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Are we friends?

Your heart breaks for Zheng Yu as she steals the assailant’s work badge and spurs him on to up her leverage for settlement pay. 😭 Chen Yan Zhou is fortunately in the area and chases the drunkard off. He figured the only way to help Zheng Yu was to buy the damaged perfume. Her description of rain turning to sunshine…..and then he wanted the base notes.🤣😂 Both of them when confronted with the word friend rolled it around their minds and tongue as a completely foreign word and concept for them. 😔🧐 He is more receptive to the idea than she is but she wants a colleague to split the tasks with and level up grades. She does not have the luxury of wasting time with sentiment because she has two thugs threatening her mother if she doesn’t come up with an additional 20K. 🤬 I am glad Chen Yan Zhou showed up and got them escorted out and the pottery shard out of her hand. Here is where I don’t know why police not called and their photos up to not admit to the facility to continue threatening her. Her confrontation with her bully boss revealed he had his own less than perfect circumstances as well. His shifts had to be exact to care for his son who had his own special needs to deal with. For the first time they saw each other as people and not just boss and worker. She had two words to say to him that got to his heart when he told her she still had a job. Thank you🥹 Her resume passed for the nice mom and it’ s hard to believe that a pair of puppy slippers can make you tear up as Zheng Yu realizes they were bought for her. The daughter is very smart, lazy with school discipline and mischievous to no end.😝🤣 Zheng Yu refuses to be rattled with her shenanigans and meets them head on with a firm no nonsense approach that refuses to be goaded or distracted by the young lady’s antics. Her latest prank was to hide her homework in Zheng Yu’s backpack who discovered it just before getting on the bus. She is directed to the uncle’s house and both are surprised when once again Chen Yan Zhou and Zheng Yu find themselves inadvertently meeting at an unexpected location. He learns from his professor that Zheng Yu helped clear his name rather than trying to claim the award money. She finds herself the recipient of two words that got to her heart from him. Thank you.🥰She cannot accept the term friend, but both find themselves trying to define what exactly they are. There is an unmistakable drawing to each other, but it’s to prove their worth to themselves that they unite their skills to take on the obstacles and have their project win top honors. They can both agree to this united front and friendship just might sneak in as part of the equation. As the episode ends and they are both staring at each other again unexpectedly, I hope her plans change for the holiday and the mischievous student that is smart enough to get into trouble but far behind in studies is the catalyst to create a fun unexpected adventure for all of them. This drama is my current happy place. There is so much here that is unfair and tragic, but there is so much warmth, candor and the struggle to understand a different point of view that it makes you smile as much as tear up for them. You just want to wrap both of them up in a big hug and give them some much needed support from a grownup so they can do something neither have probably ever done…..have a day to play and be a kid with nothing else on the schedule. To just be …❤️

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Finding the truth and working thru obstacles

So her obsessed sr Xie Yu Di has a hero complex. He knew what had happened with the test and who the real target was. Zheng Yu was accurate in that he waited to present himself as her savior.😝🙄 She had to unmute his WeChat messages to get the truth out of him but they found a hallway camera that showed her disgruntled ex partner try to set her up as a cheater on the exam but his aim was off and landed on Chen Yan Zhou’s desk instead. 😝🙄 The paper she dropped in the lab was her scholarship application. Now he knows why she has such an urgent need for cash and pays a visit to the hospital and meets the lady that helps Zheng Yu at the hospital. He has quietly brought things and assisted her since he can’t seem to do that for Zheng Yu. I loved how she countered that snide parent who tried to steal all her wages. It’s just a shame that the kid with a decent parent is a spoiled little brat with no intentions of having her be hired as the tutor. We meet Zheng Yu’s brother who lives with the uncle. He has a vague idea of what she is up against but she refuses to bind him with the debt and the thugs. I was happy with the meet cute in the lab where Chen Yan Zhou helps her get to work by changing his cab route. Ya gotta appreciate brat girl’s opportunistic award receipts returning those gloves and giving such a generous spirit to the school.🙄😝🤣It is kinda using her powers for good in a very selfish way. 🤣😝Zheng Yu’s brother has tricked the uncle into fixing her laptop so that is one plus. Your heart kinda breaks when she wants to be sure her brother has enough cash when she is one step above getting meals from the trash can. 😔 Her love for her sibling shines thru in spite of her adverse living conditions. I want her rescued from that drunk guy who waited to assault her after she locked up the store. That was a very crappy place to end episode. 😝😡🙄

