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She will have a crush for the SML for 2 years, from their senior year of highschool to the end of their first year of college.

I think they wanted to portray a different kind of romance. In many drama,s the FL is the one who loves ML first and will love him for years before he realizes it too. This time the roles are reversed.

The series is also very invested in the notion of friendship and the first loves / crushes of this group of friends.
They are young, inexperienced, naive and will hurt themselves and make mistakes out of love. Some will date unreliable people who will hurt them. Others will have crushes on someone they are incompatible with and will waste time and energy on one-sided love instead of quickly letting go and being realistic. It is youth. Sometimes we don't face reality or what is under our noses.

The FL suffers from a lack of affection due to her mother's attention focused on her little brother. The SML is the first to be kind and considerate to her. Therefore, she's going to have a big crush on him for a while.

But the ML has a close relationship with her and soon after entering college becomes her best friend and the person she spends a lot of time with.

What do we do when we date someone?
We go on a trip together, we eat together, we work together, we help each other and so on. This is exactly what ML and FL will do during their four years of college. Other than physical intimacy, they do everything a couple does and their affection for each other is immense.

However, the FL having put ML in the "best friend" box, she will take time to see the ML can be more than a best friend to her and that her platonic love for him can easily turn into romance.

So even though FL has a crush during 2/3 of the drama for the SML, the fact that she genuinely loves ML and builds a strong relationship with him is important and part of their romance.

So Ming Hui tried to kill the main characters several times, injured many soldiers in one of her attempts, failed to kill the FL several times, and once the ML, poisoned the FL to force the SML to marry her and that doesn't bother anyone?
Please tell me that she'll receiving her karma otherwise I'll scream. The actress/ character was writers/director's favorite or what?!

I don't know where they get them from but I compared with the youtube subtitles and it is not the same subtitles.
Those from Viki don't say the same thing sometimes. Like: "you want me to offer you books and be available for your calls?" while the youtube version says "you want me to be your servant instead of buying you books?". And Viki's sentences are very oddly worded sometimes.
I don't speak Chinese but I have enough basics for sometimes get shocked when reading Viki's subtitles because it doesn't match what is being said at all.

Am I the only one who finds Viki's subtitles inaccurate at times? I compared with the subtitles on youtube and there are several nonsense in the Viki version. I don't understand how they can do this.

He adopted her when she was a baby.

Could someone tell me how important the character of Zheng Ye Cheng is in the story? Does he have his own storyline?
Thanks in advance x)

I've seen several people complain about the time jump and the fact the main couple aren't together at college.
While I agree that having them be apart without talking to each other for 5 years is a bit too much, I'm glad they weren't dating sooner.
The last year of college and the first years in the working life are important stages, source of stress, which require a lot of investment. In view of the personalities of ShiYi and Xiaoju, if they had been together in their last year of college, there would have been problems. They would not have been able to focus fully in their studies, they would have argued often and could even have ended up breaking up.
Their relationship seems more believable and hopeful once they finish growing up on their own, build a stable career for themselves, and have the confirmation that neither of them can forget the other.
I would obviously have preferred to have a few more episodes on their reunion, to see them learn to know each other again, forgive each other for their past attitude and started their story on a better basis.
But a lot of dramas have slanted end while the characters know each other a lot less than these two.

My opinion on the end:

Why the rating dropped by 0.3?

I tried but there are subtitles on Youku. Thank you anyway for answering me x)

Does a kind soul know where to find the raw episodes without the Chinese subtitles please?

Ah, okay!
Indeed, I did not see or understand the scene which explains this. It makes so much more sense. Thank you !

The problem if he was an informant from the start is that the police should have known him. While in the brigade, nobody knows him, the police don't trust him for most of the drama and he ignores everything. Which corresponds more to the fact that he would have been trained and protected by the former informant in order to take over his job one day rather than being already involved. Unless another branch of the police contacted him. I don't know...

Thanks!
Did you understand if the ML was a new informant or if he works undercover for a while? It is the thing I can't guess.

This drama was released this year but the story took place in 2009/2010.

Thanks you so much! So the ML was an informant you think? Or he becomes one till the end?
I didn't understand her cousin will live. I'm happy to hear that!!

I think it was Luo Khun, FL and her cousin try to do business with him in episodes 19 and 20

At the end of the drama, the entire drug network is dismantled (including that of the adoptive father of ML). The FL cousin is seriously injured in hospital (I don't think he is going to make it, given the severity of his injuries).
The FL is reinstated in the police and takes in Coco, the daughter of the ML.
As for the ML, he leaves I don't know where to do I don't know what. I didn't understand if he goes to infiltrate another network and becomes an informant or if he was already an informant before the story begins and continues his work. He leaves a farewell video to FL but unfortunately I didn't understand what he was saying.

The ending is happy and bittersweet at the same time. It is impossible to emerge physically or emotionally unscathed from such a story. But given the subject of the drama, the ending is happier than I expected.