Should be a 12 episode drama
Terrible writing, no climax. I thought there would be something when she arrived on giving up on him but just few sweet moments with the guy and she's all over him. Duh! Might as well be a pokpok!The music was good, the acting was okay but the writing is terrible. There is no suspense. If they planned this as a 12 episode drama then it would have been fine!
Dropping this on the 6th episode because I can't with how they made the FL into this fluffy, stupid girl troupe who can't seem to move on from a guy she met when she was so little. Would have made sense if there was also something with her friends than just her running constantly to a guy who can't defend her. I mean, are girls really that st"pid? When you have great friends and loving parents, you'll revolve your entire life to a guy whom you've shared fewer years? She really is a pokpok , maybe write that down instead.
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Undecided
At times the FL bugged the hell out of me with her self-sacrificing and stubborn clinging. Other times I admired how she fought for her friends relentlessly. I wish someone would fight for me so fiercely, even if I did not understand how could she hold on, since the ML did not give her much.The acting was suberb tho!
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I am hooked!
At first, I am planning to watch it until all episodes are completed and not during airing. But with the clips I’ve seen in the reels and clips made me watch 1 episode. But after watching Episode 1 and then give another for the next episode. Before I know it, I finished all the 8 episodes in full night ang now waiting for the next episodes to be available. I didn’t expect to be hooked in this drama. But when I watched it, the drive to see more of Zhang Linghe (Jiang Xiaoxi) made me stay. I want to see further developments of the story. And with the pace I find it in a good pace. I want to see how they would endure and thrive in this circumstance. I wish that Jiang Xiaoxi would be brave enough to stand uo for himself and not being scared of his mother. I want to see that in the next episodes.Also I am so happy to see Zhang Linghe in a young looking face that suit to his role as teenager. He is just so cute and eye candy! He is just a versatile actor as I see him as Jiang Xiaoxi and not as ZLH and not even the other roles I watched in his other dramas. He is a very good and versatile actor! Very gorgeous and handsome actor! 🫶
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disappointing
zero work from production house and team to make this adaptation worthwhile.It looks more like a glorification of FL only. Qunshad squad have no existence without FL, no characters have any layers or individuality.
Viewers are supposed to interpret all scenes and use their own imagination to understand the plot here.
pity the actors are not at fault. I guess they signed this show because of good track record of PH. But i guess everyone fails, and this PH failed completely here!
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Very mediocre
I love, love C dramas and have watched hundreds but this genre is not my cup of tea. It starts nice enough about kids growing up together in a very nice, supportive community. That jumps to a little bug eyed girl being obsessed with one of the visiting kids who moved away and now grown up. He is a hot, very handsome, math genius who is very popular in school. The FL lead hasn't seemed to age and still looks like the same bug eyed little girl. Casting is totally off as there is absolutely no chemistry between the ML/FL whatsoever. Plus the fact that the FL is totally obsessed with the ML and stalks him from the beginning. Don't really want to watch more of this mismatched pair. This is just my opinion, others may love this genre.Was this review helpful to you?
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It could've been better
I enjoyed this drama, but I did have many problems with it. The first 15 episodes are dedicated to their childhood/high school life. I enjoy high school dramas, although they've been getting repetitive for me. I think some of the messages about family were heartfelt and important. For example, when the FL was struggling to understand the toxic relationship between the ML and his mother. Yeyun's situation with her father and the sentimental words of the FL's mom helped her understand. Both of these set her up to not get swayed by the ML's mom's insolence. It's a common occurrence in dramas for ML or FL to be insecure and back off simply because of a malicious authority figure. Besides this, in those same 15 episodes, I enjoyed the FL's mindset, the way she carried herself, and her ability to stand on business (for lack of better words).My problem comes in the second half of the show. The ML proceeds to ghost his friends again and does it to the FL in the worst way possible. The FL moves on to college and cannot get over him or even leave him alone. She searches for him, finds him, and is soon pushed away by him AGAIN. Throughout this, she persists. I applaud her for seeing his actions past face value and recognizing his trauma that fuels his behavior, but she should have let him go. He was willing to hurt her, leave her in the dark, all for the excuse that he thinks he's not enough. He could have been enough. He finally got his freedom from his mother and chose to be what she thought he would be without her path. I am not ignoring the hard times that he fell on with his cousin, never. Shit happens, but he became what he said he wouldn't without math. Then he proceeded to go back to what he hated and prove to his mother that he did need it. I'm saying all of this to show that his character didn't have much growth for me. He was self-deprecating, ran away from his problems, and still, when they finally got into a relationship, he had no confidence. When she said she was finally going to leave him, she should have done it.
