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Just reviewing as I read. Original FL was a voluntary educated youth who was cajoled by her half sister to follow her childhood sweetheart to the countryside. This decision made her lose favor with her father and gave the half sister and stepmother a (nother) reason to convince her father that FL's a troubled child. The childhood sweetheart, written as arrogant, susceptible to the weak white lotus type and lustful, was also stolen by the half sister. Contrary to the spoiled, rude, and mean original FL, our FL is cute, elegant, and very sassy. Knowing that, from the book, the original FL would be harmed by the 2nd ML (now ML), she was determined to either stay away or win his heart. The book's FL was, of course, her half sister w the golden finger.
Spoilernot that it's too important here, but the Jade that stored the Lotus originally belonged to FL's mother and was a keepsake passed down to FL. The villain step sister stole it, as she does w all FL's things under their father's lack of scrutiny.
[collapse]Thrown into the fray is a spiritual lotus whose dew can heal, improve health and skin, and accelerate plant growth. This was of course the golden finger of the book's FL/FL's half sister. Ahem, this lotus is hyper attracted to and can only be advanced by absorbing yang energy... it turns FL into a coquettish vixen... she's usually mindless at that pt driving the ML crazy with need lol.
ML is one of those ultra domineering and possessive CEO type, who is also extremely doting.
There is good tension between the leads. It is so realistic that ML is aware of his own social and economic deficits and strives to improve himself for his family.
SpoilerGrandma Xie's life is tragic... she lost her husband and children all in one go and wanted to follow them. However, she kept living for the bloodline. I hope she remains a good character.
[collapse]I got very pissed reading the movie arc...
SpoilerFL was extremely inconsiderate here. She just expected ML to go make a movie w her after being so easily manipulated by the director. She was so cheap, it only took two days of test shooting for her to be convinced after vehemently refusing them in the first place. I thought she was such a push over to the director but extremely bad to the ML. She never sought his opinion on whether he'd want to go with her. Then she had the audacity to be all O0O when he said he wasn't coming w her and threw a tantrum. The worst part is instead of a nice good bye, she went just wanted to touch him to store up yang energy lol. Just using him and really did not give a sh*t about his feelings. She was so out of character here. I hate that ML didn't stand his ground and went to find her... oh well that's a supporting green flag ML does...
[collapse]With the exception of the step mother and half sister duo, the other antagonists aren't difficult to handle. This may be controversial, but I think, despite his love, Father Cheng is a half antagonist. He tries to be impartial between his daughters but ends up ignoring the harm the step mother and half sister caused the FL. He is inadvertently a bad, shallow father to the FL.
They breeze through a lot of difficult situations within a chapter or two, so the story isn't dramatic.
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