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Welcome to the tenth discussion post for Born With Luck. Well, actually the eleventh if you count the Express post.

Please remember to tag spoilers if you talk about episodes beyond this post.

I have finished BWL and will post full recaps for 22-24 on the respective normal air dates for any non express viewers.

Snark Level: The shit is starting to hit the fan... instead of exploding up from the sewers.

Episode 21

Mao and Gang are walking their money back to the junkyard when they meet a knife wielding Du Cong, who is the worlds slowest runner. They engage is a silly ass childish standoff.

Uncle Fei claims he is calling out for a pill instead of saying the name Huo Zheng. How lovely that he has pills with a similar name. Our "cenSUS' takers, AKA Police, leave but are not fooled. They make an offscreen report to their superiors. Fei and Co pack and leave.

Well, a car accident causes a traffic jam that jams up criminals and cops alike. When Zhang starts pointing and waving his arms at the mess, Chubby and Scrawny think he is coming for them so they bolt. The chase is on and they are caught! Also looks like the other bells are recovered too.  Huo and Uncle Fei slip away.

Mao and Gang end the standoff by fake snoring Du Cong to sleep. 

Turns out he was awake.

Mao and Gang go to a secret hideout and call Li Penggai over to ask him to help them leave town. They hand him 20k, claiming they sold their blood to get it. Obviously he is suspicious considering Rong lost money recently. A full confession is made. Penggai takes the suitcase to his car and calls Jianren.

Did you follow that?

Penggai, while threatening Mao and Gang, trips and knocks himself out. Du Cong steals Penggai's money filled car.

Our hardened criminals are trying to figure out what is on Bowen's phone.

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They think there is a sex tape of him with an older woman and that is how he became powerful. I mean, that is a good guess though it's wrong as heck. They call up Rong to blackmail 20 million from him.

GASP!!!! In a scene too horrific for me to GIF and terrorize you all with... Rong, in blackmail fueled anger, rips a book in half!!! Guys, I need to take moment here. 

A moment of silence for our fallen book. Please pour one out. 

Trying to figure out what in the hecking pecking is going on, Jianren calls Li Penggai. Problem is that Penggai is still unconscious and his phone was left in the car that Du Cong stole. Cong, stunned by the money, accidentally answers the phone to listen to a raging Jianren. Now Jianren is smart. He quickly realizes that Penggai is not on the other line and threatens "Don't hurt my friend. I will find you".

Mao and Gang are trying to hitchhike out of town. Guess who comes along?

Talk about being Born With Luck.

We get an arrest and a smiling Li Qian all in one!

Huo Zheng and Uncle Fei take shelter from the rain in an old building and plan to call Rong and do the deal tomorrow. Fei believes that the only reason the police know Huo's name is that Jianren must have snitched. "Tomorrows trade isn't for money. It's to take his life." The call is made and the time is set.

Zhang reads the transcript of the Mao/Gang interrogations and learns they had nothing to do with the Rong case or Liu Bei's death. They are just a couple of bumbling unlucky guys. See? Li Qian was always right. Duh.  He sends Song and Li Qian to find Li Penggai, who has already awoken and left.

The time is now midnight and they have 12 hours left on the deadline. Gao calls for an update and Zhang gives him the rundown. Li Qian tells Gao that she and Song had acted without authorization which is why Chao and Zhi had escaped. Zhang is feeling confident, remembering seeing Yibo leave the station earlier with Jianren, and tells Gao that they will meet the noon deadline. 

Zhang gathers the gaggle and, with great fanfare of lights and sirens, go to see Lang Bowen at the hospital.

Roll credits!

Here is our safe space to talk about the express episodes for Born With Luck. My plan is to have all episodes reviewed tomorrow and post the appropriate episode recap on the day it would regularly air, 1 ep May 17th - 19th.

I will start engaging with comments in this post after I have finished the show myself.

Why, you might ask, would I still recap the episodes even after having an express post? Well, it's simple. This is my first time hosting and I simply must recap/snark every episode. It's a matter of pride for me. Besides, this is a good show.

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Welcome to the ninth discussion post for Born With Luck. 

Please remember to tag spoilers if you talk about episodes beyond this post.

Express is dropping and I will have a post up for that. Then I will follow the release schedule and post discussions for those releases. The headache of trying to match that with Chinas release time is made easier thanks to Googling "Local time in China". This whole time zone thing is messing with my head. Did I mention I have had a lot of brain injuries? 

Snark Level: This was such a GIF-able episode. I couldn't stop myself. I wrote such a lengthy recap too.... I really didn't intend to write such long recaps.

Episode 20 

Well, Song Xing is at a hotel asking if anyone has seen Mao/Gang or the suitcase. In pops the delivery boy from last episode who appears to recognize the suitcase. He doesn't say anything though. Maybe he realizes that you can't identify someone off a suitcase that probably thousands of people have? But he does ponder it further, thinking maybe the masks he found on his van were these two. So, the great Mao/Gang and Chao/Zhi confusion continues.

Zhang is informed by Chief Qi that Director Gao is breathing down their necks about how long the case is taking. He wants all evidence in place by noon the next day to formally open the case into Zhou Rong. 

We are given a brief glance of Li Qian as she sits at her computer. Thank you. 

Now they find out that Rong and Hu Jianren have booked their tickets for Gondwana, leaving at noon. They are trying to flee!

For some reason, Li Qian is still sitting in her chair. Though she does look back over her shoulder. Is that all they like having her do in this show? Cmon! Put some respect on her skills! 

Zhang calls in a favor to hopefully get Rong and Jianren held up at the airport enough for them to find the evidence they need. Slight abuse of power? Yeah. Is it okay? Nah. 

It seems all that computer sitting wasn't for shits and giggles! Qian has photographic proof that Mao and Gang weren't the two maids that robbed Rong! It's a shitty photo that doesn't clearly show the faces... but it's something!

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Well, is the coup real or is this the favor Zhang called in?

Back at the hotel, Lu Yibo is handed the photos of Mao/Gang/Suitcase and told the police are looking for them. He passes this information on to Jianren. Since it's not the two that robbed them of Bowens evidence filled phone, Jianren thinks they can safely stay put.

Li Qian now has the HD version of the photo and confirms to Zhang that our hardened criminals exist and are not Mao and Gang. Zhang instructs that Yibo is brought in. 

When the news is brought in that Rong wasn't able to leave the country, the gaggle of officers act like video game NPCs in their stiff and cheesy cheering. 

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Song Xing tells Li Qian that she can drop the act now because he has caught on to the scheme that she and Zhang created. Qian is perplexed by this. Song explains that Zhang had specifically instructed him to show photos of Mao and Gang at hotels/restaurants, places those two street loafers would never go. This was obviously done so Rong would find out and think the evidence against him was missing and he was safe to stay in town. What do you think? Is Zhang really that smart? Or is he Born With Luck?

The delivery boy calls in the tip about our hardened criminals and the gaggle is in motion. Li Qian and Song Xing arrive first and Song says he should go in first to scope things out. Qian says to wait for the rest to arrive. This feels familiar. Can you guess what Song does? Yup. He goes in. 

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Song covers by saying he's here to book a room with his girlfriend. 

This ought to be interesting.

Well, they trick Song into the room and throw his ass out the window like smelly garbage. He tells Qian over the phone they are running. 

Our girl has a gun now.

Well, our hardened criminals pull a shitty trick to escape. Yup. They pop a firecracker down the shit hole to explode shit up in the air again.

Not this shit again.

Song gets his ass chewed out by Captain Wang. Li Qian reports that this shit is identical to the capital shit. Well, not the shit, exactly... but the explosion. 

But how? I don't understand how a firecracker would be the same as whatever boom boom they put in that clock that clearly had no boom boom! You're telling me they stuffed firecrackers that need a flame inside an airtight clock body? Nah, fam. This math ain't math-ing. But it's a show... so we must suspend our disbelief. Whatever Li Qian says is correct because Li Qian can never be wrong because Li Qian is a perfect angel! :) 

Anyways, in a later conversation between Zhang and Song, Song thinks that Zhang is slyly hinting to him that it was a good thing he let them escape. 

Rong is sandboxing his problems, trying to figure out what the play against him is, when Li Penggai runs in to tattle that Yibo went to the police station this morning. How suspicious looking! 

Fingerprints confirm Red Hair Henchman Huo Zheng is the killer of Liu Bei.

Zhou Qi is at the hospital and is told she may be pregnant! "But how? It's only been a few days?" She's told to go take certain test that can confirm even if it's only a week old pregnancy. Really? Is this a thing? I Googled it. A beta-hcg test can confirm within 6-10 days of conception! Cool! Sometimes I feel like I learn more about medicine watching CDramas then I did in my classes. Ha! Only slightly joking. 

Zhang decides to let Yibo leave without ever talking to him and watches him get into a van driven by Jianren. Qi calls him to share the good news of her pregnancy. He tells her they will talk later since he is in Jianrens car, off to see Rong. Qi senses something is wRong here. 

Yibo is serious about his innocence.

"If he's still alive after 3 minutes, pull him out". Boy, Rong sure is a nice guy. He further says that if Yibo surfaces in under 3 minutes then it is up to Jianren to decide what to do.

Qi runs into the room and declares that all 3 of them shall die together before wading into the pool to join Yibo. "Why did she say 3?" 

Rong is intelligent and I love that about him.

Rong is flabbergasted and questions how this is possible since Yibo had previously told him that he couldn't "get it up". Yibo says he finally managed to after that meeting.

I'll let this speak for itself.

Rong decides to trust Yibo, but he does tell him to maybe check the math on the dates in regards to the pregnancy. Someone needs to do a Google search like I did. 

Yibo and Qi walk out of the villa with two maids following with mops to clean up their constant dripping. 

Li Qian now has fingerprint proof of our hardened criminals for bombing the shit in the Capital. The gaggle cheer like NPCs again.

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Captain Wang thumbs Zhang, but Zhang knows who really needs to get thumbed around here.

I will use this a lot.

Captain Wang decides to up the anti and double thumb Zhang.

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Song Xing walks back in and is greeted by the gaggle giggling. He puffs his chest and says everyone will soon know how much he and Zhang have contributed to this case. "The Chief had me let them go on purpose so we can catch them for real when the make the deal with Rong". Captain Wang asks if this is true or if he is spouting nonsense. Song says that Zhang "explicitly hinted it to him". Captain Wang asks who else Song has told this to.

 

Well, that news reaches Director Gao while he is on a video call with Zhang. To say there was an ass chewing is an understatement. Zhang is surprised and has no idea where this is all coming form. Captain Wang urgently tells Zhang to tell the truth and sacrifice Song so Zhang isn't disciplined and can still close the case. Chief Qi tells Zhang to pin the blame on himself. 

Zhang decides to fall on his own saber and informs Director Gao that as the Deputy Chief in Charge of the task force, he is responsible for all actions in the case. Chief Qi backs him up and states that as station Chief all responsibility must be shared by him. I do admire them for standing up for their subordinates. Director Gao threatens them with punishment if they don't solve the case by Noon the next day. 

Zhang puts on his lucky shoes. All will be well.

Two Subdistrict workers come to Uncle Fei's house for a census check. Emphasis on cenSUS. They check IDs looking for Huo Zheng, Mao, Gang, Chao, and Zhi. This is right as Huo Zheng is walking back. Seeing him, Uncle Fei yells his name.

Roll Credits!

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Welcome to the eighth discussion post for Born With Luck. 

Please remember to tag spoilers if you talk about episodes beyond this post.

