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It’s literally 5am and I have a 8am class sOON BUT I FINISHED ALL 24 EPS :0 tbh I was confused at first because the drama made it seem like Ye Lin was the ML but LMAO JOKES ON ME ITS YE MIAO not complaining tho;) For an honest review, I really enjoyed the plot it wasn’t cliché but tbh it was like the typical Chinese youth drama. Everything goes well and is light and fluffy up until the last few eps so don’t get shocked when you start crying and cursing at a fEW MFS for making you this emotional *trust me I did it* What makes this drama really special are the scenes of the main leads exploring the art of ancient painting and how because of this, formed unexpected friendships (& love interests HEHEHE) In the end I really wished that this drama was a few eps longer because the ending felt very rushed and all over the place idk I’m not a Calculus ho but shit didn’t add up and kinda left me hanging:// If this drama gets a season 2 then I hope they focus solely on Ye Miao And Ruining’s relationship! LOLL anyways I really enjoyed this drama and since I sacrificed my college studying time for this yOU SHOULD TOO jk but it was good guys!
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The drama overall is worth watching especially if you are into Youth Romance Comedy. I must say I really shipped Yelin and Ruining at first. The last 4 episodes were very tearjerking I was practically balling my eyes out. The last few episodes are very heartwrenching. The plot is all very interesting with many plot twist. I also really like how they also included the romance of the supporting characters. The drama is also at a good length it ended where it needs to which is nice though it would have been better if no one died haha. Was this review helpful to you?
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What a ride!
OMG this drama is a Rollercoaster of emotions. There are so many ups and downs that you'll get whiplash.It starts really bubbly and tame, typical youth drama. Lots of cliches situations and dumb plots to get the romance going (don't get me wrong, thats what I signed up for) but, unexpectedly, we have a very AMAZING female leader. Dude, the girl is super cool, she is not your dumb, good as a saint, clumsy with a bad hair type of girl. She is the campus beauty, she knows she is a catch and is unapologetically cool, and that changes the game.
She doesn't react like you would expect and gives back better than what she gets. A breath of fresh air.
The villain in this drama deserves an award, really. Her plots aren't good, but she's such a good actress that you can't help hating her. Kudos to the actress.
So we kind of get mislead when we are told about the male leader in the sinopses. It's a love triangle between two brothers (who are the new meaning of brotherhood in my book) who are very charming (so you can get second male leader syndrome, I mean, I did...).
So things are going great and bla bla bla, and BAAAM, you get proof of cheating, baaam brain cancer, baaam suicide slash murder, baaam self sacrifice death, baaam attempt murder, and that is all in like, the last four episodes or so. It was so unusual that I got confused about the "youth romance" tag. It was super cool and out of the box.
It was a bit messy, and could definitely be longer so that the story could cleanup the ends better, but it was a cool crazy nonetheless.
All actors were great, specially because they are young, and as above-mentioned, we have a crazy range of emotions. Definitely recommend this drama, I watched it all in one sitting.
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Story is different. At first i thought shen zhen and yeling would be together at end but story turns out to be different totally. Ending is so sad i mean first her mom and then yeling. Shen zhen's character is so irritating I mean why she can't think positive and instead of accepting her mistakes she always blames other and expect others to give her importance and understand her. Everytime she plots against others and give lame excuses makes me so angry.
Ending is tragic. Season is worth watching.
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It is really a beautiful and light drama .they didn't showed much college scene .how much they need they showed that much .then there is no competition between brother for love ,no sacrifice only compromise I like these word then I felt very sad when ye lincame to her dream and he also cried in her dream try to touch her but compromise and left ,really a big hardship faced by female actor and secondly there is no story of hatred ,generally had found in many Chinese drama that love story start with hatred but such things is not there .ye miao trust her till end and support her .that is called a true love That inverted kissing scene is wao.no flaws in the drama .everybody did a great job.
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The brother hood between Ye Miao and Ye Lin was a highlight in this drama. You can see how they both loved and cherished each other. Xia Rui Ning was a lovable character. She was straightforward and bubbly at the same time.She always stood by what she believed in and deeply cared for her loved ones. Shen Zhen really got to my nerves by how self-centered and cunning she was especially to Rui Ning. Props to the actors of this drama as they really did well in portraying their roles.