On the topic of flat characters, the FL. I don't think she's actually a flat character. I, in fact, enjoyed her character in the beginning, but I was the usual trope where they make the FL seem like she has nothing going for her at all. She was bad at studying, didn't know what she wanted for the future, and was overall made to seem less than the ML. I HATE that trope, but at least she didn't lack in EQ.
My last, perhaps controversial words will be: The FL should have ended up with Yu Qiao, even though Que Yeyun liked him.
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came for the romance, but stayed for the friendship
This drama had made me cry nonstop. I was already crying by the 2nd episode until it ended. It was so beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time.I would admit, the love story part of this series isn’t strong. There wasn’t a strong memory or experience for the female lead to suffer all that for the male lead. But what made it so beautiful isn’t the romance. It’s the friendship.
The friendship the female lead had with her childhood friends. Their loyalty and love to her. It was proof that what they have surpasses any kind of romantic love. It was a kind of soul bond that was so beautiful I can’t help but wish everyone experience that kind of friendship.
Trust me, the series is toxic- with male leads parents and the teachers more focused on math trophies and recognition than a childs welfare. It was toxic in a way that the male lead is so prone to ghosting and to just being so bad at communication that the female lead suffered 90% of the time. It was also so bad that the male lead got away with everything because the female lead was so in love with him. I actually am angered by the fact that she had to do everything for them to workout.
The truly saving grace of this show was the friendship.
I can proudly say, I came for the romance, but stayed for the friendship.
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I tried but just could not
So it started good...had potential, poor intelligent boy with a chirpy happy go lucky go girl. Seemed like a safe enough story, but then it went all down.I really tried to overlook the almost stalker tendency of the FL who went so crazy for a boy she met one summer at the age of 4-5! That's kinda creepy...but i was still willing to give this a shot.
The story just is not as engaging, you feel pity, anger, frustration...all for the wrong reasons.
I dropped this drama, just could not make myself even fast forward watch this.
Maybe this story is for some people for me it did not work.
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horrid writing and an absolute waste of time and potential
first episode set up some solid context with alot of potential for a decent show, saying i was disappointed in how the story developed is an understatement.the acting is fine and the side characters are great, the plot itself isnt bad, its just a cliche romance story like most other dramas.
and as someone who has watched MULTIPLE dramas, this was no doubt the one that pissed me off the most.
the plot develops like any other c drama plot, two kids got separated, somehow they get reunited and work out their differences and misunderstandings, then they get tgt and work out the relationship conflicts, boom marriage and done.
my issue is with the two mcs reunite part. my first imprssion when i saw how jiang qiaoxi pretended to not know liqinle at the sch was just mad red flag okay LIKE BOO THIS GUY IS HORRIBLE STAY AWAY FROM HIM
he then proceeds to try to get her attention and interact with her in the most inconsiderate and ridiculous ways that i personally think is rude and nasty to linqile.
making her pick up ur water bottle after making her think she made it fall and making her get a drink for you is horrible and manipulative, who does that. idc if hes a guy and hes clueless, and i also dont care if hes sorry and remorseful cus he doesnt apologise, not any time soon at least. thats lowk objectifying women cus where did feminism go and why are u treating the girl u love like a slave?
coming out of nowhere to "stabilise" linqile when she learns how to ride a bicycle is insanely idiotic and unsafe. jiang qiaoxi is characterised as a genius, hes top of his class. YOU CANT TELL ME THE TOP STUDENT THINKS COMING OUT OF NOWHERE TO GRAB THE BACK OF BICYCLE OF SOMEONE WHO JUST LEARNT HOW TO RIDE IT IS SAFE.
1. shes shocked and may lose focus or balance (which is what happens and she FALLS AND SCRAPES HER ELBOW BADLY and proceeds to defend himself saying he was trying to help her, then proceeds to change subject and deflect by saying he just wants to start over w her when u literally just INJURED HER. HELLO? WTH BRO ACTUALLY PMO SO BAD ATP)
2. you control a bicycle by the handles. when u someone teaching someone else to ride a bike u see them on their SIDE holding their HANDLES. who does it from the back? that firstly doesnt make sense at all and lacks all logic and secondly is mad unsafe. im fine w the idea of using an injury to get them to bond or interact, esp when its done WELL. here its horrible and makes me think they didnt have the budget to hire a decent writer.
this is bad ESPECIALLY cus it contradicts the characterisation of the character jiang qiaoxi in general. if they wanted to portray him as the genius academically but aloof in social situations, they have to SHOW THAT and set that context. they have the perfect abilities to do this cus he has a bad childhood and lacks friends for the first half of his life and the majority of his childhood. but they dont. and thats the issue.
