monstersnroses

What do you guys think is with her weird reactions to her sister?

The more I watch this, the more I love it.

1) He's obsessed af and Luo Zheng plays obsessed soooo well, and that's fun.
2) It's half his fault that shit fell apart. I'm thinking "you fell for her b/c u thought she was pretty, but she was never that into you, you deserve someone who understands you more and treats you better, but you're blinded by hur dur pretty dancer. Which is such a common theme in life in unhappy relationships, the guy chases after the girl because visuals, and then everything falls apart because your personalities don't match. And she even says as much in like ep 13 or something. She asks him if he's ever considered that maybe they were never really meant for eachother. When she says this, he cogdisses.

(And hey did u notice that Luo Zheng can even play "cogdiss" really really well, it's like we're watching him come unhinged in real time, it's hot and gorgeous and cool.)

And clearly he's like a jerk for not listening to her or whatever blah blah

3) It's half her fault it fell apart. I mean, she goes from one thing in life to another just going with the flow, she never knows what she wants, she never tries to get what she wants, she just does whatever's most obvious to do, and goes where she's most wanted. I don't really even like her. All she does is feel sorry for herself and cry. And she's got hot Lou Zheng who is madly in love with her and is a sexy artist!!? What the eff more do you want, lady?

Then she has her miscarriage, and I know that can be hard, and some women don't ever recover. But come ON, it was like a couple months into her pregnancy, if she needs to cry for longer than a week over it, then she needs to lean on her man if she wants the relationship to survive. She needs to grieve WITH him. But she withdraws so much so fast, and there is no pulling her out. She feels so effing sorry for herself!!! He can't do anything! He's not the one who went cold on the marriage, she is. She hated him for trying to make money? Biiiish! I am poor. Right now I am poor. And this FL is just stupid.

But you also can't blame her for not knowing what she wants and not growing up fast enough for the people around her. Her EQ is super low, and other people constantly expect it to be higher, and she can't deliver. It's not her fault people expect so much from her.

4) Even the mother, when seen through a psychological lens, basically pushes FL into the relationship with ML. She horribly overreacts to him, embarrasses herself, won't compromise, humiliates and alienates them both, then gives her daughter an ultimatum.

Just - man aside - for a mother to say 'I always only loved you CONDITIONALLY' to her daughter, that's gotta sting. So of course the daughter's gonna leave with sexy artist man who is super sweet and brings flowers and doesn't *care* who she is!!!

5) And then that moment happens where he strangles her. Gahhhhhhh so well acted by both ML and FL, what can you even say about it, except that it's so so well acted. I wonder if that moment was real or not (not rl real, of course, just 'real' for the plotline). I also wonder wtf is that box.

So, what is the box, who is the sister.

This whole thing is sort of Lynchian a little bit.

There's a scene in ep 11 where he's sitting by her in the hospital holding her hand saying "can you hear me" and crying.... and gotdang I think that's some of the best acting I've ever seen from Luo Zheng.

I feel like anytime theres a hospital involved in one of these types of stories, thats the actual reality.

The book that guy recc's her that's called 'Klein Kettle' is a reference to a Klein Bottle, which is like a 3-d double-moebius strip, it has no beginning or end, and no top or bottom.

Me 2 years ago: I wish Luo Zheng would break out of the CEO typecasting

Me now: I wish Luo Zheng would just do a funny CEO romance

Ty for remembering that, I was also wondering what I recognized him from

> She didn’t change much at the end, and after regaining her memories, she didn’t change much either. However in the drama, she’s just keep changing back and forth which I find kinda annoying. I loved the unbothered, sweet, and slacking FL in the book.

YES so much this!

iirc she does not die at all...?

I guess im only bothered bc the novel has this content, zenned-out FL who has this thing happen to her that it's like "Yay! I won the lotto!" And that's it, that's the story. That's the kind of quaintness I loved about the story.

I don't like it when the writers take a sweet adorable FL, and feel like it can't be complete as a romance unless they've given her PTSD. Aiyaaa...

I think hypothetically one could skip from Grain Rain Vale when it's sweet and lovely, straight to end of ep 28 where his soul manor catches on fire, and be totally in line with the novel basically. Everything in between was just one big detour-loop that brings you full circle right back at the plot of the story.

I wonder why they felt the need to create that entire frost fish plotline. It's weird because when he wakes up, he looks at her passed out demon-ruler body and says "You really made something of yourself" as if he's proud of her for it, but I don't think that's in line with SJ's character. He never wanted her to work hard or be his equal, he just appreciated her for who she was and wanted her to never have to struggle or work hard or be in any pain. So I think SJ would wake up and see her like that and get super pissed off and sad, not be proud of her for "making something of herself".

She never took thunderbolts for him in the novel, correct?

And then she also repeatedly tries to stab him as she struggles with the assassin frost fish, and I thought that kind of dented the original dynamic between them a little bit.

I am just really glad that by the time you get to end of ep28, you do get that same feeling as in the original story where you feel like he's protecting her from knowing he's dying and it's super sad and sweet. I'm optimistic that this could finish out really well.

Bantz for novel readers:

When I read "side-eyeing SOKP wildcats" my mind immediately did the SOKP wildcat sound effect "reowrrrr!"

@Vickymouse
Nice user profile you got there 🤣

My completely uneducated blind guess is that they're rl into eachother. And that's why they have blow the roof off chemistry.

I appeal relevance b/c people want to know what to watch between eps or what to go to from here. when the new eps drop, there will be more to talk about. I dug through 3 other crap shows to finally land on MR as a decent between-ep watch.

This is jonesing between doses of Sima Jiao.

does the production value or sound/dubbing have to be there for you, or can you go old school? Do you care if it's historical/modern or red/green flag? Or taboo?

I just browsed your watchlist, I think I might be able to be of some assistance, b/c we have a lot of overlap on ratings. So what exactly are you looking for rn? fluff, spice, plot, something long something short, something easy or hard or what.

Hey. Nobody told me Moonlit Reunion was full of actual cats!

I was kind of avoiding that show. But I'm bored today and there's nothing else, so I thought... since MR doesn't even really get started romance-wise till ep 11, then why don't I just start it on ep 10. RN I am on ep 11. I have no idea what's going on right now, but there's something about the combination of Kai and a bunch of cats that's super hypnotic. This is curing my between-episode boredom pretty nicely. Good characters, very happy-looking and well-fed cats that I'm sure were not stressed out a lot on set or mistreated.

I also like that Kai can kind of like cosmically appease the Cat Gods by doing MR, because of what that poor poor cat went through in ABAY.

I don't know if they're both single, but I also would ship them in RL.

omg, that's genius, they should have hired you to write for this drama lol