To begin with, and to drive home how much I loathe this drama, I began watching it mainly because it had traditional subtitles that I wanted to be able to study from. The fact that I've not only dropped the show, but went through my flashcard decks and purged most of the flashcards I created from the show should give you some idea idea of my feelings. The mere presence of those flashcards, reminders that this show and its characters exist, still annoy me to this day.

So what do I so loathe bout this show? Beyond the awful scriptwriting, bad editing, and inconsistent character behaviour, what really makes me LOATHE this show is the awful characters. Probably the only character I don't absolutely hate already is Su Nian Nian's father, and he's not much of a character, just being a lovely dad.

The two leads, Su Nian Nian And Gu Zi whatever he's called I forget, are both awful people. Su Nian Nian is a superior, neurotic, unlikeable bookworm and Gu Zi whatever is a spoilt rich kid that we seem to be supposed to like, but who's arrogance and general air make me want to beat him while vomiting violently.

The entire conflict between this pair of enemies, to later turn lovers, is so contrived that it is infuriating. It could be solved within 2 minutes, but the characters inexplicably take it almost as a point of pride to refuse to simply clear up a misunderstanding. And not in an understandable human way, in the way only a bad writer writing borderline insane-seeming characters could conceive.

These two characters seem to be stand-ins for the writers, who write from a combination of the two characters perspective on their fellow classmates. Both characters are misfits to the school they are attending. Su Nian Nian as a high achieving student, and Gu Zi whatever as a richboy who could probably have his way into a half decent school if his family wanted. Their combination of know-it-all and richkid contempt for the lower-classes seems to permeate the portrayal of all characters in the series. Those at the engineering college are not likeable working class ruffians but violent, shallow, unlikeable morons, who are there because they are self-evidently simply too stupid and/or lazy to be anywhere else. This series is straight up mean. It's portrayal of sections of society is gut churning, and its humour is based mostly in cruelt of one kind or another.

The idea that this series culminates in these two somehow forming a romance, and leading their school to some kind of group solidarity, I find sickening, and it's when I realised that this is where the series was going that I dropped it.

If this series culminate in anything less that the deaths of these two, and the entire writing team, at the hands of the working class, I cannot finish it.

Absolutely awful series, backed up by some of the worst editing and music choices I've seen yet.

AVOID!