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Team rallying after setback

Pei has received info about Yu’s location. He has dismissed Xiu being part of the reason and knows it pertains to his ideas for competition. His team has nothing close to the same idea but he gives an interview implying that he has worked with another company using the same materials and Shanghai lanes. His sinister snake power emoting.😝 He doesn’t have to have anything close to Yu’s idea. What he successfully did was taint the concept of Yu’s designs making it look like he copied their idea. No matter how good the design, it won’t go over well. Mr cobra has meticulously kept to the letter of the competition rules but undermined the spirit of them to venemously poison another project with a public lie.😝 I’m disgusted with him but have to admit it was genius to undermine Yu and not break a sweat with any more effort for his own team’s vision. 😝 Yu is receiving his own medicine back to him about wallowing.😂🤣 Xiu has made it a mission to get him out of the game mourning his project and back to reality to deal with it. I am wondering now if she helped the old lady lose the balloons.🤣 She gets him back home and they reflect by her huge bundle of balloons. Xiu tells him why she loves living there. She tells him the stories of the people that live there and why young and old can’t live there. The youth need high tech features and the old need accommodation with elevators and health needs. She challenges him to make it happen. She is inspiring him and he finally knows how to edit their original design. The next day he hears the children under his window choosing the balloon they want and Xiu makes sure the smiley face daisy floats to him. They head to the office to make best use of the remaining time. I enjoyed how all his team showed up in spite of the day off. They are a united front and encourage each other to present the best project they can in spite of Pei’s underhanded publicity. On the day of the competition, everybody is present but Yu. There is gossip floating around the room that he doesn’t have the nerve to show up. Right about then his team strides in with him in the lead. Even here , Pei reminds Mr Lie of his prior project.😝 What he doesn’t know is Lie had already seen a sample of Yu’s design plan.😝 Yu boldly states the materials and Shanghai lane to them and as the talk gets louder in the audience about his audacity, he further explains why that isn’t the direction of the design. He presents the combination of living/VR capabilities that brings an entirely different concept. The residents can choose the era they want to live in and have history and present combined in a fluid engaging way. He has impressed many and Pei is nervously twisting his ring and the cobra is currently more like a garden snake trying not to get stepped on. They were obviously the top runners for the project. Zhuling went high tech and futuristic in concept to bring a new forward look to Shanghai. What was to be determined is if Mr Lie was sentimental or not. The two competitors stayed in a deadlock for quite awhile but our team pulls it off with a single vote. Xiu gets to see herself part of an original design team and in writing. It’s a pivotal moment for her with her career. They try to act despondent when they return and Xiu is chastised for poor acting skills.🤣😂 While they celebrate a much deserved win we see Zhao waiting for her hubby at reunion site. He is late and is not particularly wanting to go. His friends tease him about being Mr girl magnet and there is mention of the jr that tried to get his WeChat. Zhao is curious of this and he brushes it off. He has her leave early and goes back in. He looks tenderly at his wife so I don’t really expect any temptation for infidelity. What I do question is what lengths he would go to to have his project succeed. Here he is a huge gray character. Pei and Yu meet at the club and exchange words. It is fun watching Yu tower above Pei. No matter how much he cranes his neck he can’t get higher than Yu’s ear.😂🤣 Pei decides not to join after the encounter. Yu gets the names he wanted for possible leads about the steel company and then there is a prior person they had not considered. His driver who has done well for himself since the tragedy and has Zhuling connections. Yu goes to his place and there is a forensic room mapping out all leads pertaining to the stadium collapse. It is a small library focused solely on anything connected to the incident whether it seems relevant or not. Yu is leaving no stone unturned in his investigation. Following Pei into his home he finds his father waiting on him. Where Pei is more reptilian this one is like an ice mountain that has no room for defeat. It is easier to understand how Pei is the way he is in this environment. His dad promptly stomps him for losing and threatens to find another to lead Zhuling. He is compared to Yu and again found wanting. It’s no wonder he won’t hold back to change that dynamic in his father’s eyes. Zhao has included the murder game info with her purchases and now Pei has seen it. He is surprised to see Yu’s name in the game. And here is where episode ends. I am wondering if Pei will boldly try the game? It would be interesting to see him in this environment.

