Onto episode two! I haven't quite gained back on what I invested but I'm still having faith in this show. The OTP better not bail on me.
Xiao Xiao is turning on her bitch-mode
in full blast as she decides to ditch the photo shoot. Lu Yuan Feng tries to force her to stay by binding her to their
contract which he throws at her but accidentally touches her chest. Xiao Xiao’s
furious now and rips the contracts.
Each side is threatening to bring
this to court and we find out that Xiao Xiao’s lawyer is none other than He Yi Chen.
Xiao Xiao doesn't provide a proper reason for her suing Treasure (the company
that Zhao Mo Sheng works for) and He Yi Chen’s response to that is threats of not
being her lawyer next year. She doesn’t take the threat seriously and muses on the
fact that just because she's not Zhao Mo Shen, she’s not getting special treatment
from him. He redirects the topic back to the lawsuit to which Xiao Xiao finally
gives a decent answer: she wasn't satisfied on how they switched out her normal
photographer with a newbie. He Yi Chen pinpoints a clause in the contract that
the photographer must have at least five years of experience. Apparently the
clause doesn't include experiences outside of China. This gives Xiao Xiao an
upper hand.
He Yi Chen originally wanted one
of his other lawyers in charge of this case but after he sees the sticky note
his secretary left him, he suddenly changes his mind. We zoom into the
sticky note and it has the contact information of the photographer in charge of
Xiao Xiao’s photo-shoot: Zhao Mo Sheng. He tells his secretary he wants to set
up an appointment with her so that she can prove her experience as a
photographer. Is that really all you want?
Zhao Mo Sheng arrives at Yuan Xuan He Law
Firm and ponders whether the “He” belongs to He Yi Chen. She goes in, still
wary of who the law firm belongs to, and finds out that there was never an
appointment set up. After a few clarifications, the secretary tells her that the lawyer’s
in an important meeting (they always are) and will see her at the café next
door.
Back at the office, we realize
there was no meeting and it was time to get off work already. (On a side note,
that's some cool stair!) Zhao Mo Sheng is still waiting at the café and
the sky gets darker and darker until not only is it nighttime, it starts
pouring.
If he wasn’t him, he’d be a stalker in my books. Sitting in his car, He Yi Chen
gazes at Zhao Mo Sheng in the café from afar. How long is this silent war going
to last? Well, not until a while because he calls his secretary to pick up the
information from her instead.
Music volume cue! She runs past
his car looking for shelter as she heads home. He stays in his car probably
glued down by his wounded heart. Oh, poor you.
He Yi Chen makes another phone
call and this time it’s to cancel his trip to America completely because he has
no plans in going back there at all. (Sorry, I probably got the first episode
on this topic wrong!) Instead of going back home, he heads back to the office
to review over Zhao Mo Sheng’s documents. If I didn’t know you better, I’d say
you’re such a hard worker.
After seeing her name (probably
written by Zhao Mo Sheng herself), he remembers a cute banter they had: he asked her how could she
write her name so ugly; she bickered back refusing the insult only to be retorted
by him again; he finishes it off saying he can’t possibly bring her out (as a
girlfriend) with that kind of writing.
He continues to examine each
picture when he recalls another conversation when they were studying in
university. He was lecturing Zhao Mo Sheng for using only her ears to listen and
not her heart. (There’s a difference really because if you don’t use your
heart, it just goes one ear and out the other) Zhao Mo Sheng says it’s not
necessary to study too hard because with him here, she can rely on him forever.
He Yi Chen lingers on the thought of “forever”.
Zhao Mo Sheng returns to the office to find that
everyone’s having an OT because they now have no cover page since Xiao Xiao
bailed on them. The team leader blames it all on Xiao Xiao and reprimands
both her attempts at finding a new coverpage and finding models to
substitute. It’s not just the team leader but the whole team also blames her
for angering their top model. Except Lu Yuan Feng.
He comforts her that he shares
the blame too (dude, you totally are to blame) and their co-workers are
actually really nice people. He then asks her if she regretted leaving
everything in America. Nope, she doesn’t. It was her turn to question him and
she asks where good take-out food was. She decides to treat everyone which just
about dissipates the hate she’s getting until the team leader reprimands her
again for not taking her work seriously.
But Zhao Mo Sheng doesn’t need to
buy the hearts around her, she’s got enough people connection that she invited a famous foreign male model to be on their cover page. Team leader still
has pooped face and doesn't compliment or even smile at her. She’s worried
about the sales because they need to balance the cost it takes to hire the foreign
model and whether their female audience will love seeing a half-naked white man
on their cover. Really, you’re worried about that? Sorry ladies, I may not be
one of them but it’s a consensus of the general female population.
