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This is a clusterfuck all around.

Believe, disbelieve. Whatever. It is undeniably true that this actor is very unwell. What matters--the only thing that matters--is that she does what's necessary to get better.

The entertainment industry in China treats its talent like they're vending machines. It bullies and exploits them--even top stars like Zhao Lu Si, and it threatens them with their careers to force them to conform. The only thing China's government cares about is whether the actors are paying their taxes and isn't gay. It's not going to do a damn thing about the exploitation of the kids in the industry.

For these reasons, I can well believe that a manager treated Rosy like shit, and she's experiencing PTSD as a continuing result.

Egad. No wonder I couldn't figure it out. Thanks for the help!

I couldn't unwind that synopsis if I had a map and a flashlight. Also, Vin Zhang is ML, so drama will probably kill him off again. I'm more than willing to be wrong, though.

Bring your counter argument. That would be interesting

But calling another poster a name, whose only sin is presenting an opinion you don't agree with, is not it.

Isn't life hard enough already without griefing other people who don't have it coming?

I like the drama, and I look forward to it every week, but you've done a very good job of raising the issues I have with it, too. I hope some of these questions are answered by the end of the show, otherwise it's going to be another Kdrama that started out with a bang and ended on a whimper.

"Woke" has a real meaning, though. Like any other word in any language on Earth, you can't just make up a meaning that you like better. Words mean what they say. Believe me when I tell you, you are using this word incorrectly.

I don't think you can have a Cdrama of any era if it isn't about miscommunication. It's like Chinese scriptwriters all go to the same academy and ace the unit on "using miscommunication for drama plotting." Isn't it tiresome?

You can use any word you feel like you have to, but that doesn't mean you're using it right. And you ain't.

I watched it again, and liked it more the 2nd time (probably because since I already knew how it ended, everything made more sense.)

These are good points. But, I think we have to keep in mind that Chinese dramas are written for a Chinese audience, so the writing may reflect different cultural expectations, attitudes and norms. They may have a different idea about what "romance" means. Western romantic ideas insist on happy endings (with some notable exceptions, but these are more often called "tragedy" than they're called "romance") whereas Eastern romantic ideals allow/include sad endings and bitterness.

I could be worng. What do you guys think?

Welp, I think it's going to be mostly mystery/thriller from now on.

I listed two reasons we have evidence of. We know the turnout for this election was low--certainly lower than polling predicted, and much lower than registered voters eligible to vote. We also know that Elon Musk spent a quarter of a billion dollars to elect Trump. These are facts.

The other stuff, what Democrats did and didn't do to elect their candidate, is more subjective, and debates about this are still going on. There are also other factors in this election: foreign interference (Russia and China; probably Iran), a poorly informed electorate, the collapse of legacy media and the siloing of information. Etc. How much these factors (and factors we don't know about) influenced the election outcome is only a guess at this point.

Ultimately, I don't think we're going to have a proper idea about why and how the election results were what they were for months, if not a year.

Democracy in South Korea is a newish idea, around since only the mid-80's or so. I don't think it reached the level of "sophisticated" Democracy yet.

Your post contains not a single original thought. It's all the usual MAGA stuff you guys are fed by Russia. Sad already, but made sadder that you're swallowing MAGA propaganda, and you're not even American.

Half of the terms you're throwing around, you couldn't define yourself if you were slapped in the head with an Oxford Dictionary. In two years, when you're 14, you're going to be so embarrassed that you were such a gullible tool.

It wasn't a "good margin". He won with the smallest margin of victory in the last 50 years. He won for many reasons that we're still thinking about, but two reasons were 1) a lot of people didn't vote at all and 2) the richest person in the world (Elon Musk) spent a quarter of a billion dollars of his own money to get him elected. This was, without doubt, the most corrupt election in our country's history.

This is just ridiculous.

It won't. South Koreans aren't new to political instability. I wouldn't be surprised if this whole thing is over with by the end of the month.

For what reason? How does it benefit the United States to remove Yoon from power?

The United States is frequently behind regime change in other countries, but S. Korea is a long-time ally of the US, and a bulwark against N. Korea.

You need to bring some proof before you make this allegation.

Whatever it is you're trying to say, it would probably be more believable if you weren't posting using an extremely racist username,

Except in Russia, N. Korea and Hungary (and a few other notable Russian allied countries), I think the world's consensus is that the United States has lost its damn mind, and I really can't disagree with that.