Trigger warning: There is a dead body in this post. He stares.

I'm happy to say I can look at him without my PTSD triggering. All my triggers are smell related. This is a no judgement zone. We support mental health around here.

Snark Level: PUT SOME RESPECT ON LI QIAN!!!

Episode 18

Well, our taxi drivers, Mao and Gang, are having a bad day made worse by the appearances of Du Cong and Li Penggai at the junkyard. Penggai is feeling extra dickish today and extorts 120k for the 30k repairs. 

Red Haired Henchman Huo Zheng is tracking down Liu Bei, who ditches the now bell-less suitcase in his escape attempt. That doesn't help him as Zheng treats him to a neck smile via a knife. Dead. Zheng calls the last number dialed on Liu's phone, Rongcheng. 

Jianren spots Du Cong still hiding in the newly repaired and returned car. Cong says he was hiding after being followed. This heightens the paranoia of Jianren who is probably heading for a mental breakdown at some point. However, he still has some brains left. He has Cong drive away in his own vehicle in an obvious attempt to sus out any pursuers. 

Li Qian, still holding her sore neck, finds surveillance footage of Liu Bei parking his van and wheeling his suitcase into the temple. The very temple where Huo still is cleaning the murder scene. Just when you think he's about to meet the police, a certain taxi rolls up. Yup. That taxi. Huo manages to load his very heavy suitcase into the taxi before Mao drives off with it. This is when the police finally show up. 

Li Qian notices a suspicious bulge of dirt and remembers to put gloves on first before touching it. Gasp. She touches the dirt and finds blood! Obviously the next step is to go inside the temple. 

Mao and Gang have a small spot of luck when opening the suitcase the bell shifts and breaks the tracker that Huo is currently using to track their asses down. That luck quickly fades when they see what is in the bag...

Yeah. A dead body will do that to you.

Well, this distraction almost causes them to have a head on collision with Du Cong who sadly has his third accident... Car meets tree! This man can't catch a break! Or a brake! Ha ha ha ha! Yeah he is going to need a buttload of money to fix Jianren's car now... Who actually believes in Du's innocence since it confirms his theory that someone is after him. 

Back at the Temple, Song Xing is jumping to conclusions that Liu Bei is a murder. Zhang is poking holes in his theories faster than a cheetah can sprint. He is now informed about Lang Bowen getting his ass beat.

Hey, guys! I am going to finally say something diabolical that I have been holding in for most of the show.... Li Qian is channeling Ran Fang Xu by always carrying a bag with her. 

At the hospital, Bowen confesses to Zhang and Qian that he got beat up... but acts all pitiful and "can't remember" how many people there were. 

Zhang is clearly sympathetic.

Bowen does tell them to check the security camera since Yibo would care about this... but as we remember, Rong had told Yibo to erase the footage.

It seems they already had checked.

Yibo claims an upgrade had all cameras offline for 2 hours. Cute. 

Wanna know what isn't cute? Uncle Fei is getting ready to chop up Liu's body. The very body that is missing. Uncle Fei decides to go with the blow. Haha, get it? Because he said to let the wind blow? Ha ha? 

Speaking of that missing security footage, Jianren combed it like his hair and confirms with Rong that the two men who beat Bowen are the same two "maids" that robbed his million dollars! Rong further deduces that they must be after the Bowens phone password. Add in the whole Du Cong car accident from last night and you have a whole conspiracy! Of course, he still thinks Uncle Fei is the mastermind here. 

This makes me uncomfortable.

Exactly what you want your boss to walk in and see! "Doctor" Bowen says that watching this helps his boner bone crack heal because it improves blood circulation. Sure, sweetie. 

"Who has such a big mouth?" Zhang has to ask after coming off a phone call. It seems Li Qian getting hurt at Rong's villa has made it back to Director Gao. This guy really seems to care a lot about Qian. Heck, wouldn't it be hilarious if it turned out he was her father? I'm hoping it's something like that and/or this is what Gao would do for anyone under his charge regardless of gender. Sorry, I'm a wee bit jaded. I've seen over 120+ CDramas. 

Well, shit. Rong tells Lang Botu about the house robbery and what the phone contains. C'mon, bro! Stay out of this mess!  You have a bright future ahead of you! "But now his leg is injured. What should we do now?" Motherfucker... 

This show is clearly sponsored by that nut bag that Song, and now Bowen, are eating from. 

Lang Botu clearly wants to involve himself to find the phone and save his brother. Bowen tells him not to meddle. Yeah, you just know he is going to meddle. Especially since the end credit song is now kind of haunting and sorrowful. It's actually kind of catchy. I think I will listen to it. Does this tone change mean that the show is about to get a little more dark and emotional as we enter the final stretch of episodes? 

WHY THE FUCK AM I GET ADS? NOW I WANT MCDONALDS. DAMN IT TO FUCKING HELL!

Episode 19

Du Cong is realistic about his size and ability

Du Cong hides in bushes to bow goodbye to his parents and then, for reasons unknown, tosses a bike into the water. Yeah, that bike belongs to Fang Yong. Poor guy.

Well, at the police station, the medical examiner confirms the blood that Li Qian fingered was human. Zhang assigns Qian temporarily to assist with combing through security footage for clues. To say that she is less than pleased with this is an understatement. Captain Wang decides to make it worse by saying "You're a girl. Zhang had no choice." Qian quips that Zhang clearly caved under pressure. I assume that pressure comes from Director Gao who is probably pissed that Qian keeps getting hurt while Zhang is supposed to be teaching her. Qian doesn't take this laying down. She continues to poke at Zhang, making him back up every statement he makes with facts and evidence. My lady! She is pissed! Pop off, Queen!

Zhang is pretty close to the real events with his theories, but believes it is Mao and Gang who robbed Rong. Qian begs to differ.

Damn right, love! Don't let these men walk on you!

Zhang, to his credit, doesn't discount Qian saying that she thinks it was two different people who robbed Rong. Song announces that they have just identified the two taxi criminals as Mao and Gang. The gaggle, minus Li Qian, vroom vroom off. 

Those two are at the junkyard, staring at the suitcase and body. They drive away before the police arrive. Finding out that they had just missed them by half an hour, they drive away to start searching just as Li Qian pulls up. Not one for sitting around the office, she is here to interview the neighbors. A group of women tell her that they would never hang their underwear outside to dry because it would be stolen. Ahhh.... Uhhhhhhh.... That is a little too close to another on air detective show... I AM NOT OVER THAT SHIT, OKAY??? THAT WAS FUCKED UP AND I AM STILL PISSED OFF!!!! 

Back to our hardened criminals. They are flush with their cash, fake IDs, and a suitcase of womanly attire. Clearly they are up to something.

I dunno, man. Love is fleeting. CDramas are forever.

I am actually really surprised we got such a clear shot of those fake boobs. Nipples and all! What in the short drama am I watching? What's next? We see a woman baring ankles? Gasp! A shoulder??? 

Our two hardened criminals, now disguised as a blind man and an old woman, walk out the hotel and the police didn't even recognize them! They did bump into a delivery boy though who gave them questioning looks.

Mao and Gang run out of fuel in their taxi. So poor Gang has to push it 800 meters to a fuel station while Mao stays inside the car since "safety reasons requires both hands on the wheel". This is how you know he is an amateur driver.  Guess who is also at this fuel station? A blind man and an old woman! 

So here is what happens. Blind Man is pissed that the station doesn't take US dollars so he storms in to confront the clerk. "This is China. We don't take US dollars". Well, not with that attitude... Sheesh! Old woman follows him, leaving their freshly fueled vehicle unlocked with the key inside. Mao and Gong, who have almost no money to buy their own fuel despite asking for 200 yuan worth of fuel, steal this fancy ass Land Rover. Old Woman and Blind Man chase after the car, but obviously can't catch up. So they steal the taxi which had just been fueled. The chase is on for real now! 

Mao and Gang notice an identical suitcase in the Land Rover and think it's their with the body inside. They must be haunted! Blind Man and Old Woman, after realizing they are back in this POS car again, notice their own identical suitcase. "The contents are different". Yeah, no shit. Instead of a million dollars, you have a body! Mao and Gang are obviously quite happy to see what their suitcase has. 

Let me guess. This is where they will be caught by the police and it will look like Qian was wrong about it being two separate duos? Rude.  Or not! Seeing a checkpoint, our hardened criminals ditch the taxi and leave on foot. 

The taxi and body is quickly found by Zhang and the gaggle. Progress!

Huo Zheng is in the mood to fight Rong over the missing bell. Uncle Fei side eyes all the weapons and instead says they will fight Rong with a phone. His plan is that since Rong clearly wants all the bells, he must be waiting for a call from them. Tell him the deal is off and wait for the price to shoot sky high! 

So, when Du Cong tossed Fangs bike into the water, we all thought that Fang would just buy another used bike, right? We were wrong! Fang bought an electric bike! An electric bike that quickly runs out of juice, so it's back to having to pedal with his feet. Like a peasant! He gets a text message from Chief Huang who informs him to "Get ready for a study session at the Party School in a few days." My brain is sus of that text. Fang calls Rong, canceling the bell deal. 

Rong decides it's time to fuck off to his little island in Gondwana and stop taking his medication. Jianren announces to Rong that he has learned English for just this day, but is deflated to learn that people in Gondwana don't speak English!

Our two hardened criminals check into a little hotel and run into the delivery boy they bumped into earlier leaving the other hotel. Poor boy is scared out of his mind to find two fake skin face masks stuck to his van. Can you guess who left them there? Yup. Those two hardened criminals.

Me waiting for new episodes

Captain Wang still has a bug up his butt over Li Qian and continues to fail in recognizing her worth. To his credit, he does hand the report she made over to Zhang. Qian follows him in and reiterates to Zhang that she doesn't believe Mao and Gang are the murderers they seek. Zhang doesn't fully agree with her theory since Li Penggai only spent a year with those two before becoming head of security for Rong. However, he keeps an open mind and agrees that their scope of investigation needs to widen, especially on the suitcase that keeps popping up.

Li Qian confronts Captain Wang about the unfair treatment she has been receiving and asks if Director Gao is ordering her to be kept safe and off the front line. Wang denies it and says this was what Zhang told everyone to keep her safe. Wang, finally saying something right for once, further tells her that she is brilliant and should focus her brain on cases. DUH!!!! That's what I've been saying!

The episode ends on Li Qian smiling! Be still my beating heart. End credits roll and we are back to our happy and upbeat ending music.

We are closing in on the final stretch of episodes. Anyone have theories? This all feels like it will be wrapped up nicely with a cute little bow on top. Maybe we can get another smile from Li Qian? Pretty please?

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Welcome to the seventh discussion post for Born With Luck. 

Please remember to tag spoilers if you talk about episodes beyond this post.

Snark Level: Li Qian got her ass kicked. Li Qian kicked some ass.

Episode 16

Hey, remember that stick that Huo Zheng tossed down the hole? Well, our hardened criminals have taken that and used their clothes to create a shitty grappling hook. Will this get them out of the hole? More importantly... Nice boxers, my dudes!

Song Xing seems to be the only one concerned about the whereabouts of Li Qian, who is still busy getting trucked into the Rong villa. I wonder if she will find any criminals that are "holed up" over there. But hey, surely she will have some backup soon? Probably just in time for her to get her ass chewed out again. She manages to get out of the truck and hides behind a pillar. Honey... How no one saw you is a mystery. I stand corrected. She was seen. She plays the "I'm a guest card" and is brought to Rong. So, which will be stronger? Rong's intuition or his horniness? 

