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I don't know if the mother will blame her but we shall see. He is playing with his parents' money and also Mujia's mom's money so I think they will be super upset with him. I think his parents do like Mujia but their son will always come first and they can recognize Mujia has the potential to fly even higher because Mujia has that drive while Ding is kind of okay with where he is in life (there was this scene of him neglecting his work to look at the stocks and then got annoyed when his boss asked him to finish the work already since he had the past 3 days to do it).

Yup! They signed the contract but they wanted to make it hard for the law firm by blocking them/the other company they will be partnered with from doing the work they need because they wanted to get more $$$ out of them.

Yup! I am sure it will be a healthy relationship. Mujia is experiencing issues right now in her relationship with Ding and a lot of it stemmed from his insecurity and the growing "gap" between them in terms of their work. Li Guang will probably fit her better just based on him being established already and secured with his work/position in life.

Episode 3: I liked that Mujia still tried her best to spend time with her boyfriend because there definitely needs to be a work-life balance. Mujia is starting to show more of her annoyance with Fan (Tian Rong's boyfriend) lmaoooo. I love her being snarky because that is me if my friends' partners don't treat them right. Huge yikes that Ding is risking the money for their house via the stock market... especially right after Mujia said not to risk it. His insecurity is starting to show more and more.

Episode 4: HUGE YIKES. Ding's mom already thinking it will be a problem when Ding and Mujia potentially get divorce in the future (after marriage) because Ding's parents gave more for the house... and they are worried that Mujia is too ambitious (and that Ding can't keep up). 😢 I really like Lawyer Wu as a mentor for Mujia. She praises her when she did well and guide her when she can do better. Mujia really can't ask for better mentor. She got really lucky.
The moment Ding questioned Mujia how she got into the law firm... I can already tell they are destined to be over. And him questioning why he can finish his job on time but she got to do overtime... great acting between LLD and Wang Hao during the argument scene. But then they are all better again and I want to root for them so badly.

Can't wait until Tian Rong breaks up with Fan. He is the type of man who might say something "right" while also putting you down so you end up always excusing him that he still cares. Plus he keeps on comparing her to Mujia ugh. I am glad the girls' friendship held strong.

Episode 5: Tian Rong finding a job she is interested in yay! And not backing down despite the scolding. Tired of Fan's constant gaslighting of Tian Rong. Can't wait until she gets rid of him for good. And aw, so we got more of Mujia's backstory. Her dad cheated and wanted to take the house... makes sense why she didn't want her name on the house with Ding either.

Mujia promoted! Deserved!

I know ppl didn't get a chance to watch episode 3-5 yet so I am going to post my review under spoilers:

Yes, and based on the clips I saw, it seems like to be a really good relationship. I saw his confession clip to her and it was really realistic and attractive lmao.

Yes! I watched that interview too and Wang Yang mentioned how the character originally was a character who gets what he wants including the female love interest because he wants it (aka typical CEO male lead character). Him and Li Landi spoke about it and they spoke to the scriptwriter on wanting to have a more sincere relationship. He was saying if his character/Li Guang got together with Mujia because HE wants it like how he gets everything in the world, then what is the point of this relationship. Based on the clips I saw, it seems like they have their relationship to be more sincere and supportive. That they got together due to love, respect, sincerity, admiration for each other as people and in their careers. I already see ppl on the C-side shipping them LOL. Saying it kind of works with how they portrayed this age gap relationship.

Episode 2: I really like Lawyer Wu. She is such a great supervisor and you can tell she truly wants to nurture Mujia and make sure she becomes someone who won't be replaceable in such a dog eat dog law industry. Tian Rong's boyfriend (Fan) trying to pit the girls against each other but it is not happening!! I saw it coming but you can start seeing the cracks with Mujia's and Ding's relationship with the shoes, her "connection", etc. :( They were so cute but it is part of growing up.

Youtube! I think they will just be subbing 1 episode a day. China is releasing 2 episodes a day except for 1st episode and last episode (they get their own day).

