Ah fandom, happily woman-hating as usual
First off have some pretty which is not to blame for insane fangirls and helps me to calm down.
And another:
1...2...3...RANT
Ahhh, fandom, how I wish I could say you surprised me with your vitriol towards the heroine because she isn't worshipping at the feet of your lust object.
I made the mistake of leaving comments on when watching ep 7 of Summer Desire on viikii. If there are people more idiotic than youtube commenters, I believe I found them.
The amount of sheer rage towards the heroine was...spectacular. Oh, really, fangirls? You think the heroine is a "golddigger bitch?" And you think she should suffer suffer suffer.
Has she killed someone? Cheated on the father of her 10 children who's been earning their keep by backbreaking labor? Abused a cat?
No.
Half-mad with grief due to the deaths of her parents and her brother's critical condition, she dumped her boyfriend and was very brutal about it because she blamed him for her family's accident (perhaps not too rationally but understandably - he set a chain of events in motion that eventually led to the car wreck).
And then, 5+ years later when they meet again, she's commited an even more grievous sin of not wanting to hook up with him again - she has the temerity of being in a dating relationship with someone else.
Oh, the WHORE OF BABYLON!
You know, FRELL that.
You know, fangirls, just because you want to bang the guy like a drum, does not make it a cardinal sin for the heroine to not crawl over broken glass to kneel in front of him.
Also - I fail to see anyone frothing at the mouth at all the questionable things the two male heroes of this do. But, you know, that's different - after all they are hot guys!
UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH.
To make self feel better, have some caps from ep 6 since ep 7 is only out streaming (side note - mmmmmm, Ou Chen's grovelling = so yummy).
From credits:
Seeing Barbie all tough and attacked, I half expected her to start kicking people a la Shancai. Heh. But instead she gets rescued by Ou Chen (man, the amount of trouble she gets into, it's a good thing she's got two suitors - and both of them seem to work overtime).
And then she tells him to bug off - "Hey, last time a poorly socialized rich guy tried to woo me, I put him through 17 kinds of hell, a hospital, and a starvation strike. Go on, match that!" (OK, OK, I will stop with Meteor Garden references :P). BUUUUUT, she does not see a car (which has no brakes unlike any other car in Taiwan) so Ou Chen does what every self-respecting romantic hero does - he pushes her out of the way. With his body. Somebody's been watching kdramas :)
And even when he's unconscious, the nurse cannot get his hand to release her. I believe we are supposed to think "romantic" but I think "great wrist strength, useful for opening jars."
Brilliant thing is when he says this, she tells him she doesn't care what he believes :P My girl = spine of steel.
Note to self, acquire super-rich ex bf stat.
This scene of Luo Xi coming to her rescue when she is framed as a super-slut-seducer made me squeal squeal squeal.
Eat your heart out, Ou Chen! You know, boy, I sympathize, I really do, especially since you've been brought up by wolves, but most people move on from a high school girlfriend at some point. You are rich, single, and attractive. I am pretty sure you won't have to resort to paid services.
Oh, the delicious arrogance! I adore Luo Xi to bits - he reminds me of my favorite damaged bad boys of twdrama - in Mars, Autumn Concerto, Why Why Love etc - all that arrogance as a veneer for deep belief in own unworthiness. (LOCH 2008's Yang Kang makes me think of that too).
OTP OTP OTP OTP!
While Ou Chen stalks waits outside Xiamo's house, she is at Luo Xi's instead being adorable.
Flashback to the airport kiss.
And the cherry blossom one. Oh, this was so beautiful.
Oh, Luo Xi, you are so very broken.
She sees some tabloid print out that Luo Xi was dumped in an amusement park by his mother who then ran away and he waited and waited for days until he almost died and he desperately tries to get her not to see the paper.
But of course it all comes out.
You know, between this and Return of the Condor Heroes, I am beginning to wonder if Huang Xiaoming is specializing in playing people with horrific childhoods.
