lovelaughter

How about Ingang's grandma?

Same old drame troupe: She needs a job, she can be fired if someone finds out. So basically she wants control over that information and scared of telling him.

I am on episode 24 right now, and I am so annoyed with the ML. I feel like he learned nothing...

I am staying for her acting.

Of course, I totally understand that this wasn’t your cup of tea. I’ve started so many dramas that people love but couldn’t finish due to mood or some weird reasons (like too much blood spill). Overall, I’ve found that C-dramas don’t dwell on things: once the conflict is resolved, everyone just moves on. It’s different from K-dramas, which, for me, tend to process emotions longer. I wonder if that’s why it sometimes feels like the characters in Cdramas move on as if nothing happened. FWIW, I did see the impact of their miscommunication on their relationship. They take the time to rebuild and build better in the end.

I agree with a lot of your analysis. I also like your take on MY taking responsibility, it’s so true. She is a warrior, and she wants to take control of her life and choices, ready to bear the responsibility for them, even if, for us as the audience, it looks like she doesn’t have to.

I’ve been rewatching the drama (some scenes) after reading many of the conversations here as well. What I think happens is that there are a lot of clues from Ming Yi about her hesitation and struggle. She’s not fully in, and it’s clear that she’s debating. JBZ loves her, he fell for her since the wedding and even more after she told him she cared for him in the pool. He went to his master and said something like, “Finally, someone cares for me.” But he was so jealous of MX, and therefore two things happened: (1) He missed the clues of MY’s inner struggle and thought she was torn between him and MX. (2) Because of that, he kept reassuring her and giving her time to choose, hopefully him. But since he missed those clues, he was blindsided until he finally took a step back and put two and two together. And he had a lot of clues to put things together.

For the audience, though, we know that MY is MX and that she is poisoned. So we see this relatable, in-love guy who has suffered a lot, and this strong, conflicted girl who is trying to take control. I understand why some people support JBZ and feel frustrated on his behalf. Simply because we know the truth, it feels like “when will it be revealed?” and sympathy for JBZ overweights understanding of MY struggles. Of course, it is my assumption if I try to put another hat on and understand other watchers. MY’s struggles are portrayed beautifully though and are very evident to me in every scene. I think that’s why I found her choices understandable when watching the first time.

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I also love this part "He, who has known loneliness so deeply, will not be lonely forever."

These are very beatiful words and it warms me reading them. Thank you for sharing!!

Yes, that makes sense. They both acted so mature that I keep overlooking how young they actually are and that this is indeed their first love.

It's true. Besides 27 and her "mom" (which doesn't even count), he is the first person to get to know deeper her other half. It must have been indeed very confuding and hard for her. I wish it was explored a bit more.

+1. I loved how she hanled ST/CY. Very clear and mature as for someone who was never in love before and didn't have a lot of people around.

I was surprised by his reaction while watching. I get that he was upset and that his whole world came crumbling down, but I was expecting something more nuanced, like “show her your pain” instead of “punish her away right away.”

It’s also sad that he fell in love with only half of her identity. He didn’t know her past well, and all of her story he could only understand after the fact, which, I think, made him love and respect her even more. She, on the other hand, had the full picture of him and his life (besides the birth story, of course).

Yes, those are also my thoughts. She even said at some point, “I am prioritizing myself,” so loving him is indeed a byproduct, something she will keep doing, but she won’t let it change her plans.

I am rewatching some scenes :D Hard to get over it.

I come from a place where I try to understand Ming Yi for not telling Ji Bo Zai about her identity and the poison. The more I think about it, it comes down to this: she loved him. Very much. She was willing to withstand torture to keep his secrets. But she didn’t trust him with her life. So she took the search for the cure into her own hands instead of telling him and relying on whether he would give it to her or not.

About miscommunication in the middle of the drama:

Looking for something after finishing love in the clouds. Is this good?

haha, true!