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I thought the chemistry between the leads was fabulous!

I expanded on a theory for the ending that may make it more palatable in an earlier response.

Perhaps your expectations were for a standard rom com? This drama is intentionally campy and “explodes” drama tropes with the modern woman being transmigrated into a different era.

And that’s ok, maybe it’s just not your style of drama. It’s very tongue in cheek, making fun of a lot of drama tropes so you do need to view it in a more meta way to enjoy it (in my opinion).

I actually shared a theory in an earlier response so do check it out!

Chen Xing Xu works so hard as an actor to design each character differently. Although he has earned a bit of rep for the CEO roles, I have never thought to see him as a CEO first and foremost. He always portrays each character as a real person, with their own struggles, habits and personality.

There’s actually a pretty good explanation for the ending- I wrote it out in an earlier response.

I took the forced amnesia plot as yet another trope that the drama was messing about with. There were so many tropes!!

I would suggest to fast forward all the second lead parts and just focus on the main lead storyline. But yes, it is still campy but it segues into sweeter moments between the leads.

The leads both really worked very very hard to market the drama on their own. And it was such a positive watching atmosphere! As opposed to Love Between Lines, where there was concurrent smear campaign against Chen Xing Xu and a marketing campaign to “promote” Dai Xu. It was truly nasty- anyone (even non-fans) who said anything good about Chen Xing Xu had their social media accounts flooded and reported and there was so much data suppression. I was shocked when I saw what happened on the Chinese social media sites.

I’ll explain the theory that makes sense to me. The idea is that there are 3 parallel universes within the drama. In the first universe, Lin Huan’er has never met Gao Haiming; but the Gao Haining who meets her in the first episode knows her and has been searching for her. His presence sends her into the universe of the book where she meets the Gao Haiming who has never met her but who will eventually fall in love with her. After she gets sent back, Gao Haiming finds the pager, which continues to work in its fashion, but now giving him tasks to do instead. He has to live through his lifetime in the book before he is finally “released” into that the third parallel universe where he can find his Lin Huan’er, who still remembers and loves him. HOW does he do it? I have no idea, that part of it is just drama magic.

My bad and my apologies. I’m just been consuming a lot of misinformation on the Chinese social media sites so I’m feeling tetchy to see the same stuff here.

Actually you know what, I’ve just realised that I can pput in a submission to edit so I’ll do so!

That’s not great that the wrong information is left up on the site though 🥴

Is my post above taken as attacking her? That’s absolutely not my intention.
I think information is important, but in this age of massive misinformation, it needs to be as accurate as possible.
For example, it is misleading to portray this story as an adaptation and have a misunderstanding of what the stories and characters are. While the production has not released much information, MDL should not put wrong information down right?

Moreover, the MDL page on the show is wrong. This is NOT an adaptation from a novel but an original work by Cao Xiao Tian. The male lead’s name is Lu Xing Zhi, not Sun Ru Yang.
Please correct this as I’m sure you would not want to be portraying misleading information on this site.

Hi Lily Alice, this news is inaccurate and doesn’t present the full picture. Poor Chen Xing Xu has already been a victim of a coordinated and concerted smear campaign since Love Between Lines, and the above “news” is also another example of this black marketing.
If you truly want to make this news factual, you can add that neutral commentators have chimed in that there was a misunderstanding in what Chen Xing Xu said. The black hot search immediately put his words as “背”告, which means to memorize lines and would thus be interpreted as an insult to Li Yi Tong; but what he actually said was “备”告， which means to prepare a speech in advance. Chen Xing Xu has never been viewed as impolite or unprofessional in his 25 year career. It’s bad enough that he is being hounded on Chinese social media sites, I think that an international site like MDL can do better?