My Stand-In (2024) Episode 5

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1. Honestly I think Ming should date Tong, they are a match made in heaven – oh I mean in hell! Joe deserves a better man. Someone who actually loves him for him not to be someone else’s replacement just because they have “the same back” or they share the same name !!!

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2. Ming has a $hitty attitude, so he invited Joe to dinner just to send him away bcos he was pissed? Oh please?
   He should have tot of it wen he was crying like a bish bcos the man he wanted didn’t want him but his sister. Pu$$ya$$! He shouldn’t even try to piss me off, I’m already pissed but still?

   The photoshoot, Ming and Joe looked so good, OMG!!!!!!!!!!
   Idk who casted this guy as Ming, I mean his innocent face is killing me, Joe looked so manly I wanna spend all my life savings ($10) on him!
   Tong is two faced bish, I don’t even like him

   The oppa with the eyeliner?? I like him

   I hope life doesn’t push Joe to the extreme, he seems to be finding it difficult not to live his past life?

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3. I wish they stuck to the monk rather than a fortune teller. And they changed that connection to his father?? Wth? It was supposed to be MingSu’s master. Yan MingSu is Ming’s older brother. P’Mike is probably MingSu. They’re taking the character set-up of MingSu and distributing it to other characters.

   1st, they changed May into a supportive and loving sister (which takes away the character set-up of MingSu in which he’s the only one who cared to support Ming acter Joe’s accident when everyone in the family are turning a blind eye that Ming is suffering due to a death of a male “lover” and he’s the only one who accepted Ming for being gay). 2nd, as I’ve mentioned the monk (in the LA is a fortune teller). The monk would show the supernatural events that Joe went through and the connection between Joe and Ming which involves fate and karma.  Changing it into a fortune teller kinda makes it shallow. Besides it is an opportunity for them to show their culture. I really don’t get why they had to change that. 3rd, MingSu having a monk as a master would show that he is not the type of wealthy person whose life only revolves around money and that he is someone who values the teachings of his master. If P’Mike is MingSu, then I’m disappointed. They robbed the novel MingSu.

   There are probably those that are frustrated that Joe still have some feelings for Ming. You should remember that for Joe it’s only been a few months and besides he gave Ming his whole heart, him loving Ming wouldn’t disappear in a snap no matter how hurt he was. I liked how Poom showed Joe’s feelings, you can really see it his eyes softening while watching Ming but then the moment he heard how Ming would only smile when he’s acting in that snake’s movies, you can see how it made his walls higher and stronger.

   I don’t get why Joe was looking aimlessly around his house. Ming left it EXACTLY how it was 2 years ago.

   Why does Jim have lots of screentime? His character in the novel is just like a named extra. A personal assistant who’s just trying to make a living by doing his job properly. It doesn’t have any important details that could affect the story. But he’s being highlighted so much with all the micro expressions that it makes me nervous.

   I’m really happy Joe is enjoying his mother’s love. Protect Chen Ying at all cost (I still can’t remember her name in the LA, was it mentioned in ep1?). The pressure Joe is going through. It’s like there is a invisible hands pushing and pulling strings to make Joe’s 2nd life overlap with his 1st life. Who’s a stand-in of who?

   An episode without that snake’s face ?? hooray!

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4. Ming is so damn annoying I seriously can’t stand him.. He’s literally the reason Joe “died” yet he’s acting as if Joe actually meant something to him like pls shut up.. Joe please bro don’t make the same mistake twice ?
   And why is everyone just casually going into Joe’s house like it’s nothing? so annoying omg

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5. SPOILERS
   Did they really need to beat up that sweet mom?? Tearing up her place was already too much. gosh.
   There really is something wrong with the world, when you have to go to a loan shark for medical bills. smh

   uhhh, Wut just said ‘his good boy Joe was fired by Tong’ but Wut KNOWS he fell off a cliff and has not been found. is he hiding this fact?

   We will just ASSUME that the stunts were all discussed, and planned out BEFORE Joe was tied to the chair. goodness.

   Why does Wut even HAVE Joe’s bank book? is he spending/accessing it?

   OH? Jim is a total cutie pie.

   ahahaha….the plot thickens. Ming has been told that his Joe is neither alive, nor dead. No WONDER he’s been hanging out and waiting.

   NOPE. WHO has Tong had standing in for him for the last TWO years??? Why’s he suddenly need a new stand-in????

