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story is pretty interesting!!
Overall, this drama is definitely worthy of your time. Although I skipped some irrelevant parts in the middle. The cast is amazing! Pretty funny parts. I liked the relationship between the FL and the ML but I couldn't really tell when the FL fell for the ML but they were a cute couple, no toxic-ness. At first I hated the SFL because she was a bit overwhelming and annoying desperately trying to get the ML to like her but towards the end I started to like her character when she became more mature and a better person in general as she tried helping the SML. TBH, I really like Riley Wang but his character (2nd half of the plot) didn't really suit him although he did a really good job! I just prefer him as a cute & non-evil thinking guy (personal preference only). The supporting characters are very cute, especially xiao mantou (the oldest brother's daughter) I thought that her character was pretty cute and funny and sassy for her age and her taking care of her 2 uncles who were not the maturest. I would definitely recommend this drama to anyone who wants to watch a drama with a little bit of suspense and cute but not over the top cringey romance!-SPOILERS AHEAD-
I would have preferred the middle part to be shorter and the ending to be longer. To be more precise, I wished to know more about the ending as I felt that it was a little bit not here yet not there. Firstly, I wished to have seen the hostel succeed under the hands of the FL, ML and the FL's family (although boring it would have been a good wrap to their hard work and fight). I was very satisfied with the ending of the second eldest brother, finally being able to chase his dreams as a singer! As for the FL and ML, I wished to see them more in the final episode, maybe a reunion with the chateau's carers or wedding at the chateau where they met. I also wished for Wu Tian Hua to wake up from her coma and actually keen to see her reaction to everything that happened (although it can go many ways) but I wished that she accepted the wrongdoings and they could live as a happy family of 5 with the ML and SML making up and being 'bros'. As for Yang Lin, there was character development in the beginning but towards the end her character felt dispensable. So, I wished that she could've either become xiao man tou's mother and provided her a full family and prevented her birth mother from snatching custody of xiao man tou. I also wished that the SFL and SML could've had a better relationship growth towards the end instead of them just video calling when he said he would chase her to the end of the world but he didn't. I also wished for the SML to have a reunion with his mother when she woke up so it is a little bit of a pity that they didn't get to be a family as he spent a lot of time searching for his birth parents.
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below average and disappointing
I rarely give 4 stars to a series that I manage to finish till the last episode. Frankly, I started this series for Zhang Zhe Haan, since I wanted to see him in a modern drama. An added bonus was Riley Wang, and all said and done, he looks amazing with his cute dimples, and I’ve always liked his character in all shows I’ve watched with him as a cast. As for Zhang Rou Nan, she was a bit of a disappointment in this show because of her poor acting skills, mediocre chemistry with the ML, and a constant pouty look. The reason I’m giving 4 stars to this show, despite of liking the male leads, is the shoddy story line, too much melodrama, and unnecessary scenes of the hostel family, a majority of which I forwarded. As for Chen Hao Lan, I loved her character in Love me love my voice, but she was unimpressive here somehow, her only quality being able to chase after men in an unrelenting way, but no solid character traits of her own. This could have been a much better show with less melodrama and 24 episodes.Was this review helpful to you?
worth it for zzh
Started off really promising (zzh half naked in every episode, wearing tight suits and bending over a lot) then lost me completely in the convoluted plot in the second half. The romance is VERY slow burn, which isnt a bad thing but it got pushed to the sideline when they eventually got together. decent chemistry, would have enjoyed more couplely scenes between them.second leads very boring, flat and straight up annoying characters that got way too much screentime in the last few episodes. Especially second male lead was very unlikeable, but maybe that was the point (money DOES destroy ones character sometimes).
Watch if you like zzh, hes cute and attractive, what more can you ask for.
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However, as the drama progresses, it shifted to different, gloomy mood. I'm not really into big-time identity theft stories. The Male Lead's mom was too annoying and selfish and forces her ambition on her son. The Main couple's love story was boring and serious. Male Lead seems to be stuck in a miserable childhood past and a lonely present that was dragged on into their relationship. Female lead became too anxious and lost the charm she had on the first 3 episodes.
The only exciting part of this drama is the love story development of the second lead couple who seem to handle downturns in life with a sense of humor.
I wached it because I was a fan of Zhang Zhehan and Riley Wang and I think their acting were still great in this series.
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Drama needed much better ending .
