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What a toxic relationship
While I never have very grand expectations for any rom-com Chinese drama I watch (they’re just naturally pretty bad, and I always know this when I start a new one), this drama disappointed me quite a bit! Unhealthy relationships aren’t too uncommon in Chinese dramas (sadly), however I was especially concerned when Situ Mo behaved like an absolute child, shut Gu Weiyi out even though he did nothing wrong, and constantly got mad at him and/or expected him to understand her when she explained absolutely nothing. In the beginning of the drama, I wrote that behavior off as them just getting to know each other and going from love-hate to pure love, however she remained pretty rude and childish the whole drama, and I just can’t stand for that type of relationship dynamic. Gu Weiyi also irritated me with his lies when he tried to get Mo to forgive him. Now, what normal person would see that his girlfriend is pissed off for god knows why and pretend to be drunk, hide her food from her so she would beg for him to get it for him, and just kiss her out of the blue for no reason. I don’t know about y’all, but that is the last thing I’d do if my partner was really angry at me. Besides the clear flaws in the lead characters, I also just had a lot of problems with Fu Pei and Gu Weiyi’s scientist guy friend Zhou Lei. Fu Pei reminded me of every single kid from my high school that acted as if he was the coolest motherfucker in existence and disobeyed authorities to impress the girl he likes. That’s all I will say. Zhou Lei would have been fine if he didn’t constantly suspect everyone of doing something behind his back. It was funny at first, but then it just got plain annoying. Overall, the last 4 minutes of the story were pretty enjoyable to watch (despite the lack of plot in the last 4-5 episodes especially, although the entire story pretty much has no plot) and the soundtrack was pretty nice, though I could do with less cat and dog noises. My parting words are: If you’re into bitchy and immature female leads, as well as loyal, devoted boyfriend characters who don’t have enough sense to dump their toxic girlfriends, boy do I have the drama for you!!!
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