The Early Spring

What is everyone's problem?

Upon seeing so much discourse on these characters, here is the only thing I have to say:
I really don't see everyone's issue with both these characters. Why do we constantly start labeling them as 'red flag' and 'green flag' every single time they make a decision or choose to act a certain way, then switch up the next second when they do something different?
Humans often make irrational, emotional, and conflicting choices all the time, shaped by circumstances and previous experiences, good or bad. If everyone were perfect, then relationships—and by extension, life— would be bland and unnecessary. You live, and you learn, which, clearly, these characters are doing. The most important thing is ownership of mistakes and growth, which, again, these characters are doing.
It is refreshing to see how each person's personality and worldview impact their words, actions, and decisions, and how they work with each other to morph into better people. I am a little tired of seeing the same tropes again and again, where everyone has life and relationships figured out, making them predictable and unrealistic. I do not hate tropes. I love the predictability most of the time, but I can appreciate and applaud when things go off script. I truly don't understand why everyone is so pressed when they act like real people, just this ONE TIME.
I think both Flora and Luke's issue is that they cannot be fully vulnerable to each other, which is why there is such a big gap in their communication and a lack of complete trust, especially on Flora's end.

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In the guise of flawed characters we get an abuser

Firstly was the drama enjoyable? Yes but it was so insanely exhausting. The actors acted well so i'll give them their flowers. To attractive people dealing with a forbidden work place romance that’s such a good premise and the actors were so good and convincing. Their chemistry ate but that was it the only part of their relationship that felt healthy was their sexual relationship credit to the intimacy coordinator. Other times the relationship felt icky.
How could you expect flora to ever open up to someone who calls her cheap, obedient, accuses her of cheating on him and accuse her of sleeping with him for 6 years for benefits. And then after the 3 year skip he tells her that she’s worse than a dog like are we being for real. How could she forgive him for being so shitty is beyond me. Its not like she isn't flawed but her flaws insecurity, lack of communication and not trusting him are a consequence of his mean behaviour.
Luke asks her if he has ever hit her but his words are sharp enough. Abuse can be verbal aswell he constantly breaks her confidence and his words feed her insecurity. Her issues stem from his behaviour, his position and the idea that he's someone so much better than her.
Luke was not flawed he was genuinely an abusive person all of his vitriol was directed towards flora he was never like this with his friends. Having a horrible childhood is not excuse to be a bad person. The times he was soft with her were some of the best parts of the drama.
Had there been more grovelling i think and actual character development for both of them the drama would have been much better and my rating much higher. I know the drama was shortened from 32 episodes to 24 but they could have managed the pacing better because 3 episodes was not enough to resolve their story.
I loved flora's roommates and lumi. I also liked luke's friend. The osts were amazing and the acting was really good too. But the story, pacing and characterization or character development fell short for both characters.

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I Knew It Was Too Good to Be True

There are dramas that take a few episodes to win you over, and then there are dramas like The Early Spring that grab you by the collar from the very beginning and make you think: “Oh, this is going to be GOOD.”
Unfortunately, this is also one of those dramas that makes you wonder halfway through: “Wait… where did all that momentum go?”

Let's start with the good stuff, because there is a lot of it.
The opening episodes are fantastic. The story immediately creates an interesting dynamic between Shang Zhitao and Luan Nian, and instead of spending forever waiting for something to happen, the drama gives us tension, attraction, awkwardness and conflict almost immediately.
And then there are Jing Boran and Sun Qian.
These two have chemistry. Not the kind of chemistry where the script tells you, “Look! They like each other!” and you are supposed to believe it. I'm talking about the kind where they can simply stand in the same room and you can feel that something is happening.
A look.
A pause.
A change in tone.
The distance between them.
Sometimes they don't even need dialogue.

Jing Boran is particularly good at playing Luan Nian's complicated personality. He can be arrogant, difficult, controlling and occasionally incredibly frustrating, but he never makes the character boring. There is always something underneath the surface, and Jing Boran knows exactly how much to show and how much to leave unsaid.
Sun Qian is equally important to this chemistry.
I've seen quite a few discussions where most of the praise goes to Jing Boran, and I actually think that's unfair to Sun Qian. She is an essential part of why this pairing works. Shang Zhitao may sometimes come across as passive or uncertain, but Sun Qian gives her enough warmth and sincerity to make the attraction believable.