i didnt make it to the end of the 5th episode before dropping the show. the acting is rly fine and not the issue, and i promise this plot and these characters had POTENTIAL. but the execution was just horrible cus i dont want to see a guy REPEATEDLY disrespect a woman, only to do it again and again in a so called attempt to make it up to her. he completely ignores the boundaries she constantly makes clear and reminds him of, agreeing and letting it pass but comes back to disturb her ONCE AGAIN when he decides he cant let her go. thats TOXIC and may this love never find me. ever.
linqile i can let past cus ok she loves this guy and thus she keeps forgiving him and not scolding him or wtv cus she likes him, which we can clearly see in the show due to the effective portrayal of her character's feelings towards her first love. she pmo too but it makes sense.
dont recommend. i cant rly give it a rating cus i didnt want the whole thing and prob will never do.
TLDR: this show pissed me off the next level degrees, esp jiangqiaoxi. if ur the kind who doesnt read into shows alot and analyse stuff like acting quality, writing quality, realistic-ness or wtv, esp whether the shit they do is ethical and morally ok or not, then sure you'll prob love this show. but if ur like me? oh haha dont event try. i found male mc extremely manipulative and horrible
side note: ik i didnt watch the full show (i only watched 4 and like the first 5min of 5), but like if u have to watch a full show for it to be good thats not a good show. if i cant make it thru the first few ep and ur telling me i have to trust the process and wait it out then no thats a freaking shitty show no show shld ever be like that. why would u waste ur time on a show that u have to wait for when u can watch other shows that are good from start to finish and dont make u wait?
also this is all my opinion if u disagree we can agree to disagree calm down its not that deep just chill and move on there a ton of ppl that like this show
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So far not great
I was very excited for this drama because I’m a sucker for these type of romances and the genre in general but this is disappointing me. I’m in episode 8 and all I feel is frustration.At first, I was all happy and giggly because they were so cute as kids. When Qile moved to the city, I was rooting for her to toughen up a bit and let the guy suffer more. But I shouldn’t have expected because of course, they had to make her this weak FL who’d go crazy for the boy even after experiencing sh1t.
Her friends and their friendship is what kept me going until this episode but her girl best friend riles me up a bit. I guess there’s no doubt that they all have a sense of immaturity but her in ep8 with what happened between the FL and the other guy… idk she just rubs me off in the wrong way.
It’s at Episode 8 and all I’ve felt was confusion about where the FL and ML’s relationship is heading. It’s getting tiring 🥲
Yet, I’m still giving this a shot because maybe I’m just frustrated with the current turn of events and maybe I’m writing this out of frustration 🤷🏻♀️
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It dragged on sooo much
This started off so good. I was obsessed. I like binged watched like the first few episodes, but then it started to get boring.For me this drama wasn’t realistic at all, and if you disagree, hear me out. Why does Yingtao still like Qiaoxi when they hadn’t seen each other since they were kids? It doesn’t make any sense for me that she thought about him everyday and wrote letters and stuff.
I dropped this like a couple months ago at episode 22, but I just started to continue, so if some of the things are off, don’t mind them.
Something I didn’t like was how Qiaoxi just ran away. I understand he has such a sad and difficult life, like how his mum wishes he was his dead brother, but he wasn’t thinking about Yingtao’s feelings. Yingtao had to literally tracked him down, and he expected her to leave as soon as she saw him? Um Qiaoxi??
But I also found Yingtao so annoying throughout the show. I don’t know why, ok? I just found her annoying.
I also feel like it went so off track. Like I was so confused in the later episodes when they were in Hong Kong. Maybe it was just me but like what’s going on?
I wish Yingtao gave him a hard time when they were in Hong Kong and didn’t forgive him so fast. I mean maybe she did and it’s out of my memory, but she followed him everywhere. He doesn’t deserve her. The fact he was even having any doubts about them being together was bad, and Yingtao was almost too understanding. Like I know she gave him a hard time by not leaving him be alone, but I think she could’ve you know, done more?
Again, I know Qiaoxi has a hard life and he’s used to shutting himself out and all that. He’s realistic-ish, but Yingtao was there for him, and he didn’t want her to be.
I’m my opinion, they were too different and they just didn’t match. That’s obviously my opinion and you can think whatever. I just think Yingtao deserves someone that doesn’t hide and lie about his feelings and doesn’t lead hers the wrong way. As I mentioned, it dragged onnnn. I think they could’ve stopped after high school or collage, we didn’t need Hong Kong. I’m literally just trying to get through the last couple episodes, wish me luck
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