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Happy New Year

The four get stationed where they are best suited. LanXiang ends up in the study after admitting she can read and her writing needs some work. This puts her in very close quarters with JinQi. The Lin soy network is seeing if she and her friend know the whys if JunQi’s divorce. JinQi squelches further investigation of LamXiang as they agree she can keep quiet. LanXiang was outside the window and overheard this conversation. She knows that even now she is not safe from the whims of nobles if they see her as a threat or witness. JinQi brings his friend home and Ms Du is going to move in to relieve him of being sole parent to his sister. He took a blade for JinQi so his family is being included in the Lin household. Ms Du reminds me of LanXiang in many ways. She takes time to read the room and doesn’t impose herself in anybody. She is thoughtful and assists and does not seem to put in airs because her status has changed. It is lamented she is from a military family as that is seen as putting her out of range for a perceived good match more upper tier. The mothers commiserate over JinQi’s situation but he is probably quite happy he will have a year off from mother’s nagging about getting a wife and having grandbabies. He encourages the grandfather to not let his sister’s happiness be put on hold for his situation. For the army supplies, he got right in the shopkeepers face and blackmailed him directly to comply within three days or explain to the emperor why unrest in the city. He is quite good at lighting fires under less than willing merchants. The new year is a fun and reflective time. Amidst all the fun Lan Xiang remembers Shen Jia Lan and takes out the talisman with her mother’s last message. She offers prayers and wishes showing her family that she is surviving and living well. Her friend’s family has moved in next door and they are already looking out for each other as extended family. This episode was a lot of out with the old and in with the new. Especially at the Lin household.

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The Light That Slowly Reaches Him

“ My father’s dream isn’t my dream.” Niran’s words stayed with me throughout Episode 8. Judo was tied to those rare moments when his parents celebrated together, so admitting that he no longer wants it means confronting much more than his future career.I appreciated his teacher listening carefully and his mother’s fiancé reassuring him that he had not been abandoned. Being a teenager does not make the hurt caused by family conflict disappear.This episode also helped me understand why Niran finds love difficult to trust. Chiwa’s gentle, persistent affection is slowly reaching a heart that has learned to protect itself.Like light travelling an immense distance from a star, love takes time to arrive. That image captures what makes this series so moving to me.

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what a roller costar ride - this ep was crazy.…

what a roller costar ride - this ep was crazy. what i don't get is even if Chita couldn't save Jirat, why he let Pear go?!? he could've got to her while she was biting Jirat or when she was growing her arm back - given how fast he is (in-spite of that leg). he could've done it - even if he couldn't save Jirat - he could at least finish the person that took the life of a person he had fallen for. & i don't get Pear taunting him, knowing full well he was the Nour that could kill other Nour's - so he was stronger then her, why would u do that??? no logic at all, get she might have been desperate for blood - but u telling me there was no other humans around, she could target?!? weird - unless she had a death wish & if so her death when it came, was kinda anticlimactic cause she didn't put up any kind of fight - so i ask again, what was the point?!? same with the whole scene where Ken takes James to his lovers grave. i get it was so James would understand why Ken (in spite of falling for him) couldn't be diverted from his initial goal... i get that until now, he never really connected with anyone, cause no matter how much he cared they would always leave him - as they were humans & couldn't live forever. so the bond he had with his soul mate could never be duplicated - but isn't James different?!? given the fact he is half Nour?!??? idk maybe i am simplifying something that is a bit more complex - but to me... i would rejoice that after how many decades i finally found a reason to keep living. but on the other hand i haven't lived a couple of centuries so what do i know lol...************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************i liked Tangme, heck i like a lot of the side character's even if they don't have a lot of screen time - but her death was kinda pointless. given the fact that Jame's knows that Nour's exist & r wayyyyy stronger then the average human - why were the cops not paired up?!? & for the life of me, i don't get Tangme getting out of that car & going to investigate all alone - like why??? that was a stupid move... but then her blood getting used as some kind of aphrodisiac, was wild - who thought up that scene lol. it made sense & yet it was kinda gross & hot all rolled up in one. ********************************************************************i get Jirat's reaction & yet i don't really feel that sorry for him. i feel sorrier for Chita (ironic i know) but he did something out of desperation & love... now things r not going the way he hoped. but i am more curious as to why he has been torching Nour's?!? as i was wrong & all the burnt bodies the mains have been investigating until now have all been Nour's so why is Chita hell-bent or eradicating his own species?!? not all of them r murderers that hunt humans, like Ken - or did the one he target hurt humans - more questions...