Another thing I appreciated is that The Early Spring doesn't feel like a typical fluffy office romance.
These are adults with careers, ambitions, insecurities and responsibilities.
Shang Zhitao isn't simply introduced as “the girl who will eventually get the handsome boss.” She has her own professional journey, and watching her find her place in a competitive environment is an important part of the story.
I also liked the contrast between her and Luan Nian.
She is more straightforward and tends to take things literally, while he is much more complicated and often communicates through implications, half-truths and carefully controlled emotions.
The workplace setting also works surprisingly well. The office isn't simply there so the leads can bump into each other every five minutes. Their careers and professional choices actually influence their relationship, which gives the romance a more mature atmosphere.

Unfortunately, somewhere before the halfway point, I started feeling the drama losing itself.
Not all at once.
That's what makes it worse. Instead, you start noticing that the story isn't really moving anymore.
The romance becomes repetitive.
At first, the push-and-pull between Luan Nian and Shang Zhitao is exciting. You want to know whether they're going to take that next step.
Then they get closer.
Something happens.
They pull away.
You think: Okay, NOW they're finally going to talk about it.
Nope.
They go backwards again.
Then the story gives you another moment that makes you think they're finally going somewhere.
And once again… back to square one.
At some point I started feeling like I was watching the same emotional conversation in different outfits.
And this is where the drama lost me a little.
Meanwhile, the final episodes suddenly have to carry all the emotional development that the middle section could have been building gradually. Things that deserved time to breathe are suddenly happening one after another.

I also think the drama could have done more with its characters.
Luan Nian is fascinating because he is flawed. I actually prefer complicated male leads to perfectly polished green flags, so his personality didn't bother me as much as it might bother other viewers. What bothered me more was seeing how often the same emotional patterns repeated.
He has his issues.
She has her insecurities.
They clearly care about each other.
They clearly understand that something is happening between them.
And yet they keep making things unnecessarily complicated.
Sometimes it works because that's who they are.
Sometimes it just feels like the plot needs them to misunderstand each other for another episode.
I don't dislike Shang Zhitao, and I actually like that she has her own professional aspirations. But I wish the drama had given her more consistent development instead of allowing so much of her emotional journey to revolve around Luan Nian.

I wish the writers had trusted the relationship enough to let it develop naturally instead of repeatedly resetting it. I wish some of the middle episodes had been used to actually deepen the characters rather than prolonging the same conflict. And most of all, I wish the final developments hadn't been squeezed into the last couple of episodes.
Still, I can't deny the appeal.
Because whenever Luan Nian and Shang Zhitao are actually together, talking, looking at each other, fighting, teasing each other or simply existing in the same space… the drama comes alive again. And that chemistry is impossible to ignore.
So my final feeling is basically: Amazing beginning. Incredible chemistry. Beautiful atmosphere. Frustrating middle. Rushed ending. The Early Spring gave me a taste of how good it could be, and unfortunately, it never quite managed to live up to that first impression.

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Endless Leaps of Faith

Fresh out of university, Shang Zhi Tao steps into the cutthroat world of advertising and immediately finds herself under the watchful eye of Luan Nian, a boss whose favorite way of motivating her seems to be telling her to quit. What begins as an antagonistic workplace dynamic slowly turns into attraction, then a relationship, then a cycle of love, hurt, separation, and reconciliation. Years later, fate brings them together again, with Zhi Tao living a quieter life back home and Luan Nian still carrying the unfinished business of their past.

On paper, The Early Spring has all the ingredients for an addictive romance. Two capable but emotionally complicated adults, an unequal workplace dynamic, undeniable sexual tension, old wounds, misunderstandings, and a second chance at love. In practice, however, there are plenty of layers on screen, but the story rarely takes the time to examine what is actually between them.

