I will never get over this drama, it is AMAZING

This drama was a rollercoaster of emotions and yet it was still hilarious throughout because of the leads and their bickering.

PERFECT CAST with AMAZING CHEMISTRY between all the characters, especially the leads. I need Ztao and Zu Er to be the leads on another drama together. Their characters had a wonderful love/hate relationship for each other. Qian Wei genuinely disliked Lu Xun (reasonably so) but Lu Xun had been in love with her for 11 years.
The BEST thing about their relationship is the fact that despite the fact that he was always in love with her, he didn't treat her like a 'lover' like in one scene in episode 1 where she was about to fall into a pond (of sorts) with her bag that carried evidence, instead of helping her, he snatched the bag and watched her fall into the water. That scene is exactly how their relationship is throughout the drama. It's no wonder she never figured out that he liked her.

It had the BEST and consistent WRITING. It started uphill and stayed uphill throughout and it revealed every single detail of the plot, so there were NO potholes or open/unsatifying endings to any of the storylines.
The relationship between the leads never changes, they bickered all the time whether they were a couple, rivals at university or boss/employee. I loved their boss/employee relationship because it never seemed like he was her boss with the way she treats him but the way she talks about him makes it sound like he was a terrible boss to her, which we never actually see because as the audience we know that he is in love with her and is trying to help her by making her read so many cases and do so much work.

I LOVE that we got to see Qian Wei's dream of re-living the past (seeing things in a new light and discovering Lu Xun's crush on her in real life) and falling in love with the young Lu Xun.
We also got to see quite a lot of Qian Wei and Lu Xun's actual past together and why their relationship is the way it is in the present.
Unlike every other time travel/ alternate dimension/ dream world dramas Iv'e seen or heard of (I've seen a LOT), this is the ONLY drama I've seen where the plot focuses on both the dream work and real world. The drama doesn't end after the dream ends, we got at least 10 episodes set in the real work and we got to see the leads fall in love in the dream world and in real life

Lu Xun is like the typical second lead, which he actually was in Qian Wei's actual past whilst Chong Wen the actual second lead, lived the life of a main lead in Qian Wei's actual past and for the 11 years leading to the present. this drama really showed Lu Xun's turn around from second lead to main lead (in a drama world). I tend to get second lead syndrome a lot in dramas, especially because a lot of the time the second lead is better than the main lead in every way and this drama showed the perfect ending of the second lead becoming the main lead.

The meaning behind this drama is that you can't change the past. Qian Wei spends a lot of this drama trying to change her past thinking her dream is real and even then, she couldn't change her fathers death but she was able to accept it and sort of be at peace with it (because his death gave her so much trauma at first that she couldn't be a lawyer by passing the exam). Despite the dream not being real, she was able to turn her life around for the better after waking up. Her dream helped her get over the past and straighten out her reality in the present.

I LOVE Ztao's OST for this drama. I can't stop listening to it. I also recommend looking up the English lyrics to the song because it fits PERFECTLY to the plot of the drama, here is some of it (the only one I could find that made sense):
"You are the rest of my life
My love for you is more than a billion stars
Even if we live in other world
I'm still all about you

I got a crush on you bae
I can't hide all my feeling
Do I still need to prove it?
You Know how much I love you
All the rest of my life is about you"

Seriously, Lu Xun waited 11 years to be with Qian Wei, he had a crush on her for YEARS. Though I didn't feel bad about his wait as much as I thought I would because he was terrible at showing her he liked her. He was "mean" to her face and did so much for her behind her back and never wanted her to know about what he did. He dragged his confession for 11 years and was unwilling to confess to her altogether, it was his fault for not telling her he liked her from the start, a typical second lead (though he is the main lead).

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The Backlight of Love; A drama without any love

This is such a twisted drama that you'd think will be about love but is entirely about deception and morally ambiguous (or outright cruel) characters.

A really underrated, with surprisingly low ratings drama but definitely worth the watch especially with its length:
This is a very short 10-20 minute episode, 11 episode drama with an amazing cast, script, storyline and acting.

Dilraba played a girl who was madly in love with Merxat's character, for several years. If it was anyone else I'd say it was obsession, but Dilraba played Jiang Li so well that you know it's love, a somewhat twisted love. She is then 'killed' on her wedding day when she was about to run away from her wedding with the supposed 'love of her life'. You can already guess who the killer is from the stabbing scene alone.

