Some things were very good, others were terrible. I enjoyed it for a while but I would never rewatch it. After watching the whole thing, I can say that it has a very badly-written finale, that the male protagonist is annoying for the first ten episodes at least (made me wonder what the hell was she seeing in such a jerk), that a side-story is dragged too long ( the whole MoNan-theme was never-ending and patience-consuming really ). I noticed the usual 'we-care-about-the-important-characters-unimportant-people-matter-nothing' theme, that is common around the world but seems to be specially true in Chinese dramas.
Despite all this, I kept watching because I liked the female lead, (although in the first half of the series she cries really badly, maybe because she's supposed to be more childish, I don't know, but she makes a e/o sound that she drags like a terrible wail...), I liked the actress and I liked the character, and there were episodes that I liked a lot. The happy scenes were lovely, although they were not many.
The best thing about the show is that he turns out to be a fragile figure, a man with a troubled past, and she's his rock, she's the one who saves him and helps him. The most heartwarming part of the whole thing was when he was in a container full of smoke and she rushed in saying that he doesn't have to be afraid because she's there with him, and this time he didn't get sick because she was with him (he has psychological problems, gets sick and color blind whenever he sees fire, later described as a fear of being abandon again, like when he was little).
Negative: some cheap tricks were incredibly over-used. I understand that some things like car accidents are good tricks in dramas, but here there were too many! The car accidents were at least three, the 'I leave you because I love you' were at least two, and I was very disappointed because for a moment I had hoped she wouldn't be like that. Accidents and general troubles were so many that sometimes it felt like I was watching the same episode in a loop.
I spent so many words on this because I really liked the idea at its core, the strong female lead who pursues her love with all she's got, and the male lead with psychological problems that he tries to hide and that needs her much more than she needs him. The fact that he was fragile inside, that nobody knew his real self, and that the girl was determined and unbreakable was really appealing and romantic, I loved that and I loved the few happy scenes (and the lalalala music).
It's a real pity that the rest was so ... well... disappointing.
The other characters: MoNan falls in love with her too, how boring, why is that, just because she was the first girl that ever hugged him? He hates Bohai, why, simply because someone 'told him' that his mother had caused his father's death? What proof did he have? So he does despicable things, and yet I'm supposed to understand him and like him?? At least at the end he confessed, thank you, the hell with 'you didn't have to' and 'we've already forgiven you', what's that all about? He had to, indeed!
Baoni: she fell in love for the first time in her life, and she was completely gone, we basically lost a character because she didn't do anything other than follow him around like a puppy, wagging its tail while watching him with adoring eyes... I know love can be blind, but while he was being so despicable, her attitude was a bit too much.
Zhou: a hateful character for half the show, they missed a chance here because they made her a hateful, utterly annoying character for the first, like, 25 episodes, and then later, in just one episode they changed her completely, her old obsession gone and forgotten, like it never was, just: poof.
It would have been nicer if they had done it: starting out liking Bohai, then appreciating day by day the things Chen did for her, relying on him more and more, until the day she realises that even if she thought she was still in love with Bohai she was actually thinking of Chen whenever something happened. It would have been nicer.
JiBin is just a character to use and discard at ease apparently.
I almost forgot, I liked the actress that played her mother, she was fun! Also, the one playing her 'rival' :p they were good, I liked them :)
I almost forgot, I liked the actress that played her mother, she was fun! Also, the one playing her 'rival' :p they were good, I liked them :)
1- Ling LingQi loves Bohai, her idol is an important figure in the ‘arranging flowers’ business... and I do apologise, don’t really know the right words here.
She tries to enter some kind of school or work-stage to get near to him; she fails the first time, cries a lot, but doesn’t give up, keeps studying and tries again.
He must prepare an American wedding, the bride is being difficult and he doesn’t know how to solve the situation, so is troubled.
Both of them have sleep-bracelets, that are supposed to make you sleep well or something. Apparently their sleep-waves have identical patterns so their dreams merge together, very very rare occurrence, or something like that. Anyway, she enters his dream. She knows him, but he doesn’t know her. She helps him defeat a dragon, and gives him the right idea on how to solve his problem (which is? did he paint the white roses to make them pink? Like the cards in Wonderland?? Only for him, it actually worked? )
At the end, she sees the castle where the wedding happened, and recognises it from her dream.
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She helps him again against the dragon in the dream.
She does the test again, but a woman thinks she’s just a fan and lacks sincerity, and even if her works has merit she won’t admit her. She has failed several years now, and that woman then tells her not to come again! She is so upset she doesn’t notice Bohai passes by her...
She tries to apply for ‘selling the flower bouquet’, and is about to get hired, but that woman again fails her :--/ but a guy sends the pictures of her bouquet to Bohai and he likes it so she’s hired. This time the dream helped her, because she thought of what he said to her to personalise the bouquets. She isn’t a florist but at least she’s there. At night, she takes off the bracelet so she doesn’t dream of him, and it seems like he couldn’t sleep at all :-p
When she learns that since he is the president and she works at a small shop she’ll probably never see him there, she feels so sad.
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She gets a call from the bracelet company who explains to her that she might enter the other person’s dreams, but she says she hasn’t, she had no dreams, but now understands what happened, and even if she can’t meet him in person she’s happy she’ll meet him in dreams.
