Such a Good Love Episode 22 Recap, Plot

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Autumn 2016. Faced with the choice between shooting a movie or a commercial, Zhou Shui chose the commercial, which took Dai Daji by surprise. Zhou Shui decided to earn a solid one million yuan, buy a house, get married, and take on the responsibilities a man should. He accompanied Dai Daji to try on wedding dresses.

Dai Daji thought he would hold her hand and they would be immersed in a romantic atmosphere, but Zhou Shui was too busy asking for a discount and swiping his card, which left her feeling disappointed—as if she no longer recognized him. Zhou Shui went to the real estate office to pay the deposit, but Dai Daji returned the money. She had turned down the commercial.

Sitting aimlessly in the car, Dai Daji said she wanted to go home—the first home they had when they came to Beijing. The place was already cleared out and looked like no one had lived there in a long time. Her vanity was still in their room, although the mirror was broken. In that small room they once shared, the two of them sat down to talk.

Dai Daji said she no longer planned to buy a house, so there was no need to do the commercial either. As for marriage, it seemed like they couldn’t get married anymore. Their life together had become nothing but work. But Zhou Shui had promised Dai Daji’s mother that he would buy a house before the end of the year—this time, he couldn’t break his promise.

They were already thirty years old and had to give up certain things to face reality. But Dai Daji couldn’t accept that kind of reality. On the rooftop, Dai Daji looked up at the sky, full of memories. Her love with Zhou Shui had begun with film, and she wanted to reclaim their ideals—only then could love return. Zhou Shui had always believed they would get married.

When they had nothing, they stood firmly together—now that things were better, shouldn’t marriage come even more naturally? He took out the pull-tab from a soda can and proposed to Dai Daji, but she refused. She didn’t want to marry herself off so casually. They had to make the movie. They didn’t come to Beijing just to buy a house and get married.

Zhou Shui reached into his pocket for the engagement ring, feeling afraid—what would happen if they gave everything up for the future? But he still decided to shoot the movie as Dai Daji said, also to save their love. In 2016, China’s film market was booming, and once again, Zhou Shui and Dai Daji stood at a crossroads in life.

By autumn 2024, Dai Daji asked Dong Leyi to help her move—her landlord wanted to sell the place, and she had to move downstairs. Su Zihao came to pick up his girlfriend from work and ran into Zhou Shui and Xiao Juan with a child. They were planning to enroll the child in a preschool program. When Su Zihao found out Zhou Shui wasn’t the child’s father, he was surprised.

Yet Zhou Shui asked for his help with school matters, and Su Zihao didn’t understand why he was so invested. Dai Daji had still never bought a house after all these years. Dong Leyi said she had missed out on six million yuan because of it. Zhou Shui and Dai Daji went to see Producer Sister Chao, but the script for Such A Good Love was labeled “low” by her. She insisted on turning it into a romantic idol drama.

Left with no choice, Zhou Shui and Dai Daji began rewriting the script, but they couldn’t find the right feeling for an idol drama. Their revised script was dismissed by Sister Chao as showing “petty ambition due to poverty,” and she ultimately kicked Zhou Shui out of the writing team. Frustrated, Zhou Shui and Dai Daji temporarily shut down their company, paid Xiaoyu’s salary, and planned to resume work after finishing the movie.

They decided to regroup their “useless five” team. But Sister Chao replaced the entire main creative team and treated Dai Daji like an assistant, even making her run errands for skincare products. Wang Jingshu helped Dai Daji handle it all and bid her farewell—she had decided to study abroad, taking control of her own destiny. At the Such A Good Love press conference, Man Jiaxin handed Zhou Shui a cue card to read from—but it didn’t mention Dai Daji at all.

Meanwhile, Wang Jingshu was pregnant and arranged a meeting with Liao Zong’s wife. She planned to pursue a Master’s in Business Administration at NYU. The money, as Liao’s wife explained, was a way to ensure peace of mind when Wang Jingshu and her daughter would eventually inherit their share. After the press conference, Dai Daji realized she didn’t want to be forever standing behind Zhou Shui. Clearly, they had both contributed equally. She wanted to be the film’s co-director. Zhou Shui was a bit surprised but agreed—though Dai Daji had already spoken with Man Jiaxin about it.

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