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emothy-Subverted in perhaps the best way EVER; a son giving his drunken mother a piggyback ride home!
This scene is from episode three: Zhi Kai breaks off his engagement because his rich fiancee refuses to accept his poor family, assuming the two of them will just cut his mother and brothers out of their lives once they're married. Zhi Kai's mum has not been the best of mothers and Zhi Kai has had to bring himself and his three younger brothers up, but her intent is to see all her boys married off to rich wives purely so that they can live in a way she believes will be happily and securely, unlike she has in her life (which is supposed how she has failed her family). When she discovers this lucrative engagement is off, she gets pissed off, and very drunk!
Zhi Kai gets a call, and ends up giving his drunken, useless mother a piggyback ride home and assures her in his usual stand-offish way that she may have been a lousy mother (nobody is under any illusions about that!), but she's his lousy mother (who may not be able to do the practical things, but is so full of amazing love for her boys), and he loves her and his whole family dearly and that's why he couldn't accept the conditions his fiancee set down <3 The subs don't really express the sentiment accurately, but the closeness of this family permeates every scene of this drama so it's so easy to pick up once you've watched for a little while. I think this scene probably won my entire heart and then handed it over to the drama.
This scene is from episode three: Zhi Kai breaks off his engagement because his rich fiancee refuses to accept his poor family, assuming the two of them will just cut his mother and brothers out of their lives once they're married. Zhi Kai's mum has not been the best of mothers and Zhi Kai has had to bring himself and his three younger brothers up, but her intent is to see all her boys married off to rich wives purely so that they can live in a way she believes will be happily and securely, unlike she has in her life (which is supposed how she has failed her family). When she discovers this lucrative engagement is off, she gets pissed off, and very drunk!
Zhi Kai gets a call, and ends up giving his drunken, useless mother a piggyback ride home and assures her in his usual stand-offish way that she may have been a lousy mother (nobody is under any illusions about that!), but she's his lousy mother (who may not be able to do the practical things, but is so full of amazing love for her boys), and he loves her and his whole family dearly and that's why he couldn't accept the conditions his fiancee set down <3 The subs don't really express the sentiment accurately, but the closeness of this family permeates every scene of this drama so it's so easy to pick up once you've watched for a little while. I think this scene probably won my entire heart and then handed it over to the drama.