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I imagine that there will be some similarities as both cover the same sort of ground in the same period but the plot seems to be quite different.

I don't think it's just a matter of "bad luck". Her mother distinctly said to her when she announced that they were getting engaged that Xizhou is not the type to devote himself to love. He likes her well enough but he doesn't love her. Certainly not enough to want to accommodate her or leave behind his vengeful schemes. And he only married her in haste to secure her father's support on the board. If anything she's naive. She thinks that if she tries hard enough and compromise with him, sooner or later he will come to the party.

The darkness has always been lurking inside of him. Years of being badly treated by Mdm Jiang and all that built-up resentment. All he needed was the right trigger to see it unleashed.

I haven't really liked any of his previous dramas except Siege in the Fog but that one is horrendously long and the push and pull just goes on forever. When they're finally together, all kinds of madness ensues.

Great. Everyone has problems and they hit the bottle.

I don't think Ruanruan is wrong about the kind of relationship spouses should be having. BUT it was her choice to marry a guy who isn't 100% devoted to her. Especially if she's the passionate type who goes into everything 100%. She knew it too. She was warned by other people that he wasn't the type to give himself completely over to love. She went into the marriage believing that she could change him which is always a bad idea. Or compromise on her core principles. The conversation that they had in Episode 20 is the one she should have had with him before they got married. They are both paying the price for entering a mismatched marriage in haste.

Sonnet 18. Yes!
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"

For some reason the earlier episodes felt longer but everything after episode 10 feels so quick. :D
It's probably a lot more exciting now that they've crossed to the other side.

The child actors are rather good especially the kid that was in Hidden Love.

Huh... did the episodes go from 45 minutes to half an hour each?

It isn't just this show. Sure, Ji Chang-wook has got a really strong fanbase willing to sub his material but what of the other actors?
It's still a Disney problem particularly if they're trying to break into the K drama market.

I don't think she's evil incarnate either but I don't particularly like her because not only is she trying to replay the past, she doesn't understand her own son. She is fixated with winning over the other woman even now. In a real enough way she's paying for her own misery. But misery loves company. She's against Yunshen being together with Zhu Jiu and thinks he should marry someone who can help him shore up his power base in the company eg. Zhizhi. It's one thing when a man marries a woman he doesn't love. It's another when a man marries one woman when he's in love with another woman. She should know better because she's still living the nightmare of not only not being loved by her husband but resented by him. She is dooming not only her son to a repeat of history but Zhizhi who shouldn't be embroiled in this family dysfunction.

Regardless of whether her family saved Lingtian, the company still belongs to grandpa and the board. It is up to them who should run it. Moreover Yunshen isn't the least bit interested in running the show. He just wants to do pharmacological research. A fact that has been stressed over and over by more than one person. What era does she think she's living in? This isn't the imperial court. The board will do what they think will profit the company.

Every single bad thing that occurs in this family in recent days can be attributed to some action of hers in one form or another. I'm not saying that Xizhou isn't responsible for what he's scheming has led to but Mdm Jiang has been behind the scenes playing divide and conquer for some time now. She been making snide comments to Xizhou from the moment he started living with the Fu family.

It's a great show and yes, it is for mature audiences. There's also no romance which in part explains the rating. There's some politics but I don't mind politics in corruption dramas.

Disney Plus is just woeful in promoting their dramas. Aside from the trailers none of the promo materials for this show have got English subs so far. It's hard to believe that this is getting a concurrent worldwide release.

Some but not like K2 or Healer. It's more of a rom com murder mystery.

The motivations are indeed quite clearly laid out. And then there's the medical side of things too -- to develop the Perdo plant into a pharmacological product.
But there is dysfunction because of decisions made by the previous generation which has ramifications for the brothers. Sadly the mother hasn't learnt the right lessons from what happened.

Not really. They initially released 5 episodes but after that it's a inexplicable drip feed of one or two episodes per day. This week there were only episodes released from Monday to Thursday.

I wouldn't go so far as to say "a lot". The first 6 or 7 episodes was really about how the leads met in an overseas location. It's a fairly generic soap opera where rich people are fighting for supremacy over the family business. Meddling mother, half-brothers, a grandfather who wants everyone to hold hands and sing kumbaya. Older brother enters a marriage to shore up his powerbase in the company not because he's devoted to his new wife.

The usual sort of thing. I don't think it's more toxic than your average C melodrama.

That big eyeball thing was pretty darn cool.

The chemistry between the leads is really the oxygen of this show. So far so good. It's hitting all the right feels. The set-up and payoffs are pretty good.

It's not bad but too long. The K drama 365: Repeat the Year kept it short and sweet.

Edit: Pretty much fingered the culprit 22 episodes ago.

Interesting.