He’s working overtime, and she can’t fall asleep until late at night, when he finally sleeps too, and enters his dream.
(Ok, do they do it on purpose? I wanted to take my mind off Guardian, and this girl every time she’s in a dream she sees the dragon she goes 龙 哥 ...I mean, really? I know he’s not actually Shen Wei, but it’s bound to make me think of him, don’t you think?? Come on! p.s. I know this whole thing seems silly but I don’t live such an exciting life and so these emotions tend to stick to me, just that, I’m still sane)
She knows she’s in a dream, so she can fight, she can fly and save him... after she’s attacked by the dragon she asks him to save her with a kiss and then kisses him shamelessly :p so she keeps working hard during the day and at night she dreams “with” him (honestly I’m surprised she keeps wearing her pajamas, I thought she’d changed into something a bit nicer now that she knows everything).
Bo has trouble at the company (when he meets President Fang and they have tea, how small is that teapot?? Wow, I’ve never seen one so small..)
The dream world is strange, she knows she can do dream-stuff, but it always works in different ways: she asks for rain, and it comes down a fish (instead of saying it out loud, she should make written requests, maybe it wouldn’t misunderstand :lol: )
I think someone wants to buy his Flowerplus stores company, or something, and this troubles him deeply. We see that his back is burnt, which might explains why he keeps having nightmares involving a dragon. She comes again to his rescue, this time with sword, flying unicorn and a hint of armor, and they defeat it. He finds another investor and save the company.
He wants to supervise the stores, but doesn’t even see her, gets a call and goes straight away.
He keeps thinking of her and the dreams, but can’t remember her face, probably because he never met her in real life, it’s different for her (yep, we know famous people but they don’t know us, it’s a strange feeling).
She goes to the company and gets lost and meets Bohai by chance; he doesn’t know her, and sends her and Mo Nan to clean a storage room.
Baoni asks Mo Nan to pretend to be her boyfriend so that her ex will leave her in peace :) yep, this plot never gets old :p and he does a good job too, quite impressive :p
LingQi’s colleague messes up some flowers for a charity even so she helps her substitute them with others. Bohai attends too, but he notices the change of course, and when the poor girl takes all responsibility, he fires her...
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LingQi tries to stop him, tries to help her friend, but he acts heartless. She’s heartbroken, takes off her wall all of his posters and pictures and even the bracelet before sleeping, and wants to resign, but regrets it after talking to her mom. Luckily her friend Mo Nan didn’t hand her resignation letter.
After learning that she’s single, all the guys keep hovering around Baoni but Mo Nan saves her :p
LingQi now wants to forget him so she accepts a blind date arranged by her ma. When she sees him, he’s totally not like the picture she saw and she hides, by chance sitting at Bohai’s table... he understands her situation, that she’s hiding, and yet he calls a waitress to change table so that the guy finds her and she runs away... for the whole afternoon apparently... even her ma is furious, she thought the picture was real :lol: (her mom is so funny :lol: and what a couple with her dad :p I find angry-ma lots of fun :lol: )
She now tries to avoid Bohai. He hears a bit of her florist-skills and orders her to be made special assistant or something, so now she works in direct contact with him... there’s a scene where she falls down and he catches her and she’s again ‘heart eyes’ but then he lets her go, he was protecting his work, she almost fell on it :p
Mo Nan and Baoni are closer and closer, the best of friends :-) with him she’s more relaxed and her true self :) He lies when she asks him about his house (maybe he’s rich and has a big house but doesn’t want her to know because he wants her to think he’s one of them) and says he rents an old apartment for a lot of money, and so to help him Baoni finds him a new place, Qiqi’s family rents him a place :p
Bo complains that the bracelet is not working anymore because he doesn’t sleep well...
When she gets home, her dad was waiting for her at the shop and had fallen asleep at the counter, and she thinks, ‘I lost an idol but my dad is the man who loves me the most in the world’ and gives him a hug, so nice :-D finally I might add, in these Chinese dramas people never hug, how can they live without hugs?
Wen, the guy who wanted to buy him out, try everything to sabotage him and sends people to ruin his oncoming exhibition by starting a fire.
Poor Mo Nan finds a place full of stuff and dust :/ but at least the girls help him clean it up. They have lots of fun together, really nice :-)
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Bohai is apparently slowly becoming color blind. After the fire is in a crisis and wants to quit, but his two partners try to help him. He’s very angry and stubborn, but finally calms down.
LingQi discovers the truth by chance, that it’s not Bohai preparing the exhibition but another man. Bohai is hard, tells her it was his choice (it wasn’t) and that she’s stupid to keep that idol image to worship, and she quits. Later she says that if he sincerely kneels down and asks for mercy, she’ll keep his secret... instead, he threatens her parents so she has to sign a new contract and go back to work, doing anything he asks, even a maid. So now he acts as a jerk on purpose.
After a day of work, she puts on the bracelet before going to sleep, planning on take it out on him in the dream. No more prince nor castle or dragon, now they are like in ancient China, martial arts experts, but he’s better (I guess he’s dreaming of being a famous hero or something) so she doesn’t get her revenge. Mo Nan suggests she makes him fire her, but she’s terrible at it :/ and since he keeps threatening her family she even has to apologise...
