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<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nLin Yi Mu\u2019s decided to stay at Immortal. To let Bai Hao Yu know he\u2019s returning, he surprises Bai Hao Yu by waiting inside his apartment. (Lin Yi Mu\u2019s still got Bai Hao Yu\u2019s access card and let himself in.) He comes with a few ideas to go up against New Look\u2019s Lai Mu sisters interview, too. Some ideas Bai Hao Yu thinks can\u2019t be done since New Look was in the midst of doing them. Some ideas he thinks could be worked on together with Zhu Ying or Lin Hao.<\/p>\n
Bai Hao Yu:<\/p>\n
\u201cLin Yi Mu, are you staying because of Li Hui Zhen?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Seeing Lin Yi Mu in front of him offering all these ideas, it has Bai Hao Yu ask why he\u2019s decided to stay in the end.
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Lin Yi Mu:<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I meet someone I like, I must give it my all.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Lin Yi Mu looked like he counted himself out of the race, but until they know what the end result is, he still has a 50-50 chance with Li Hui Zhen, so he must go all in and see it through.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nLi Hui Zhen:<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy didn’t you go to work these past few days?\u201d<\/p>\n
Lin Yi Mu:<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you think I’d not turn up to work because I confessed and got rejected?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
To Bai Hao Yu, he\u2019s saying it\u2019s because of Li Hui Zhen. To Li Hui Zhen, though, he tells her he wouldn\u2019t take days off work just because he got rejected. He still needs to make money to feed himself. It confuses her, because right as she starts believing his words and relax, the cheerful expression Lin Yi Mu had on straightens:<\/p>\n
Lin Yi Mu:<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I really was very angry. But no matter how angry I am, I am still a part of Immortal. Things haven’t reached the final stage. We still don’t know the ending. Isn’t that right? The story hasn’t ended yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
He gives her a wink before leaving her wondering what his reason was for not showing up to work.<\/p>\n
Lin Yi Mu\u2019s return to the Editorial Department is greeted with cheerful smiles before they each hand him a few folders of work from their own pile. It gets Lin Hao a hard slap across the back and calls of being bullied for everyone else, but Lin Yi Mu seem happy to get right back to work.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nZhu Ying\u2019s in the midst of calling one of Bai Hao Yu\u2019s suggestions for Immortal\u2019s next featured guest, Taylor Yang. Taylor Yang is apparently a singer who can rival New Look\u2019s upcoming featured guests, Lai Mu Sisters. It has many on the team surprised and excited, but with every media outlet out to get news of the love life she recently announced, they\u2019re not too confident the magazine could land such a great guest. There\u2019s also the sky-high price they\u2019ll have to pay to get the interview and the relationship souring. If Taylor Yang\u2019s new love life sours, it could backfire on them. Zhu Ying argues that although the investment is risky, it is still an opportunity.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lin Hao weighs in next with the fact that they\u2019re only going after Taylor Yang for the high public interest in her love life. It\u2019s not for her first-class singing talent or fashion. This is not a method Lin Hao is keen on using in order to beat New Look, because using this kind of method is New Look\u2019s style not Immortal\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Lin Yi Mu, who really seems to have come back and changed from going up against Bai Hao Yu to supporting him, explains that despite it being the case, it\u2019s not the first time they\u2019ve interviewed someone whilst in the middle of a scandal. He implies that they have their own style which they can employ to appeal to their audience without appearing like a gossip magazine.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nLin Hu Sheng\u2019s input about the magazine\u2019s doom if they fail to get Taylor Yang and Meili\u2019s remark about inviting Taylor Yang being harder than inviting the Lai Mu Sisters starts up a short period of Bai Hao Yu and Lin Yi Mu completing each other\u2019s sentences. Bai Hao Yu remarks that it is because Taylor Yang is difficult to secure she of value. If she was able to be interviewed by anyone… (this is where Lin Yi Mu completes Bai Hao Yu\u2019s sentence) then it wouldn\u2019t carry the meaning of it being an exclusive interview. Bai Hao Yu continues again, saying that because there is such a high degree of interest in her that if they can be the first to interview her, then… (Lin Yi Mu completes Bai Hao Yu\u2019s sentence here) we\u2019d be able to take hold of the Number 1 crown.<\/p>\n
