Mo Sheng gets pushed around this episode but the final thrust needs to come from herself.
Yuan Feng and Yi Mei are on their first date at a sushi
restaurant and things go wrong already. Yi Mei’s not quite fond of raw food.
Yuan Feng ah, Yuan Feng, I want to virtually pat your head. Next, Xiao Xaio’s
call interrupts their date and demands Yuan Feng to send her the correct
(edited) photos of her and her hometown. Xiao Xiao’s a little agitated that
she’s not Yuan Feng’s first priority as he refuses her because he needs to
finish this disaster of a date. (Xiao Xiao, that’s the first symptom of
jealously.) Lastly, Yi Mei gets a call notifying her that Yi Chen’s in the
hospital. Unlike Yuan Feng to Xiao Xiao, Yi Mei immediately ditches Yuan Feng. She
even declines his company in visiting Yi Chen. Okay?
Next, Mo Sheng gets a call from Xiang Heng. They meet a café
but he doesn’t get straight to the point of why he asked her here. If this was
reality, I’d slap him and wished he’d sent Mo Sheng directly to the bedridden
Yi Chen instead of wasting time here enjoying their coffee. But this is a
drama, and revelations need to be revealed. He tells her that he was surprised
why Yi Chen chose her out all the girls. In the past, they had a game where
they bet who’d finally get Yi Chen. Yi Chen wouldn’t care, approve or
participate in their bet but there was this one time he did. He placed his bet
on Zhao Mo Sheng. That was Xiang Heng’s first time hearing her name. Oh, so
that’s how the rumor started back in university.
Xiang Heng continues and says that he didn’t approve of their
relationship at first because she wasn’t that pretty nor smart. However, he
slowly changed his mind because Yi Chen finally started acting like his age. He
recalls that on Yi Chen’s birthday (the day of their first kiss), Yi Chen was
going crazy; he was so happy/absentminded that he helped everyone in their
dormitory wash their clothes
Mo Sheng asks Xiang Heng whether this is all she wants to
tell her. Mo Sheng can’t handle learning anymore of Yi Chen’s devotion,
especially after she’s decided to stick with her pain of not having him in her
life. Xiang Heng misunderstands Mo Sheng’s comment to her being heartless and
finishes his jabber. Finally(!), he gives Yi Chen’s hospital address to Mo
Sheng in hopes of her changing Yi Chen’s daily habits, otherwise, he’d really
jeopardize his own life. He gives a final spiteful remark to Mo Sheng: “Don’t
be too selfish.” Mo Sheng immediately takes the cab to the hospital.
Yi Mei arrives first at the
hospital and learns from Lawyer Yuan that he’s been drowning himself in work
because of Mo Sheng (hence why he’s in this state). Yi Mei looks at her bedridden
brother and finally acknowledges that the Mo Sheng was the only one Yi Chen
would love. She settles on the idea that if that is Yi Chen’s desire, then
she’ll help him.
Mo Sheng arrives at the hospital
but she hesitates to enter. Luckily Yi Mei catches her before Mo Sheng chickens
out on visiting Yi Chen. Yi Mei asks her to accompany her back to Yi Chen’s
home to bring some clothes for him. Go girl!
While Yi Mei’s packing Yi Chen’s
things, Mo Sheng takes a good look at Yi Chen’s condo. They converse a little
and Yi Mei comments on how Yi Chen has nothing in his fridge. Mo Sheng agrees
that Yi Chen always puts his hunger/health as his last priority. To win against
this attitude of his, Mo Sheng reveals that you have to not eat with him then
he’ll be forced to eat. Yi Mei sighs as she self acknowledges Mo Sheng’s
dedication to Yi Chen. She apologizes to Mo Sheng and tells her she’s already
given up on Yi Chen. Her reason for that is because she can’t beat Yi Chen in
waiting for his loved one. He can wait when there’s no hope but Yi Mei admits
that’s impossible for her. Yi Mei reveals that three years ago, Yi Chen was
drunk from a party and thought she was Mo Sheng; he hugged her and kept asking
her why she won’t come back. She continues showing Yi Chen’s devotion to her as
she brings her a book. On the first page, it has Yi Chen’s scribbles: the poem
that Mo Sheng introduced her name to Yi Chen during their first lunch together
(sorry, can’t read Chinese…). This is just one of the many books he’s scribbled
into.
They head back to the hospital
and their conversation continues. This time, Yi Mei recalls the time when Yi
Chen was adopted into their house. At ten years of age, Yi Chen lost his father
after he “accidentally fell off” from fourth floor and his mother died from the
loss of her husband. However, Yi Mei comments that it could be considered a
suicide because her mother didn’t take her medication leading to her death. At
the mention of Yi Chen’s mother, she remarks on how similar Yi Chen is with his
mother. (Both drowning themselves in love? Yes.) Like Xiang Heng, she also
gives Mo Sheng her last remark, but not as spiteful: “I didn’t lose to you; I
lost to him.”