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Baoni keeps receiving scary packages and becomes scared. Mo Nan finds a way to find out who it is: a girl is in love with one of her followers and got jealous of her flirting, but now apologises, asks her not to have him fired, that she’ll resign instead, but Baoni tells her not to.
Bohai sees everything in black and white, and a doc tells him it is psychological...
Chen asks LingQi to accompany Bohai to a meeting and stop him from drinking and getting drunk, and she had devised a good enough plan, but of course it didn’t work because she wouldn’t be allowed to pour the wine herself (of course, if you think about it, the whole thing has a big flaw. She brought two jars, one with pure wine, and one with mostly juice. Did they only drink one? And it was enough for two men to get as drunk as a skunk, as they say? Or they drank the second and not notice it wasn’t wine?? oh well, doesn’t matter in these shows, does it?)
He gets drunk and starts acting weird , like stealing a child’s ice-cream-weird, and she has to apologise for him, chase him everywhere and carry him home... and yet he’s angry as hell just because she “let him get drunk” and then she put a bit of lipstick on his cheek, something he can wash away easily?? What’s this?? What a jerk :-/ she has to clean toilets all day, and she gets nothing because she didn’t stop him from drinking... this is not right, do they treat all girls like this, or it’s not a gender-thing, they just treat like this all the poor, inferior people? :-/ What could she have done, smack him on the head and shout “bad:wine, bad! No drink!!” ?
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She’s about to have her revenge in another dream, but then saves him from a fire. Now that he knows her, does he remember that she’s in his dreams after he wakes up?
At a tv interview, Wen planned for him to lose his face, having to do a bouquet thinking that he couldn’t, but he suddenly recovered...
An important client invites LingQi to a dinner with the two of them, and she drinks a bit, (Bohai only water this time), and it seems like she’s about to reveal his secret, but he begs her not to so she only reveals that he’s the drunk one under the mask in the online video... :p but later instead of driving her home he leaves her far away and drives off with her bag.. so she has to ask a girl to use her phone and call her dad, who was getting very worried :-/ To leave a girl alone at night far away from home, what kind of a man is that? :-/
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There’s a “traitor” in the company, someone leaked to the media the new designs for the new big job, and since only the three partners and LingQi can access Bohai’s computer, they think it was her. She saw MoNan in that office too, but doesn’t say it, won’t involve him believing him innocent, but he’s not, he has motives to go against Bohai’s company. He’s a president too..
The company risks losing credibility and all their clients now.
Everyone in the company now thinks she’s the traitor, and the colleagues treat her badly, only Baoni and Mo Nan are on her side.
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A couple of men in the company trick her (?).
Director Zhou, the partner in love with Bohai, tries to force and then ask LingQi to admit to it and point Wen as the mastermind in order to save the company, but she did nothing wrong so she refuses. Zhou locks her in a warehouse, in the dark, and the poor think is scared of the dark :-( and has no phone. Mo Nan looks for her, but by chance Bohai finds her first and frees poor crying LingQi.
Her parents hear her cry in her room, so dad asks MoNan about it, so they learn everything and try to console her.
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LingQi tells Bohai to his face.. well the truth, actually, even if they will fall in love because this is a tv-series so it must happen, it doesn’t change the fact that that’s the truth, only because he has money he thinks he can mistreat people. He may do charity and all, but he’s still an arrogant @#@ who thinks he’s better than others only because he has money :-/
LingQi thinks the real culprit is Wen after all so she follows him but of course he finds out and when his man detains her she screams and MoNan runs to her rescue.
The client asks for a billion for compensation, and Zhou shows the letter to LingQi and tells her that the company will sue her for leaking secrets and bankrupt her, unless she admits it pointing the blame on Wen. She’s desperate, but when MoNan asks she still denies not giving him away.
When LingQi tells her parents, they give her all their savings to challenge it in court, since she didn’t do anything wrong.. love..
At the company meeting, when everyone thinks it’ll be LingQi’s end, Bohai shows the repaired footage showing Wen’s man going into his office, so he’s the one who leaked the info... and she’s absolved completely, and everyone apologises to her.
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Bohai knows that the video had been altered, they sacrificed a man to save a more important one (yes, a richer one, how did you guess? ... anyway, Mo Nan I suppose).
Bohai knew all along it wasn’t LingQi but played her to investigate further, and now the three partners fear her reaction. Two flee, Bohai tries to hide :lol: when she finds him, he’s really hard and cruel, and later on he humiliates her in front of a client/guest/whatever.
When she uses a seller’s flower like a sword to hit him on a street, they both help her to sell the rest of the unsold flowers. It’s the only time he actually acted like a kind person.
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Bohai takes LingQi on a business trip instead of his partner; the daughter of an important man is not satisfied with his flowers because she can’t get a date with them, or something. Bohai and LingQi keep quarrelling a lot, but when she walks alone that night and he sees a shady figure following her he goes back worried for her and stops the guy and he runs away immediately (that was easy..) but she doesn’t see him and thinking someone is about to attack her she uses the protection-spray on him until she realises that there was someone else there before. Because of this, he goes to see the doctor and she’ll have to work for the arrogant girl by herself. Actually, he goes back to enjoy some free time, it seems.