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Eating by candlelight 😂🥰

At work the congenial colleague greets Xiu with a more somber look, wishing her good luck, and tells her the boss wants to see her. She goes into his office and starts confessing to being sneaky.😂😂 He was actually calling her in to reward her for working so hard and adding her to the design team credit for project. She is definitely happy and Yu wants to know what she was told before entering his office.😂😂 in another scene Yu is chatting over drinks with a friend in the steel industry. There is more history to the tragedy and it comes down to Yu’s dad signing a procurement order for steel too weak for the project they are building. When he is older he tells his uncle there is no way his dad signed the order and the uncle agrees. However it has been proven to be his dad’s handwriting and they have no other evidence to rebut it. Yu’s friend finally found out what happened to the owner of steel company from that project. His company was bankrupted and he went abroad and died two years later. This does not deter Yu. He asks his friend to broaden the net to find out from other sources what happened. He is interrupted by Xiu calling him. She is concerned he left work and wants to know if he needs a ride. He tells her not to worry and where he is. He then gets the riot act from Xiu about drinking while he was still healing. What is memorable is that this admonishment caused him to smile. A full smile. 🥰 He is appreciating somebody truly caring for his well being,puts his drink down, and finishes their talk with his friend teasing him. Xiu greets him with crab cake pastries. She tells him three different flavors but they all look exactly the same and he asks her to show him the difference between flavors.😂🤣 She admits to defeat. 😂 She is happy with project and wants to treat him to a meal. She cannot confirm a specific time so he is to be ready whenever she calls for him. While Yu is deciding flavor preferences Xiu recieves a call from family accidentally on speaker. It is about a blind date her dad has set up. Here she gets off speaker but from the eavesdropper side of conversation it seems like their date is cancelled. He is a major pouty boo over this.😂🤣 We all have been wondering how this tall man has lived in that many cornered nook with his height and those angles. She has a fox plushie hanging on the beam he is most likely to hit his head on. He punches it after her phone call and it laughs while calling him idiot.😂🤣 it is funnier still because he doesn’t know how to shut it off. 😂🤣Xiu is laughing her butt off but finally comes to his rescue to twist the ears.😂🤣 He hates the damn thing told on him but he secretly likes it and hung it back up on the beam. He also revealed his hand is healed when he fixed the loose electrical connection. She is put out that he played the victim and took advantage. Zhao has created a new cake and Xiu is excited because she rarely makes them. She has bargained to get one for Yu but has to wait til it’s made. Zhao is very pleased with her creation and is surprised to see Pei at the counter. He is in the vicinity so he stopped in for a coffee. He is also trying to slyly get info on Xiu. The cake is being sent to Xiu’s place and he pays attention to the address. Xiu is doing laundry and not in plain sight so Yu gets pouty and goes to the office mumbling about her rudeness. He misses the cake arrival. Xiu is all happy about the cake and finds Yu gone. Pei saw Yu exiting and the cake delivery so he wants to know why Yu lives there. It’s none of his damn business but I want to know what he digs up. There may be more info connected to their family tragedy.She mumbles about his rudeness and heads to restaurant anyways. Here she finds a mopey boss eating alone. He was going to sit by and watch her date while eating alone. 😝 She tells him what really happened and teases him about eavesdropping and that he really wanted their meal. Which he actually admitted.🥰 She puts a candle on the cake and sweetly wishes. He declines but blows out the candle. Well…he tried to😂🤣 The candle refuses to go out no matter how hard they both tried. It is now providing the ambiance of the meal. 🤣🥰 As they exit, he tosses her the keys and tells her to go home and straighten things out with her dad so she can have her third wish.🥰 She leaves and Yu discovers his phone is dead and his wallet is in the car. Xiu hasn’t noticed and is taking her boss’s instruction to heart to enjoy the time with family and not return early. Her dad is proud of her and wants her to win the competition. He is also sorrowful his injury has held her back. The one thing I find unique about this drama is the characters getting to clear the air rather quickly. The misunderstandings are not drug out to cause frustration for viewers. The tension is real but it is candidly addressed by relevant characters and there is no doubt where either party stands. I greatly appreciate this feature of the production team and writers and hope this is continued to the end of drama . So while she is enjoying being emotional with her parents and clearing the air, Yu is taking a very long stroll home. He feels something on his sleeves and notes some cake icing. This is his second full smile to end the episode. 🥰

