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It has its good moments but it moves too slow
A lot of side characters and moving parts and after a while, it just becomes agonizing slow after episode 9. By that point, you could already understand the characters and motivations and what they are going to do. So it's a bit agonizing to watch things develop but no new revelations or anything much new happening.I thought leads acted well and realistically. It's as real as it gets and shows the messiness of relationships and love lost and love won. Pain of losing someone and jealousies and hurt that comes with it.
All the parents are shown as weak, ignorant, or manipulative.
The women are shown as mostly good people for the most part on the screen but damaged by their parents.
The men are shown as damaged, bitter, jealous, controlling, and childish for the most part.
Storyline was pretty good and I was enjoying it up to episode 8 or 9. Then started losing interest... and skipped to episode 16 and watched backwards a bit.
Overall, I think it's a good show.
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Smart intelligent female lead
It is pretty enjoyable and I really liked Crystal as main lead. She was very beautiful and great acting.I liked the pacing and felt plot was pretty good.
Stupid meter, it was not stupid.
I think maybe the end could have been improved more. It wasn't was satisfying as I was looking for.
Music and videography was great.
Male lead was okay. Believable but this show focuses more on female characters.
It is similar in feel to Love Like Galaxy. Although I would rate the latter as better compared to this.
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Wow.. what a fantastic TV series... absolutely great
Beautiful music and acting and storylines make this one of the year's best watch for me. I watched it after watching A River Runs Through It (another 10/10 series) and this one is also unforgettable. In fact, I think in some ways, I like this one even more but they are both equally great.Love the main leads but to be honest, almost every character in this series is unforgettable. Love the family love and the way they support each other. Also the story of the boys being raised by this cafe owner... wow.. there is just so much love in the family.
The best thing is authentic story and dialogues. No stupid fluffy cartoony silly dialogues. Everyone speaks authentically.
Also no silly annoying cartoonish characters with dumb dialogues.
Overall, it's one of the best series I have seen from China. Top notch all the way.
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Extraordinary! Amazing story and cast
There's very little stupidity in this movie. Get that out of the way first.Very realistic emotions and great drama and story reveal. Fantastic ML and FL with amazing performances by support as well.
What I love most is probably the leads. Just amazing chemistry and nostalgia. If you like old love discovering each other after years have passed... or just amazing story, then check this out.
There's no stupid or silly characters or sidekicks. It's just great drama done well. Again, very little stupidity.
Probably one of the best dramas I have seen in last few years.
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Solid 8 - great start but bad subs ruin many parts
First several episodes were done perfectly. Really high quality and great pacing. Not a lot of parts I skippedBut after episode 6 or 7, it started getting repetitive and I started fast forwarding a lot more.
There isn't a whole lot of stupidity in plot. Which is great. I actually liked that beautiful Ditzy girl and producer the most in terms of characters. And of course the female lead.
I liked the leads and FL is so cute. Beautiful smile and eyes. It's impossible to meet someone as kind hearted as her in the human race.
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Season 2 is boring and stripped down to nothing but talking
What a BORING season 2. I loved Season 1 and was looking forward to this after years of waiting.What a complete waste of time.
This is nothing like Season 1. It's like you are watching a completely different show. There is nothing that made Season 1 interesting in this Season 2. Gone are interesting characters and characters with special skills. His protector never again appears. There's no fighting or martial arts. This show is for old people who love palace gossip shows.
What the hell happened to the original team? What a disappointment and disservice to fans.
I watched up to episode 7 and found it so boring so I skipped ahead to 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22 just to watch some scenes and guess what, it's all just chatting and palace intrigue.
If you liked Season 1, it's best you just avoid this disastrous Season 2 and save yourself the heartache of watching a much inferior product. I would rate Season 1 a 9/10 and this is 3/10. That's how far the gap is.
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Too much alcohol in too many scenes
Could not watch anymore because it worships alcoholism and alcoholics.Shows like this sends a very dangerous message for kids.
