Sang Yan was already portrayed as a good brother to Sang Zhi, showing his caring and protective nature before…
From what I read somewhere, this Cdrama paints SY's story through the lense of YF's journey. SY experienced many of YF's tourments by walking through her miserable life. He discovered the unsanitary environment she lived in. He was at her side seconds after the defenestration happened. He saw YF's mum brutalizing her verbally in the street. He berated her peers at the ballet school then he made a space available for her to practice ballet. He was too young to intercept in her life, he had the will but not the means. He knew and sensed what might have happened to YF but he had no evidences and resources to gain cause for her. He kept his secret promess to protect her and he did at last...he was so proud. I am proud of him and of all the SYs in this world.
As you mentionned, he has natural compassion supported by a gentle parenting. His background is a middle class family that put love and education before every thing else. He is one of the few priviledge youngsters and together he didn't take his family and friends for granted.
This story is very down to earth. I know people like him, like his family like his friends but the number is few. I met children and youngsters like YF and the number are many...too many.
Actually, I haven't expected Bai Jingting and Zhang Ruonan to have such good chemistry. Especially last 4 eps…
Surprisingly these sensual scenes passed the censorship. Hats off to the leads for their acting. At times without warning I was thrown into a whirlpool of emotions. The entire crew took me by the hand and it was an amazing ride.
I remember that the mom didn’t even tell her son about Yifan at first, clearly intent on keeping Yifan far away…
Correct, abandonment is the worst betrayal a child can experience.
I've found that this scene sadly relates to Karma or as there is no brakes at the wheel of life. I've found this scene very spiritual. Every action a parent takes is passed down onto the next generation. Fortunately I didn't read the book, so I am not biased. Still, I wonder how it is written. However, the adaptation is so intelligently presented it feels I have the book in hands.
Every minute of YF's and SY's scenes be it respective scenes or not, are poetry. Every scene of their silent memories are like Mother Nature embracing her four seasons in their worse or better climate...a piece of arts. This writer took me by surprise. And, each page of that book the screenwriter painted out on the screen was vivid lives. No one was spare. The one that had to be embraced was embraced with passion. The one that had to be discarded was discarded with articulated-unfiltered wordings.
The scene with the mother Oh my, I was screaming "YF walk away, don't look back, walk away, that mother doesn't deserve you" but the script was so well done when calmly YF turned around, paced towards that ungratefulness woman, I stopped breathing thinking that she would embrace that woman in order to comfort her. But, YF without tears, not emotionless though, cut all ties with that trator of a mother. She was magnificent in that scene. She has walked miles to reach her deserved adulthood. Another brilliant scene.
That applies to WYF too. She too has a lot of pride. (If you think she don't, then we are not watching the same…
I copy paste a part of my line in regards to SY "This is how SY was refering to when he talked about his pride that he left aside but kept his dignity "love". By reading your comment proves me the following:
1st you didn't understand Confucius quotation, so on this one and without insulting your intelligence I let you read it several times and ponder on it.
2nd you didn't understand SY's thought, so on this, I invite you to go back to that scene and listen carefully for, this might open your mind on the value of "pride" which is in psychology considered the second either elevating or destructive human emotion.
3rd my comment was not comparing SY & YF nor did it belittle YF, so read attentively several times my comment before jumping on the gun.
4th you are not really invested in this story because you've forgetten to listen and watch carefully to the script, the tones of voice, the macroexpressions, the atmosphere of the drama.
5th All you look at is only the story. In your aggressive comment you added the adverb "anymore". Does it mean that you dropped that drama? You don't even understand the meaning of this adverb "anymore" so, I am not surprise that this Confucius quotation, neither my comment, nor the script of this drama is at the level of your understanding and even at level of the one giving you thumb up.
I read your comment several times before answering and I find it really pathetic. Tone down when commenting and stop making a fool of yourself.
Please read once more that 1st commenter's note and wonder on the following : 1. why does he/she needs so desperately "friends" from East Asia ??? 2. Have you visited her/his DML's profile ??? 3. My husband was scammed by someone fron that region. And I almost had the same experience. 4. That commenter recommended you an app on the spot but wrote "a while ago" ??? It's too weird. 5. Your answer that you "didn't find it" ??? Ask yourself why you didn't find it (because it doesn't exist) 6. Now, I bet his/her next request will be monney advance because she/her had to pay a link in cash advance before sending it to you. So you'll have to either reimburse or send him/her the extra investment.
"A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity. Confucius" end of quote. This is how SY was refering to when he talked about his pride that he left aside but kept his dignity "love". He could have kept his pride and walk away by brushing all his tourments under the rug. He did not because love is not logic, love is facing him like a mirror...pure human emotion.
Such a lovely love story. So much better than The First Frost.
It is a nice, sweet and linear story line. Well directed, acted, cinematographed, casting team made fan's base happy, intersting in the field of TCM (that heals my kydney, heart palpitations, my teary eyes, insomnia issues). The 2 protagonists flushed swiftly. It is a light, fluffy, it is an apeasing contemporary script with great parenting, friendship, love from the very start of birth for both leads that didn't trigger traumas in their adult life. They fit the pourcentage of lucky people because of their healthy environment. Yes, I need this candid Cdrama at times. However, it will not be stamped into my memory and my heart.