The attraction between Zhi Tao and Luan Nian is obvious from the beginning. In fact, perhaps too obvious. They are burning for each other, and once they cross that line, it becomes almost impossible for them to stay away from each other. The physical chemistry is probably the most convincing part of their relationship. For a Chinese drama constrained by censorship, the intimacy scenes are surprisingly effective at creating heat without actually crossing the line. Fans understandably had plenty to scream about. The problem is that the emotional chemistry never quite catches up.

Zhi Tao's attraction is easy enough to understand. She is drawn to Luan Nian's looks almost immediately, and after their first night together, it is clear that the physical attraction has a very strong hold on her. Luan Nian is more difficult to read. The drama tells us that his curiosity and interest in her gradually grow, but it does not show enough of the journey. One moment he is this rude, intimidating boss, and the next he is deliberately waiting to drive this new employee home. Later, we learn that he worried when she got lost in the mountains, was touched when she saved him, and gradually became emotionally invested in her. Those pieces are there, but the connective tissue is missing. It makes their romance feel less like falling in love and more like falling into bed, then figuring out the feelings afterward.

This is especially unfortunate because Luan Nian is potentially the more interesting character. He is arrogant, condescending, rude, capable, well connected, and seemingly experienced with women. Yet underneath that intimidating exterior is someone who apparently does not actually date around and is surprisingly inexperienced when it comes to real emotional intimacy. He can be the knight in shining armor one moment, helping with investments, finances, career problems, and all sorts of practical matters, then turn around and say something so cruel that I wanted to reach through the screen and confiscate his mouth. And yes, Jing Bo Ran is a huge part of why any of this works.

Jing Bo Ran does not simply play Luan Nian. He becomes Luan Nian. The arrogance, the condescension, the quiet jealousy, the intimidating boss energy, and especially that ridiculous amount of masculine charisma are all there. He somehow manages to make a man who says the worst possible thing at the worst possible moment look devastatingly attractive while doing it. That is a dangerous skill.

His wardrobe was another visual treat. Considering Jing Bo Ran's reputation as a fashionista, it was hardly surprising that many of Luan Nian's clothes, accessories, and shoes came from his own wardrobe. Most of the looks worked beautifully for the character, although there were a few details I would have happily edited out. His presence alone explains a significant portion of my willingness to keep watching. Unfortunately, even Jing Bo Ran's face could not completely redeem Luan Nian for me.

There is a difference between a flawed character and a character who repeatedly crosses the line into being unpleasant. Luan Nian's mouth gets him into trouble far too often, and some of the things he says to Zhi Tao are genuinely degrading. The worst comes when he lashes out and essentially reduces her to being cheap, obedient, young, inexperienced, docile, and whatever else he can throw at her in anger. Those words are especially cruel because they hit directly at insecurities she already carries. He is her talented, powerful boss while she is the inexperienced newcomer trying to prove herself. His words reinforce every fear she already has about how he sees her and the imbalance between them. What frustrated me even more was how quickly Zhi Tao forgave him.

Their relationship becomes a strange loop of intimacy, conflict, breakup, reconciliation, intimacy, conflict, and another reconciliation. At first, the push and pull is entertaining. Eventually, it becomes exhausting. The drama seemed to be rage-baiting me into asking the same question over and over again: why are these two still together?

Zhi Tao is not innocent in this dynamic either. She is actually a surprisingly complicated and sometimes hypocritical character. From the beginning, she is presented as career driven and determined to put her work first. Yet she quickly gives in to Luan Nian despite knowing the company has rules against office relationships and despite the obvious power imbalance between them. She knows she is playing with fire, and Luan Nian is standing there enthusiastically adding gasoline.

She is not a completely passive woman. She knows Luan Nian cannot get enough of her, and she knows exactly how to push his jealousy buttons. She can handle him better than most people can. But when it comes to him, she repeatedly sacrifices the boundaries she seems to value everywhere else. That contradiction could have made her character fascinating if the drama had explored it more deeply. Instead, it often feels like Zhi Tao simply cannot resist the Luke allure.

Every reconciliation seems to follow a familiar choreography. He gets close, touches her, stares closely at her face, the tension rises, and suddenly we are back to physical intimacy. At some point, I started wondering whether their relationship had any other language. The drama tells me they love each other, but it rarely gives me enough emotional evidence to actually feel it.

