Falling into Your Smile Episode 27

More noble idiocy

This episode starts off with the outing of the 'fan' who sent the package and in theory should clear up that issue. But it takes a silly insane turn with more social media shenanigans and some really, truly piss-poor management decisions by Club President Bao that understandably infuriate Cheng. From that point the episode degenerates into cliche' 'Noble Idiocy' drama trope as Cheng goes into silent mode doing things secretly and not talking to anyone, including Yao. His wrist is obviously hurt and then, the episode culminates with him making decisions that directly result in the loss of Game 1 of their match against YQBC. The show teases something going on with Hierophant and at this point it looks like Cheng may have lost this game on purpose. Because the writers have clearly leaned into the noble idiocy trope heavily here - to the point of excluding the audience as well as his lover and team from knowing what's going on - it makes the show just annoying to watch because until they finally reveal what's going on there is almost no point. One could easily just skip ahead until things are revealed and not miss anything but a bunch of contrived angst and drama. But not knowing the exact timepoints to skip to forces us to watch. Sigh ... lazy writing.

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