It does not matter who the ML and SML is, I really thought it would matter but they were both equally leads and come with a lot of twists in their 'love'. The casting was PERFECT for everyone.
If you think Qian Qiu was bad, then just wait for the twists that come with Mo Yan.
Jiang Li isn't the saint she's made out to be, but she's definitely the most 'good' person in this drama.

I say this is a drama without love because this entire drama focused on whether the ML's ever loved the FL and the FL trying to remember which one killed her. They were both deceiving her, but I think Qian Qiu (Xu Wen) genuinely loved Jiang Li, the way she loved Mo Yan. And like Yang Xu Wen's character in "The Memory About You" (which I couldn't finish), he deserved so much better from the FL, even if he did deceive her.

This drama does NOT have a happy ending. But I think the happiest ending it could have had was the ending it got. It was the perfect ending.

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I LOVED all the characters, character development and family dynamics.

Before mentioning anything about the leads, I have to talk about how much I loved the family dynamics in this drama and how it really delved into it. Not just for the FL and ML, but also for a lot of the supporting characters. It focused on a lot of different types of family dynamics: biological families, adopted families and step families. It has abusive families, abuse in different forms as well as very loving and non abusive families. I've also never seen this many orphans in a Kdrama, especially where the main plot isn't neccesarily about the characters being orphans.

I LOVED this drama. I LOVED the FL, how smart and strong she was to deal with everything (loss after loss) on her own. And I LOVED the ML, he was refreshing, despite being rich and having everything, he wasn't always rich and so knew the value of every penny, litterally every penny. He was so sweet and in his own way, he was the kind of male lead the treated everyone cold but had a soft spot for the FL and only the FL.

I loved that the ML and FL met when the FL still had everything, so that the ML could see her at her best and then at her worst when everything starts to go downhill.

I also LOVED the SML and slowing growing to despise him more and more each episode. I loved that we didn't have the typical sweet SL who did everything for the FL only to be "friendzoned". Here, he be deserved it and so much more. Despite how sweet he seems at present, he is a snake. His past self may seem bad for dumping the FL the way he did with an outright cruel justification, his present self, even when he's "good" showed just how little he thought of the FL, believing himself to be her knight in shinning armor. One she did not need from anyone. But I also loved him for being so protective off her and loving her (in his own toxic way), I would have despised it where he the male lead though. I loved all the scenes where he would care for the FL and try to come to her rescue. I had a strange love/hate for him, he's usually the kind of toxic male lead I love watching in a (moderatly) toxic drama. His character development is him essentially getting worse and worse every episode.

I LOVED the ending. I was so happy that the leads stayed together until the end, no break up, just adorable bickering.
I think everyone got the ending the they deserved, maybe not the step family, but I didn't care for them much.

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Adorable, fast paced, short drama with a cringe trope

I LOVED this drama. It was short, straight to the point and adorable. It was also quite fast paced which is why I think a lot of people didn't like, or maybe understand this drama.

I loved how adorable this drama was. Despite it being extremely unrealistic and cliche, it wasn't in the least bit cringe. It had me smiling from ear to ear throughout every episode. The cast was perfect and the acting was also really good, especially for this type of, usually cringe trope, drama.

The male lead is handsome as hell, something I usually never mention, but he really fit his role. I love how the story was told, with it being mostly from the FL's prospective, but each episode would end, or even midway though, showing the important scenes from the ML's prospective.

The female lead was smart, reasonable and had an adorable relationship with everyone. She reminded me of the FL from Extraordinary You . The little sister was also really adorable and I loved how she brought the male lead into their lives.

I also loved the ending of this drama, despite how short it was, it was able to have an unexpectedly closed happy ending. The ending really couldn't have been better.

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I was not expecting the plot to go as it did, and I don't really mean this in a good way.

I feel like this show was both unnecessarily long and yet not long enough. I wish it focused more on the zombie aspect of the ML, and him wanting to be human, rather than the detective aspect.

I loved every single character in this drama. The ML was a mood and kind of reminds me of a grumpy cat. The FL was the kind of crazy that I LOVE. There was no romance in this drama, though I was expecting it. I also shipped the FL more with her police friend rather than the ML.

