I just finished the first episode. Could someone be nice enough to tell me if the FL's maid is going to learn to shut her mouth? I have never seen such a dumb and disrespectful maid. The identity of the FL is contested, she must be accepted in her maternal house and the maid continues to argue with the others women of the house (without respect for their status), to interfere in the conversations of the mistresses and to swing information that her mistress wants to hide. She behaves like a spoiled rotten princess. So annoying.
Will Dong Jae be held responsible for what he did?I'm at episode 8 and I'm so angry at him. His violence against…
It doesn't make me feel better, in the sense that she has no survival instinct and favors her revenge. The guy almost killed her (another person would have died and 2sec more strangulation and she would have been) but she defends him because he is not the murderer of their investigation. Wtf, the guy has some murderous and violent tendencies anyway, he's sick. I can't stand violent people whose actions have no consequences, so I will stop the drama here. Thank you for your answer x)
As much as I found the drama entertaining, episodes 25 to 28 pissed me off enormously. The writers make the FL so stupid and illogical, it's unbearable.
She decides to take the blame for an unknown thief because she has compassion but it is illogical and stupid. She poses as her brother, admitting to being a thief, getting kicked out of the academy and delivered to court is extremely dangerous for her and her family. Her brother will never be able to hold official office again, her identity as a girl may be revealed (and her entire family will be killed) and she may be severely punished by the court even if she successfully hides her gender. In addition we have the teacher who tells her that the girls cannot become officials because they are too sentimental but she still does not realize that she is wrong in doing this. Sacrificing herself and her family for a stranger without making a difference is stupid. The boy will continue to steal, risk harming other people or being killed. How will sacrificing herself at this time change things?
And let's not even talk a few episodes later when she rushes to the temple with the register because her teacher, who she has NEVER told about the book, asks to see her to discuss about it. And when she finds out it's a trap, what does she do? She agrees to give the register to the student president who has never stopped targeting her. While the fact he knows the existence and the contents of this register, in addition to having tricked her to attract her to the temple, make him extremely suspicious.
What were the writers thinking? We have a FL which becomes an oyster waiting to be saved by someone else. Unbearable! I want to stop the drama.
I started this drama but I have a question for who finished it:
Will Dong Jae be held responsible for what he did? I'm at episode 8 and I'm so angry at him. His violence against women, his violent assault and attempted murder against Eun Soo, his attempt to trap an innocent for murder and so on is really unbearable and I saw that he would still be there in season 2. If anyone could give me an explanation, I'll appreciate.
She will have a crush for the SML for 2 years, from their senior year of highschool to the end of their first year of college.
I think they wanted to portray a different kind of romance. In many drama,s the FL is the one who loves ML first and will love him for years before he realizes it too. This time the roles are reversed.
The series is also very invested in the notion of friendship and the first loves / crushes of this group of friends. They are young, inexperienced, naive and will hurt themselves and make mistakes out of love. Some will date unreliable people who will hurt them. Others will have crushes on someone they are incompatible with and will waste time and energy on one-sided love instead of quickly letting go and being realistic. It is youth. Sometimes we don't face reality or what is under our noses.
The FL suffers from a lack of affection due to her mother's attention focused on her little brother. The SML is the first to be kind and considerate to her. Therefore, she's going to have a big crush on him for a while.
But the ML has a close relationship with her and soon after entering college becomes her best friend and the person she spends a lot of time with.
What do we do when we date someone? We go on a trip together, we eat together, we work together, we help each other and so on. This is exactly what ML and FL will do during their four years of college. Other than physical intimacy, they do everything a couple does and their affection for each other is immense.
However, the FL having put ML in the "best friend" box, she will take time to see the ML can be more than a best friend to her and that her platonic love for him can easily turn into romance.
So even though FL has a crush during 2/3 of the drama for the SML, the fact that she genuinely loves ML and builds a strong relationship with him is important and part of their romance.
So Ming Hui tried to kill the main characters several times, injured many soldiers in one of her attempts, failed to kill the FL several times, and once the ML, poisoned the FL to force the SML to marry her and that doesn't bother anyone? Please tell me that she'll receiving her karma otherwise I'll scream. The actress/ character was writers/director's favorite or what?!
Didn't they receive the subs from Youku? When they upload a new ep it is always 99-100% eng sub.
I don't know where they get them from but I compared with the youtube subtitles and it is not the same subtitles. Those from Viki don't say the same thing sometimes. Like: "you want me to offer you books and be available for your calls?" while the youtube version says "you want me to be your servant instead of buying you books?". And Viki's sentences are very oddly worded sometimes. I don't speak Chinese but I have enough basics for sometimes get shocked when reading Viki's subtitles because it doesn't match what is being said at all.
Am I the only one who finds Viki's subtitles inaccurate at times? I compared with the subtitles on youtube and there are several nonsense in the Viki version. I don't understand how they can do this.