Their relationship is also oddly ambiguous. They move back and forth between situationship and relationship for so long that I sometimes felt the drama itself was unsure what exactly they were. Given the nature of their relationship in the novel and the restrictions of Chinese drama censorship, I cannot help wondering whether this was simply a messy adaptation. If the writers intentionally wanted to preserve that ambiguity, I wish they had used it to explore the emotional confusion rather than mainly turning it into another source of sexual tension.

Sun Qian's performance as Zhi Tao was a mixed bag for me. I have enjoyed her in other roles, and she does well with Zhi Tao's happier, innocent, hardworking, and more passive moments. However, the heavier emotional scenes did not always land. Her crying scenes in particular often amounted to a few tears and a hand partially covering her face. Her fights and breakups with Luan Nian were serviceable, but rarely devastating. The biggest disappointment was Sun Yuan Zhu's death.

Yuan Zhu is presented as someone who has a significant place in Zhi Tao's life, so I expected his death to leave a substantial emotional scar. Instead, the grief felt strangely brief. I understand that people grieve differently, but I simply could not feel the weight of the loss from Zhi Tao. The following episode immediately moving into her promotion made the whole thing feel even more bizarre.

I also found Yuan Zhu's death unnecessary. Liu Xiao Bei did a wonderful job portraying him, especially the character's hidden struggles, quiet affection, longing for family, and depression. I genuinely felt sorry for him and understood the pain underneath his calm exterior. That made his ending feel even more frustrating because the drama did not seem interested in giving his death the emotional space it deserved.

Afterward, the grief mostly disappeared, with Sun Yu being the one person whose pain I could really feel. Even Luan Nian suddenly going from being jealous of Yuan Zhu to talking about how he was a wonderful person and how he should thank him felt almost comical. If the purpose was to give Yuan Zhu closure or follow the novel, then the drama needed to build toward that ending properly. Otherwise, simply allowing him to move on from Zhi Tao and acknowledge that he could not have her would have been more meaningful.

The drama's symbolism, however, is something I appreciated. There is clearly more thought behind the visual language than the actual storytelling sometimes suggests. Jing Bo Ran mentioned that Luan Nian's early outfits were more buttoned up, often closed with a scarf or tie, representing how guarded he was. As he becomes closer to Zhi Tao, the clothes gradually open up. There are also recurring symbols involving the typewriter, fish tank, and other elements associated with control and barriers. These details give the drama an additional layer that I wish the writing had matched.

Visually, The Early Spring is generally beautiful. The medium contrast, soft color palette, slight grain, camera angles, and settings create a polished and easy-on-the-eyes aesthetic. When the story stays in China, the drama looks particularly good. Then comes Phuket.

The Phuket arc was where both the visual quality and editing started to fall apart for me. The studio shooting was painfully obvious, and the editing became increasingly choppy. For such a short storyline involving Alex's resignation, employee scouting, and its consequences, the company trip to Phuket felt unnecessary. The same plot could have happened in Beijing or somewhere else in China without losing anything important. If the production really wanted Phuket, then they needed to either commit to the location properly or smooth the editing. As presented, it sometimes felt less like a meaningful story setting and more like an excuse to manufacture another intimate scene. There are several other scenes like this where I found myself wondering, "Why are we here?"

The scene with Zhi Tao and Kitty reporting their work in Donny's hotel room simply ends without proper continuation. There are also various continuity issues and abrupt transitions that made me wonder whether scenes had been cut or rearranged. If episode cuts were responsible, the remaining scenes needed to be chosen more carefully. If they were not, then the writing and editing have some explaining to do. Either way, the result is the same: the narrative often feels jumpy when it should feel seamless.

And then we arrive at the grand ultimate breakup, the arc that fans had been waiting for. Unfortunately, this was another letdown.

I expected the breakup to feel like the culmination of everything that had been building between them. Instead, the reason felt like yet another misunderstanding, enough for a major sulk but not quite enough to convince me that this was truly the end. Zhi Tao never really felt like she exploded after years of accumulated hurt. Given how often she had already swallowed Luan Nian's behavior, the breakup almost felt like the drama simply pressed the reset button.

