It had its potential but could not reach it due to its incoherence
I love the slow burn with leads taking years to form the bond before they kiss unlike others i have seen complaining here in MDL and viki. But this drama fumbles a lot.
The characters are all very real, very normal. Individually all of their journey is so satisfying. But when you combine them all it still does not give a coherent enjoyable flow, equation and chemistry. It also becomes repetitive at one point and some of the characters just pop out of nowhere and then leave out of nowhere.
And their forced separation with no contact did not make sense whatsoever. It sounds romantic on paper but it does not feel romantic because the reason they give just does not fit in with the characters. When they have already agreed they willl move forward then there was no need to cut the ties. And then their reunion was too lacklustre. Overall I did not know what to make of it.
The last few episodes were sort of confusing too. So the ML has been visiting his village and has not cut ties like FL but he still did not know that Cao Ping who he himself had set up with his classmate's father's business is now his manager or that Cao Ping is helping others just like he used to . It felt as if he had been abroad all this while which was not the case. Yes he worked hard and all that but sstill him being extremely clueless did not fit in.
Overall I still could not stop watching because the location, the village and the characters and their story I could not leave midway but at the same time I was not really interested too . It was just there hanging in between.
The characters are all very real, very normal. Individually all of their journey is so satisfying. But when you combine them all it still does not give a coherent enjoyable flow, equation and chemistry. It also becomes repetitive at one point and some of the characters just pop out of nowhere and then leave out of nowhere.
And their forced separation with no contact did not make sense whatsoever. It sounds romantic on paper but it does not feel romantic because the reason they give just does not fit in with the characters. When they have already agreed they willl move forward then there was no need to cut the ties. And then their reunion was too lacklustre. Overall I did not know what to make of it.
The last few episodes were sort of confusing too. So the ML has been visiting his village and has not cut ties like FL but he still did not know that Cao Ping who he himself had set up with his classmate's father's business is now his manager or that Cao Ping is helping others just like he used to . It felt as if he had been abroad all this while which was not the case. Yes he worked hard and all that but sstill him being extremely clueless did not fit in.
Overall I still could not stop watching because the location, the village and the characters and their story I could not leave midway but at the same time I was not really interested too . It was just there hanging in between.
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