A Melhor Escolha de Todos os Tempos (2024)

Good Drama, but hated the mother...

Before watching this drama, you have to decide whether you're intending to watch for the romance or the family drama.

If you're seeking a romance-heavy plot, this drama might not be your cup of tea. "Best Choice Ever" is heavily centred around family - specifically revolving around the female lead's mother.

The female lead's mother is depicted as nosy and overbearing, embodying typical Asian family pressures/expectations placed on their child. Such as the emphasis on marrying a wealthy husband, raising children, gender roles in marriage and maintaining a good reputation among relatives and friends. This show offers valuable life lessons and includes moments of romance and heartwarming interactions between family members - a bit touching.

That being said, as the series progressed, I found myself increasingly irritated and frustrated with the female lead's mother. I couldn't fathom how the female lead managed to stay calm and comply with her mother; if I were in her shoes, I would've left due to the constant nagging and pestering. Her overbearing nature made me consider dropping the drama altogether. However, I pushed through, and by the final episodes, she had redeemed herself (Sightly...) I began to understand the mother a bit more, but still... (she said she would change, but barely did. I understand that mothers wish for their kids to live better lives and to give them what is best, but at some point, it seemed more like the mother wanted her kids to fulfill the dreams she never managed to achieve herself... never considering the consequences of her actions, or what her children want.)

I think all characters had some form of character development, but some are more significant than others.

While I don't consider it a must-watch, especially given its 37 episodes, each around 40+ minutes long, it does have its unique appeal. There are many other good dramas out there, but if you decide to watch this one, be prepared for a rollercoaster of emotions, especially regarding the female lead's mother. I hope I'm not the only one who feels this way!

Leia Mais

This is the school of life.

Before going with my review I woul like to talk about some complaints I read. First this drama is tagged as Life, and the reason is because it focused on life experience. For example, in real life, no one can choose their parents. They are who they are—educated or not, rich or poor, bad-tempered or not. But they are never all saints or all bad people. With no prior preparation, they have to raise children from 0 to 20 years and sometimes beyond. They have to be strong when we are hurt, cheerful when we are sad, wise whenever we are mad and understanding when we are confused. We also ask for unconditional love. It is only when we grow up that we realize the level of sacrifice it takes to raise children. They have to sacrifice their own dreams to nourish ours.

The majority of parents only want the best for their children and sometimes project their own hopes, desires, ambitions, and even fears onto them. They may try to control their children, believing it’s the only way to protect them. There’s no school to learn how to be parents. They can only draw from their own experiences and often improvise along the way. This drama is a must-watch for anyone who wants to become a better parent or child.

The show presents two models of children shaped by different background. The FL is patient, understanding, and solution-oriented but comes from a poor, uneducated family with a strong sense of morality. The father is a working class laborer with no other ambition than the happiness of the family. The FL is aware of her parents' sacrifices and limitations and strives to make them proud. In contrast, the ML comes from a broken family. Abandoned by everyone, he is self-made, intelligent, proud, and emotionally distant. Years of neglect and betrayal have left him incapable of trusting others. Instead of fostering relationships, he uses people to achieve his goals.

Some viewers complain about the FL's mother being overbearing and having too much screen time, but I believe this is intentional. It contrasts with the ML's invisible, absent parents, emphasizing the importance of presence in a child's life. The story highlights two distinct personalities shaped by their family dynamics: a compact, wharming family led by an overbearing mother who cares obsessively for her children, and a disjointed, invisible family with absentee parents.

Besides these two bigs models, we can also see in the show the fathers who totally spoiled the kids, the mother who sent her daughter abroad because she has no time for her, the divorced mother trying to keep up with his kid. A little panel showing here the complexity of our modern society. But here there's no judgment. There's no good nor bad. But it's a little strange to see for example while some tries to keep the mother out of their life, other wishes her mother could save some time to spend with her. That's it the complexity of relationships in our modern society.

Another important thing I notice trough much feedbacks I read, is a lot of complaints for the lack of romance in the story. On the contrary for me this is A lovely romance drama, but tell to us from the perspective of an older generation (The writer of the novel from which the drama is adapted is Yi Shu. She is already 78 and she is also the author of Tale of Rose novel). So this is a romance drama inside and between families. Because for the older generation marriage implies the committment of two families. And this commitment will bring all the communication, the trust, and the sincerity for relationship to flourish between the bride and the groom.

