#how?!!!

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But we also know that social mobility is crap. It's pretty damn poor in modern day Europe, and for much of history it's been practically non-existent.

This episode CRACKED ME UP even though there was ZERO ROMANCE in this well other than Dad and Lin Xun’s mom in the past and even that was documenting their split sighs but IT WAS STILL HILARIOUS I NEVER APPRECIATED HOW HANDSOME 2ND BRO IS? WOW HE IS HANDSOME OKAY WHAT IS HIS NAME... ah okay his english name is Will Chang lmao okay yes Will is ridiculously handsome too altho no one can top Lee Si Kang atm

The Korean & Chinese language switcher: Wow, I still have NOT gotten used to that like YJC is speaking and thinking in Korean and everyone else has Google Translate installed in their brains I still cannot wrap my brain around that even tho I can understand half the Korean without subs BUT STILL

No CP scenes in this one: BUT we do get YJC being all cute and going to Lin Xun’s house to give him a gift THIS OPPA HAS IT BAD FOR LIN XUN OKAY I TOLD YOU GUYS I RECOGNISED THE LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT LOOK but anyway he doesn’t get to see him, and then we get Lin Xun being all sad and also yelling at his not-Dad (DEFINITELY NOT HIS DAD OKAY OTHERWISE IT’S INCEST ALR) for being a rude asshole over the phone

Fights between the brothers: EXCELLENT and quite funny AND I NEVER EXPECTED 2ND BRO TO BE THE MEDIATOR?!!!! like YJD is the one kind of speaking up for big bro and asking third bro to calm down NEVER EXPECTED I THOUGHT IT’D BE THE OTHER WAY ROUND

4th son saga: OKAY so like I love how Dad made the leap that Lin Xun is his son like it was a pretty far leap like he was SO SURE THAT Lin Xun’s mom HAD to have his kid never mind they haven’t seen each other in a gazillion years and thus starting his three sons on a wild good chase for Lin Xun

So in episode two we get:

We start off with Lin Xun and his mom in a wheelchair who’s terminally ill, and if you guys read the character profiles you’ll know that Lin Xun’s mom used to be lovers with the brothers’ Dad, and they were childhood friends - Anyway, Lin Xun’s mom tells him to call the old lover when she dies

And we fast forward to Lin Xun packing up his mom’s stuff, because also if you read the character profiles (otherwise this info comes as a bit abruptly XD) his mom dies while Lin Xun is saving YJC (because his phone dropped when they rode off on his motorbike and the hospital called him then, so he missed the call - all of which is kind of unexplained in the 2nd ep) 

ANW Lin Xun is berating himself for saving the korean oppa because otherwise he would have been able to see his mom for the last time

So he finds the slip of paper with the Dad’s number written on it (I call him Dad but HE IS NOT LIN XUN’S DAD argh) and so he calls the number and Dad picks up and it takes him like two sentences to figure out that Lin Xun is calling on behalf on his mom and he asks Lin Xun to get his mom to talk to him (he doesn’t know that it’s her son he’s speaking to at this point)

And Lin Xun passes on the message: “She asked me to tell you that you lost, after all” - And cue flashback to Dad and Mom splitting and they bet each other that they would never see each other again until either of them dies and of course Dad is like wtf she was the love of my life kind of and she’s dead I’m grieving and in disbelief and he yells at Lin Xun to get his mom to talk to him

Lin Xun basically yells at him for yelling and mentions on the way that that’s his mother and when Dad hangs up his SHOOKETH HIS FIRST THOUGHT IS... SHE HAS A SON... AND THAT SON IS MINE... never mind that they haven’t seen each other in forever, he doesn’t know how old this son is etc. etc.

Dad gets secretary to call all his sons to meet him the next morning and this interrupts CUTE LITTLE YJC WHO’S AT LIN XUN’S HOUSE DOWNSTAIRS BY HIS MOTORBIKE WITH A BAG OF TREATS I ASSUME, TO THANK LIN XUN FOR SAVING HIM EVEN THO HE WAS A TOTAL ASSHOLE AT HIS HOUSE

He’s smiling so cutely to himself like LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT?!!! CALLED IT

but dad’s secretary calls and unfortunately he has to go back to the office to meet the Dad before meeting Lin Xun

Cue all three brothers reuniting at the office and LMAOOO 3RD BRO IS LIKE WHAT YOU DOING HERE and big bro is still Korean mode so he’s like why aren’t you talking to me in proper formal Korean to show your elders respect NEVER MIND that in Chinese we don’t have that kind of differentiation in language and tense/form and he’s like you should at least call me big brother right?

THIRD BRO BRINGS OUT THE RECEIPTS: “When I was kidnapped and the kidnappers called you, you just hung up on them! What did you mean huh?!” I AM DYING OF LAUGHTER

Anw 2nd bro mediates and then they go see Dad and LMAOOO okay going to make a The Untamed reference between Dad and Jin Guang Shan because they both have plenty of women hanging around them but DAD IS A BIT MORE SUAVE THAN THAT

2nd bro’s mom is living very happily off the alimony she gets from Dad and is now has a Thai bf

3rd bro’s mom refuses to divorce Dad until she can get one-third of his assets

Dad’s reaction: That’s very good, glad to see she’s (2nd) happy and that she (3rd) has determination LMAOOOO love it

And big bro’s Korean mom is dead :( and obviously big bro is pissed about that, thinking that she’s dead because of Dad

So Dad announces: I’VE GOT A FOURTH SON OUTSIDE

CUE first, second and third bro going, one after the after: “DOES MY MOM KNOW” or in big bro’s case “DID MY MOM KNOW!?”

So Dad promises the sons that whoever can bring Lin Xun back to him, he’ll grant them a wish including his current position and wealth, then passes them Lin Xun’s file and photos

Then OOOH LOOK AT BIG BRO YJC GOING: *in korean* Lin Xun? It’s him? 

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