ShortCircuit

Yeah, she'd be the one to want to have the cake but eat it too, she would.

I actually liked the business scenes, LOL. I mean, these are totally inexperienced, mostly uneducated low-class people trying to make sense of venture capital, LOL, and making bank on it. I think it's meant to show that while education is important (see HongJun and Ye Fang) and vocation is also very important (see XCS and TXM), it doesn't mean someone who doesn't have them is bound to be a drudge all their lives, and that where there's a will, there's always a way.

That small-time profiteering phase also happened in my country in the 90s, some people got rich through it but it was frowned upon because a lot of what they were doing was basically illegal, nobody enforced the laws though. What HeiZi and the gang, and now Qi Tian, are doing seems to be legal - they said it was - and thus, as long as they're not actually hurting everybody, good for them!

Ep7. Okay... tee-totaler Gun-Woo drinking everybody under the table on his virgin drinking binge is the most hilarious thing I have seen this whole year. If only for that scene, this is worth it LOL.

She'd have to be shameless to even try it... but then, she's HHL. So the possibility is definitely there.

Did XZ or LQ promise to do something themselves if they reach certain markers for the drama? :D

Too little, too late for YGH. I guess they can recover some of their friendship though, with his gesture. I don't like it that the upperheads gave them both the same merit, when it's all XCS but YGH is a bit right too, he did do his part.

LOL, Qi Tian is going to become a money exchange banker at this pace :D

I hate, hate, HATE that TXM had to abandon her dream - for now - because XCS'a need is stronger, and he still pushes her away. But people around them have eyes and they're telling him what she's doing for him, so in the end he'll realize, when he allows himself to feel like a man again, that she's the one.

She should become a physiotherapist, IMHO. She's absorbing everything the doctor does to XCS like a sponge, I'll bet once they're back home she'll just continue doing it til he's back on his feet. And I LOVE how she's always positive to him, whenever he gets the downers, she's the one telling him to stop talking bad about himself and concentrate on the good things and on the good future awaiting him. If not a physiotherapist, maybe a psychologist, just sayin'.

This drama has become my daily addiction, I love the pace. We're past the halfway point, but I'll just enjoy the ride til the end :D

At least she didn't defect, LOL.

Also, Xiao Zhan is a hobbit :D

XCS was in a coma for days. YGH was debriefed on that military action long before XCS woke up. He never hinted at anything other than having come back with the info himself. He didn't need XCS to tell him what to do - he was already doing it. XCS just offered him an excuse.

I kind of think he told her because he knows her character. He didn't risk much - he likes her (I won't say either of them knows what love is, any more), he helped her when she needed monetary help, he's always around her. I think he feels she's like-minded. And it's proven again in the end, when she has the impulse to follow XCS but YGH knows just what buttons to push to get her to stay.

Very good drama, indeed. Sadly, cdramas almost never get to the top in ratings in MDL, where kdramas rule.

They did. He point-blank asked her to wait for him, even tried to keep her in place physically, and she said she'll come visit some other time instead of replying (after all that self-reflection on why she should move on with her life, too). So that's done.

And then he made it official with the letter, telling her to reach for her own dream. That ship has sank.

After ep1, I'm lowering my expectations a bit. This will be an action-filled story, mostly, going by what came in ep1, and well, it's webtoon based so I should have expected it. But I quite like it anyway.

I hope they throw in some more character development with the fighting, and if there's romance, it's not contrived.

But hey... boxing just got a lot sexier with WDH throwing his fists around :D

He's not stupid in the sense that he's an idiot, but incompetent, yes. He supposedly taught all of them how to demine a field, but couldn't protect himself when it mattered?

But that aside - yes indeed, XCS is only comfortable being vulnerable and really open around TXM. I hope it's because he feels safe with her, not because he's seeing her as a sounding board with little meaning. Knowing his persona so far, I'd definitely say it's instinctive trust. I loved watching her turn his mind around on why he should continue living when his life's purpose was destroyed, and doing it with a story of her own powerlessness. I really really like this girl.

And he needs her - he needs someone who's quietly steady along with him, and doesn't need him to be the tower of strentgh at all times. Love should be give and take, not just give. (Or in HHL's case, mostly take).

Though I'm still wondering how she got in that train, LOL, did she really defect? (I know she didn't but it would be really funny :D)

Consider this: when their house was on fire, XCS went in blindly and got HHL's mother out, saving her life. When YGH stupidly stepped on a landmine, XCS bit his tongue and took his place, sending him off to glory and placing himself in mortal danger because of friendship.

And this only deserves some self-recrimination where both of them admit they're not good people, and that's justification enough for YGH to stop HHL from following her ONE genuine impulse of getting to XCS, and for HHL for completely blindsiding him in his hour of need, when he wanted and expected her reassurance and love.

It's not selfishness, it's them being shameless and using him for their own needs and means, then throwing him to the side the instant he became too "burdensome" for them to carry.

Were he not XCS, that would be a villain's origin story right there.

