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Best episode ever ❤️

Bai Hui is the luckiest girl ever even with her horrid parents. This is where Lin Ze Qiu proves he is indeed Zhi Xia’s brother. 🥰 He has so meticulously researched every detail in finding a home. He is just waiting for her to decide. From beginning to senior years he has considered it all and to be with her every step of it. 🥰❤️personally I think second lead would be happier with the diner gal and she with her actor, but they don’t want the story to go that way. And I really want to see the doc find a girl instead of looking off in the distance resigned. It was nice to see the two rivals accept each other and get past their love of same gal. The main leads, they are finally admitting their feelings, but hands down her brother and Bai Hui won best couple scene. I was teary eyed over them and could only say ‘bout damn time with main leads. She should not have bailed out that tyrant professor, but she is who she is and set the right example as a colleague and mentor. Hopefully he learns more from her than barely sharing resources. 😝🙄

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Rescuing unit 401 and Huo finding herself

Wu finally finds out most of the details surrounding the 401’s whereabouts and confrontations with Japanese. They were used to coerce Wu into finding better quality Sun-moon sand. He ultimately persuaded them to let him search with unit 401 men but only gets supplies for 3 day stints. He figured out how to use the herb to put them in stasis for over a month while he escaped to outside via the casket. When the zainiangniang helped him out it is not clear if the creature wanted to help him or tossed him down the waterway in frustration he couldn’t get to him. Huo finds the notes she left for herself and her hallucination reveals how she can save herself. She is the only one that knows the morning glory fruit keeps the cycle going. If she destroys it, the Japanese can’t get it and she can escape the tower. Wu and Zhang finally make peace as Zhang helps him remember he did not betray his country or unit 401. The one he shot wanted him to to save him from the pain of turning into a creature. XiaoYu finds the trap they set and wends his way through to cut the cord so Qi can enter. They use the sand pills to re constitute the soldiers there and the remnant of them can finally leave. Wu found out that any who died were killed by Japanese and that he had retaliated by killing them. He set them up in a space to survive and were discovered. He finally understood why Zhang shot his brother and peace was restored between the two of them. Huo was made to eradicate Wu from her heart because total isolation was her only path to saving herself and escaping. This is the sad reason she and Wu were never the couple they should have been after the tower. Whether this was her fate because it had to be or because she thought that was the only option, we don’t really know. The sand definitely made her believe that to be her only truth and path.

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Bad Subs, Incontinuity Error, Amongst an Interesting Plot

This can be a subtitle problem in which security says it found a missing item and the plot reveals it is stolen. We see the wife come to talk about her husband it makes me think of a similar plot in a European drama (Death in Paradise). There were comedic circumstances but the plot was very clever in the reveal. There are less complications in this plot, however, I think the wife's poor acting and response is to her husband's death is the biggest indicator that it might be similar. The drama, as per usual, is spoon feeding the audience where they want people to cast suspicion. In this case, I am happy for it, because the wife acting like she was mourning was very bad. It seems it was bad for the plot and the audience to catch on that she is suspicious.5.5/10 - The plot is there and it is interesting but the script and direction does not trust the audience. There is a scene with abysmal acting and I palate it because I've seen something similar and assume it is literally a plot device. But, I don't think a person who hasn't seen a similar case might think the same way. It just looks like abysmal acting. When the drama is sometimes already kind of campy this choice undercuts the tone everyone else acting tries to set, so even with my suspicion in mind, I have to lower my rating for the episode. Too much infantilization of an adult audience.

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