Luan Nian's devastation afterward was also underwhelming. He calls Zhi Tao's inactive number, apologizes, begs her to come back, and generally behaves like someone who has just discovered that actions have consequences. Yet when people tell him to say those things to her face, he refuses because she has cut him off.

When they reunite, Zhi Tao staying cold toward him makes perfect sense. What does not make sense to me is how Luan Nian chooses to pursue her. He goes to her parents and repeatedly forces his way into her home. I know many viewers will find this romantic, but I found it intrusive. There is no meaningful evolution in his approach. He does not seem to learn how to communicate better, respect boundaries, or rebuild trust. Instead, he simply resumes the same old routine and hopes proximity will do the emotional work for him. It feels less like pursuing her and more like playing house until she remembers she still loves him. And she does.

That is perhaps my biggest frustration with the ending. Zhi Tao's character does not seem to have grown much either. She tries to be cold, but the moment Luan Nian gets close enough, the attraction takes over again. Sun Qian herself mentioned in an interview that Zhi Tao was initially drawn to Luan Nian because of his looks and their physical intimacy, and honestly, the drama reflects that very clearly. Perhaps too clearly.

The ending then tries to patch everything up by finally giving us Luan Nian's perspective. We learn more about his first impression of Zhi Tao, when he fell for her, and why he gave her certain things. These explanations provide some useful context, but I wish we had gotten them earlier. Keeping Luan Nian mysterious can work, but mystery needs enough breadcrumbs for the audience to understand the character. Otherwise, he spends most of the drama looking like a walking red flag, only for the finale to say, "Actually, he was just bad at dating." That is not quite the same thing as character development.

The L necklace was another moment that completely missed me. I understand why viewers might find it romantic, especially with the symbolism of the L representing love and tying back to the beginning of their relationship. But after watching the entire drama, my brain could not stop interpreting it as Luan Nian putting a collar on Zhi Tao. It felt restrictive rather than romantic, which is probably not the reaction the scene was aiming for.

Ultimately, the ending feels more like a leap of faith than genuine growth or closure. The drama does not convincingly show that Luan Nian has overcome his arrogance and inability to communicate, nor that Zhi Tao has learned to establish boundaries, communicate openly, or compromise. They simply choose each other again.

Oddly enough, I still appreciate that The Early Spring does not completely sugarcoat them. Luan Nian and Zhi Tao are messy, contradictory, insecure people, and people like them absolutely exist in real life. Their relationship is toxic in ways that feel recognizably human. My problem is not that they are flawed. My problem is that the drama introduces all these flaws and then rarely digs deep enough into them.

The Early Spring started with the kind of fluttery excitement that makes you understand why people become obsessed with a couple. It had the looks, the chemistry, the fashion, the tension, and Jing Bo Ran being Jing Bo Ran. But somewhere along the way, the story became a loop of sexual intimacy, fights, breakups, makeups, and another round of the same emotional problems. What was initially addictive eventually became exhausting.

Still, one thing refuses to leave me even after the credits roll: the OST. Liu Yuning and Li Changgeng's songs are beautiful, memorable, and probably more emotionally consistent than the relationship itself. I especially enjoyed how certain songs became almost like emotional signposts. The moment a particular OST started playing, I already knew what kind of scene was coming. Sometimes the music understood the characters better than the script did.

In the end, what lingers is Jing Bo Ran's face, a handful of beautiful visual details, some genuinely memorable intimate moments, an OST that refuses to leave my head, and, unfortunately, my rage.

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Toxic Character Dynamics Ruin an Otherwise Great Soundtrack

The Early Spring earns a middle-of-the-road 6/10, surviving almost entirely on its incredible soundtrack and reliable cast.
​The absolute highlight of the show is the music (9.5/10), which carries immense emotional weight and sets a beautiful atmosphere throughout. The actors also deliver solid performances (7/10), doing their best to bring life to characters trapped in a poorly written narrative.
​Unfortunately, the story itself falls flat (5/10). The central dynamic is deeply frustrating: Luke comes off as immature and egotistical, while Flora repeatedly takes him back despite enduring constant harsh, hateful treatment. Watching a lead character continually make irrational decisions without any meaningful growth makes the romance hard to root for.
​Because the central relationship is so exhausting, the show has virtually no rewatch value (2/10). It is worth tuning in if you want to enjoy an amazing OST, but the narrative execution leaves a lot to be desired.

