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Still it shows that there's always hope. Even if we don't do the thing we originally wanted to do, we can still be a success and lead a happy life. Because we never know beforehand the consequences of our choices or of the things that happen to us.

It was also obvious at the time. She agrees to the marriage and magically the father agrees to give the letter he was so adamant not to write. We all understood it.

They had no proof.

I strongly disagree. Her biological father is always concerned about her and treats her very affectionately. The grandfather also regularly sneaks chicken soup for her during the family feud.
The father repeatedly tried to help, financially and otherwise, with her medicines, her studies etc, but the Qi family - including Qi Shi herself- proudly declined every single time. Remember when she lacked money to take extra courses to finally give the State Exam? Mr. Cao put an envelope in her hand and repeatedly told her not to be burdened, they are like family, he wants to give her a chance to study, give the exam and enter college, but she refused, she said she wanted to get into the workforce instead.

She didn't??????

There are many family dramas that also have some romance, the members of families are not monks, so romance, marriage, divorce, affairs, are all part of their lives and have a place in their life story.

No, the sickness was revealed after the swap. The grandma said - and it made sense - that two men, an old one and another one who works from morning to night, cannot care for a newborn baby, so she took her and got on the bus to take her with her in her village.

Well, not if she went with the grandma in the village. That would have been worse.

There was one recently that was refreshingly different.

It's the patriarchal idea that a son will carry the name of the family, because the girl will get married and belong to the other family. This is the Asian mentality but in the past (even recent past) it was that way in Europe as well.

He's worse than bad. He's stupid, weak and a coward. A useless person.

Yes, whatever. Or, to remain close to what is in the script, that boy could have gone not to her but to the police car that was near the school and told the policemen to intervene, but being near she overheard anyway and rushed as well.

Probably there was someone who pointed that out, because on the next episode, the guy responds to exactly this sort of scolding, and says "Oh, I was panicked, that's why, I'm not a smart person anyway". Lazy ass excuse from the screenwriter.

Yes, but now there are plenty of Asian actors who are excellent in their crafts and thanks to the Hallyu and general trend of k-drama and c-drama their names are becoming well-known, so it's not such a risk to use them in their films every now and then (still rarely!)
But an albino actor? Do you know of any? I only know of an albino runway model.
Not to mention all that was mentioned before about the special care they would need on set. They cannot do shooting for many hours under direct sunlight (and shooting does take many hours, typically a scene is rehearsed or shot many times) or maybe even the strong artificial lights in an indoor studio could be taxing for their eyes etc. etc.

that stupid classmate, he sees a fight and someone in danger, and instead of alerting the police (there was a police car at the school entrance too!), or really any adult nearby, he goes alert the victim's little sister who is about to enter for her exam? Exam apart, what could she do against three grown men?

I just finished ep.13, with the accident. I wonder,

If I remember well, the disease was diagnosed AFTER the swap.

It's not a question of drama logic, it's how those old-fashioned patriarchal societies worked. A son was needed to carry the family name. "Raising them all together" wouldn't change the fact that the two Cao females couldn't do that, because they would marry into other families.
In China, at the time when you were allowed only one child (from 1979 to 2015), many female foetuses were aborted (or killed after birth, or abandoned or given for adoption), so that they could try again until they got a son. The result is that today, according to official census data and demographic studies, men outnumber women by about 30 to 35 million.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-ratio_imbalance_in_China

Well they did do that a lot in Hollywood. At a time when Asian actresses were not that famous because Bollywood films and K-dramas were not in fashion. No studio would bet their film's success in putting an unknown for main lead, and I understand that, because they're investing millions.
Today they avoid doing it, and when it's a story involving a character of a different race, they try to get someone of that race. Because that's the general consensus now, and also Asia is very trendy.

Wouldn't they have problems with the strong lights on set?