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I don't think anyone knows for the drama. Luo Mingxi's role was expanded for the drama, and it could deviate significantly from the book. I read rumors that he was given a love interest for the drama that wasn't in the book, but who knows?

If it follows the book:
Luo Mingxi likes Di Ziyuan but successfully hides it from her pretty much the entire book. He never confesses because he already knows what the outcome will be. Di Ziyuan only has eyes for Han Ye, and vice versa. Yes, they each have other admirers. But the drama in their relationship has to do with Di Ziyuan's goals, not other people.

"Narrative" I'm pushing, eh? I'm not pushing anything, I'm just asking reasonable questions. Telling that you attack me for that though.

Oh dear. Watched it, and I wouldn't laugh; this isn't good for ZZH. I actually hope detractors right and it's a deepfake.

I'm not a ZZH fan, but I still believe 813 is a ridiculous reason to get canceled. I come here for news every few months, because I don't really keep up with ZZH's case. I still hope he can come back, but I'm not optimistic this video will win him any new support.

If this is really him, he's still intentionally vague. Why? If you're going to accuse someone, do it openly, use their name--why just make insinuations? I believe the letter and video are pointing at GJ. Why not just say his name, Instagram is not going to censor it. Unless he thinks if he actually names GJ, that GJ can take him to court for slander. And why worry about that, unless it's actually slander? I can't think of any good reason to not name the perpetrator when everyone really can guess who you're talking about.

He says he made a fashion brand because no matter what he wears, people will "ship". That shows he's aware that one can unintentionally support a "ship." At the same time, he accuses GJ of deliberately doing things like showing ZZH's childhood photo on a show to support their "ship." Meanwhile, GJ's studio has unequivocally and officially stated that he is single--basically officially denying the existence of the "ship" he's supposedly pushing. So now people are left thinking, what kind of person blames other people for things they themselves can't control, especially when the other party has already directly denied a "ship"?

And lastly, the ZZH in this video is strategically cutting away people who might otherwise have supported him, literally bidding fans goodbye if they won't "wake up". The best way to get support for him right now is to be unfailingly upright and noble, a role model for all of C-drama. Casting shade, warranted or not, on a coworker is unprofessional and will turn people off. Who would want to hire someone who badmouths their coworkers?

My conclusion: if this is really ZZH, he may have just shot himself in the foot. People who were already his fans will support him, but a lot of bystanders will just see him stirring up rumors and drama and making vague accusations and say to themselves, "Good thing he's not in the business anymore."

Time will tell.

I'd be interested to see a handwriting analysis with proven samples of previous handwriting from an expert. It looks to me like the handwriting is not written in a similar technique . If I were a bank teller, I personally wouldn't feel comfortable accepting that as his handwriting.

Not to mention...Instagram is banned in China. Why censor himself at all if he's posting on a banned platform? Just put a video so everyone can believe it, why toy with everyone? So many things about this are just illogical.

If it follows the novel, there shouldn't be any love triangle. I don't think there's any way to make a love triangle involving novel Han Ye and still have him be in character, to be honest.

The novel has multiple secondary couples.

I watched Dream Garden and the psychologist (GJ's character) told several patients that he can't prescribe medications, and to see the psychiatrist if needed. So I think it's probably the same situation as in the USA, where psychologists do counseling but not prescriptions.

I agree with the statement about the Effexor dosing. There is no situation I can think of where a physician would start at anything other than the starting dose of an antidepressant (that's why it's called the starting dose, yeah?). You'd do the starting dose for at least 2-4 weeks before considering an increase.

I honestly don't see anything special about Xiao Xiao. But the cases were interesting, and I liked that they were depicted in a way that you can still have some sympathy with the "bad" people. Like in real life, there are shades of gray. And the cases weren't so far-fetched that they were unbelievable.

I think you maybe misunderstood something about the plot for item (2). Xiao Xiao knew from the beginning that Lin Shen works there, because she went there to find out if Lin Shen had anything to do with her friend's disappearance after finding that email on her computer where her friend asked if she could stay with Lin Shen before she vanished. The file she spilled coffee on was her friend's medical file. She was hoping to take it away from him to read it, probably, thinking it would give her clues to where her friend was.

Item (4): as a professor I often invite random interested students to my class if I'm giving a lecture that might be useful to them in their career later. Occasionally my students will invite other students, also. I have zero problems with any of that. Now, if the university sends someone to escort them out because they're not paying for my course, I'll just go on with the lecture for the rest of the students...which is pretty much what Lin Shen did. Whether there's 10 students or 100 students, it's the same lecture, the same amount of effort, so no skin off my back if there's a couple more people.

I'm that person who watched this drama twice to actively look for errors, from a professional standpoint. As a medical doctor who works closely with the hospital's ethics committee and who teaches medical ethics to medical students, I see no issues with the medical ethics as portrayed. There are some portions where it may have looked like they were not protecting patient privacy or they hypnotized people without consent, but when I watched it more closely the second time, I saw that probably they had just not explicitly filmed or included the consent scenes. The patients seemed to expect that Xiao Xiao had the information she had, and of course coming to a hypnotherapist, one would have consented to get hypnotized during treatment.

