Started this series because of a video of Man Ni and continued for Gu Jia. Xiao Qin was too immature for my taste and I feel her succes story a bit forced.
Man Ni was actually a character I liked at the beginning..she was ambitious and had principles. I understand it's easy to be impressed by such a man and the fact that she continued to fight for her future and success was commendable. Her mistake tough was to quit her job without a financial plan B. Sure, your ego is bruised but in life you need to be a bit thick skinned to survive. Happy that she managed to find the money in the end to continue but not many people have that "luck".
The fish tank couple annoyed me from beginning to end. Xiao Qin has matured a bit but she's still dependent on other people..the fact that she's so irresponsible with money, that she went for a rebound relationship without being certain of her feelings, the fact that she suddenly forgot she had a cat after looking for it for a few minutes (I would've looked for it for days, weeks, years). I get it..after so many years together it's hard to move on but after they went back together her husband still has a few of his old habits poking through. How much time will it take this time before he gets controlling again?! I can't forgive him for his attitude during her miscarriage..there's basically no plausible excuses for that.
Gu Jia was mostly a great character..her mistake was that she tried too much to pull her family up to a status they were not prepared for yet and lost her incompetent husband on the way. Some people may call her controlling but you can see clearly that if she doesn't take care of everything..it crumbles..she's the definition of "behind a successful man is a great woman".
I really admired the fact that she realised that taking shortcuts is not worth it as rich people are not so admirable after all. She is the definition of the modern woman..she's a great mother, wife and successful entrepreneur. Her mistake was to buy the tea farm without properly checking but thankfully it all worked out in the end. She did have a moment when I found her overbearing (when she asked her housekeeper to share a room with another person) and I thought that she needs to get over herself as she seemed too much like the rich ladies she criticised..quite the hypocrite.
I think that Huan Shan was such a stupid man from beginning to end and my blood was boiling each time Gu Jia bailed him out because he mistook it as controlling. Such a weak man that each time another woman stroked his ego, he will make mistakes in the company. Artist my ass..he had no place to own a company as a director. The company would've closed a long time ago if she didn't get rid of the distractions and fixed his mistakes. You could say he got his karma in the end.
Who didn't get enough karma is You You though. She was such a manipulate woman that lived in her own delusion. There's one thing to admire a man another to flirt with him knowing since the beginning that he has a family..to push and push until you get him..to harm a child mentally. Stalkish behaviour and I was surprised that she actually let go.
That fourth couple was unnecessary in my opinion. Was it to show a proper family dynamics? It just annoyed me to see them after the other failed relationships. While it proved the point, it also felt out of place. I didn't care about them yet they were forced on me as a stark comparation each episode. Like a reminder.."see..this is how a family behaves, loves, cares and supports each other."
I had a love-hate relationship with this series and skipped a lot of scenes near the end as my patience ran dry.
This is such a toxic drama but it somehow got me curious how much worse it could get so I stayed until the end. Please save yourself the trouble and skip it.
Started fun but I felt like the general and his wife didn't get as much screen time as the couple who had to deal with family drama. Also as they introduced more characters the plot became more boring/dragged..Some couples had a lot more screentime then necessary although they're supporting characters..it's funny how I can watch 50 episodes series and not get tired and yet I got bored fast with a shorter one.
This is such a frustrating series..how stupid can she be and how many times can you stab your loved one before you realise it?! She's incurable in her stupidity.
If not for the ML I wouldn't have forced myself to watch it until the end. Whoever wrote the script has no idea how to make a popular series because it had so much potential..the actors were actually doing a good job but the plot is like someone wrote a mediocre fanfiction. You can slap, kick, poison, cut an arm or something..whatever else was better than stabbing him again and again..
The main actor felt so familiar and then I realised..he's the guy from Back from the Brink. He basically hard-carries this series..hopefully he gets more series in the future..he's a really good actor.
THIS DRAMA IS SHIT.. I have bothered to sign up just to warn everyone about how much fuckery this drama has...…
This drama was definitely messy but your comment will attract quite a bit of negative energy towards yourself unfortunately.