Lin Yi Mu moves to encourage the team to put everything they have into getting Taylor Yang. He tells them they needn\u2019t worry about whether they\u2019d be able to get the guest in (because that\u2019s Zhu Ying and Bai Hao Yu\u2019s job to make that work) nor how they come off when they get Taylor Yang (because that\u2019s his and Lin Hao\u2018s job).<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nEveryone on board, Bai Hao Yu has everyone get cracking on the plan. As he speaks, blood starts trickling down his nose. Li Hui Zhen was about to go to him, but Lin Hao and Lin Hu Sheng makes it to his side before she does and starts fussing over him. Lin Hao has Bai Hao Yu to tilt his head up whilst Lin Hu Sheng has Bai Hao Yu bow his head.<\/p>\n
Tilt up, bow down, tilt up, bow down Bai Hao Yu keeps being told. Bai Hao Yu is extremely compliant with the conflicting instructions. It\u2019s surprising he lets the two raise and lower his head not only repeatedly, but in the end, he simply tells them to forget about it in a calm tone before walking away, blaming the heat for the bleeding nose. (The calm reaction might be because that between the two is the CEO\u2019s son. It\u2019d look wrong to see Bai Hao Yu scold the CEO\u2019s son, regardless of whether he knew or didn\u2019t know who he was.)<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nSeeing Bai Hao Yu\u2019s nose bleed has Li Hui Zhen worried, but with Li Hui Zhen wanting to wait till Xia Qiao gets used to the situation regarding Bai Hao Yu, she only worries about him from afar. The whole time she\u2019s at her desk she is filled with so much concern her screen is filled with gibberish as her fingers type up random letters whilst her gaze is directed towards Bai Hao Yu\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
Li Hui Zhen:<\/p>\n
\u201cDeputy Editor in Chief, honeysuckle tea is very effective in treating nose bleeds. What’s more it tastes better than coffee.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
She can\u2019t go to him and openly show concern. So, she sends him a cup of honeysuckle tea to treat his nosebleed, and finds out how he\u2019s doing whilst in his office to hand him a file.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nLater in the day, Li Hui Zhen tries to give Bai Hao Yu some peace and quiet after noticing he\u2019s gotten so tired he\u2019s fallen asleep at his desk. The rest of the team doesn\u2019t notice, and goes about discussing colour themes for their spreads in their usual way. Li Hui Zhen tries to quieten them down, but fails as they ignore her suggestion to talk quieter. So, she encourages them to head out to lunch by offering to shout them all. That has them leaving the office.<\/p>\n
Eating lunch at a barbecue restaurant, the team sit down to catch up on Ya Ling\u2019s progress in her job hunt. It\u2019s not going too well. Finding a job while Immortal is still operating turns out to be not any easier than looking after it ceases to operate. Rumours of Immortal being sold have been going around apparently. Lulu (an Immortal team member) suspects hiring managers are questioning her loyalty to Immortal. It doesn\u2019t look good leaving a company amidst its troubles.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBack over on Li Hui Zhen\u2019s side, Lin Yi Mu drags her out to a caf\u00e9 where they\u2019re mistaken by the caf\u00e9 staff as being a couple. Li Hui Zhen corrects the caf\u00e9 staff and tells her she\u2019s not his girlfriend. Lin Yi Mu corrects the caf\u00e9 staff, too, saying she\u2019s got it wrong: she\u2019s not his girlfriend but his wife. That gets Lin Yi Mu a glare from Li Hui Zhen. Lin Yi Mu glares right back. It\u2019s hard to tell what he might be saying to her through the glare, but it has Li Hui Zhen let it slide. His suggestion for her to go choose a cake next feels like he\u2019s making some kind of reference to her and Bai Hao Yu being together, which might have allowed Lin Yi Mu to carry on this husband-wife act without much noise from Li Hui Zhen. She also knows how much he likes joking around and there\u2019s also Lin Yi Mu\u2019s first day back after having left because of her rejection.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nLi Hui Zhen returns home later in the evening to be greeted by her little sister and Xia Qiao. While Xia Qiao\u2019s still free from not having gotten a job yet, Li Hui Lin thought to take advantage of it and see her. The visit sees Li Hui Lin and Li Hui Zhen end up in a hair-pulling, cheek-pinching fight because Li Hui Lin wouldn\u2019t stop talking about Bai Hao Yu. Li Hui Lin can\u2019t understand how Li Hui Zhen would consider rejecting someone as handsome, as tall and as successful as Bai Hao Yu. He doesn\u2019t look down on her, either. She, of course, doesn\u2019t know the answer to all of that is because of Xia Qiao, the very person she is saying all of this to.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nXia Qiao\u2019s still showing some sadness (even Li Hui Lin noticed it when she met up with Xia Qiao outside the apartment). However, Li Hui Zhen\u2019s obvious attempt to stop Li Hui Lin on her account actually makes her smile, suggesting that Xia Qiao\u2019s not in as bad of a state as Li Hui Zhen thinks.<\/p>\n
