Watch this series only if you like Timmy Xu

I cannot believe I wasted almost 25 hours to finish this drama!!!!

Only saving grace was Timmy Xu. He single handedly saved this show .....hmmm...I wouldn't say save, he made it bearable. This is my first show with the FL, my god!!!! this female is brick faced. Throughout the show she was just pouting. 95% of the time i didn't know whether she was happy, sad, angry, annoyed etc. In one of the scenes she tells Zeyi that I am very happy today....I was like " really girl, thanks for letting me know" . I got angry whenever she sang "red elephant, small elephant" song. I felt like hitting her with something.

Now let's get down to the story of the show......

The show begins with FL's friend selling the house (which is not hers) to the hero "Zeyi". I mean its the house where you grew up with your dad. Your dad designed it in memory of your mom. But trust me she was not at all angry. In opposite she blamed the hero for buying the house ( I mean, i really laughed like anything for her common sense). Audacity of the FL's friend is also admirable. I really thought you both deserve each other. Throughout the show I saw her go to the Cafe where she works only thrice, I really don't understand how she supported herself before marrying Zeyi (I know its just a show, but at some point audiences common sense kicks in, then you start questioning every loop holes, trust me there are many loop holes). She explains she loves to hear nature's sound, so she records sound. You can see this in only one episode.
Now about SL, he is someone who cannot feel pain. If you are a drama fan (Korean or Chinese) , you might have seen many leads with this syndrome and nailing it. But this guy, my god!! Bland. There is no connection at all when he says he likes FL.

I saw other reviews saying it's the best adaptation or good chemistry. I really don't understand what chemistry people saw. There is no skinship b/n the leads whatsoever. I mean they lived in a single house for a year, trust me nothing, not even holding hands. Even after they confess their love, no skinship. So really felt the feelings were forced.

I cannot emphasize enough, only if you love Timmy Xu then only watch this show.

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Major drawback of this movie is the "FL"

I really don't know what other people are talking about chemistry between the leads......
I gave it a try after reading many positive comments and also it looked very fluffy, easy to watch movie but my god i didn't expect it would be 2 long hours of torture to watch the FL's over the top acting.
There is nothing in the story, you just have to watch for the leads if you are their fans. This is my 1st watch of both the leads so i had no clue how their acting would be.
For 2 long hours, audiences get to see FL chase the ML like a DOG, i am not kidding. She is just chasing him in rain, sun etc. I have seen many girls who are not good at studies, I myself was average when it came to studies. But this doesn't mean a person is dumb. Academical failure has nothing to do with commonsense . God!!! She is bad at studies and also dumb. WHAT A COMBO.
Her family is small, just she and her dad. When they loose their house, they were invited to stay at her dad's friend's place (No points for guessing it is MLs house). FL has no goals in life, her only goal is to chase after ML like a puppy. It was really painful to watch her chase after him like a leech. When you don't have your house, one should work hard and study and look after your dad. But she had no such goals. They ended up staying at ML's house for a year or so. I really don't understand how can people be so shameless. She wanted to become nurse just because ML wanted to be a doctor. I mean heights of dumbness. Towards the end she becomes a nurse (god knows how) but she is so bad at her job that she cannot put an injection, gives wrong medicine to the patients. I mean they have showed in a funny way, but it is actually a serious matter. Like that you can kill a person. This profession is not for her, yet she is there just for him. At this point it is no longer romantic. I really thought the character would grow over the years (from school to college to professional world) but no. Trust me guys , even when she grew up old and became mature still she was chasing after him.
Towards the end, when ML confesses , confession i mean he literally said " you cannot stop loving me, you have to love me your whole life so lets get married" i mean what the hell. How can anybody like such a person. I really thought she would at least for a day or two make him run behind her but no she accepted his proposal. I was like , at this time i was so so angry at myself for watching this movie.
VERY VERY PAINFUL TO SEE A WOMAN DROP HER PRIDE AND CHASE AFTER A GUY LIKE A DOG.

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Worth your time!!!! Also its on Netflix

Was keeping an eye on this as to when it would come on any online platforms, luckily it came on Netflix.

