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Past and future collide

There is a reporter waiting in Cheng’s office with coffee ready. He informs him that the man they had arrested was Dalun’s guy. Cheng looks surprised at this. The reporter said he and Shen are on same side and Cheng denied it. The reporter laughed and said he wasn’t telling him the truth anymore. He lets Cheng know he will have a hard time trying to be neutral. Si Yun is in trouble with Mr Shen because she prescribed birth control to Mrs Shen. His retaliation resulted in the closing of her hospital. She could fight it in court but it would take months if not a year to get it back open. Mr Cheng gives her another option. There are pictures of him he would rather not be made public so they both agree to table his anger about the meds. Ao and Si Yun are becoming an official couple. They go to Mr Zeng’s bday party and he notes their hand holding and he lets them know he approves. The festivities are interrupted by a squad of policeman charging Zeng Dalun of dealing in opium. They have a search warrant to search the house. Opium is found on the premises and Dalun is brought in. When he gets out on bail he has a chat with Cheng where he said he learned he had filed the complaint. Cheng does not respond but waits for Shen to get in his office for them to have a chat. Shen reveals that he set up Dalun and used him as well. Cheng is outraged that Shen put him on the same side. He said there was a friendship until this matter but things have now changed. Dalun is trading with the Japanese and his father has caused strikes in the docks. He is told his father can play along and make money or get killed. Cheng meets with his father and lets him know he was not the one that filed the complaint. Dalun comes in and he and father have it out. His father is outraged he is dealing both in opium and with Japanese. Later Cheng goes to an old spot he and Dalun used to drink together, Dalun fesses up about his dealings and tries to get Cheng to go along. He tells him to let the communist stuff goes because that will get him killed and then goes on to tell him the benefits of Japanese products and cuisine. Cheng is outraged with him and says they are no longer brothers. After weighing matters, Mr Zeng calls Cheng in to rewrite his will. He now has his assets quartered rather than giving Dalun all of it. The winds of war are coming and the father is preparing. He wants both of his sons to survive and not kill each other. Hard lines are being drawn and they are all being divided by politics and beliefs or profit and opportunity.

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was kinda getting frustrated, at how Hua Yong…

was kinda getting frustrated, at how Hua Yong was getting away with murder. but thankfully seeing Shen in his hospital room was enough to make Sheng change his mind & breakoff all contact with him. personally the sec he realized that Hua Yong was the one that graped him, he should've tried to murder him - but guess that's just me. everything was way too laid back like when Hua Yong started playing mind- games with Guo. if i was Guo, the sec Shen left the room i would ask Hua Yong what his deal was & what he wanted. his saying he didn't want anything is b.s cause he is using that to taunt Shen & basically threaten Guo. **********************************************************************************************************************************Hua Yong is a psycho & he loves to toy with people - he doesn't care if he hurts someone as long as he is either entertained or get's whatever he is after. sadly now that Sheng's brother has gotten him kidnapped & the stalker Hua Yong was conveniently around to see that Sheng was taken, he will rescue him & Sheng will really feel obligated to return the favor & let him back into his life - i know everyone else will cheer - me not so much. but i am the odd one out so no surprises there - like i keep waiting for the scene where Guo will resign & get far away from Shen. not gonna happen (not the way i want it too) so it is what it is... 6 days to go until the next ep

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A Love Bound by Lies, Tested by Fate, and Torn by Time

Coming here after watching Kill to Love, I see the same cruel threads of destiny binding two men across kingdoms and time. One man raised his sword against his own father, spilling the blood of millions, all for the chance to hold the one he loved. Such love burns like fire, beautiful yet merciless, leaving only ash in its wake.In ABO Desire, love takes a quieter but no less painful form. Hua Yong pens letter after letter, sends flowers as if each bloom could carry his remorse, as if words could stitch together the heart he broke. When Sheng Shao You finally learns the truth, it is as though a great stone has been lifted from his chest. For the first time, no more lies, no more shadows. Yet truth is a double-edged sword, and its cut is deep. Betrayal leaves wounds that love alone cannot mend.Sheng Shao You cannot be blamed for the walls around his heart. He was used, deceived, left bleeding in the silence of trust betrayed. Still, within his sorrow flickers a fragile light, for even in his darkest hour, Hua Yong’s love has never ceased, burning steady like a lantern in a storm.But fate is cruel. Sheng Shao You has been stolen away, torn from the arms of the man who aches to make him whole again. The heavens seem to conspire against them, testing their love with endless trials. Will Hua Yong reach him in time, or will the story end with two hearts forever apart, their love whispered only in tears and memory?Two souls circle one another, bound by destiny yet scarred by betrayal. Perhaps time will grant them healing. Perhaps fate will let them meet again beneath gentler skies. Or perhaps theirs will be remembered as one more tragic song, a love too fierce, too fragile, to survive the cruelty of this world.

