Toxic and obsessive
I liked the beginning initially but along the line, alot of things didn't make sense. The reason why zhang zhe and Xuening could not be together in life 2, i still don't get. ML was a raging red burning forest. The romance scenes were giving abusive and toxic and in real life it wouldn't be encouraged so not sure why this happened.Was this review helpful to you?
Reality would be very different
While I loved the acting, I couldn't get into the romance despite the oozing chemistry as there is a power imbalance and people shouldn't be dating their bosses. In real life,this would end very badly. I also think szt is a hypocrite.Made such a fuss about getting by on her own and not depending on him at work yet so many times,she couldn't separate work and the relationship and acted disappointed when he did his job as her boss if she messed up or something happened she was not aware of. They both clearly could not keep both seperate as when he's mad at her personally, it translates to how he behaves at work with her and vice versa. I found it quite ridiculous but it's a fictional romance so that's that. I also kept feeling like I was missing some context or there were missing scenes. I also could not get to care for the side characters because again felt like I was missing scenes or the context that was meant to get me to care for example yao bei and sun yuanzhu. Overall I wouldn't rematch but the cast and acting was very good.Was this review helpful to you?
Inconsistent
Started off very funny. Then fell off. Lots of plot holes that makes no sense but we have to just accept. So much of ancestor business for it to end up being someone else but how? What happened with princess and pei fei? ML endured alot alone at the end and it was all resolved with a dream of two people who happened to faint at the same location. Absolutely ridiculous ending. What happened to Ayuan, the chef liu, even the owner of the other restaurant that was interested in Ji cai, how did they just not get shown again to even remember or forget the shens? Did they not exist at all? Could tell the writers weren't sure what direction they wanted to go anymore. Father and son characters were super annoying. FL was annoying as well. Yang yang lovely. ML carried this show.Was this review helpful to you?
confusion
Watched this twice to make sure it wasn't as bad as I thought it was but was still bad second time. Tried to be too many things at once. The romance also made no sense as no reason or build up to them suddenly getting together. it was also backseat to the political conspiracy theme which was also done badly. Maybe they should have had more episodes to properly tell a story but trying to fit so many things in 9 episodes was a bad idea. ML i love but he looked tired and didn't seem to want to be in this drama but then again, I guess that's how to play a mercenary.Was this review helpful to you?
