I seriously wonder if this wasn’t written with the sole purpose of filling a timeline or to promote the actors
The story is full of cliches and therefore boring and predictable.
- poor, hardworking girl full of dignity and handsome, popular, rich heir trying to get to her level
-rich, pretty spoiled childhood friend of the male lead who likes him and therefore becomes stupidly jealous of the female lead
-the fact that she eventually admits she didn’t really like him and finds comfort with the male lead’s rival who first had an unrequited love for the female lead
-the rich brat’s friend who does plenty of nasty things in the name of helping her rich brat’s friend but is actually secretly (or so they pretend : it’s obvious for an experienced viewer) sabotaging both her friend AND the female lead out of jealousy
-the annoying dad or grandfather who opposes the leads’ relationship because the girl is poor and finds flaws with her even when she’s wronged and tries to arrange him a marriage
Moreover, the writing is nonsensical. There’s no real triggering factor to the story :they enter college but that’s about it.
Plenty of their actions don’t really make sense : for example, why do they, at some point, make a crusado about fixing the relationship between both of their seniors, played by Chen Yi Han and Luo Zheng ? NONE OF YOUR DAMN BUSINESS, KIDDOS, IF YOU HAVE SO MUCH FREE TIME, GO AND STUDY !
Or the fact that the second male lead agreed to the second female lead’s request to « distract » the female lead from the male lead because she somehow used her brother’s business and his career. Hum, really ? You wanna make me believe that A college student can use her older brother’s business for her love affairs ? And that a superstar who got nothing to do with this s*** would just gladly accept ? Alright then, rich heirs’ ways of spending time…
The female lead eventually, always conquers everyone with her « bravery » and her kindness but to the viewer, it kinda feels flat as she really has nothing special. Moreover, she always comes out perfectly of every situation, without almost doing anything, as if the show tries to present her as a Supergirl we’re supposed to admire but again, it feels flat and you don’t get why everyone is crazy about her, even girls.
Also, even the dialogues and writing feel so cliche. Obviously, the screenwriter didn’t try to make it original.
So you can watch for some of the actors who have gained some fame today and we’re still pretty unknown when this dramas was released (which makes it one of their first) but that’s it. Don’t expect anything grandiose. Even more annoying is that the so obvious dubbing and the over use of image filtering makes it hard to enjoy the actors’ performances