CharlySou

Good Idea - But dragging

I loved the idea. Started watching it so happy. After episode 4 it kind of started to drag a little. No progress is made. The story between them is really predictable. I'm not sold on how one episode he's stuck on another woman and then next episode he's all of a sudden in love with the female lead.
Also when he finds out she's a fan she just says nothing. This is bad writting to just create drama.

Now i want to know who did it but I watched the last episodes while skipping 10sec all the time. It's so slow and so many useless scenes.

I will not rewatch 😁

PS : don't get me started on his 2005 haircut 😨

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What a waste of time

I started watching this drama thinking it was going to be great. The actors were amazing, the music was good, the female lead, even though a bit over the top, was okay. And then, at episode 31, it feels like they ran out of money to pay the screenwriters, so they decided that the intern should write the ending. The ending was so bad, I have rarely seen something like this. It made no sense, it came out of nowhere. It was so disappointing. I feel like I wasted so many weeks watching this drama just for that in the end. I was so pissed.

It feels like they tried to finish the story by rushing everything. When the male lead decided to die for whatever reason, they decided to bring him back to life right after, at the end. He just appeared like, oh, by the way, everybody was aware. What? Also, he left the female lead to deal with everything on her own while pregnant, which feels kind of wrong, considering the character that he was playing all along. Also, some villains that were actually very calculative and smart, all of a sudden decided to fight the female lead head-on and completely change behaviors, which was completely stupid.

No, really, I am very disappointed. I thought it started great, and I really thought it could be a very good drama, and now I feel like I just wasted so many weeks.

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A bit flat

Okay, so I’m writing this review as someone who actually read the book, because I think that makes a pretty big difference here.

I completely understand why they made Luan Nian nicer in the TV adaptation. In the book, he can honestly be kind of an as*h*le, and I can understand wanting to soften his character for the drama. But I think they’ve taken it a little too far.

He’s too nice now, and honestly, I think it makes the story flatter.

One of the things I really liked about the book was that you could understand the huge breakup. You understood where the story was going, why things were happening, and ultimately why their relationship fell apart. Luan Nian was the one with the communication problems. He was closed off, emotionally distant, and unwilling to really let Shang Zhitao into his life. And you can actually see him slowly opening up — unfortunately, by the time he does, she’s already emotionally moving in the opposite direction.

In the drama, though, they’ve changed so much of that dynamic that it almost feels like Shang Zhitao is the one who struggles to communicate and is the problem in the relationship.

For example, in the drama, he introduces her to his friends and is very open about her. In the book, she basically never meets his friends. They don’t really socialize outside of their Fridays and weekends together, and that distance is actually important to the story. You can see him slowly changing, which makes the relationship — and eventually the breakup — much more meaningful.

Here, there’s barely any evolution because he’s already open and affectionate from the beginning.

So instead of watching two people gradually learn how to be together, it kind of feels like we’re just watching two awkward people being awkward together 😂

And honestly, I’m finding myself much less invested than I thought I would be.

I’m not saying they needed to make Luan Nian exactly like he is in the book. I actually understand why they softened him. But they softened him so much that they also changed the entire dynamic of the story, and I’m not sure the adaptation is better for it.

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