The only major ethical issue is an educational ethics issue, which is that Xiao Xiao was dating her professor (because he's possibly grading her). Even then, it's possible that there are no opportunities for bias, since many college+ level classes are graded purely by multiple choice examinations, and the ones that were written were often graded not by the professor, but by TAs. He's also a visiting professor, so it's entirely possible that he just teaches the hypnotherapy section of the course and doesn't grade anything at all. No details are given, so viewers are just left to assume what they will.

Just some points that I think you may have missed; maybe this will make you feel better about the drama:
- she didn't get into the post-grad psych course mid-semester...she crashed it, which is why security eventually escorted her out. As a student in university, I occasionally would sit in on some classes I wasn't actually registered for--there's no assigned seating, no one takes attendance, and usually there's a few empty seats, so no one really notices.
- the job she got in episode 1, the applicant she replaced had fewer qualifications than she did (no psychology education in addition to no experience, which Xiao Xiao had)
- ethics--she's his assistant and it appears from some of his comments that part of her job is collecting info on the patients for him. All the people she sees seem to have been made aware that she's still in training, and she even tells the patients that herself on several occasions. This is normal for anyone in training to do, or how else can they ever train enough to get a license? I also expect my trainees to take a history from the patients and present it to me for supervision.
- the depiction of hypnotherapy with its methods and goals seems accurate, medically speaking. Of course they have to film it somehow, so some artistic license is to be expected as we can't actually see into people's minds...
-I agree with you on the ethics of Xiao Xiao living with her professor. It's frowned upon. That being said, I do know of trainees who were dating faculty members when I was in training. Some of them even got married after graduation.

I agree. Shaolin is a counseling clinic with counselors who focus on hypnotherapy as their primary mode of treatment. They partner with psychiatrists who they often refer their patients to. This is all in line with what one would expect. Some people even complained that people are getting hypnotized without consent at the clinic. It's pretty clear that everyone knows that hypnotherapy is what they're going to the clinic for. I wonder if people are just fast-forwarding through the dialogue and then making leaps in judgment.

People complain that Lin Shen is talking to Xiao Xiao about confidential patient information without consent, but it's also pretty clear that the patients expected Xiao Xiao to have this information. Patients signing consents wouldn't be something that would make the cut into a 16 episode drama, but consents (in the US at least) are typically signed before you ever get to see anyone at a clinic. Based on a couple of scenes, I also suspect that part of Xiao Xiao's job is to collect preliminary information from Lin Shen's patients anyway, similar to what a medical trainee or medical assistant would do in the USA.

I think there's some disparities in the way psychology is practiced in different countries. For example, ItsBluelullaby13's review says "Oh honey, that's not how psychologist works," but maybe that's just not how a psychologist works in the system they're used to. They cast doubts on how realistic it is that Xiao Xiao is counseling patients, but it's quite clear in the drama that everyone seeing her is aware she's not fully trained or licensed, and she often even tells them herself. USA medical trainees do the same thing (how else would they get experience?). The review also says "that's not how a university works." Maybe that also depends on where your university is. As depicted, I find no inaccuracies as far as how the university is shown to function in Dream Garden as compared to a university in the USA (I've trained at 4 different institutions of higher learning and currently teach at a different one).

Part of the issue is that in many places, hypnotherapy is considered "alternative," almost what some would consider "voodoo medicine." There is actual scientific evidence favoring hypnotherapy for some applications these days, but some people don't really keep up to date with research.

So if you put whatever link to your source in your edit request, they'll probably approve it. It (probably unfortunately) doesn't look like they do more than superficial vetting of information for any changes.

MDL usually wants some references when you edit. Since this was added by some rumor, and the other one is also a rumor, I'm not sure how we can submit reputable references for editing.

I think to Asian people, Chinese actors probably don't look much younger than other Chinese men their age (if everyone "looks younger," that just becomes the norm).

If the rumors you're referring to are the ones on Twitter, then it's the other one, Wang Quan (listed on Twitter as "King Power").

While it sounds like this comic/animation is very popular, I don't think it would make a good drama adaptation without also making it a lot more serious. Yesterday, I read about 50 chapters of the comic, and I personally don't find it very compelling. The target audience for the comic is probably pre-teens to young adults. If they're considering actors and actresses in their late twenties and early thirties, I suspect they're making considerable changes to the overall weight and feel of the story, which would lose a lot of the base material fans. But if they're casting more mature actors and actresses and then making them act like teenagers, I don't think that's going to fly well.

That's pretty much the whole drama.

Who allows a person who read a few textbooks to treat patients: pretty much every medical school or medical training program.

Also, please mark spoilers :)

I'm pretty sure all of these tags are added by fans, and not by any administrator. This drama is described by the actors as a "sweet suspense" and even they were surprised that people thought it was supposed to be a thriller. Poor descriptions by various platforms result in people expecting something different being unhappy. There are also many people who started watching thinking it was a sweet idol romance based on the summary. False advertising, so to speak.

Checked dramanice, dramacool and timing is off with those subs as well. I think just waiting for Huace's Youtube channel to release it would be the best bet for free.

I see a lot of people being confused in the comments, and I wonder if this is why...

For those of us who are not too familiar with psychology, counseling, and hypnotherapy in particular, I started an informational thread in the discussion section. Hypnotherapy is an alternative treatment here in the USA and is often misrepresented on TV (kind of like CPR), which leads to a lot of wrong information and assumptions about it. I personally paused watching after episode 8 and will resume next week after Huace Youtube finishes airing the series, so I'll withhold my opinion on this drama's professional accuracy until I've finished!