Megumi-H

Watch this like a Youth romance, the romance is subtle but adorable. However tha main focus in on FL uncovering the family secrets to her sister’s death.

Yes I have. I started watching this drama first, then decided to read the novel and finished it in one seating. It’s a good read.

FL’s mom is brought up in a patriarchy culture, and her family is poor. She is never educated and since very young she is taught that woman only goal is to marry well, serve her husband’s family. After marriage she continues to be oppressed and her husband being the younger son and lack of voice and power or authority in his family. They continue to be oppressed and when her eldest daughter’s situation came to her, she tries to find out but her in-laws and elders continue to cast a blame and shame label on them. She has always been told to suppress, tolerate and move on, and can only think for the Qiao’s family reputation, hence even she may have want to fight back, she has no support or doesn’t know how, and helpless. So she just suppressed herself and tolerates, often avoid thinking. She does have a lot of guilt and resentment, hence now she over-compensate by being overly protective of her second daughter. You will also come to understand that she also suffers from depression. She is fortunate to have a very strong-will daughter, QingYu who will taught her a lot of new things being a woman of modern society.

Just read up on the actress who played leopard, Clara Lee who is Korean and British. So why can’t they have her dub her own dialogue. Her VA sounds weird and why does she have to speak Mandarin. She is from a rich family, I am sure they can let her have a nice Bristish accent and LR can speaks English to her. Anyway they met in that country with many races. I wonder why they need to speak Mandarin and not other languages.

This type of patriarchy culture still happens in Chinese and Asia country. Children even they are grown up and as adults, they still have to seek elders opinion indecision making, to them it’s a sign of respect and distorted views of filial piety. Because BY is being taken care by their Uncle and Aunty, her parents will have to continue to send money back, it’s an indirect bullying in the family. It still happens, in some family, it’s not just in the drama.

Sure, the book was narrated from FL’s perspectives, so hardly see ML’s view but I think the drama gives us more of ML’s emotional struggles.

Agreed and I want epilogue too with the ending🤩🤩🤩.

So far they have make some changes in the sequence of the event comparing to the novel. I like how the story is told here in this drama, giving ML more involvement.

I can’t recall from the front chapters which chapter is it that was mentioned about BeiYu’s age. But you can read the re-cap at the last chapter 61, where FL mentioned it again how her sister ends her life at age 20 but for her(FL), she decides to make a new decision which is to contact ML.

It’s on WeTV app.

Maybe they haven’t mentioned it in the drama yet or didnt state clearly. It’s mentioned in the novel.

Indeed! Cringy, I wonder if this is a miscasting.

The actress does looks older. I won’t spoil you further, but she definitely didn’t die from the medical condition. It’s a huge secret that the family keeps.

She is a girl brought up in a family that expression of emotions is not acceptable.

JinRui is the biggest narcissist and justifies his own behaviour, and sadly all the adults in that family support his delusion.

Her sister died at age 20, and FL is 17. What do you mean when you said it make no sense?

Ep 28 is mainly Leopard lady calling LR out alone and used Tasha (fake, reborn and lost memory) to shoot him. Hus friend save him and sent to hospital. And again she so easily walk into his walk and threatened him beside his bed to ask him to find a phoenix key tool (supposing can unite the relics so she can use the power). And through brainstorming, the groups discovered the key to find that tool is in MD’s teacher’s room and so they found that the secret is at sect’s ancestral burial ground, so they proceed to search. Then on the other end, we see Leopard lady acting dramatic and telling MD’s her intention🤦🏻‍♀️. hahahah…I am just dissatisfied with this ep. We need the release and move the plot already, I am prepared with what’s happening, the ending will be rush.

Yes, that over the top, dramatic villian portrayal became so repetitive, that I am skipping her scenes. lol!

Ep 28 is so daunting and draggy…what’s leopard doing? She talks too much. Throw a bait then release then throw a bait and..,🤦🏻‍♀️. She really talks too much.

Very nice summary. You captured the gist of the whole story;) Hopefully we get to see the epilogue here. I do wonder where this drama story will end. This drama definitely change some sequence of event but still stay true to the essence of the story. I read that their last scene is at the beach…hmmm.