To compare them is quite awkward because TFF it is not a story for everyone unless because of fans' base. TFF's love narrative is totally different. It is deep in its complexity. It is a troublesome Cdrama because one is face with the responsibility to acknowledge real life issues. One is face to make a choice when an issue arise, would love be stronger than every day life logic. And one realises that love HAS NO logic and IS NO logic. It isn't a story for everyone because of its maturity, its reality in stepping into PTSD mental illness syndroms, its involvement in educating the viewers and assuring victims that they are not alone. Its opening either a door or a window to how eventually find reassurance in life. Its a step by step personal healing process. The leads' dialogues hit the marks, their silence when facing their respective traumas is speaking through their macroexpressions. It is well edited, their background stories is short and the visual embraces their voyage through the years. The casting director has made an amazing choice (please fans of TBC, don't throw stones at me).
I have no clue about the book but in Cdramaland, "the piee of shit aunt and mother" will get a slap on the hand.
Nothing to do with a high five. The British expression "A slap on the hand" like some parents do to a child (I don't agree with this punishment). We are in Cdramaland so no court hearing, no compensation, no penalty, no 24h detention, no jail time for those two (allow me to add the aunt's son, that teenager "sitting on the fence"), so for those three. They've murdered no one so, they are "scot free" according to Cdramaland principles.
As you mentionned, he has natural compassion supported by a gentle parenting. His background is a middle class family that put love and education before every thing else. He is one of the few priviledge youngsters and together he didn't take his family and friends for granted.
This story is very down to earth. I know people like him, like his family like his friends but the number is few. I met children and youngsters like YF and the number are many...too many.
Hats off to the leads for their acting. At times without warning I was thrown into a whirlpool of emotions. The entire crew took me by the hand and it was an amazing ride.
Centuries back, these dialogues would be seen as poetry...to me it is poetry.
I enjoyed the life lessons from the elders (grand-pa and grand-ma).
I've found that this scene sadly relates to Karma or as there is no brakes at the wheel of life. I've found this scene very spiritual. Every action a parent takes is passed down onto the next generation. Fortunately I didn't read the book, so I am not biased. Still, I wonder how it is written. However, the adaptation is so intelligently presented it feels I have the book in hands.
Every minute of YF's and SY's scenes be it respective scenes or not, are poetry. Every scene of their silent memories are like Mother Nature embracing her four seasons in their worse or better climate...a piece of arts. This writer took me by surprise. And, each page of that book the screenwriter painted out on the screen was vivid lives. No one was spare. The one that had to be embraced was embraced with passion. The one that had to be discarded was discarded with articulated-unfiltered wordings.
1st you didn't understand Confucius quotation, so on this one and without insulting your intelligence I let you read it several times and ponder on it.
2nd you didn't understand SY's thought, so on this, I invite you to go back to that scene and listen carefully for, this might open your mind on the value of "pride" which is in psychology considered the second either elevating or destructive human emotion.
3rd my comment was not comparing SY & YF nor did it belittle YF, so read attentively several times my comment before jumping on the gun.
4th you are not really invested in this story because you've forgetten to listen and watch carefully to the script, the tones of voice, the macroexpressions, the atmosphere of the drama.
5th All you look at is only the story. In your aggressive comment you added the adverb "anymore". Does it mean that you dropped that drama? You don't even understand the meaning of this adverb "anymore" so, I am not surprise that this Confucius quotation, neither my comment, nor the script of this drama is at the level of your understanding and even at level of the one giving you thumb up.
I read your comment several times before answering and I find it really pathetic. Tone down when commenting and stop making a fool of yourself.
1. why does he/she needs so desperately "friends" from East Asia ???
2. Have you visited her/his DML's profile ???
3. My husband was scammed by someone fron that region. And I almost had the same experience.
4. That commenter recommended you an app on the spot but wrote "a while ago" ??? It's too weird.
5. Your answer that you "didn't find it" ??? Ask yourself why you didn't find it (because it doesn't exist)
6. Now, I bet his/her next request will be monney advance because she/her had to pay a link in cash advance before sending it to you. So you'll have to either reimburse or send him/her the extra investment.
Wait and see.
This is how SY was refering to when he talked about his pride that he left aside but kept his dignity "love". He could have kept his pride and walk away by brushing all his tourments under the rug. He did not because love is not logic, love is facing him like a mirror...pure human emotion.
To compare them is quite awkward because TFF it is not a story for everyone unless because of fans' base. TFF's love narrative is totally different. It is deep in its complexity. It is a troublesome Cdrama because one is face with the responsibility to acknowledge real life issues. One is face to make a choice when an issue arise, would love be stronger than every day life logic. And one realises that love HAS NO logic and IS NO logic. It isn't a story for everyone because of its maturity, its reality in stepping into PTSD mental illness syndroms, its involvement in educating the viewers and assuring victims that they are not alone. Its opening either a door or a window to how eventually find reassurance in life. Its a step by step personal healing process. The leads' dialogues hit the marks, their silence when facing their respective traumas is speaking through their macroexpressions. It is well edited, their background stories is short and the visual embraces their voyage through the years. The casting director has made an amazing choice (please fans of TBC, don't throw stones at me).