The saddest thing is that XCS told him to grab the spotlight because he THINKS YGH is the same as himself - having a dream and working firmly towards it. While at the same time, YGH's motivation is way, way simpler - he LIKES it how it makes him feel to be adulated by his comrades. He likes to be looked up on as a hero of the people. He didn't EARN it dammit. If he wasn't there, XCS would've come back safe and sound and Amao and JingZhu wouldn't have died either! Duan Lei is invalidated out of the army because of his bum leg, he was one of the better soldiers and it's all because of YGH beying overconfident, underprepared and STUPID.

And he takes PRIDE in it?! Why?? Is it only XCS and Duan Lei who rememeber the fallen comrade soldiers?! YGH doesn't have what it takes to be a leader of men, sadly. And XCS kept misunderstanding him over it. It was just ambition and self-promoting, not anything heroic. That will get more people killed in the future. I hope he does something stupid and non-lethal and is booted out of the army, too.

Then again, he and HHL deserve each other, I hope we see the less of them from now on. Unless they're getting what they deserve.

What do we say? Present? *raising hand*

I need some sweet smiles from the leads. Or some scenes of them trying to kill each other, I don't care. Something. This is like a lingering addiction...

Dammit. XCS offered YGH the glory and he TOOK IT the freaking bastard!! Where's your honour as a soldier? Where's the sense of brotherhood? TURN HIM THE F**K DOWN, he's not in his right mind!! Give him his one chance at military glory, you freaking thief and let him feel worthy of his father's pride!!

I have so much contempt for YGH, I can't even express it.

Also, HHL... I said before I understood her pragmatic POV, but this is NOT the way to do it, dammit! He's basically breaking down in front of her, BEGGING her to stay and consider waiting for him and she goes, oh well, see you around?!

Not to mention TXM building him up when he's feeling basically suicidal and worthless, only for HHL to waltz in and IMMEDIATELY destroy his newfound purpose in life with her what-ifs and what-if-nots. That's not love. That's just self-serving and self-preservation and wanting something shiny and good but not willing to work for it at all!

I don't like how YanQui kept his father's death from him, but oh well, priorities. And I LOVE Ye Fang, there's someone with a backbone and a sense of righteousness in that family! Too bad she got it all and there was none left for her scum brother! Also, HongJun is turning out despicable. Ye Fang, you could do way better, leave this social climber!

But then XiaoMei showed up AFTER HER SURGERY, that girl either defected, LOL, or took emergency leave as soon as she found out XCS was going to the train station. YES GIRL!! I'm shipping you both to the Moon and back! Go get him!! And XCS open up those damned big eyes and find out who's been the rock to lean on by your side all this time!

There, THERE, XCS, she's the one! Pick her!

Also, HHL and YGH, please drop dead.

I don't care about where the focus is right now - XCS doesn't KNOW what happened to him yet. If TXM knew, she would tell him, but she too thinks the surgery went "better than expected" and that he'll recover ASAP.

He went through a short coma, woke up and learned two of his friends are dead, but the rest survived, he's still trusting his BFF and GF, he's obviously alive and has that superhero mentality - he can get through ANYthing. It hasn't hit him yet, what it means if his legs are still numb after days.

Don't worry, you'll see him in full focus. I mean, there are spoiler scenes in the freaking OP and ED dealing with this (only watched them once, and I still remember the sequence). I doubt they won't let XZ show his full range, when this is going to be the turning point of XCS's life.

I mean, we're about to hit the middle of the drama, and the writer hasn't let us down yet. Let's give them some trust they know what they're doing.

He doesn't KNOW yet. It's an immense thing to have happened to him, but he's still in the processing phase. Let him work it out.

It's very good. The couples are extremely obvious from the get-go setups. And if you're in doubt, watch the OP LOL. They're in there.

But don't start this one for the romance (or not just for the romance). It's a coming-of-age for more than one characters, and not all of them are progressing just through love. It's more slice-of-life-romantic than rosey-dovey romance, so be warned.

YGH still has a chance (albeit a small one) to turn right. As you say, even if he ends up with HHL (good riddance!) at least he should let XCS take the merit for his heroic deed, and unambiguously so (I don't want to see something like he's giving XCS the credit in a manner that everybody else thinks he's doing it because he's - probably - going to be forced to retire from the army).

I'm hoping he comes through, at least THIS ONE TIME, if ever.

As for HHL... I won't miss her. I can totally understand her choice from a pragmatic POV (she grew up in exactly the same type of home she'd condemn her children to, were she to marry XCS who is poor and has no relations and can't do anything but choose the right and difficult path.)

But she didn't even give him his dignity as a man - he was trying everything he could to get her the money for her mother's operation, even borrowing from his comrades... and she just picked up the phone and chose the easy path of borrowing from YGH who she KNOWS is still in love with her. That's not something you do to the man you're claiming to be in love with. She's indirectly telling him she doesn't consider him reliable and a good provider. Dammit, I felt that pain for him. They should have broken up right then, but I guess he would've given her the benefit of the doubt at least for that one time, AND found excuses for her, too. Still, it's an omen of how things will happen between them. As soon as she finds out he can't walk (yet), she'll see him as a burden on her life and find an excuse to let him break up with her.

(Wanna bet it's going to be HIS idea, because he's going to see the writing on the wall soon enough? And she'll take it).

So yeah.

Good thing this drama doesn't have breaks, I'd climb the walls, LOL.