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i am kinda over J breaking down crying, rushing…

i am kinda over J breaking down crying, rushing to hug Jinn after he wakes up for a premonition dream - every freakin time. the 1st couple of times it was whatever, but now it's like 'come on' it normal, cause of the survival instinct u develop immunity & have a weaker reaction cause now u know u need to figure out a way to prevent what's gonna happen & u can't waste energy weeping & crying. but not J, he's breaking down every time & it's kinda tiresome. heck if it was me, i would've told Jinn about his father & mother, about the accident.... it's too much work trying to rearrange the future, especially when there might be a boomerang effect or what's gonna happen will happen, just in a different way. ****************************************************regarding the 2nd couple - i aint shocked & no matter how much they like or even love each other they want different things in a relationship & personality wise they like oil & water, sadly they can't mix. i don't really see any future for them as a couple unless one of them compromises in every way possible just to be with the other.

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Jinn's mother was in the wrong to keep…

Jinn's mother was in the wrong to keep Jinn in the dark for so long, if there is a valid reason for his father not acknowledging them. maybe wait until he cooled down, as a kid but he wasn't so young he couldn't understand what was going on. better then growing up with the feeling that u r unwarted by ur father & hating him cause of it. hard to then be open to even hearing about him. so she is at fault, that her son has turned this averse to even the mention of his father. J on his part already spoke to her & she should've done better - but she keeps going mute, cause she is avoiding a confrontation with her son. ***********************either way idk how J think's he can save Jinn, get he called his ability "superpower" but that isn't a superpower, as he is really powerless to do anything IMO. ******************************************************************************************************regarding the 2nd couple, Farm knows he should just end things with Van, so his asking Van 'if that was what he really wanted' was his way of giving him an out - Van should've taken him up on his offer (even though i am sure he knew, that even though Farm said they could go back to being friends - they never really would). but Van is digging his own grave & now i wonder who will be left heartbroken by the end, he or Farm.

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Satisfying Final Round 👏🏻

This challenge had the chefs cook a dish for themselves. This was uncharted territory as most chefs focus on cooking for others and don’t really take the time to think of preparing something special just for them. Both chefs did an outstanding job and had special stories behind their dishes. The judges ate both dishes. Scraping the bottom of one and drinking from the bowl of the other. The winner had to win by unanimous vote from judges. What is amazing is this was done first round. I was so excited for the winner I clapped til my hands stung.😂👏🏻I hated how they got rid of the black spoons in bulk, but they ended with a round of black and white spoon that had everybody trying to guess who would win. It was a satisfying ending to a series that I thought they had totally spoiled. Kudos to chefs and staff for making this last episode so exciting to watch. 👏🏻👏🏻

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Xie Xue Chen sacrifices himself for Mu Xuan Ling

Xie Xue Chen once again fails to change the past to ensure Mu Xuan Ling lives in the present. There is one option left to save her and that's destroying his spiritual channel and giving back the chaos power to her. But in doing so he will die. He does so and Mu Xuan Ling awakens while Xie Xue Chen dies with a spirit of him still living in the present elsewhere. I think it's living in Zhao Ming who is now free and takes over the dark abyss. Meanwhile the deity that took over Nan Xu Yue's body is forcing Mu Xuan Ling(who was a deity in the past/his lover?) to marry him. I might be staring in anger if they actually force her to marry him and go through with it. Xie Xue Chen is dead but we still have Zhao Ming and my god it's so breathtaking seeing Zhang Bin Bin in the evil boss role. Maybe not the evil boss tho since there is still that deity in Nan Xu Yue.

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