Watched this after My Mister. That show is also nonstop alcohol and again worships alcoholism. But that show had better story.
I could understand drinking after work but shows like these take it to another level and both this and My Mister seems to say alcoholism is normal and it's no big deal.
Super dangerous show for young people to watch.
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Storyline could be better but the martial wuxia is pretty good
If story was as good as Sword Snow Stride this would be a 9.5 or 10.I like all the characters and the seriousness of the story. People actually die and the main leads are not constantly crying about having to kill someone.
The fighting is much better than Sword Snow Stride. And I love the lore of the swords.
But one thing that's missing is nobody seems to level up. Everyone starts about the same and although the main lead learns one sword skill, there's not much leveling up at all. I miss the HK 80s shows where the main leads or even the evil leads learn new skills along the way. One of my favorites is 天蠶變
So far, a lot of the characters are kind of forgettable. I like the main lead but not sure what the main female lead is about. She's sort of in the background. She's quite beautiful and gorgeous. Male lead is good. But I am on episode 21 and still trying to figure out what the heck they are doing. I am kind of worried it'll end up like Luoyang where nothing is resolved at the end and it's a stupid ending. That was one of the most disappointing shows for me last year. Luoyang started out great and just ended up crap last several episodes.
So far after 21 episodes, I think it's 8/10. I hope it gets better. It's still good but a bit incoherent.
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Watched most of the episodes but could not bring myself to finish just yet
It started out kind of too cutesy for me and thought it would be like Ashes of Love but thankfully it was not that.I was laughing aloud multiple times first several episodes. Some of the best comedy anywhere in C-drama. Script is top notch. And the acting by Dylan and Esther was done with great chemistry and skill.
It's one of the few dramas where the ML as bad guy truly makes you understand the vastness of his power in the first 2 episodes. I don't think any other fantasy c-drama has shown this level of depth for a character that starts out bad. Most of them tend to be too cutesy or just full of angst all the time.
Esther was great in this role. I also watched her in Moonlight and enjoyed her there as well. I do not have any problems with her voice. She plays cute girl roles and this fit her.
Dylan was really good as the ML. I watched him in The Rational Life and that is such a great show as well. Here, he plays someone without emotions in the beginning and slowly transforms. I find him more interesting in the first 1/2 than the 2nd half. But then again, I have not finished it.
There are multiple dramas that I watched while they were ongoing that I stopped towards the 2/3. Immortal Samsara, Love like Galaxy, and this show. I think after a while, we viewers just get tired of watching the same type of shows. I probably will finish this along with the other 2 one day. In the meantime, I watched and finished some other shows.
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Too silly
ML is way too silly in the way he chases the girl. Sorry I can take it for 1 hr, 2 hr and even 3 hrs. But 9 episodes in, I am sick and tired of his silliness. This is like watching a Stephen Chow movie non-stop for hours and hours. After a way, you just get tired of it.Love the FL. She's like the moon and stars to me.
I was looking through list of other TV shows the FL has done. And sadly, most of them are all silly. I did watch Romance of Tiger and Rose and enjoyed it. Although the end was kind of boring. But I remember it was quite fun and funny.
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So far on episode 9 and not bad
So far on episode 9 and it's not too bad.It's hard to believe that the FL and her best friend are both single. These are the most beautiful women on the screen today and it's impossible to not be distracted by their beauty each time they appear on the screen. The fact that they are single makes this show more fantasy than a wuxia TV series. Watching them wear shorts walking around is a feast for the eyes. Absolutely gorgeous and both are stunning in terms of body shape.
ML is pretty good. Not an idiot character that' for sure.
I was speed watching from episode 18-30 because it started to feel really draggy.
Overall, I think it was OK. Not bad but not great. I enjoyed looking at the FL and her gorgeous best friend along with Ms. Xue, the head of the game company. 3 absolutely beautiful stunning ladies and dressed to perfection each frame.