My favourite storyline was the ML finding out who he was before he died, and this only took place within the span of 2 episodes.
I also liked how he had to learn how to talk, walk and move his limbs all over again after becoming a zombie. This took place within an episode.

But, this drama didn't really focus much on him being human again, or even how he became a zombie to begin with. They went over how he became a zombie, very BRIEFLY. And, like every other (specifically US) crime show, this drama mostly focused on the detective storyline.

I was very unsatisfied with the ending of this drama, because the drama didn't even acknowledge a storyline that I really wanted it to explore. A storyline of the ML actually pursuing the chance to be human again through siencetific means. That one brief scene at the end, and an open ending for both leads did not do it for me.

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I LOVED everthing about this drama

I didn't read the synopsis or look at anything on MDL before starting this drama, so I didn't know who the main male lead was. But, it was very obvious who the male lead was from the very beginning of this drama. The second lead is litterally like every second lead in every other kdrama or cdrama.

I LOVED No Min Hoo's curly hair in this drama. I hated the straight hair on stage look, but he looks amazing with curly hair. Park Ki Woong also looked really good in blonde. The male leads both had amazing hair in this drama. I didn't really like Hwang Jung Eum's curly hair in this drama, I liked her straight hair towards the end, but her curly hair made her look like a poodle. The only thing I liked about her curly hair was that both the ML and FL's "natural" hair were extremely curly, just another sign that they were meant to be.

I LOVED the plot of this drama and how it didn't drag any of the storyline but instead introduced new and unexpected storyline at the perfect times. I was not expecting the plot to go as it did, though some parts were cliche, it's not cliche in the way you'd expect it to be. The fact that the leads met when they were children made no difference to their storyline, what's more important was the fact Tae Ik met L.J at that time as well, screwing his life over for several years.

The only character I hated in this drama was Man Ok's best friend. Man Ok's friend was anything but a good friend to her, she's the kind of person who's completely fine stabbing her friend in the back, playing innocent to get what she wants and then blaming someone else for their own fault. I loved how she became more and more irrelevant to the drama, and that Man Ok was able to put her in her place. But, at the end, I feel like she still didn't get what she deserved. I love that L.J for what he deserved.

I LOVED the music in this drama. It has a really good spotify playlist. The main leads are an idol duo, but I only recall hearing them sing 2 songs and they sang only "Touch" for the majority of the drama.

SPOILERS:
I LOVED Kang Hwi and I am really happy with the ending he got. The leads, as expected, got their HEA.

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Spent the entire drama trying to figure out who the male lead was.

I liked the idea of this drama. However, I LOVED the executed even more because it was very unique with so many twists. It was definitely worth the watch, though I have to warn you that you'd get really bad second lead syndrome.

At the start of this drama, for the first several episodes I was certain that Shu Hai was the ML and that Jasper Liu's character was the SML. I was hoping to be wrong throughout this entire drama because I had serious second lead syndrome and after around 9 episodes, I thought that Jasper might in fact be the ML. It was one hell of a ride figuring out who the ML is and hoping it's Hong Pei.

I didn't like Shu Hai at first. I loved his loyalty and friendship with Hong Pei, but he's crush on Si Yi was outright creepy. I was surprised by the 180 he made with his relationship with Si Yi, it went from creepy and "perverted" (as Hong Pei likes to call it), to really sweet and understanding. I still preferred Hong Pei over Shu Hai.

Ending (SPOILERS):
I HATED the ending of this drama. It's one of those tragic dramas that gives you hope for a happy ending and you almost get it. But, then at the very last minute, it gives you the worst possible ending. I hated this drama for giving me so much hope. I really wanted Hong Pei and Si Yi to end up together, it made complete sense for that to happen as Si Yi's feelings for Hong Pei hadn't changed in the 6 years he's been 'dead'. She spent 6 years mourning him, but never gave up on him, and she still ended up with Shu Hai!!!

I have nothing against Shu Hai, but it should have been Hong Pei.