Men are suckers for a beautiful woman.

Rong invites her to wait for him in another room. She's in! Rong can't help himself and looks after her as she walks by while Jianren has that smug "I'm gonna get the boss laid" grin on his fuck ass face. Manners, gentlemen. Manners.

Speaking objectively as a man I can tell you that we can absolutely be thrown off our mind when a beautiful woman walks by. I have tripped over flat surfaces and slammed car trunks on my head because I was distracted by a gorgeous woman.

This grumpy faced "Mr. Zhu", AKA Scrawny, rolls up and snubs a handshake with Rong because he clearly has a stick up his butt. Why? Because Red Haired Henchman Who Throws Sticks Down Holes, Huo Zheng, pops out of the car and introduces himself as  Zhu Yifei. Ha. Sure you are. Because you are clearly that old ass man. 

Well, the REAL OLD ASS MAN ZHU YIFEI finally walks up, accompanied by Chubby, and introduces himself as Zhu Yifei.

This geezer is a hoot.

Will the real Zhu Yifei please stand up? Please stand up. Please stand up.

Huo Zheng finds a phone under a table inside the office where they are holding their meeting. Interesting. Could that be the phone Li Penggai mentioned accidentally leaving? 

Li Qian is trying to sneak and spy around but isn't having much luck.

Remember doing this as kids?

Well, Rong is most displeased that Uncle Fei wants to leave first before delivering the bells.

Honey... You had one job!

 Thanks to Li Qian knocking over a lamp we get a full on guns out stand off!!!! ...That suddenly defuses because someone farted and no one wants to claim responsibility??? The fuck? I love this!

He who smelt it, dealt it.

Du Cong is driving Fang Yong over when he gets a call from Li Penggai that a red/yellow taxi with rear bumper damage has been spotted at a repair shop! I sense an incoming ass whooping!

Sir, can you stop crashing?

Meanwhile at the Police Station, Zhang realizes the bells have arrived at the villa because the produce truck has gone there two days in a row. Will anyone wonder where Li Qian is?

Tomb Raider Liu Bei obviously doesn't want the police to be called on this accident so he compensates Du Cong, even though it was Du who hit him. Du feels he should be compensated more and a wee bit of a dust up occurs. Fang pops out and pulls the gentleman card! He says he will pay Liu 5k as compensation as long as he doesn't call the police. Liu gets it upped to 50k. Tut tut tut. Criminals getting played hard because they don't want to involve the law. Classic!

During a scuffle which causes the receipts for the bells falling out, Liu realizes that he is getting seriously underpaid for his part in this scheme so he fucks right off. This means he is leaving Uncle Fei now having to scramble to salvage this deal since Liu is holding one of the bells.

Back to the found phone. Rong is scrambling to find an appropriate charger for it. Someone clearly doesn't have a whole tote of old ass electronics handy like some of us do. Galaxy s3, eh? I think the earliest model Galaxy I had was the S7. Damn good phone. I have stayed with Galaxy since then. S7, Note 3, S21, Fold 4...  Damn I loved my Note 3! But the Fold series is legit! Now if I could get my hands on the Trifold... Back to the show! The phone powers on and the background is Lang Bowen flipping the bird! Gasp! The phone with the Lu murder evidence is still intact! The phone that got smashed was Li Penggai's that had dropped out of his pocket! Since no one saw it there for 6 months, Rong wRongly believes it was brought into the room by Uncle Fei.

Speaking of smashed phones, Li Qian is still in the other room, staring at her own smashed phone. Still no one seems to be missing her. Don't worry, my dear. I miss you every time you're not on screen.

Our hardened criminals, after unknown and countless attempts, finally climb their way out of the hole. You have to hand it to them! They really should go get some food first since they haven't eaten in days... but no! They find the hidden strength within themselves to carry on with breaking into the villa. Will these underwear clad criminals come across our cute cop? Queue the bunny theme song!

She DID see them!

Rong catches Li Qian trying to sneak out and this time is instantly suspicious of her. She plays the "It's all fate" card but that is obviously the weakest argument she could make. 

Our hardened criminals get caught by two maids and they break out the neck chop trope! Ha! I was just thinking that if this were a historical drama then Qian would be neck chopping all the guards in her escape! 

Hang on... I see where this is going... They are going to steal the maid outfits... aren't they?

Rong is interrogating Qian while she continues the act of being interested in him. She gets caught trying to use Bowens phone on the desk to call the police. Rong accuses her of being in cahoots with Du Cong and Zhu Yifei. While attempting to hold him at length with a statue as a weapon, she succumbs to a neck chop herself.

Roll credits! Cliffhanger! That's all, folks!

Episode 17 - - - - - - 

Du can't get any luck.

Well, in surprise to no one, Li Qian was neck chopped by our two hardened criminals who actually are dressed up as the maids they knocked out. I feel bad for those ladies... 

So they get around to robbing Rong, who offers them the one million from Uncle Fei in order to keep Bowens phone. Guess what? They double cross him and still take the phone! I like where this is going.

This is peak comedy.

Zhang and the gaggle arrive at the villa while Li Qian finally wakes up. Li Penggai recognizes her as police and an ass kicking commences!

POP OFF, QUEEN!!!!! SHOW US WHAT YOU HAVE!!!!!

Sadly the fight is interrupted by Zhang and Wang before Qian can fully demolish these guys. Rong rushes out to smooth things over and counters Qian's claim that there was a robbery. Everyone here was invited by him so how can there be a robbery? Not really the best argument, but it's effective. 

In the car ride back, Qian tries to get ahead of the ass chewing she is sure to get by telling the full story of her experiences to Zhang and Wang. Wang starts the ass chewing because she let two armed criminals steal an obviously important phone, but Zhang stops him by reminding him Qian was alone and unarmed. Thank you, Zhang! Stand up for your apprentice! 

Oh dear. Rong calls Bowen to tell him to fix this problem. Hmmm. That's not good since Bowen likes to kill people to fix problems. 

Huo Zheng is busy kicking his subordinate minions since they are missing the one bell that Liu ran away with. Someone get this guy some anger management classes. 

Liu Bei has broken the rules of the game so therefore he must pay the price! Chop him into pieces, says Uncle Fei. Mild gasp of no surprise that Fei has GPS trackers on all the bells so he knows exactly where Liu is right now. 

Li Qian is still suffering from a sore neck at the police station, but she's a big girl and refuses to go to the hospital. What is this? A CDrama first? 

Zhang, Wang, and Chief Qi are reviewing security footage of Qian getting trapped in the food truck. Wang still has a bug up his butt over this and questions Qian on why she didn't call in. She shows her broken phone and is backed up by Song Xing who reminds Wang that Wang had chewed him out for trying to call Qian back after their call had disconnected. Get stuffed, grumpy. 

Zhang has his brain working and connects that Qian is telling the truth since Hu Jianren had rushed back to Rong after they left. After Qian describes the two criminals, Song Xing suggests they might be the same who killed Kai. 

Wang believes their focus should be on the two criminals since they have the phone. Qian disagrees and says they should focus on Liu Bei. Song thinks it should be Lang Bowen. Zhang breaks the tension with a rhetorical question of no importance. Qian explains that since Liu Bei pulled a rabbit with the bell that his life is therefore in danger. Zhang agrees and breaks the fourth wall by staring us viewers right in the eyes. 

I am so...turned on?

Our favorite criminals plan on having a great night out on the town before leaving in the morning. Clearly that is not going to happen since they go the the hotel... Where Bowen is having a raging good party. I do sense shenanigans. 

AND HERE WE GOOOOO!!!! A drunk Bowen stumbles and pukes his way into the VIP room where our two hardened criminals are enjoying themselves... and they recognize him! Well, asking nicely for the phone password didn't work out so we are treated to the most hilarious beat down scene since Pursuit of Jade! Hmm, Tian Xi Wei was also FL there. I sense a theme. 

Rong hears about the beat down, further suspects Zhu Yifei, asks for a gun, and tells Jianren to delete the security footage of it.

Du Cong gets a fixed car back and sneaks it back to the company. 

Liu Bei is trying to figure out how to blackmail Rong and get paid for the bell he has. 

Thoughts:

Hot dog damn wham! I am really enjoying this show! The humor from everyone is spot on and not cringe! This shit is the good shit! Why are you not watching this show? You really should be!

I almost feel bad for our two murderers, AKA Hardened Criminals, since they are a total hoot... but they will have to end this show in jail.

This show is really a no stakes comedy and that's why I love it so much. You can just watch and enjoy without really having to suffer emotional damage.

&gt;!Test Test!< Hey did that work? This new Reddit thing is so wonky. I prefer Old Reddit.

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Snark Level: My girl let me down. Sad.

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Gasp! They are arming the officers? What is this? America? So the operation is on to arrest Mei Dong. Li Qian is looking rather put out with a pouty face for being left behind. Understandable. 

Yang Wei is feeling rather nervous so Captain Wang sends in a lady to reassure him. 

You, sir, have been called out.

Yang is called up to the hotel room to meet with Dong and given a rather shitty pat down by Dongs two henchmen. Yang, either stupid or sarcastic, tells the henchman that his pat down technique is good. No. No it's not. That is a shitty pat down. But what do I know? I've only worked in security and trained alongside police in the past. The phone rings and asks if a massage is wanted. Sus... But hey, I would love a massage right now.

While they might suck donkey ass at searching bodies, they know a thing or two about misdirection. After they are satisfied with Yang and his answers regarding Kai and the police, they bring him to a different floor and room to meet Dong.

Hey, sounds like this Dong guy doesn't look like Dong. Plastic surgery, eh? 

Dong gets a phone call about needing a massage and, since he is so tense, he takes the lamp and bashes Yang with it. I guess he really needed that massage.

Well, the trio of baddies get sandwiched in the stairwell by the overwhelming force of police, and after a brief scuffle, get arrested. Sadly, Dong has put in a fake Dong double. An alive and bloody Yang confirms isn't Dong. 

While all of this is going on, Zhang is still in the parking garage, playing with his gun. He apparently dreams of being a real cop. Let me guess? His luck will earn him the arrest of Dong? Sure enough he sees Dong enter the parking garage and begins to follow him on foot like a cliche. However, as he is a dumbass, he dropped his gun back in the car. Dong has a knife, but that is no match to Zhang who traps him in a garbage truck. It's all these lucky shoes again. Zhang can mess up constantly, but his luck keeps him on top.

Li Qian might have been benched from the OP, but she gets to interrogate Dong. She exposes his plan to launder the 300 million from Rong through a fake lawsuit.

It's a shit eating grin competition again. Can you guess who loses?

Zhang=Loser

But Zhang walks away the winner after poking Dong in his manly pride about living off an older woman. Dong can't stand this so he confesses that he did everything and that this woman is only his maid. Because how dare a woman be smarter than this Dong? Ain't no way! It's better to confess all your crimes than be thought of just a plaything for an older woman. Zhang feels all glowly about this triumph. Literally. 

Rong, being smart enough to have a restricted caller ID, calls Dong. Zhang answers the call, hoping that the unidentified person will make a mistake. However, Rong is still a smart criminal and remains silent himself. Now knowing that Dong is compromised, he tosses his phones SIM card.  

Now, initially I put Chief Qi on my shit list because when he buys lunch for our team to celebrate the arrest of Dong he ordered sweet things for Li Qian because "Girls like sweet things". So I was going to give him a piece of my feminist mind over this. But when Li Qian hesitated to give voice to an idea, Qi immediately tells her to speak up. So his merits cancel out his demerits. 