If you are interested, I think this drama is worth a watch. It was an easy watch for me as I finished this in 2 days (I was too hooked). The leads just captivate my heart too much (A more light hearted drama for them, please!)
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Started nice… but went downhill by becoming VERY frustrating ; a potential wrongfully exploited
Was nice… but the writing has some BIG flaws that make it not so greatThe drama started off as a light romcom in a campus setup
But on the last 4 episodes, it suddenly turned very tragic and melodramatic.
I don’t have a problem with melodramatic. What I have a problem with is the sudden change of tone : if they wanted something melodramatic, they should have done it during the whole drama. Not first start as a nice romantic comedy and then with just one episode, turn it to tragedy with melodrama, deaths and angst. Us viewers were not prepared at all and that felt disagreeable
Another big flaw : this drama causes A LOT of frustration to the viewer, mostly due to the injustices that the female lead suffers. To summarize : the female lead is rich, beautiful, cheerful and beloved. But by her side, there’s a jealous character ready to ruin her happiness. Ruining, the female lead, who grew up with everything one could wish for, including a sparkling, attractive personality, grew up with Shen Zhen by her side. Shen Zhen is beautiful, smart and seemingly polite : but she’s the maid’s daughter, everything she owns has been paid by Ruining’s parents, the house where she lives is theirs and she has always been overshadowed by Ruining’s bright personality and popularity. So, obviously she strongly dislikes Ruining. Many viewers can understand that. What makes her eventually annoying is how far her jealousy and her inferiority complex go : at first, it starts off as her being so insecure in front of Ruining that she’s certain Ruining always does everything to bully her. No master how Ruining apologizes, explains or tries to make it up when she accidentally wrongs Shen Zhen, Shen Zhen won’t listen or believe and will only conclude Ruining deliberately bullied her. When Ruining tries to be nice or befriend her, Shen Zhen rudely rejects by always bringing up their « master-servant relationship » as if she’s somehow blaming Ruining. What makes her even more annoying is that she’s actually not so pitiful, she even has plenty of good things : her mom’s employers gave her mom not only a work but gave them a place to live, food and clothes but even paid for her studies, and all of that without asking anything in return : in short, if it weren’t for them, she’d know what is real poverty and would probably have to do part-time jobs. They also treat kindly, love her like a relative and have plenty of attentions for her. Their daughter tries to be friend with her, plenty of people actually admire her and want to befriend. So we don’t know why she’s so certain her life is a deep tragedy : she obviously thinks as some Cinderella, a female lead from some idol drama and thinks Ruining is the villain who steals everything from her. Eventually, her and Ruining’s rivalry takes a whole new turn when they fall for the same boy : although he first befriends Shen Zhen, he loves Ruining, which finally drives her to madness and darkness after having lost again to Ruining. Her actions not only lead her to harm to Ruining : this leads her to harm and threaten Ruining’s family, despite everything she owes to them. And her jealousy and bitterness turned her so dark that she doesn’t see how wrong this is or that this is totally uncalled for, unlike what she claims. Eventually, she also takes a part in destroying not only Ruining but her whole family, again without remorse, despite the fact that this family had done so much for her.
Shen Zhen is an amazing character, with an amazing actress : she exerts some fascination for me, a mix of hatred and love, because she’s not only a very realistic villain, but also someone who doesn’t look like a villain. She first appears as a pitiful Cinderella who just misunderstands the female lead. However, what makes me REALLY hate her is that the show often seems to present as someone who’s not so bad, who shouldn’t have been a villain, but who has a pitiful past and was led astray by heartbreak and jealousy : what comforted me in that particularly is the ending.
THAT F*** ENDING !!! The most freaking frustrating point of the story, especially on Shen Zhen’s side, and the thing that made me dislike this drama the most : basically, Shen Zhen and another character did terrible things, even committing crimes, which destroyed Ruining, but they get away. Let’s just say that after her most terrible sin was revealed, Shen Zhen was about to commit another : but in an unrealistic twist, that doesn’t correspond at all to the character, she retracts because she just heard the male lead say « I love you » to the female lead when saving her. And with just that, she just quietly leaves, with no punishment for her actions, even having a beautiful monologue, like she’s actually a tragic character not the worst kind of person.. Her accomplice is also no as punished as one should for one’s actions. She just spent 24 episodes trying to ruin the female lead, going as far as complicity of murder and attempt of murder… but suddenly stops when she’s about to lose everything ?! With the character’s personality, that’s not believable at all, and it is even less believable that what would bring her back to her senses is hearing the man she loves profess his love to her rival, when we know how jealous it made her in the past. And we don’t know what the lead couple become, if they even end up together, although it seems to imply they don’t.