Not to mention the fact that Shu Hai hasn't ever interacted with Hong Pei whilst Hong Pei was alive. Shu Hai and Hong Pei had such a good friendship. Shu Hai even mourned for Hong Pei when he saw Hong Pei's body in a coma, despite being able to interact with his soul. It's so messed up that they couldn't meet as people and share a drink together like they always wanted. I wanted them to have a lifelong friendship and I am so sad that, that didn't happen.

It's messed up that Hong Pei and Si Yi couldn't end up together. Or, that Shu Hai and Hong Pei couldn't be friends whilst they were both alive and conscious. It felt like the entire plot of the drama was pointless since these didn't happen.

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"You cannot know every single detail of your life, just because you know the last moment".

Watched this drama for Ok Taecyeon after watching him on Vincenzo.

I'm not exactly happy that I watched/started this drama, it's not the kind of drama I'd usually watch and not because it's a crime drama because the drama that got me into kdramas was a crime one. I didn't like the tone of this drama, the music, the voiceovers, the colour scheme and everything made it seem like it'd be a tragedy. The overall tone was depressing despite the fact that the only truly tragic charecter was the SML. I don't like dramas that make me feel depressed, I don't mind a sad ending, just not a drama that is overall JUST depressing. It wasn't even depressing because of the story line, but bscause of how they executed it.

I tried so hard to like the FL, I let so many of the annoying things she does slide, and at around episode 11, I finally liked her. She really annoyed me for the first several episodes and came off as the kind of 'strong female lead' that that I hate, a week woman pretending to be strong at all costs. She went too far to show her authority and status as an police officer in order to undermine a very non-cliche ML. At the very first episode she immediately and unreasonably so, trusts that the ML can in fact see people's deaths when he looks them in the eye, before knowing anything about him. But then for half the drama, after they've established a trust, she doesn't trust his foresight any more, she just goes "maybe" he's right, when he's obviously right looking at it from the evidence and not the foresight. (SPOILERS) If she had let the ML do what he first though he had to do to stop everyone's death, then they wouldn't have had to go to such extreme lengths to get the ending they got. But she didn't and so the happy ending, though happy, came off as sad.

In comparison the ML (Tae Pyung) is very easy going and down to earth despite growing in a a fairly wealthy family and later being raised by a very wealthy man. Despite the fact that he also sees death every day when he looks a person, including himself, in the eye.

There was no chemistry between the leads. Ok Taecyeon is a really good actor and he portrayed all the right emotions. He was perfect in his role. It's just the romance was a bit bland in this drama and I felt no chemistry between the leads even though individually the actors were really good in their roles. Yun Hee's character grew on me and towards the end, there was some chemistry. Thankfully, there is very little romance in this drama, it is more of a sub plot that was delved into really late. It's sort of a slow burn romance, but the ML seemed to have fallen in love at litteral first sight.

The SML, aka the villain had a really sad back story. I pitied him if anything. He was an overly emotional sociopath who felt very targeted emotions. His entire storyline of why he becomes the villain is why a person should not know how they will die in the future. I understood him to a degree as to why he blamed Tae Pyung for the way her turned out. It's why he gave up on himself as he saw his death as a criminal, to be inevitable. He didn't see the point in trying. Something that Tae Pyung himself believed in until the FL showed him that he can change the death he sees. But, by the time the SML finds out that he can change his death, he sees it as too late because he already became what he always feared of becoming.

The one thing I LOVED about this drama was that all the characters believed that the ML can in fact see people's deaths. I love how it doesn't take long for people to believe this and once they do, they'd do just about anything he suggests to prevent people's deaths. I loved how everyone slowly found all the proof of what Tae Pyung said would happen, actually go according to what he said. His foresight was really well used by everyone.

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I expected more

This drama was just okay for me.

I think I may have had really high expectations for this drama which is why it was a huge let down. I watched a lot of dramas with a similar concept, girl goes into a romance book (Lost Romance), girl goes into script (Romance of Tiger and Rose), girl is a character in a book (Extraordinary You), girl time travels to the past (Love is better than immortality/ Parallel Love/ Cinderella chef), and more, all of which I loved, but this drama didn't even come close to any of the others.

I liked the FL and ML. The FL didn't annoy me, though her scenes were really cringe when she became her book self. The romance was really, really sweet between the ML and FL. Not the typical boss/employee relationship, though it did take me 2 episodes to realise who the ML was.

