Her City (2023)

Yeah, men are still rare goats

I've probably never liked a story in a drama as much as I liked it in Her World. My respect to the author of the idea and the scriptwriter of this series. I have liked almost everything about this drama. The only thing I didn't like was the opening credits. They are well done, but as for me, there is too much pink colour in them. As I have already written, I don't like pink. Therefore, when I was watching the opening credits, the large amount of pink was cutting my eyes. But that was the only drawback of the series that I found for myself. I haven't lowered my score for the series only because of this, cause the drama Her World deserves a 10, no less.

The series is pleasant and easy to watch. The episodes flew by unnoticed for me. Everything in the series was harmonious, the plot did not sag anywhere. It was interesting for me to watch from start to finish. Wen De Guang makes good dramas. In addition to the favourite Chinese actresses and actors, I now have a favourite Chinese director. I think you guess who it is. By the way, I have been happy to see Wen De Guang in this drama in the second episode at 4:13 driving a taxi. :)

In the series, a woman's life is shown as it really is in real life, without embellishments and fairy tales. The scene in the thirtieth episode at 30:52 moved me. This is how life really is for us, women: hard to the point of tears. And the song that sounds immediately after this scene reflects my life. It's about me and is written especially for me by God's plan, just as by God's plan this whole drama is filmed for me.

In the first episode of this series, one of the main heroines says that at the age of thirty-five, the midlife crisis begins for women. I strongly disagree with her. On the contrary, a woman's period from thirty to forty years are the period of her greatest flourishing, both outside and inside. I see it in myself. I have never been as beautiful, attractive, intelligent and sexy as I am now. And I will soon be thirty-five years old. In the fifth episode, at 13:24, there is an inscription “30 years, The town at its prime”. Similarly, the flowering of a woman begins at the age of thirty.

There was a lot of my favourite sunshine in the drama, as well as a rainbow. For years, I passed by one mini-market, which was located at a petrol station not far from where I lived. It was only when I was watching the series that I finally paid attention to the title of that mini-market: Sun Market. Moreover, the signboard with the title of that mini-market depicts a sunflower.

Sunflowers are also featured in the drama Her World. Thus, a sunflower can be seen in the first episode at 16:06 and in the eighth episode at 42:56. By the way, my mum, like the mother of the main heroine of the drama Li Ying Nan, has a sunflower on the messenger avatar on her smartphone. I put that picture myself on her avatar back at the beginning of 2023.

I was very happy to hear the song O Sole Mio in the seventh episode of the series, and on such a scene :):):) (the song is also sounded in the twenty-seventh episode). That Neapolitan song was written in 1898 in Odesa. Yes, yes, in the same Odesa where I lived and studied at university for five years. The title of this song means “My sun” in Neapolitan. Also, in Her World, as in Game of Wisdom, Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor sounds.

There were so many blue and yellow colours in the drama, and they shimmered so much that they made my eyes twinkle. And in the eleventh episode of the series, at 3:29, I saw Ukrainian flags again. :) I also noticed that Xie Chang Jiang's first wife in the series was called Jiang Nan. This is also the name of the historical region of China, Jiangnan, which apparently Wen De Guang is very fond of. :)

I saw lions in the drama, though, unfortunately, they were toy lions. :) A lion can be seen in the first episode at 37:28, in the second episode at 18:25 and in the fourth episode at 37:12. The third episode featured a song by singer Leo. Again, a lion was mentioned. This is Dark Blue with the song Blue. Everything is just as I like it: it's all solid blue. :) In the fifth episode, at 32:36, the car number plate of Darren Chen's character reads “B-LEO7L”. And again, a lion.

In the tenth episode, at 33:30 (what a numbers game :), Ai Ying wears Chanel earrings. In the twelfth episode, at 3:41, Ying Xiao Mei's earrings are also by Chanel. In the thirteenth episode, at 13:52, Ai Ying wears a Chanel suit (Ai Ying was generally very well dressed in the drama. I liked her red suits the most). In the fifteenth episode, at 9:20 and 20:11, Ai Ying wears Chanel earrings again. The main heroines in the drama often wore things by Chanel.

You may ask me why I think these things are by Chanel. I will tell you that I know the Chanel logo very well, because I have myself a red Chanel bath towel with its logo on it. Many of the things worn by the main heroines in the series have this logo on them too. In the fifteenth episode, at 38:42, the fence has a pattern similar to the Chanel logo. And in the third episode, at 17:55, the age of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ was mentioned again. That's why I have written about the game of numbers. Everything is not accidental and has a meaning, including in this drama.