Li Qian says that since the money laundering scheme of The Rong Dong Duo hadn't yet been implemented, maybe they themselves should take the initiative to get close to the duo to look for evidence. Her idea of sending someone undercover is quickly shot down by Zhang because they would need years to fully set that up.

Time to check back in with our hardened criminals who are having a discussion about how forgetting to set up curtains in your fathers bedroom when he remarries can allow the neighbors to see certain things on the wedding night. Huh. I wonder what they are talking about? Can someone describe this to me in vivid detail? Hehe. I have seen over 120 dramas and they are always so coy about what happens during the wedding night. :/ 

They fall down a hole.  Yup. They just straight up fall down a hole. Our hardened criminals are in a deep as random hole. Lovely.

Rong is informed during a very intense stationary bike workout that Uncle Fei is now in town but wanting to hold off on the bell deal for a couple of days. Rong says that if this all fails and the police get on their trail that he will leave town for a small island in the South Pacific. 

All because of a small food order mistake, Zhang realizes what we all already knew! Li Qian is right! They should get closer to the people around Rong and wait for someone to make a mistake. Qian is to get closer to Jianren. Song chooses the security guy Li Penggai.

We meet Penggai again as he meets with Du Cong, a staff member of Rongchen. Penggai is picking up a computer and Du Cong wants to borrow a car for his girlfriend to use for her wedding venue job. I'm guessing he will be our weak link. 

Li Qian follows Jianren to a children's school where he is learning English and  how to say he wants to go to the toilet. 

You have been caught, my dear.

Sadly this is where the episode ends so we have to wait a few seconds for the next to see how Qian will get herself out of this.

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It seems we have to wait longer to see the resolution of Qian Vs. Jianren as we open with a Suitcase Smuggling Squad on a dock somewhere. 19, eh? Sounds like they are smuggling the bells into town. 

Qian is able to bluff, rather unconvincingly, that she is there to learn English so off she goes to join Jianren in the classroom. She introduced herself as Cici and he as Peter. Our poor Qian had to spend 3 days going to class with him and she complains to Song Xing that she feels sleepy whenever she hears English. Gasp! The audacity! Time to cancel her! I am offended! Nah, I'm a big boy and can handle people having different opinions. Song counters with having to eat some kind of street food with Penggai for 3 days and still suffering from diarrhea... as he suddenly stands up and waddles off for a restroom. 

To make matters worse, Li Qian just has to add fuel to the stereotype fire. Honey... 

Nothing to say here... Nope. I choose life.

Lets break it down. Du Cong crashes into the Red/Yellow Taxi driven by Mao and Gong because they drive like idiots fleeing the police who aren't even after them. Li Qian crashes into Du because she made a rookie mistake and took her eyes off the road. Hearing that Du works for Rong she hides her badge she was about to flash. Well, guess who pulls up now? Jianren with Rong. Jianren recognizes Li Qian as "Cici" from the English classes. Smitten by her beauty, Rong promises to pay for the repairs. Just like that we seem to have an in for Qian to go undercover. 

Du Cong gets his ass chewed by Gai for crashing the car... but it's Jianren who delivers the slap!

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One slap isn't enough here. Gai steps in.

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Well, Du Cong isn't happy to learn he is on the hook for the 30k to fix the car so he looks at the police report where we see that Li Qian left her real name and phone number.... Like a fucking idiot. That's a great way for your identity to get busted in the future. Anyways, speaking of fucking idiots, Du Cong tries to swing a little blackmail by quoting law at her and telling her she is responsible for the 30k in repairs. When Qian says she doesn't have the money, Do Cong decides to be gross and offer to pimp her out to Rong. Li Qian quickly agrees to this gift horse because she is smart. She's so smart that she would never make such a bad mistake like leaving her real fucking name on a police report that can out her as a cop in the future. Nope. She is a genius. Total genius. She's such a genius that I imagine she could be the star of a show called Genius Girlfriend.

Do Cong tell Jianren about his plan of introducing Li Qian to Rong and it's met with approval. 

However, Li Qian is getting her ass chewed by Zhang and Wang for setting up the meeting on her own. They even suspect her of having set up the accident! She protests her innocence and relents that she won't meet Rong. Like we believe she won't still meet him... 

Oh. I forgot about these two. We are back to our hardened criminals who are still in the hole... and it's been 3 whole days! The red haired henchman, Huo Zheng, comes by and on a suspicion drops a stick down the hole and wanders off. Well, the stick hit Liu Zhi on the head, but he kept quiet like a good boy. 

So we have a meeting between Penggai, Rong, and Jianren which during we are treated to a flashback that confirms that Bowen had Chief Lu killed, and Rong and Jianren are aware of it. Rong is pissed that Bowen murdered Lu because, despite all his grumbling about Lu, he didn't actually want him killed. The phone with the video evidence is smashed and fed to the fire. 

Well, Rong is concerned that Penggai may know about their involvement in the Lu murder since he had heard a part of their conversation back then. 

"Silence falls before the great war". Zhang believes that the fact that Rang and Co are being so quiet right now means something big is about to happen. He is, of course, right. 

While out getting food, Li Qian sees the moron she tried to turn crispy with the flamethrower, Tomb Raider Liu Bei. She witnesses the very suspicious action of moving suitcases from a truck into a van and, like an absolute dumbass, she manages to get herself locked into the truck. To make matters worse, she has no cell service. To make extra worse matters double extra worse, her phone gets dropped and broken. 

Tune in tomorrow to see how our gorgeous lady gets out of this pickle.

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Snark Level: I am sick. I am tired. My brain is Fuzzy. Li Qian is the best.

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We open the show with a conversation we've already had! Wait, no! IQIYI is just being stupid and playing last episodes subs for this one. One quick little refresh... There we go! Our Lang brothers are talking about how much they support each other! Lets give Bowen credit for wanting a better, and more legal, life for his lil bro.

Jianren, now hot on the trail of Zhou Qi for her snitching, calls her to say that Rong wants to see her. Qi and Yibo realize they are in real danger this time so thankfully we are spared them using this danger to get freaky in the sheets.

In a further case of using brain power, Qi and Yibo start a phone call so he can listen for her secret codeword to call the police! We love brains around here. 

Qi goes into this meeting looking guiltier than a kid who stole a cookie, though for very good reasons since there are several pissed off men and a scary doggy waiting for her. Yibo is playing sniper with a camera in the adjacent building watching the scene. Qi folds quickly under pressure and screams the secret code. Yibo calls up Zhang.

Qi confesses the following: The night Lu Zheng died Bowen was wearing our famous watch and then later gave it to Yibo. As we remember, Yibo had Qi try to choo choo train that watch away. Qi tells Rong that Yibo has already told the police the watch was his before Lu had died and therefore it cannot be traced back to Rong or Bowen.

Having heard Qi say this, Yibo hangs up on Zhang before telling him anything and declines the follow up call.

Like an actual idiot, Yibo is spotted by Jianren as he goes back to his car. As Jianren prepares to question him he is interrupted by Zhang calling again. Now Yibo looks extra suspicious and he is fully found out for his actions. Yibo counters hard by reminding Jianren about the fake statue and other such schemes that have been going on. Totally a case of mutually assured destruction around here. 

Yibo calls Zhang back and his attempt to deflect suspicion is to say he was drunk and hangs up. Rather than look like a guy who got hung up on after fluffing his investigative feathers, Zhang pretends that he scolds Yibo and is the one to end the call. Really, bro? Are you this in need of looking like a badass? Meanwhile, our main reason for watching this show is standing behind a chair and doing her expressionless stares again.  

Rong is a smart criminal and knows that by getting rid of someone that the police are investigating would only invite himself trouble. Hello there! I love smart criminals that use their brain and don't resort to doing stupid ass shitty cringe face with cringe laughter and cringe creepiness and cringe cringiness! The fact that I don't have to spend every episode ranting about a cringe villain doing cringe face is such a fucking great blessing! 

 Li Qian is doing some actual police work, unlike other people who just get by on luck they were born with, and makes the same discovery about the watch that Captain Ye had. Officer Zhang remember the image and shows them the enhanced photo that clearly shows the watch on Mr. Umbrella Holder. I swear she does not get enough credit for her work.

Lang Botu gets accepted into a Masters Program at Southern New Hampshire Mountain University. Why the heck did I type all that out? That was a fingerfull! 

Poor Bowen doesn't get to celebrate this for long as Zhang, Wang, and the most beautiful and perfect woman of all time Li Qian show up to ask him about the watch. 

I dunno, fam. Saying "whomever you found with this watch is who I gave it to" is a really stupid thing to say. It gives Zhang the perfect opening to fuck with him and say they found it on a fugitive. That wipes the cheeky grin right off Bowens face and he has to stumble and bumble like a fool to dig himself out of that trap. Now he does admit that he was there near the scene the night Lu was walloped by the car because he is smart enough to know that that itself isn't going to prove anything. It's a stand off of who can have the biggest shit eating grin on their face between Bowen and Zhang. 

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

Li Qian, who finally cracked a small smile, gets a call and is told that Bowen got a call from Yibo on the night Captain Ye was killed. Based off this and Bowen denying any involvement, our trio make the determination that Bowen killed both Lu and Ye. Yeah, because that totally makes sense.

Denial is admission? Honey... Now I am worried about the kind of justice system you have...

Weak ass argument.

Well, Botu was listening at the door and is showing brotherly concern for Bowen. It is commendable of him that he wants to help his brother, but I really hope he doesn't go down that same path and ruin the great opportunities he has. 

Big Brother of the year!

Nah, I legit was also thinking about a gun when he brought out the box. I figured it would be something else, but the fact that Botu and I are sharing the same thought is great! Man! That is the whole verity pack of condoms! It's always important to educate people on safe sex. Good job, Bowen! 

Our trio of officers decide the best way to leave the meeting with Bowen is to have uniformed squad cars come pick them up for extra show! This has the desired effect of reaching Rongs ears during a beat down session boxing training session. Rong continues to be a smart criminal and see through the pretense that Zhang set up. However, he does make a suspicious phone call to someone that we don't get to hear.

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Rong calls Mei Dong, a money launderer,  who the show gives the title of "Wanted Criminal". Something tells me he is a criminal and he is wanted. 300 Million needs to get transferred from the country to Meis account which Mei says he can do for a mere 30 percent handling fee. I am not even going to do that math on that because I just don't want to know.

Feeling the pressure of the case has Zhang standing around staring off into nothingness. Meanwhile, Li Qian is doing actual police work.

Look at our girl! &lt;3

The clue is footage of our two criminals and the red car. Ahhh so now the police are after the red car that is now in the lands of Mao and Gang. The police are always behind, but always catching up.

We are treated to another smile. :)

Red car is no more! Red car is now Red and Yellow Taxi Car! Mao and Gang have perfected the art of Car Camouflage. Now Zhang can't track the car by color or license plate. I guess his luck is running out. Or is it?

Captain Wang is up in tizzy fizzy about a task force coming in from the capital and assigns everyone he can to look for the red car. He is most unconvinced it's a good thing that the leader of said task force is some very smart guy who can stop escapes from looking at your handwriting.

Ahhh but the luck is shining again because they find footage of the road rage incident between the criminals and Kai.

Our most intelligent officer, Song Xing, is looking around the last known location of the red car. Can you guess who rolls on up? Gasp! Yes! It is Mao and Gang in the very car he is looking for! Of course he is fooled by the yellow stripe and cannot deduce that it's the car he's looking for. What an idiot! You know Li Qian would have already had these two guys in handcuffs! Say, will we ever get to see Li Qian cuff someone? I have my comments already prepared for that in my head.

