She has no degree and never worked a corporate job... how did she get to be a CEO assistance 🤣!? These dramas…
My sister, who did not even get her university entrance exam (bc of exam phobia resulting in massive panic, anxiety and allergy attacks) got hired in a leading news company because she happened to perfectly know word-processing at a time when few people knew the tools, in the 1980s. She got in through explaining that yes, she had no diplomas but let me show you what I can do, you could go about quicker using "those keys" together. The IT specialist was dumbfounded that she was more knowledgeable than him about the machines and software in that office. (I had my own editing business liaising with a Swiss academic papers publisher, with fully equipped word processing and OCR, laser printer units when people still did not know what a Macintosh was, and my sister got introduced to self learning there, proofreading, page setting, writers and publishing client handling, which gradually helped her get over her anxieties. But no diploma.). She got the job offer immediately at 23 years old, pay hikes quickly much above what secretaries got, was set to train new people, and went on as a high level PA with a handsome salary, still without a diploma - until she, many years later, got all those papers to spite her son and husband who were taunting her for her lack of "credentials".
So yes, working as a high end PA just on abilities was possible in the 1990s-2000s.
I wanted that bear hunt as well. But what irritates me even more is how they made her use Sui guy to take rations…
Why oh why? One released production did get steam on, in "The Forbidden Flower" all right (ok, not costume drama, not so-respectable ZLH but quite experienced not-dead yet Jerry Yan) despite all the cuts that audience went happily chasing.
And there are loads of minis with quite raunchy sequences, one of which, "Escape in the Dark Night", I thought might have perhaps influenced the sequence when Yan Zheng and Fan Changyu were miming wedding night for the nosy uncle and aunt 🤣 EITDN is full of plot holes and it is ML Jesse Ren who holds it together, but it has become a cult ref of sorts nonetheless.
The director and screenwriters here have perhaps watched and laughed at the latter, and quite certainly must have watched LLTG.
Fan Changyu acted like a bandit raiding the mountain. When her hands were free and thinking of how Changning and…
wow, 72 chapters read! 👍 I was out of sorts for months (not totally out of it), watching some very different dramas more or less attentively, listening to music, adding some OST links up in some drama pages). So I only skimmed a bit in the novel, and relied on trusty @C-DramaQA on YT to get explanations when I found the characters became too opaque even after peering at the characters relationship chart in Baidu and in Photo section. She's read the book and knows it all to minute details, but sums it up and adds in cultural explanations that are really nice. Still happy the book link was shared. Perhaps I will read it through, one day... Just love the way POJ drama goes. Reminded me at times of LLTG thrills.
@C-DramaQA has some interesting videos on YT, although the "short' format goes too fast imo, compared to her former long "companion videos" to the costume dramas she tackled. I discovered them when she did the three long videos for LLTG. Now she switched format, perhaps because her audience is now more on Douyin . Here are two, and if you have not come across them yet and are curious,want more, just check her channel : https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wQeWYeLcM0E https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TpGhACKUS3k (You need to use the pause button often to read those pages more easily).
I wanted that bear hunt as well. But what irritates me even more is how they made her use Sui guy to take rations…
braked... (like in motor racing?) ...broke? (like in the broken nose that snotty Sui villain escaped) I have a feeling that episode was simply cooked up to get the the food up asap, for adding comic relief (gelding threatened?!!) and a nostalgic ref to LLTG (girl throwing herself on general Ling Buyi being flogged). This drama should have had allowance for 60 episodes, perhaps -- but these days are over, sigh.
Had the same question because FCY said she exchanged sui yaunqing for the meat... If that is true isn't XZ in…
Why would FCY act in good faith with murderers who broke every rule? I don't believe she really would have traded him, but the arrows raining on her party cinched the break of the "deal". Sui was lucky not to be gelded by her 😅
I hope the plot would be left intact and the screen writers don't ruin such a masterpiece. They should've increased…
My thoughts exactly. But let's hope the screenwriters and director will not disappoint us in the end. (The beating felt like a ref to LLTG, don't you think ?)
i just want to sleep and wake up on sunday where i can binge watch the rest of the eps. 1 ep a day is purely torture…
reminds me of the days of LLTG -- but this drama is shorter (sigh? 😅) I was all in for the "impossibly long" good c-dramas, at the time. Even if my attention span has shortened to the point that I sometimes stray into formulaic vertical short dramas, I sometimes go back to those long epics... Until tomorrow then for another dose of POJ !
