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everyone is scheming not just against Yi Heon…

everyone is scheming not just against Yi Heon & ironically their own country. this is how countries fall when their own citizens sell it out for personal gain. what i don't get is Queen Dowager In Ju, i get she doesn't have a great relationship with her grandson but undermining him isn't the way to warm up their relationship. ********************************************************btw i get Ji Yeong is a michelin star chef but it's kinda getting annoying when she uses foreign words, it's as if there no words in Korean to express what it's called in English or French. like the freakin butter - Korea doesn't have butter therefore haven't thought up a word for it?? it might have been cute at the start but now she isn't still acclimating to the fact she is in a different time period. she didn't want to tell Yi Heon about the future cause she didn't want to change the past & yet her introducing dishes that they haven't been thought up at that time for sure not in Korea not an issue? cause it's just food??? plz - nitpicking i know but it's bugging me *************************************************************************************************************also always find it hypocritical how bad guys blame innocent's - like Prince Je San telling Mok Ju that once they achieve their goal he will give her Ji Yeong, so she can do what she wants with her. Ji Yeong is just a freakin innocent bystander that has never hurt them & isn't even there of her free will but so what if a few hundred die - right? & they supposedly seeking justice - plz with the gaslighting & lies.

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How to deal with unwelcome reminders of the past.

Qiao Lin got injured at work and reconnected with her old flame, become a tall and handsome doctor who urged her to summon Xu Yan for help. Xu Yan did come and promptly had her sister move next to Yu Yiming the doctor (played by "Daddi" Tang Xiaotian, an old acquaintance of Zhao Lusi since "The Story of Pearl Girl" in which he played as SML alongside Rosy and Liu Yuning) . Tao Li, Qiao Lin's former fiancé, showed up to sow discord. Haoming who had been informed, used his connections without telling his wife. The troublesome ex harassing Xu Yan and her "cousin" got called back to his hometown and made to look as if he hid connections, as a mirror form of the payoff deal Xu Yan sent Tao Li's parents, to shut them up and keep him away. Xu Yan and Haoming chose to focus on their married bliss, rejoicing in food and in sweet details related to Haoming's childhood. Sharing and adding to a secret might perhaps cement their harmony, despite Haoming was reluctant to share with her about more serious work matters.Xu Yan set out to investigate and was once again faced with a sour-sweet memory. Could a homemade dish help an old lady beset by memory loss, and help Haoming as a consequence ?

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A Love Wrapped in Tears: Prince and Sasin’s Fragile Masterpiece

This series streams on GagaOOLala, with new episodes every Tuesday and Wednesday, though we wait one day more for the English subtitles, making Wednesday and Thursday our treasured nights.I have just finished episode five, and it left me undone. Their chemistry is breathtaking, a fire and tenderness entwined. My heart ached in two moments most.When Prince fed Sasin, and Sasin, with such gentleness, took his hand, pressed a soft kiss upon it, and ate that little plant. Such sweetness, such fragile beauty, it felt like watching love bloom in silence.And then the final scene shattered me. Prince, broken, blaming his very birth, confessing through tears that his mother died because of him. His sorrow poured like rain, streaking his perfect face, still luminous even in despair. In that moment, Sasin gathered him with three words that wrapped the darkness in light: “You have me.”I am in love with this show, lost in its sorrow and tenderness, and I can hardly wait for the next episodes. One 31 is gifting us not just one, but two masterpieces right now, this tale and The Wicked Game.

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Married!

Xu Yan deftly defused the situations which might have marred her perfect wedding and Haoming subtly helped ; they both visited the grandma and Haoming charmed the old lady, vowing to take good care of Xu Yan, and agreeing to help let her grow and not be hard on her if her early education in the countryside had left her lacking. He dismissed Fang Lei and took his bride on honeymoon, returning to show her an old but poetic retreat in a typical but atmospheric courtyard house hidden inside the hutong alley maze of old Beijing (Jingzhou city in the drama). The repairs and improvements needed for the old house mirrored the need for Xu Yan to stay alert and maintain her careful facade, as if Haoming always was aware of her inner wounds and the necessity to keep up the charade for them both. Measuring her height with lipstick on a window pane, despite its transient nature, was a sweet move, as a symbol of her having reached blooming and leaving all heartaches from comparisons behind, even if other people had etched it in the window's wooden frame. He had kept the unknown former owner's memory but was not attached to know more about those...

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New threats to Xu Yan's careful construct

The episode shows the struggles of the young Qiao Yan, after she was denied studies in university by her father and fled to her grandmother. A rotten tomato discarded from her shopping bag takes on an ominous portent, as does the young woman's tears when discovering the jars of guihua jam in the fridge after having picked the blooms in the late September balmy garden when she pays a visit to her grandma. While the real parents suddenly turn up in Jingzhou to find Qiao Lin through Qiao Yan, whose address they got hold of through an acquaintance, Xu Yan experiences a split moment nightmare when the fake and real parents almost brush with Haoming and Mrs Yu. Qiao Lin next encounters the fake parents; she guesses right about the situation, but chooses to withdraw without exposing the lies. But another threat looms on the horizon with the return of Haoming's brazen green tea presenting herself as white moonlight Fang Lei, who joined the company without telling Haoming.

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