Never expected i'll gonna like this drama. But so far i love every work of Seven Tan, this drama is no exception.

This drama is about family, life & maturity of every cast. This drama start when they still in the high school. This drama devided into 3 part: the high school time to university when they just learn how to be adult, after university to work time when they became mature & really put themselves into society & last is the ending of mayang street.

This is the first time i have difficulty to decided which one is our male lead, is it Ou Xiao Jian or Yi Dong Dong. But after finished watching i feel Yi Dong Dong (DD) is our main lead, after all he is the one that get the girl ^_^, our narator & the last strike is from the last episode where its from his point of view.

Not much drama these days about this kind of relationship. I'm talking about making the neighbourhood is your family. People this days prefer individuality & stay far away from your neighbour as far as we could. This kind of neighbourhood really makes me miss my childhood where i still play with neighbour kids every afternoon. This closed kind of neighbourhood there is good & bad, the goods of course really make our neighbour as our family where every problem is like our family problem & the bad of course, what people this days prefer to stay away, make every family news into gossip for the whole neighbourhood.

This drama not only about 1 family but the whole neighbourhood with every family with each problem. There is Ma family where father have health problem & mother have to support family, in here we can see how a man pride distrub & how he in the end resolve this pride problem. There is Sun family where the wife is like fire cracker, which every little thing without further investigation can became big thing. There is Liang family where husband most of the time is not at home, how he finaly relize what's important in his life after Ma Xiao Xiao (XX) dad became sick & how in the end the wife have problem with zheng how who is her daughter in laws, love how this mother-daughter in laws problem not only surface but also we given clue about what the core problem.

In this drama we also can see sometimes in chinese culture being the oldest kids in the family is also meaning burden. Like XX & DD how they end up have to take care or at least think about their family before think about themselves.

Now we talk about our main lead & their friends...
° Zeng Hang (ZH) is one of the most hidebound or petty in the drama I've watched so far. He insisted XX like the way he want even though XX clearly not like him, i really want to kick his butt & throw him into river.
° Ou Xiao Jian (XJ) is so stupid. He can choose to quit the job before it's too complicated & imply him too deep, i talk about before he go to jail & his boss from the police give him a way out, but he insisted to continue because stupid reason & finally he is too deep. In here I really agreed with ZH who said if he can't give XX happiness he should give up. Yeah i know maybe at that time XJ really think he can quit and break away from his past, but as we can see when once you join the gang & want to quit is never that easy.
° Yi Dong Dong (DD) is maybe like Sun Zhui said, is one of the most soft & most tough person. Yeah sometimes we can't choose who we will gonna fall in love into & the one DD feel is one the most tiring kind of love, where the girl u love already love someone else but you just can't give up the love you feel. Sometimes with this kinda love we just fool ourselves that we happy as long as she is happy.
° Ma Xiao Xiao (XX) is like the mother figure for all their friend. I like to see her with XJ, they just cherish every moment together, how happy she is when she is with XJ & how she just plainly & stupidly just trust XJ. But I also like how in the end she decided to end the relationship with XJ. When reality hit us we need to wake from the dream. XJ is one complicated man with so much mystery, when XX said she was tired we really feel she finaly give up, if it was me i already give up long before that.
° Liang Xiao Bao (XB) & Zeng Hao (ZH) relationship is maybe our dream relationship. They know each other from childhood & finally became husband & wife. XB is like prince charming who is willing to sacrifice every thing just to be with ZH & very pampered her even after married. But so funny how in the end he is like his dad who like to run away from home when there is problem between his mom & his wife, apple really fall not far from the tree ^_^.

There is only several think that i thing missing from this drama. First is the farewell party for the whole neighbourhood when they leave the neighbourhood, not make the drama bad it's just better when there is farewell party. Second, i really hope there is the wedding for XX & DD.

Overall i really like this drama. This drama plot is not the usual plot. But i really like how the drama wrap. It's just give the fair ending for XX, DD & XJ. Actually if the ending turn out XX became together with XJ i think it's a little bit unfair for DD, because XJ & XX split up is purely because the stupidness & stubbornness of XJ. But i don't think i'll gonna re-watch this drama