There is this instant chemistry between the leads, they are too good. I loved every millisecond of the movie. This is not that regular coming of age movie, this has the very realistic ending.

Leo is such an all rounder, he looks good, his acting is out of-the world and yayyyy!!! we happen to witness his first onscreen kiss. Words fall short to describe this young talented actor. I was instantly drown towards him when I first saw him in cross fire. I didn't know he was there in the industry since he was 5-6 years old. His acting is so effortless.
Coming to the actress, she has done a good job as well, she looks like a highschool kid, so big shout out for the casting director.
All in all, movie is worth every minute of audience's time. Watch it. Writer/Director has beautifully laid out the story.
"Its a miracle if the person you like, likes you back"..I didn't know this line had such a deep meaning...lol...as all the kdramas/cdramas have spoiled me thinking if one of the leads likes the other person then definitely he/she is going to get him/her. Well!!! In reality it is not the case.....he he he he which is true......so, watch it and don't let the comments or reviews stop you from watching this amazing movie.

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Draggy story....Too much on again and off-again b/n the leads

To be honest i watched this show only forHu Yi Tian and I don't think it was worth it because MY GOD!!!! Female lead is super duper irritating. This is my 1st show of hers and I got to know that she is an experienced actress. I really don't know how is she experienced or how many more dramas she need to do inorder to decently emote the character's emotions. In this show most of the times, no all of the times her facial expressions were strange i mean it didn't go with the situation. I am not telling this to disrespect her but she had constipated expressions throughout. She had that expression when she was in love, when she was angry or sad. So it became really difficult to make out the situation. As it is 40 episodes long, it became very unbearable to watch her even for a sec. Second thing I want to point out here is her hair do. Who ever her stylist was in this show should be fired. Her hair cut was like some rat has bitten her hair. It made her look very ugly and manly. Combination of her acting + her hairstyle = It was super duper eyesore.
Third thing is there was too much of push and pull, on again and off again b/n the leads. It was again very irritating.
Apart from that it was really a medicare drama.

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Until the last episode, no CHEMISTRY between the leads, whats so ever

I can safely say that this drama is a Biopic of Sa hye Joon....The template was well established about Sa Hye Joon from the beginning. A struggling Model, who also loves to act but has no contacts in the industry also comes from a middle class background, very adamant about his principles, dreams...basically what a hero's characteristics should look like.

Let's talk about other characters surrounding our Main lead. Caring but helpless mom, very strict dad, ideal older brother, lovely grandpa, his 2 other friends and then there is our Female Main Lead. Her Character was super duper strong initially. I was rooting for her. But later on it just fizzled out. The character became too confusing to understand.

What I liked most about this drama was Main Leads we were practical, very relatable. I mean in most of the dramas Female leads just act cute and basically do nothing. Here both of them very practical couple. Very straightforward forward and honest with each other. Like I said in the HEADLINE this might have resulted in lack of chemistry between the leads. Wow!!! From the beginning they both looked more like friends than couple.

Sa Hye Joon and his family's graph was amazing, characters were well developed only Sa family. His friends like Hye Ho, Jin u were Ok. In the end it was really unclear to what happened to Hye Ho's career, did he make it or no.
Jong Ah is the character who hated instability, unpredictability a lot. But she left a secured job to open a studio of her own which contradicted her believes. Later on she blamed it on Hye Joon for her being unstable and broke up with him....Like i said her character got super confusing towards the end.

It is not very bad but the potential was not fully utilized. Beginning few episodes were good but again it fizzed out soon. You can watch it once as it is there on Netflix. Also, Sa Hye Joon's story is worth watchable atleast once.

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Forceful Fateful encounters

I am always skeptical about watching a Japanese drama.......They are capable of making a perfectly fine love story into a tragic ending one or not so great love story into somehow workable piece. So i read a lot of comments before staring this and 80% of the comments are positive.....so i gave it a go.......