Canada is mentioned again in the drama. One of the characters, Ying Chong, grew up in Canada. That was probably the only male character in the series that I liked. I like exactly such a type of man. However, he also has a significant drawback: he snores terribly. :) In addition, in the fifteenth episode, at 33:27, I saw an anthurium again, just like in Game of Wisdom, which I had recently bought for myself.

The twentieth episode of the drama mentions the 1993 film Schindler's List. I watched that film and liked it. It's a hard film, but you won't regret it if you watch it. In Her World, Xu Xin's mother had Alzheimer's disease, as did Fu Xin Tong's mother in Turn on the Right Way to Life, and one of the patients in Dr. Tang. In the twenty-fifth episode, the doctor tells Ying Xiao Mei that she is thirty-four years old and that she looks young for her age. I am thirty-four years old now and I look younger than my age too.

In the thirty-first episode at 40:07, Li Ying Nan says: “Even if there isn't a shred of light, I can be my own light”. Earlier, before I watched Her World, I watched a similar Chinese drama about the fates of three women called Be Your Own Light. Interesting fact: the actress who acts in Her World Luo Qian Qian is called Zhao Yuan Yuan. In Be Your Own Light, one of the three main female characters is also named Zhao Yuan Yuan.

While watching Her World, I was once again haunted by the capital English letter “G” (how it has already bothered me (!) :):):). Thus, when I was watching the series, I bought a small vase. As I have found out after the purchase, this vase is from the firm G-HORSE. Then I saw the letter “G” in the drama, in the thirtieth episode at 13:05 (hint: look to the right side of the screen from you). There are also male characters in this drama, such as Gao Dong and Gao Yang. The actress who acts Li Ying Nan in the series is called Gao Lu. And in general, in the Chinese dramas I have already watched, there were many characters with the name or surname Gao. Now think about what it all means.

They say that when a woman has no man, she has only one problem: no man. But when a woman has a man, she has a lot of problems. So it is. Now think about whether you need that unhappiness called a man. :) The male characters in Her World are “epic”. I feel like I've watched another version of the series Turn on the Right Way to Life. The first one is a sucker, a jerk and a drunkard, the second is an egoist, a womaniser and a criminal, the third is a slob and a mama's boy.

The most “epic” of them is the first, Xu Xin. Doesn't he remind you of anyone? In one of the scenes, I couldn't stand it and said to him in my voice: “Ugh at you, ugh at you, ugh at you, ugh!” :):):) In the thirty-second episode, at 36:19, Xu Xin takes out a piece of paper from the box on which Li Ying Nan has written the word “Like”. This scene has a hidden meaning. In fact, Li Ying Nan didn't give Xu Xin a like, but returned his like, just like I returned all the likes that scarecrow gave me. Let him take back all his likes and wipe himself with them. I don't need them.

I need a man who will put me on the throne next to him, as Tuo Ba Jun has done with Li Wei Young (Xin Er) in The Princess Wei Young, and will admire and be proud of me, my talents and achievements, not someone who will constantly get drunk and humiliate me. In the end, that scarecrow will get drunk and die somewhere under a fence like a stray dog, and I will get married successfully, have children, live my whole life in peace and prosperity and die in old age, having had enough of my years.

And in the meantime, I'll wiggle my bum in front of him saying “nia-nia, nia-nia-nia” :):):) and run on to the top of the round tower (by the way, Li Ying Nan in the drama worked in a building called TOWER C :). And in general, one has to be a complete down to offend a woman with Venus in Scorpio in her natal chart. :):):) There is no fiercer woman in anger.

Another schmuck in the series, namely Xie Chang Jiang, has said in the twenty-seventh episode that a lion can leave its turf after being defeated. I'm going to contradict him and tell him that a real lion doesn't get defeated. Xie can only dream of becoming a lion. He is a lousy jackal who has sat down in a puddle, nothing more. And I wonder where they have found that guru. Another charlatan and sexist.

