Lady Liberty Episode 23

Fulfilling contracts

I really like Dai and hope there is more of her after this mess is cleared up. Now it’s clear why Cai had to be roomie, so her dad could buy the place and all three stay there. I roll my eyes at her being the landlord but it is what it is. He Han trashed the end of his novel but he finished it by the time he said he would, he just killed everybody off to tie up loose ends. Fan thinks he has him over a barrel because he will not have anything to do with a new project unless he sells the one he finished. He won’t do that because that would give Fan the power to change the ending. Dai really is trying to help him and I hope he pays some attention. She gave him some motherly advice about what to use his money on to protect himself. She had his car appraised to settle her salary. 😂 He’d rather give her the car. Fan is unapologetic for the drama he caused and just sees it as the typical rise and fall of authors. Dai understands the loss of He Han’s story as originally intended. She believed in him and wanted to be part of his best work. Zhao and Ling think he killed his book to avoid plagiarism when that really had no part of why. I wonder if I will still care at the end of drama who Phantom Knight really is? Dai is seeing the horizon for what it is and does not think Fan’s company will be the influence he thinks it is. She is biding her time to see who and if she wants to work with them. I like that she kept things on good terms with He Han so that they could work together in future fate willing. She exited with class which is more than I can say for any of the others. It was an interesting meet and greet with both Lin and Zhao at Gu Yan’s door. 😂 Gu Yan is getting good at quickly coming up with reasonable responses to very specific questions. Lin knows something is off but hasn’t quite figured it out yet. Gu Yan has always compared himself to He Han so he slipped SanSan into the third party option and objectively made a comparison. He did give a clue when he refused to speak poorly about the author and that maybe he couldn’t write better. Zhao is too shrewd to break contracts so this loophole of pseudonym should hold once the sh.t hits the fan. We still aren’t really getting to hear real opinions of SanSan’s work yet. Lin is programmed to tell her writers what she wants them to hear so we don’t really know what she thinks. Running into Zhao might give her a clue but even at that she can only boss around the writing of GuYan. She is a bit thrown off because GuYan is treating her with the same expedient business time she uses with him. She even pushed to stay longer and he declined. Maybe now she can go micromanage somebody else. With this, I cheered for him. Waiting to see Fan’s face when he learns who SanSan is.😂🤣 I am also curious where He Han will choose to live after the hotel. Will he simply choose cheaper accommodations or will he actually rent or own a real private living space? Lin is brushing off the news of his changes but it’s getting to her. This is why she is finally paying attention to GuYan. With no complaints she warns him to not get too complacent because a little slide in quality could become big over time. Part of me wishes He Han would have had a way to do a hiatus of their story rather than just cut it off. But I guess that’s what they have already been doing. Maybe he will seek out his mom for real and live near her for awhile. Bei has been brought up on charges for conflict of interest by serving both sides of a case. Here assistant lawyer is willing to go scorched earth. Mrs Bei tried calling Mei and Mei declined the call. Mrs Bei opted to not text about what she wanted to discuss. She wanted to take things further with Mei so the assistant opted to make things difficult for her hubby. Mei confronted her bf and he frankly told her that was why she got the call from Mrs Bei. But since they did not meet and discuss, others chose how to finish things. Bei pretends to be a client and meets Mei. She refused to eat with him but didn’t leave. He’s a mess and actually filed for divorce. Who cares? Is he following Mei or the money? When he asked her to stay she countered with how it felt for her to ask in the past. They do not show if she stayed or left, but the latter seems more likely since she is leaving alone. It is still to be determined what the consequences will be for her bf. But I find myself more in his corner than Bei’s. In this episode everybody is settling up. Ling gets biggest ass award. Zhao has just had invitations delivered and he now tells her he will marry her but not live with her. She already has that covered as he will be head of some committee and home for the weekend. So as long as he complies and shows up with her, he can be gone for the week. She has corralled him in and well aware he doesn’t love her but she is making him money and taking care of his gma. I am sure this was not the marriage he envisioned with Lin when he showed her a ring.😝 he candidly asks her why she would choose such an unhappy life and she says that’s not what she’s looking for. She is content with having the façade of everything others want. She wants to be envied not happy. He can’t really argue with that, but I think it set him back a bit when she asked him was he not the same way? He couldn’t deny it. I don’t even know that these two deserve each other so much as willing to co exist on her terms. She is an unapologetic trophy collector and lives to gain more and keep them well dusted.

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