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The machinations of Chai An the wannabe mastermind😝

The emphasis of this episode was to make Du look unfit as a suitor for KangNing and Chai went to great lengths to do it. He even had the daughter turned down by Du show up and corner Du personally as to why. Chai wanted to show KangNing he was biased and a snob. When you see his mother, you can see he is a son wanting to give his mother a caring daughter in law. He weeds out rich girls because he knows the majority would not want to look after a sickly old woman. I find he has a rather pragmatic approach about the type of woman that would care for his mother like a daughter. For him, this is a top priority and I can’t fault him for that. His biggest mistake is falling in with Chai’s scheming. He wants to help his friend, but Chai is shooting him in the foot to keep him away from the Li family. I think he is starting to recognize that mistake. There is no way he is suitable as a husband for KangNing. She is plenty smart enough but it is clear that Shou Hua is best suited for him. I loved how tender the Li’s were with his mother when they saw her condition. I like the respect and dignity they gave her. I also loved them throwing the Chai’s gifts out at them. Chai got the fortune teller to trick his mom, but his friend blabbed because she now is on the Li side and not recommending Chai. I am sure this was supposed to be found humerous but it was tiring to watch. When KangNing packed up the box with the plum blossom gift, I had hopes for them as an eventual perfect match, but his scheming and manipulation of people and events rather than candid conversations with his mother and wanted bride just annoy the hell out of me and moves him lower and lower in my estimation. He doesn’t deserve any woman in his life other than his biased mom until he gets his act together. At this point I am not sure he will live long enough to see the light. I would like Du to apologize and marry the right sister. I am glad this episode is finally done because the fool married Chai is less irksome than the mastermind wannabe Chai. 😝

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Sifu house scholar contest…prize pearl curtain and bride

Du politely and firmly turns down Chai’s offer of housing til he takes exams. Ms Li has a new scheme to attract a scholar to her daughter. They offer a special bread for good luck and gives them the time it makes to create a poem that will get her daughter’s attention. There is a pearl curtain offered as well to get some enthusiasm. Chai is not wanting To lose the girl so asks Du to go in and sabotage their contest. He pretends to be married when Ms Li offered him her daughter so he was given an ass for a prize instead.🤣😂 He was actually interested in the intelligent daughter that added a challenge to the contest but since he hadn’t seen her he opted to not participate for real. Unfortunately for him he and his friend were found frozen and the very ladies he tricked is now rescuing him. What is both humorous and annoying is Chai’s efforts to raise walls and chop down crow tree for the comfort of the scholars staying there. Ms Li went from Florence Nightengale to Lizzie Borden wanting to beat him to death for his deceit. 🤣 kangNing plots a strategy to get the scholars to come to them at episode end. This episode was pure setup for Shou Hua love interest. After the last couple episodes I don’t mind the filler to calm myself down from Chai’s antics. He is annoying in this episode trying to get a rise out of Kang Ning but she is wiser and not responding. He is still acting like the wronged party and telling his scholar friend about how annoying the Li’s have been for him.😝He’s still on my s list for not making real effort to find out what happened and throwing all the blame on her. He still needs to have a real chat with mommy dearest. 😝🙄

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1st off i get that the actor dyed their hair…

1st off i get that the actor dyed their hair cause of the character's in the manga series - but i could do without the "color", i don't think it adds to their looks but that's me. nitpicking aside - this was a cute 1st ep, not something new as i kinda been there done that with the clueless, carefree goofball that (ironically) turns to the only good-looking guy that wayyy out of his league (but secretly wayyy into him) to play act at dating & then it turns into reality. ***********************************************************but it was cute all the same & i found it eyebrow raising that Issei already made his move. but have to say Kiyo & his sister r both very "slow" to think playacting at being in a gay relationship, will be a turn on & make Kiyo into a "women magnet" personally i think most normal girls wouldn't ever consider hitting-on or approaching a guy that's in a gay relationship. & the ones that do, in the hopes of "turning" him straight r either crazy or exist only BL land. but it's the premise of the plot so it is what it is...