What annoyed me most about this ending is that it’s not at all the novel’s but it also doesn’t make sense : yep, I’ve read the novel. A novel which gives an extremely different ending, an ending very satisfying, for every character. But it seemed like the screenwriter here was Shen Zhen’s diehard fan and would rather let her ruin lives and get away than punish her and give her an ending that makes sense
The ending isn’t the only frustrating point of the story ; like i said, there’s a lot. For example, i was kinda annoyed that Ruining’s mother never got to know or realize what kind of person Shen Zhen was. Basically, it became obvious Shen Zhen was very hostile towards her daughter and was bullying her : unfairly accusing her of an offense, slapping her in public, causing her suspension, being about to slap her in her own house, calling her « a heinous person » in front of them… even with all of that, Ruining’s mom kept believing that the Shen Zhen she watched grow up was a polite and kind kid and only had a few misunderstandings with Ruining (URGH). That was a bit annoying. This eventually turned VERY annoying in that scene when she found Ruining and Shen Zhen fighting (basically, after Shen Zhen had used a common past between Ruining’s and the male lead’s parents to blackmail and had even insulted her mom) : but Ruining is the one she slapped, and Shen Zhen is the one she hugged and trusted when Shen Zhen, without a bit of shame, played the grateful and polite girl in front of the woman she had just called a « whore ». Shen Zhen had obviously caused harm to her daughter in the past and her, when she found them fighting, it didn’t occur to her that maybe Ruining had been pushed and bullied too much but chose to believe Ruining was the unreasonable one. What felt most annoying is that Ruining’s mom never got to know about Shen Zhen’s actions, real nature, and personal feelings : until the end, she was left in the dark and us viewers would have liked her to know and realize how stupid she had been, that she owed her daughter an apology and that she had been feeding a snake all along.
it was also annoying that the male lead, of anyone else, never got to know all of the things that she did : after all, she had even used his family to threaten Ruining, even though she claimed to love him, had somehow also caused the ruin of his family but he never knew about it. I just wondered how he would have reacted if he knew how she blackmailed Ruining with both of their families.
The male lead was also a big frustration and deception at the end : he obviously still loved the female lead, but for some reasons, he chose to blame her, or to pretend to blame her, for what happened between both of their families. Many viewers kept rooting for him but I didn’t : i thought this made him immature, and dishonest about his own feelings. It was okay if he couldn’t love her but to pretend to hate and blame her… i just found him pathetic and unfair
Also, i wished we would have known what happened to his dad who was a big responsible for their misfortunes.
It would also have been nice if they had somehow used Shen Zhen’s mom for her karma : Shen Zhen’s mom, unlike her daughter, was extremely grateful to her employers, had a lot of respect for them and the female lead, and tried to teach these to Shen Zhen, but obtained the opposite. At some point of the story, she doesn’t hesitate to point out to Shen Zhen that she shouldn’t go after Ruining. I just think that with her gratefulness to the female lead’s family, it could have been a great turn to the story if she had learnt how her daughter had actually destroyed without remorse their benefactors.
But these last points are actually minor. Like I said, the biggest flaw of the drama is the ending that changed compared to the novel : they not only completely changed it but rushed it (there are a lot of other elements in the novel, including another suitor for the male lead), and made it the worst kind of open ending where the leads aren’t happily together and the villains get away, despite having done the worst kind of things. Moreover, the ending being « open », it doesn’t conclude anything, leaving the viewer frustrated, whether it is because the villains are spared or because we don’t even know if the leads end up together.
