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Minglan is pretty awesome and her grandmother is truly awesome but c-dramas do seem to take a narrative approach that involves chucking you in at the deep end and letting you struggle for about ten episodes until you finally figure out how to swim. And the Story of Minglan has so many families with umpteen offspring that it's hard enough keeping track without mild face blindness (it really doesn't help that most of the time they're known by their position in the family, so Minglan, as the sixth child, is referred to as "Sixth Miss" or "Little Sixth", while "Second", depending on context, can be either her older brother or her future husband ("Darling Second" is the pet name he proposes)).