Darren Chen's English in the drama is better than his Mandarin. You can immediately recognise that he is a Taiwanese actor. :) And in general, I don't like the Chinese language, neither the writing nor the sound. I still can't get used to that “barking”. It cannot be compared to the Ukrainian language. Ukrainian is like a nightingale singing, and Chinese is like a mad dog barking. Among Asian languages, Korean language is the most melodious for me, then Japanese.

I don't like such sweet boys as Darren Chen. The only such boy I fell in love with when I was about fifteen years old was Tolkien's fictional character from the Lord of the Rings, the elf Legolas, acted by Orlando Bloom (it was hard not to fall in love with him, wasn't it? :). But even then, with my mind, I thought Aragorn was the best. The more so I think so now, not only with my mind but also with my heart. And guess Whom Aragon is the prototype of in The Lord of the Rings. Can't guess? Here's a hint: the third and final part of The Lord of the Rings is called The Return of the King. Do you understand now?

Her World is a wonderful drama that teaches women not to be subservient and humiliated in front of men, but to love and respect themselves. Just like the main heroine of the drama Li Ying Nan, I wondered why everyone was insulting me when I had never done anything wrong to anyone in my entire life. I have found the answer: the world is cruel, and people are evil, and they perceive your kindness and decency as weakness. People only respect those they fear. But this does not mean that you have to be evil like them. It means that you have to be able to defend yourself.

Women should be able to defend themselves all the more, because life and people are most cruel to them. Only a complete idiot doesn't know that women have a much harder life in the world than men. However, God loves women more than men. Many more women than men believe in and listen to the true God. Men, in response to God's appeals to repent and change, close their eyes and cover their ears, hiding from God and His instructions.

Aslan said it right about the men in The Magician's Nephew: “Oh Adam's sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!” You can't say it better. I advise you to read all seven parts of The Chronicles of Narnia. At first glance, this story may seem like a fairy tale for children, but there is more real in it than you think. But before reading this book, I advise you to read at least the New Testament of the Bible. Then the content of the book will be clearer. When I read all the parts of The Chronicles of Narnia, I was very impressed. I am still impressed. I have never met in any book, film, or TV series a character who is as similar to Jesus Christ as the lion Aslan. And that says it all.

It's a good thing Her World is a web drama. If the drama were broadcast on Chinese television, half of it would be cut out. Then I wouldn't have seen many of the scenes that I did, like the scene where one dude was peeing in a plastic bag in the lift. :):):) I laughed so hard at that scene that I cried. This Chinese drama is more real and life-like than other Chinese dramas.

There are also specific hints of sex in this drama. Although Xi Jinping needs to stick a sticker on his forehead with the inscription: “There is no sex in the PRC. I canceled it”. :):):) When will Xi Jinping start going to the gym? He keeps eating caviar pancakes with putin. He's already as fat as a bear. In a word, Winnie the Pooh.

In conclusion, I dedicate to the three main heroines of the drama Her World a song by Mary J. Blige called Family Affair. I wish these heroines, as well as all other women, to do what Mary J. sings about in her song, that is, to dance and forget about those goats... i.e. men. :) And “no more drama” in our lives. When you will watch the official video for this song, pay attention to the blue and yellow t-shirt of Dr. Dre with “LAKERS” and “34” written on it. This is another “hi” to me from the Lord, because I am now thirty-four years old and I often walk and sunbathe on the lake.

In the end, I will tell you what kind of man I like and whom I would really marry: reliable, stable, loyal, faithful; practical, realistic, not throwing money away, but at the same time not stingy or greedy, because I can't stand such people; a leader and a fighter in life, with excellent organisational skills; someone who can provide for and protect not only himself, but also his family, his wife and kids; kind and merciful to children; honest and open, not someone who walks around the bush in a round dance; a real organiser, a real husband and a real father. In general, a real man.

But there is only one such man in the world — Jesus Christ (if not counting Mei Chang Su from Nirvana in Fire, but he is a fictional character of the drama, so I don't take him into account). You probably think that I have too high requirements for a man, but in fact I am only looking for a man like me. It's a pity that all men are jerks except Jesus Christ.

So to Him, as a Real Man and a Real God, I dedicate a music track from the first season of the South Korean drama Arthdal Chronicles titled Alive God, Aramun Haesulla, although this track should be renamed to Alive God, Jesus Christ. I also dedicate to Christ a music track from the South Korean TV series Empress Ki called The Greatest Day. When He comes again, it will be the greatest day for all the righteous of the world. Come, Lord Jesus!

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