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Great series and 9 episodes was right
It's not too complicated series. I was really rooting for Jin Soo from the start because she is so drama free and fits what ML was looking for.Love how the show did not fear showing hot scenes and sleeping together of characters. It's reality and glad they showed it because made characters more real.
I thought the ML and the 2 FL were great.
9 episodes was about right.
The ML drove me crazy sometimes with his actions and thinking but it is realistic in that regard.
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Bad ending
Great beginning and middle but last 3/4 was so draggy. Just dragged and dragged.This could easily just be 16 or 20 episodes at the most.
Great acting. Great tension and music.
But the ending... How in the world did they decide on that ending? That young woman decided to go through with reporting it to the police instead of forever living in a life of luxury with her parents and what did she get in the end?
She became a cripple. The courts awarded her 1 yuan. She lost all her friends and her reputation for smeared. Her parents lost all face and reputation. The lawyer who helped her lost her license.
It is a joke. If anyone thought this was better than option 1, they are nuts. It was simply 10 minutes of bad sex at a hotel. And somehow because of that idiotic boy who is a idealistic moron with zero real world experience and gets her to somehow think that 10 minutes of bad sex can never be erased and forgotten and she deserves some justice for it. And as soon as things turn to shit, that same idealistic moron turns and hides behind his parents blanket.
Someone should really have knocked some sense into that young woman. She received all those gifts and so many chances to not even be put into this situation and so many chances to have a good life with her parents despite everything and somehow she was made to think that 10 minutes of bad sex is the most important event in her life.
If the CEO was an absolute monster or pure evil, then YES! Do everything to bury him. But he seems like a rich arrogant powerful bastard like many male leads in C dramas and I don't think he is a predator by any means and he got some wrong signals from her and is an asshole. But nowhere near evil or predator and he is someone that warranted to make a deal with and he gave her a real offer.
To me, everyone who did the most damages got off with no repercussions. The dad who physically assaulted her with huge slap. The idiotic boy who screwed up her life with idealistic bad advice. The police woman who wouldn't just let case go despite no real evidence. The body guard who called the media to make life hell for them when he could have just called the police. The PR woman who released her identity to social media. The gossipers in their building who tried to KILL them with bricks through their window. These people did so much worse than the main male lead. So much worse than 10 minutes of bad sex.
I guess maybe it is the real world.
Maybe the show is letting us know that we should be careful of idealistic morons and take the deal if it's a good deal!
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Great acting and not too much stupidity or silliness
ML and FL were great but so were the supporting case. I really enjoyed the opening and music very much. The relationships took a bit of time to develop and great acting by everyone. I really enjoyed the supporting case and without the supporting cast, I would not have liked this series as much.Not a lot of twists or turns but mostly focused on development of love and relationship between different characters and there are not evil characters or sinister plots. It's about search for love and how life changes with death and love. I was kind of surprised by the ML performance. Much better than I expected.
There's no stupidity in the plot where you scream at the screen and ask how anyone can be this stupid. It just flows and though at times, I got annoyed by the FL acting so girlish but I guess that's her character. I mean... 20s and still having dolls and stuffed animals in bed that kind of thing. And too shy to kiss each other that kind of thing.
Opening music is amazing and unforgettable. Just beautiful song.
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Watched 2 episodes and dropping it
It is way too boring. I really like the actress in Love Between Devil and Fairy so it's not her. There is just no chemistry between them or else it's due to the plot and writing. Was looking for a good modern drama and unfortunately this turned out to be a disappointment.The name of the series is great. Very enchanting name and they definitely had the talent. But somehow just no chemistry anywhere.
Could not go beyond episode 2 before I just gave up.
Argh... why does reviews have to 500 words or more. Just ridiculous. Anyways, I guess I could talk more about the characters. I did not feel attraction to any of the characters. The main female lead, she played the same type of character as other shows she's been in. Nothing terribly bad or anything. Just pacing and plot was very weak and same with dialogues.
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