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I think maybe you need to be married or know a lot of married women to understand eps 30-36 because there's so many women irl who are trapped in shitty marriages with men who use, abuse and take them for granted. It felt like the drama was voicing the rage that too many married women aren't allowed to express.

It's because he doesn't appear in every episode

She's the ex fiance of a friend of their group who disappeared just before their wedding. So she's an old friend who had a big loss and hasn't gotten over it. She's also the owner of the bar that the ML and his friends hang out at.

This excellent analysis! I agree with what you're saying

The whole meaning of that scene was shifted,. Instead of being used to illustrate the differences between the leads, it became a way to show how disrespected the ML is at his company. Also the way the FL brushes off the bee showed she's indifferent to danger, she didn't care about the threat of being stung. You could also interpret it that she was messing with the ML by brushing away the bee before he could kill it.

I think it's a valid way to illustrate character and a good way to differentiate between the original and the adaptation.

I'm up to episode 7 and I think the original is vastly better however I do think the Chinese version is solidly good and one change they made is actually better than the original, specifically the casting for the CEO and his scenes with the FL. I'm curious to hear how you react to them when you get there.

I like Mark Chao but one thing he lacks is Lee Sun Kyun's unique voice. It's not Chao's fault obviously, just that he lacks the gift LSK had that did so much to build the character in the kdrama. You could believe that simply listening to him could eventually thaw the FL's heart and give her hope.

The Kdrama had many scenes with the leads walking alone on dark streets with just the sound of their breathing or their footsteps crunching on the snow. Also how the actors walked and carried their bodies, they were hunched over and looked like they were struggling to lift their limbs because they were so weighed down by their problems. Plus the music, cinematography and how shots were framed added to the depressive feel. A lot of scenes in My Mister have a blue color tone which feels colder and sadder. The FL's apartment is much darker and smaller than the apartment in the Chinese version and she has almost no furniture. The ML's desk at his office is next to a steel shelf which makes it feel like he's sitting in a cage.

I wasn't getting anything from the FL until episode 4 and then her performance clicked for me. I think you're right about this version being less depressive than the original. Both leads are showing a lot more fear than the characters in the Kdrama which is an interesting choice.

The original is my top rated Kdrama of all time but this version is also very good and even has some changes that improve on the original.

I'm on ep 4 and there's a scene that I think is much better in the Cdrama than the Kdrama. In the Korean version when the FL first approaches the CEO to offer to take down the ML, their meeting takes place in his office. But in the Cdrama version, she forces him to meet her at the shabby restaurant where she scrubs pots in an outdoor kitchen.

There's a shot of the CEO dressed in cashmere walking down a crowded street looking slightly disgusted by the poor people around him. It's a place he'd never willingly visit. But the FL forces him down to her level and their negotiation takes place in a dirty alley.

By staging the scene this way we see that the FL is daring & desperate. She's living on the margins and willing to do almost anything in order to survive plus she's smart enough to intimidate a person who has a lot of power.

I also think Zhang Chao, the Chinese actor for the CEO character, is much better than the Korean actor who portrayed the character as something of a buffoon. Zhang gives the character a quiet menace that's chilling and helps you feel just how dangerous a game the FL is playing.

In the Kdrama, Jang Ki Yong plays the creditor and he's a former model so talk about handsome but he was amazing in that role. Just a completely different level of performance.

For me it's not his height that's the problem, it's that he looks too clean cut and not intense enough in his portrayal. The fake scar isn't doing anything to make him look scarier. I think it's a miscast.

Poor Scholar Bai 😭😭

In the Korean version they do not

I didn't like the wrist grab in ep 22 or Jianglai saying that he would never let Shanbao go. It's such a cliched trope and very different from the dynamic we've seen between them up to now. I hope it's just a one off scene and doesn't represent their dynamic going forward.

That's because the writer is a woman who's directed a lot of vertical short dramas and a lot of the supporting cast are actors from vShorts

No, Yang was presumed dead and her husband was accused of killing her which is why Lu was trying to find her by imperial order. The Yangs are trying to find her because when she split they tried to use her disappearance as an excuse to grab tea plantations from the Wei family and they wanted to make sure she stayed disappeared under their control.

I 100% blame granny for the family being such a mess and the sisters/cousins scheming against each other. If the tea empire collapses it'll be her fault.

I'm obsessed with how beautiful the poster is and how well it captures the premise of the drama. Having the cord on the earbuds form the shape of the man she's listening to is genius.

According to a post on Douban it will have a February-March release date