When a guy takes ice-creams without paying at LingQi’s father’s shop, MoNan comes in and his attitude is strong enough that the guy pays and leaves. Dad is impressed. He is still working with Wen to find out Bohai’s secret.
LingQi’s mother still dislikes MoNan because she thinks he’s poor and doesn’t want him too close to her daughter, but then she sees a very elegant guy coming out of his house and suddenly changes her mind.
LingQi tries to make a super-bouquet, even asks to learn more about the guy the flowers are for, and to her surprise she learns that he has already a girlfriend. This miss would like something to steal it from her (not only arrogant but stupid, if some flowers can get him away from one girlfriend, would you really want someone like that? :/ ) . LingQi eventually tells her to her face that she is only an assistant, but that not even President Bo could help her because their flowers aren’t made to break other people’s feelings, and leaves. Since she blew this job and made the client angry, she’s now worried that Bohai will keep his word and ruin her father’s shop, so she confesses to her parents and apologises. Her dad is very sad to lose his shop.
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It turns out that the Miss really liked the bouquet that LingQi gave her, not for the man but for her especially, with a very nice note attached, something like ‘be your own queen and do not waste time and dignity pursuing who doesn’t love you’, and she writes to the company praising her a lot as a very very good florist. So, she’s not fired. She tells her dad and he hurriedly stops the discount sale :p
The girl that was fired by Bohai now tells LingQi that he took care of her family, that he’s a good person.
Mo Nan still wants to find out Bohai’s secret, but without involving LingQi.
Company partner Zhou is very jealous of LingQi, now more than ever, and tries to block her every chance. LingQi dares ask Bohai is she shouldn’t be transferred to be a real florist, and he tells her that she failed in the past because she was doing it for the wrong reasons, and that she must detach herself from him in order to succeed in being a florist. She says she did that already, and only see him as dirt now, but then he makes a move as if he was to kiss her and she raises her face, so he shouts ‘liar”’... that was low.. right on point, but still low.. and embarrassing for her...
Bohai never took any part in floral competitions because he’s afraid he could have another case of color-blindness and be in trouble in public, but MoNan and Wen work together to force him to do it.
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Suddenly she has a little power, because he actually risks much more than she does (her father’s shop against his reputation, his company, everything), so she has him buy her a big meal, and can sometimes refuse to do something, and in one case he promises three times the salary to work after lunch..
Mo Nan figures out Bohai is afraid of fire. During a lunch-break show, a fire-throwing act impresses him, and suddenly he feels bad, holds LingQi’s hand and can’t see colors anymore.
He must prepare for the finals, but he can’t see colors so he chooses flowers at random, a very bizarre selection that leaves everyone surprised, LingQi too, but he doesn’t tell her anything.
She tells him that if he tells her what’s wrong she might be able to help him, but he won’t tell her anything..
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He insists on not involving LingQi, who knows why, and has his friend help him, describe him each flower so he can memorise it.
Baoni doesn’t have the courage to tell MoNan she likes him.
Bohai is not doing too well, and LingQi finds out everything about his problem. She help him, suggesting they use some technique to make flowers lose their color and make something in shades of grey and black and white (I didn’t see any black or grey, or anything other than a few white flowers actually); the jury likes the originality, but think that technique might be considered cheating, so he tells them all about the big fire 20 years ago, saying that’s his most memorable memory (the theme of the final), and everyone claps but Wen and Mo Nan. The winner is a man from the UK, because Bohai violated the rules not using fresh flowers; anyway, his work has been appreciated and he gets a special jury award and the job with the big client.
As a thank you, after sending her home with his driver since she’s dead tired, he has her transferred to be a real florist.
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She sleeps all day and doesn’t know until next morning Baoni tells her. Bohai sends her a bouquet specially made for her, and she realises who it’s from, and thanks him and tells him she prefers the real, imperfect Bohai to the idol she once worshipped.
She now wants to win him over, and invites him home for dinner; she sends her parents to the cinema so she can cook a lot of stuff, and they eat together, but then her parents come back early :p she hides him under the table, maybe forgetting what kind of mother she has. As expected, without fail her mom starts talking about her and Bohai... chopsticks fall on the floor, mom kneels down.. and the secret is out, so she runs out with him :p they run away, parents run after them, they are found, her parents try to grab them, she holds them back to let him run away... :p
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Baoni gives LingQi a makeover, she does her hair, makes her a nice dress, gives her lipstick and everything, and when she coms to work she attracts everyone’s attention, but before Bohai sees her she managed to get her hair entangled in some plant and get moisture all over her... then she goes to his gym and makes a fool of herself, but when she falls down he picks her up and she’s all happy, pretending to be hurt where she’s not.
Zhou is more and more jealous, and to get rid of her she pretends to have a love phone call with Bohai knowing she’s close and can’t help listening, and later makes her go to his house so she will find her wearing only a shirt. Poor LingQi now believes that Bohai and Zhou have a relationship..
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LingQi returns home as drunk as a skunk, as they say, and her parents have to put her to bed. Zhou confesses to Chen what she did, roughly, that she wants her to give up any ideas on Bohai.
He buys LingQi new shoes and gives her an important job. MoNan keeps his distance because he’s in love with her and this might be a problem with his plans against Bohai.
Baoni tries going on dates to forget about MoNan but can’t.
