets married away. It's repeatedly showing us that Ziqiu doesn't have any romantic feelings for Jianjian. When she asks him to kiss her, he says, "Are you out of your mine?" (or something to that effect).

I hate parting like this. Now I'd have to sleep on it till tomorrow morning :(

It's hilarious Ling Xiao brings up their 'wa-wa-qin' in the fight XD

Without Jianjian, Ling Xiao may die, Ziqiu would survive.

Nope! It may appear as such at first, but nope, it's pretty clear.

Ziqiu is very strong despite all the pain he has endured. He adopts the wisdom Li Ba teaches him years ago: Everything is a blessing in disguise. How wise.

Oh no, I don't dare to watch the preview. I have an uneasy feeling for Ling Xiao. When I listen to the OST Fearless, it sounds as if it's sung by Ling Xiao (almost like his dubbed voice), all his despairs and agony. Every time I look at Ling Xiao and listen to the song with lyrics, I'd cry a river.

At this point, don't think it'll go that way. Mingyue and Ziqiu have been set since high school. Furthermore, I feel Mingyue is more suitable for Ziqiu because Tan Can is too silly (the cute sort of silly) like Ling Xiao says, "simple minded". Ziqiu in a way is simple minded too (Ling Xiao has also commented). So 2 simple minded people together is going to be a disaster. It's better to be balanced out a bit :)

But then again, it also feels like a 'revenge' ...

I feel Mingyue does it to spur Jianjian to be open so that Ziqiu not continue kept in the dark. It's better to be sooner than later, what do you think?

Chinese has almost every familial relationship which Western culture lacks. For example, in Western culture, the terms auntie and uncle include all the siblings of one's parents' on both sides. Chinese has a unique distinction for every person, including the auntie's or uncle's spouses. This applies to brother/sister, older or younger, cousins with different or same last names etc. I love the Chinese way in identifying all these relationship without having further explanation how each person is related to you.

Having said that, Chinese also address almost everyone one interacts as a relative as in auntie, uncle, grandmother, grandfather etc. Therefore in this drama, we see in the neighborhood of Jianjian, everyone is an auntie or an uncle, old people are grandma or grandpa. Naturally older boys become gege.

So true. They tend to select 'good for you' (ie. steady income) and 'good for the family' (ie. prestige etc) over passion. Admittedly passion may not last, but at least that little excitement I feel is very precious. Otherwise life is too boring :)

Yep! It's almost like love at first sight for Jianjian. How she has treated Ziqiu is so different - she bites him. If not because Ziqiu has helped Ling Xiao fight off the bullies, I don't think Jianjian would have taken him in so soon.