Nowadays this model is considered archaic and we can see there is a generational gap between the writer and the viewers. But think again about it. Why there is so much trouble in marriage nowadays? Why this high level of divorce? Why so much trouble for husband and wife to find time for themselves. And parents to spend time for children because of reduce family model, lonely and busy life style and no implication of elders whom are pushed away to retirement houses. And of a matter of fact, there is a grandma who lives in retirement home in the drama because she has no family left but a grandson who is very busy and has no attachments to family. I think the writer thinks the ancient model of relationships where the parents are implicated in our life is still viable, but it demands a lot of courage and constant communication to overcome the generational gap.

Let's talk about the story. For me, the common thread of the show is the word Presence. The presence of a parental figure to identify with and emulate.

I believe the FL is not so different from her mother. She is just as stubborn and thrifty, but she shares her mother's sense of sacrifice, devotion, and duty. On the other hand, the ML is self-centered, manipulative, and bossy, with no trust in others. Due to the absence of a paternal figure, combined with humiliation and betrayal, he doesn't understand the dynamics of family or relationships. To achieve success, he relies on authority and treats people as tools, rather than collaborators.

The writer does an excellent job of portraying the complexities of family dynamics. Is the mother a bad person? A bad mother? People are never as simple as they are often portrayed in fiction. We tend to imagine the world through simple archetypes of heroes and villains, but reality is far more complex. People are a mix of strengths and flaws. This idea is the base of the FL's family; a meddling housewife mother, a hard working but caring father, a supporting sensible brother striving for a living

We are creatures of habit and everyone of us bring the sequels of bad experiences. The mother's character may not be the usual perfect mother we all crave to see in drama. But she is depicted as a normal human who bears traumas from childhood, who belittled herself, lacks confidence but sacrifices her dreams in order to make a better future for her children. Moreover she is aware of her flaws and wishes she could change. But change is one of the hardest things for humans to achieve, and we often underestimate the time it takes.

The drama is also about her struggle in becoming a better mother, her dedication and commitment to be always present for her children despite the mistakes she continuously makes. For her parenting is a lifetime job and doesn’t come with a retirement plan. Even when her children grow up, she will still impose her choices on them. I think it’s natural because it's the way she was taught when she was young. In this story, the mother only wants what’s best for her daughter, and there’s no problem with that. The conflict arises because of the mother's gap and traditional education. This is her own flaw but as we say no one is perfect. The FL, being a filial daughter, would like to please her mother at first, but will eventually chooses to confront her because the consequences of a bad marriage will fall solely on her.

From my personal experience, I’ve learned that as we grow, we progressively make our own decisions when faced with challenges our parents never encountered. The mother in the drama has never dealt with such a greedy, manipulative family and doesn’t realize how much stress her daughter is under. The generational gap between mother and daughter can explain the misunderstanding.

For me, this is the true lesson of the story. The education our parents provide is merely a guideline. Once we grow up, we face our own struggles due to changes in our environment, workplace, and society. We must make our own choices—sometimes against the wishes of our parents, family, or friends, because they may not or cannot understand. The FL’s ex-boyfriend fails to grasp this, or perhaps lacks the courage to make the right decision. And later, in the drama lasts episodes we will finally understand why the FL's mother greed so much for a successful life is because of the regrets she accumulates in her life for not choosing the path of achieving her dream to become an opera singer.

If I had to summarize this drama in three themes, they would be: Presence, Independence, and Family.

Presence: the debut focuses on the family interaction, the mold from which our personalities emerge.

Independence: when we begin to construct our freedom, learn to make our own decisions, and bear their consequences.

Family: when we realize no one is an island. No matter how strong or independent we are, there will be times when we need support, praise, someone to lean on, a presence that makes all the hard work and achievements of our life worthwhile. And we finally understand the most important signification of family.

The final goal of our struggle in life is the family. Without the family anything has no sense. The true struggle is about making their life better or having someone to accompany us when we are old. Look at the distress of the ML who always says he has no father. We doesn't need words to understand how he feels lost when he suddenly realizes this time the father will never come back again. Too much time waste for past grudges when the father was eager to change. Now he is dead.

The message which is told through the show focus on remember us that the key to maintain good family relationships is communication. Through sincere communication with the heart we reinforce the trust, the love that are mandatory for the family to exist. The family itself that is crucial to maintain Love, Happiness, Health. It's is a virtuous circle. I think myself this drama is a real love story.