They need to build the set for the new movie on “A Chinese ghost story” (the videogame in Love020 :D ) but during shooting there’s an accident, everything falls down, it was Wen’s plan. Zhou quickly blames it all on LingQi. MoNan is angry at Wen. An actress was injured and the movie production suffered a big money loss. LingQi says someone altered her orders, that those are not the documents she made, and only Bohai believes her. Zhou insists with him he must fire LingQi and he gets angry at her.
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Zhou finds evidence that LianQi was telling the truth, but she throws it away, then she orders to fire her but Chen intervenes, he knows about the proof; it’s because of stupid women like this if women still have to much trouble in the world :-/ Bohai doesn’t love her, does she think that he will once she takes down all other women on Earth? How stupid and humiliating for her.
Wen sends again a guy to sabotage them ruining the flowers... there was nobody guarding the place, but it was all a plan Bohai and MoNan played together, to expose Wen, and he is arrested.
Still, Bohai suspects MoNan. Talking with a friend, MoNan admits that he now knows his true feelings for LingQi...
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Baoni returns all the gifts that have been given to her, now only liking the poor backpack MoNan gave her.
Zhou steals Bohai’s room key and orders a guy to get him drunk. Chen understands in time that she’s planning something, also revealing to LingQi that there’s no love affair between Bohai and Zhou.
(It’s not clear to me how Zhou planned it. She gave him his room’s key, 1508, and took his, 1507. So he will enter 1508 and find her? How did she get in without the key? )
As soon as Chen enters the dark room, Zhou thinks it’s Bohai, grabs him and kisses him. He reveals himself, talks to her and she cries in his arms. LingQi has to deal with a drunken Bohai, so childish when he’s drunk, and she tells him how she likes him but he falls asleep.
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He tells LingQi that he remembers nothing of that night, but he does, and speaks to Zhou, telling her clearly that he only sees her as a business partner and trusted friend and nothing else. Chen wants to console her but still doesn’t tell her anything, when it seems so clear that he likes her.
He remembers LingQi’s words and smiles. Baoni keeps trying to flirt with MoNan but he doesn’t get it; when she tells him she has two movie tickets, he takes them and walks away... she wanted to go with him, not to just give them to him...
LingQi’s dad is not feeling too well so she takes a day’s sick leave to help out at the store. Bohai goes there to see what’s up, covering his face, but then her ma notices him staring at LingQi’s and starts beating and yelling :p so he has to reveal his face, and they invite him home to dinner, and he has fun with them and looks happy. When they meet MoNan on their way out, Bohai is jealous :) and seeing them bickering like that, it was his nicest moment, I’d say.
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LingQi is forced to confess to Baoni and MoNan about the bracelet. Bohai is jealous but she keeps repeating that MoNan is not interested in her...
When she falls down a ladder while working, he catches her, they fall on the ground, kind of kissing.. she quickly gets up, he takes her hand and pulls her down again (is he finally connecting her to his dreams?). Four people were looking for them, two because they are jealous, Zhou and MoNan, and they are startled to see them like that, while Zhen and Baoni smile and laugh.
MoNan thinks of letting Bohai know all about the bracelet, thinking this way he won’t see her again and he’ll have a chance with her, but then seeing how miserable she is only thinking about it, he changes his mind and takes the documents away just in time.
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Zhou investigates the bracelet matter, after she heard Bohai say he started dreaming about LingQi before he even met her (end of last episode). LingQi wants to confess to Bohai the truth, then she dreams about him saying that cheating and betrayal can never be forgiven, and yet she goes to talk to him to tell him everything, but Zhou interrupts her because she has used tricks to learn the truth and wants to be her to tell Bohai, wanting him to fire her. Instead, he takes her to see a rare flower, where they can be alone, and he smiles, tells her she must never again hide something from him, and then he hugs her and keeps her tight :) so nice.
MoNan sees them together, goes out and gets drunk, and when he comes back home there’s Baoni waiting for him; he sees LingQi in her and hugs her, crying that she doesn’t want him, but doesn’t say her name, so she thinks he’s talking about her.
Bohai is now closer to LingQi than before, and Zhou gets angry when she sees that, but finally Chen tells her as it is, they have known him for years, when was he this happy? She says she likes him, and yet she wants to destroy that happiness? :-/
MoNan wants to give up his plans to acquire Bohai’s company, or something...
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His ‘friend’ (I like him) tries to convince him but MoNan seems determined to give up that idea.
Bohai smiles a lot now when he’s around LingQi, and when he takes her home he holds her hand, smiling :-)
MoNan wants to resign, so Baoni decides she’ll talk to him at once. At dinner, she’s all ‘I know you like me, I like you too’, but he says that he does have someone he likes, but it’s not her...
LingQi is waiting but Bohai is caught up at work; finally Zhou tells him he can go and he runs to her; she fell asleep waiting and knocks down a glass full of water.. on come cables, and soon the whole place is burning. Due to his childhood drama, Bohai is unable to save her. Fire officer are blocking people outside, but MoNan runs inside and saves her ( ... they were all outside, and he had to save her??? come on, what’s this? ). Bohai is desperate and keeps calling her name, but MoNan doesn’t let him in the ambulance. Now he won’t resign anymore, thinking that she won’t be happy with Bohai after all, and he can pursue her.