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Incredible performances wasted on a rushed, incoherent ending

THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE ENTIRE SERIES, INCLUDING THE FINALE. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.

The Positive:
Let me start with what this show gets right, because it gets a great deal right. The acting is superb across the board, especially in the back half, where the leads are pouring real craft into every scene. The side characters are genuinely wonderful. Lumi and the roommates are the warm, beating heart of this show, the kind of ensemble that makes a drama feel lived-in rather than staged, and every scene they are in is better for their presence. The music is excellent as well. The playlist is fantastic, and the original score does heavy, precise emotional work in the scenes that needed it most.

Which is exactly why the finale made me so angry, because it takes all of that goodwill and spends it on manipulation and lazy character destruction.

The Negative:
Start with the roommate's death, because this is where the ending truly falls apart. He takes his own life, and the show then uses his diary as the detonator for everything that follows. Flora reads his journal and discovers he loved her all along, that he chose to love her by keeping his distance and letting her be in her relationship. And then, roughly four minutes later, she ends that relationship. Think about what that actually is. A man who could not be with her in life reaches out of the grave and successfully ends her happiness. The show clearly intends this as tragic, but it does not play as tragic. It plays as posthumous manipulation, and it feels genuinely icky. Worse, it poisons the very heartbreak the finale is chasing. You cannot devastate your audience with a choice the audience finds morally queasy instead of sad. This isn’t to say that the death was the problem, this is adapted from a much better adaptation anyways. The problem is how they handled the death and the fallout afterwards. It genuinely doesn’t make any sense.

Then there is the breakup itself, which is not earned on any level. This is a couple whose entire arc was built on learning to communicate. They fought, they stumbled, they got better at it, episode after episode, until the finale decided communication was a skill they no longer possessed. The blowup comes out of nowhere, contradicts her character completely, and erases every bit of development both leads accumulated. And she has the audacity to insist she is not running away, that this is a "grand retreat." You packed your bags and detonated your life. That is running away.

The abandonment does not stop with the romance. The male lead's issues with his father get meaningful setup and zero resolution, simply dropped before he leaves for America, which apparently counts as a conclusion. His friends vanish from the last three or four episodes entirely, as if the show forgot they existed. These are not loose threads. These are amputations.

And that is the core problem: the ending is rushed, and a rushed heartbreaking ending is just an unearned one. If you want to devastate your audience, you have to build the road there. This show sprinted to the cliff and expected us to feel the fall.

I have so much more to say but I’ll end it there.

Story: 1. Acting: 10. Music: 8.5. Rewatch value: 1, because I cannot sit through that ending twice. Watch it for Lumi, the roommates, the performances, and the soundtrack, and seriously consider stopping an episode or two early.

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? The Early Spring — What an Emotional Rollercoaster! ?

The Early Spring really had it ALL — joy, sadness, frustration, romance, heartbreak and so many moments that had me screaming at the screen! 😭🥰😤💔

Jing Bo Ran and Sun Qian were absolutely amazing! ❤️‍🔥 Their chemistry was incredible, and they completely pulled me into their story. I laughed, I cried, I got frustrated, and my heart went through so many emotions! 🥹❤️
And can we talk about the OST?! 🎶😍 Absolutely beautiful and perfectly matched the emotions of the drama. Some songs made the scenes hit even harder! 💔🎵

This was also the first C-drama I’ve watched where an intimacy coordinator was used, and I thought it was fantastic to see. 👏❤️ The intimate scenes could still feel passionate and intense while maintaining cultural respect, and it was wonderful to see the actors being supported and looked after during those vulnerable moments. 🥹👏 This is how it should be done, and I really hope more dramas start adopting this approach.
This was such an emotional ride from beginning to end, and honestly, I loved every minute of it. 🌸✨
A definite REWATCH drama for me! ❤️‍🔥🎢🌷
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 10/10

