mangoapricot:
This is gonna be unpopular opinion but the girl really annoyed me up until she gave up. Sure, they're sweet now, but so many times, she crossed the line he set. She snoops and looks at a video that had him and his ex gf? She couldn't get him to like her so she goes to his grandma first? Testing how he feels about her by calling him to tell him that she's been hurt, just to prove to his ex that he cares about her? All of these are very manipulative things that she did.
I agree with John Smith. She was not manipulative, Ive seen their scenes many times and had watched many dramas and in no way she was manipulative. She called him not to prove to his ex that he cares for her because on this episode she was already rejected. She called because she wanted to help Wen Rang face his ex and to tell her that He already moved on.
She can be intrusive but he welcomed every bit of it because he was already attracted to her first before hhe even realized he liked her. That was in the Ep 4 when they were talking and she took a curious interest in his book, that was when he started to be attracted to her because the book is a representation of himself.
With her going to his mum, that can be a little too much but she asked advised how to win his heart and that was the advised that she got after Wen Shaoqing warned her that everyone who tried chasing him,gave up so she better give up too, which she refuses because she knows that he is a wonderful guy. I dont think that's manipulative.
Some people go to their person of interest's friends, she went to the mum because wen rang obviously withdrew from the world since he was heartbroken so basically he only have his nephew and family.
She didnt intentionally watched the video, she shouldt have had, but when you look at how wen rang reacted he didnt actually got mad but rather welcomed her inquiry about it.
I saw one blog explaining how they match and how cheng cheng's character suits him. He had his issues for a long time and basically was alone and withdrawn from the world that he literally needs someone as intrusive as chengcheng to bring him back to the world. When others gave up she didnt but still she knew her limit.
She can be put in the typical female chases male lead but in their case it works because she didnt start to fall until he started caring more. She chased but it was dignified, it wasnt blindly chasing and she was able to get him out from his own cage of misery that he has been living for a long time