When he goes to the hospital later, he hears Baoni telling her that she can’t be sure of his feelings, what is a man who can’t protect her, and that sort of stuff, and he feels stung in the heart... because of this, he refuses her :’( and MoNan hits where it hurts telling him to keep his word and stay away from her. She gets drunk and MoNan finds her and walks her home. That night Bohai puts the bracelet back on, and she enters his dreams and sees that the masked person he keeps fighting is himself, saying he is cursed and can’t love anyone because anybody who gets close to him will burn..
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She is transferred, it’s a kind of promotion I think, but away from him. He tells Chen that he doesn’t deserve love, that she will only get hurt with him. Zhou is quite happy with LingQi leaving, thinking she might have a shot after all -sigh-
Neither Bohai nor LingQi can function properly now :(
Chen finally confesses to Zhou that he likes her. She refuses him.
LingQi finds new determination to not give up on her love and feels better enough to go back to work in the shop. While Chen goes to LingQi to ask for a bouquet that expresses his love, Zhou asks Bohai to make her a bouquet that expresses the opposite.
Baoni tells the men in the company always flirting with her that she likes MoNan, so they hate him now.
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In order to better pursue MoNan, Baoni asks a friend to investigate his background...
Chen actively pursues Zhou, but she rejects his every move heartlessly. Bohai keeps thinking of LingQi. When a guy confesses to her, he takes him away and tells him a lot of absurd things to keep him away.. and she hears it all :p
LingQi asks Baoni to flirt with Chen to help him with Zhou :p
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Chen agrees to the plan and they come to work hand in hand.. and Zhou actually is a bit jealous :)
MoNan goes to meet a man who knew his father, to ask what happened 20 years before when he died, but doesn’t learn much.
Zhou doesn’t fall for their tricks and spots the truth, though, and she tells him that he’ll never have a chance with him :(
LingQi goes out drinking with Chen, and Zhou does the same. When they are drunk they see each other and keep drinking together, until the place closes but they fall asleep so the waiter takes LingQi’s phone and calls Bohai to come and pick them up... he roughly wakes Chen up and they each take a girl away. Zhou is so drunk she starts yelling that all those who professed eternal love to her were quickly gone but he tells her how he has loved her all these years, since the first day they met, and they kiss...
MoNan is the son of the man that was a partner in that company, with Bohai’s mother, until that big fire killed him.
LingQi wakes up in Bohai’s bed, and stupidly thinks that they kissed the whole night, or something :/
Zhou acts furtively because she doesn’t want the company to know about her and Chen, needing time to adjust, but of course she attracts more attention this way and everyone notices..
now it’s out in the open, but she’s quite content, glad that she saw his true feelings, that they saw each other’s heart and all that, and speaks to Bohai about his own happiness. Now that she’s with someone she’s not bitter anymore and even quite nice :)
Chen goes to tell LingQi that he’s together with Zhou now, and since she had made a bet with Bohai, she now goes to talk to him, to tell him to give it a try...
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Baoni learns about MoNan’s background, that he is well educated and kind of rich, and starts suspecting that he is a spy. He is convinced that Bohai’s mother killed his father, I don’t know why, I haven’t seen anything that would make it so certain...
When informations are leaked, damaging the company, Baoni suspects MoNan but nobody else has any idea. When MoNan starts being suspected, Baoni lies for him, saying they were together, but then he says that by doing so she risks making it worse, if the lie was uncovered.. poor Baoni, thinks she can’t even be of help...
LingQi asks Chen to get Bohai to wear the bracelet that night, but Bohai notices his plan; still, he wears it anyway, planning to ‘give her an answer’ in the dream, and they separately relive the terrible experience, when as a child he was trapped in the burning house, his ma couldn’t get to him and went away..
Someone booked all the roses before Valentine’s day, but the man seems inclined to sell them to Bohai simply for what he paid them...
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LingQi searches the internet for information about what happened to Bohai twenty years before but finds nothing, so MoNan suggests consulting newspapers. She learns what happens in the library, and goes to hug Bohai, who tells her that whatever she knows, no matter how much she insists and wait, he won’t change his mind; MoNan sees him yelling at her, and takes her hand dragging her away, and confesses to her. Needless to say, she only sees him as a friend, this is all impossible for her. Next day, she only wants to forget about it and tells him to do the same. Baoni doesn’t need to be told to understand the truth.
The flowers that guy gave them ‘so generously’ are all bad quality, and ruined the next day (same as happened to his mom’s shop when he was little, soon before the fire). Many want their money back, but when Bohai goes looking at LingQi’s shop, she is selling well. I think Bohai received the good flowers, while all the smaller shops received the bad ones.
They are relieved that the crisis is over, when worse happens: it’s all over the news, the story of Bohai’s mother, and the rumour that Bohai planned the low-quality-thing with the company that gave the flowers, to put all the smaller shops out of business, stuff like that. Now they media and the small shops are all against him.
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They find the reporter that took compromising pictures and plan a press conference, but then someone calls Bohai threatening LingQi, but when he gets to her, MoNan has already ‘saved’ her form a falling vase, and someone (MoNan’s friend) calls him that more will happen if they go on with the conference.. so he cancels it. MoNan tries to convince that Bohai is not for her, but she doesn’t like to hear this talking. She doesn’t want secrets with Baoni so he tries to tell her, but she knows already.