Though it was a happy ending but I am not happy with the ending story , According to my view second male lead's should have justified ending story . This character suffered a lot but in the end he left all alone though drama gave a glimpse at the end that this character would get a happy ending but I think drama should shown this.Second lead's couples is my favourite then first lead's couple because this couple faced all types of emotions fun,happy,sad and angry . But first lead couple all the time had same facial expressions and which made the drama little uninterested.
In one of the episode First male lead character said to second male lead character that why was he (2nd lead )lucky all the time but actually he (1st lead) was lucky all the time ,he got his (2nd lead) parent's love and the love of his life .so I think this dialogue should deliver by second male lead .
One time watch .
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Started off okay, but turned into a boring GARBAGE
My god!!! I watched this back when I was still on that Zhang Ruo Nan hype because I just discovered her on 'Cry Me a Sad River', but man... not even my hype could push me through finishing or even enjoying this drama, cuz it's just bad, like REALLY REALLY BAD... and it even took me a year and a half to realized like "You know what? Let's not even bother finishing it. I might have at least 10 episodes left, but I really just can't."Ok so, I started watching this when I was also just getting into cdramas and I didn't know that cdramas have anime-like openings. So I got hit with a lot of spoilers in the first episode because of the opening like wtf... at least in anime, they'll try to make it look like a puzzle that you have to piece together. So already starting off really bad, and I can't really remember much in the beginning, all i know is i think it's decent, but I still watched it at 1.5speed. I think it was okay in the beginning because we're just focusing on the dynamic of the FL and 2 MLs, but the moment they've returned to their homeland and started introducing this family drama and business politics and stuff to the story, that's where it started going down to shit.
Now the family drama, it was either shit or just plain boring. I think it was kinda interesting with the lost son mystery and shit, but i think they've revealed it too early, and it's kinda predictable as well, as to who the lost son is. So maybe it's probably both shit and boring. Zhang Min's dad, my god... props to the writer for writing him as the most annoying dad, but my god! The actor is soo bad; the one scene that got me laughing so hard for how bad his acting was, is when he was choking her mistress, like.... that scene was soo bad HAHAHAHAH If you look at how he's choking this actress like, i don't how to describe it, but it was bad. I don't even think i have anything to say about his character, nor his acting, other than he's BAD. Both as the character and actor.
Zhang Min's mother, i mean... she's just there.. great. Most of the time, she's just passive, though she doesn't have that much screen time. It's understandable.
Zhang Min, my god, can you get even more annoying?? like he's really obsessing over the FL, pushing himself to be the FL's boyfriend, when the FL doesn't even wanna associate herself with him, and i feel for wenna, like why even bother considering marrying her? When it's very obvious that the girl that you really like is Luo Xi?
Luo Xi on the other hand is also annoying and is such a pushover, like just make up your mind for god's sake. I feel really bad for the 2nd ML for getting up his hopes because she's such a pushover, that's why ML keeps coming back and trying to convince her to be his boyfriend.
Tao Lun... ugh!! I'm getting 2nd Lead Syndrome. At first, I felt really bad for him, and i really really like his character, clearly written to be a good likable boy, and I've been rooting for him, but the more you watch, the more you get annoyed, like come on just stop, the girl clearly doesn't wanna be with you and only see you as a childhood friend. I skimmed through the remaining episodes that i have, and from what i saw, he ended up with wenna, and it was kinda cute. You can already tell since they've been building up to it. Of course, the revelation that he was the real son, is really meh, like okay... what else??
Wenna, when she got introduced, it was okay, but she started getting on my nerves. She got progressively annoying as you watch, but I'm glad she got that character development. Then she realized that ML doesn't love her, so that's when i started giving a shit about her character and her dynamic with the 2nd ML.
Now, I'm just gonna sum up the rest of the side characters, like you could've actually cut down most of them and given the screen time to Yang Lin and Secretary Zheng like you didn't even have to bother creating this many side characters. They're just distractions or fillers to stretch out the runtime of this drama because most of the time when it's just these side characters on screen, it's just a snooze fest for me. Like can we just get on the main topic, please?
Couldn't really care much about the business side plot. You could've just kept this on the sidelines and toned it down because of the Family and Business side plot that this became like a shit Teledrama instead of a romance-drama. At least, I'm done. I'm finally free from the shackles of wanting to finish this show, like I'M OUT! It's so garbage. This is the 2nd Drama that I've watched where Riley Wang is in it, and i feel really concerned about his Portfolio because the other one that I'm also currently watching right now is also shit, but I hope he gets a well written drama in the future because i think he's a great actor and he's cute with cute dimples.