Sure, they are some annoying characters not necessary at all for the development of the story. However the majority of cdrama have the same problem. The nosy and omniscient friends of ML and FL with the sole purpose of filling the time screen. The second leads romance not really convincing. But nevertheless for me this drama was educational, entertaining, and inspiring, with a dazzling performance by Yang Zi and excellent delivery by Xu Kai. The FL's mother in fact is really convincing in her role of traditional mother. But she is not toxic at all, simply out of phase. And her problem is not so difficult to resolve. A little joke to conclude. How to deal with a nosy energetic housewife whose children are grownup and keep meddling because she has nothing to do? Give her some grandchildren...

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Ohhh Mother!!!!

There isn't really much to speak about in this series, though it was soooo long. so lets get into it:

Dang, this is such a ridiculously long series that was about a greedy mother. Literally the entire series is about this greedy woman trying to pretend she wants her children to have a better life than her's. It took 20 episodes to solidify she was just a gold digger that didn't get to strike gold for herself so she was doing everything to ensure that her daughter did. Once she found out her daughter BF was rich rich, she couldn't wait to get them married, swear her daughter was a prized cow that she wanted to sell off to the highest bidder. She was truly disgusting to watch, worst yet, episode 16 was the heights of disrespects to her daughter, like how do you even do that to another human being and then have the gull, de audacity, de ko-ho-Nays to plan a whole wedding and not tell the bride.. the bride, the second most important person in a wedding. This lady made all asian mothers look horrible. I've been to China and they love tradition but they not about this level. I felt so sorry for the groom, he really was just a bystander in this horrific accident that his sister and that crazy woman that happen to be the mother of the girl, planned. It just got worst and worst, and finally at the latter half of the series, you get fooled into thinking the mother finally found a clue under her gold digging pickaxe, but no she goes off and makes everything about herself again, making her entire family blow a blood vessel simply out of worry all under the guise that she doesn't want them to worry. Like how stupid is that, you run away so they don't have to worry, because they wont worry about why you just vanish.

Now, that I feel like I got enough of that off my chest (sooo much more I wanted to say), lets get onto the romance of the show. That is basically it, because there is nothing to speak about it. The total romance equates to about 1hr and 47 min of screen time, It was totally sad. I mean they were cute and their chemistry was somewhat cute, but it was like a sub-thought in the midst of a family drama soap opera.

I was truly disappointed with the entire series, because it had a romance listed... I can't even pretend this is a cautionary tale to other children, because everyone seems to just love to enable the mother and cuddle her for the rubbish behaviour she is exhibiting. Soo many opportunities the father and brother had to let her know that she is off the deep end of crazy but they made excuses...

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Crazy Stupid Mother ruins the watching experience

Typical Chinese drama with the toxic mother unfortunately. The ML and FL are great actors and portrayed the characters well and draw the audience into their inner struggles. The second couple, FL's brother & her BFF, also had a heart-wrenching storyline worth watching. The parental control culture are very real and well reflected in this drama - i.e. society/parents feel they have the right to control all the life choices of a woman, cultural discrimination against the older woman with younger man, annoying relatives who thinks they have a right to your money etc. The ML's personal growth, humanity and cool is so good to watch and XuKai is funny and perfect as usual.

What ruins the show is the FL's mother character - an explosive stupid idiot with a high pitch voice. it’s complete torture to watch. This character is an insult to women as mothers. The important parental character is the grandmother who is loving, strong and wise, the grandma we all wish we had. however the grandma is also flawed - not raising ML herself despite knowing his horrendous childhood, giving him to the FL’s family only works in her imagination. Grandma essentially gave the grandson ML nothing he wanted and needed when she passed away.

The first boyfriend is a weak pathological liar, rich but retarded. Recommend skipping some episodes to eliminate this useless character and the stupid mother's over-the-top screaming scenes. 1. Fast forward to ep 12 when FL is starting over as a single girl. 2. Fast forward ep 16 to avoid the big "engagement" scene where stupid mother went insane. It's worth waiting for the slow burn of the lead's love story. Ending is a little anti-climactic for the lead's love story although a happy one.

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MOM! Stop it!