I myself felt that it was a lost cause since the first episodes but I wanted to see it to end as I'm quite the masochist when it comes to bad dramas.
This series was mediocre at best, the plot full of loopholes covered by fluffy/cheesy moments (the murderer of the peony case, what happened to Mu Yuan, etc
The FL is of normal looks (some may find her cute I guess) and the 3 princes offer a good distraction for different tastes.
If you're into that..check it out, if not..don't be like myself and waste your time.
I forced myself to finish it. If you're not into cutesy/fluffy/cheesy dramas, don't start. As the episodes go on and on, it becomes more and more ridiculous.
And this is yet another case where visuals cannot carry a weak plot & bad acting. Not even that but the ML and FL felt bland to me which is weird as both Dilraba and Gongjun were ok to me before.
I was basically more invested in the story of the secondary characters like Linlang or Wen Shuo. Even Luo Mingxi was more interesting then the love of the main characters.
The fake Di Zhiyuan ark took too much screentime and I felt no emotion whatsoever for her or her suffering. I was basically rooting for her to be punished as she crossed the line while her superior attitude until the very end made her unlikeable.
It started interesting and then as the episodes went on it became too much that at episode 35 I was considering dropping it.
From my point of view this is yet another series that had potential but it all went down the drain.
Oh dear, yet another one of those idiotic time-travel stories…Synopsis as provided by Douban:The modern girl…
Thank you for the synopsis. I do agree that the series is not the best. I don't mind time travel dramas and sometimes the silliness can be endearing if I'm in a good mood but this one, ain't it. I would say to whoever wants to watch it.."Don't waste your time". There are other dramas out there...
Dude...where did he prove he doesn't care about her family life or her kids? You're projecting and it's really…
If you force yourself to stay in a relationship where you don't love your partner anymore, just for the sake of your family, you will end up resenting the person you used to love. Frustrated people feed their depression daily and we all know the consequences..Why poison your soul with dark thoughts?! It's better to be healthy mentally but renegated by society than a walking corpse who's stuck between cultural walls.
Sometimes you need to be courageous and break the walls of "shame". A healthy family relationship is that where you have their support even in old age. If tomorrow I break up with my husband and have no job or money, I can always go back to either one of my parents and start my life from zero as a single mother. They will always have my back and won't be ashamed by my failures. People will talk of course but a thick skin makes a healthy mind, there's no person that can talk s.it about myself worse than me (I'm my worst enemy).
I always found it fascinating how restricted women are in the Asian culture..the act of "serving" your husband & in-laws, the treatment of single 30+ women, the idea that the women have to stay home to raise children (give up their career), how divorced women or single mothers are seen..for a westerner a lot of times I find myself screaming at the screen and rooting for the women to be strong and fight to take their lives in their own hands..until your last breath live with no regrets as you tried your best.
And don't get me wrong, the western way is far from perfection but don't promote the idea of fighting for the family values where you have to loose yourself in the process, that's not healthy. And this is coming from a child who was in the middle of it while my parents kept it going for the sake of a "perfect family" picture.
Man Ni was actually a character I liked at the beginning..she was ambitious and had principles. I understand it's easy to be impressed by such a man and the fact that she continued to fight for her future and success was commendable. Her mistake tough was to quit her job without a financial plan B. Sure, your ego is bruised but in life you need to be a bit thick skinned to survive. Happy that she managed to find the money in the end to continue but not many people have that "luck".
The fish tank couple annoyed me from beginning to end. Xiao Qin has matured a bit but she's still dependent on other people..the fact that she's so irresponsible with money, that she went for a rebound relationship without being certain of her feelings, the fact that she suddenly forgot she had a cat after looking for it for a few minutes (I would've looked for it for days, weeks, years). I get it..after so many years together it's hard to move on but after they went back together her husband still has a few of his old habits poking through. How much time will it take this time before he gets controlling again?! I can't forgive him for his attitude during her miscarriage..there's basically no plausible excuses for that.