Another Treasure employee, with her luggage and
full make-up on, dashes up the stairs and the first thing she demands is the whereabouts
of the male model. And here’s our perfect example of the general population of
females. She’s Gu Xing Hong or Xiao Hong for short. Apparently, she ditched a
meeting about a commercial deal from abroad just to see this male model. But I
swear they only contacted the male model last night… Anyways, the team leader
isn’t happy to see her either and goads her for being boy-crazy. She goes on to
saying how she’s due to mature now after having at least 50 blind dates. Xiao
Hong doesn’t back down at the insult but instead corrects her: Woman, I’ve had
at least 80 blind dates. Team leader, get your facts straight puh-lease. Lol,
well, I didn’t translate word for word but it’s the gist of it. With that ridiculous comment, the team leader
stomps off while the other three decide to have lunch together.
The team leader leaves them to
have a lunch date with May. My, my, what a small world. May reveals that she helped
the team leader arrange a meeting with her lawyer brother to talk about the lawsuit.
I guess May doesn’t know his brother is the lawyer Treasure is up against. But
it’s a small world indeed when our group of three bumps into the team leader
again. So they all have to shop at the same supermarket and eat at the same
restaurants, eh?
Our little puppy is happy to see
his idol, May, again. Me thinks he’s upgraded from fanboy-ing to crushing on her.
However, the attention is on Zhao Mo Sheng and May as they greet each other. Zhao
Mo Sheng probably still thinks May is He Yi Chen’s girlfriend.
While that lunch date is going
on, He Yi Chen and Xiao Xiao are having a tea party. He Yi Chen wants to
confirm whether Xiao Xiao really wants to go through with the law suit to which
she admits she wasn’t serious on suing Zhao Mo Sheng. The lawyer's got an are-you-kidding-face going on. She’s more interested on
what Zhao Mo Sheng’s reaction was when she found out her lawyer was none other
than He Yi Chen. She is sincerely disappointed when He Yi Chen reveals Zhao
Mo Sheng doesn’t know the identity of her lawyer. Girl, I never disliked you in the first episode because
I knew you were golden. I swear! Their conversation is cute because they’re
like old friends teasing each other or rather it’s the girl’s that’s doing all
the teasing.
The guy lies saying he never
planned on personally handling this pea-sized case and our supermodel whines
that there’s no fun in that. She thought he would go running to Zhao Mo Sheng
once he finds out she was the photographer and comments that he’s changed. He
stutters a teensy bit to attempt to change the topic. However, she continues to
prod and asks why not clarify the misunderstanding between them because there
clearly was one. Wait, so you knew that she had another reason? But the guy
denies any existence of a misunderstanding.
I guess our bitchy supermodel can’t
go up against a big time lawyer. Instead, she thinks to herself, out loud: “Oh
what if Zhao mo Sheng leaves tomorrow, will our lawyer have to marry himself to
his work forever? What a pity!”
He Yi Chen has enough of this and
leaves for grocery shopping but all he buys is instant noodles. He passes by
the stack of cans that Zhao Mo Sheng’s cart crashed into the other day. While
he lingers there for a few seconds he takes out his phone (to check his
schedule?) and leaves shortly after. He doesn’t realize that he’s dropped his
wallet though.
Back to Zhao Mo Sheng’s side,
they’ve all decided to eat lunch together. By now, they all know how the two
ladies became acquainted to each other. May questions her why she left without
a single word at the grocery store. Um, I thought it was you and your brother who
left first? But Zhao Mo Sheng’s reply was that she probably didn’t see them.
Okay, what-ever. The conversation continues between the two as the other people
awkwardly sit there taking up space. May reveals that she saw his brother examining her works the other night and that’s when Zhao Mo Sheng realizes that Xiao Xiao’s lawyer is He Yi Chen.
Okay, so May knew her brother’s working for the model but she asked him to help
Treasure knowing that? Right. Okay. Whatever.
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So that’s the end of this
episode. Either I never paid attention to how they film shows but because this is
my first recapping project, I felt that there wasn’t much of a budget given to
this show other than signing on big names for the two main characters. The
dialogues aren’t excellent. The scenes are mediocre. Screenshotting was hard
because I couldn’t get everyone in the same shot when they were talking. I
thought dramas shoot the same scene multiple times to get different angles? You know, at least have the reaction of people listening while the other is talking? There's barely any of that. I feel that this show was very lazy. They abused the coincidences. I don't know whether this is the fault of the drama or that's how it really is written in the novel but I hope it stops. I mean that last lunch scene was just awkward and irked me with all the forced conversations with the sole purpose of rolling the drama along. At this moment, I’d just wish the OTP would
talk to each other already instead of this cold war because I'm barely hanging on here.
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