Bohai tries to make peace with the shop owners giving them flowers at half price, but during delivery they get lost, another trick to destroy him.
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LingQi has gone personally to find replacements for the flowers, but the truck she’s in has an accident. Bohai runs to her, calls an ambulance for the poor driver, and finds LingQi, shouting at her that she’s stupid to risk her life for just some flowers. She yells back that she’s willing for love while he’s just a coward... he hugs her now, and says he will never let her go...
Baoni doesn’t want to see LingQi anymore, I guess it hurts to see her.
Bohai is now happy with LingQi, and takes her hand in the company so everyone knows :-) When Baoni hears some girls talk bad about LingQi, she defends her strongly :-)
Bohai has now to face her parents, but he easily wins dad over, and mom shows her her concern that she must really love him and be happy and not do it to please them.. so they look like a happy family :-) She shows him her bedroom, and he sees a note and understands something: a few years back he started selling flowers by the street, and things were very slow and not encouraging. Once he threw away a bouquet, and ‘a girl’, LingQi, picked it up saying how beautiful they were, so he started leaving a bouquet every day, until the business got better and he rented a shop. It was his last day there, so he waited for her with a bouquet in his hands, but she didn’t show up. And we are back at the first episode, when she got dumped and stopped to cry in a corner. He was passing by, saw her, and gave her the bouquet.
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Bohai follows the car of his ‘enemy’, but only talks to the driver, MoNan keeps hidden in the backseat.. :-/ not very honourable, whatever his reasons :-/
Of course Bohai understands that whoever it is didn’t come out because they would recognise him as someone in their company, and when Chen asks Baoni about the people absent from work, she tells MoNan but he’s rather mean, asks if she wants to threaten him, then tells her he doesn’t need nor want her help..
He knows he has his back covered, in fact Chen finds his alibi verified... so Bohai fires the wrong man.
Bohai and LingQi are so cute when they are happy together :-)
Baoni tries to get MoNan to give up or open up to her, but he tells her to stay out of his way.
To catch the real spy, Bohai and his partners pretend that his mother’s back and living in a nursing home, and MoNan does go there but at the last moment he’s warned about the trick and tries to run away.
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Now that he’s been exposed, MoNan tells LingQi he’s the spy, and locks Bohai into a container later filled with smoke. He’s in shock until LingQi arrives to tell him not to be afraid, she’s there... MoNan tells her the story of how his dad died while mom disappeared. I find him a bit despicable, he may be hurt but there is no proof whatsoever one way or another, he should investigate not rage war. The happy note is that he spared Bohai the pain of having to tell her, which would have been difficult for her to understand and believe. MoNan obviously moves out and into a hotel.
To cheer her up, Bohai went to the part to dance with LingQi’s mom :lol: then announcing he’s her boyfriend :-) this must be the peak of the show :-D
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MoNan and his boss (mentor?) William try to expose his color blindness at an award ceremony, but not only he can do a bouquet, he explains to everyone that he did have that problem, but never deceived anyone and is now completely healed... she cured him... awww as long as he has her, he’ll be fine :-)
Baoni can’t let go and keeps around MoNan, but he insists on Bohai’s mother killing her father and that he doesn’t want to see her again.
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MoNan threatens Qiqi, telling her to break up with BoHai and he’ll stop, or they’ll be consequences...
he wants to ruin him, starts taking away clients and stuff. Qiqi starts being worried but Bohai seems confident. MoNan doesn’t give up, she refuses again. At night she gets worried and asks him where he is, he says at home, and then she sees him outside ‘her’ place... and they’re so nice together :)
Another trick brings the company in a big trouble, and LingQi tells MoNan that like Baoni she also was so naive as to keep hope in him, but from now on, they are enemies.
Things get worse but Bohai still appears confident, because at least he has her :) It’s MoNan the most unhappy here, drinking himself into oblivion, and he tells his ‘friend’ that he is worried he might succeed and Qiqi will sacrifice herself to protect Bohai... I don’t know their relationship, the guy seems to be working for MoNan, but also seems to be worried about him...
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LingQi sees in a dream how important his company is for him, what he has left of his mother, and wakes up in a lot of pain, understanding that he is suffering much more than he let her see because of this situation. She agrees to MoNan’s condition, only asking for one last day of happiness with Bohai.. She can’t do it face to face, so she breaks up with him in a dream :’(
As he wakes up he starts looking everywhere for her, but she won’t be found. As she tells MoNan she did it (but that she’ll never be with him anyway), things for the company go better. Bohai attacks MoNan at his hotel. Later Baoni tries again to talk to him but he’s cruel to her.
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MoNan only has his ‘friend’ to talk to openly. Bohai has not gone color-blind, because he doesn’t feel abandoned, he knows that she was forced to leave him, and is determined to win against MoNan to prove her that he can do it and he can protect her, and she doesn’t need to sacrifice for him...
William drags MoNan lower and lower by the minute. He asks JiBin to investigate him... I hope nothing bad happens to him, I like him...
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After a mild accident to Bohai, LingQi agrees to be with MoNan if he’ll stop. Bohai now feels abandoned again, MoNan takes Qiqi to the fair wanting to tell Bohai that they are together now.