Gu Jia was mostly a great character..her mistake was that she tried too much to pull her family up to a status they were not prepared for yet and lost her incompetent husband on the way. Some people may call her controlling but you can see clearly that if she doesn't take care of everything..it crumbles..she's the definition of "behind a successful man is a great woman".
I really admired the fact that she realised that taking shortcuts is not worth it as rich people are not so admirable after all. She is the definition of the modern woman..she's a great mother, wife and successful entrepreneur. Her mistake was to buy the tea farm without properly checking but thankfully it all worked out in the end. She did have a moment when I found her overbearing (when she asked her housekeeper to share a room with another person) and I thought that she needs to get over herself as she seemed too much like the rich ladies she criticised..quite the hypocrite.
I think that Huan Shan was such a stupid man from beginning to end and my blood was boiling each time Gu Jia bailed him out because he mistook it as controlling. Such a weak man that each time another woman stroked his ego, he will make mistakes in the company. Artist my ass..he had no place to own a company as a director. The company would've closed a long time ago if she didn't get rid of the distractions and fixed his mistakes. You could say he got his karma in the end.
Who didn't get enough karma is You You though. She was such a manipulate woman that lived in her own delusion. There's one thing to admire a man another to flirt with him knowing since the beginning that he has a family..to push and push until you get him..to harm a child mentally. Stalkish behaviour and I was surprised that she actually let go.
That fourth couple was unnecessary in my opinion. Was it to show a proper family dynamics? It just annoyed me to see them after the other failed relationships. While it proved the point, it also felt out of place. I didn't care about them yet they were forced on me as a stark comparation each episode. Like a reminder.."see..this is how a family behaves, loves, cares and supports each other."
I had a love-hate relationship with this series and skipped a lot of scenes near the end as my patience ran dry.
Please save yourself the trouble and skip it.
If not for the ML I wouldn't have forced myself to watch it until the end. Whoever wrote the script has no idea how to make a popular series because it had so much potential..the actors were actually doing a good job but the plot is like someone wrote a mediocre fanfiction. You can slap, kick, poison, cut an arm or something..whatever else was better than stabbing him again and again..
I myself felt that it was a lost cause since the first episodes but I wanted to see it to end as I'm quite the masochist when it comes to bad dramas.
This series was mediocre at best, the plot full of loopholes covered by fluffy/cheesy moments (the murderer of the peony case, what happened to Mu Yuan, etc
The FL is of normal looks (some may find her cute I guess) and the 3 princes offer a good distraction for different tastes.
If you're into that..check it out, if not..don't be like myself and waste your time.
I was basically more invested in the story of the secondary characters like Linlang or Wen Shuo. Even Luo Mingxi was more interesting then the love of the main characters.
The fake Di Zhiyuan ark took too much screentime and I felt no emotion whatsoever for her or her suffering. I was basically rooting for her to be punished as she crossed the line while her superior attitude until the very end made her unlikeable.
It started interesting and then as the episodes went on it became too much that at episode 35 I was considering dropping it.
From my point of view this is yet another series that had potential but it all went down the drain.
Sometimes you need to be courageous and break the walls of "shame". A healthy family relationship is that where you have their support even in old age. If tomorrow I break up with my husband and have no job or money, I can always go back to either one of my parents and start my life from zero as a single mother. They will always have my back and won't be ashamed by my failures. People will talk of course but a thick skin makes a healthy mind, there's no person that can talk s.it about myself worse than me (I'm my worst enemy).
I always found it fascinating how restricted women are in the Asian culture..the act of "serving" your husband & in-laws, the treatment of single 30+ women, the idea that the women have to stay home to raise children (give up their career), how divorced women or single mothers are seen..for a westerner a lot of times I find myself screaming at the screen and rooting for the women to be strong and fight to take their lives in their own hands..until your last breath live with no regrets as you tried your best.
And don't get me wrong, the western way is far from perfection but don't promote the idea of fighting for the family values where you have to loose yourself in the process, that's not healthy. And this is coming from a child who was in the middle of it while my parents kept it going for the sake of a "perfect family" picture.