I'm currently watching ep 13...the relationship and chain of events are extremely complicated...I'm totally confused…
Qi puzzled me too, since I had not read the novel patiently to get the relationship of the Sui brothers. Anyway, it is more complicated than that. Try watch these three YouTube links from dedicated CDrama fan CDramaQ&A : https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wQeWYeLcM0E (Meanings of names) https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lZOox6F7mXk (Qi Min and Yu Qianqian) https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TpGhACKUS3k (Fan Changyu) look into her channel for BTS and other explanatory videos ☺️ (don't hesitate to support her channel, if you like it - I am a follower since her excellent long videos for LLTG).
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She got in through explaining that yes, she had no diplomas but let me show you what I can do, you could go about quicker using "those keys" together. The IT specialist was dumbfounded that she was more knowledgeable than him about the machines and software in that office.
(I had my own editing business liaising with a Swiss academic papers publisher, with fully equipped word processing and OCR, laser printer units when people still did not know what a Macintosh was, and my sister got introduced to self learning there, proofreading, page setting, writers and publishing client handling, which gradually helped her get over her anxieties. But no diploma.).
She got the job offer immediately at 23 years old, pay hikes quickly much above what secretaries got, was set to train new people, and went on as a high level PA with a handsome salary, still without a diploma - until she, many years later, got all those papers to spite her son and husband who were taunting her for her lack of "credentials".
So yes, working as a high end PA just on abilities was possible in the 1990s-2000s.
And there are loads of minis with quite raunchy sequences, one of which, "Escape in the Dark Night", I thought might have perhaps influenced the sequence when Yan Zheng and Fan Changyu were miming wedding night for the nosy uncle and aunt 🤣 EITDN is full of plot holes and it is ML Jesse Ren who holds it together, but it has become a cult ref of sorts nonetheless.
The director and screenwriters here have perhaps watched and laughed at the latter, and quite certainly must have watched LLTG.
I was out of sorts for months (not totally out of it), watching some very different dramas more or less attentively, listening to music, adding some OST links up in some drama pages). So I only skimmed a bit in the novel, and relied on trusty @C-DramaQA on YT to get explanations when I found the characters became too opaque even after peering at the characters relationship chart in Baidu and in Photo section. She's read the book and knows it all to minute details, but sums it up and adds in cultural explanations that are really nice.
Still happy the book link was shared. Perhaps I will read it through, one day... Just love the way POJ drama goes. Reminded me at times of LLTG thrills.
@C-DramaQA has some interesting videos on YT, although the "short' format goes too fast imo, compared to her former long "companion videos" to the costume dramas she tackled. I discovered them when she did the three long videos for LLTG. Now she switched format, perhaps because her audience is now more on Douyin . Here are two, and if you have not come across them yet and are curious,want more, just check her channel :
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wQeWYeLcM0E
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TpGhACKUS3k
(You need to use the pause button often to read those pages more easily).
I have a feeling that episode was simply cooked up to get the the food up asap, for adding comic relief (gelding threatened?!!) and a nostalgic ref to LLTG (girl throwing herself on general Ling Buyi being flogged). This drama should have had allowance for 60 episodes, perhaps -- but these days are over, sigh.
I was all in for the "impossibly long" good c-dramas, at the time.
Even if my attention span has shortened to the point that I sometimes stray into formulaic vertical short dramas, I sometimes go back to those long epics...
Until tomorrow then for another dose of POJ !
Try watch these three YouTube links from dedicated CDrama fan CDramaQ&A :
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wQeWYeLcM0E (Meanings of names)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lZOox6F7mXk (Qi Min and Yu Qianqian)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TpGhACKUS3k (Fan Changyu)
look into her channel for BTS and other explanatory videos ☺️ (don't hesitate to support her channel, if you like it - I am a follower since her excellent long videos for LLTG).
But my policy is to wait till end before rating... Will stick to it.