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Low budget and low intrigue
12 episodes at approximately 20 minutes each and it was still boring. It wasn’t traumatic, horrific or disturbing but just a bit dull.. the story is about the male lead who is an immortal and got separated from the FL back in the day in tragic circumstances. He finds her again in this idyllic island and they rekindle their love and she slowly regained her memories from her past life throughout the show.. he has some curse put on him that doesn’t allow him to touch or kiss or have any intimate contact with the female lead but they decide to get married overcome a couple of difficulties and live happily ever after. The end.Was this review helpful to you?
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Quite a nice military medical story
This show isn’t too bad, but I did have trouble scoring it after the disturbing dramas that I’ve recently watched so I was worried I’ve over scored this but I think my score is fair. I’m not gonna get into it too much because it was a few years ago but the FL was excruciatingly annoying and I understand why the story wrote her like that but I didn’t find her redemption or growth particularly compelling all that significant.. there’s 40 episodes of 45 minutes each and even in episode 38 she was still acting petulant and annoying. There are lots of problematic elements but it was worth watching just to pass the time.. easily forgettableWas this review helpful to you?
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Hate this show and it’s left a bitter taste in my mouth
All I’m going to say is the female lead has sex with the second male lead and though there was a misunderstanding between her and the male lead because the second male lead deceived and lied and manipulated her into a long-term relationship. He remained pure while she still considered marrying the second male lead at the end and we barely saw any moments of chemistry or intimacy between the male and female lead. Totally useless.Was this review helpful to you?
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The Kei and Nona show and it’s great
I’m a big fan of this show. The concept is great and they cast a diverse mix of participants.. I will say I was immediately drawn to Kei and Nona the others were good. I was only really invested in their story. I don’t know if it’s a production thing, but I was endlessly frustrated with Nona giving absolutely nothing away it looked clear as daylight that she really liked Kei but she kept giving the other fellow hope I never gave Kei any encouragement. I mean. ABSOLUTELY ZERO ENCOURAGEMENT. However, by episode eight when he was kicked off, she went and proposed and confessed that she’d been in love with him the whole time so I do wonder if production was just stripping so much to keep the drama heightened because it was a frustrating watch for a lot of of it, even though I was enjoying it.I’ve had a look on their Insta and it is October 2025 and they’re married with a little baby daughter. *chefs kiss*
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Beautiful and very moving
I love this show. It really is brilliant. The premise of not having any digital appliances including mobile phones for 10 days while bunch of beautiful Japanese people walk around the picturesque Nice, France while trying to find love is an engaging and heartwarming show..A couple of reasons why I didn’t get a 10.
1. It wasn’t long enough.
2. I know it’s a cultural thing, but it must be exhausting having to be overly polite when rejecting somebody’s feelings for you.
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What a great idea, but it ended up a mess
I really like the idea of the show having a load of eternally singles trying to come out of the shells and begin dating. The best episode by far was episode four.. we saw jeong-mok and Yi Do reveal they were each other’s first impression and had just been missing each other. We also saw an unbelievably touching scene in the caravan between. Ji-Su and Seung-Li that took my breath away because he was so vulnerable and open about how shy he was and she looked like she fell in love with him and showed so much understanding. I actually thought Jae-yun was going to be the star of the show but he was excruciatingly shy and it was so frustrating watching him not develop grow. He was totally useless but what made it worse was the girl he liked (Kim Yeo-myung) had absolutely no interest in him whatsoever and I actually found her quite cruel and mean. I didn’t like her at all.They introduce this weird new love interest with two episodes to go which literally came from nowhere and by then I was fast forwarding and had lost interest. Ji-Su and Seung-Li ended up together but I doubt they continued anything after the show.
Must do better for season two.
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For the first 10 episodes, I thought this was gonna be a 9 or a 10
The only reason I’m giving this a 2.5 is because the first 10 episodes were really good but after that, it just became absolutely horrendous. The other reason for my high score is because of the shambles of the subtitles, but they are actually really funny for most of it and you were still able to follow the story.I really didn’t like any of the characters to be honest, and I thought the female lead was horrendous. Did she have Munchausen syndrome or something? Why did she end up in a fairly lengthy relationship with her kidnapper?
Just weird!
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Shambolic from beginning to end
12 episodes at 23 minutes each and I still fast forwarded through most of it. It’s not cute it’s not funny. There’s no fluff. It’s not sweet. There’s no romance. It’s just total rubbish. Thinking making the female lead so clumsy and destructive in her behaviour by breaking the ML‘s leg and flinging him over a cliff and over a balcony is regarded as funny is absolutely bizarre. It’s utter crap and I can’t believe they would spend money to create something this useless..Was this review helpful to you?
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It took me an absolute age to get through this drama
33 episodes at approximately 42 minutes each of pure boredom.Could’ve been an interesting story I was a bit tired of the female lead and her best friend acting so spoilt and entitled at the beginning while the men simped after them constantly.
It took a weird turn as well from all the corporate intrigue to where they all just suddenly disappeared and it became some military drama in the country.
It had lots of star power and the acting was fantastic. The story was just boring and too convoluted..
Anyway, it’s very easy to forgettable and did she ever regain her memory from when they were kids? 🤷🏾♂️
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It’s not the sweet love I was expecting
This was alright. Just alright..It was cast quite well and the story was nice. The leads were a bit annoying. And I really liked the best friend and I would’ve loved them to explore her a bit more because she was complex and had real star presence. I really wouldn’t mind a story from her perspective or a sequel. I would definitely watch it.
