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I so get it. TBT just made me happy, and I loved the crazy TCM explanations at the start of each episode, and yearning for the tea leaves, but OG and TFF are devastatingly Forbidden Flower/Forever and Ever beautiful and emotionally wrenching. All are wonderful in their own way.

As soon as Netflix drops the final episodes, I am so going on a binge ride on my television, vs chasing down episodes on my laptop on Viki and Daily Motion.

Thank you to those here and on reddit who shared links to episodes on daily motion and the kiss-what's it site and hung out in the wee, crazy hours.

Total dreamboat on TBT, and how we can go from him being a fully grown man there to a angsty teenage boy/very young adult here is AMAZEBALLS!!!

I love, love, love TBT and have rewatched a number of times. I also love, love love, OG. I think the difference is there was no real angst or tension in TBT for us or the actor, and like some of us have noted, OG is more like The First Frost. I mean, I backed the car into a brick wall (no damage) while thinking about TFF and humming one of the songs after the first watch. Some series just get under your skin and OG is one of them. Also, The Forbidden Flower just slayed me.

I love how they talked with their younger selves. And the little boy was, like, you smile a lot now.

He graduated from college in Hong Kong, returned to Hongyang, became a finance bro with a conscience, and made a whole lot of money.

As for the confrontation with his mother: He was calm during the talk with his mother because he had firmly made up his mind he was out of the math olympiad game and there was absolutely nothing she could do to change his mind, so why be all emotional about it? When they started talking about the brother and how she ruined his life, hinting that her treatment of him contributed to the brother dying, that's when he got very upset. But after spending time with Cherry and her family, he calmed down again. gave his parents the pick of what they wanted from his math genius life and threw the rest of that shit (or as he called it, garbage) away. Even her crashing her car like the crazy person she was didn't change his mind. He was free and going to study abroad, as Cherry encouraged him to do! Unfortunately, the business with the cousin happened and his dreams and plans were dashed.

With all of the work and studying he was drained. Didn't you hear him talk about how desperately he cried one night

I am looking forward to a rewatch binge on Netflix when all of the episodes are up and I can watch them on my TV with out the angst I experienced this week. In the meantime, I will miss this series so, so much. I was up at all hours of the night with you guys, chasing down episodes on Netflix, Viki, Daily Motion and the site shared today with the final episodes. It was nice to see I wasn't the only one up between 2:30-4 am being crazy.

Although I would have loved more of our leading man in some of the earlier episodes, 19-24 kind of made it worth the wait.

What are you all watching next? I need a passionate modern love story.

He didn't actively choose his fear; he felt he had no choice. And it was more shame than fear, I think. Also it was all so worth it in the end because they moved many steps forward in Hong Kong. She helped him understand it was okay to not be okay, she encouraged him to continue at the University of Hong Kong when he wanted to take the college entrance exam and restart his studies to be in the city where she was studying, they made love. She won the lottery literally and in love. He was hugely successful in finance once he graduated(did you see that gorgeous apartment?), she was living her teaching dreams, and she was deeply, deeply loved.

I also love how he was so anxious to be a part of her family and call her parents Mom and Dad.

She was not dying inside.
Also, she was still young enough to feel this way and if, by some horrible circumstance it didn't work out, there would be plenty of time to find a second love.

How did she treat the SML poorly. She had no idea until she saw the photo in his wallet that he liked her and she never, ever gave him any reason to think she liked as more than just a really good friend. And he knew she was totally devoted to the ML.

Some people act like the poor girl was on antidepressants and taking to her bed or something. She was living her life, albeit feeling a void from missing him, but she was killing it at school and tutoring and maintaining /building old and new friendships.

She forgave him because it was obvious he had suffered and struggled mightily and he also loved her just as much!!!

I think the bullies annoyed us more than they did her, lol.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!

There will be four more. They're just torturing us for fun. You can watch episode 21 on daily motion.

I'm on constant rewatch with this one. Lin Yiyang is so sexy and the way he looks at and touches her just slays me every single time!!!

I'm already there. Scrolled through the final episodes even though I can't speak a word of Mandarin!

From a reddit poster:

Episode 21!!!!!!!

is on Daily Motion!!!!!!!!!!

Kill me now. Where is episode 21? What is this four days they speak of??????? Are these streaming sites trying to drive me mad, like I'm not already crazy waking up in the wee hours to watch and ruining my skin?

And me!!!!!!!

when they talked about how he hated wearing black all the time she asked what his favorite color was and he said red.

Your message was perfectly clear. :)

I also love the bromance between the three male leads. The female lead's cousin was so happy to reconnect with Lin he was ready to sell (as they say in these dramas) the poor girl to him. He was, like, you have to marry him--which was so out of character and funny. I also loved the younger cousin; such a sweet boy.