Okdeer479
Extremely refreshing story about the realities of family dynamics.
Caution: it is slow paced and don't go in expecting romance to be the centre
The writing is beautiful, it's slow but makes sure that you get to know the characters. While each character has traits that are highlighted, they are not one dimensional. As the audience you get to see how their strength can also become their weakness. How human these characters are.
The male lead is so deeply flawed because of how he grew up. I didn't think he would redeem himself in my eyes. But by the end I obviously loved everything I hated about him like how scheming and fierce he is. And I absolutely loved the strong female leads, I think it was just that much easier for me to get attached to Chenghuan. She is determined and holds up to her values, foolishly. Reminds me of Itaewon Class.
I geniunely felt for the characters, the actors did an amazing job. Especially Yang Zi, as the female lead! Her portrayal was so well done in this drama, got me crying by episode 9! There were too many moments where I felt like I was right there with the characters.
I feel like we got to through the rollercoaster of emotions with the FL when it came to her mum. I could see myself in her. Being nagged by mom, having boundaries crossed and yet loving her more than anything in this world.
This one so beautiful portrayed how complicated family can be. I geniunely recommend it!
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Save yourself and don't watch it
This is such a horrible show. I have no idea what the heck I just watched. It makes no sense whatsoever. It feels like the writing and editing team had lost it! As if they'd put random sequences one after the other. I don't think they knew what they were doing.The story did not make any sense, the characters had no motivation, and it was just so out of place. Everything was out of place. I could not, even to save my life, understand when the main leads actually fell in love or when they were okay with being physical; everything was just so sudden. Also every single thing that the boss does definitely counts as harassment!!
I fast-forwarded and watched this entire show, but I still feel like I wasted so much of my life watching this that I will never get it back. So please, save yourselves; do not watch this.
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The first few episodes were great but such a confused drama
This drama started out well. Some things seemed implausible but can be forgiven cause it's a drama. It was such a promising concept. The cinematography was good and I thought the first 6 episodes were solid. I picked up the novel because when I started only 4 episodes were out. The characters are flawed but well written in the novel, their love and commitment for the family really shines through.But the last couple of episodes TANKED HARD. This drama had violent moments so it wasn't as if they made changes to make it more palatable to a larger audience. So I don't understand why they took well written characters and stripped them of any originality. The show's writing really failed the viewers. I absolutely detest episode 10. Just make it not exist please. I don't understand the point of it. There is no rhyme or reason to anything that the characters did in that episode. The writing was god awful. After episode 8, it was as if they had plot points set up but didn't know how to get from one to another. The ending was extremely anti climatic. When the credits started rolling my immediate reaction was- "ha? what just happened? it ended? Just like that?"
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