Extremely frustrating show

This was a difficult show to rate, because actually there was a lot of things I absolutely loved about it, and there was equally as many things I couldn’t stand.
Zhang Bin Bin and Esther Wu were amazing together. I loved almost everything about them and o found the beginning part of their story quite intriguing. The scenery when they were back in the village was beautiful too and I found the plot concept interesting enough, her initial revenge etc. The couple had stellar chemistry. I loved it up until the ridiculousness of him leaving for a full year and not saying a word about it, she blocked him yes, but my god there was a million other ways to pass a message along to her about what had happened. Why he didn’t for a full year was a ludicrous writing decision.
But I digress

The second leads whole everything was absolutely terrible. I have never skipped portions of a drama in my life before this one, but after suffering thru several episodes of being annoyed by their relationship I came to realize it had 100% nothing to do with the main plot so I started skipping. Best decision ever. What I did see was absolutely awful. Just the guy lying to her over and over again, they drew it out sooooo long before he finally confessed. Strangely, they have so much airtime to this couple. Some episodes it felt like I skipped the majority of the episode cuz it was entirely about their boring relationship.

One thing I did love tho was the music. I would find myself humming the intro song all throughout the day. It’s very beautiful and they played it a lot and I never got bored of it.

I also highly recommend, I think around episode 23 there’s finally an almost kiss scene. It was actually edited out because the FL was drunk in the scene, however you can find it on YouTube and you should stop the show and watch the cut scene imo, because it really hot for one thing, but having it be an actual passionate kiss from both of them totally changes the story.

After that episode tho things really go south. You just get annoyed with the writers for about 10 episodes straight when it’s clear they’re trying to extend the story with nonsense filler. Finally in the last 2 episodes things get back on the rails and it ends really well. But not before driving the viewer crazy with frustration towards the writers. If you watch it, you will understand what I mean.

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Fan service

Honestly, this felt like fan service to me. Everyone (including me!) absolutely loved these two in “Once we get Married” last year. At the time there was so much talk about their chemistry and how much kissing there was early in the show, which totally worked because of their chemistry, but this felt a little over the top for me. They kissed so much it was just boring and the chemistry wasn’t as good as it was in Once..

I also thought some of the men just got a little too goofy. The Doctor character did a complete 180 and turned into a goofy lovelorn sap after being super buttoned up for the first half of the show. Xin Yi also turned into this puppy dog like character following along after Min Hui like he had no job or anything to do. It just seemed a little childish. I did like the younger brother character who was with Cao Mu. Cao Mu was great, tho I had such a hard time not seeing her as the rival “campus beauty” from Love O2O >.<
All in all I did like the drama but I felt Xin Yi’s character got a little boring.
The woman power stuff was great and they were definitely sending a message about speaking out about workplace sexual harassment, obviously a super important message, tho there were moments it felt a little like it was some infomercial about how you should speak out. Like, yes, we get it.

The kid was very cute and the many playing moments with Xin Yi were so sweet and fun to watch, but it felt like the point of having the kid in the show kindof petered off in the last half of the show. He was really only featured until they got together then they sortof abandoned his character I felt. Other than using him as a constant joke as to why Min Hui and Xin Yi seemed to keep getting interrupted right before they were about to shack up. lol. Tho, honestly that’s relatable, I can attest as a parent with small children.

And of course the bad guys - it was satisfying, of course, when the bad guys gets it in the end, tho I didn’t understand why Min Hui didn’t call the cops on him the two times he basically tried to kidnap her into his car and was grabbing her etc. cuz that was messed.

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One of the Best!

I just finished my 2nd watch of this show and it was just as good as I remember it. The acting is incredible.

All of the actors are amazing but I particularly want to mention probably my two very favourite in this drama. Now usually I only have eyes for Song Wei Long, however in this case, Steven Zhang absolutely killed his role. I was 100% sold on every emotional nuance he gave. He was sensational in this role. This doesn’t mean I was rooting for him to be ML. He was perfect just as he was and clearly the brother role of the two of them.

And my favourite character of this whole show: The Dad. Omg. He was incredible. I was bawling so many times because of his amazing acting. He was just so disarming, so sweet, the love and kindness he exuded for his children was amazing to watch. I loved every scene with him. He was so cute like a mother hen with those kids. And his cooking! OMG the food porn. This director is absolutely magic with the food scenes. I noticed he also directed Meet Yourself which had a ton of similar food vibes in it. Being able to express the care and love he was feeling for his family thru attentive cooking was masterfully done.

As a mom myself I was dismayed that basically every mother in this show is an absolute witch. In terms of acting, they really sold that. So again, kudos for making me hate a character with a fiery passion. ??

This is a show I will come back to again and again.

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Not worth it

Unfortunately this show fell really flat for me. I was really excited about the cast and there were characters I loved, but the pacing was terrible and all the awkward moments between ML and FL were too cringe. The soundtrack was also terrible. one of the songs sounded like Rick Astley’s “Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down”. So I was constantly getting rickrolled every episode. The other musical choices were equally as bizarre.

I wish there had been better communication between the ML and FL. He was barely ever saying anything useful and always leaving her hanging. It seemed toxic.

The best friend gave terrible advice. And then how weird was it she didn’t even tell ShuYi she was in a relationship with Guan Ji when she knew every detail about SY’s relationship with Shi Yan?

Basically I watched the entire series hoping it would get better and it just never did.

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