Let's talk about the story first....... Was it unique , NO? Was it memorable, NO? Was it worth your time, Probably yes.....
This story spans from leads highschool till all way to their late 30s. They are each other's first love, how sweet it is......But here comes the 1st cliche , Amnesia ........Damn!!!! FL conveniently just forgets her years with the ML...lol.....Later she falls in love with some other guy and marries him and they have a son together...... But she gets divorce with him for some silly reason. In every household , every in laws looks down on the other...but to get divorce over that...hmmmm....i mean, FL didn't do anything when she found out her husband is cheating on her but decided to divorce him when her mother in law insulted her mom. Ok.....This mom of FL's, she single handedly destroyed her daughters life because she wanted her daughter to lead a life different from hers. FL's misery for 20 years was because of this mom's single decision of keeping the leads away from each other....I don't know why people forget that getting rich on our own is different than marrying into a rich household. Obviously the poor will be looked down upon.

Acting by the cast: ML's younger version is the only memorable character for me.....His acting was by far superior than all the senior actors combined. Rest all did a good job, i might forget about them in a day or 2.

Casting: Cast for the ML (Harumichi) , both the actors(young and the old) looked more or less similar but not the FL. Their faces are so different , i don't know who approved them to be cast as younger and older version of Yae. No doubt both are good looking but not similar looking at all.

Cons:
1) Many viewers have pointed out many discrepancy in timeliness but i didn't note down that in particular because there were many time jumps in just 5 mins of a scene. Something else stood out for me....The actor who has played Yae's ex-husband is the same guy. There is no young and old version for him. He dates the younger version of the FL but after marriage she has magically turned into the older version, lol.....

2) I still didn't understand the motive behind Harumichi looking for Yae after 20 years in tokyo. I mean, after he found her, he flirted with her, made her fall for him, kissed her and when she confessed her feelings he left her and went abroad...i mean, why? Didn't he love her so he looked for her , so he broke up with his gf then why did he reject her ??? This is beyond me.....

3) Yae's memories came back just by listening to one song. I mean, she was just one song away from her lost memories. lol....

I feel life is short and the leads just spent 23 years in pushing and pulling. Last 3 years is totally on the ML, god knows why he rejected her....Writers attempt in showing the play of fate was little irritating. Thank god, this was just 9 episode series......

Will I watch this again, No....Will i recommend this to other, maybe....

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It's an one man show --- TOR / SILA

Watching this show in June 2022, which is like 3 years after the release of this show and this is my 2nd Thai drama. I was heavily impressed with F4 Thailand so wanted to give one more Thai drama a go and stumbled upon this and there were just praises for this drama in the review and comments section. So gave it a go....

I have seen my fair share of korean and chinese dramas and i am neither a korean or chinese native but i thoroughly enjoy watching these shows. I binged this drama and for the most part of it i am satisfied with the drama.

STORY: Story is nothing new, a son who wants to avenge his and his mom's death. Though he survives but he wants to avenge against the people who made his childhood a hell.

The story actually very smartly justifies why a revenge is needed because the bad people are very strong / Powerful / fully loaded so even law cannot do anything to them. In the 1st episode itself they show how these evil people kill someone and nobody does anything despite giving a police complaint. All the CCTV footages will be gone, evidences will be gone which is why Tor/Sila decides to go his own way to take revenge and teach them a lesson. I actually support Tor in this as someone has to teach them a lesson rather than leaving everything on karma. They should taste their medicine or else evil people will never know how bitter the taste is. I know in all this Tor's aunt dies , though she is my favorite character but she dies due to her own foolishness. The silly mistakes she did and left a trail behind which led her to get caught for having an affair with Sida's sister's husband. So i don't blame Sila or his plan for this.

ACTORS: Like i mentioned in the headline that this is a one man show ---- TOR /SILA. This man whose actual name is also Tor oozes charizma. He was born to do this role. Whenever he is on screen , you just want to just stare at his face. Apart from being good looking, he is a brilliant actor too. He totally lived and breathed SILA. You can just see that fire in his eyes whenever he encountered these evil people. Actually i almost dropped this drama because of the brainless FL but this guy just pulled me back again until i finished the show.

Now coming to the other lead, our Female lead MIN-------My god!!! from where do i start. I Have never seen such a brainless, such an underwritten FL ever. I thought chinese dramas have the most brainless, annoying FLs ever. But this female MIN just takes away the trophy by a huge margin. Her character doesn't add anything to the story, nor there is an importance to her character. I so badly wanted to forward her scenes but most of her scenes were with SILA so i couldn't. She is extremely JUDGMENTAL, extremely PREJUDICED , extremely ANNOYING, extremely IRRITATING. My vocabulary is limited so i don't know if there is any other word which is the heighted version of EXTREME then i would use that. She started judging SILA from the get go, her reasoning were not backed by any proof nor data , its just what she believed because SILA owned a nightclub so she thought he is nothing but a filthy/bad person. Whenever she met SILA, she insulted him saying he is a bad person because his money is earned through a nightclub or by women selling their bodies. For this reason atleast i didn't hate KWAN so much because she never judged SILA because of his profession, not even once. So whenever she physically hit MIN , i didn't even feel an ounce of pity for her, infact i was happy because i thought atleast someone is teaching her a lesson. I think the original intention behind MIN's character is someone who is extreely good, who selflessly works for her family etc but none of that came across because of her judgmental character towards the ML. MIN's character didn't see any development till the end, i don't even know why they needed her character. Even if you remove her character still the story will flow without any hindrance as she added nothing to the story. All she did was Stalk and Harass SILA. She was behind him like a leech, who continuously looked for him and all the time same dialogues. She had only 4-5 dialogues in the entire show. " Your are Tor", "Stay away from KWAN", "Tor is dead to me", "I hate you" and in the later part of the drama "Tor don't take revenge""It's all in the past". In ep 19, for 10 -15 mins she just said P'Tor, P'Tor, P'Tor.......Writer just recycled these dialogues for her in every episode and i am not joking. Whoever is going to watch, if you are just curious then just randomly open any episode and just watch her scenes with SILA, you will understand. In one episode she will tell TOR is dead to me and in the very next episode she will go find SILA and just repeat those dialogues again. Not once SILA looked for her , infact every time she met him, she just jumped on him to remove his shirt to either see the ring or the scar. She kept meddling in ML's business with no results and kept doing it , i don't know for what reason...at one point i thought she is just finding reasons to go see SILA... In one of the episodes she just goes into men's changing room and takes picture of ML changing his clothes. I see it as molestation. Whatever might be the reason but she just takes many pictures of ML changing his clothes. What if he had done the same, took her pictures when she was changing her clothes then would she have accepted. And on the contrary she kept calling SILA a bad person who doesn't respect women...i was like "woman you were the one who took almost naked pictures of him". She kept harassing SILA in every episode and same dialogues everytime. In ep 20, her sister insults her when she sees that SILA is alive and her sister Min is going out with SILA, then Min will be like "I am used to used stuff, and i happy that he loves me" that was her dialogue to defend her man and her relationship....slow claps to the writer...In another episode, she goes to ML's house to tell him to stay away from her sister, then ML will be like its none of your business so just get out of my house but she keeps following him and keeps repeating the same dialogue and they eventually fall into the pool....then she hits him and he kisses her and she was be like i hate you and the same thing repeats in the next episodes. Makers should have just edited her scenes because i felt super repetitive. I think she was just there for the slap and kiss part, i mean i don't even see that as a kiss, its just keeping his lips on hers..that's it. He could have done the same with a wall or a door...nothing would have changed....anyway i can go on and on about her.....but will stop here...lol..

Other character's did justify their roles like SIDA who was a plain 1 dimensional villain and she excelled in that role. All other character's were good too except for MIN ...lol

LOGICAL VALUE: Lol.....I understood in the very 1st episode itself that i should switch off my brain while i am watching this....FL lives in a huge mansion with servents but she and her family is apparently poor. I was like if that is the definition of poor then i am penniless homeless lol...I don't know how it works in Thailand but if a bomb is related then it is considered as a terrorist activity and looks like anybody can get and plant a bomb, lol...also even if a major shareholder dies, it doesn't mean his stocks becomes invalid.....logic and this drama doesn't go hand in hand.....I was like ok if i question everything then i might probably won't go past ep 1, so i started accepting whatever they tried to show but in few scenes even my sleeping brain was like give me a break,,.....how is this even possible or even happening...

So......bottomline is
If you have really high tolerance then only take up this project....it can be either for logic or FL......i am not joking, MIN will get on to your nervous. In few episodes even TOR won't be able to save the scene because of her....

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Nothing out of ordinary

This show gets boring real fast. The story has nothing new to offer as it was netflix I chose to watch.
The story is pretty standard, ML who is icy cold character meets an aspiring voice over artist and due to circumstances they had to cohabit and rest is like everyone guessed they fall in love.
This is my first show of rosy to my surprise her acting is really good. As she is young and looks cute I thought she will pretty annoying but acting all cute cute (just like the actress in Intense love *puke*) no her acting is pretty mature. Surprisingly ML riley 's acting is the negative point to the show. As his character is as someone who is hard on the outside but soft inside , he failed to portray the emotions properly. He rather looked tired, bored throughout the show. Rosy completely overshadowed him.
Just watch it if you have nothing to watch and have a netflix account.

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Female lead is brilliant

As you all can see I started my review with a headline about the actress. Yes!!! She was the main reason I finished the show.

I was shocked to see her real age and she is very young. God!!! She is so expressive, she completely overshadowed the ML . Like others my show of his was meteor garden and yes, his imagine and character in this drama is totally opposite. He needs to work on his acting. Initially it bothered me as his character was someone who is hard on the outside and soft inside ( like any other cdramas ML). So it took a while for me to adjust to his character later they both grew on me. This is the first show where writer has given importance to the FL 's character development and it is pretty strong. The couple really looks pretty good. Even 2nd lead couple are also pretty good.
Story is nothing out of ordinary. You just have to watch for the main couple. Only complaint I had was FL's hair do. I mean it's pretty evident that bangs doesn't suit her and curls really doesn't suit for shirt hair. These two combination ruined her beauty. She is really good looking but to make her character clumsy the stylist have given such bad look.
I hope the actress gets much more meaty roles in the future and looking forward to her many more dramas.

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The story flows like water!!! MUST WATCH

This series was pretty refreshing. Not new in the storyline but yet felt good while watching. I finished it in 2 days and didn't even notice how time flew.

Well, Bai Lu is a very beautiful, talented actress. But the major eyesore was her hair do in the entire series. I don't know whether it was a wig or her real hair but it made her look super ugly. The hairstylist kept the same hair do for their wedding as well.....arrggghhhh..... I mean even Amy, secretary of the ML was so well dressed and groomed but the actress... i felt bad for the her...Throughout the show it was like a giant OCTOPUS sitting on her head...ML was brilliant, he carried the CEO aura throughout.
The kissing scenes were steaming hwattt....

All other cast did justice to their rolls. Overall its a good show, people can definitely spent some 24 odd hours to watch it.

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Amazing sports series!!!

I would like to begin my review by saying i have seen almost 120+ korean dramas and i am new to c dramas, so I am exploring and hunting for new c dramas every other week. By now I have seen some 8 c dramas and among those most of them were sports based dramas. As this drama wis on Netflix it was easier to spot. I don't know why but I stopped watching drama after 12 episodes. I kept it hanging for many weeks, and I glad I gave it a chance to finish this series. My god!!! what a drama, a true sports drama indeed. This is the only drama where there are is no love bullshit and kudos to the writer where he has shown that a man and woman can be friends , colleagues, can become strength to each other by have no extra feelings. I was so glad that this series remained true to the theme till the end.

It was all about "GLORY" and I loved it and I would not have mined if there was more of this.
Ye Xis's journey was very satisfying to watch. All the characters did justice to their roles. I would highly recommend this drama.