The ending, though happy, did not satisfy me one bit. It was too short and could have been better.

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Cute, short and healthy youth romance

This is a really short romance with multiple couples. There was nothing wrong with the plot, other than the fact that I think they dragged the twin storyline about the FL taking her twins place. It made no sense for her to do this, couldn't she have just said that her sister was in a coma, I don't think it would have effected her grades.

I don't think I was in the mood for this drama. I don't like it when a drama starts off with the FL deceiving the ML, like Unexpected Love. But the FL's cuteness and overall personality sort of made up for it. I LOVED the main couple. I also felt bad for the second lead, but he was so late, he had no chance in hell. I hated how he still perused the FL despite knowing she's in a serious relationship, it got annoying.

I skipped a lot of the second lead couple scenes. I liked their characters, the FL and ML's best friends. But their storyline seemed like EVERY other second lead couple story line: the ML's rich, plaboy best friend falling for the FL's gorgeous, cool and nice best friend. Both of whom also happen to be very supporting of the main couple and help them get together. Their overall romance was so cliche.

I liked the FL's twins romance with her boyfriend l. I also loved the friendship between the FL, her twin, and her twins boyfriend.

The main lead couple were really cute and far less cliche than the second lead couple. In the first episode they pretended to be dating, and by the third they already like each other, at least the ML does. Which was really unexpected because I thought he'd play a cold character, but he was chasing the FL almost since the beginning and it was hilarious and adorable. They had such a cute, innocent and healthy relationship. They both really supported each other and trusted each other so much despite the deception. It was also really nice to see the ML having a SUPPORTING family shipping and pushing his relationship with the FL. I loved his family. We don't see or know of any of the FL's family other than her twin sister. The actress played both roles really well and had good chemistry with the ML.

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Sweet, Innocent Romance

This drama was somewhat different from all the other contract marriage dramas I've watched. It is also the first drama I've watched where the main couple are in a stable and healthy relationship throughout as opposed to all the side couples that seem to have a lot more drama. It had very unique comedy, especially at the start, but after the first several episodes, all I felt was second hand embarrassment.

I remember wanting to watch this drama when it came out because I loved the cover picture. I'm glad I decided to watch it now. "Perfect and Casual" despite how odd and perhaps cringe the title sounds, it is the perfect title for this drama. Zhang was the "perfect" professor/mathematician (who definitely had really bad OCD) and Yun Shu was the "casual" student who happened to be in one of Zhang's classes. They also dressed the parts really well throughout. Zhang is almost always in a suit and Yun Shu dressed like a university student that couldn't be bothered to dress up.

Despite the fact that we only see him teaching her at university twice, even after they were married and even became a real couple, not once did it not feel like a student/teacher relationship. It made me uncomfortable how she always referred to him as "teacher/mr". But I loved how innocent their romance was. They were both each others first and they were both really awkward (in different ways) when it came to romance, but they somehow pulled it off and made their relationship work.

I loved Miles and Xu Ruo Han in their roles. Miles was perfectly casted as Zhang, everything about him made him look like the perfect, awkward and nerdy professor. Xu Ruo Han was great playing the part of Yun Shu. Her smile and aura made her character seem very genuine, despite her characters stupidity from time to time, not once did I find Yun Shu annoying because the actress played her in such a way that I couldn't dislike her at all.

I loved all the side characters and how close everyone was in this drama. I especially loved the grandpa who was the catalyst to the beginning of all the relationships, at least Yun Shu and Zhang's relationship, and somewhat the start to Yun Lan and Lu Yu's relationship.

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An inevitable tragedy

OST:
I LOVED the OST of this drama so much. One of the few dramas with an OST that makes me feel like crying. The music always came up at the perfect time and you know exactly what kind of scene will be coming just by the music. All the characters had their own distinct music. The theme song was the OST for Wolfie and Xing'er. Ji Chong had his own one that came up whenever he was his 'bad boy' self.