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A Love Written in Blood: The Tragic Devotion of Duan ZiAng and ShuHe

Wow, episode 9 broke my heart in ways I cannot put into words.Duan ZiAng’s love for ShuHe is so consuming, so absolute, that he would rather drink poison than cause a single wound to the man he loves. For five long years he carried this weight, sacrificing everything, even killing his own father, all so he could fight for a future with ShuHe.He created an entire identity, the Six Prince residence, not for ambition, not for glory, but as a gift, a sanctuary built with his own blood and sweat, solely for his lover. Two kingdoms waged endless war, millions of soldiers were sacrificed, and yet at the heart of it all was not conquest, but love, one man’s unshakable devotion to another.If this is not love, then what is? A love that defies reason, a love that bends morality, a love so fierce it chooses the beloved over the world itself.My heart tells me Duan ZiAng will die from the poison. And that thought crushes me, because what could be more tragic than a love between two emperors, eternal in devotion but doomed by destiny.Their story is not just romance. It is sacrifice. It is pain. It is love written in blood, carved into history, and drowned in tears.

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" to women ,men aren't just any nail to hang love on. therefore ,not any nail is okay. they look for

that hand on the thigh move coming from a married man genuinely left me in a state of shock she should've known right then & there what business he was about. so i am beginning my restart of anego after getting to . . . THAT episode on my first run like a day ago & because i am closer to my one year anniversary starting this show then to when i started it i felt it was needed. & i made the right fucking decision good god this show started so strong. so amazingfly strong【 SPOILERS START HERE 】this show does a really good job at setting & i mean what's going on in the background of a character. i first noticed how brilliantly nadoko's living space informs us after she finishes her night & cutting to mourning where she's up after fifty off+screen beers. her work+place is a location i really really enjoy seeing ,it's so cozy. i think the furnishing is so cute but the office is set up in a very intimate way where they can freely talk to eachother where they arew seated & everypony is involved & can chime in. i also think her little secretarial desk in the meeting scene is so adorables.｡･:*:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆ naoko & kurosawa's first meeting is a very memorable scene to me ,i genuinely internalized her advice not to act like a student when he is now a working employee. they say a lot to each other ,they say meaningful things which is a really sad bar to have to have but i will clap at them for meeting it. another good scene are the two immediately back two back with it ,& also the phone call with the mother but I'll get to that later. the conversation with the boys is really good to set up the dynamics at play here & it also touches on the conscious styling work this show has ,i will also elaborate later. then we have the type & printing error where the dynamics pushes naoko into a spot where she as a woman has to lecture the other women. & then we have kana being difficult but fully justified in what she's saying. which is annoying. but this is a good thing. saotome & hasegawa are incredibly fleshy characters already with very clear personalities that lead to realistic actions.【 I BEGIN TO SPOILER FUTURE EPISODE INFORMATION WHEN IT IS CONNECTED TO THIS EPISODE 】i really enjoy the bar location too it's very cozy & small so it feels intimate ,especially because this is where friends will meet. i love the golf part of the episode. the styling department really shined here. kato wears an on theme out+fit ,she cares about her appearance contrary to what tachibana was yapping about for her age+mates. she looks clean & polished. eriko looks like jackie kennedy. she is the perfect house+wife image ,she is everything frumpy naoko is not. naoko is also the only one of the women to wear pants in these scenes to further drive down her sex appeal. tachibana is dressed similar to kato a little where he suits the image of a golfer while their boss is actually dressed like a man playing a sport. kurosawa is dressed like a teenager whos parents woke him up early for this. & they all play exactly like what my analysis would imply. also i need everypony to pay attention to the background like i said before because the actors STAY in character no matter who the camera focuses on oh my god jin is fucking hilarious in this like my god. my favorite performance of him this episode was his little-incel in training-facial expressions during his & tachibana's boys' talk at lunch i mentioned earlier. the best scene in this entire episode ,honestly entire show is the CAR SCENE . . . another very good acting moment is how tomosaka rie's face switches as soon as her husband gets in the car after hearing how him & naoko are familiar with each other earlier. as somepony who has watched ahead oh my god is the set+ups so good. this show is written to a tea & revisiting eriko & naoko's golf meeting is a must. a quicker+paying set+up was hasegawa's computer flops coming back to bite her. her stepping on naoko also coming back to bite her.｡･:*:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆ here i want to talk about the characters. naoko standing up for hasegawa ,after she stole miyamoto for herself says so much about her & the good+natured person she is. but she is not the wonder woman that she has to be to everypony. she has her insecurities & when miyamoto strikes them she doesn't have a come+back to throw at him. she has a plea to her boss. & despite her insecurity that flares up with eriko ,she is still a person with a good nature who wants to stand by hasegawa & anypony else. i look up to her but i also understand her. my favorite character is kato-san. i really do like straight+laced characters & not just mean girls. she is head+strong & won't be pushed over or pidgeon±holed like naoko ,who she loyally supports because naoko earned that unlike the rest of contract girls. i also like how the contract employment is going to continuously play out & how it's not an easy fix & isn't portrayed as such ,it's just something that lingers over them like taxing season.｡･:*:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆ the final scene i want to touch on is the flash+back to when she was the exact same age as kurosawa. having her mother dpwm±play to again reinforce marriage propaganda & tie naoko's worth to a man ,making both times her mother twalked to her was to wave a husband in hwr face. we really get to understand naoko & the things thast make her cry. & who is there to stop her tears ? a member of kat-tun whoich basically checks off every fucking dream boy category one could have in the year ⅯⅯⅤ. revisitng this episode ,this show was soo excellently wirtten. not a single minute that stretches to an hour was wasted. every word said carries the weight it needed to & says all that needed to be said. there is no unnecessary scene & there is no botched pacing. everything happens perfectly & i can not ask for better. this is a ten star ★ episode i love everything about it.

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