It took me about 10 times longer to watch this show than it takes me to watch a typical drama. I was so bored the first few episodes that I went and watched several other dramas before coming back to it. Then about 5-6 episodes from the ending I got bored again and dropped it for another month and a half. Part of it was that I didn't like the female lead at all - she was super annoying and I personally think the actress is ugly (not just 'not pretty', but actually ugly). I didn't enjoy watching it because I got annoyed every time she was on-screen. Also, she was so stick thin that I think she must be anorexic - that's probably why she got the lead role, because Chinese people are so obsessed with thinness and think it's beautiful. But that thought kept distracting me and pulling me out of the story. It did pick up and get more interesting in the middle, but slowed down again towards the end. The last episode in particular dragged. The first half of the episode was sooooo boring, then they introduced a completely unnecessary and aggravating new plot element that made me wish I had just stopped watching after the first five minutes of the episode, then it dragged some more and then they wrapped up that plot element in the last thirty seconds. I don't know what the point of that entire last episode was. This was not the worst drama I've ever seen, which is why I'm not giving it a 2, but I don't think it deserves the 8.1 rating it currently has.