   Aww, heartbreaking that one of the twins didn’t survive. But as she was pg 2 yrs ago, forward 9 months to birth, then 15 more months to Joe’s return, this baby HAS to be about 15ish months old. Not an infant (as those cries sounded like). TIMELINES
   You’d think Joe would just TELL Wut at this point. (UNLESS, Joe is a baddie in hiding)
   ok, seems like Wut just doesn’t talk about Joe’s accident. I wish he WOULD tell Wut who he really is.
   Saying that Ming MADE Joe die, isn’t really fair.

   Gosh Poom really is GORGEOUS! like in any scene, any outfit, any anything…. goodness.
   Stylized Up is freaking hot too. See thru lace? YES PLEASE>
   HOLY HECK those freaking expressions during the shoot, grabbin all up on Joe. Poor Joe, his heart must have been racing a 100 mpm!
   Not like he’s had 2 years of respite, or ability to ‘get over’ Ming. He still has all those feelings, but he should ALSO have all the caution, hurt, and very clear memories of just how much Ming hurt him.
   But, love clouds are eyes and our brains. sigh

   UGH! NOT THE SAME RESTAURANT!
   Poor lil nibblet, falling asleep at the table. :))
   I hate how dismissive Ming was to Joe. smh

   Hilarious that he told Jojo that he was ‘breaking into someone’s house.’ hahah
   Sol’s in town! (and apparently ALSO has free reign to Joe’s old place)
   DANGGG cliff hanger!

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6. I don’t know who Ming thinks he is, questionning Joe like he is a kind of police officer. LEAVE HIM ALONE!!!And Joe, get a grip you make me uneasy.

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7. I swear Joe is just serving all kinds of avant-garde looks and sizzles in everything they put on him in this episode. Elegantly demure in a beret and a sex god beast in a black tank top, putting my already mush mind in a trance.., my wild kinky imagination is now singing to his soul.., ə-ˈhem.., I want to French kiss you in Paris, hold your hand in Rome, run naked in a rainstorm and make sweet love to you in a train.., cross-country. lol.. You put this in me, Joe! So now what? I’m wanting, needing, waiting.., for you.., to justify my love (m). But then I get this fricking alert that I have to be in a conference call in 15 minutes and just ruins my whole happy delusional Thursday afternoon imagination, Ugh! It was all good and fun when it lasted, lol…… Protect Joe’s mom at all costs! Love her! Happy Friday/Weekend! Long Memorial Day Weekend, USA! Yay! Gottstagoooo… Adjiossssss!

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8. This bish really said with his whole chest and soul ‘if he is still alive why is he not coming back to me?’ *hold me THE F back*
   Ming and Tong snake ? selves are coming from all angles to hunt Joe 2.0. They need to stoppp.
   Also, Joel got some tight nyash in does black pants tho?. I SEEEE HIMMM ??
   He be taking unnecessary risks too like he will not get caught. Like bro ‘leave the money be’ ??‍♀️ .

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9. I keep trying to defend Joe thinkin he gonna give Ming hell.. BUT NOOOOO my man is making it hard bro. WHY U LOOKING AT MING. AHHH ? THAT HEART BETTER NOT HAVE GONE ALL BA-THUMP BA-THUMP.

   YOU SHOULDVE BROKE THOSE COUPLE CUPS AND WALKED OUT

   Alo why is Sol there.

   Not Ming acting sus.. Joe u about to be a stand-in to ur stand-in self.

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10. I like the technique used to show Joe’s face seamlessly switched between the original Joe and Joe 2.0

    Joe surprised me when he said what he was planning for his time off. ?

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11. Ming is shameless.. Why joe want back to him? What in their relationshiop was so wonderful
    Him used joe, no loved him a once and caused him. Much pain.

    Is totally blind to reality. Lives in a different world…mingland.

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12. I really dislike Ming. I can’t stand Tong. I have some reservations about Sol and honestly I have serious doubts about this secretary Jim.? Poor Joe, even in this “new” life his existence feels like nothing but and endless cycle of BS. It seems he is fated to be a stand-in not only in action movies, but also for a sweet woman as her beloved son, ironically as a stand-in of no one but himself, since people can’t get used to that he has the same name as the previous Joe they knew. Ming reminding him of that… And worse of all, – as the next episode preview tell, – he will find himself working as Tong’s stand-in once again…

    Oh I just hope this time around this will be a a great opportunity to witness Tong’s downfall. May it happen ASAP ? Let Joe get some neat front seat to see that while he also makes Ming suffer with the realization of how he had been enamored with liar and mere fantasies.

