Just finished watching episode 7 of Summer's Desire. Still good but a little draggy with all the flashback recaps. It's a little overdone for my taste. Half the episode today was all about flashback which was already accounted so clearly in the previous episodes, thus making the whole scene redundant.
Ep 7 Summary and Review
Summary
The theme for ep 7 was to emphasise on Xiamo approaching Ou Chen to stop making things difficult for Luoxi.
Ou Chen claimed he recalled everything he did 5 years ago (also with help after bumping into and the conversation he had with the ex-driver who was assigned to Xiamo backthen).
Xiamo's intention in meeting him was to ask Ou Chen to lay off making things difficult for Luoxi (in terms of work). She said that she understand Ou chen too well that he wasnt really out to stall Luoxi's career since he could have done it more subtly as he had helped her previously (refering to the slappin video leak incident). So she understood the whole intention of this publised stunt of removing Luoxi as the lead actor was to lure Xiamo out to beg Ou chen to stop making things difficult for Luoxi. She told Ou chen to stop and that Luoxi has nothing to do with their estrangled relationship but Ou chen would hear nothing of it. Instead, he only wanted to know if Luoxi really means that much to Xiamo, enuff to make her beg him.
The flashback then showed us what Xiamo had cruelly said to Ou Chen after her parents died in the crash. She told him then with a cruel smile that she had never like him and was together with him only to keep her stepfatehr's job. However, Ou Chen destroyed the only happiness she had and so she never ever want to see him again. Ou Chen kneeled down to beg her forgiveness and promised to change and stop being so posseisive but Xiamo turned her back and said that unless he die, she wont forgive him.
The flashback rewind a little too much which borders on being too repetitive here.
Then we are brought back to present day where Ou Chen asked Xiamo again if she really had never liked him, and she replied "No, she never liked him." However she did try to clarify that the stuff about what she said 5 years ago about liking Luoxi from the first day she met him was a lie just to spite Ou chen as she was emotionally upset and blamed him for her foster parents death. (At this moment, I still couldnt tell if she said "No" because she wanted a clean break from the past, or because she had promised Simon the guardian she will have nothing to do with Ou Chen, or she said no because she wanted to spare Luoxi's insecurity, or was it really No No... she really never liked Ou Chen? Personally, I much prefer to think that she did like Ou chen before he caused the death of her foster parents. )
The episode then went back to the past again and also revealed that Ou Chen's birth mother couldnt live with the fact that she was torn apart by the man she loved (or rather the man wasnt with her and her father told her he doesnt suit her and he isnt coming back for her) and in grief, she muttered sorry to baby ou chen for never gonna be there for him and decided to drown herself.
Because Baby Ou chen stop crying and laughing, simon suggested a "new life" for the baby and so Ou Chen's grandfather arranged for a pair of fake parents to care for Ou Chen, erasing the truth behind the death of his mum and any link to the biological father. However, the grandfather prewarned Simon while leaving Ou Chen in his care that his biggest concern is that Ou Chen should not fall into the same trap as his biological mother - to be all overly consummed by passion losing their way. Well, too bad grandpop, Ou Chen strayed into the same path as his mum.
Imagine, the whole episode only accounted this little much. A little disappointing eh.
Perhaps they could spare the audience a little flashback, and a little more insight into the personality and emotional struggle of the characters... So far, everything is alittle too superficial for me. The story has good premise, it just need to be more forward looking and less backward recaps. We are already into episode 8 and it's a little tiring with the slow jog to no where. Everytime I see a light at the end of the tunnel, I',m being sucked back to the past. Hopefully this will stop soon by epi 8 and focus more on the "fight" between the guys.
Summer's Desire synopsis for episode 8
Luoxi started to feel doubt about his successful reintate for his movie role was due to Xiamo intervention. He wanted to know what did Xiamo agree to Ou chen in exchange. Despite Xiamo;s insistence that she didnt beg Ou Chen in exchange for Luoxi's comeback, Luoxi's insecurity already started to invade his heart and cause a wedge between the two love birds. Luoxi unable to contain his own security decided to back out of the movie.
Meanwhile Xiaochen has been hiding his illness condition and finally collapse! His kidneyis failing and shows possibly unable to live past 3 months unless he gets a succesful transplant. Problem is, Xiachen is of special blood type ( or something) . After country search, Xiamo discovered that only Ou chen was a compatible match! She went to beg Ou chen to save her brother but Ou chen refused as he wanted to inflict pain on xiamo in revenge for her rejecting his previous apologies. Knowing that Xiamo only truly love Xiaochen unconditionally, Ou chen know by denying Xiaomo the very thing she need to save Xiaochen would send her to agree to anything.
At the same time, Luoxi was embroiled in a scandal with another actress/singer in the media while gossip was rife that Xiamo was trying to "hook" Ou Chen.
Hopefully it wont be too melodramatic but I see a potential going downhill....sigh
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