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Eye for an eye

Fan Ya Ke’s contempt for her father’s craft shows and now Yu Jing Xiu regrets his preemo choice for a bride. 😝I call it karma. 😁He is predictably contrary to any choice made for him so Ms Yu easily steers him to daddy’s choice for career path. Once there he is envious that Zhao Ling has made more progress in a year than he has.😝🙄His bias against what he perceives as special treatment immediately shows to all leadership in Ganlin. That a scumbag like Li has nothing bad to say about Zhao speaks volumes. Officer Yu did not bother to really investigate or get the lay of the land. He considers himself Mr know it all about all things pertaining to Ms Xie. 🙄 He selectively forgets the degree of ruin he gave an innocent bride candidate. 🤬🙄 Yu’s hypocritical diatribe at Zhao shuts up with the horseshoe thrown back at him. For all his education, Zhao’s school of hard knocks meets him eye to eye and toe to toe. 😝👏🏻This education can’t register to the book-smart but street dumb of the scholar. And he really has no clue why he’s not higher up the ladder. For all his spurning of nobles’ privileges, he’s made no effort to understand the lower classes and in fact, looks down on them except theoretically in government matters. He’s such a spoiled hypocrite. 🙄😝I am glad Sen and Zhao made up. 😁 Ms Mo at Zhao’s gate.🤣😂 She really is a decent person putting up with her husband. He let the Lu woman ruin his family life and career by overlooking the horrendous deeds of the brother and choosing her openly as favorite bed warmer. 🙄😡 TingYun was very gracious to offer assistance and had some forewarning about Yu’s arrival. Zhao’s plan backfired when TingYun saved Yu. Yu’s perplexed look said it all. She let him know it was not because she respected him in the least but wanted a confession from him to clear her name. This shows how little he understood her. She is a true jewel, but just because he has the barest hint of her brilliance, doesn’t make him eligible in the least after the grief he caused her. 🤬😝🙄Zhao will again doubt himself because of what Yu said. But he has the best bead on what she truly values and he needs to trust that and his heart. I had to smile when Zhao kicked his hurt leg because he deserved it. Yu will have to acknowledge the stalemate here because Zhao has both a witness and the guilty party.😝 I loathe Yu’s hypocrisy and fickleness with women, he plays his part too well. He was such a good guy in BoP so it’s playing with my brain cells he is equally good at being evil.🫣🤯This story continues to be told well and the cast is brilliant at bringing these characters to life and drawing us in.🌹👏🏻

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When love is bitter.

The irony of playing and investing with stock options made episode 11 the most interesting one so far. All along LQ treated XF like a commodity and the scene where XF kept the phone and scarf symbolizes he now controls the narrative. This episode seems to also presents the insider trading that happened a lot in the 90’s and day trading specially in option trading. Money was gained and lost in the same day. Though illegal it was rampant. LQ was widely greedy while XF learned the ropes and only one way to make money in stocks, play the long game. That’s what Warren Buffet always says. Its the first time I enjoyed this show sadly it’s also the last episode. XF truly got his just revenge.

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this is cheesy but they earned the pay+off. they sell it to you so well.

ryuzaki’s funny af ，i need to verify if she smiled at fujigaya in the first episode or not bwcause literally ever since that day she just stares at everypony jaded as hell unless you’re a child gfbkofdfoobkmodf it feels like she’s passed the baton to sakuraba for this second half of the show though whcih i find really odd right now. i don’t necessarily feel like she’s wrapped up her role in the story but now she’s just so uninvolved now. i could see this going somewhere though but I’ll return to this if her absence really affects the other episodes or if they finish with her wimpering out on the end like now ｡･:*:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆　　 ｡･:*:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆ kitayama’s injuryt was so effective. many times you have main+character plot±armour immunity where like ，specifically you disbelieve there’s any way the situation won’t end up successful. this has happened a lot earlier where especially authority sweeps in & keeps them all in class or in the same class. but here i genuinely did not hacve a confident assumption for how this would go. ikt was cute though. i liek seeing them cheer & be there for each other. i enjoyed this episode it was idealic in a goods way. i was happy ，they sold that joy to me. this was also like a Really good romance episode my god. perfectly written for where they’re at & also where they’d want to be ｡･:*:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆　　 ｡･:*:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆ fujigaya was also at his performing best in this episode. seeing his smile in a far+shot beaming at his friends & just the genki way he throws his arms up in celebration ，i love him immediately running to hug somepony ，it felt so organic for it tob e the first person he saw instead of a relevant character specifically ｡･:*:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆　　 ｡･:*:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆ speaking of which sugiyama had a great episode. i think this is all his character really needs it feels like he truly got to prove himself here. ik really do stand by this being one of my favorite ensemble writings.