    Deep down I think Ming is figuring little by little, but he is blind, too proud, and stubborn to even admit it. To admit he shares a deep connection with Joe. Because he is adamant that his crush was on Tong all along. ? (Maybe a slap would wake him to reality, or not.) He is the sole one to recognize his presence without needing Joe to utter a word. Sol doesn’t feel it. P’Wut is becoming suspicious because of Joe careless slips of his past self knowledge. Ming however, feels something off about this new Joe, and is rubbing off on him, that someone is reminding him of the Joe he hasn’t gave up on searching and waiting for. Maybe he feels like this new Joe is taking the old Joe’s place, and he doesn’t like it. Weird way for him to show his feelings, but I guess living in the environment he probably did shaped him to be the lil’ bish he is with a snarky personality to match. He has no filters, hardly realizes how words can cut deeper than blades. Crazy how even after 2 years he still hasn’t learned that or has learned to appreciate what and whom he has, or well, had.

    Ngl, for me he could wait his whole life… for a second chance with Joe.

    but if that means he gets to live in Joe’s home rent free…

    Nah huh CAN’T HAVE THAT. ? GET THE F OUT and get a new house.

    Ming should start considering his need to grovel for that chance with this new Joe. And Joe better make his life hard and not fall easy into any emotional craps or lingering feelings he might have…. So what if Ming made a Kintsugi of the cups? He still keeps them stored in a box and not on display. As if it’s part of the past, carefully hidden away in a box, like an old memory. So what if he has been staying at Joe’s loft all this time? Keeping the lights on every single night and cooking ramen for two. Keeping the empty promise he made 2 years ago doesn’t mean anything when he is still this impatient and still hasn’t learn how to value everything. ? He isn’t thinking of Joe, Joe’s feelings or safety either, but on his own selfish motives alone. He made Joe become his anchor, his safe space even in the past and is void now that he has lost it. Newsflash: Joe is a person and not a toy or possession. And he can’t lose something or in this case someone he never had. The most tragic thing in all of this is Joe still harboring some feelings for Ming, despite the latter having been one of the culprits for ruining his previous life and hardworking career.

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13. Am I missing something over here?
    Why does Sol have an access to oldJoeMing’s house?

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14. The whole time I was like “Joe I know Ming looks good but stay focused he needs to redeem himself first!” ?

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15. They cannot make me like Ming! Sure I’ll eat my words at some point but right now I detest him. If someone’s only redeeming quality is their romantic love for one person, meanwhile they still treat everyone but that person like crap, they’re crap. I don’t even think what he feels for Joe is love. It’s an obsession.

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16. Joe is a genius he wears his black night camo to sneak in his old home with a bright red bag?. But I enjoyed the show so much…

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17. Ming looked dangerously hot here

    I’ve been obsessed with how beautiful Joe is since the start of this series, but I felt my heart skip a beat when Ming gave that look?

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18. At least my boy is experiencing mother’s love in this life ? he isn’t alone now someone is there waiting for him truly at his home with lights open now ???

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19. I don’t know why …but in this episode everytime I see Ming ….my blood boils ..?…. I know he is turning into new leaf ….but I really hate him for what he does …it’s too late … And you are doing merits to correct that? …nooo I am not convinced….?

    I think pwut is also hiding something…I know he is the green? one ….but currently I am seeing everyone suspicious ? everything is red ?

    Bet with me the lift have supernatural powers…??? Everyone just come across with Joe in lift …?

    Ooooo….Joe house is soo unsafe anyone can enter….it’s a cliffhanger…but I am not feeling it …Joe will beat Sol and escape??…?

    PS – at ad shoot scene..Joe said he feel some attraction to Ming not from soul but from body ….
    So here my theory ?…
    The body Joe used to be model …Ming is also a model earlier so I think the body Joe have crush on Ming in past ….
    Let’s wait for personal dairy…he his hiding waiting for his role to come …???

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20. After all horrible things this Ming did to Joe, they try to show us a new Ming “pursuing for happiness” I don’t know why I’m disgusted when I see him approaching Joe.
    Same Ming with his attitude : ” His condescending attitude!

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21. Not only were Wut, that lady and director impressed with Joe’s stunt moves, I am very impressed too ?

    Ming looked really cool dressing in black during that Ad shooting. But Joe, you should stop looking ? at him. Control yourself.

    I didn’t expect Ming to glue the broken cups together. But what he had done to Joe was still unforgivable for now. Let us see what he would do in future to redeem himself.

