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XK 's English will not be good enough to do it in English, the accent is heavy and his character should speak like an American since he went abroad very young age. XK did speak English in FIYS, so they should let him try but maybe the delivery will not come across right?
I had the same thought as you when I watch. There's been couple of scenes like this. and another one for Zhang?

this is XK's own watch

that's the Chinese culture, listen to your elders

if you skip all the mother scenes, you miss the ones with YZM

I wonder what grandma meant when she left her step son these words, "You are not as charming as your father. You should love your wife more"

i don't know how to describe it, sort like a puppy love look for a brief moment as he watched her walk away

who invited her to Shanghai? her mother?

I kept thinking Zhang has something on YZM but now I reject that, but I wish the drama would clear up from ep. 1 what their relationship is.

Xu Kai sort of imitating Grandma
When we first met, Grandma (Wu Yanshu) said, "I saw you in Arsenal Military Academy,
you looked so handsome." I really wonder does Grandma really watches it?
I was stunned at the time, and asked, Grandma, do you really watch it? "It's so handsome"

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R-Mk3AzVwW8

YZM: Stray cats are not born wanting to be strays. How do you know I won't like it?
MCH: Alright, hurry home, stray cat
the look in YZM face

with YZM in the house, the humor is delightful

the way YZM wolf down the noodles, why? Did MCH cook the noodles and he's showing his appreciation?

YZM has a way with MCH's mother. She's pretty polite around him, or will that change?

he is definitely plotting but not against her. If he can oust Zhang, he can take her position there in Shanghai, but it's far from his ambitions. He had big ambitions to climb to the top. I think he has a plan to help MCH and her hotel involving Yueda and his career, but I'm sure there will be challenges. He told Zhang that his grandmother had entrusted MCH and her hotel to him. He told MCH that grandma asked him to help her.

yes I know that scene so well because it was mesmerizing the looks on both of their faces

"This drama is really down-to-earth"
"this is the workplace and love that I want to watch in the thirties urban drama!!"

Xu Kai Interview: Sensibility and rationality are both good and bad in Yao Zhiming

When he and XK were in The Untouchable Lovers, He Feng Tian played a bigger role than XK, but that all changed after Yanxi Palance, I really like him He Feng Tian in Royal Feast. I feel like he deserved some kind of best supporting actor role or something, the way he portrayed his character was so rich. He's a good actor, wished he can get better roles to shine. He's been in at least 5 or 6 or XK dramas.

"Xu Kai's voice is very suitable for the role of Yao Zhiming"
"It sounds good!!! it feels like living abroad all year round"
"Xu Kai speaks inexplicably and quite foreign style in the play, hahahaha Playing a returnee executive, Yao Zhiming has already won most of the time"
"I think it's super good, his words are quite in line with the personality, and from the first episode, I found that his original lines are much more beautiful than when you smile"

it looks like Zhang doesn't have anything over YZM. I read too much into it. So that means YZM really did come back on his accord.