(I know it’s not the main plot, but doesn’t he wonder even a little bit where JiBin went?? I hope he’s alright).
So MoNan asks her to marry him in front of everyone and she has to accept. Bohai feels ill again, and William exposes him as a fraud, bringing in the man they used to do his work when he was sick in the past. Chen and Zhou take him quickly away. So, he was not strong enough after all...
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Qiqi is desperate, William enters the company as the new boss saying Bohai sold him the company, and nobody can find him anymore.
JiBin is being held prisoner, to keep him away from MoNan, but he’s so cool he frees himself and escapes :-) and immediately calls MoNan. William worked at the flower-company of 20 years ago, needed money for his sick son, he was the one who planned the low-quality-flowers-scam that was ruining the company; Bohai’s mom ran away because she clearly saw that help was on the way, she couldn’t reach him but there was a man chasing her (William, I think, who had been found out), and she lost him, and William enjoyed seeing their sons fighting each other...
So, no surprise, the big baddie is William, but MoNan too, I know he was raised in hate by the evil man, but he could still choose, and every step of the way he chose the evil path.
One thing is not clear though, the matter of the child: was that before or after the company crisis? Did they really not help when a child was about to die? Did he plan the scam to raise money for the child or simply because he’s a greedy bastard?
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LingQi goes back to the company, to keep it afloat while waiting for Bohai to return and get it back.
MoNan feels... I don’t know, but JiBin calls Baoni to help him , and she’s all “it’s not your fault”... well... it is a bit his fault, girl, come on... but she gets better and speaks well, saying the others feel worse than him and a man who make mistakes should correct them...
LingQi works as the new director, months pass by, she takes care of Bohai’s house, and of his company, but after a year, still nobody knows where he is...
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The whole year, both Baoni and JiBin have stayed with MoNan, while he plans to revenge on William. (at least he says thank you to JiBin...)
After a whole episode of flashbacks and circling around each other at a flower market, LingQi and Bohai finally meet (because she finds him) and hug and cry. Still, after saying that he’s a useless loser, he says he doesn’t want to go back to a past that contains her... poor Qiqi, after all she’s done..
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Finally he tells her that he doesn’t hate her, never have, only hates himself, and won’t go back, that he’s a loser and still unable to see colors, no way he could get the company back...
William wants to fire half of the staff; LingQi tries for a long while to convince Bohai then she goes back to save the company. Bohai comes back (Chen Mo shouts at him and then hugs him :-D). He enlists MoNan’s help in defeating William. MoNan goes to Qiqi to make up.
Bohai and LingQi are together again; good, it took too long...
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The police find the remains of Bohai’s mother, she didn’t come back for him because she was dead.
MoNan and Bohai buy enough shares of the company and together with the other remaining holders he is reelected president of the company. Soon enough it turns out they were too much in a hurry, and now the company is in big financial trouble. Since this is known, the creditors force their way in pushing their way through and grab flowers boxes like a barbaric horde, what an indecent scene :-/
Bohai and LingQi cook together, and there is again that happy-moments-music: la-laila-la,laaf la laila lala
Bankrupcy procedures are started, and to stop them MoNan goes to the Floricultural Association to confess what he did to acquire the company, involving obviously William, so the procedure is stopped for investigation.
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In a dream, Bohai and LingQi realise that his mother put the proof of William’s fraud into a toy that she kept in a safe, which has been found with her remains , so now Bohai can go to the police with actual evidence and they promise to investigate. Now that things are at this point, the big corporation behind Williams takes a step away from him, blaming him alone for all the bad actions, and giving Bohai... I don’t remember, whatever he needed to make it good news for everybody..
Monan doesn’t go to jail, I think he has to pay some compensation and stay out of the business for a few years, but otherwise he’s free, poor but free, back to be Baoni’s poor best friend.
Aaaaaand... they did it again, to end a show with a disappointing finale:
LingQi wishes upon a flower to marry Bohai and is disappointed when he doesn’t ask right away, then wants him to buy her a very expensive ring (they were in financial trouble since a few hours back...), and then Bohai is ran over by a car driven by William, in a very bad-looking accident. There’s a long scene where a covered-in-blood-LingQi cries at the hospital.
The deaths of their parents are considered accident but William is sentenced to life in prison because of fraud?? What?
MoNan is giving lectures in university and again living in Qiqi’s rooftop, Baoni sticks to him as usual, Zhou is the new director, she had a baby boy with Chen, and we see LingQi all alone, wandering the streets, dreaming at night that she would marry her Bohai and waking up sad because she’s alone... until they meet and we learned that he had to spend a year in Europe but came back earlier because he missed her, and he proposes... who knows why he spent months in Europe, or why he is working in a little shop...
The end... :-/ bleah. Come on, why did they make a finale like this? The last few episodes have been too slow and boring. Nobody has seen JiBin for the last four episodes and nobody cares about him, MoNan’s sense of brotherhood is to use someone when he needs him and stop caring when he doesn’t, I guess.
The last episode was all wrong, the dream, the accident, them trying to make us think that he’s dead, the long long scenes (she cries for two minutes! ) the boring ending...
Really a bad ending. It could have been worse, I admit that, but it could have been a lot better.
