Average Rom-Com story but likable.

Story is pretty straight forward. Boy and girl are old acquaintances who meet after long separation and starts working together. Later start relationship and fight together for their individual goals.

While watching this drama, it feels like the story/ screen writer watched or read most of Guman dramas and clubbed them together. Both leads were gamers at some point of time and dated online (Love o2o). Guy wants to be Aerospace engineer but ends up working in a company (You are my glory - only in reverse order). Not only the similarities in the story, there are clipping too from My sunshine drama, being played behind as prop. Not to forget, the main leads were also part of these dramas.

Actors did a decent job. Not outstanding performance but okay. I can remember far better dramas from both ZBB & WQ.

What I liked in this drama -
1. The characters (not actors) know their capability. People are not extremely smart but are not at all dumb. They behave as they should in certain situation in this type of drama. People would act in certain ways which one might think is extremely dumb but given the role, they do not break character. They are supposed to act so.
2. Relation between the Main leads - Its fairly simple with no overcomplicated third party interruption. Yes, there are suitor for the lead, but not important. There were some misunderstandings in the past which do not compromise the story at all, in fact, strengthen their bond. And the good thing is we get to see both side of the story and why such situations happened.

What I disliked -
1. Story - The overall story is a big "question mark". The story happens surrounding the FL's family company which is infamous for recruiting people with connections and providing them various positions. The FL also being such a character, having no experience in handling a company is airdropped into the company branch office as team leader. And somehow she manages to do her job and jumps multiple positions too. And she somehow she does those job as well. And not only her, most of the people in the company have no idea what is happening, yet they are very busy... I can go on about the story but this review not thesis.
2. Pace - The drama is 32 episodes long and has many many many fillers, yet while watching, it feels like many scenes were cut in post production and do not match. Transition in between one scene to other is poor. Its like one thing happened. And something very different happens in the next scene. One has to imagine what must have happened and how much time has passed between them.
3. Background songs - As the drama starts, the sound track feels good. But they have used the same songs over and over, and overdid it. After sometime it feels annoying. Also there is no fading when the song starts or ends. It just starts as the scene begins and end with scene. And cut to the next scene. And if there is another song for that scene, it will just start without considering that they have already played a song or music track just 10 secs back.

Overall - I would recommend this drama to people who wants a light rom-com, without spending much thought to it.

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Take it as a ensemble cast drama and not ML-FL rom com

I have watched all the episodes and I quite liked it.
Many people are complaining about the ending. Even though I was not expecting this ending but its better than terrible endings like some other dramas. (For me terrible endings are when dramas end in cliff hanger and there's no further season). Or drama endings without closure ( not open ending).

If anyone wants to read the review before watching the drama, here's my suggestion: If you want a ML-FL over the top romance drama, this is not the one and might get seriously disappointed with the ending. If you want to watch a drama where there are very normal people, a bit of romance here and there, and somewhat relatable to reality, go for it.

This drama mainly focusses on 2 main person and their life and career, with two somewhat important person and other people related to them who are directly or indirectly related to fire fighting or emergency rescue. Lin luxiao is the fire fighter, Linqi, his brother is a musician, NanChu is a dancer/ actress and Jiang is an adventurous person who does many things and his main job is to support the other three characters whenever in need. JiangGe is the like NPC of the drama, while LinQi is the drama watcher within the drama.
There are many other supporting characters and their stories. Overall, most of the characters 3d (fleshed out)and not just there as background. I wish they provided a back story for Luomingzi (Wangziyi's role). His role was too flat.
This drama is more focussed on bonding between colleagues.

Except for the FL's fate or luck or bad luck of getting trapped in fire (I lost count how many times) and getting saved only by the ML, which I find is the only ridiculous thing, other events are pretty normal.

The characters are very much human and not omnipotent. The F. Fighters save people, make mistake, get injured and much more like any other normal person deals with life. They learn in the process. The main characters have their own careers and each pursue their goal in their own way. They too learn how to manage things gradually. Like real life people die and that's normal.
Mostly there are no negative characters, except two annoying ones, which can be easily ignored.
The actors did a decent job. I didn't expect anything outstanding from the actors, whether main or supporting, everyone performed well. Music is nice and fits well with the drama. No overuse of same music over and over, which I liked, unlike some other dramas, where they put the same music over and over every few minutes.


SPOILERS
In the end, it seems and I am pretty much sure that LLX sacrifices his life for the country as that was his motto all along and he said it multiple times. By the end of the drama I felt sad for the FL's mother (and also for the FL ) not being able to find the truth about her husband's life.

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