Acting:
Darren Wang:
Darren did a truly amazing job portraying Lord Bo and Wolfie. They both had very distinct characteristics and you could actually see when one becomes the other through Darren's expressions alone. He has this adorable smile and puppy dog eyes when he's Wolfie, and a cruel smirk with a cold expression when he's Lord Bo. I loved Wolfie and grew to dislike Lord Bo. They were both one in the same as Wolfie was always in the heart of Lord Bo, but towards the end, he finally became his true self as Wolfie again.
Li Xing:
Li Xing also did a really good job portraying her character, especially in emotional scenes. When her charecter finds out the truth of all the deception she lived in, she expressed her heartbreak so well.
Sean Xiao:
He did a really good job portraying his character who started off as a vagabond bounty hunter and ended up being a Prince. I was really surprised by the turn of his character.

All the actors had amazing chemistry with each other. Whether it be the main leads with each other or the second leads with the main leads. You can see the love between the main characters as well as the love the second leads had for the main characters.
Everyone did such an amazing job portraying their characters.

Princess Ma/ Xing'er:
Ma Zhai Xing lived in the past for half this drama. She loved Wolfie and was full of guilt for his "death", though I don't think she believed he was dead. She fell in love with Lord Bo because she saw the Wolfie in him and would have done anything for him, she both bet her life in him and risked her life to save him. I can't dislike her for growing to hate him because he was the one who forced her to hate him. But when she loved him, she gave him her all and you really see that at the end.

Lord Bo/ Wolfie:
Lord Bo didn't put Princesses Ma first, even if he did love her. He was always willing to betray her for the King and his dead brother. It was only after he found out the truth of his brothers death that he truly put Princess Ma first and at this point it was too late. It was so painful watching him hurt her to save and protect her, but at the end it was his fault that they were both in pain. He could have done everything in a different way that was beneficial to both him and Princess Ma. He was always sacrificing himself for those he loved, even if it did annoy me how he went about it, he out of all the characters deserved a happy ending.

Ji Chong/ Prince of Jin:
Ji Chong was one of my favourite characters from beginning to end. He truly loved Princess Ma and had a great bond with Lord Bo. I also loved his relationship with his father.
I LOVED the friendship between Princess Ma and Ji Chong and they seemed like they'd make a good romantic pair. But, Princess Ma really annoyed me when it came to Ji Chong's feeling for her. For a persons who experienced an epic love (even if she grew to hate their ex lover), how could she downplay Ji Chong's genuine love for her. I wanted her to at least try considering that they were really good friends and he was clearly dear to her considering the fact that she took an arrow for him. Their relationship went downhill when it was suppose to get romantic.

Yao Ji:
She is the villain everyone loves. She was never actually a bad person and at the end she became one of my favourites. You don't really know where she stands throughout this drama until the end. But she always stood by Lord Bo and really loved him the way Ji Chong loved Princess Ma. She just wanted the best for Lord Bo and for Lord Bo to live, she didn't care what he thought of her, or that he saw her as an enemy at first, similar to how Lord Bo loved Princess Ma. Her unrequited and silent love for him was so sweet and genuine. I also loved her hillarious assistant who was always there for her as well as he very late friendship with Princess Ma.

Bao Na:
At first I didn't like her. Thought she'd be a spoilt, bratty princess that had to get her way, which she was at first. But then I immediately fell in love with her. The more I saw her character, the more I loved her. She really did a 180 where Lord Bo and Primcess Ma was concerned.

Pacing of the drama:
I really loved the pace of this drama and how all the characters were introduced. I love how Ji Chong came in after 11 episodes and how Yao Ji cam in after 20. The turning point developed around halfway through the drama and by episode 30 all the characters completely changed.
Towards the end after around 40 episodes the drama got a bit annoying and boring and I had to skim through the episodes but I cried through episode 49 and watched the entire episode.
After watching this drama, I have no desire to watch a drama over 40 episodes for a while.

The Ending:
I cried throughout the last episode. I had a box of tissues and ugly cried especially in the last few scenes. This drama was a tragedy worse then Romeo and Juliet, so much heartbreak and pain. The only time Wolfie and Xing'er were able to be together peacefully and be truly happy together with no other thoughts, was in the past on Wolf Mountain. It's so sad that neither character found any true happiness after Wolf Mountain. The tragedy started when Xing'er took Wolfie down the mountain to make him human only for all the monsters to be the humans below the mountain.

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Great start but dragged end

I don't really like dramas where a woman pretends to be a man and then the man falls in love with the woman thinking she's a man. I've seen so many versions of this story but this was the first one that actually seemed to work.

