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Painfully dull, drawn-out send-off of Yang

While the events that happened in this episode are fine and do progress the plot, whomever decided that they should devote almost a half hour to just sending the annoying and pathetic Jian Yang on his way should be fired. Seriously. The idiot shows up drunk. She comes out and tells him _AGAIN_ that they are not a couple and she has moved on and has zero intention of getting back together with him, and says goodbye. In other words: Nothing really happened to change their relationship or anybody else's. Yet that consumed almost a half hour, with much of it being just scans across his sad-sack face and flash-backs accompanied by sappy, faux-sentimental music. Please, show. Do not do that to us again.

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will start with the 2nd couple, cause i must…

will start with the 2nd couple, cause i must admit the 1st couples plot is confusing - kinda... love the turnabout where Wan Zhe is the one pursuing Hamaguchi. as is i felt the unevenness between them the sec Hamaguchi admitted to his infatuation at the start. maybe cause of the wish, he was almost obsessed & blindly devoted to Wan Zhe more then he was in-love in the normal sense of the word. he worshiped him & was ready to do anything for him, even at his own exspance & the part that bugged me even more then this blind-love, was how Wan Zhe not only took Hamaguchi's feelings for granted, but how he took advantage of him & started treating him like his personal slave. maybe some found that fun or funny - me, not so much. so i like the turn about where it aint the opposite extreme, but there is a balance of them meeting in the middle. love how organic it was & how it built until the confession & then the kiss - it was really sweet & heartwarming. really enjoyed their part of the ep. *************the mains; ugh - i loved the conversation between father & son, pity Xiang Yong's wish has come true & everyone has forgotten him... even if the muscle memory / mind’s memory? - the gut feeling that something isn't right or rather like an eerie sensation of something that's supposed to be, yet isn't... persisted throughout this ep. it was bittersweet watching Xiang Yong getting used to the new normal. even though i wonder as Xiao You never existed & was made up by Wan Zhe, who doesn't even remember Xiang Yong, does this mean Xiao You gonna disappear like Xiang Yong? & when i say disappear i mean vanish, fade, evaporate, dissolve, and dematerialize into nothingness??? just me wondering ?? **************************************************side note: i don't get why we needed Hao Wei's client to pop-up & give him a panic attack in this ep? just so Xiang Yong could take him to his special place & go over the relaxation technique he came up with as a teen?!? ok i guess -

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Best episode in a while.

This episode was great on many levels. First off it finally had some exciting game action in the first match of the national tournament. Each of Cheng and Yao came up huge in each of the two games they won over her stupid ex-BF's team. All this happening on top of an undercurrent of Cheng feeling sick and Yao feeling her monthly cycle in a bad way. So after the victory both were eager to get out of there for different reasons and end up back at the base, with nobody else around. And this set the scene for some funny growth as a couple, finally. This show is so much stronger when it focuses on the two leads and wastes less time on all the annoying characters around them.

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Heh.

•High key feel like I'm losing brain cells while watching this 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫. •The overacting of some of these bullies is too much 😮‍💨😂. Comically evil•Thyme's so dumb that it almost makes him endearing 😦🤣^I'm convinced he's only popular because he's financially loaded. Bro's fashion sense alone would get him clowned outta school(maybe he's color blind?), let alone his intelligence (the lack thereof to be more specific). •tbh I'm struggling to adjust to the Thai language 😶‍🌫️ *envisioning the separatist party in StarWars🙈*--I'm going to try and watch a few more episodes, but I don't know if I can do it, fam. The accidentally kiss scene at the end of ep.2 was almost too much for me 😧😭😭 chaebal🙏🤚

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poor Tiger, i get & yet don't get…

poor Tiger, i get & yet don't get his family, given his age i guess he can't cut ties not when he has no way of supporting himself - that's if they would let him go & pity that mother isn't capable of standing up to her husband. so what if ur born into the mafia, not everyone needs to join. the older son is there to take over the father's place, why not let the younger son do whatever he wants?!? heck there a lot of men in the mafia that want their kids to live normal lives & not follow in their footstep, cause they know how ruthless that world can be. here Tiger's father is a douche, cause i am sure he is the one pushing his older son to initiate the younger one, into the organization. not that that means i like the older brother any - heck if Tiger was ruthless & interested in that life, i would've wanted him to aim the gun at his older brother. then no power struggle & he would only have his father to deal with. yeah i know a bit farfetched lol but that's much i detest the older brother. ********************************what i am enjoying in this story is how organically the romance is building, u can see the progression of how they met & hwo they went from enemies to friends & now they r getting even closer. yet it isn't romantic & i love how natural it feel. also totally love Nao's family. idk what the story is with the mother's 2nd husband - but they such a warm & welcoming group, wasn't shocked that Tiger just couldn't compute on the 1st night he sat at the dinner table. given him family dynamic am sure he was shocked at what he felt & saw in Nao's house. am happy he is now part of them but sad cause i feel this escape will be short lived as that family of his aint gonna let him go. the worrying question is how & if Nao's family r gonna suffer cause they have taken Tiger in... hope not -

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A little calm and joy, and the journey continues