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Teaching Him the Colors of Life

What stayed with me most in Episode 7 was James explaining the colors of the rainbow to Ken. For a man who has lived for two hundred years and still longs for death, this quiet moment felt like an invitation to experience life again.James wants to spend his lifetime with Ken, yet he also recognizes that Ken’s wish to die has not disappeared. That makes his affection especially moving: loving Ken does not mean he fully understands or can erase his pain.Meanwhile, Jirat’s disappearance brings a frightening turn to his growing relationship with Chita. Both couples are becoming more deeply attached, just as the mystery puts those bonds in danger.The tenderness and suspense work beautifully together. I am increasingly invested in these characters—and increasingly afraid for them.

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Revelations

Bu Tian Na learns that her parents are suppressing her work efforts so she will come back to be a placeholder in family company til her brother is ready to take over. Ye Xin Zhi is trying to accept that the girl he likes is already taken. I like that the girls still are friends and still competitive. Bu TianNa works til she collapses which results in girls commiserating wine and snack fest mulling over their feelings about guys and family. Bu TianNa’s project was turned down because her father paid off Celestial to do it. He wants her to fail and come home sooner. Ye Xin Zhi keeps sending mixed signals and Xu Chi has had enough of his games but still really likes him. The biggest and most disappointing revelation is that her wannabe boyfriend completely took over their meeting with the new client, did a crappy authoritative demand for them to completely change their software, and teamed up with Ma Ke to completely sideline her from her own project. 😝🙄He pretty much told her to sit and look pretty while he did the talking. 😡🤬 He dismissed her as a colleague and person and then has the temerity to wonder why his presentation fell flat and was strongly rejected. He is so brainwashed to the Ma Ke way of doing things that he firmly believes the client is wrong and just needs pressured to see the light. And now the client is adamantly against Xu Chi because she was the one that persuaded him to get onboard. Her senior didn’t even get her opinion on how to proceed on her own project but basically told her to step aside while the real masterminds handled the details. She needs to kick this guy to the curb and get away from Ma Ke’s team entirely. She actually needs to get away from this miserable company. 😝I was kinda gobsmacked that this arrogant jerk was the same guy trying to tell her how much he liked her and could they date? 😝🙄 The one cute thing was a drunk Xu Chi telling a drunk Bu TianNa that she sympathized with Zhao Heng’s unrequited feelings for Bu TianNa. When asked how she knew the feelings were real Xu Chi’s surprising response was that she and Zhao Heng at core are quite similar. She then passes out to end conversation. Bu TianNa gives Zhao Heng an opening by giving him her apartment number and saying she wants ice cream. He comes over in a ridiculous costume and the fireworks begin. They have a sweet moment and then the girls meet at the office to compare notes and let the other know game on for project. They are fun to watch. I am so disappointed in her crappy senior colleague who I gave too much credit to. He truly has no respect for Xu Chi or the work she put in, and knowing what an asshat Ma Ke is, chooses to team up with him to run XuChi out of her own project. I really hate this episode left such a bitter taste when it’s the only one for today.😝 one thing a bit more pleasant was Ye Xin Zhi sending the apartment pic to XuChi. But again, he is the king of mixed signals.😝 Finally learned his fidget box is a container of physical pieces of periodic table. Didn’t expect that really. It’s his one link to his dad. I am actually more disgusted this episode than the Ma Ke theft presentation. She needs to shed this company ASAP. I am still trying to figure out how people like Sha Sha and Mr Pi have too many Ma Ke’s in their employ. Her senior learned nothing from Xu Chi’s victory. She showed them directly to their faces there was a better way to approach this company and they tossed her and her efforts aside to manipulate the company to do something they did not want to and strongly objected to from the get go. I would really like her to submit her resignation, go work for Ye Xin Zhi full time and tell her senior wannabe bf to kiss off. 😝The cast is doing an excellent job because I really want to know what happens next in spite of being truly disgusted with the company and Bu’s parents. What I didn’t expect was for Ma Ke to again flip things to make a win taste so bitter or for Bu TianNa’s parents to be so calculating in planning her life ‘for her own good’ by having her pave the way for little brother. Both girls deserve so much better.

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Crazy episode in the best way possible!

Craaazy episode! So many twists, and some of those reveals were already circling my mind... Liang, Sect Master... wow! 🤯The most surprised I was was about Wenxin, but then, I actually wasn't. That man was unknowingly separated from his wife, then lied to about how that had happened, and in the end when he saw what they had done to her... His rage was well justified, he was pushed beyond his limits, and I can just applaud him for killing Huaiyi and Huaijin... They both deserved that. 👏🙂‍↕️And about the elder brother? I take back whatever pity points I considered before. That man was as vile as his siblings, if not even worse. The world is definitely a better place without him in it. 😌But the mystery around the ML's identity? I am super confused now. If he is not Wang Jiaxian, then who is he? And WHAT is his agenda against the Tianxiang Sect then? 🤨

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