Just finished episode 1!!!! It was really good. I can't believe they managed to flesh out all the characters in only 1 episode already. Mujia seems like she has some backstory regarding her dad so I am sure that will impact her in some ways further down the line. I am excited to see Tian Rong's growth because she is very reliant on this "romance" she has that she doesn't really have a sense of self. I am so excited to see them both grow from their 20s to their 30s and the way work impact their lives because we know for sure it does with the trailers,

Waiting!

ZXC followed a bunch of people (CXX is one of them) on weibo like a day before and they all ended up promoting for his film. ZXC worked with some of them before and others he haven't worked with before but theory is production/company (be it the celebs' own company or investment companies behind those celebs' drama) behind those other celebs encouraged the promotion (money being involved, business associations, etc.). I personally never see these promo posts = how close these celebs' relationships are since often times, it is not really the celebs themselves doing it out of friendship lol.

ZXC and CXX definitely know each other though as they had been schoolmates in middle school, high school, and even college. They also have some of the same friends but I won't say they are super close to each other. CXX for example is a lot closer to Cao Jie (best friend/college roommate) as they actually hang out with each other. CXX is gaining more fame recently due to TSL so I am not surprised ZXC reached out to CXX for promo.

Oh!! Let me send you mine too.

Extra appreciation for CXX's and LLD's fight scenes in TSL https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV11L411e79J/

Agreed lmao, I am on bilibili watching FMVs of other dramas and all my recommendations would be TTEOTM related. 💀 Even on weibo when I am watching clips unrelated to it, that drama would pop up eventually.

Yes! Wenren is the romantic love/sensitivity that YT never experienced before. LM and MYQ later on were all pretty straightforward but Wenren allowed YT to experience a gentle/mature romance. It wasn't life and death and YT needed that. A romance that wasn't accelerated due to life threatening situations. She also experienced jealousy for the first time with Wenren due to his past romantic affairs. She didn't really have a chance to experience that emotion before with LM's focus being only on her and MYQ only really loved money (not a living being) besides her.

What are some callbacks and parallels you guys noticed in TSL? Here are a few:

1) The scenes between YT and YQ that eventually created the three shards

2) YT in the beginning watching the fireworks the emperor always set for QK and LM later setting fireworks only for YT

3) YQ in the beginning gave YT the holy fabric which YT then gave to LM to control the fire

4) YQ's poem/speech for YT and YT repeated the same poem/speech to LM

5) LM threw rocks at YT to try to wake her up and YT later did the same to him

6) YT in the beginning dragging YQ to buy her a flute (fail) and MYQ later buying YT the flute.

7) YT's and MYQ's wedding and then later YT's and YQ's wedding in the same outfit to make it up to her

8) YT in the beginning gave YQ the hair pin as "payment" for their night (YQ burned it) and MR later had that hair pin in his hair during his arc.

9) Scenes of YT "helping" YQ write by grinding the ink and YT later doing the same with WR

10) The sword dance sequence of course and the method to cancel YQ's spell.

11) YT in the beginning walking to the prison saying she knows how to get there and YQ doing the same thing when heavenly emperor wanted to lock him up for not wanting to erase his memories of YT

12) "I am your Youqin, your Lamu, your Wenren, and your Mei Youqing"
"I am your Niangzi, your Yuexa, your Qian-er"

13) YT telling YQ that she loves him so much she did die for him and she did

14) Their first meeting: YT wanted to push YQ to his death and YQ said "I will protect you/don't be scared" and YQ said the same thing when GX opened up again but this time, YT pushed YQ away to save him

The whole "I picked up..." and "Swipe to..." phrases he took from LLD too. His own fans at a loss too lmao,

It becomes extra annoying when you have watched other dramas that solved it quickly or don't let it build up to that. 😩

I enjoyed ZZH's acting so much in WoH. 😔 The drama was his breakthrough yet... also his character in the drama deserved better IMO in terms of character writing. You can tell the script writer didn't invest enough in his character's past but he made it work regardless.