BubbleNSqueak

Loooove this comment - every word reflects my thoughts. The acting was so en pointe here!

I like how in the drama Shuyi was doing it to try to catch his attention since otherwise he wouldn't respond!

Haha cool thank you that makes perfect sense now in the context of the drama. I think they need to invest in more text translations on this drama - a lot gets lost for the international viewer. I watched 9 Tailed Fox 1938 and as I am not Korean and have zero idea of folklore, the drama had lots of extra subtitles about various mythical creature etc to put the scene in context which was helpful. More of that in this drama would have been good!

Thanks again the explanationd, super helpful!

So the 2 chess pieces have the character "xiang" - elephant (?) from what I remember. And he ended up holding a pair of "xiang" which one can say he held "yi dui xiang" or a pair of elephants (?) literally but "dui xiang" also means - target object partner/boyfriend/girlfriend - according to google...so they are saying he needs to look for his "dui xiang". I looked up the Chinese subs so a native speaker can correct me if I'm wrong! Bit like Chinese homophones I think 😅

Re-posting info for those who need more after the drama - don't miss:

- extra 0.5 episode of their ending

- their own SOKP variety show
https://mydramalist.com/748221-100-wan-ge-yue-ding-zhi-ning-an-ru-meng

- SOKP final appreciation event, think it's only on iQiyi app which I haven't got but some unsubbed snippets can be found here
https://youtu.be/YIiz5AuOwVI?feature=shared

Do you mean Leon Lai who starred in Jiu Liu Overlord with Bai Lu?

Lol so much subtlety! Might need to rewatch the red horse riding outfit bit again. Thank you for the clarifications, all makes se se now. Zheng Shu Yi in red does look stunni g though - loved the scene when she met her love rival and both wore the res dress, she won hands down!

Don't know if it's pushing it to ask if you recall the context of "red dress" (when Shiyan asked Shuyi to wear red and she seemed tickled) and "making cake" (that she texted to thr ex at dinner) in the story? I think they may have appeared in the novel too but probably made no sense to me...

Yes the context is The Uncle that QSY knows Shuyi is interested in from episode 10 after they bonded at the concert. QSY doesn't try to promote her own uncle till much later.

I checked the Chinese subs to be sure as well - mistranslations and misunderstandings definitely do drama watchers no favours 🤣😅

Don't have Viki hadn't realised it would be different.

There's more, don't miss the Hello Saturday show episode with them in character (sort of 🤣)

I checked the Mango subs - it just says "better than Uncle" not "my Uncle" - so no, it was not her uncle that she meant but The Uncle - the niece knows Shuyi is going out with an Uncle of her ex-boyfriend's girlfriend (yay more confusion in that sentence). The convo after that was comparing the blind date and The Uncle (Shu Yi is referring to Shi Yan the Uncle, whilst the niece is referring to an Uncle whom she doesn't know - but in reality IS her own uncle).

Had to reread that a few times lol but hopefully you get the plot (no hole). The uncle revelation is a bit later...

This one:
https://mydramalist.com/748221-100-wan-ge-yue-ding-zhi-ning-an-ru-meng

Someone posted a link in the forum already so just follow that and rate the variety show too! You have 6 episodes to enjoy 😉

Also if you did not know, the cast also got together last month I think for a live appreciation event with fans - think only available on iQiyi app but you can see some of it here:

https://youtu.be/YIiz5AuOwVI?feature=shared

I plan to watch both much later in the year but I'm really curious - is it confusing to watch both at the same time? 😅

Thanks for this without spoiling! Do you know where to watch this with good English subs? The one I saw didn't quite match but my Japanese isn't good enough to comprehend fully.

Seems marmite going by comments - it's got campy old humour, multiple misunderstandings and constant interrupted romantic scenes...- if you don't mind that then yes. I actually liked all secondary characters/couples for once (bar the villians) too. I really liked this one and had a great laugh but lots didn't really like it as you'll see if you scroll down.

Thank you so much it's lovely! Haha I was thinking...guess what the first character I recognised on page 1 was....the mobile phone!! 🤣

The text transtion seem good too. I struggled with the novel translation I read ages back so manhua should help!

Man we could be sat in a room together 😆😆😆 this was one of my favourite scenes of compounded misunderstandings when I mentioned it being multi-layered...you just want QSY to be quiet and it gets worse the more she says and Dylan really portrayed it so well as SY - I saw his heart breaking in a million pieces....🥺

Did you watch the extra episode and variety show after - if that helps?

Have you got a link please?

I did see there was a version with Crystal Liu! I'll have to watch the Carmen Lee version one then if I can find a good subtitled version. Thanks for the recc!