All is not lost because Captain Wang says the have found the Land Rover in footage from a toll station! Zhang is over the moon about this lead but quickly gets deflated like a stabbed balloon when Wang informs him the footage is 3 days old.

All is not lost part two! It is again Li Qian who reignites the case by announcing the owner of the Land Rover is Yang Wei. Seriously, is she the only one who can find a clue around here? Yang Wei, the ex con loan shark, who also got into a fight defending Kai and gave some other guy a disability. What a great friend this Yang guy is. I am sure he would never do something like have an affair with his friends wife! Oh, wait... 

So off we go to the next scene which is literally Yang going to see Ying again. He seems rather hesitant as he is looking for Kai but quickly falls victim to the charms of a confident woman. "Half an hour won't hurt, right?" Uhhhhhhh. I was not expecting to see that much leg! "Are you coming in or not?" Yeah. He is going to do both of those. He's going to come. He's going to come in. He's a coming in kind of guy. 

Guess who now also comes to the apartment? Nope. Wrong. Wrong. Also wrong. Correct! It is Fang Yong! Ying sends him away with a scolding about how improper it would be to let him inside because a man and a woman should never be alone. What good and proper morals she has! She goes back to the bedroom to spend some alone time with a man... who isn't there! Yang is hiding behind the curtains like a scared little boy. 

On his way out, Fang notices a masked man putting up little advertisements about being able to track a phone. "Isn't that illegal?" "Obviously." "Help me track a phone."

Silver Land Rover? Nah. It's a black Land Rover with an erratic driver and a vomiting passenger! Our two hardened criminals suddenly realize that Kai, who is still in the trunk several days later, hasn't made a sound recently. Yup. He's dead. You killed him. You are murderers now! Nah I am calling bullshit that that is the first time Kais phone has rang after several days of people looking for him! Nah! Fuck off with that illogical premise! 

The Smartest Police Officer Ever Li Qian is telling Zhang that they have confirmed that Lin Kai is the abducted person in the footage and is close with Yang, who just happens to now be in the interrogation room on the other side of the glass! She also name drops Tomb Raider Lara Croft Liu Bei and Mei Dong. Li Qian is on the hunt! Yall can't solve anything with Li Qian!

Zhang pulls out the lying cop trope and says they know there is conflict between Yang and Kai. Gasp! Will he suggest the affair? TXW is doing a great job at conveying Li Qian catching on to Zhangs hints and acting second chair for him. Zhang bluffs with security footage and Yang caves like an idiot, confessing to the affair. 

 

Mei Dong is flagged by customs officials but Zhang, sniffing out a bigger fish, says to let him in. Smart play!

Tracking Kais phone is baring fruit for Fang Yong! He knows the location and pays the tracker 2k instead of the original 200 fee! What a great guy! It has nothing to do with the fact that Fang still hasn't replaced his glasses.

Our two murders discover that Kai had also gotten car sick and choked to death on his vomit. Ew. Talk about a bad way to go out. Time to dig a grave with the worlds smallest shovel. 

Fang is having trouble finding a taxi that wants to go the long distance to Sandu so of course he meets Mao and Gong in the red car turned red/yellow taxi! Even in his desperate need he feels the vibe is off with these two. But hey, he needs to get to that Sandu Service Area so he hops right on in. 

That will be easy to find.

Chao is flabbergasted to see that Zhi dug a whole hole to get the dirt to make the grave. So it's time to dig up the grave and move the body to the actual hole. That is a whole mess. The grave is marked with a "Cables below. Do not dig" gravestone. 

Back to the taxi cab! Mao and Gang arguing over which of them is going to whack Fang with a hammer and take his money. Fang wakes up hearing this and, having seen too many action films clearly, jumps from the moving car. I guess it's too much for these young men to run down an old ass geezer moving slower than a turtle through molasses so they let him go. 

Fang stops for a moment to catch his breath and rests on a sign that reads "Cables Below. Do not dig". He looks down and sees fingers sticking up through the dirt. Fang makes an anonymous tip off to the police like a good citizen. I guess he doesn't realize who he found. 

Zhang puts on his lucky shoes and reinterviews Yang. Jinshuiting, having been found on Kais wallet, is described as a company that tomb raids your way to riches scheme started by Mei Dong. Dong killed someone over this business! Gasp! Anyways, this whole scene feels like a "Come to China and Tomb Raid us" advertisement. Yang is seriously over here calling pyramids and tombs in other countries boring. Yang rats out that Dong has expended into money laundering and loan sharking. 

While blubbering that Mei Dong would never come back to the country, Yang receives a call from Dong! He tells Yang he is back and wants to meet him that night since he is working on a big deal that will set them up well for years.

Zhang asks Li Qian to sit out the arrest operation for that night because she is needed to do paperwork. Bro. Dude. Really? But fear not! He needs her to organize the materials well for the incoming task force to make it clear to Director Gao that they lead the investigation instead of Yan Liang. Li Qian is rightly annoyed that she's being assigned to do paperwork since she is fully recovered, but Zhang tells her she is the only one he can fully trust! My man! Finally someone puts some respect on her abilities!

Thoughts:

Alright fam. Who actually is watching this drama? Anyone? Am I the only one? Am I sending my words into the void of emptiness?

For those still on the fence I have to say that it's still a pretty decent drama. No one is cringe or infuriating to watch. I do wish they would give Li Qian more to do, but over all the show is showing quite well. It's a fun little mystery when you need a palate cleanser from a drama that murdered your emotions.

We've hit the halfway mark of the show and I have zero actual frustrations with this show which for me is very strange. I've built a brand of snark and I haven't felt that I have fully unleashed it on this show. Nothing has me raging. Nothing has me annoyed really. Well, I would like to see Li Qian beat more ass... but hey!

I shall end this post with a chant.

Tian Xi Wei! Tian Xi Wei! Tian Xi Wei! Tian Xi Wei! Tian Xi Wei!

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Welcome to the fourth discussion post for Born With Luck. 

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Snark Level: I don't think I fully explained what I meant in my last post by "soft reset my brain with my desk". Allow me to show you.

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I took today off from work to catch up on my 4 on air dramas. I'm a big boy. 

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We open in the Rongcheng group construction site with this Gai and his silly glasses. Someone is laying spikes in the roads but that isn't my main concern. Why in the hecking pecking are some people not wearing high viz on site? Are they stupid? Yes. Yes they are. Do you want to get hit by a big truck? Because that is how you get hit by a big truck. 

We once again see two characters in a car spying on an old man. This time, however, it isn't our hardened criminals! It's Song Xing and Li Qian! Finally!

Song immediately gets on my shit list for suggesting that he alone should go inside and take a look. When Li Qian tells him that they should stay together, Song compounds his mistake by calling this experienced and brilliant police officer "a girl" and says he can't let her take the risk. Karma bites him in the ass by stranding him in a broken elevator. 

Zhang deduces that a man on a diet who buys beer and meat must have someone else in his apartment. (Or maybe he is having a cheat day?) He tells Li Qian that she and Song should stay put. Qian tries to tell him Song is away, but Zhang cuts her off. 

Mr. Zhang. Being an old ass man and interrupting a young lady is rude. Do better, sir. 

We see Yibos tossed watch sitting in Zhengs apartment with Liu Bei the Tomb Raider. He snuck back into town using the coal train that Qi was trying to throw the watch onto. Li Qian is listening outside the door and still can't reach Song as he is still stuck.

Li Qian decides to lose her brains and knock on Zhengs door with a lame ass story about a potential leak in his bathroom. The very suspicious Liu is holding an ash tray to use as a weapon. This better be a scene that includes her beating his ass. I am craving some ass kicking today.

Li Qian further loses her brains as she accepts the invitation to step inside the apartment. I swear if she didn't report in what she was planning to do... This is some stupid ass dumb shit she is pulling right now and I cannot believe what I am watching. Her womanly alarm bells finally start ringing when Liu slams the door shut behind her. Ahhhh but don't count her down and out brainless yet! She flips the script and asks if Zheng is actually laying in the other room. Flashback scene shows Liu smashing the ash tray on Zhengs head.

Bro. You are about to get BEAT.

Liu, my dude, if you pull a knife on a lady and she gives you that look... You are outclassed and should drop to your knees. Beg this woman to spare you!

Li Qian uses water magic to make things go dark. We get some fancy footwork and then it's time to use fire magic!

OH FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT'S BRUTAL!!!!!!!

I swear the past two days are all about triggering my PTSD.

You ever smelt burning flesh? Yeah. You don't want to. It is at this moment that I am informed there is a slice of chicken for me in the kitchen. So now I get to eat some roasted flesh after watching this scene. Life really is a comedy and I just a poor actor in it.

Gasp! She is bleeding! That fucker hurt her! Off to the hospital! Hey, did anyone get Song?

A guilty Zhang is avoiding phone calls from his Mentor, Gao, because he failed to protect Qian. Qian, for her part, is laying in a coma in a hospital bed. Honey, are you playing a prank?

You're fooling no one here.

Zhang finally answers the phone and Gao demands a video call so he can see Qian for himself. Yo, can we approve of this man for treating Qian so well?

Zhang has her read like a book and gets her to wake up by promising not to pursue her stupid decision.

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Zhang vows to question Zheng who is also faking a coma. They sus him out like a fish in a barrel and start cracking the whip like a spoiled Marquis Heir  would whip a hot tempered young lady. He confesses Bei whacked him. No honor among thieves, eh? Zheng spills all the beans from coal train to bells. He even mentions our two hardened criminals who sold him the gold and fake statue.

Oh, look. Song is at the hospital. I guess someone finally missed him. Zhang leads him around a corner and chews his ass out for Qian getting hurt. 

Former Brother In Law Kai meets Fang Yong at his apartment where he is still on his bullshit about needing Kai to beat him up. Apparently getting beat up will help Fang stop corrupt officials from lining their own pockets once they get his position. Could Fang be the most honest person around? So what if he wants illegal music bells! Well, if money isn't enough then offer up some antiques! Kai is unimpressed with Fangs collection until he sees the fake painting given by Rong. The fact that Fang informs Kai it is a fake makes it look like it's the real deal and Kai decides this is enough for him to agree to breaking Fangs arm later.

Construction site Gai has a road rage incident with our two hardened criminals. Their piece of shit red car temporarily breaks down but they emerge the final victor as one of those spikes took out the tire of the big green dumptruck. Stranded on the road, Gai meets an old friend, Mao Hongwei, who bikes up wearing a silly hat. They sit on a bench and talk old times in a thieving gang run by a guy named Gang. (Xia Tinggang). Gai tells Mao to pay up 100k for spiking tires. So Mao borrows money from a lender named Yang Wei. The deal is fingered and the money is handed to Mao who hands it to Gai who splits it and gives half back to Wei for his part in this deal. Ha. You've been had!

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Bowen is watching his little brother, Botu, as he checks his IELTS score. It's a 6. He has Botu apologize to the family portrait and does some exposition to tell us uneducated viewers that their names mean Number One and Number Two. If they had a sister, can you guess what her name would be? Number Three! It turns out a perfect score is 9 so Botu can still go abroad for school.

So Kais wife, Ying, is having an affair with some popped collar douchebag? Is that the money lender Yang Wei? Yes it is! Well, they are apparently bros and when Kai questions what he is doing there he says he came to take him out for drinks. To further draw off suspicion he gives Kai his car and says he's been lending money to dangerous people. 