See if you agree to some degree with my rant.
I was really enjoying this 'coming of age albeit at age 30' family drama but Mama's incessant obstinance to judge and meddle could no longer be tolerated as 'it's just her way of showing her love." Perhaps the actress played shrewish single mindedness on securing money so well it finally became intolerable for me. So I've stopped midway as the story takes a ridiculous turn even though it did set up 'the move in' of the ML-- it's far to contrived for someone to do (I was going to say normal person but part of the set up is that he hasn't grown up in a normal household)....but if having an over overbearing relentlessly meddling mother you tolerate for 10 years (of adult life) is normal, sorry I don't get it.
Add a over the top mean potential sister in law whom nobody seems to be able to stop the vile from her mouth (and also wierdly lives at her parent's without her child and husband for pregnancy (again, an apparent set up that her pregnancy is why she lives with her parents?) AND a lazy rich boy who gets by playing video games yet is supposedly a dream boyfriend for 3 years to a smart and industrious girl AND a well off best frend who can open a jewelry store and pay for whatever a drop of a hat yet doesn't have the business savvy to fend off her ex...and sorry this story gets too melodramatically ridiculous.

I think part of also why I am stopping here is that the end will be obvious--the two will end up togehter (btw,, yes, their acting in these roles do click) with or without marriage, and Mama will realize her life's ambition for her daughter to secure wealth (skipping that she has nearly zero after thoughts for her son's happiness-which even that is set up in backstory as to why she's little invested in his happiness and the father utterly absent in connecting with his son) and herself to finally be wealthy due to exploiting the good things that come her way vs her daughter who works for it (btw where does her daughter's wisdom from anyway since it's clearly not from mom--oh yeah, the other setup--the wonderful non-biological Grandma (yes, this relationship was sweet to watch)). Mama will likely have some sort of aha (though I can't tolerate the story progress to see it happen) and our guy gets a 'normal' family and their joint efforts to run Grandma's legacy will be solidly successful after a few more bouts of obstacles from the stereotypical bad person (ooh, but it's fresh-it's a woman! --being sarcastic).

When I run out of things to watch and this runs its course, I may go back to finish it just to see if the twists and turns in the last half are surprising and fast forward when Mama appears (again, her character is a plot device to make many of the roll your eyes 'events').

Highly suggest Blossoms in Adversity instead for a more rewarding watch about a tenancious businesswomen and family.

Leia Mais

Plot is about How to Bring Up a Dysfunctional Parent

While Yang Zi and Xu Kai are technically the leads, the drama appears to revolve around an unlikeable, and dysfunctional mother character. Even though the show only has 38 episodes, I stopped watching at Episode 35 - the mother character overwhelmed the whole story, even as I could not find any sympathy for this character. The moral of this story appears to be that children should forgive emotionally abusive parents, a premise I totally disagree with, since the effects of emotional abuse last a lifetime. The show was stressful to watch as it contained many scenes of emotional manipulation from the mother character, while showcasing filial children who frustratingly, forgave it all.

Leia Mais

In the race of chicken or the egg, the mother hen wins!

Let’s just get the easy bits out of the way first. This series is watchable and entertaining at times. The OTP are well matched and they have good chemistry. However, this is where things get complicated.

As one of my friends commented after finishing the show, who is the FL of this drama? Ok, maybe that is a slight exaggeration, but she does have a point. While there is no doubt Yang Zi is the FL, her mother’s role is more titular. In fact, so many of the subplot radiate from the matriarch that her screen time and presence more than rival the FL’s. Furthermore, a lot of the time, most characters are placed in a reactive roles due to her machinations and has little agency.

I can understand that this will resonate with a lot of Asian viewers because they are probably living in a similar situation or knows someone who is. It is a reasonable premise to kick-start the show and give the FL reasons to grow. In that sense, the first half of the show is the best. This is helped by the sage like grandmother who sees all and pulls the strings to get our OTP pass the frenemy stage. Her presence counterbalances the mum’s and provides a safe harbour for our leads.

It all changes after she passed. The FL’s mum’s presence looms larger than ever before. Her interference reaches new heights once we factor in the grandma's legacy. I understand that it is an effective way to introduce some angst as the official antagonist was a bit light weight. However, it also means that the show becomes unbalanced and lacks focus. Everyone is tiptoeing around the mum and keeping secrets from her which set up more confrontations later. It is a vicious cycle.

In the meantime, the mum continues to meddle in people’s affairs and guilt trip her family regularly. It is tiresome to watch and might trigger some viewers. It distracts us from our CP’s romance. When love is in the air, it is sweet and swoonworthy, but they are like deer in the headlight. After more confrontations and some heart-to-heart talks, the mum finally tones down her actions, but it is an uneasy truce.

The problem from my perspective is that we can't really hate the mum because she is not evil in the literal sense, but her constant meddling is annoying and very harmful to her closest and dearest. Yet she always falls back to the old chestnut of “I’m doing this for the good of ….”. Hence all the characters are in a no-win situation.