With everyone giving her a push,
she brings out her courage to walk closer and closer to Yi Chen. She cries at
the sight of him sleeping in bed. Although she reminds herself that everything’s
changed, she can’t help but kiss him.
Yi Chen, like sleeping beauty,
wakes to this kiss. But unlike sleeping beauty…
Yi Chen’s furious. His one and
only love, who’s married, kisses him. He grabs hold of air and demands to know
what she thinks she’s doing. Is it possible that Mo Sheng still likes him
probably crosses his mind. Mo Sheng can’t answer because she doesn’t know what
she wants either. She manages to free her hand and run off in tears. Yi Chen
wants to chase after her but he’s physically limited.
Yeah, so, what do you want Mo
Sheng? And I don’t get why Yi Chen had to be that furious…
The next day, Yi Chen returns to
work when he obviously was not supposed to. Xiang Heng asks whether his plann
of asking Mo Sheng to visit him backfired. However, Yi Chen thanks him for that
because her visit woke him up completely from his dream. (I don’t understand
how this conclusion came about…)
Swithcing to our sideline
romance: Yuan Feng returns home in a chirpy mood and his parents immediately
ask if he’s dating. His face is like: 0_0. I love how this guy cannot lie. His
parents don’t have much request about his girlfriend’s qualities as long as
it’s not some inappropriate female, like that model that had her sex life
exposed a few weeks ago, you know. Yuan Feng guarantees that it’s not a model:
“If I do find a model as my girlfriend, no need for you to break my feet
because I’ll break it myself.” Yuan Feng, looks like you might need a
wheelchair later on ):
Yuan Feng picks up Yi Mei after
work and finds that she’s made soup. It was originally for Yi Chen (but he’s
already checked out of the hospital before Yi Mei could give it) but our big
boy thinks the soup is for him and digs in. Yi Mei then asks about Mo Sheng and
whether she’s happy right now (after her little push at the hospital, of course
she doesn’t reveal that to Yuan Feng).
Mo Sheng is actually rotting at
home. She’s still devastated from her last encounter with Yi Chen. She asks
herself why she won’t admit it already; in this world, there will never be a
place that Yi Chen wouldn’t exist to her. With that thought, she snaps awake
and dashes out of her house. Then she runs, and runs.
Yi Chen leaves from work and
returns home but he halts at the sight of Mo Sheng crouching helplessly right
in front of his door. Yi Chen stiffens his posture (and his heart) to walk by
her. He ignores her.
However, Mo Sheng grasps onto his
sleeve.
Mo Sheng: “Do you still want me?”
Yi Chen freezes a little but
shakes her off.
But Mo Sheng’s grabs tight onto
his arm, just like how Yi Chen did to Mo Sheng in the hospital.
However, he demands her to let
go.
And he leaves, repeating Mo Sheng’s
mistake.
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So many pushes for Mo Sheng and
they’re all people on Yi Chen’s side. I like that they don’t really approve of
Mo Sheng because they care for Yi Chen. If I were Yi Chen’s friend, I wouldn’t
be too fond of Mo Sheng either if he’s tormented himself so much for her. I
still don’t understand why Yi Chen’s so devoted to Mo Sheng. She’s not that
pretty nor smart. She’s got a kind heart but most girls do too. So why Mo
Sheng? Just because she’s the only girl that shamelessly professed her love to
you? If that’s the trick then I should have done that when I was younger. Darn
it. But no really, there is no reason for Yi Chen to be so devoted to this one
girl that he spent…less than one year with? I’m not quite sure how long they’ve
dated in university but it really didn’t feel that long especially with Yi Mei
third-wheeling for a good portion of it. What kind of quality time did they
spend with each other that’s made him practice abstinence from the female
population?
Although, dramas may not need to
fulfill our logical needs, the emotional needs should compensate. I feel that
the young Mo Sheng did so. She was quite lovable and I had no problem in being
compelled to believe that the perfect Yi Chen would fall for this happy-go-lucky
girl. On the other hand, present Mo Sheng seems dull and wipes out the compelling
reason for Yi Chen’s absolute devotion. Thus, I feel the missing link to
solidify this OTP as believable lies in that missing bridge between young and
present Mo Sheng.
I’m not trying to put all the blame
on the actress (Tiffany Tang). I feel that the production and script writing
had a fault in this too. She wasn’t given much lightweight scenes where she
could just pull off some jokes. I mean, she’s been through quite a past, but
she can at least retain some of her lightweight, carefree character, right? It may
not seem consistent, but she’s done it since she was young; she gave off an
image of a girl loved by the world even with her mother being so harsh upfront.
Anyways, I’ll give props to
another parallel in this episode. Initially, Yi Chen was the one to grab on but
Mo Sheng ran off. Wrapping up the episode, Mo Sheng’s the one not letting go.
But will Yi Chen shut her out of his world? (Sorry guys, I already know the
answer to this ^^)
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