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A bit dissapointed

I was really looking forward to watching this drama because I was so excited to see Zhang Jingyi again. She’s an incredible actress and probably my favorite actress in China. As for Song Weilong, I wasn’t nearly as excited. After Shine on Me, I realized I didn’t really like his acting. Still, the drama’s aesthetics and the chemistry between the leads made me want to give it a try.

Right from the start, I wasn’t a fan of the adopted siblings trope, especially because they constantly referred to each other as brother and sister. Unfortunately, Chinese dramas seem to love romanticizing this kind of relationship, which I personally find really uncomfortable. But since I love the actors, I decided to stick with it.

Unlike Speed and Love (which I found bizarre and almost fetishistic), the characters here are mature and independent. We don’t have an infantilized, helpless female lead, and that’s something I really appreciated. Zhang Jingyi always delivers some of the best female characters. That said, her character did annoy me a bit after the time skip.

Song Weilong completely surprised me. His performance was fantastic, and honestly much better than I expected. Both leads did an amazing job, and as always with Zhang Jingyi, the chemistry was excellent. Their relationship developed rather slowly, but in a way that felt natural and believable.

That being said, I had a lot of issues with the rest of the story. There were simply too many plotlines happening all the time. Every episode introduced another twist, someone suddenly reappeared, someone else disappeared… it just became exhausting and boring.

Another thing that really bothered me was the directing choice of playing the exact same comedic background music every single time the leads shared a scene before they officially got together. It completely ruined the mood for me. Many of those moments could have felt subtle, emotional, or romantic, but instead they were undercut by this goofy a$$ soundtrack that made everything feel like a joke. It was such a strange decision.

One thing I absolutely loved, though, was the ending. I loved that the female lead was the successful one, the one in charge, which is still surprisingly rare in C-dramas. Then he became a stay-at-home husband, and she was the one who proposed. I laughed so hard and absolutely loved it. They truly deserved their happy ending.

Overall, I don’t regret watching it, but I definitely wouldn’t watch it again, and I’m not sure I’d recommend it. At the end of the day, the actors were what made this drama worth watching for me. Without Zhang Jingyi and Song Weilong, I don’t think I would’ve enjoyed it nearly as much.

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What the f* was this drama

I think all my reviews will end up being dedicated to Esther Yu, because all her dramas SHOCK me.

Speed ​​and Love is the current thing, so well-regarded that it made me start watching even knowing who the FL was. And sure enough, it was impossible to watch. She acts like a child, moans like a child, talks like a child, and in this drama there was an even worse point: they were (or at least should have been) half-siblings.

So there's this whole dynamic where ML is the older brother and acts as such, while she acts like a child. Without any exaggeration, he dries her hair, peels her apples for her, takes the scallions off her plate, goes to college as her GUARDIAN. It's bizarre. In one scene he chops up meat for her to eat. What is that if not a bizarre fetish?

In fact, in the first two episodes, Esther Yu appears with beautiful clothes, beautiful hair, and a womanly demeanor, which changes completely after that, when she starts to appear with f*ing pigtails, overalls, hair clips, everthing to make her character just like a child, and the ML feel attracted to that wierd thing.

What shocks me the most is that people are entertained by this, liking it, loving it, and recommending it. The story, by the way, is super interesting. As in all of Esther Yu's dramas, the ML is amazing, and she's there to RUIN everything. The character has a very interesting backstory; he's a true warrior, a survivor of social inequality. And she's the opposite. Because of her parents' divorce, he was forced to take care of her father, while she stayed with her mother, living a life of luxury.

I understand the "my way or the highway" life, but it doesn't work here. I thought we'd have a supporting character like Sang Zhi from Hidden Love was to Diaxu, someone who would see through ML's situation and be supportive, a strong arm in his life.

Here, on the contrary, Esther Yu's character becomes just another problem in our ML's already troubled life. She doesn't come along to take some weight off his shoulders, but to add even more, since, even though she's an 18-year-old woman, she acts like a child who can't even chew on a pig's leg without ML having to chop it up (literally!!!!!).

Honestly, it's disgusting. It's a fetishistic project that only shows how sick the world is to be okay with a relationship like this. I hope to see He Yu in other dramas, cause he is gooooood. And it makes me even more mad the fact that I have seen Esther Yu acting like a woman (and not a child) and she's really good, but the directors keep chosing to cast her on fetishistc projects. Hope to her in other dramas playing deep characters that I know she is capable of.

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Why is the FL acting like a 5 years old??

I was very upset with how this show turned out. I was looking forward to se others Lin Yi projects, cause he is such a good actor, and in this one, his story, his character, his clothing, everything was so promising. BUT, as it happends in many kdramas, the FL was there and it was NOT good. Its unwatchable, its impossible to watch a grown as woman act like a child, talk like a child, it is even weird that the ML feel atracted to that. Its literally a child there, he should not feel atracted, its totally unreal that a grown ass man would feel atracted to that. I felt so weird watching it, so I dropped. Very uppseting, Lin Yi was really good.

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