KarenLaird-Olson

Finished it off, if you can believe that. I'll probably watch again, but the next time I know what to skip, LOL.

wait, you only found one of the mother super-annoying, LOL. I found all the parents super-annoying.

watched the whole thing and I agree, took a lot of patience and willpower. The parents made me scream and want to pull my own hair out, Dan Dan's compliance with everything, her father's demands, etc. where another hair raising situation. I guess living in the west where we have free will and we know we have the right to tell our parents - let me live my life - makes shows like this a real test of endurance.

the proposal scene was amazing to me. I had read that he was a guitarist and singer and he certainly went for it. I watched on Viki and the scene played out. Dan Dan even asked about him playing the guitar and he said he'd been doing it all his life or something along that line. If you have Viki at least go in and watch the last epi with the proposal, it's worth the watch.

on epi 38 and boy do I get it about the step mother, money money money, that's her. It looks like at this point all of the younger members of Dan Dan's family are going to end up with members of the Chairman's family or those close to them. The mothers are beyond obnoxious. I love the housekeeper/cook at the Chairman's home, but what a gossip, LOL. And all the promises in the world would never keep that old madam in my home...she would be out as soon as I found a padded cell for her.

how many epi do I need to endure of him having amnesia and being engaged to Chief Jo? at epi 37 now and she finally got found out after decimating the whole family. The mothers in the show are a whole class among themselves, selfish and inconsiderate of their children, but the Dan Dan's father was in another whole class. How many secrets did he think he could keep from not only Dan Dan, but from his wife and the rest of the family and I'll never understand why the son's didn't speak up. I keep telling myself it's all about respect in the East, but come on, it looks like especially in these shows that the respect they are expected to show, only leads to pain for the children and the parents don't seem to care about that. Dan Dan's father saw what finding out about her mother did to her, then he turns around and keeps the secret about the Chairman's memory and instructs the whole family to do that too. This show has made me so sad and so mad at the same time, I ended up having to go to the last epi just to see if I could watch everything from 40 to 53. It was worth watching those last 13 epi. The Chairman's sister started out as this flip, immature, silly 30 something in love with a younger man (Dan Dan's) brother and turned into a great character, protective of her older brother and not afraid to stand up to her mother, who was a whole class of crazy herself. I understand wanting to protect your children, that's world wide and certainly not age related, this show just took it to a whole other level and not a healthy one.

I often wonder how these actors cry so well, tears just streaming. Are those real tears, or is that all fake.

I'm at epi 10 and so far other than the annoying mothers, I've enjoyed it. I'm fast forwarding through the mothers, which will shorten this by half.

only on epi 10 and someone in here mentioned they fast forwarded through the parts with all the mothers. Can definitely see why, talk about a bunch of really annoying characters. To shorten this a bit, that is exactly what I've started doing. I know they are all plotting, so nothing new.

I agree and I'm only 4 epi in. I especially dislike the step-mother...want to scream at her every scene she's in, want to scream at the father for putting up with her lazy butt.

I don't think I can wait...the lawyer took the info in for DNA testing, please someone tell me that she gets in big trouble, or does she try to blackmail him into marrying her to keep the secret?

I'm at epi 30 and still asking that question. You know they like each other, but neither has expressed that yet.

she was some piece of work, living back in her childhood.

yep that hair had a life of it's own. Liked him better when it was like all the other mens.

IMO, I think because of his "secret" the character is really closed off, at least that's how I took the dead eyes, etc. I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt since this is the first drama I've seen him in. (I'm pretty new at these cdramas).

All I can say is wow. Watching Epi 30 and the female lawyer, no matter how many times he's told her that he doesn't love her, doesn't like her, she's still remembers when they were 6 years old and he said he wanted to marry her, 6, not 16, not 26, but 6. Anyone with a brain gets that after all he went through, being basically an orphan for 6 years from 6 to 12, and becoming an adult, he is going to change, but she is still living in her dream world and unfortunately, pulling his mother who has her own mental issues into that dream world with her...the poor guy can't win because he also has a secret that just he and his grandfather know. I've read that this is a slow burn, but damn, they are dragging it out so long. And now lets talk about the 2ML...that guy although cute and charming has stalker written all over him and he's been able to drag her whole family into it. FL already told ML that she would never be interested in the 2ML because he's to young, maybe ML needed to tell him that, although I doubt 2ML would listen to that.

still have 11 epi to go and I need to know if there is some kind of retribution for the ex girlfriend.

I'm watching this two years after you and I have to agree. The woman is 30 and knows it, just because she came back at the age of 20 is no call for her silliness, so yes, second hand embarrassment a plenty.

Male Lead - played Ye Jia Cheng / 2ML Yang Shu - played Yi Pei

for me it's hard to pigeon hole this. Melodrama, romance I guess. There ends up being 3 couples, none of them really communicate with each other, well maybe what I call the 3rd couple do more than any of the others. She's the old girlfriend of the ML, but now an old neighborhood boy is after her. It's really the most emotionless drama I've ever watched.