Overall, again shit garbage drama. Don't even bother watching it if you're looking for a good story and acting, but if you're a fan of any of the actors/actresses, then go ahead if it can help you go through the atrocity that this drama is, i really wanna rate it 0.5 or even 0, but the website doesn't allow it xD. This is something that my mother or grandmother would watch, i think this is aimed for that demographic and not for my age.
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The ML is despicable
The show starts of okay, with a decent story in a refreshing setting.Most of the characters and story continue like that, with a not amazing but nice progression.
And then there is the Male Lead ( the character, not the actor. The actor is perfectly alright).
He starts of on the wrong foot, sith various actions towards most other characters that are generaly dislikable and bad. But it thought that he might just have a rough patch at the start of the drama, especialy as it's hinted/shown that he is under external pressure and stress. But every episode that i watched he didn't get better, instead he grew worse.
He treated the FL like shit, which was bad but acceptable at the start when they were strangers. But then they started to grow closer and get to know each other, and he kept treating her worse and worse. Same with other characters.
And the stress excuse kept getting thinner as well, as the show depicts him getting time to relax in the countryside and kalm down. Yet his behaviour didn't aprove even the tiniest bit, quite the opositte.
I decided to drop the show when i watchdd the show and it suddenly occured to me that the best, most enjoyable scene that could come next would just be the ML getting hit by a car and dying, or something similar.
TL;DR: in all my time watching western and asian shows, this is only the second time ever where i actively wished the ML ( character, not actor) would just die. I rarely get that level of obsolute disgust, dislike and spite from villains, and they're supposed to be the bad guy. The ML should never be this disgustingly despicable.
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This isn't perfect but it is to me
I loved this drama in its entirety. Just remember that people are built different and thus think differently. The shots are absolutely breathtaking especially the ones taken in Bordeaux.Some things maybe would maybe make this the perfect drama lmao:
▪️Luo Xi's studies. Obviously she's a budding botanist and she's great at what she does but I feel like it was shoved off by the near end of the drama. Uhm maybe a snippet of her diploma or her going to school? Idk I really hated the fact that they were bullying her into doing paperworks in Sihai when she really wanted garden work. More of Luo Xi as a person. She's the female lead after all. I get the pity party with the male lead's life because I fucking dig it, I love it but I just think they should have pushed the female lead a little more.
▪️Yes, there is some sort of mini forgiveness between Zhang Chi and his parents and Tao Lun but like can't they wake up the mom to appease the hearts of both her children?
Some things that irritated the fuck outta me:
▪️Mygod I hated Wenna's ass. I didn't see the point in her prolonged airtime when all she did was whine like the poor little rich girl that she is. Like making her relatable is kinda cute cut she's so irritating.
▪️Both Luo Xi's brother's lovesickness. All sense just walked out the buildng just for linlin like HUH?
But all is did and done. It wasn't perfect but it was a permanent fixture in my top tier rewatch dramas. I love their love. The hate > love relationship is my shit so it's right up my alley. The way ZC is always holding out but eventually falling in and LX being the sound one and is always reminding him of lwn's sorry existence in their lives. Tao Lun's outburst was ok I guess but they stepped on his personality so bad that I still loathe him to this day. I love the ending where they can both goof off and love each other freely and how they are back to Bordeaux away from all damn drama. Oh and I'm not shitting you when I say the ost is bomb. All the songs are *chef's kiss* I also discovered Zhang Ruonan here. What an amazing human. I love her aura and sillyness and when the drama hit that point that it needs drama? She hit it.
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Une déception
J'ai commencé ce drama avec une note de 7 qui a très vite dégringolé à 5 (voire moins si je devais être plus honnête)...Le début était sympathique et l'alchimie entre les protagonistes, n'était pas mauvaise. Mais j'en suis venue à saturation très vite. Les scénarios où la vengeance tient une place importante doit être faite avec beaucoup de soin et ici, j'ai presque détesté tout le monde. C'est incompréhensible pour ma part que l'on puisse sacrifier sur l'autel un enfant, devenu adulte, pour servir les intérêts des autres. Surtout que ces autres se révèlent être les plus proches du personnage masculin. Quelle pitié de voir Zhan Min se débattre contre ceux qui sont censé le protéger, le comprendre et l'aimer...sa mère biologique, son père, sa petite amie....la quasi totalité du drama n'est qu'épreuve sur épreuve. Je n'ai pu finir le drama, cela devenait pénible de voir le protagoniste lutter, seul, et être si souvent incompris, si souvent abandonné...Was this review helpful to you?