Poppet is really cute and I don’t know what it is about Chinese dramas but child actors I find, are really excellent. They generally don’t have a lot to do, like in this, but what they do, they seem to do really well unlike those stage school brats from North America, who I find way too cringe.
The love rival couple were a waste of time and I fast forwarded those scenes.
This was billed as a sweet love story. There are 24 episodes under 40 minutes each but we only got the sweet love from episode 23.
Overall, it was nice but utterly forgettable
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Consistently lie and deceive the person you love and it will all work out for you in the end
Stupid, ridiculous, petulant, stupid and naive stupid female lead.The whole drama was a frustrating watch and seemed to go on and on even though there were only 24 episodes at just over 30 minutes each.
I won’t get into too much because it was a few years ago and I’ve only just watched it but it is absolute rubbish from beginning to end.
Best friend and assistant were very annoying. Evil secondary couple were just ridiculous and evil twin was just weird.
Even with eight minutes to go of the 24th episode she was still pushing our male lead away after he pathetically and like a loser turned up to apologise and beg for her to take him back even though she was the one who had been lying and deceiving him throughout the whole flipping drama.
TOTAL AND UTTER USELESS NONSENSE!
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Team Big Brother all the way
At the beginning, I thought this was going to be a strong 7 and then as it progressed it went down to a 2 but I’ll settle with a 4.5 because it wasn’t a complete disaster but it was problematic.Firstly, I am team big brother. All this righteousness and moralistic viewpoint actually stopped anybody doing anything.
The villains can plot and scheme and try and murder, rape and do what they like with impunity. Because all they say is let bygones be bygones..
I have to talk about the young Masters boyfriend. He plotted and schemed and murdered innocent people and actually date raped his love, even deceived the old master to get married to her daughter and put her into a coma (which she died from, not his fault by the way) but they were all crying for him when he died. The music was all sentimental and were we supposed to feel sorry for him at this point?? because he was a despicable character.
Big brother was the only decent character who tried to right the wrongs of his past for his family being slaughtered where his brother, our male lead was serving the people who ordered his family‘s execution without any grievance whatsoever.
The ending was totally useless.
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Just about watchable
At the start, I thought this is going to be at least 4 1/2 out of 10 because even though the FL lead was annoying, immature and a spoilt brat she seemed to have a good heart and apologised when she was clearly overmatched. I like this kind of stoic male lead and he didn’t have to do too much but still had main character energy and presence.I like the gay twin brother (even though he didn’t realise it yet) and the introduction of the gay doctor was quite amusing.
2ML started off decent but quickly became murderous and psychotic and was forgiven every single time which was annoying highlighted through episode 15 to 17 which brought the score down because the sequence of episodes were a complete mess. The crazy Mum the crazy uncle and our heroes just constantly gave them the benefit of the doubt every time they showed you who they were..
Even in the end by episode 20 when psychotic 2ml turned up, it was clear he had no good intentions yet they still entertained him.
And the worst for me was right at the end when everybody seemed to be taking evil uncles kill shots, fl was was standing next to 2ml, allowing him to embrace her and when he took evil uncles kill shot for her (his dad btw) and died, she looked like she was in mourning and was actually crying for him.
Blew my mind!
Music was atrocious and was not appropriate for the scenes in many instances.
20 episodes about 25mins each but if you’re like me, you’ll get through in half the time.
At least we got a happy ending
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It’s just Meh!
I’m giving this drama a two, which I know is quite a high score that’s because I have seen much worse but it is still really rubbish.The story isn’t too bad and for the first 15 episodes the acting wasn’t terrible, even though the FL lead is a bit bratty and the ML lead is simping after her constantly..
I am confused at what message it is trying to say because ultimately the female lead stole the body of a prostitute. Yes, she was a prostitute who tried to kill herself because the one she loved wouldn’t marry her.
I’m surprised the Chinese drama would allow this morally questionable story to play out.
There are 24 episodes each less than 10 minutes long so if like me if you really push, you could get the whole series done in less than two hours.
After episode 16, it becomes a total mess and I don’t know if they run out of budget but the acting just got worse and make up on things like blood, we’re laughably woeful.
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I’ve watched a "power" drama that is actually a misery marathon of eating bitterness
I’ve survived watching the FL being beaten, humiliated, undocumented and harassed by another "waste of space" ex-husband while the Male Lead stands around like a statue for 32 episodes at approximately 45 minutes each.Here is the honest truth: This show is a slow-burn slog of pure misery.
The Problem is the writers think "suffering = character depth." They’ve spent 32 episodes proving she can survive, but almost zero time showing her actually winning.
There is literally no payoff as we continually watch her struggling against those who face no consequences. Also like everybody else, I am a fan of the ML and FL from their time together in Gogo squid but we never get to see the Male Lead show any level of basic human empathy for her bruises and suffering and he remains a "cold strategist" for a massive chunk of the entire show.
The "misery porn" is why my fatigue has set in so early for this drama. Most people recommend Flourished Peony as an "empowerment" story, but they fail to mention that the writers use prolonged victimisation as their only way to create drama.
It is straight-up sadistic from a Western storytelling perspective. To me, it’s pretty demented and perverse. A complete waste of time; to the writers, it’s "character building." You are seeing the ugly side of a genre that fetishises the martyr complex..
it feels pretty disgusting that this show prioritises the virtue of suffering over the logic of survival.
The FL spends most of her time at the graveyard, burying her friends who are systematically killed one by one throughout the drama. Her mercy for these evil doers is not a virtue. It’s just plain stupid.
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