The best thing about this drama was definitely the cast especially for the FL. She actually made a very handsome man, and she also made a really pretty woman. She was gorgeous at the end as a woman, I didn't like the wigs. This was the fist cross dressing drama I've seen where the woman makes a handsome man and is actually hit on, a lot, by women rather then sexually confused men.

I really liked the relationship between the ML and FL, their dynamic was great and you just know they'd make a great power couple, if only their story didn't drag so much. I hated how long the secret was kept and found it unnecessary especially when the ML was very confused about his sexuality. This is the one cross dressing drama where it actually delves into the sexuality of the leads. The FL is heterosexual as she said many times and the ML was more pansexual (the ending was confusing about this point).

After around 11 episodes I stopped caring about the main lead couple and became more interested in the second lead couple: Qing yang and Nana. I loved the second lead couple, they had such a sweet slow burn romance that had a very weird start. I didn't like Nana at first, found it weird how she was chasing Qing Yang, but then you find out that she actually wasn't lying and she wasn't actually chasing him but the memories he reminded her of. The more you see their relationship grow, the more heart warming it gets and by the end, they were the only couple and characters I cared about.

I don't understand how such a short drama could drag so much. The only thing that dragged was the main plot of the FL secret that she is a woman and not a man. I thought that they would at least, at some point make the fact that she had to be a man for such a stupid reason, an actual. That something actually does happen saving her life simply because she is a "man". But nothing happens, it was pointless and stupid and I don't understand how no one read any of her documents, her passport or even her plane ticket and found out the truth.

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This show had me anxious until the last minute

I really liked this drama. I binged it in a few days, and literally did nothing but watch this show for those days just so I can get to the end. I haven't been this invested in a drama in a while. This is the kind of love triangle drama where you genuinely don't know who the FL is going to end up with. They went back and forth so often that when my ship started to sail, I didn't believe that it will last and I had to see it to the end.

I loved Ou Chen, especially over Luo Xi whom I hated until the last few episodes which is when I finally forgave him for all the s*** he pulled because he finally apologised. Luo Xi is the one charecter I never understood because he has the mentality of a child. When he first came into the drama he didn't like the FL then almost immediately fell head over heals. But she disliked him and didn't care for him at all. She was also already in a long term relationship with her boyfriend whom she loved. But Luo Xi did everything to break them up and later hates the FL for not resipricating his feelings for her in the past (and present). He had no right to ever hate the FL or want to seek revenge against her when she did nothing wrong, she can like whomever she wants. I blame him for a lot of the misfortune the FL had to suffer and he didn't deserve the love of her or her family.

Ou Chen was such a sweet character and his relationship with the FL did seem a bit toxic at first, but then again we never actually got to see how their relationship was before Luo Xi started messing around with their heads. Because before he showed up, their relationship was going in a nice flow (not at all toxic), which is why the first episode was so good. I wish we got to see more of their relationship at the start. Their story is so sweet especially how they met, we're not really told how they started to date, but it can easily be assumed. I felt like since the beginning, they were always meant to be together, and the other ML is the villain if anything.

The acting was good especially for both ML's but I didn't particularly like the FL's acting. I couldn't tell whether her lack of expression and lack of emotion was because of how her character was written or because of the acting. At first I thought it was just the character, and I liked having an FL that comes off as cold, cold because she wanted to protect herself. Which is what she essentially said that she did. But even in some really emotional scenes (plot wise), she shows no expressions, she does everything in a poker face. I understand that her character comes off as a bit depressed, but she can't even pull a sad face. However, her character started to show a lot of emotions in the last few episodes. I cried through the last 2 episodes because her character was so pitiful and I didn't notice just how pitiful her character was throughout the drama until the last few episode. It was like her emotional barrier finally broke, but it would have been nicer if it had broken earlier.

The actor who played Ou Chen did an amazing job. His charecter came off as both cold and warm somehow, and I was in love with his charecter since the first episode. He did so much for the FL without actually telling her how much effort he put in. He was a very straight forward and reasonable person similar to the FL, but he looses all of this when it comes to the FL and his relationship. I just wish he told her how much effort he put in especially with his gifts because a gift is all about the thought, and he hand made all the gifts he gave her, but he never tells her this. He also had some of the best character development and I loved his friendship with Simon and David, it was my favourite friendship in the entire drama. I loved watching the trio work together and have conversations with each other, because usually it would be two of them agreeing with each other and one of them talking to himself (usually Simon) or just zoning out (Ou Chen).

