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If I remember correctly the influencer was introduced as a friend. But still. Your family member is taken to the hospital and your first concern is for the broken down door and so you call your media friend? It’s like they never considered it might have been legit. Which is extra amazing when you consider the lifestyle that man was living… really, their first question should’ve been, “Great. Which one of his exotic animals was the one to finally do him in?”

Hopefully the drama will follow the book in this regard. She doesn't do anything else to him in the book and as has been previously mentioned, in the very end, it will be the Meng Family who needs evidence from his cousin to clear MYC's name, so... fingers crossed.

Ep 20. The end of the scene between XQ's mother and SY. After he walks away from the table, the mom says out loud to absolutely no one, "Pity."

How should we interpret that one comment?

It made me nervous... I interpreted it as something along the lines of a sarcastic, "Pity, now I'll have to do something about you." But really, it's an open-ended comment and I'm sure others walked away with different interpretations, so I'm curious as to what they might be. One friend thought it might have been along the lines of, "Pity, you're not from a different background," but I think that would be too generous of a comment from the likes of her.

That's why I had the alpaca push the bookcase over! I also did not want the alpaca to be trapped with her. In fact, once she's trapped and starving to death, the alpaca can stand over her and periodically spit on her. Haha!

[And yeah, I had a lot of questions about how the alpaca being in that apartment worked... but then those questions were soon eclipsed by the reactions from that man's family....]

Have the alpaca push the bookcase over her so she’s trapped in that tiny, chaotic apartment and starves to death - the bonus is the indignity of such a death when word gets out!

The first part appears to be JY doing what XQ had asked of him - to help her explain what she’d meant at the dinner. So he tells SY that he misunderstood her and that she was feeling bad for him when she said what she did.

The second part was hard for me to hear because of the background music but seemed to be JY asking if SY wasn’t missing XQ after not having seen her in a while.

The third part is SY deliberately calling XQ but then telling her that he misdialed and meant to call JY, and she’s like yeah… because our names are so close. He asks if she had to react so quickly and she answers she has high EQ.

If we're feeling frustrated imagine how frustrated the leads must be feeling -- and I actually think that's what makes what we are seeing right now realistic. They're caught in an amorphous relationship. They have feelings. They have doubts. They want to move forward. They have insecurities. They think about what they could gain. They think about what they could lose. They're bouncing around as they figure out their relationship, and we're being bounced around with them, but it's a necessary process and so just as they struggle so must we. But when the leads get there, it will be sweet and all of us - including the leads themselves - will appreciate better their relationship because of everything it took for them to get there.

If you look at the schedules for other dramas, including from other web platforms, it's actually quite common for there to be less episodes on the weekend. Just as there are other dramas who do air on the weekend. So I don't think it's that they haven't considered it. I'm sure they did and this is what they decided to come up with.

As mentioned above, in the book, she was assigned the role of the person who gets locked up and left after everyone is rescued. So on the day of the drill that's pretty much what happens. While everyone else is reacting she's just hanging out in the storage room doing this and that. She hears noise all around her but she remembers she's supposed to be the one is left behind so she doesn't say anything. She assumes it's not her turn yet. But after she waits a long while, she starts to think this isn't right, and just as she's about to get up, SY opens the door and finds her. He asks what she's doing but she's rather indignant at this point, pointing out that had this been a real fire, she'd have been a corpse by now. He responds by pointing out she never screamed our asked for help, lol. And she has nothing to say to that! That's when she finds out she had a scenario to follow, but the firemen were never given the scenario.

I doubt the room they were staying in was that far from the bathroom. She could've survived a 2-minute detour to gather her things. Haha! We know why they wrote it that way and that's okay. We will turn a blind eye to logic and accept it for what it is. ;-)

The arc that brings about change is finally here! I love how she tells the blind date - Yeah, all our qualifications match up, but we don't match as people. Because I already have a boyfriend. Woooo!

It wasn't the only time logic was thrown down the fire pole in Ep 20. Another moment was when she had to change her clothes after she got wet. I watched that scene and thought - are you telling me there was absolutely no opportunity for her to return to her room first? That she had no other clothes available? That she had to go straight to the bathroom, and he had to give her one of his outfits to wear, and that she had to open the door half naked?

I'm pretty sure the answer to all of the above is no, but I'LL TAKE IT! Anything to bring the leads together, LOL.

Episode 20. Stand-off between SY and XQ's mother. I don't know how other sites translated the conversation, but on Viki, it had SY saying at one point, "If I really decide to fight, I won't let you get away unscathed," but a more literal translation would've been:

If I really wanted to fight/meet force with force, pulling off a layer of your skin wouldn't be a problem.

I kinda dig that imagery which is why I wanted to share it... it's just so perfect given what a Snake that mother is.

Which... I love that ultimately, she was the one who found it, but seriously? He searched everywhere and those guys clean their station, trucks, and equipment within an inch of their lives, and neither he nor any of the other firemen found it, but all she had to do was leap out of the firetruck, turn, and her eye spotted it immediately?? I'll accept it but only because I have to, not because it's logical! LOL

🤣🤣🤣 You can’t see me but I’m patting my mouth and saying pe, pe, pe, pe! As they do in the dramas when someone says a potentially jinx-ish comment!

Everything seems too nice of an ending for that one. I’d like to extinguish her from our lives pronto, but a quick demise also seems like a gift.

I could go with your scenario except I feel like she should be forced to watch everyone living their best lives without her. Make her face reality. Don’t let her hide - even in a shantytown.

I certainly hope you’re right!!!! Fingers crossed. Redemption seems so far afield for this one, and yet…

Jiang Yu should be awarded a merit medal or a banner, heck give him both, for that scene!! I mean he took his life into his own hands to give us that moment, haha!

I’m sure we’ll think of something else tomorrow! By the time the drama ends, we’ll have gathered enough scenarios to publish a book called, “Twenty Ways to Kill a Snake.” Haha!

I meant to reply to this and got sidetracked by our “fanfic” haha. I agree Road Home ML never really forgave his dad even after the latter found his conscience, and that’s understandable given what the dad put him and the family through. It was more like - you’ve decided to turn into a human so great, I’ll let you still hang around people I care about and do right by you as your son, but they were never going to bond and be warm and fuzzy because there’s too much water under the bridge already.

And that’s kind of how I foresee things going for SY if the drama does give adopted mom a redemption arc. As you can see I’ve pretty much resigned myself to this possibility, LOL, so I’m thinking ahead to how this could possibly play out.

Adopted mom is like a 100 times more toxic than Road Home Dad and has done horrible things to SY and his family, so I don’t think he’d ever be able to forgive her either. I’m not sure he could even accept holiday family gatherings. But I could see him at peace and… I’m not sure what the right adjective to use to say this, because “happy” sounds too joyful and “comforted” and adopted mom don’t seem to belong in the same sentence… but the picture I’m trying to paint is one where maybe he just glad for XQ’s sake that she wouldn’t have to feel so tugged between the two, if that makes sense.

Anyway, just thinking aloud. We will see what the kisskh gives us! I’m still rooting for the pool. 😉

As a fire captain, I’ve every confidence in SY that he’d be able to arrange for that! 😝