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thank f*ck this is over. i was bored out of…

thank f*ck this is over. i was bored out of my mind & when the scene with the older brother wooing Ben came on i lost interest totally. like plz as if he's at fault for not falling for Ben cause Ben fell for him. that b.s. exist only in BL's where it's somehow justified. in real life Singha wouldn't be going after Ben cause he isn't a good friend - why would be a better partner - also what if Singha was never gay? he gotta force himself cause Ben fell for him??? so this BL b.s. writing & the rest of this ep was more of the same - i didn't need the NC scene which i skipped & the only thing i can say is i am so freakin happy this is over cause even when i think this is good somehow it turns into crap - sorry not sorry - this was so bad that even North (my MVP) couldn't save this trainwreck. peace out -

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Plot twist after plot twist... and 2026 arrives

Wow, I didn't expect the twist about the brothers! And adding Wen's mother to the mix, Xixiao's father becomes the father of all three of them... in a way? 🤔🙄But Wen's mother boils my blood. To take all the father's money and leave a child to take care of her grandmother? Then to not even send money to pay for anything her child might need, and even now to say that Wen is not understanding her? I want to hear her reasons, really, because I can't imagine any that could justify her actions in this situation. Maybe I could accept it if it was to protect Wen in some way, maybe, but I don't know. Also, whose mother is the grandmother—the father's? 😩🧐Xixiao making that arrow necklace to fit Wen's bow... it's so cute. 🤗 Sadly, he never got to give it to her... yet.But as for the time jump, I can't express much shock because I suspect this wasn't the ultimate one. I believe their story will be covered by showing events in both timelines—events of what happened in the past in 2016 and then what is happening now in 2026, until they finally reach the point where the past is explained. And they will probably do that in parallel. It wouldn't be the first time a story is told that way. 🤨

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they don’t know what they’re doing but they do want to do something

’ ’ I’m not crying ，am i ？’ ’ that conversation made me change a lot of my tunes about this episode. i had a lot of problems with counter±intuitive structuring that made the first scene of what feels like the major antagonist mean nothing because it’s just plopped in. it’s also hard to invest myself in setsuna & reiji because it’s a bit shallow. we actually aren’t doing much of anything this episode ，the main focus should be on understanding setsuna but we just dilly±dally running time on a bunch of other stuffs. I’m not referring to anything with the galaxy federal police though because the agi bits & expositories are fun along with that permission request & grant segment. & this is a bummer because setsuna & reiji have a very fascinating relationship to me of the radical optimist meeting somepony who isn’t mean he’s just physically cold from inexperience of intimacy as somepony who feels ’ ’ lesser ’ ’ to humans & he acts to uphold the authority that he is hired to do. he has a lot of fascinating stuff thjey just don’t know how to execute it or get you to care. tgis show also feels incredibly amateur☆ish in direction ？there’s like a lot of genuinely terrible shots that don’t look good & are just awkward.

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Dealing with exes and family matters

Qian Fei is surprised YiFei wants the other ticket. It took some bargaining, but he pretended massive interest to get her to go with him. He tries to get closer and the closest he gets is taking photos with comedian for her. She noted that she was not at her best in any of the photos.🤣😂 There is a fun exchange over name meanings. 🤣😂Dang Yu and Ms Jun have a dance off. 😝 Ms Jun is very forward trying to get the most people to her class. Dang Yu more kindly recommends Ms Jun’s class and they end up in same cab leaving studio. Ms Jun wants Dang Yu dropped off first, but that is refused. No need to give the mom another point to find fault with or place to spy on. Again Dang Yu tries to share the love of dance from her hometown, and again, Ms Jun has to imply or flat out say Shanghai is superior.From that YiFei gets a call and pretends he is going out with Jin. Where he’s really headed is Wang’s place. Wang has just chatted with his dad and his mom is in emergency surgery. She learned they had broken up and this resulted in finding a clogged artery that needed immediate attention. He turns this into a a call to accuse and berate Qian Fei for fake concern about his mother. He’s still admonishing her when YiFei tells him to hang up. He is unaware Qian Fei is on the other end of the call. He and Wang get in a fight. Wang was found guilty of doing sneaky things behind YiFei’s back and using Qian Fei as a steppingstone to further his career, two things Yi Fei hates most. He tells Wang to leave Qian Fei alone or a beating the least of his worries. Now that Wang’s mother is recovering after a successful surgery, will he go home battle scarred or make excuse to stay in the city. Lu Ze goes to find JingJing and again he disappoints. He really doesn’t want to talk to her about what went wrong. He tells her he shutdown his company and will not see his product through to launch. This child of his was dumped when grit was required to see it through and support it. JingJing has already seen him devalue her once when things got hard for him. After saying he wouldn’t stick by his dream and sees he wants to be with her, his proposal did feel hollow compared to the first one. She sadly told him that rich or poor didn’t matter, she did not want to marry him. JingJing calls Qian Fei for girl support and Qian Fei tells YiFei their eggplant dinner is cancelled and to not wait up. She told him to have fun with his gf. YiFei is definitely pouty after this and the friends he’s been ghosting are now expected to party it up with him. The more the merrier. This episode showed Mr Liao saying one thing and reacting opposite with his daughter. Wang initially wanted to push a response from the hotel and now changed his tune to do internal fixes and public promotions but to keep public statement neutral. Mr Liao isn’t particularly happy with how his daughter is running things, but does not contradict her directly.YiFei definitely wants Qian Fei to know he’s interested, but he doesn’t tell her directly. She is either truly unaware or choosing to ignore the hints. These two 🤣😂🙄