The ending seemed a bit rushed, especially for such a long drama that dragged the relationship between the FL and Luo Xi. I wanted the FL and Ou Chen to have a romantic relationship for longer in this drama, but the ending was rushed and didn't show me as much as I wanted to see of their relationship. The ending was also very emotional and the last minute twists were pointless, I hated the back and forth relationship of the FL and ML's, you litterally have to watch the drama until the last minute to see who she ends up with, even though you already know who it will be at around episode 30. But I was really satisfied with the ending. It's the ending I wanted, and at least I got that. And I didn't really care for any other romantic relationships but I loved all the friendships in this drama.

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Wasted Potential

This drama started of very promising. I started this drama because I loved the concept. I have watched several historical, timetravel Cdrama's and this is the only one where the main characters go back and forth in time more than once, and timetravel in itself is delved into. But it went downhill really fast and the story dragged for almost half the drama.

I really liked the FL's power of travelling through time, and how she brought the emperors to the present with her. Though after 2, it became a bit much. But I hated the FL so much. I was hesitant to watch this drama because of the FL actress who played the second FL that I resented in another drama (one of the reasons was because of her acting). I somehow hated her even more in this one because for a person who comes from the modern world, she should know better. Her stupidity got on my nerve. Anyone who knows anything about historical (and present) Kings and Queens, knows that you should speak respectfully and bow to them when you first see them. She was so disrespectful to all of the emperors when she first met them as emperors. She also expected the emperors to somehow know their way around the modern world immediately after arriving there. She has the audacity to be rude and scold them for being afraid of cars or not knowing how to use the shower. I mean she is responsible for teaching them about the modern world because she brought them to it.

I really liked the three emperors, they all have very different personalities (which you can say make one whole):
- 1st emperor: The muscle. A fighter and a strategist who out of the three, had the most successful reign. He is also, somehow the dumbest in the modern world, but then again his reign was the earliest of the three.
- 2nd emperor: The heart. A very emotionally driven person, who out of the three, had the toughest life (in the sense that he should have died but was mercifully kept alive but tortured). He also had all the characteristics of a typical SL.
- 3rd emporor: The brain. The smartest character in the entire drama, he also arrived the latest, but to me he was the best. Out of the three emperors, the 3rd is definitely my type. He was also the least emotionally driven and his personality made the most sense out of all the characters. I love that he didn't seem to really develop any romantic attachments to the FL as the other two did.

The drama had so much potential to create a really good time traveling plot. I genuinely thought that these historical figures would go to the modern world, either make a new life for themselves or learn to rule their empires better by learning about history, or something. But the plot litterally went nowhere. All that happened for half the drama was that the FL would accidentally go to the past and bring an emperor to the present. And this only took place within a few episodes. After that, nothing happened until the last few episodes when the characters finally realise, what we, as the audience already knew on the first episode, we do get a bit more information (which at this point is useless). I have never seen a drama that was as dragged as this because any relevant plots in that drama take place in around 10 episodes in total.

My favourite characters in this drama were the FL's best friend who gets stuck in time and the 3rd emperor. I also really liked the other two emperors, but their feelings for the FL annoyed me a bit. One thing I couldn't understand is why everyone loves the FL so much (other then the neighbour with the fringe), other then her powers, she had nothing going for her, not even personality wise. All the emperors had more going for them when they came to the modern world, then the FL did in the modern world. They all got really good jobs and seemed to be earning a lot of money, whilst the FL is just an intern at a company that almost got her sexually assaulted, publicly in a room full of coworker. I also really wanted the 2nd emperor to get his sister back, I loved his relationship with his sister so much, but the ending ruined almost everything good about this drama. The only thing I liked about the ending was that the FL's doctor friend got his HEA, and he deserved it more then anyone, same with his girlfriend.

This was also the only (so far) historical Cdrama I've watched where I wanted the ML and FL to get a HEA in the past (in the ML's world/empire).

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