Lady Liberty Episode 28

Power shifts

I liked the conversation between HeHan and Lin’s father. They are very similar in needing their space and privacy, even from those they love. The one thing the father enlightened him on that HeHan really never considered in his drunken phase, was the cost to those that loved them. He was aware of the price her mom paid but he really didn’t take into account the impact that had on Lin and why she emphatically believed that loving someone meant sharing everything and being a bound unit together. He only saw it as his binding that chafed without understanding why it was something she craved and fought for. The question now is can he compromise while he and Lin are still young or is he going to wait until some serious illness binds them closer by necessity? I think whoever the long haired woman is, is Fan’s spy. She was all ready with how the companies could compromise by sharing Gu Yan and it seems one time recording showed her long hair. Cai’s dad wants her to let Lin know he will invest in her company if she will accept it. He even calls her to have her look at houses and she teases that she will be a realtor for him if her company fails so that she can be happy looking to the future by selling homes for him. I am glad she can still joke about her circumstances. I am not sure if Mei’s bestie set her up or if her jealous colleague just seized opportunity, but whichever the case, she was more than happy to fill the mom in on Mei and Bei’s relationship in all its glorious detail. When Mei goes in she doesn’t take the obedient stance but has it out with her mother. All the things she had held in for decades came pouring out. She hadn’t planned on being hateful with her mom and casting blame but she let her have it with both barrels to get it out of her system. Here the friendship with Lin shines through as they toast with 10yr old scallion oil.😝😂 There still is some airing to do but Mei has hurled the albatross off. It remains to be seen where this will take her Bei relationship. Do they really have one? Or was he just the revenge on all mistresses and weak mothers who put up with them? Mei has finally taken a true step of emancipation where she can breathe in her own home without fearing her mother. Ms Zhao has gone from gray to black in her treatment of Lin. She has some serious health issues and feels pressed to make her victory sooner than later. Even with the issues between them, Lin was going to help her home but she left while Lin got her mom. That was a very sad meal of soups to keep her strength up in spite of condition. She needed bed rest and instead she went to Gu Yan to tell him how to best Lin. Lin had already shown up with the contract complaints and he admitted he hadn’t even read them. He just figured if money the sole issue it could be handled like this and he could move on to higher pay. In spite of his childish behavior he wanted the compensation pay to be fair. At heart he was loyal to the one that trained and inspired him. He just expected an actual relationship rather than solely a business one. He thought once he upstaged HeHan, he was entitled to the woman left behind. Zhao wasted no time in further indoctrinating Gu Yan to her way of thinking. She took him to HeHan’s discarded hotel room and tempted him to live there. He was disgusted by the idea and she found a way to make him consider. Her parting shot was that his room overlooked Lin’s office which is why he probably chose it. Zhao even seized on his obsession to seal the deal. Lin warned that once a better author came along Zhao would desert him. Zhao countered that they would rise together; there would be no leaving. Zhao knows Lin well. After all, they had been schoolmates. Lin did accept the option of begging, but when GuYan delayed their meeting she went back to their top three authors looking for the next number one. This episode was shifting the power of relationships. Pivoting them to see from another perspective. Fundamentally changing the dynamics and seeing if the relationship could survive. Zhao is willing to lose herself in her obsession to defeat Lin. She is using this as the litmus of her success. Now to see if GuYan and Lin fall in line to her machinations, or change the game.

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