the most important thing for me when watching dramas and enjoying them is that the main cast of characters need to be somewhat decent characters. i love me a morally-gray characters but ashu is not for me. i cannot explain my dislike for her. she genuinely gets on my nerves so much. for example, ashu was selling fake makeup and gets caught because the person who bought her makeup start to have an allergic reaction. she gets in so much trouble for it. then she is supposed to go to jail but she puts the blame on the yuan mo. he goes to jail wrongly instead of her. then she has the nerve to get upset at him for being upset at her because she put him in jail because she didn't want to own up for her mistakes. he also had to spend like so much money for compensation for the victim so he was like you have to pay me back the 20贯 and she agrees BUT to pay for this, she starts charging HIM money to pay back the money SHE owes HIM because SHE wrongly put HIM in jail.....AND HE FORGIVES HER???????? WHAT THE FUCK?????? genuinely hope she develops (i feel like this is very unlikely) into a better character because im abt to drop this show bc shes getting so annoying 😭 and to think they're going to get together is fucking insane because WHYY would u get together with the person who wrong you so badly...

besides the FML, i love the rest of the cast of characters. i love dramas with a big cast and they're like a found family.

tbh such a waste of tan jianci's talent. he is the entire reason why i watched this. his acting is of course always phenomenal. i've never seen him do a comedic character. really nice to see after his character xiang liu got done SO BADLY in 长相思 (lost you forever)

i can't really say much more because i haven't seen the rest of the drama, but i really just wanted to rant about the female lead. im going to give it a 7/10. but right now, it's at a 6-6.5/10. but i don't think it'll get any higher than 7... watch it if you want to se TJC but warning, you may get pissed off.