Xia Qiao:<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery minute, every second he is waiting for you is torture for him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBelieve in me. I’m really okay now. As long as you’re happy, only then will I truly be happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Later in the night, Xia Qiao tells Li Hui Zhen to go to Bai Hao Yu. Xia Qiao tells her that she knows Li Hui Zhen misses Bai Hao Yu a lot and to not worry so much about her because she\u2019s fine. Even if that isn\u2019t 100% true (if we were to go buy the sadness that Li Hui Lin saw), seeing Li Hui Zhen happy is what will truly make her happy in the end. She had offered to leave Li Hui Zhen and join her mother in France if that\u2019s what would make Li Hui Zhen take a step towards Bai Hao Yu, too, to show Li Hui Zhen how serious she was. Xia Qiao believes that as long as she is with Li Hui Zhen, Li Hui Zhen would continue to hesitate out of worry for Xia Qiao\u2019s feelings.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nXia Qiao\u2019s words has Li Hui Zhen pondering what she should do. Xia Qiao\u2019s on one end of her concerns; Bai Hao Yu is on the other. In the end, she seems to have decided that she was going to trust Xia Qiao\u2019s words about being fine and go to Bai Hao Yu.<\/p>\n
The morning sees Li Hui Zhen appearing like she\u2019s wanting to speak to Bai Hao Yu. Her gaze wonders to his office then snaps towards the sliding door when she makes her way into Immortal. Bai Hao Yu is uncharacteristically late. Normally she\u2019d already be greeting him at the building entrance and they\u2019d go up the elevator together to head in to the office together.<\/p>\n
Bai Hao Yu is nowhere to be seen, though. The reason, his day is fully booked with meetings which take place outside the office. Even before she arrived into the office, Bai Hao Yu was already going to a meeting. With the out-of-office meetings continuing throughout the working day, Li Hui Zhen finds herself taking every opportunity she gets to try catch him between meetings. Hearing that he\u2019s finished his first meeting had finished and was on his way to the next has her sneak out to try flag him down before leaving the building with a colleague. He doesn\u2019t hear her call unfortunately. A mention that Bai Hao Yu was in a meeting at the caf\u00e9 Lin Hu Sheng had gotten the coffee from has Li Hui Zhen put up her hand to help Lin Hu Sheng return a coffee Lulu didn\u2019t want because it had sugar.<\/p>\n
Li Hui Zhen is still listening in on conversations mentioning Bai Hao Yu following her trip to the caf\u00e8, suggesting she didn\u2019t end up catching him.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe end of the workday arrives, Li Hui Zhen still hasn\u2019t managed to see Bai Hao Yu. According to a phone conversation between Bai Hao Yu and Zhu Ying earlier in the day, a business trip will be keeping him back until after 6:30pm. Despite his late return, it looks like Li Hui Zhen might be heading off to see him anyway.<\/p>\n
The last scene of the episode sees Li Hui Zhen stumbling across some of the sketches Bai Hao Yu did during their business trip together (Episode 18). When they left town to capture whatever caught their eye for their photo shoot, Li Hui Zhen looks to have caught Bai Hao Yu\u2019s eye. He had drawn a number of sketches of her throughout that trip: her walking with her backpack on, her staring up into the sky and her eating ice cream. He had drawn one more which might have been drawn after the trip: this sketch was of a photo they took together just before they returned.<\/p>\n
Tears well up in Li Hui Zhen\u2019s eyes as she flips through the sketches of her. She seems conflicted. A brief moment pass before Li Hui Zhen walks out of his office with his sketch book in her hand.<\/p>\n
Comments<\/h2>\n
And this is where Episode 33 ends. Some of our favourite developments were in this one: the part where Lin Yi Mu and Bai Hao Yu are thinking alike, and seeing the time Bai Hao Yu found himself captivated by Li Hui Zhen. As isolated scenes, we think they\u2019re pretty cool. We like that Lin Yi Mu puts his feelings aside and personally goes to Bai Hao Yu\u2019s apartment to give him the news he\u2019s returning to Immortal. We think Bai Hao Yu\u2019s sketches show an even deeper attraction to Li Hui Zhen than the original. But, fit these scenes back into the drama, they don\u2019t have quite the same impact as the original.<\/p>\n
The Bai Hao Yu and Li Hui Zhen pairing still doesn\u2019t connect with us. The part where Lin Yi Mu complete Bai Hao Yu\u2019s sentences came off so unnatural, unlike in She Was Pretty. We\u2019re not sure why, though. Maybe it was the dialogue, the contrast between Bai Hao Yu\u2019s colourless intonation and Lin Yi Mu\u2019s more expressive speech, of how there just isn\u2019t the same kind of closeness between Bai Hao Yu and Lin Yi Mu as Ji Sung Joon and Kim Shin Hyuk.<\/p>\n
We shall see what the next episode brings. We\u2019ll continue holding onto the hope that in the last section of the drama, it builds some kind of chemistry between the lead couple. If there was a place this remake can put their own flavour in and improve on the original, it could possibly be here.<\/p>\n