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I assume this is the storyline of the novel? It could of course be different in the drama, right?

maybe mark as a spoiler...

The birthday comment in front of the grave referred to Shen J's b-day (which she then realised was her own b-day as she seemed to have forgotten herself) - Lanxian's b-day was already some time earlier.

However, she does not know about the Lin's involvement or circumstances causing her family's downfall - that was sth. Lin Sr did by protecting his family and forbade the grandson to warn the Shen family. Knowing that the Shen family would fall, the Lin's called off the engagement). Therefore, she only knows about the broken off engagement back then.
Though - reading comments further below - there was as such no framing of the Shen family. The Shen father & grandfather did not seem to want to do the same (saving themselves) as the Lin's had done.

... does Kang find out that her other personality is Hye Ri? (I admit, I jumped from ep 4 to 8.) Thx. Kindly answer as spoiler.

Can someone kindly explain, in which episode...

Ah, ok. - It was very funny, when he very convincingly delivered "even when fainting, I was only second!"

I also find her acting weak(er) compared to ML.

based on the preview for ep 13, I am dropping this. Writers are spinning it into typical soap opera/older style K-Dramas, very uncalled for (though I have no idea if all of that is in the novel; even if so, the writers could have chosen a different path). For me the perfect ending of the series was ep 11 till after the wedding (minus ex-fiancée). Now, I am only interested to know about Ms Yan/Mr Lee - maybe someone equally interested can mention once the series is finished, which episode to watch.

The ML facial expressions and tone of voice are so spot on whenever he is with FL. He is very funny and convincing.

Yes, that seems to be ref next ep (8) on TKU(?) stocks; I was referring to Roijental stocks in ep 1. where t seems she did not change her account after sher noticed him seeling off what she had bought.

However, it does frustrate me that she does not use common sense to guard herself against PMW and JSM, for example: she knew he has access tpo her bank acocunt, she bought shares which he immediately sold against her plans - and she still did not open a separate bank account??? Her PC: Why does she leave the stock site open for that rotten JSM to see???
If she is going to keep such nonsense up, I will probably drop.

for some reason title & synopsis somehow remind me of The Yellow Rolls-Royce (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059927/); I had this on a to watch list quite some time ago, now I am trying to watch it, but not sure.

wow, thank you so much!

As I started jumping episodes, I never found out who killed his father - is it ever revealed?
If yes, can someone kindly answer (marked as spoiler)? Thanks.

My first thought (after watching the trailer) was that it rather reminds me of "Thirty-Nine" (2022: https://kisskh.at/692971-thirty-nine) where there are three best (female) friends, and one of them dies of cancer, while the remaining ones try to deal with her (illness and) death.

Well, when they all first met the fake cousin, she was putting on her full charm because she needed to get him on her side for his shares (plan A).
With the real cousin she does not need to care as she knows her eldest brother has already been in contact with him and will most likely succeed in getting his shares.
So, her charm & hospitality have considerably cooled off ref fake cousin (as she now knows him being fake and he is basically useless in terms of shares; till then she also tried to avoid marrying rich guy) as well as towards real cousin.
Plan B is now to marry the rich guy for his shares (she does not love him and both know what they are getting out of this deal); so the moment she did a u-turn on fake cousin as he was now useless, she headed straight to rich guy.
I also feel sorry for the real cousin, regardless whether he would have appreciated them being nice to him or not (as in his world i.e. criminal social environment kindness comes with a price tag, so he would by nature have been suspicious had they been kind).

thanks, good to know!

And here the perceived similarities to other well known novels:

HP:
* 3 unforgivable curses vs. 3 unspoken methods/techniques
* 1 phoenix, 2 feathers => 2 wands vs. 1 willow tree, 2 willow vines => 2 holy weapons
* the wand choses its master vs. the holy weapon choses its master
* Tom Riddle (Voldemort) planning early vs. ... (...) orchestrating early

HOB, (GDC):
* unmasking the super villain/mastermind; claims of their actions being for the greater good
* unmasking of hidden/former identities
* behaviour of scimitar E-Ming of Hua Cheng vs. blade Bugui of Mo Ran

SVSSS:
* evil disciple in one world then becomes good disciple in other world & falling in love with master
* evil disciple entering other world & back
* master´s character in one world compared to other world & relationship with disciple

GDC:
* use of living or dead persons as puppets

Thousand Autumns:
* 3 personalities (albeit briefly) vs. 2 personalities of ... which will remain a permanent feature
* the main personality being jealous of the 2nd personality

I chose a different path to read the entire novel:
First I read ch. 1-149 in the superbly(!) translated version here: https://www.novelupdates.com/series/the-husky-and-his-white-cat-shizun/ .
Not wanting to wait roughly 10 chapters/month or more than a year to finish the novel (as I would lose interest), I opted to read the summaries - yes, summaries! At first I hought, well, it´s not the same as reading the dialogues, descriptions, etc., but they are very well done also in capturing details. Of course the summaries vary in length: some shorter, some longer ones esp. when major turning points happen. So, I read summaries of ch. 150-311: https://the-husky-and-his-white-cat-shizun.fandom.com/wiki/Novel/Chapters - this also saved some agony and sleepless nights when wanting to read full chapters in one go... The summaries of the extra chapters, i.e. 312-350 are not done or might not happen, I guess.

And now the main reason why I chose to write a comment, are the perceived similarities to other well-known novels (HP, HOB, GDC, SVSSS, Thousand Autumns) which simply kept bugging me when reading TH&hWCS. These similarities are listed in the spoiler below: