The ML is Gong Jun's doppelganger. I mean, if they wore the same wig, they could double for each other on set. Especially the way this ML moves his jaw. I know that's a weird thing to notice, but I thought they were for sure the same person when I first saw this.

The ML can act! Yes, his character is super annoying, arrogant, unlikeable at first, but it grows on you like mold. Not sure why his character was made to be so unpleasant, but this didn't take away from the fact that this actor is really quite good.

The FL, however, is the human form of Tigger, from Winnie the Pooh. Watching her is as pleasant as nails down a chalkboard. Yes, bouncy, bouncy, fun fun fun fun fun......not! I cannot stand this FL. She is everything I can't stand in a FL, from her clingy, needy personality, to her bubbly, cutesy immaturity.

The SFL and SML are, by contrast, the best characters in the drama, along with the ML's dad. Unfortunately, I can't be bothered with caring about a secondary couple. I know that's my own failing. I just can't divide up my attention between two couples for some reason. This happens in every drama for me, I can only care about one coupling.

The actual production is well done. They wrote a smart, capable FL, but then gave the part to an actress who is the antithesis of smart, capable, unusual, or interesting in any way. I'm guessing because of her agent. What was the point of writing a smart FL, if you are going to give it to the most Mary Sue actress you can possibly find?

So, overall, I'm giving this production a relatively high rating, because it at least aspired to being different, fun, and better quality than 80% of costume dramas, but was let down when it came to casting of the FL, and to the usual pitfall of too many episodes, which had to be filled with whatever clichè costume drama tropes they could come up with to fill in the time alloted.