Have a triangle mv for the drama, spoilers only through the first 5 eps.
And another:
1...2...3...RANT
Ahhh, fandom, how I wish I could say you surprised me with your vitriol towards the heroine because she isn't worshipping at the feet of your lust object.
I made the mistake of leaving comments on when watching ep 7 of Summer Desire on viikii. If there are people more idiotic than youtube commenters, I believe I found them.
The amount of sheer rage towards the heroine was...spectacular. Oh, really, fangirls? You think the heroine is a "golddigger bitch?" And you think she should suffer suffer suffer.
Has she killed someone? Cheated on the father of her 10 children who's been earning their keep by backbreaking labor? Abused a cat?
No.
Half-mad with grief due to the deaths of her parents and her brother's critical condition, she dumped her boyfriend and was very brutal about it because she blamed him for her family's accident (perhaps not too rationally but understandably - he set a chain of events in motion that eventually led to the car wreck).
And then, 5+ years later when they meet again, she's commited an even more grievous sin of not wanting to hook up with him again - she has the temerity of being in a dating relationship with someone else.
Oh, the WHORE OF BABYLON!
You know, FRELL that.
You know, fangirls, just because you want to bang the guy like a drum, does not make it a cardinal sin for the heroine to not crawl over broken glass to kneel in front of him.
Also - I fail to see anyone frothing at the mouth at all the questionable things the two male heroes of this do. But, you know, that's different - after all they are hot guys!
UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH.
To make self feel better, have some caps from ep 6 since ep 7 is only out streaming (side note - mmmmmm, Ou Chen's grovelling = so yummy).
From credits:
Seeing Barbie all tough and attacked, I half expected her to start kicking people a la Shancai. Heh. But instead she gets rescued by Ou Chen (man, the amount of trouble she gets into, it's a good thing she's got two suitors - and both of them seem to work overtime).
And then she tells him to bug off - "Hey, last time a poorly socialized rich guy tried to woo me, I put him through 17 kinds of hell, a hospital, and a starvation strike. Go on, match that!" (OK, OK, I will stop with Meteor Garden references :P). BUUUUUT, she does not see a car (which has no brakes unlike any other car in Taiwan) so Ou Chen does what every self-respecting romantic hero does - he pushes her out of the way. With his body. Somebody's been watching kdramas :)
And even when he's unconscious, the nurse cannot get his hand to release her. I believe we are supposed to think "romantic" but I think "great wrist strength, useful for opening jars."
Brilliant thing is when he says this, she tells him she doesn't care what he believes :P My girl = spine of steel.
Note to self, acquire super-rich ex bf stat.
This scene of Luo Xi coming to her rescue when she is framed as a super-slut-seducer made me squeal squeal squeal.
Eat your heart out, Ou Chen! You know, boy, I sympathize, I really do, especially since you've been brought up by wolves, but most people move on from a high school girlfriend at some point. You are rich, single, and attractive. I am pretty sure you won't have to resort to paid services.
Oh, the delicious arrogance! I adore Luo Xi to bits - he reminds me of my favorite damaged bad boys of twdrama - in Mars, Autumn Concerto, Why Why Love etc - all that arrogance as a veneer for deep belief in own unworthiness. (LOCH 2008's Yang Kang makes me think of that too).
OTP OTP OTP OTP!
While Ou Chen stalks waits outside Xiamo's house, she is at Luo Xi's instead being adorable.
Flashback to the airport kiss.
And the cherry blossom one. Oh, this was so beautiful.
Oh, Luo Xi, you are so very broken.
She sees some tabloid print out that Luo Xi was dumped in an amusement park by his mother who then ran away and he waited and waited for days until he almost died and he desperately tries to get her not to see the paper.
But of course it all comes out.
You know, between this and Return of the Condor Heroes, I am beginning to wonder if Huang Xiaoming is specializing in playing people with horrific childhoods.
Have a triangle mv for the drama, spoilers only through the first 5 eps.
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