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Gossip and sabotage

The roller blade exam went better than I expected. Chen Yan Zhou has the bruises to prove his efforts. During their last exam he was sabotaged with someone throwing an answer page at him. Zheng Yu was out of it herself eating expired food so she kept out of the clinic and barely survived her exam. However, this meant she wasn’t as observant as usual. That obsessed Xie Yu Di is behind the sabotage for the test and is trying to steal the money from the two that deserve it. 😝 She is being black mailed for 30k for the semester and her mother and lab is being threatened. Her curiosity got the better of her and she asked on a campus chat room what happened to Chen Yan Zhou’s big brother. This started the gossip mills running and now after the test and his participation and then disappearance from the lab that studied the same topic as his brother, he is being hounded on many fronts with intrusive gossip and speculation. His guilt about whatever happened made him read too much and it is seriously impacting his demeanor and mindset tho he’s burying himself in his work to survive. Zheng Yu told her debt collectors what they needed to hear, not what she thought but Chen doesn’t knew that. He did ask her directly but she’s a science major and she works with facts. She doesn’t think he had a reason to cheat, but she doesn’t know why he would be targeted. So their doubts about each other have them working separately rather than together. She also dropped some paperwork in the lab which will most likely end up in hands it isn’t supposed to. I really don’t like the Xie Yu Di character and now that he knows she’s blocking his calls he’s going to be an even bigger pain in the ass. At first I thought he was doing it to help her out in a sick way, but the asshat did it to knock them both down and give the money to the next runner ups. Hopefully they will get their act together before it does some real harm to their efforts. She feels bad about the unexpected degree of gossip in the matter and erases her question, but she is well aware of the pain she inadvertently caused Chen Yan Zhou. There is nothing new about this drama as far as plot goes, but, the music, filming and interaction of the cast makes this an excellent watch. I find myself looking forward to the new episodes to see how they resolve things and to watch the budding friendship between the leads. Their personal struggles and their mutual work/study centric lifestyle gives an interesting spin on why they are the way they are and hope that with each other’s help, they will get past their struggles and find new purpose and hope for themselves.

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The ML has lost me.

I don't really understand what the show writer(s) is trying to achieve here. The ML, despite all evidence that this is putting more and more distress upon Ye Shilan, (who he supposedly likes) continues to play mind games with her. I don't understand why it is so important to him to force HER to confess her feelings first. Especially at this emotional cost to her. Because he should know - in fact he admits he should have remembered - just how emotionally guarded and reserved she is (and for good reason). But even with his ex GF telling him his stupid schemes are childish and that SHE doesn't want to be used as a foil in this scheme, he STILL CONTINUES TO PLAY GAMES instead of just being honest with Shilan. Even when he forces her, using her IOU, to put on the dress and go to his Mom's b-day party, he still refuses to tell the truth about Qiao Yu. He justifies it because she has officially declared their relationship as platonic - but SHE HAS TO. She is his subordinate and she is vulnerable socially and economically. And he has misled her to believe she is nothing but, "the other woman" - something she doesn't want to be.This show has dragged this stupid bit on for 3+ episodes now and I really hope it cleans this idiotic crap up soon or I don't know if I have the stamina to finish out this series. The show needs to transform the ML back into someone who deserves the FL because right now he is not someone the audience should be rooting for.

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WTF is wrong with the ML? Why is he gaslighting the FL?

In last episode and this one, Ye ShiLan has given multiple chances for Lu Shao Xi to clarify that he is not interested in Qiao Yu, but he keeps very deliberately fails to clear up her misunderstanding. Each time she has put her misunderstanding of the situation out in front of. him clearly, often in almost a questioning manner and instead of correcting her he either says nothing, deflects or, in some cases seemingly confirms. So what is the poor girl to think? She thinks he is confirming that he does indeed want to be with Qiao Yu again! So she - especially ShiLan, given who she is and her history - naturally retreats into her defensive shell, not matter how much it actually hurts her to deny her own feelings.This makes no sense on the part of Shao Xi. Even if he himself is still not brave enough to confess his feelings for Shi Lan, WTF is he gaslighting her into thinking he has feelings for Qiao Yu? In each and ever case, he could have simply clarified that he wasn't interested in Qiao Yu, without ever revealing his feelings for Shi Lan.The net result is that, because she honestly thinks he has feelings for Qiao Yu, every time he shows closeness towards ShiLan, she starts to feel like she is, "the other woman". And she doesn't want to be that so she tries to act professional and supportive of his pursuit of his ex. Which he then takes to mean she doesn't care for him?????It's ridiculous for him to keep waiting and expecting that Shi Lan should show her feeling to him first. Not only is she his subordinate and in a highly vulnerable position socially and economically - such that she cannot afford to mess with her job - he also KNOWS by now just how reserved and defensive she is emotionally based on her history. So all this behavior by the ML seems cruel and completely unnecessary.

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EP.4 – When the Teacher Becomes the Student 💕

Gear finally realizes that sex cannot bring back someone who no longer loves him. He decides to end his lessons with Kanti.But Kanti, who initially found Gear troublesome, is suddenly the one who cannot let go! Watching this experienced playboy become confused by his growing affection is delightful.My favorite part, however, is Gear's grandfather and his boyfriend. Their karaoke bar is a warm, welcoming place where even Kanti feels safe enough to reveal his loneliness.Having lost his mother young and grown up with a distant father, Kanti may be discovering the comfort of being cared for.The lessons resume, but perhaps Kanti has more to learn about love than Gear does.And honestly, I'm just as intrigued by the adorable older couple and Fort & Peat's Romeo-and-Juliet-style mafia romance as I am by the main couple! 💐

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