This shunted several characters into the margins. Chief among them is the ML. He should have a much stronger presence but between helping the FL in her business and being the peacemaker to her family, he became just the nice guy putting out spot fires. In fact, the mum casted such a big shadow that no characters are spared. This is even more dramatic in the last 3 eps when it is all about the mum.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for a mother centric show and there have been some excellent ones. However, in this case, it felt like the mum was initially used as a catalyst for change but ends up taking over the show. The series is still watchable, but it can be very trying at times.

Ultimately, if you are looking for an escapist rom com then this might hit too close to home to be fun. If you want a family melodrama then this is inferior because it is just a hotchpotch of tired tropes. Throw in the PITA matriarch and we have an inverse trifecta. One time watch for me.

Leia Mais

Family means everything (I will leave it for you to interpret whether its good or bad)

This is a family focused drama with romance as a main side focus. The FL mother is honestly the star of the show. Great acting!! (to the point I really cant stand her but for Yang Zi, I watched till the end).

Lets, start with plot. As mentioned above, this is a family focused drama. It talks a lot about values and "filial piety". Coming from a different background from this drama, I had a very hard time understanding the FL mother behavior. The FL is a people pleaser: pleasing her mother and her ex bf. Essentially, eventually she also got tired of it all and this drama follow the route of how she grows. (did she though... maybe?)

I actually did enjoy how the romance part of this drama played out. From the FL ex to the ML, the transition of how the FL moved on was smoothed. Good chemistry between the FL & ML.

Conclusion:
This drama is not for everyone. A lot of Chinese audience seem to enjoy this drama. But if u come from a different culture, the FL mother's behavior may boil ur blood and ruin ur enjoyment from watching this drama.

Side note: FL mother is the main role not Xu Kai! Once u watch the drama, u will understand what i mean.

Leia Mais

Family. A Mother and Child Bond

Honestly, 95% of the time the mother in this series got into my nerves. But, the last 5% of the whole storyline became the saving grace of this show; it is not because the mother changed drastically, but because her changes were very small yet somehow highlighted her somewhat crazy yet caring way of thinking.

The micro management of the Mom about everything and to everyone is honestly grating. She’s honestly and without a doubt the true antagonist and protagonist of this show.

But, there is something gut wrenching about how that kind of suffocating love is also and is still love. Love that some people long for. Love that some people dream about. While it is too much, we can never discount that she love her kids and her family.

In essence, I think this show was able to capture the realness of love in the family. All families are not perfect. All families have feuds from within. But at the end of the day, when all is rooted in love, there is security and peace to be with the family.

Leia Mais

Great story, but the toxic mom is over the top

Xu Kai is great, and the chemistry between him and Yang Zi is better than I expected. She is sometimes a little too bubbly and naive for me, but she does well here.
The story is pretty good, but they went overboard on some of the side characters. The dad is a miserable hen-pecked man who devotes everything to his family. Yet he’s constantly degraded as worthless and useless by the mom. And he just happily goes along with it all. The mom is absolutely horrible. She claims she’s doing things for the good of her daughter, but she’s cruel, manipulative, and will happily sell her daughter off for money. She is a terrible person and no one in the show seems willing to address it. When she’s finally called on some of her behavior, she plays the victim. It’s almost enough to turn the snow off. It’s just hard to watch when they make these characters so extreme.
The female best friend is awesome. She’s intelligent, witty and sweet. The male sidekick is super funny and entertaining.
The brother is sweet, dedicated and hard working. One thing that has disappointed me is that Gala Zhang’s character is very somber. He plays it well, don’t get me wrong. But I love the way he always laughs in Love Like White Jade- it’s absolutely infectious and keeps me smiling. I’ve been hoping to see/ hear that more, but the character isn’t there yet. Hopefully it will come later. (Not all of the episodes are out yet.)
The story itself is nothing new, but it’s an easy watch and moves at a decent pace. I do hope the mom develops as a person, but I don’t see a lot of hope for it. I’ll keep watching, as the main couple and side couple are just adorable.

Edit to add: I had to go ack and lower my rating. The mom does get a bit better for a while. She starts to understand others and makes an effort. But she’s still a raging psycho who sees herself as a martyr while creating huge amounts trouble for those around her. The last few episodes were about her and I was ready to turn it off. She’s run unchecked with a bad temper and a lack of thoughtfulness yet the family continues to tolerate this and treat her as if she’s a victim. A lot of problems could have been avoided if the husband had acted like a man at any point in their marriage and stood up to her. But no, they just all continue to tread on egg shells and try to appease her. The show would be much better without that extreme awfulness.