The first bit of the episode could easily be called "Su Mu Yu, the ultimate housewife". If only his earnest attempts hadn't exhausted Bai He Huai... 😂 And the visitor getting invited to dinner, only to turn out to be the one cooking for everyone, was quite amusing. This drama has really turned a teeny-tiny bit brighter after all the killing, backstabbing, and powerplay in the first ten episodes. 😉But now Mu Yu is on the road again with Chang He looking for some answers... And I do think that there is actually romance and longing between Mu Yu and Bai He Huai—the farewell scene really gave off that vibe. 😏☝️Sadge I didn't get to see my favourite couple, though. 😞

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Amazing combat, new paths and a secret key

That fight scene at the beginning of the episode... well, that was something! The CGI was awesome, and both Hell's Palm and the 18-Sword Array are such OP techniques to watch. 🤩 Su Mu Yu seems like the most powerful and the most humble at the same time. For a moment, I wasn't sure if the Zodiacs would accept Su Chang He as the new Patriarch, since they all wanted Su Mu Yu to be the one. 🫢 And now Su Mu Yu has become a gold mine for Bai He Huai... keep that money coming! 😂Rabbit clearly misses having Black Tortoise around. 😔🥹 I hope I get to see their romance blooming soon.And what's with the key in the Dragon sword? I wonder what it unlocks and what secrets are hidden there! 🤔🫢

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So disappointed in the writers of this episode

Unbelievable. So the truth comes out about what happened with Lu Yue and God Ming. And the result in the story is that everybody forgives Lu Yue and some even say, "I'm sorry.", to him. And everybody acts like it's all fine now and they can accept him back on the team. But this is absolutely absurd. Regardless of the threats that the JK team made, Lu Yue still did two things that were completely unforgivable. First, he arrogantly goaded the other team on by drinking a huge bucket of booze as a faux "toast". This got him stupid smashed drunk. And then, upon overhearing their talk, HE TRIED TO MURDER BROTHER A BY HITTING HIM IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD WITH A WISKEY BOTTLE. This is a serious, serious stupid dangerous thing to have done. It is assault with a dangerous weapon, battery and attempted murder. So what if he was rightfully angered by their threats. None of that justifies what he did. And it is absolutely disgusting that the show writers are whitewashing this in order to get his character 'accepted back onto the team' in order to have his 'bad boy character' competing with Tong Yao for the mid-lan chair. It's so disappointing because all of what the writers wanted to achieve could have been done with more intelligent writing. For example if he just drunkenly tried to grab/confront Brother A and if THAT started the fight that God Ming got hurt in, then forgiving him would make a little more sense. But by adding in the stupidly dramatic but insanely dangerous act of him smashing the bottle on Brother A's head from behind, this ultimate outcome - the behavior by everyone to just pat each other on the back as they relish his 'redemption' is just sickeningly stupid. It makes the characters morally broken. I'm so, so disappointed in the writers for this crap.

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???

JinZhou has a dream and sends her guard to look after the Chen’s. She had already destroyed her indentured paperwork and had purchased properties for her. She looks at the items that YanYun most treasured. They all revolved around her. The mask when he rescued her from the pond. The glasses and another gift in a box. What struck her most was his painting of her where he was amazed that she loved him amd married him. He had all his happy memories of her and that he needed to hide it before she found it and made fun of him.🥰QingLan is guarding over Ye Xian’s coffin and holding the cat. I think Ye Xian would approve because white kitty gets along with her much better than JinZhao.😂 He had written a letter to his sis to say goodbye and not be sad. He told her the doc’s verdict and that he wanted to see the land their father always talked about. He got to wear armor and lead troops into battle — would their father be proud of him? I am glad he got to say his goodbye and fess up about how short a time he had. This will help ease her grief over time and understand his end choices better. The last letter was to his mother who gained entrance to see the emperor. Even with his mother present Fu tried to political speak and waste time to disseminate troops. The emperor finally had enough and kicked him out under house arrest. This gave him some satisfaction but the bottom line was whether Fu was in power or not, he still had cronies in all the offices handling logistics of soldiers and supplies. He could stretch it out for as long as he liked. Ms Fu was upset that her sect had been tricked and ruined Fu’s plans. He accepted the blame which was rightfully his so 😝🙄JinZhao bargains with her life to get Fu to expedite things. Since he knows Chen is alive he accepts. He spared her after telling her to drink it. He wants Chen gone not her. Chen arrives and is shown the book of Great Yan that holds the collected knowledge since its origin. Then he sets the place on fire for them to die. I am wondering if he wanted Chen to have the book and leave him there. It was not something he wanted destroyed. His plans are changed when his wife shows up with a sword at JinZhao’s throat. She claims responsibility for everything that happened and was the sect’s leader. Chen hurls his sword at her and Fu goes to hold her. JinZhao and Chen leave the burning building with the book of Yan. I guess the emperor has a lot of homework to do. The sect was purged from the nation and things are being restructured to prevent a reoccurrence. They had a repeat of our couple on horseback at the beach for a happy ending but I find myself wishing for new happy pictures rather than old ones. I loved Ye Xian’s character. I gave him a tearful goodbye last episode. This episode should have had a lot less focus on him and a lot more on the living. We should have seen Lan getting married, WanXue happy and JinZhao and YanYun expecting. We needed something lighter after all the heavy turmoil of battle. Even the emperor welcoming them back and awarding them something to make all that trauma point to a happier future than just the big book of Yan.

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