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"What I fear is a world without you in it." — This episode was such a rollercoaster

What an intense and emotional rollercoaster this episode was! 😟🫢Neither Ling nor Tingyun could get any peace. In the army, there's Lu Dahu holding all possible grudges and envy against Ling; however, in town, it's Madam Zuo holding all the old grudges and looking for ways to torment Tingyun... 😔AND they all almost succeeded! The net of who is working for whom in Ganlin Town is insane, but they had better learn that they are messing with the wrong people, because interfering with Ling and Tingyun's lives will be their undoing. 🫣Luckily, nothing bad comes without some good — we got to see the army men's wives having Tingyun's back, and Ling's brothers being practically his ride-or-die team, and I think that extends to Tingyun too. The four of them trying to cheer her up with all the gifts after all the stress she went through because of Madam Zuo and her fear of losing Ling... 🫂Her saying: "It's not being a widow that I fear. What I fear is a world without you in it." And him cutting his own hair to add to hers... If those words and actions are not the equivalent of deep love, then please tell me what is? 🥹 In my opinion, that scene was one of the most beautiful ways of showing how deep love can be without actually saying it. ❤️

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Five Stars

The human emotions shown in this episode stood out to me. The way Ting Yun reacted to the death was memorable. In today's world, we have become too immune to killing, many dramas do just glaze over the fact that they have taken a life. I do understand that it is because of circumstances. But, here Ting Yun had every right to be happy, but she was still shocked at someone dying in front of her. This also showed her upbringing. I felt bad for Lady Zuo, she was most definitely a villain but I would like to believe that she was pushed into the decisions by the crazy grandma. I would just like to address the way she handled her brother was inhuman. She made him stay under a table! He deserved to know that he was going to die. At least his last words could have been different. Overall, It was a great portrayal of characters.

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One Stars

that ending scene was stupid - like someone comes running to u, shouting for help & ur so scared u point ur gun at him??? & these r the comrades that have come to help??? eye roll inducing like Ravin's panic attack & i aint belittling PTSD, i get that he is justified & cause of it, he forgot everything he learned a sec before - running like a mad man in the jungle shouting for Yue. when he needs to keep quite, cause as far as he knows the Thai cops/soldiers were around & hunting comrades - but then for Yue to not realize that Fah was right & maybe Ravin just shouldn't be there - not cause he was a threat to the cause - more cause he was unstable & would fold on any mission not just endangering himself, but others. but nah we got a romance to future so common sense evaded Yue - meeh...***************************************************************************************but ironically it also seems like Ravin's new found comrade's have something to do with his father's death - now that's gonna get interesting.

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Another crap show episode as the series wraps up

This episode continues the trend of the last 3 episodes of making Gu Shengnan act dumber and dumber and dumber. She just keeps stepping deeper and deeper into the blatant manipulations of Lu Zheng and it's just not believable. She has become a naive idiot who is now nothing more than collateral damage in the pissing contest between the brothers. The notion that she would drag Lu Zheng around expecting him to 'set things straight' with Lu Jin is ludicrous. And then the episode closes with her not only agreeing to LZ's suggestion that she go away on a retreat to relax ... but for some insane reason she gives her apartment key to Lu Zheng so he can watch her turtle? Are the show writers serious? They must have been on drugs when they wrote this. This show was so good up until episode 19 and then it has gone right into the toilet, getting worse with each episode. The mistake the writes have made is to stop focusing on growing the lead's romance and instead focus on the stupid corporate revenge-on-Lu-Jin's-father which morphed into this stupid pissing contest between the brothers. I'm sure that the writes will magically fix the romance in the last minute of the remaining episode to make it look like everything's fine. Even worse, I have a bad feeling they are going to do a last minute reconciliation between the brothers once Lu Jin has soundly defeated him because, hey, we can ignore all the pain that this pissing contest has caused Shengnan, right?

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idk why i was sure that the one to deal with…

idk why i was sure that the one to deal with the cousin & the parent's of Qing Tian's 1st love would be Wenshu, not Chang Yang - maybe cause Wenshu had a lot of pent up feelings with the way Qing Tian passed. & given the stages of grief he for sure could target all his anger & frustration at someone deserving. so thought he would be the one to deal with them. but it was Chang Yang who will literally do anything to protect his man. Qing Lang is a very lucky man & by the end he realized it. now just wondering how the last ep is gonna play out. what with the hunter school & Chang Yang's father not wanting his son with Qing Lang, let alone Qing Lang's on career & fame making it hard for him to openly love or date anyone but the moron fans be shipping him with. ugh - hope for a happy end

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