Our hardened criminals are lamenting about life and their shitty car. Their plans call for a better car. What luck! A very fancy car comes up behind them flashing headlights like a dickstump. It's Kai! Time for more road rage!

What I want to do every day... But I can't because I am a professional.

They have a little accident and Liu Zhi wants to be an American and pull a gun. Fang Chao is the voice of reason and decides he needs to handle things rationally. Kai plays the victim and demands compensation like a punk ass bitch. Kai escalates things and puts Chao on his back onto of the car hood. There is a moment of sexual tension, I think. Zhi steps out and... nothing. The scene cuts away before we see anyone get their ass handed to them. Sad.

Mao is begging for money on the street and he is found by Yang Wei who demands the 100k.

Maos junkyard friend Xia Tinggang promises to pay off the 100k in a week.

Our hardened criminals, now in possession of Kais car, arrive at a junkyard. Kai is tied up in the trunk of the new car. The decision is made to leave the red POS car at the junkyard. And who should find that red car? None other than Mao and Gang as they talk about stealing a car to make the 100k. 

Back at the police station the ladies are fussing over the wound Qian got and berating Song for being reckless. As they should! Zhang tells her to go home and recover.

Captain Wang continues the ass chewing of Song saying that the Chief is angry that Qian got hurt! The fact that Qian is a girl makes this all the more serious. Kind of some gender discrimination here... but at least it's coming from a place of overprotectiveness as Qian is being praised for being a very capable rookie officer as she arrested two suspects. Song is told to stay out of the task force for awhile. He has a far more important task which is to take are of Qian while she is injured. As he should! 

"These days I am so unlucky cold water gets stuck in my teeth". The fuck does that mean? 

As Qian scrolls through crime scene photos she notices that darn wristwatch in the bathroom and connects it to the watch browsing that Captain Ye was doing before his death.

Zhang is busy fingering the case board, trying to connect all the dots, when he notices the watch in an evidence bag on the table. Qian bursts into the room as he picks it up. He follows the same train of thought Qian already did and everyone praises him for being so smart. Truly this man is Born With Luck. Someone put some respect on Li Qian around here. 

Qian and Song go to the hotel because the only luxury watch store in town is inside. Qi and Yibo notice and attempt to spy on them, but Qian is a smart cookie! She invites them inside the store and Yibo gives off a very suspicious vibe when he notices his old watch is there. Qian reads him like an open book. The expert tries to play the customer privacy card but gets the smile wiped off his face by Song whipping out his badge. The tension in the room grows higher and higher. The expert claims he can't remember who bought the watch. 

Later, Qi and Yibo are trying to puzzle out how the watch returned and he is really starting to freak out. Qi remembers what happens when Yibo feels danger and she runs to lock the door. 

Danger does heighten the mood.

She is hungry for her man!

Not even the phone can stop this.

Not even the ringing phone can stop her now that she knows how to make things hard for Yibo.

Li Qian ambushes the watch expert in the hotel parking lot and he leads them to ask him the correct question about watch servicing records. Did they really need him to remind them to ask that? Surely they could figure that out on their own?

While watching the hotel security footage Zhang sees that the watch being to Yibo and announces it right as Qian and Song return with the same news. This guy is very annoyingly Born With Luck. 

When confronted with the evidence, Yibo admits that he won the watch from Lang Bowen a year ago after pressing crocodile teeth. He admits he concealed the fact that Captain Ye was at the hotel that night because he was afraid of getting into trouble. 

Jianren tells Rong that Uncle Fei will be in town soon and they can get around to making that deal for the bells. He then gets a call from Zheng Yongbing who wants him to sell the wealth statue back to him because the police are onto him. He comments he should have melted it all down instead of selling it to the woman at the hotel. Jinren puts the pieces together and now knows that Zhou Qi is a snitch. I sense some shit is about to go down.

Thoughts:

Well, the show is still going strong for me. It's decent and engaging. Nothing really overly good or bad to say about it.

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Welcome to the third discussion post for Born With Luck. 

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Snark Level: Buns, sex, mild PTSD.

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Why are our hardened criminals always eating what looks like the weirdest food? Am I too American to understand the food? That looks like celery in a burrito. Last episode or so they had something massive wrapped in lettuce. I will now say something nice about these two. They are not cringe. They are actually well written and acted villains. 

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See, when they let her really use her eyes, she can convey so damn much! 

Why did you report Rong? Our Queen of the Eyes asks Yibo this question. His answer? For love! How romantic, says I! Sadly this report ended up to be a massive shitstorm for Yibo. Literally. I did think about GIF'ing the explosion of shit... But I am eating dinner right now and I would like to keep it down. I am not the only one making shit puns around here! Yibo himself says that if only he hadn't written the report than "none of this crap would have happened". 

It seems in his distress over suspecting QiQi of an affair, Yibo took a whole handful of pills! Gasp! Thankfully our boy here has a shit gag reflex and pukes it all out. Never mind. He just took more. He finds out that the woman he thought was Qi was some PR lady that Rong wants fired for the diabolical crime of having eaten leeks. 

Hey, Rong! How about you leek deez nutz! 

Yibo tripping ballz on these pills is the same experience we all get while having to stay on the phone line for a service representative. 

Yibo admits to hating Rong, Bowen, and Ye because they are more successful than he is. Zhang drops a sly comment that Ye may have written Yibos name on the blood rock.  Yibo denies any involvement and also says that Ye didn't come to the hotel on the night of his death. 

Qi walks by and of course Wang has to look a little smitten with her... But do I also see a hint of Li Qian having a small amount of admiration? Nah I think I am imagining it... 

Women are amazing.

Li Qian says she doesn't believe that Yibo showing up with the report letter at the incident of the shit explosion is a coincidence. Zhang mulls it over before saying they need to read the case file. Unless the show hasn't told us everything yet, I really do think it was actually just a coincidence. After all it would be in line with Zhang just being very lucky in everything he does. What do you all think?

Jianren takes Yibo out for a drive while Bowen and our gaggle of officers are also at the hotel looking for him. Bowen wants to be a cheapskate little bitch and not pay for things. Our gaggle have further questions. But will any of them ever see or speak to Yibo ever again? Tune in next week! Just kidding. Keep reading. :)

Bowen starts acting like a creep ass dickwad towards Qi when he asks her where Yibo is and why the po po want him. This better not go anywhere. I will all caps rage if I have to suffer any abuse towards women in this show.

Apparently the way to get back into the good feels with Rong is to buy something from this Uncle Fei person. No luck getting the goods, but he's told to stay for a meal. Suspicious. 

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Also, IQIYI can suck my left toe for subbing the same name to both red hair sidekick, Huo Zheng, and the actual Uncle Fei, Zhu Yifei. Do you know how fucking confused I was? IT'S HARD ENOUGH DOING THIS, OKAY! I need compensation from their sub team. :) 

So, Uncle Fei feeds Yibo Tiger Paw Soup. I had no idea what that was and I figured I should Google it to be a good host here...

WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN IT'S TIGER PENIS?????? Gives a whole new meaning to sucking dick... I need to take a moment and compose myself...

Hey, u/CdramaAddict2 are you going to bug me to eat this like you do about the pig shit? :)

Anyways, Fei says "haha, joke is on you, bitch" and informs Yibo it is actually black tiger paw mushroom because why waste such a rare penis on scum like him? 

Showing a disgusting lack of respect for some song dynasty porcelain, Yibo spits out a bone into this bowl. Uncle Fei freaks the fuck out and hyperventilates that there are only 67 other pieces left surviving. HA!!! 6 - 7 joke again!!! I am such a child.

With the use of his measuring tape, talk of extra security measures, a fake phone call, and sly intentions, Jianren convinces Fang Yong to switch from apparently illegal bells to the fancy chicken bone spit bowl. 

Our very brave Yibo freaks out like a doomed man when Fei informs him that a smaller plate sold at auction for 300 million!!!!! Gasp! He wails that the most he can offer from Rong is a measly 20 million... But wait! DEAL! With a mighty table slap from Fei the deal is made! Talk about aiming high to get the maximum amount! You have been played like a piano, sir. 

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Well, shit. Bye bye bowl! Piss off plate! Or not. They glued it back together. But in better news, Fei says he knows a guy who has these musically illegal bells. Liu Bei, a tomb raider, is that potential savior. Bei Bei confirms he has a set of 9 and is willing to work with Fei. 

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Gasp! Captain Ye recognized the watch seen in the surveillance video of the Lu murder! Is that Yibo in the car with him? It is! It's the watch that Yibo wears! I know this because the next scene shows him wearing the watch. I am so bad at faces that I didn't even recognize my coworker that I talk to everyday when he said hi to me at the grocery store. Yeah. It's a whole problem.

Damn it. Our hardened criminals are always eating something... I watch these episodes very late at night after I get home from work so I start feeling very hungry... even after dinner... 

Anyways, they are spying on Rong. That's so wRong of them. 

"Why is the math book sad? Because it has too many problems". Bruh. It's confirmed. I am a math book. 

Fun fact: My work wife has banned me from doing anything with math because I am so bad at it and it hurts her brain listening to me work through a problem. 

Fang Yong is having a bad night. Here he is just riding his bike like a good boy and this car driven by two hardened criminals clips him and sends his ass to the ground. Poor man now has broken glasses. Would you look at that? An actual valid reason to go to the hospital in a CDrama! Hot damn wham slam bam! His reward? Chief Huang telling him to hand over the park project to the new guys! What a terrible fate for this chronic over-worker. 

So off he goes to meet his former brother in law and tell him to take his sister and Xin to Sanya with a big envelope of money! Shit. Why don't old ass guys come up to me and give me travel money? Rude. Anyways, Former Bro in Law Kai is an expert in beating people up and Fang Yong is literally asking him for a beating. Kai, bless his soul, has a very rational reaction.

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We cut back to our hardened criminals who are, wait for it, eating again. Ice cream! I am hungry and sipping ginger tea. 

Fang Chao steps out of the car to whip something out and take a leak  so obviously that is when Rong drives out and away. Chao runs back to the car in a rather silly manner and we see white cream leaking out his mouth and down his chin. Make of that what you will.

Okay. WHERE THE FUCK IS LI QIAN??? Why the fuck are we getting so little of her? Main role my ass. I'm over here making sexual innuendos about ice cream when I would much rather be doing deep dives into her intelligence and commenting about how she is a brilliant and driven police officer who blazes a path forward for truth and justice! But no! Instead it's all about tiger penises and feasting felons! 

Our expanded gaggle of officers are doing nothing besides tilting their heads and looking at the case board. "Where is our breakthrough?" asks Captain Wang. Probably with Li Qian who finally shows up printing out an assload of paper.

Clearly it's an earth shattering breakthrough.

"Okay, Tian Xi Wei, listen up! We need you to convey a major breakthrough in the case while looking as emotionless as possible". Seriously. Who hurt my girl and gave her that dead look behind her eyes? As unused as I am to seeing her as expressionless as this in her dramas I will actually say that considering her characters line of work as a police officer here it is very realistic. I am several years removed from my time as a first responder and I often have this very same dead and lifeless look on my face. TXW is doing a great job at conveying her characters experiences through that gaze. IYKYK.

Li Qian tells Zhang that she finally knows the connection he saw between the cases! Zhang is so impressed by this he asks her to explain to the group. Just kidding. He clearly looks like he has no idea what she is talking about. Gasp! QiQi is wearing a necklace stolen by our shit exploding hardened criminals!

