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Time traveling letters

Future and past both realize there is something going on with the mailbox and that cat and midnight are the requirement for letter transfer. Xun has had a chat with the teacher and asks her to visit Chadong. When she first starts talking I roll my eyes and like him wants to know if lecture or mocking on the menu.😝 it is not revealed how much she gave him, but she wants him to repair the shop and make honest money. She told him to stop hiding and stand up for himself. Here she shows candidly how she feels without the usual judgment in her tone. I find that I like her and understand her better. I am still disappointed she does not recognize what a louse Tang’s father is, but she is climbing in my estimation of her now. Nian and Cheng are cute in their tests with mailbox. Where Xun and Tang are sweet, these two are like Tom and Jerry fighting over every little thing.😂 He was probably too full of himself to check his mother’s cookie tin, but I think it will have train tickets too. It is funny how Nian challenges him to check all the rooms in her tiny house.😂 Even he starts seeing how ridiculous he is being. I like her interest in expanding items to see what can be mailed. What floors Cheng is when he is taking their stuff out of the box, Tang’s letter is inside. He is freaking out because it defies his scientific brain. 😂 Where gossip boy gets on my last nerve in 1991, I love the antics of the security guard in 2026. He helps keep the peace between the bickering couple camped out by his factory.😝 Nian answers Tang’s questions and gives them a test to prove letter from the future, 23 September there is a waterline incident that even causes a new name for the place. They have ten days to wait to see if this happens. On another note, Xun copies the love letter and compares the writing. He then takes it to Tang and asks her to compare them. The signature is a match and they both see that Xun has written this in the future. Can’t wait to see what happens next.

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Gang conflict

After the beatings end Bao demands each boy gets a leg hurt. Dong gives Bao their boat money to spare them. He then lets a mob come in and trash the place after taking their money.🤬 While Xun is distracted by getting beat in Tang is caught trying to call him. Her father makes her kneel at Gma’s shrine and after fake whining wants the deed to the house to pay off the debt. She refused and they collide while she’s trying to save Gma’s ashes. The glass in her picture frame broke and Yibo goes in a hitting spree with her again. She knows Xu would show up so she checks his house to see what happened. She sees blood on the door and screams for him. He has the audacity to think that’s the cutest thing he’s seen all night.😝She helps with his wounds and he notices hers. He goes to the mahjong place and confronts her worthless father, and then more collectors come to pay him a call. He is seen packing a bag and fleeing. The next day Xun and Tang meet again and talk about her letter disappearing. They decide to do a stakeout for a few days. Nothing is happening and right when they give up the cat shows up and there’s a folded letter inside the box. In the future Nian and Cheng are talking to the security guy and nobody is convincing Cheng that her dad disappeared in thin air. While they are bickering the cat shows up. We don’t get to see what happened yet. Hao promises to protect his girl. He has a good heart but hopefully won’t be stupid again about fighting. He has cost them a lot with him trying to be galant.All he had to do was walk away. Hopefully he will next time. Dong promises the teacher Xun can go to school and wants him there. She means well, but she sticks her nose into things without really doing anything either. I have mixed feelings about her character. She should notice a child is getting beaten.😝 I am also really tired of chubby gossip. He is not comic relief, he’s damn annoying. At first I wondered if he was the security guard at the factory mailbox.😝 That would be him grown up 🤣