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Oh my Dear LORD !!!!! GEM

Its been 2 hours since I have finished watching this drama completely and still struggling to find appropriate words in my vocabulary to best describe this drama, if I say it was splendid then i am under praising it.
This show is more than Splendid.
I saw the trailer of this show maybe a year ago, but nothing much stood out when the trailer first came out. Just that the ML is blind and nothing special stood out in the trailer, but there was something about this drama which made me keep checking its on-air schedule date every month. I cannot describe in words that pull this drama had from the beginning.
This drama touched on very sensitive topics like one of disabilities which is visual disability, autism, delusion. Writer has very smartly incorporated these things in the show.
Whenever a normal person sees a blind guy, he usually tend to show pity because they cannot see the world and it sort a makes them handicap. But in this show they have showed even Blind people can live normally in this society but its just that they see stuff through their ears and nose (sense of smell). " They don't need our pity, all they ask is to treat them as equals". what a beautiful message.
About acting: A BIG BIG BIG BIG SUPER BIG SHOUT OUT TO THE ML of the drama Evan Lin. Man oh Man this guy can act, sing, and also looks super dashing on the screen. His visual stand is just out of this world. I kept thinking why such a talented man, who is so good looking made his television debut so late. I guess he was waiting for the right script or this script chose him i dont know, but i want to assume its fated that he had to portray Su Nian Qin. I cannot imagine any other actor as Su Nian Qin. He is so so convincing as the blind person in the 1st half of the drama. I mean even blind person can be short tempered, can show tantrums because why not even they are normal human being. This guy has shown all the emotions so effortlessly that i couldn't believe that this is his 1st drama. This guy is going to sore high and definitely has a very bright future and I am going to watch every single drama of his in the future.
I am not a fan of Wan Peng because all her other drama characters have certain pattern and I was afraid even this character of hers will behave the same and I was right, it happened. But, i guess later they have justified why she behaved in a certain way. So there are no loose ends in this drama. She has done a decent job.
Music: Oh god!!! OSTs are just mesmerizing. Every song has a meaning, reason and the timing it is played in the drama. Cherry on top is most of the songs are sung by our ML himself.
He is good on eyes and ears. Also, he gets dimples on both the cheeks what more can a fan ask for. This guy is just perfect. I cannot stop myself from going on and on about Evan.
Whoever sees this comment and whenever that maybe just drop your other dramas and watch this, you will not be disappointed.

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Nothing new, watch just for the Lead's Chemistry

This series has same old same old story. ML and FL enter into contract marriage, fall in Love. A barrage of misunderstanding created by SML and SFL. They overcome everything and Love triumphs everything.

As I said in the headline, only selling feature of this drama was Lead's chemistry. After ep. 10 there was kissing scenes in each episode and every kissing scene was steaming hot. I guess this is what expected between 2 actors who are more than 30 years of age. They looked super comfortable in every kissing scene.

FL's acting was very weird. Only saving grace of this show was ML. He was pretty good from the get go. Again Ep. 24 (Finale episode) was lame. You will understand once you watch it. I mean i don't even know what to say, it was pretty unnecessary, anyway it was the last episode so I just watched it.

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Naruto like series!!!!!

This series is lite and good show if you want to casually watch while eating or before going to bed.
I would like to explain what I meant by Naruto like series. Here all the players were like Ninjas with their unique Jutsu. Also felt like this series is for kids, i mean they are explaining each and every shot just like in Naruto how they explain the audience about each and every jutsu casted.
There are so many stereotypical characters like if a guy is well built, strong then his main power is to use strength. If a guy is wearing glasses then he is a computer kind of guy, studious. I was like writer can do so much better than this cartoon kinda characters.
One thing I have seen in majority of Chinese drama is bad dubbing. Unnecessary background score. I mean you don't have to give comical music just to let the audience know that it is a funny scene. lol in a sarcastic way
All the players have done a pretty good job, again don't expect anything great out of this series. Its like director is telling perseverance, hard work can win anything like how our teachers used to teach in school .
Now I want to give shout out to the FL who single handedly brought the quality of the series down. The character was soo soo soooo soo weak that she single handedly manage to irritate , annoy the shit out of me. I mean, throughout the all she did was run behind ML. They are just in 10th grade and she is packing lunch, baking cake, knitting for him. I mean there was no connection established b/n them. The writer , director just forced that relation on us. It was super irritating. I mean in one of scenes when Lu Xia's eye starts bleeding then all the players take him to see the doctor, what was she doing there. I mean she is not in the tennis club what the hell was she doing there. She even went to the dinner party after the match. It was meant for the players, i mean what i want to stress here is why force that relation which is not even there. I was literally praying whenever I saw Lu Xia alone that not to make this girl enter the frame. I really couldn't ignore her character because it was such a waste and didn't add anything to the story. I wish she was not there.

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