Now that the Song Dynasty plate is broken, Jianren must now convince Fang to buy the bells because since they cost more they must be better! Fang isn't giving up on that plate though. Jianren then tells Fang a horror story about how the plate is cursed. Thinking about his bike accident makes Fang finally change his mind and ask for the bells. 

But can he actually get the bells? We shall find out. 

QiQi, dressed as a sexy masked biker, has been given the fancy watch by Yibo and she attempts to toss it onto a passing train so it will never be seen again. Well, she throws like a girl and it drops next to a homeless person who very eagerly takes it. Yeah. We will see that watch again.

As she returns home she is greeted by Li Qian who compliments her on said biker outfit. Hauled into the police station she confesses the jewelry items were given to her by a antique dealer named Zheng Yongbing. 

Um... Okay... How do I put this? While laying on his lap and telling Yibo everything that happened, Qi says she "feels something". It seems danger is a massive turn on to our boy with the pee pee problem. What follows is a very sexual scene that had my jaw dropped... Qi keeps saying dangerous things to him and judging by his facial expressions we can unfortunately assume he was getting a massive stiffy. He then picks her up and carries her into the bedroom. 

What in the actual factual vertical short drama was that shit? Someone get me the fucking mind bleach! 

The fact that the very next words we hear on screen is Li Qian saying "at the explosion scene" I can't help but imagine what other explosions were just happening in that bedroom. I am now going to soft reset my brain with my desk. 

While surveilling Zheng Yongbing we are treated to two smiles from Li Qian. Thank you. It's great to see some emotion from her again. She looks like a cute and happy badass as she munches on a bun. 

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And now I am craving a steamed pork bun from my favorite food truck. Thanks. 

To avoid getting caught by Zheng, Li Qian acts like a jealous girlfriend and demands to see Zhangs phone. Zhang catches on quick and says he was only calling a colleague named Tian. Ha! I see what you did there! Also, honey... Now Zheng is probably wondering what a young and gorgeous lady like yourself is doing with this old ass geezer. Eh. Maybe he doesn't judge if you have a sugar daddy. 

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Awwwww! Look how happy she looks with him! He clearly treats her right in their fake sugar relationship I just created! 

Zhang and Li Qian continue to act out their relationship and Zheng is taking more notice of them as they walk by. Captain Wang calls to say that they found proof that Ye was at the hotel the night of his death. The proof? A blurry ass photo.

Thoughts:

Well! That was 3 hours of my life dedicated to a lot of to penises. I am questioning my life choices.

I would call this an average show right now. It's good. It's decent. It's entertaining. The plot is plotting along at a nice pace.

What are yall thinking?

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Welcome to the second discussion post for Born With Luck. 

Please remember to tag spoilers if you talk about episodes beyond this post.

Snark Level: It's time for a 6 - 7 joke, right?

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As usual I look at faces and feel like I should remember who they are.  I keep the character relationship chart and MDL open on my screens and spend a lot of time staring at them.

The Medical Examiner comments to Zhang that there are 6 stab wounds on the body of Captain Ye and how they are both upwards and downwards. How strange. Getting shanked after getting slammed by a car is a terrible way to go. 

Heck, a massage and someone putting a cute animal face mask on me sounds rather nice right now. Rong sure knows how to relax! He and Jianren are still discussing how to get the land from our wealthy target of everyone, Fang Yong. Jianren finally listens to Rong that they need a cultured approach so off he goes to find a painting. One would think he would have realized this was the needed approach awhile ago, but hey! 

Zhang is placed fully in charge of the Captains murder case and he clearly isn't to happy for this. The reluctance is evident. It's at this moment I realized we haven't seen Li Qian yet and I grow annoyed. Every first step suggestion that Zhang suggests to the group of officers has already been taken care of. We are finally given our first glimpse of Li Qian as she stares at Zhang with the most dead and blank expression. The awkwardness of this scene cannot be understated. 

Naturally and as expected it is Qian who breaks the impasse by reminding Zhang that Ye had pulled the case files handled by the murdered Chief Lu. 

Rong and Jianren are now stalking/surveilling/spying on Fang Yongs neighborhood and we are finally given our first real look at this wealthy and cultured man! In true man of the world fashion he is riding a bicycle! Rong immediately begins asking him to inspect the famous calligraphy and I find myself wondering if it will truly be the real item they wanted or a fake! To the surprise of no one watching the screen, but certainly a surprise to Rong, it's a fake!!! Did Jianren really think he would get the 500k work if he only brought 5k? Is he stupid? Yes. Yes he is. Stupid. 

Speaking of stupid... Rong decides this is the best time to launch into the business talk. Fang Yong reads him for the filth he is and pedals off in a huff. 

Over to the house of Ye we go. The gaggle of officers follow Zhang around the apartment like little ducklings very reminiscent of another group of men than followed TXW around in Pursuit of Jade. Only now instead of the mother duck she is now one of the ducklings. It is at this point now thanks to Qian herself remembering gloves that everyone starts to put on gloves. What kind of dunderhead investigators are these folks? Yall should have had those gloves on from the start! BSI! Scene Safe! 

Zhang accidentally knocks a framed photo off the wall and Song Xing scoops it into an evidence bag saying that if Zhang touched it then it must be important. Sure it looks like just a silly little whoops... but this show is called Born With Luck so obviously it will turn out to be a very important clue. 

Zhang gets a gut feeling and makes Wang and Song confess that the last time they searched the apartment they found a credit card with no limit! Fancy! But why lie? Suspicious! 

Ahhh! Thanks to the flashback I remember that Yibo from the opening scene is a big hotel manager and this card seems to be for a spa! Extra suspicious! 

Did "Hardened Criminal" Liu Zhi really just say he's been wearing his underwear for 5 years... AND HE HASN'T CHANGED IT??? Gross. How has it lasted that long? Is it just an elastic waistband at this point? 

So cute.

Our Hardened Criminals spy on Fang in his cute little apartment. We are subjected to watching Fang give his bed a very sexual massage and oiling it up. Yeah, I am not even really all that much exaggerating. 

Our gaggle of officers waddle off to the hotel to question the PR manager, Zhou Qi. Ahhh the lady from the first scene with Yibo. Now we know things! I don't know what we know, but we know it! She gives a very unconvincing shrug when asked if Captain Ye had been to the hotel recently. 

Li Qian has been regulated to sitting/standing with a blank expression while soaking in all the details. Give my girl something to do, for fucks sake! Don't waste this talent!

Fang is on a phone call with a Chief Huang who talks about growing old and needing to take care of your health better. Okay, gramps. I am decades younger than you and already well aware of that. Thanks. He wants Fang to wrap up his work and fuck off into retirement to do cultural research. Fang would rather keep working for some reason. Corrupt? Married to his job? Idle hands are the devil? Fang is most displeased about this.

Literally me usually when I get off a work call.

Off to meet Yibo we go with our gaggle. We get a flashback of him at the poop explosion and he thinks his goose is cooked. He straight up confesses to writing the report letter that got shitty and stepped on by Zhang. 

Li Qian speaks!!!

The great thing about me constantly forgetting people and plot points is that I miss so much in these posts that we can all be surprised together as we watch the show! There have been many times that when I don't understand something I think to myself that I will just wait for this discussion post to explain it to me... Then I remember I write the discussion post.

Thank you for your understanding! :)

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Why are we opening with sexy time at the hotel? OH!!! HOLY SNACKBALLS!!! Those were bare legs! Ahhhhh! My innocent eyes! Yibo and Qi were getting it on!

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He apologizes to QiQi for "the same old problem". It seems he has a small problem in bed. QiQi opts to go for the supportive path and tells him she can wait. We love empathetic women. 

Li Qian speaks more in this one scene here than she did for the whole of episode 6. 

QiQi confronts Yibo for writing the report letter that accused Rong in Chief Lus death. Why did he do? Because he loves her! My man! He then ruins the moment by saying he thought she was sleeping with Rong. What a dumbass.

If they don't clarify what his problem is I am going to be forced to think it's a small pee pee or erectile dysfunction.  

The ducky binocular spying duo watch as Fang bikes off in a bad mood because he was informed his poetry radio program would be postponed. What a catastrophe!

Jianren has a new plan for Rong to get close to Fang! Pirate Fangs poetry book and have him autograph it!  That is just so damn smart! As they continue to talk with worse and worse ideas, who should burst into the office other than Fang himself!

Surprise! He loves the book and wants it! He is so touched by this that he invites Rong back to his place! Little does he know that his place is currently being broken into by our favorite poop exploding criminal duo. 

In a surprise twist, it turns out our criminals are smarter than the police. They put on plastic booties to hide their shoeprints. But do they have gloves? Maybe a face mask? THEY DO HAVE GLOVES!!!! They are smarter than the police!!!

I don't appreciate these two bumbling buffoons being quicker on the on the draw for scene protection than my girl Qian was. I simply must ask the writers why they are doing her dirty like this. 

Fang Chao pulls a... what the fuck is that... OH IT'S A STATUE OF A WOMAN... out of a cabinet. Yeah, that looked like something else.

Yall seeing this?

They have to bolt as Fang, Rong, and Jianren arrive. Time for tea! Why do they knock on the table? The business talk of the industry park project begins in earnest and Rong hints that he'll offer Fang a bribe. Fang responds by showing off all his old ass Knick knacks of impressive historical value. Perhaps he is saying he doesn't want money but rather he wants antiques? Or not. Fang says he's never taken a bribe and won't start now. But he does mention he wants a full set of bianzhong which according to Google are musical bronze bells.

Meanwhile, Yibo confesses to Rong that he reported him, but not for Chief Lu. Nah, he says he reported him for tax evasion and a mess of a private life. Man! Rong would be ruined if his private life were a mess! Taxes are nothing compared to that!

Yibo rants that he is jealous because he has been unable to be with QiQi while Rong is always surrounded by women.

Ah. So it is pee pee issues.

Li Qian turns into Admiral Ackbar and senses the impending trap of the report letter than Yibo goes back and forth on. Will he report the name or not? 

In a meeting at the hotel Yibo claims the report is a fake. He does finally say he reported Rong, but doubles down that it was a misunderstanding. 

Tian Xi Wei is giving a masterclass of how to turn a very dead expression into a piercing gaze. I do believe her micro expressions are back in full force. The past two episodes felt like her entire role was to stand around and look serious which she did very well. Now that the camera is finally focusing on her again she can let the full force of her charisma shine.

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Greetings all! I am your rather nervous first time host! Please allow me to introduce myself! I have been been watching CDramas for almost 2 years now and found this subreddit to help me understand the endings of certain shows. Eventually I started commenting on discussions. Then I started getting annoyed by the same old tropes over and over and my snarky side was unleashed. I snarked so hard that u/josenbam nicknamed me The Snark Shifu. Extra shoutouts to u/sequesteredself for suggesting I should one day host and to u/BasilOrdinary3617 for prodding me with never-ending force to host this show. My recap style will be mostly an overview with my commentary thrown in. As I was not expecting to be hosting when I started writing this, it may be a bit chaotic and sparse to begin with. 

Lets get snarking!!! Please remember to keep comments to the episodes talked about in this post or to tag spoilers for later episodes.

Snark Level: I woke my ass up an hour earlier before work to catch the first episode. I am here for Tian Xi Wei. That is the only reason I am watching the show. :)

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We open with a SPLAT!!! Alright! Heck, I can understand the need to escape this Poetry Pouring Policeman, but I don't know if falling off a building is the best way to achieve this. It's a little too final. 