Leia Mais

very Asian family

When I read the first page of this drama review, mostly the comments are divided into 2. The one that feel the mom is so f*ck*ng annoying & the others that feel she brings life to the drama... Haha... But for me this drama really screams very Asian family drama... One dominant / over bearing mother and her filial piety child.

What I like:
+ The beautiful story about Asian's family. And in the end it become more beautiful...
+ How the relationship of Mai Cheng Huan (CH) & Yao Zhi Ming (ZM) shape. How they built each other trust & feeling.
+ CH is one strong woman. When she decided something, nothing can change it.
+ The funny & cute relationship of Mai Cheng Zao (ZZ) & Mao Yong Xin (MM).
+ The best grandma. She's one truthful woman, she honest with herself & have principle for herself, even from her youth.

What I don't like:
- At first, of course the over bearing mother. But I feel I can understand her feeling & put myself on her shoes. But that's doesn't mean I agree with every stupid decision she did, especially regarding CH & Xin Jia Liang (JL)'s relationship.
- The lousy JL. OMG... Several times I want to slap CH for choosing him as her man. Pity my Niu Jun Feng to get this role.
- The weak 'fear of wife' dad. Yes FL's dad almost have no voice in the family. But at the same time, this characteristics exactly what needed to balance her mother....

overall this drama is not about romance or workplace. It's more about family as a whole...

Below I'll write about the story, but that's also mean SPOILER ALERT!!! So read it at your own risk!!!












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Story about Mai Cheng Huan (CH), a girl from an ordinary family, who is urged to be married by her mother. (Reason? Only 1, she's 29 years old... Haha...). Feeling the urge, CH finally talks to her boyfriend, Xin Jia Liang (JL) about her mother's 'demand'. One day, CH accidentally finds out that actually JL is not from an ordinary family, but JL actually is the 2nd generation of a rich family. That made CH angry & feel betrayed, cause JL hid the truth about his family from her for 3 years. From this point, their relationship turns to the dark corner.

CH's mother, when learning the truth about JL's family, turns 180°. At first, CH's mom thinks JL is a lousy man with no future, but as soon as she hears that JL is actually a 2nd generation rich man, she's so happy & tries everything to make CH & JL relationship successful. It's a typical Asian mother, who dreams of marrying a rich man but unsuccessful & eventually gonna force her daughter to fulfill her dream, cause they're always thinking :"it's what is best for their daughter."

JL squeezed between his feelings for CH & his family disapproval, cause CH is not from the rich family. And JL is one of the weak & lousy men, he never can take a firm stand on where he's standing between CH & his family. And still added to the fuel by JL's sister, who shows the most disapproval of their relationship. And it's all really crumbling down in ep 16, where CH's mom & JL's sister just do the most outrageous things & make JL & CH relationship finally completely over.

Feeling enough with her mother's pressure & intervention, CH finally decided to live outside of her family. And begin focusing on herself & her career.

Now, about CH & Yao Zhi Ming (ZM). CH & ZM know each other from the workplace. ZM is CH's boss & later we found out he's also his step cousin, CH's grandpa married ZM's grandma. And because of their grandma, ZM is getting to know CH. And because of CH, ZM realizes his shortcoming when it comes to the warmth of the family. Over time, ZM is getting closer to CH's family & feel welcome & the warmth of Mai's family. ZM's feeling toward CH is more and more special & CH also learn more & more about ZM & later they finally start their relationship.

On the other side of the coin, there's also a story about Mai Cheng Zao (ZZ) & Mao Yong Xin (MM). ZZ from baby raised by his mother's family at the village. That makes him sometimes feel detached & unwanted by his parents. That's brought up many issues regarding him, his mother & his mother's family. MM on the other hand is god daughter of Mai's family, she's also CH's best friend. ZZ longed to adore MM & had feelings for her. And later, MM also feels how good ZZ is to her & they become a couple.

When CH starts to focus on herself & her career, comes a sad news, her grandma died. But her grandma left CH inheritance of her hotel, for CH to manage. And with her warm hand, the dying hotel bloomed to glory....

Overtime CH & ZZ also repaired their relationship with their mother. They're starting to be better at communication, their mother wants to bow down & listen to her kid (CH &ZZ). And when everything looks wonderful, comes devastating news of their mother. Their mother get sick & she decided to go back to her hometown. And in this hometown, CH & ZZ find the amazing past about her mother's youth. About her abandoned dream, about her youth, about what she sacrificed for her family....

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