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The kiss that didn’t count

The foursome had a fun meeting and cousin snuck in some beer. Zheng Yu acts cute and is much more forward in complimenting YanZhou. Here I am not a fan of the alcohol drunken kiss trope. This caused misunderstandings. I like how she tried to get the mom to understand YanZhou was allergic to eggs. It did not register with her but Yanzhou noticed she took the dish with eggs so he wouldn’t be pressed to eat it. I am already damn tired of the cling on lab partner. Literally planting himself in the middle is tiresome. I grinned at Yanzhou interrupting senior’s ploy to get Zheng Yu to go with him for the team building exercise. She is again being hounded by the debt collectors and she has given up her convenience store job. There has been a very long delay with award money and nobody has been declared a winner. I get that Yanzhou feels hurt she lied about her memory, but to deny the kiss counted and make her feel bad was not his finest moment. She feels foolish because she knows it was alcohol induced but she also is starting to realize she kissed him because she really wanted to. He undermined that step forward of acknowledgement because he was annoyed she would admit it to a group of colleagues but not to him. 😝😡 I’m not gonna give him a pass to be an ass just because he is usually the almost perfect guy. It was her first kiss too and now he’s tarnished the memory. I want to blame the third wheel clingon for them not getting a chance to discuss it, but I don’t think it would have made a difference. She was embarrassed first by getting drunk, second by being caught by the parents and still processing his behavior of being Mr jealousy. Something he never bothered to explain because his damn ego got in the way. He doesn’t think she gets a pass for being scared to acknowledge what the kiss means so he doesn’t get one for being an ass. He could have counted it with her and they could have been teased into a conversation. Where she gave him credit in public, he wasn’t inclined to do the same. He is the wrong party here not the wronged. I almost hope she leaves the lab to find a job to get the loan sharks off her back but she needs this as a beginning network for future employment. This is the first time I have wanted to smack Yanzhou upside the head for stupidity. He has always been so wise about how to return kindness and when it mattered to her he tossed it in her face that she didn’t count it with him so he wasn’t gonna count it for the game. We now know Yanzhou can be petty. I am sad that my favorite drama has left me annoyed with them rather than my usual happy pill. Usually the sadness comes from externals. This is the first time they were the rain and everywhere else the sun. Yanzhou has taken his pouting to a whole new level and for once I’m not in his corner. 😝🙄I’m not dismissing Zheng Yu’s pretense of not remembering, but she was quietly trying to tell him she did via the game and he took that and shoved it back in her face. It just goes to show that even nice guys can be jerks on occasion. 😝😡

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Jealousy and homework hijinks

Life in the lab is not what Chen Yan Zhou expected. Zheng Yu keeps wandering off with Mr tall lab sr and jealousy is taking over. Zheng Yu sees this guy as a good friend and trying to get information for Chen YanZhou to persuade him to take the Germany internship. She does not see it through YanZhou’s green eyes so doesn’t understand him backing off from her. Her roomies get it and send out a line about a school mixer to get him to ask her out, but right when he was going to bring it up weird lab partner shows up to thank her for cleaning the coffee machine. 🤣😂 there is a misunderstanding about lunch and soon family provides a new misadventure for them. Zheng Yu’s brother is caught getting fees for doing homework and Chen Yan Zhou’s cousin is caught for employing him. Our couple finds themselves together with teachers trying to be the adults representing them.🤣😂 Cousin and cousin’s wife shows up and it is then an impromptu family meeting.🤣😂 YanZhou has figured out the siblings don’t get to be together much so he is trying to extend the visit for them. Zheng Yu wants her brother to focus on exams and presses him that good placement grades will help them both out the best. I appreciate that he’s trying to be the other adult in the room to try to help take care of his mother. He’s tired of watching his sister handle it all and wants to be there for her. The biggest funny for me are the lazy students that will buy their homework, but not smart enough to copy it in their handwriting to keep from being discovered. One student will not get over so easily next time. 🤣😂This is the first episode that felt a bit like filler material but there has to be a setup for dating and for siblings to get some visiting time in. So waiting to see if the mixer comes up and if any invites are extended. 😁I also wonder if Zheng Yu will understand that YanZhou is jealous of her lab friend. I like the warm fuzzy of the four with the teachers being family. 🥰

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Five Stars

His mother is really something. Being nice only when she needs their help, why act so shocked when he told her to F off?? Seunghi is using her time the best, it is actually funny and the best is that probably in th eend she might become one of the closest person to AJin. So Junseo finally realised that Rena loves him, I hope she will just finally move on, she shouldn't even start this shit, like from the beginning she was about to lose. Wasted her own time and heart. NICE we''ve got psycho and honestly I hope A Jin will swallow him fully with no mercy, I hope she will find out what he tried to do to Jaeo and that her rage will make her stronger. Bro don check up but not fully if he thinks that this way she will be just a sweet nice wife of him ;D what kind of thought procces was in his head I don't know but definitely not the good one. SO let's watch THE SHOW.

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