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I'm hopeful for Shine on Me. I hope Gu Man's show has reasonable characters like You are my glory and not hysterical ones like love o2o.

Fair. I didn't feel that though. Perfectly moderate for a pure no nonsense romance drama. There are other shows in this category which are of the snail kind. Love me love my voice, Forever and ever etc. Only 'The Best Thing' has a faster pace. But because there, both the ML and FL were talkative, unlike in this one. Perhaps even Hidden Love too.

It was a bit over the top but I also get Bai Shuo's reaction. She grew up around people who thought she was nuts, 2ml is one of the people who not only knew that she wasn't, but he also is from the divine. No worries, the show is going to throw so many curve balls at you that you will forget about this soon lol

It makes sense in a way that, it wouldn't make sense for either of them to give their universes up. They have duties, responsibilities, families. Sure, they can defy and manipulate time to hang out, date. But the male protagonist is a monarch and a sovereign. He needs to settle down, produce an heir..so on so forth. Unless he decides to abdicate at some point and other family lines inherit the monarchy. I guess it's an open ended fantasy ending but given what they went through together, it was unsatisfying.

But happy nonetheless so, I will take what I can get.

She's in 'The Best Thing', and plays a much more mature, grounded character, and nailed it. The writing here was questionable but she's quite capable.

I found it quite interesting. Often in modern CN romance dramas, the adjacent plots are a mess. But the Billiard plot here was in sync with the romance. Side characters didn't steal much screentime with nonsensical plots. But if you are not into billiard stuff then I get it. Also, this drama is a gem for us introverted fellas lol

When the dude finally got over his insecurities and got some sense knocked into him, it was cute that the fl didn't outright accept it, and made him work for it a bit, in a good way. Probably one of the strongest nicest kindest and emotionally stable female leads ever, in drama land.

There are plenty of lighthearted romance shows, the problem is 'memorable stories'. It is not easy to write a story without proper conflicts, and make something straightforward enjoyable. For every 'Amidst a snowstorm of love (strong adjacent plot to romance)', there's 'love me love my voice (weak adjacent plot to romance, also lousy acting from one of the leads)'.

You shouldn't have. It's an average series but her character development is the focal point, and how she becomes stronger, what are the things that finally wake her up etc. It happens late, but it does.

Yes she is, but also in the show, she admits all her flaws. She acknowledges that she is flawed, works on them, comes out on top. Although redeeming the mother was unnecessary.

The drama redeemed the mother, unlike in the darker source material. As far as I know, Xu cuts her out. A person like that doing a 180, very rare so it felt jaded. And Song saving her, so cheesy. Why did they do it ? Filial piety ? Censors ? The First Frost, Yifan cuts her trash mother out in the show, so it's not censor.

Decent show but Yang Yang is a lousy actor. Also too lanky to be a firefighter.

I guess, them both being in a crappy family jail, the foster brother developed an unhealthy infatuation, as they could find solace in each other. "2 caterpillars stuck in a cave". By the end, when they got out of their shell and the family dynamic improved, his infatuation perished with it. Weird shit, but understandable.

Redeeming thing is, the dude was just possessive and over protective. He did not harm Xu in any way.

I am a sucker for sci fi and high fantasy so I didn't have a problem with it. Pretty good show. Only the ending for me is meh

It is understandable. Within 16 episodes they crammed in time travel, parallel universe and the concept of reality warping. So a bit messy, is expected.

Happy ending, just underwhelming,,and doesn't make much sense.

The show is pretty good. The ratings tanked mostly because of the nonsensical reality warping, and the rushed head scratching ending.

acting skills

Well yea it is perspective, I don't disagree. It's moreso that your standards are different for it compared to the mainstream audience.

This is not esport drama bro. It's a romance with massive Honor of Kings advert and Chinese space program propaganda. I don't have any issues with the latter. The esport phase goes away after like 10 episodes. The VFX is regarding the space exploration.