Honestly, when I think of that drama, I now have a ball of angst rolling in my throat because it is so sad, unfair and frustrating and it could have been so much better
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Accidentally found this drama on youtube, and immediately clicked this because of the main lead (Fan Zhi Xin). I watched his drama called My Girl as Dr Sui and really like him. At first, watched this drama will make you laughed so much because it is exactly same as the tags and genre for this drama which is romantic comedy. Just like another pretty youth drama. So much love for the female lead' characters. She is pretty, straightforward, rich, confident, and know exactly what she wants but still have a kind heart. Definitely not a typical weak, poor, and dumb female lead. However, I believe that some people will have a little confuse who is the male lead in this drama because you will find those two brothers looks like the male lead tho. But the truth is Ye Miao is the male lead. Nevertheless, this brotherhood having a really nice characters. Ye Lin (older brother) is smart, nice, handsome, and calm. And Ye Miao is adorable, cool, naughty, fun but always be there and support the female lead. Both of them like the same girl but they don't do evil competition instead of compromise which is the highlight here. Moreover, the male and female lead's best friend are also so cute together. The only character I hate is the second female lead who is so evil and you guys will feel so disgusting. For the first 20 episode, all I can say is I really enjoy watching this drama because it's light, fun, and entertaining until the last 4 episode the unexpected plot twist happened. This romantic comedy drama turns out to be tragedy drama. So many unexpected things happened and will make you cried a lot and it was really sad. Overall, this drama really have a good story and strong characters and all of the leads nailed it. I will give 8.5/10 if they just add one more episode to make a sweet ending for the main leads because they really deserve it!
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The main characters are playing perfectly in their role. I'm loving the chemistry between the two main lead couple Ye Miao (Fan Zhi Xin) and Xia Ruining (Zhuang Dafei) More drama for these two pls!! 😍 And the friendship between Xia Rui and Lu Hua Hua is so admirable! 👭
I feel that the villain in this drama deserves an award, really. Shen Zhen's plots aren't good, but she's such a good actress that you can't help hating her grrrr 😤
I was not expecting that this “funny & joyful” drama would gave me a rollercoaster of emotions. 😭 I was kind of disappointed because the last three episodes gets kind of crazier and felt a bit rushed. Even worse, the later years feel disconnected to the rest of the story. The ending was not bad, but it felt like it was too fast!
PS. If you are hesitating to watch, you better watch this drama now! I swear it's soo good and full of life lessons.♡
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This drama portray that being rich doesn't mean you're mean not kind till you don't sacrifice. Being good doesn't mean one sacrifice the things that one earned by one's own efforts. The girl really don't need anyone to take stand for her she herself takes stand for herself. Hide her pain. And most importantly confess everything that she has in her heart and keeping anything to heart. Because who knows what's gonna happen tomorrow. It is better to confess than to regret in future 'what if I said this...?'
On a ending note I must say this drama though short had every emotion , class, age, values and somewhere taking realities of today's life.
Ah! I feel sad I wish has some more episodes for main leads at the end, then it would be icing on the cake.
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It was good.
I've been intrigued with this drama when someone recommended it to a facebook group where I am also a member. Some also says that this drama made them cry. As a person who fancy of drama with a lot of crying scenes, maybe affected of my being a fan of tragic stories, thus, I proceeded to watching this one.Story: The story is no unique at all. In my opinion, it's just some typical story but yet with an interesting plot twists. So, about the plot twists, it's the atmosphere-setting of the story for the last few episodes. I did cry hard in this drama because of I was just moved. Her life was just so unfortunate and chaotic. She doesn't deserve that life at all yet she wasn't given a commendable ending. I mean, I just hate it how it ended with just flashbacks. I was just really disappointed.
Characters:
So, now, let's talk about the characters.
Firstly, the girl antagonist, for me, is very effective in her acting. For the whole episode, I was really so damn pissed at her for being so selfish, plastic, and so pretentious. I was also frustrated to Xia Rui Ning for being a modest and kind type of girl. I wanna watch them fight and I want Xia to avenge herself but argh, I just hate that traits of her. But I must say that they were really effective as an actress.
Secondly, to the main lead, Ye Miao and Xi Rui Ning, their pairing wasn't bad at all. Though I didn't get much of a chemistry between them for reasons but they're cute. With Ye Ling and Xi Rui Ning, I just got the same feeling, but I like Ye Miao for Xi Rui Ning than Ye Ling. I did think Xi Rui would end up with Ye Miao but oh well, a twist happened.
Music: I haven't remember any of its soundtrack maybe because none of those really captured or interest me. But well, they didn't affect my watching to the series, so, fine.
Rewatch value:
Hmm... I wouldn't say I would find time rewatching this one, but maybe just maybe.
So for this series, overall, pretty good.
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