I've seen several people complain about the time jump and the fact the main couple aren't together at college. While I agree that having them be apart without talking to each other for 5 years is a bit too much, I'm glad they weren't dating sooner. The last year of college and the first years in the working life are important stages, source of stress, which require a lot of investment. In view of the personalities of ShiYi and Xiaoju, if they had been together in their last year of college, there would have been problems. They would not have been able to focus fully in their studies, they would have argued often and could even have ended up breaking up. Their relationship seems more believable and hopeful once they finish growing up on their own, build a stable career for themselves, and have the confirmation that neither of them can forget the other. I would obviously have preferred to have a few more episodes on their reunion, to see them learn to know each other again, forgive each other for their past attitude and started their story on a better basis. But a lot of dramas have slanted end while the characters know each other a lot less than these two.
My very limited understanding of Chinese allows me to understand that ML was asked/assigned to another case and…
The problem if he was an informant from the start is that the police should have known him. While in the brigade, nobody knows him, the police don't trust him for most of the drama and he ignores everything. Which corresponds more to the fact that he would have been trained and protected by the former informant in order to take over his job one day rather than being already involved. Unless another branch of the police contacted him. I don't know...
I have never seen such a dumb and disrespectful maid.
The identity of the FL is contested, she must be accepted in her maternal house and the maid continues to argue with the others women of the house (without respect for their status), to interfere in the conversations of the mistresses and to swing information that her mistress wants to hide. She behaves like a spoiled rotten princess. So annoying.
I can't stand violent people whose actions have no consequences, so I will stop the drama here.
Thank you for your answer x)
She decides to take the blame for an unknown thief because she has compassion but it is illogical and stupid. She poses as her brother, admitting to being a thief, getting kicked out of the academy and delivered to court is extremely dangerous for her and her family. Her brother will never be able to hold official office again, her identity as a girl may be revealed (and her entire family will be killed) and she may be severely punished by the court even if she successfully hides her gender. In addition we have the teacher who tells her that the girls cannot become officials because they are too sentimental but she still does not realize that she is wrong in doing this. Sacrificing herself and her family for a stranger without making a difference is stupid. The boy will continue to steal, risk harming other people or being killed. How will sacrificing herself at this time change things?
And let's not even talk a few episodes later when she rushes to the temple with the register because her teacher, who she has NEVER told about the book, asks to see her to discuss about it. And when she finds out it's a trap, what does she do? She agrees to give the register to the student president who has never stopped targeting her. While the fact he knows the existence and the contents of this register, in addition to having tricked her to attract her to the temple, make him extremely suspicious.
What were the writers thinking? We have a FL which becomes an oyster waiting to be saved by someone else. Unbearable! I want to stop the drama.
I'm at episode 8 and I'm so angry at him. His violence against women, his violent assault and attempted murder against Eun Soo, his attempt to trap an innocent for murder and so on is really unbearable and I saw that he would still be there in season 2.
If anyone could give me an explanation, I'll appreciate.
I think they wanted to portray a different kind of romance. In many drama,s the FL is the one who loves ML first and will love him for years before he realizes it too. This time the roles are reversed.
The series is also very invested in the notion of friendship and the first loves / crushes of this group of friends.
They are young, inexperienced, naive and will hurt themselves and make mistakes out of love. Some will date unreliable people who will hurt them. Others will have crushes on someone they are incompatible with and will waste time and energy on one-sided love instead of quickly letting go and being realistic. It is youth. Sometimes we don't face reality or what is under our noses.
But the ML has a close relationship with her and soon after entering college becomes her best friend and the person she spends a lot of time with.
What do we do when we date someone?
We go on a trip together, we eat together, we work together, we help each other and so on. This is exactly what ML and FL will do during their four years of college. Other than physical intimacy, they do everything a couple does and their affection for each other is immense.
However, the FL having put ML in the "best friend" box, she will take time to see the ML can be more than a best friend to her and that her platonic love for him can easily turn into romance.
So even though FL has a crush during 2/3 of the drama for the SML, the fact that she genuinely loves ML and builds a strong relationship with him is important and part of their romance.
Please tell me that she'll receiving her karma otherwise I'll scream. The actress/ character was writers/director's favorite or what?!
Those from Viki don't say the same thing sometimes. Like: "you want me to offer you books and be available for your calls?" while the youtube version says "you want me to be your servant instead of buying you books?". And Viki's sentences are very oddly worded sometimes.
I don't speak Chinese but I have enough basics for sometimes get shocked when reading Viki's subtitles because it doesn't match what is being said at all.
Thanks in advance x)
While I agree that having them be apart without talking to each other for 5 years is a bit too much, I'm glad they weren't dating sooner.
The last year of college and the first years in the working life are important stages, source of stress, which require a lot of investment. In view of the personalities of ShiYi and Xiaoju, if they had been together in their last year of college, there would have been problems. They would not have been able to focus fully in their studies, they would have argued often and could even have ended up breaking up.
Their relationship seems more believable and hopeful once they finish growing up on their own, build a stable career for themselves, and have the confirmation that neither of them can forget the other.
I would obviously have preferred to have a few more episodes on their reunion, to see them learn to know each other again, forgive each other for their past attitude and started their story on a better basis.
But a lot of dramas have slanted end while the characters know each other a lot less than these two.
Indeed, I did not see or understand the scene which explains this. It makes so much more sense. Thank you !