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Yeah, a good old romantic jdrama about careful, kind people who really love their jobs. I love this genre.

OMG, you saved my life with this spoiler, thank you!

Uh, the guy announced to all and sundry that he was looking for his father, who was hiding from the police successfully, thus becoming his father's weak point and putting both himself and his father in danger. Then he did a bunch of stupid shit like going back to the house of the person who tried to murder him because he was invited for dinner, eating food he's allergic to without saying anything, etc. etc. etc., BUT... it's Wu Shuang who's "clueless, careless and brainless"? Why?

What has she done so far that is more clueless and brainless than the ML's actions? She makes logical decisions given the information she has.

Occasionally she trusts people too easily, but as I said, Ding Yunqi does stupid things as well, as do the villains. This is a stupid drama in general; there's constantly implausible stuff happening.

Saying Wu Shuang is "brainless" in this context just smacks of misogyny and a fixation on an actress you dislike, sorry.

I watched the same episodes as you and I think you're wrong, so you can stop responding as if you're explaining something complicated to me.

I think that part is amusing and I look forward to her wearing Yunqi down. It's clear he cares for her, but it will take some time before they realise they have feelings for each other.

The first episode didn't impress me that much--it dragged a bit because of the usual time jump device that is all too common in kdramas and the protagonists were not particularly likeable while the antagonists were not particularly scary--but I'll give it another episode or three to see if it picks up.

The first two episodes were really fun for me. The Haesung Group and the chairman's creepy compound are a good villain and a well-crafted setting, respectively, Ha Woo-shin is very smart (though he needs to be less obvious about snooping around) and I like the large cast of characters with their own motivations. Ms Kwon is the most detestable character so far, somehow.

That old Evil SFL Becomes Obsessed with the ML and Pretends to be the FL classic. I hope this misunderstanding will be resolved or rendered irrelevant quickly, but I’m afraid I’m not that lucky.

OK, I really liked everything about the first episode EXCEPT:

It’s been obvious from the start that this drama would not be an adaptation of the novel Little Women but at most loosely inspired by it, so I don’t know why people are trying to play compare and contrast.

Her character in this drama is not clueless.

No, I don’t.

She was raised in a secret martial arts sect deep in the countryside and then recently came to Shanghai, which was the most westernised city in China. She keeps asking questions about telephones, schoolgirls, cameras, etc. because she never encountered these hallmarks of western modernity before.

There were millions of Chinese people who lived in deep poverty in very rustic conditions until the second half of the 20th century. It's entirely realistic that a woman who just arrived in Shanghai in the 1930s has never seen a camera before.

What I'm getting from this comment is that you want the drama to serve the fantasy that Xu Kai's character is single so you can insert yourself into the story and you're mad that Zhong Chuxi has worked with several actors you find hot before. And lots of other lonely fangirls are agreeing with you.

I guess users on this website love hating on female characters in male-centric dramas, especially if they get in the way of ‘bromance’ or make the ML unavailable.

If you look at the comments below, people seem jealous that the actress has been paired with several attractive actors before… Extremely childish thought process.

Stupid? She's competent and resourceful IMO. I don't understand why someone would dislike her.

I'm on episode 4 and this is pure stupid fun so far; I like it. I like Ding Yunqi and Wu Shuang as the leads and Wu Shuang's marriage ideas are an amusing basis for their romance. The police chief and his brother are very aggravating villains so far too... though I hope there will be more powerful enemies for Ding Yunqi in the future.

I know we're supposed to sympathise with the police chief's sister for receiving a Western education and developing modern ideas about a woman's purpose in life but then having to deal with her domineering brother, and I do feel for her on that front, but she's a really annoying character so far. She’s an adult, so why are her mannerisms those of a 7-year-old girl?

This drama is getting subbed here:

https://subs.windflows.net/2022/05/20/nice-flight-masterpost/

This is the first romantic cdrama I've been able to finish in a while, mostly because it moves along quickly and doesn't irritate the viewer with unnecessary love triangles (there is one, but it's resolved quickly and the third-wheel is very cool about it), misunderstandings, late-stage noble idiocy, etc. And both leads are nice. While Zeng Li comes across as a typical cdrama heroine--childish, clumsy, cutesy, etc.--she's not self-absorbed and 'nice by default,' the way FLs sometimes garner our sympathy simply because they're the character we're supposed to identify with when they are in fact objectively selfish and lack common sense. No, Zeng Li is genuinely nice, so I was able to tolerate her occasional annoying traits. Similarly, Ai Jing Chu appears to be the typical cdrama ML in that he's cold, harsh, emotionally unintelligent, brilliant at his job, uninterested in women, etc., but he quickly softens after the first episode and becomes more human. I think the fact he starts liking Zeng Li very quickly helps.

So yeah, by cdrama standards this is an inoffensive watch, which sounds like faint praise but is actually a genuine endorsement. Most cdramas irritate me with how much they infantilise their FLs, how weak and indecisive they make them, how they ruin relationships and characters with stupid misunderstandings, etc., but while Sweet Teeth did some of that stuff, it was very mild and easy to swallow.

That said, the final episode was so corny. All the dragged out confession speeches, slow-motion replays, the abortion fakeout, the early return fakeout, the romance novel reenactment, etc. It wasn't even sweet in my eyes, just too much. They could have filled that time with some scenes about Zeng Li and Ai Jing Chu's families and given us more of the main couple's reunion. The final montage was nice, though.

I really liked Deng Hao Ran's relationships with both Zeng Li and Ma Yi Yi.

Zhao Jinmai and Bai Yufan are such a godly cast.

I'm on episode 5 and Wen You is unbearable. He's only met Qinghong like 3 times and he's treating her like she's his possession... someone please tell me when he's going to be out of the picture. Lin Fang actually shows a lot more respect for her as a person.