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The people of Lishan Academy

A very good episode. 🌟 Xiuyao realised what has happened with A'Li, and how she has been living in the Lishan Academy.😌That scene where the eunuch (I forgot his name) kept asking where everyone is, pointing as if she was intentionally lying, was frustrating. 😤 I am so grateful to Xiuyao for shouting at him to shut him up, yet that didn't really change anything, because now he has gone back to the capital to inform the Empress Dowager. 🙄But all of that actually leads to thinking: was it really an ordered massacre of the Lishan Academy, or maybe something entirely different wiped it out? 🤔That scene at the end where A'Li prepared a meal for all the members of Lishan Academy and introduced them to her husband, and him to them... I can't even describe how heavy my heart got for her and her mental state. 🥺🤧 A'Yao acted along as if everything she sees is true... And that makes me wonder—if and how they will set her mind back to a normal state? 🤔 Either she heals just by being surrounded with living people, specifically Xiuyao, and eventually forgets about these delusions while he gradually feeds her the information that they died, or it might be some very traumatic shock moment that just takes her back to the moment where she lost them all, making her realise what has happened. 😔

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They are back to normal, yeey

I wonder who wiped the whiteboard? Was it a targeted sabotage? 🤨🤔 Even I saw this possibility that it might be erased and she would lose all her night's work. Oh, that silly girl! 🤦‍♀️ At least Yifei took photo of them and could save the day for her. What would she do without him, eh? 🤷‍♀️I am glad they talked and resolved that issue with "using", which means they returned to their old cozy selves—the way I like them the most. 🤗 And those Yifei's answers to Gui Lili from Fei's phone... 😂 And kudos to Zhao De for reading the room. Yeah.... card in his office. 🤭Jun Cheng's parents are the worst... I will complain yet again how they don't have any boundaries. If they expect that to be a comedy-like move—well, it isn't. 😩

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Agh. The writing just went into the toilet.

The writers have just leaned heavily into the stupid, most-annoying drama trope of, "Noble Idiocy" -- Yuan Shuai proceeds to take on all the burdens, lets himself get framed, pushes everyone away and declines to explain or share what he's doing. "Gives up on their love" for the "greater good". And for no F'ing good reason. This is a cheap, stereotypical plot gimmick that is among the most hated by fans (for good reason). It requires huge truckloads of plot-induced stupidity. The 'break up' with Jiang Jun is unbelievably stupid. It is obvious to us viewers that he's performing a scheme and it makes no sense that he had to keep her in the dark for what he's doing. There are lots of ways for him to have carried out this ruse while not hurting her. Doing it this way is just stupid and unnecessary and shows a lack of trust - right after he had just promised her he would not lie to her. And he's also breaking his promise to both her father and mother to not be the reason she cries. This is not the Yuan Shuai of the last 26 episodes. This is a plot-twisted version derived out of nowhere by the writers just to create some drama. Sigh ... having come this far, I'll gut it out until they bring the plot past this stupidity and hope they finish the series with a better arc. Just very disappointed in the writers right now.

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