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Changes

Yi goes to the memorial that has Zhou Yuan’s name on it. Her grief is palpable. Wen knows she is there and stays with her. She thanks him for finding out the truth about her husband. I am thinking that he ran into people like Mr Gu and that had him join. He and Cheng were far less concerned with politics and steadfast in wanting best for China. All parties have good and bad. I am sure Zhou Yuan would have been less happy with Yang and his influence over wife and sister. She is young and her husband’s sister so Yi treats her with far more courtesy than she receives. Fu is happy for her. They have ‘allowed’ her to go back to her home and given her a job she is well suited for. They completely sweep under the rug that this is what they should have done from the beginning. They started their relationship with the stick and then thought she’d be grateful for the carrot. 😝 They would have been far more successful had they respected her from the beginning as a valuable asset to their organization. For Yi, that ship has sailed. The sis in law, how her tone changes from Yi to Fu. She is a decade younger and thinks she can school Yi about men.😝 she could have shared time waiting for brother with Yi. She had five years. Now that she thinks she has brother’s approval she wants to be sisterly. She doesn’t get that maybe all these things are too painful for Yi knowing he is dead. Why would she want to have a youthful dead husband picture in her face right now. She is so obtuse to how she’s been treating Yi. She honestly thinks her presence is appreciated. Yi doesn’t hate her, but she has no reason to have deep affection for her either. Yi tried subtly and spoke often of her brother and always with love, but the sis never accepted it because of her youthful mindset. She could not claim her brother and fall in line with the party. She couldn’t reconcile that and took it out on Yi. I don’t hate the young woman for her conflict, but her distasteful bossing of Yi should register how discourteous it is. The fact that she doesn’t grasp that leaves little ground for establishing a better relationship. She may grow up enough to be more like her brother, but with Yang’s constant presence and the manipulative director, the chances are slim for her. The director is still keeping eye via sis in law. She is the one assigning her Yi I am sure. 😝 Yi has requested to go abroad, and now the organization doesn’t want her to go. Wen tries to urge her to see the rejuvenated Shanghai as a result of liberation efforts. This angle should have started years ago.😝Minister Wen is at hospital to visit chief Yan. The nurse kicks him out of the room and director shows up. The director is trying to get Wen to consider the nurse. She is as good as his friend in matchmaking.😂😝 She is pretty and much like how sis is with Yang once she finds out who he is. The last thing he wants is a sycophant partner.😝 The director sees him eyeing Yi and wants an approved party wife for him. Good luck with that director.😂🤣😝 The chief never showed, the director tried hard to make that an impromptu date. Dinner between shifts 😂😝 now Qing wants her to give stories of her brother’s heroism to the class. Yi didn’t even know he was communist, what was she supposed to fabricate for them?😝 I found it touching what she tried to share with them. The last dress her husband had made for her. It was too subtle and the two loudmouths kept any chance from learning away from the group. Fu invited her to the club for a last gathering. The organization would have better plans. He is considered a reprobate because he has three concubines. Yuan was his friend anyways. And any man that deliberately chooses to have more than one woman, has already cloaked himself in estrogen storm. 😂he merits whatever hassle they give him. Yi, on the other hand did not. She was actually rescued by her comrade sisters. What struck Yi the hardest is when the local supervisor joined Qing in demanding tales of the great martyr. She was stunned that her husband’s affiliations is why they view her now as trustworthy. She doesn’t know what to do with that thinking. She is not deliberately other from them. She is just as unfamiliar with their experiences as they are from hers. Wen strongly urges her to change her thinking. He is not rude and expresses it calmly, but he is quite direct. Qing shows up with tea eggs and wants forgiveness. Yi obliges. The demanding of communal clap and the female Yang shouting makes what should have been a sweet scene off putting. She could have had a quiet meeting of apology but wants the party included admiring her actions. Wen visits Yi after the scene at the club. He finds she doesn’t need comfort and he learns of some of her experiences with the army. She asks him directly as an intellectual how he adapted. It all came down to taking the time to know and understand the other side. To not decide arbitrarily that someone is too stupid to understand. The head seamstress never understood that her skills were always appreciated and worth notice. The bosses didn’t understand that needed to be heard and understood by the crafters. Respect, courtesy and appreciation should go both ways. Here Yi understands where she was obtuse taking it as a given they knew their skills were appreciated. Her silence gave them the impression she was cold and arrogant. She now knows to take the time to ask them directly for their opinions and to acknowledge the product is better when there is understanding of what makes the work easier and still has the desired end result. Wen’s gift of the pen is like his watch gift to his buddy. It is flawed but works well if know how to use. 😂😁 They have mutual respect which is a good foundation for friendship. The episode ends with the buyers for club coming to look over the property and make bids. Jian is there and director Cheng. Is he the Cheng we know or just same name? And is this the Jian Zhou Yuan knew? This marks the end of an era when times were more carefree for the upper class. This episode makes you look at how biases effects how we see people. It filters our perception. We are shown that often the thing most required to understand people we don’t agree with ideologically, is to force ourselves to remove those personal biases and simply see the person as a fellow human being. Changes in perception can enlighten understanding from the shared commonalities rather than focus on the differences.

