I am not sure how to do this review any justice,

I loved how this drama wasn't a typical "coming-to-age" story. I feel that a lot of the cta stories are very cookie cutter and deal with how high schoolers deal with the struggles of making friends, fitting in, getting good grades, maintaining relationships with friends, as well as learning self love (and most likely the love of the popular boy.) It is very cookie-cutter. So I normally don't go for these kinds of dramas, BUT ultimately decided to because I love Janice Wu and her love interest played Ice Hockey for their university. I love hockey and thought that this drama might be different as we usually see these coming to age stories with shy average women. Tang Xue (Janice) was far from that stereotype. She was very strong inside and outside and stands up for the "weak." Even if she doesn't know if she'll be successful in "saving" them, she still tries, as she emphasized the saying, "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take." She was a tad airheaded when it came to her romantic relationships, but she never did anything on purpose to hurt someone.

I also loved how this drama was a love letter to Chinese winter sport athletes (as well as non-winter sport ones), specifically their ice hockey team (both men and women) qualifying for the 2022 Winter Olympics, disguised as a simple coming to age romance drama between a woman speed skater and the university's "Ice God," who happened to be childhood "friends." I like to think of it the same as Janice's last drama, "The Brightest Star in the Sky," as I believed it was a publicity stunt to "show the life and struggles" of Z.Tao trying to make a comeback in China. I loved it nonetheless, and that also goes for this drama as well. It was unique as it was told from the point of view of athletes. I always feel that coming to age stories and dramas are very cookie cutter, as they made the main actress a universal average joe of a woman so the audience can relate to her in some way or another. This drama was not like that, as they decided to choose to be more specific with all their characters, and I honestly loved this moreso because I was able to identify with these characters as I was also an athlete all my life, and played in college. Not to the extent of being a world record breaker like Tang Xu, or an "Ice God" like Li Yu Bing, but in a way, being an athlete comes with its own struggles that we all face.

And going off of struggles, it was nice seeing how everyone kind of represented a different person and their struggles of being an athlete and wanting to follow their passions. Tang Xue was a world record breaking athlete growing up until she injured herself at a competition, that ultimately discouraged her from continuing to speed skate. It wasn't until she got to college that she was reminded of her passion, and she had to make the choice of either forever quitting or train to maybe get back to where she used to be. Li Yu Bing's major physical struggle didn't happen until the later episodes, so I am not going to talk about that because it is a spoiler, BUT he did suffer internally throughout the 40 episodes - even though Li Yu Bing was the school's "Ice God" he still had a voice (an 8 year old self) always in the back of his head filling his mind with doubt that he wasn't good enough. Which made him a little impulsive. We only really see it in the beginning of the drama and at the end, but I think he had it hard because the few struggles he did face, were pretty harsh. Then we have my favorite character, little lamb Yu Yan. Yu Yan had transferred to the university to help bring their ice skating team win. Unfortunately, Yu Yan had become a zombie in his own life, being told what to do, where to go, and what to eat. But even though he struggled to find his own passion in Ice Skating, he was a HUGE motivator to other people including Tang Xue when she decided to train again. It was almost like he gave the perfect advice of what passion was and how to build on it to make you a better person and athlete, but it was hard for him to follow his own advice. His story was one of the more difficult ones to watch, but I was super proud of him at the end of the drama. Of course we have minor characters Wei Wei, who only wanted to be the very best, and Jiang Shi Jia, who just wanted to play hockey after graduation, but at what cost. I also liked how they threw in other non-athletic minor characters such as Tang Xue's best friends who were in the medical and veterinary science field as well as Tang Xue's cousin and Tang Xue's old love interest who are both in the journalism broadcasting field.

We do get a lot of the cliche coming to age conflicts and villains in this drama with love triangles, but I liked how the mains had one thing in common, which was their passion for their sports, that they all understood a common struggle and knew how to comfort one another as well as be there for them. It was very comforting and nostalgic for me to watch as I remember the struggles I faced as a team player and a captain. The struggles of figuring out if that sport was something I wanted to train for and continue after an injury, or after graduation. I enjoyed this drama a lot more than I thought I was going to because even though it was a cheesy webdrama with extreme situations at times, they got the feelings and struggles of what it is to be an athlete right.