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22. My turbo comment on the run?

    SPOILER… Here we go again with another loan shark in one of these series? At least Joe didn’t try to get another great payday (and fame) by an unlicensed production team this time. I love that Joe can feel what it’s like to have a loving mom who cares for him (again) even if it’s not his biological mom?

    This Joe seems less naïve on the surface but deep down he’s still affected by Ming’s presence, and it was painfully obvious, not just at that stunt shoot? This Joe is both blessed and cursed to be able to relive his old life. It’s traumatizing and dangerous, but it also gives him the chance for revenge. But to me, he doesn’t seem completely ready for battle?

    Old Joe coming unprepared to his new world is a huge prob. If he isn’t careful, he’s going to end up dead again bc Wut, Ming and pretty much anyone in contact with him thinks he eerily resembles and acts like original Joe? Joe needs to keep his mouth shut – about the old bank account, the twins, breaking into someone’s house, etc. Like who would tell that last one to someone, lol

    Did Joe really think he’d be doing a modelling shoot with Ming for only one time?? He should know Ming enough to know that he wouldn’t be able to escape him that easily. So far, I get the feeling that Joe just wants to help “his” mom out of debt and not planning revenge (yet). Btw I can’t tell you how happy I was NOT to see Tong’s face this ep. Such a welcomed relief! ❤️??

    Now this line tells me everything I need to know about Ming and Joe should WAKE UP!!!– Ming is still a sucker for Tong and madly infatuated with Tong NOT him. Btw the way the woman looked in the back is me, lol Anyways, so Joe better stop all the wavering feelings while looking at those couple mugs before Sol arrived. Don’t get played twice!? Smh

    Sweet Joe, as long as you do this you’ll be fine, But ooops, the last scene happened. I can’t wait to see how Joe gets out of that very sticky situation during that last scene next wk?

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23. It can’t be helped. He was an orphan in his former life. This time he has a mother who can’t bear to lose him and had accumulated debt keeping him hospitalized. As he is the same Joe who was generous and always took care of everyone (his underlings and Sol), Joe can’t allow his mother to suffer because of financial debt. Thus, he falls back into the kind of life he tried to avoid.

    Though this time he turned down being a stand-in for Tong, he could not escape Ming’s grasp. Could Joe still have lingering feelings for Ming?

    Joe don’t swayed by the glued mugs. Remember why they were broken.

    Anyone puzzles how Ming was able to glue the mugs unless he found the shards in the trash? They were broken when he was drunk. Ming woke up the following morning seeing Joe already sat at the dining table.

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24. An entire episode of not seeing Tong’s face ??? What a blessing ??.
    I am so glad Joe gets to experience the love of a mother in this second chance life ??, he deserves it.

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25. May 24, 2024 (10:08 PM)
    ☑️My Stand In, Episode 5 @kisskh*co
    Ming’s secretary is also handsome!

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26. Each episode ends in the blink of an eye!! ?
    Btw, I love Joe’s relationship with (his) mother!! ?

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27. They moving along but they need to get on with it they got about 80 chapters left they got to squeeze into eps 5-12.

    They’ll get to the part where Joe’s mom is sick next week. I wonder if in the same ep they’ll have Joe make that agreement with Ming for the money for his mom’s treatment.
    Ming in the book Ming will be using new Joe as a stand in for old Joe ??‍♀️
    Joe is his own stand in.. I had to laugh at the when I read it in the book.
    Actually in the book the mom was working my last nerve.

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28. Joe, it wasn’t a coincidence that Ming was there (as he’s been there for longer than that).
    But definitely was a coincidence that Sol was.

    Also the contrast between Ming noticing Joe 2.0 (well our Joe but with the new face) and Sol just bypassing him like he’s just a stranger.

    I love Joe and his new mom. He knows how much she sacrificed on her son’s behalf and since he can’t be here, Joe will (on behalf of him) be a good son to her. He can’t explain that he’s not her Joe but this is the best he can do.

    I know Wut blames Ming for Joe’s death. Obviously he knows it’s not directly him because it all has to do with the incompetence regarding the equipment that was used but I get his sentiments.

    I don’t know if it was deliberate but I kinda like Joe making Ming get annoyed with him during that ‘dinner’ or whatever. Joe, you just kind turned into a substitute for yourself. It’s like:

    “Don’t flatter yourself. You’re just a stand in.” (paraphrasing)
    “People only like you because of that name” (paraphrasing).

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