Reviews

Alliances formed and broken

A'Zhao having a temporary alliance with Deng Yi to fight Yanfang was something I didn't know I needed! 🤝😮‍💨 At least, not in the form they provided. It was pretty brilliant because I believed it, and most importantly, Yanfang did too! 👏😏 I am still looking at Deng Yi as a possibly redeemable character, so every one of these steps counts in my book. How it will turn out later, these last four remaining episodes will show. And hmm, did I get the calendar right that we get all four of them tomorrow? 🧐I particularly loved Yanlai keeping A'Zhao's baked pastries just to look at them and play with them, but never eat... nor share! 🥹 It is such a wonderful keepsake to remember and think of her. 💖The court is getting tenser, and more parties are objecting to each other.😬🫣 And what was the deal with that guy whom A'Zhao assigned to Xiaoman as her deputy? The guy who helped with the scholar case? Are they bringing them closer so they can create a romance for them in the end? 🤔💞 The finale is coming, everyone needs an ending, and what can be better than finding one's love! 🤗

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Vincenzo is a man who respects ritual and process

So it's cool that the first thing he does upon leaving the hospital is go pay his respects to Papa Hong. Later, while it was also super-cool the way they start the revenge arc, one nitpick I have that also bothered me in the opening episode: Lighting the fire by casually dropping your lighter looks stylish for the show, but (a) means you lost your nice lighter and (b) is evidence connecting you to arson. Looks cool. Kinda dumb. Also kinda dumb of Cha Young to take off her mask once in the truck - never know if a security camera might still get a good angle. Oh well. This is just nit-picking. Absolutely loved the emotional reveal in the van ride of just who is helping them get revenge for Attorney Hong. Wonder how long before the good guys make the connection between the "Jang" brothers?

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Rich boy apartment maintenance 101 and proposals

🤣😂 The face mask scare was hilarious. And that rip off the face.😂🤣 Thanks to Yi Fei overloading the circuit Qian Fei comes home to a dark house. After fixing the breaker an electrician shows up because YiFei is definitely not Mr fixit. 🤣😂 She shows him how to turn breakers back on and where all the shut off valves are for appliances and water. He may or may not remember it all.😂 She works very hard to get a report ready to show her old boss and has her friend check it out. She told her she should check with a professional to see how it stacks up. Her friend gets a very cute proposal after trying to make her bf eat the ring box.😂🤣 ‘so that’s the finger it goes on.’😂🤣 These two are very sweet. 🥰 She is a top notch friend with good advice. I really dislike her willingness to make a scene when she’s lost her temper, but her sweetness in everything else balances it out. The conversation segued to mothers’ passing and that was an unexpected commonality for both of them. Qian Fei’s father sent her a picture album of all her growing up pictures and she finally fesses up that she broke up. Her dad is very understanding and just wants her to be happy. At work YiFei finds a bunch of discrepancies but knows his work partner wants him to get the backlash and her the credit. He is still deciding how to deal with the head leader of the project that will indeed take offense at the findings. Mean girl and uncle leave work and mean girl just has to circle back and make Qian Fei doubt herself. YiFei is funny knowing something is up with free dinner and finally has Qian Fei fessing up to the favor when episode ends. It seems from preview her work is not wanted by Ms Fang because she thinks Qian Fei cheated on her bf. As if. 😝After Qian Fei’s happy wife to be speech she seems to see her as a hypocrite but she really should have asked about it rather than just assume. It was so out of character that she should have wondered. 😝 YiFei tucking her in and getting his door upgraded. Bit by bit he is helping her out but acting arrogant to distract her from the kindness. I hope that Ms Fang does fail her because with mean girl and uncle to block her, even Ms Fang lacks the clout to shield her. YiFei has a much better shield for her, she just doesn’t have a clue about it yet. The cherry on top would be showing the fraud of the company her ex bf now works for. Waiting for next episode to see how things play out. I am liking how the actors interact and how the story is unfolding. It is both fun and endearing when least expected with family and friendship dynamics.

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Is this justice?

I kept delaying this cause of the violence I saw in the trailer. I have a hard time watching it especially when the weak are bullied. I would not justify what the inspector did to the bullies, yet it might be effective to let them taste their own medicine. there are two types of abusers 1. the active one - the one who does the bullying, who is violent towards his victim2. the passive one - those who kept silent for fear, so that they won't get hurt when actually their silence enabled the active abuser more.No matter how bad the bully is, I cannot justify the use of violence against them. But if the system is failing the victims, surely there will be some who will resort to violence to get back at the bullies. This is a sad reality

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Notes as I watch

Episode starts out where prior left off, with the party successfully holding off the demo crew ... for now. Hong Cha Young and Choi Myung Hee start off at odds at the big law firm. Cha Young's intern randomly blurts out the future with, "He's your soul mate.", comment about Vincenzo ... The Italian food taste off between Toto and Vincenzo looks like it's going to last for a while. Our heroine so far doesn't seem to be achieving any successes on screen in this show. Would like to see her start to score a few wins just to validate the premise of the show that she does whatever it takes to win. Jeeze I do love her constant physical comedy. Her constant quirky physical humor antics are a wonderful running gag so far. Making fun of Choi's exercise routine, while professionally stupid, was hilarious. Wow! Papa Attorney Hong already tagged Vincenzo as the son of his client! Still working out whether the big law firm is fully in cahoots or just caught up in a trap w/Babel. Was Choi brought in to try to dig them out? Or the opposite? Is she taking Cha Young off the Babel case because of lack of progress? Or to protect her? Choi is still a mystery character at this point. Ha ha! The sight of Vincenzo trying to get out of the line of fire when Hong dad and daughter are arguing! Woah! I can't say I was totally surprised by the ending. They had lots of foreshadowing that something like that was going to happen. But it still sucks and is going to be a huge revenge arc kick-off.

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