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Ghosts

Wen said that before liberation people were made ghosts, and this is definitely true. He also said the liberation made those ghosts back to people. That is also true. But it fails with intellectuals, white collar workers, and people who had their own means of supporting themselves by making them ghosts. Suppression is still alive and well. The only thing is the suppressed have become the suppressors. Her sis in law has become a Yang mini me. I can’t find her crush on him cute because she is treating others just like he does. I couldn’t sympathize with him about the loss of his mom because they literally forced him to go home and he was so determined to suppress the evil capitalist, that he saw that as the better way to spend his time. I don’t even have words for that miserable wretch that said the dress was for her granddaughter and then sold it. Sending her home is something they probably dread more than she does.😝 Yi turned her down flat with her business plan, and was actually trying to motivate herself teaching the classes they forced on her. But those actions and efforts were not considered by the organization. She was condemned for making 3 dresses and the true guilty one was ms truthful neighbor😝 for pointing the blame to the one they wanted guilty. Yang saw her conditions, mocked her to work with her hands, and then condemned her for doing it. He then went on to denounce Minister Wen and made himself the law of the land because he was in charge of the local businesses. Truth was whatever he said it was. So, while the power of leadership has definitely shifted, how much has truly changed? If you have to live as a spy and report every infraction to party line rules, how is that existence so much better? Yi was supposed to rejoice that her husband turned out to be a loyal communist so now she is trustworthy and has a legacy to continue. She hasn’t changed, their perspective lense now allows her to be who she is. Sis acting joyful that she could talk to her now. Why should Yi rejoice? They could have always spoken. I am glad she left while the director was still talking. What could her words possibly mean to her other than confirming the death of her husband? No other words mattered. The majority of people think things will improve when power is exchanged. The potential is indeed there. But the roots of greed and power tend to corrupt any leadership. When the suppressed are put in charge, one would think those who were bullied would be the best masters. But often they just turn into bigger bullies. I am thinking Minister Wen’s business trip was to find out what exactly happened to Zhou Yuan. What I am curious about now is if Yi will leave Shanghai now? There is no reason to wait or stay.

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What about Danzhou?

A perfect score episode. I can't even describe how much I loved it, and I was eating dinner 🍽️, and I just set aside my plate to watch the episode first. First of all, what I wanted to see the most is action scenes, what I expected from "The Legend of the Female General" was action scenes like these, but got only 2 or 3 anyways, this episode was fire 🔥. Fan Xian faked the attack, led Xiao En away from the mission, his fight with Xiao En was awesome 💯. XE asked if Fan Xian knew something about Danzhou. Just then the Saintess of Beiqi, the last disciple of Ku He, Haitang or Duoduo arrived, Fan Xian was already injured and tired but his fight with XE, then he fought with her too, quite a likeable character, he fooled her saying he used aphrodisiac on her🤣, he left everyone speechless and her fuming 💢😡. Suddenly XE's adopted son Grand General of Beiqi, Shangshan Hu arrived and FX fought his third duel of the day, a Ninth Dan martial artist, even the Saintess is above the Ninth Dan, FX couldn't win ofcourse. Even Yan Xiaoyi arrived with his bow and arrow 🏹, a Ninth Dan Archer, FX's got a huge fan following, so many people want to kill him. It didn't end there, even Guo Baokun arrived with his hired killers, to be honest I didn't expect them to be truly war veterans, I thought there were just peasants, but when I saw that the leader truly looked like he fear nothing and jumped straight into the battlefield it was brave, even though they all died at the hands of Yan Xiaoyi, but they were brave men. Fan Xian protected GBK and asked him to accuse YXY when they return to the capital and to become his ally and share connections with him in return he will help him and beg the Emperor to release Minister Guo , a fair deal 🤝. Xiao En reminded him that no Black Knights were seen in this entire thing, not a sign that they are even following, yeah since CPP withdrew them all. XE warned him to not trust CPP too much, and find more allies, yeah in all this big scheme he does need allies. It was such a fine episode. Si Lili took an arrow for FX, while FX and Duoduo sat on the bank of river and had a proper conversation without fighting haha, she's an interesting character.

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