Prepare your gallons of patience

If not for their chemistry, I wouldn’t finish this, but even so, I found myself skipping scenes in episodes. I love angst, but this one takes the cake. They really took the misunderstanding trope to the next level and dragged the story on and on. It could have been a shorter drama. You should prepare to have a LOT of patience. They brought the characters to be smart and all, but they really dug in to the “love can make you dumb” trope. The push and pull really isn’t it for me.

If you want angst and a slow story, then go ahead. But honestly, the main leads get annoying with their problem. The antagonists are smarter and not to mention there’s a lot of plotholes. Sure, they have their cute moments, but what’s that compared to the amount of irritating scenes?

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Great potential, failed to deliver.

I honestly was excited to watch this drama considering it has Leo in it. I’ve been watching his past dramas and waiting for his next drama with Bai Lu when this caught my eye. I recognized Cheng Xiao right away and was very interested in the plot as I saw the trailer. Safe to say, I had high hopes for this drama.

Sad to say, it just didn’t deliver.

Overall, it had great potential, from plot to acting. But after the first episode, it was a letdown. Let me try to break it down, and going forward will use LYX and CX for the actors and will focus more on them.

PLOT/STORY

It had a great plot at the beginning. I mean, who doesn’t like the lovers to enemies to lovers trope? Not to mention we started off with a badass CX who weaved through like a spy. I’m always a sucker for strong, independent FL’s, especially in thriller/mystery/suspense. The summary itself already told me it’s gonna be FL investigating the truth about the past and her family, not to mention, pretending to have amnesia to get back at her ex. But then, from the first ep to the last…the plot and genre just went downhill. Where was the badass and smart FL from episode 1? It kinda got lost along the way. I also do not understand the director/producer/writer’s decision to be all over the place? Like, it seemed they want all the genre in each episode and sometimes the plot just didn’t make sense. Neither was the character’s actions and words. It seemed the smart main characters that was introduced in the beginning lost that trait along the way.

ACTING

As I entered this drama, I haven’t seen any of CX’s work before. So I had high hopes from the trailer alone since it seemed it was gonna be interesting. LYX, I already knew I was gonna like since he just had this charm on camera that although sometimes his character’s actions are over the top or stupid, you can’t help but ignore that. Not to mention, LYX’s eyes and expressions. I can see why he’s rising to fame fast.

To be perfectly honest, I probably stayed to watch the entire drama just for LYX alone.

As for CX’s acting, I think this “heavy” drama needed more from her. Definitely has potential, but it kinda became lacking. Her expressions seemed to look the same all throughout, stiff and uncaring. Though there are times that she perfectly did well on some scenes, like being cute and playful. But other times, I can’t tell if it’s her character or just her acting that constantly stays in the RBF mode. CX probably needs more acting experience. Certainly, she has potential.

Chemistry of the two were subpar. Sometimes it’s there, sometimes it’s not. They look great together but it just didn’t give that “spark”. They are cute in their scenes but there’s just something there that doesn’t make the cut.


OVERALL

I will probably not rewatch. So much plotholes and character traits lost that the whole plotline itself seemed so far away from what they said it would be. The actors tried their very best though.

If you expected a good suspense/romance drama, it’s not really there. If you’re not here for the plot but for the actors, then by all means, watch, but don’t get your hopes up for the script/storyline!

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