Yeah! Let my girl Li Qian speak in this meeting! It's important to listen to all opinions. After all, she's not a newbie officer here. She clearly has proven herself in some manner otherwise she wouldn't be there.

What the fuck kind of gun is he carrying? Oh it's a starting gun! Because it's a marathon! This makes perfect sense. I was about to let my American side show.

So Zhang Yi'ang gets a guy dropped off a building and then gets an old geezer to collapse during a marathon. This man has quite the body count already and it's only the first quarter of the episode. 

I dunno, fam. If you introduce a guy as "A Hardened Criminal" I am going to press X to Doubt. Ooooo he's so tough because he has a gun. He also has bad trigger discipline. Oh, and we have Hardened Criminal Number 2 over here. 

So we see our Hardened Criminals put a clock down a manhole? That was literally just a clock. I didn't see any boom boom attached to it. What's the play here? Are we trying to annoy and distract people with a phantom alarm clock? Surely the show isn't trying to say there were explosives there? Right?

This hardened criminal actually makes a pretty decent woman. This is a no judgment corner. We fully support criminals in their disguises of expression. They should give lessons to all Female Leads who think drawing a mustache is enough to pass as a man.

The manhole clock blew up... THERE WAS NO BOOM BOOM ATTACHED TO THAT CLOCK!!!! Nah! I am not buying this shit! Literally shit. Hehe! Ew.

Bumbling cop zips up bag for the robber. What... an... idiot... AND IT'S ON CAMERA!!!! Oh his goose is cooked!!! Yeah, he is never living that one down. 

Tian Xi Wei is rocking this all black outfit, by the way. This is a Tian Xi Wei appreciation corner and we believe in supporting women around here. 

We support Director Gao for his ass kicking ways of verbal leadership and his appreciation for talents like Li Qian. 

Why is Li Qian struggling to put a suitcase up in the train bin? Ma'am! I've seen a certain lady named Fan Changyu carry her 200lbs husband on her back with zero problem! Will TXW grace us with her formidable toned muscles in this show?

This is an appreciation comment for TXWs signature head bobbing of approval. 

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Doubt our doubts? Doubt the doubt of our doubts? Press X to doubt... again. That was almost like the kind of snarky comment I would make. Am I really that confusing to follow?

What do you want to bet this Rong guy is in the wrong? Gasp! He has heard of the doubting doubts! He may be wRong... but he has the right information. 

I dunno, fam. Pulling a knife on the store owner is a good way to make a lasting impression... and not in a good way. If you are trying to not make him suspicious about where all your gold came from, especially since he knows about the robbery, this is the exact wrong thing to do. Our "Hardened" Criminals are not very bright, are they? I am just waiting to make an innuendo about hardened... I can sense it coming. Bah Dun Tisssssss!!!

So is this Captain Ye guy good or bad? Does he also suspect something? Or is he covering something up? He's acting all sneaky by going back into his office. Does he know something about their Mentor Lu and his death? 

I do hope they are switching out the blowing straws on those breathalyzers... Because that is how germs are spread! Can you believe that we used to be so chill about spitting on cakes in front of everyone to eat? Shudders.

Why run in a straight line from the car? You need to zig zag... Or just run into the trees? Do something! Bruh!

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There is a lot of flashing red on this big map screen. It seems our intrepid Chief Zhang has created an entire city traffic jam. But have no fear! Li Qian comes in clutch with the perfect logic that a show of massive force is a great deterrence for drunk drivers! Our lady is quick on her feet. 

Our hardened criminals have made a sandwich in the backseat with a man and bought a car from him. It's apparently time to get their criminal ways rolling again. Not to worry though... They buckle up for safety! Nevermind. It is time to worry. The brakes have failed and they just miss having a semi truck turn them into pancakes. 

"We must begin with the end in mind" is some seriously fantastic logic from a career criminal. The fact that they plan to rob a corrupt official almost makes them modern day Robin Hoods.  Though talking about "taking out" Zheng, the guy whom they sold the gold to, kind of sounds like they have murder on the mind. 

How bad does your luck have to be to plan to murder a shady car dealer, but instead stumble across another murder?

Captain Ye is our murder victim. RIP. Ye wrote a name on a stone that was found under his body... Zhangs name! Gasp! Zhang has a solid alibi! Thank goodness! This is a trope I am happy to miss.

Li Qian is also well versed in poetry and can match Zhang line for line. She calls out that the death of Chief Lu might be connected.  

Zhangs alibi gets shaky when the lady who delivered his food has now gone missing and it's confirmed Ye wrote the name in his blood. Somehow the biggest evidence against him is Li Qian saying she only dropped Zhang off near his house. Really cracking the case here, aren't they?

Our trio of Zhang, Li, and Song drive round and round all around the station entrance while making the poor gate officer constantly open and close the gate because Song is a lost puppy without directions and has no idea where to drive. 

Off they finally go after being informed that the address of the missing delivery lady has been found. Captain Wang is being super unhelpful by texting live update to Chief Qi. Li Qian is the only one with a brain by calling the landlord who conveniently has her phone number on a posted sign. I stand corrected. Qian asks to break down the door and the landlord wisely says no because she has the key. DUH!!! Cmon, Qian! As they taught us in the firefighting academy... "Try before you pry". 

Zhang turns into Sherlock Holmes and starts describing the characteristics of the lady by her personal items, shocking everyone until he confesses it's because he has seen her before.

The lady in question is at the bus/train station with her husband and child trying to make a getaway... And someone is watching them.

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Mr. Rong is gifted a God of Wealth statue after Hu Jianren brings in Mr. Zhou who is quite an eccentric guy when he is asked where this statue should be placed. 

While discussing how to find and rob a corrupt official, our hardened criminals spot our missing delivery lady at the station. Surely they don't think our fleeing couple are officials? 

Meanwhile our trio of Zhang, Li, and Song are going to the train station because Zhang has "intuition". 

It seems this Fang Yong gentleman that everyone keeps looking at in the newspaper could be our potential target.

While Li Qian and Song Xing are doing things the proper way by checking in with the station security, Zhang decides he's too cool for that and goes to hope the gate like a movie star badass! SPLAT. What an idiot. 

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However, he is quickly rewarded by spotting the fleeing couple on the platform. Zhang pulls a voice recorder and gets his alibi proven. The husband, Li Feng, pulls a knife and says he killed them. Killed who? Do tell! Sadly he drops the knife and the scene of Li Qian beating his ass that I was hoping for doesn't happen. Sad. 

Hu Jianren and Mr. Zhou are discussing the statue and it turns out this is the same stolen statue our criminals sold to Mr. Zheng. It seems Bowen is trying to make some money off his boss here. Scammers be scamming! Bowen is informed by Head of Security Li Penggai that Captain Ye is dead and appears to be quite shocked.

Mr. Rong has a very interesting reaction to this news of death. Anger and disbelief. He demands to know who did the deed. Hmmm, I wonder what their connection was. 

Sidenote: I was calling Jianren as Bowen for awhile until I realized I was wrong. Keeping the names straight is always the hardest for me. Please bare with me. 

On this episode of Shark Tank meet Mr. Rong who believes he can make the sharks stop moving with his innovative arm swinging technique.

Zhang is brought to the hospital following his stupid ass gate jump and apparently starts hallucinating his shoes starting to brightly shine? The absolute heck was that? Li Qian calls to inform him that Li Feng has confessed to robbery and murder and he has now been caught thanks to Zhang creating a massive traffic jam. Talk about being Born With Luck here! Roll credits!

Mr. Rong is suspecting Bowen of killing Captain Ye after telling him at the party to clean up his mess or Ye won't have mercy. That's a little too easy. I doubt we will know the killer this fast.

Li Feng kills the people who hurt his wife, Jiang Yang, throughout her life. I am not going to repeat all the nasty shit that happened to her but anyone who reads my comments know that I am cheering on this man for avenging his lady. *Cough cough* I mean... murder is bad. Murder sends you to prison. Don't murder anyone. That's rude. Always follow the law. We don't tolerate criminals around here. During his robberies to support them he did murder innocent people. That obviously removes my support for him. 

Gasp! Li Feng was hired by an old cellmate to murder an older officer. While he didn't actually follow through we know know for sure that Lu was murdered. Li Feng is smart enough to bargain the name of his cellmate to see his family again. 

Mr. Rong confronts Bowen about Yes death and pulls a gun on him! But OMG, Mr. Butterfingers drops it and we have a three-way scramble for it! Bowen wins and Rong cowers. Bowen flips the script and asks to be shot if they truly don't trust him. Innocent? Great actor? What is this thing that Bowen handled half a year ago? Why did they hire a hitman back then?

After seeing his family Le Feng names Fei, AKA Scarface, as his cellmate. Fei was the hitman that Rong and Bowen were just talking about. Interesting.

We meet Fei and I think this guy should be nicknamed Joker instead of Scarface. Jianren asks him if anyone knows that he hired Fei to kill. Fei rats out Li Feng but says neither did the murder. Fei is buried alive. 

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Zhang and Wang are seeking Fei and we learn how Fei became Scarface.  AH! The Horror! Fam, I have a strong stomach and I have been hands deep in blood before... but I was cringing! I'll just let Tian Xi Wei express my feelings.

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Li Penggai is off to retrieve the hard drive in Feis apartment. Dumbass pried before he tried. He is spotted by Song as he tries to flee and us viewers are subjected to shaky face cams that make me want to vomit. I was hoping we would finally see Li Qian beat some ass.. but again disappointment.

I JUST WANT TO SEE TIAN XI WEI LAY SOME BEATDOWN!!!  

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Fang Yong likes poetry so to win him over and secure a contract for Rong, Jianren is apparently looking for a poetic young lady. We all see where this is going, right? While Rong says this is too vulgar and they need a more cultured approach I still think Li Qian is going to end up somehow quoting poetry to this old man. 

Li Qian proposes a theory to Zhang that the reason Captain Ye rocked his blood was the send a message that Zhang was onto something about the death of Chief Lu. Zhang, having forgotten his age and jumped around, is in too much pain to give much appreciation to our brilliant young lady. 

Our brilliant hardened criminals play dress up, sneak into a news room, release a roach, scare a poor lady, all to read files about Fang Yong. Man... If only this news department put out something called a newspaper. That would probably help. There is clearly a camera watching them and we cut to see Chief Qi staring intently at his laptop. Suspicious. 

Zhang is trying everything he can to GTFO outta this town. So Song has the DUI checkpoint ideas and Zhang was hoping to take blame from them. Li Qian is on his ass like a bad smell! Li Qian is a very intelligent and beautiful woman and deduces Zhang is up to something so she rats his ass out to Qi and Wang. Zhang is clearly born with luck that he can see the future!  It's also hinted that he may be trying to stay out of the spotlight because maybe he pushed that guy off the roof back in episode one?

Li Qian comes running outside to the farewell for Zhang with an empty suitcase and such emotional distress claiming that she is responsible for Zhangs new injury! She almost goes full Fan Changyu and says she will be responsible for him! Zhang is then called out for his Sherlock Holmes brilliance and the sun shines upon him!

What in the Harry Potter is going on here? His picture in this newspaper is moving and straightening its tie. The heck?  Zhang is clearly hallucinating! Right? 

Rong clearly has some hand in Chief Lus death, but wants to meet Zhang to find out who killed Captain Ye. Yeah, bruh. Zhang is going to sniff your ass out like a dog making friends! 

The memorial service for Captain Ye is held and honored by his fellow officers and Rong and Co. Rong and Ye grew up together and appear to have kept the friendship honest and legal. Rong begs Zhang to find the killer.

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