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BEAUTIFUL LOVE STORY

YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE PERFECT TO BE WORTHY OF LOVE

I thoroughly enjoyed this story.Chemistry was on another level just out of this world even they didn’t have to be overly physical for you to see it it was just there.I really love when a drama is like that it just shows how perfect the casting is just effortless synergy with each other truly remarkable

Luan Nian was not an easy/perfect person to love he was blunt and cutting with his words but his actions were contradictory to his words.He was a caring and soft person with a hard exterior lol.He realised his own shortcomings and changed for the better for the one he loved

Flora was young,a bit naive,strong and just so full of love..she gave their relationship multiple chances even though deep down she knew he was flawed in the way he handled relationships she grew in Beijing,met friends that she cherished made memories and found love.

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The Early Fall

In my opinion this drama is so much ridiculously over-rated! 🤷‍♀️​

Warning: This ranting is bound to bring on plenty of disagreement and criticism! ⚠️

BUT....
Let's be Real: The romance is not ANYMORE romanticizing..
Maybe it is unpopular opinion, but I just ended up writing all these rantings about Mr. Luke "our ideal Male lead of this season"... 😅😭🤡😏

"The Early SPRING"❌️-------> "The Early FALL"✅️

Call it an early fall, because the temperature on this 'romance' plummeted to freezing conditions before the first petal even opened... 🧊🥀 Especially I’m practically shivering from the sheer attitude of his red flags... 📉 This couple would be the most frustrating for me in this year... 😶🤐

Officially dropped it, I am feeling like forcing myself to push with every episode after ep 13, while it already got draggy between 8 and 11 but still gave it a chance after that... but I think now it is time to give up totally on it for the unhealthy dynamic of leads, and for the story...

At the start, to be honest the drama was enjoyable and I was sharing their romantic vibes moments without complaints though felt the drama began on the wrong foot, when male was a premium "defective product" masquerading as a dream guy...🤡 So I admit that I was tricked when seeing so much tempting high ratings of this show... BUT it turned out to be delusional when diving in more episodes later and discovering the truth behind this facade of main character energy vibes of our legendary Male lead... 🤡🤦‍♀️


It started illogical that how he turned from that harsh, disparaging one to her one to that completely different person soft gentlman in a blink of eye... In my opinion, it was so ridiculous making the pace of romance igniting into rapidly a fiery chemistry just within 2 to 3 episodes... 🤔


At ep 13, Male is really so possessive and toxic, wanting to take advantage of her talents at work just for himself to be besides him, in his team, only for him.... 🤦‍♀️


Male is just a PRO in SEDUCING female for such unfruitful relationship, making her clumsily falling head over heels for him... He misled her and wanting to set the rules of love as he desires while she should have been more aware of such relationship that fastly developed in such passionate bond when she was nothing to him at start! 😏


He provoked me with this mindset to come back being so hateful with his sharp tongue not respecting her decisions looking for a better opportunity and him getting overly jealous over nothing when she is discussing business with her superior... but also getting jealous over a pet that he is calling "stupid" while not looking at himself, when all the flaws are tarnishing him from head to toes... 😏🤡


I am feeling repulsion for how a fickle person like him would change the overall connection with her in such chaotic relationship, this is not a romance concept but just him making from her a toy, to play in his own rules...



●WHAT WAS THE MOST WORTHY THROUGH ALL THE PART I WATCHED??

This drama was only worth watching for this cute fluffy ball—he was the TRUE STAR who stole the show! Honestly, nothing else compares to this adorable little cutie! 🤌✨️🔥

A 10/10 performance exclusively brought to you by this absolute icon! 👌💫❤️‍🔥 I was literally only interested in every scene he was in before almost dropping the show entirely! 😭🥲😅 I skipped straight past all the frustration just to hit pause on this fluffy superstar for an instant serotonin boost! 😭 More than every cast of humans, he was the real lead and character that carried the show on his precious little paws! 💖❤️‍🔥🔥🐾 🐶

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