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Idk if you have watched the extra episode but at least we get to see more of the ML's feelings and thoughts and what he says at the end kind of explains why the writers made the decision to end the drama like that.

With that said, I also wish we had gotten a peek of their future life, maybe a baby.

Glad they helped. There are a lot of good dramas waiting for you for you to waste your time watching this one.

If we had to sum up Chen Hong Bin's character, we would say he is a "good" Police Officer...but that is not even fully true since he arrested people without clear evidence, mostly based on a gut feeling.

It was well-written and realistic and had some great acting, specially by Xu Kai, but that ending was a hard pill to swallow.

Things are not always black or white and when something falls into a gray zone, even when you are doing what is right the end result might not be the best one. Chen Hong Bin ultimately had to choose between being a good father/husband and being a good Police Officer. Tbh I think he was neither.

Oh well, I am not even sure what to watch after this one.

Not bad. A bit frustrating to watch due to the plot but it was better than the average lakorn. If anything I found the forced marriage completely unnecessary. It just brought unneeded drama and I would rather have watched more of the main leads as a couple instead.

I do feel like they could have fleshed out their relationship a bit better. They went from strangers to crazy in love (mostly the male lead) a bit too fast.

Sadly, this was not my cup of tea.

Too many main characters and subplots, the leads felt bland, seeing them on screen was rarely exciting. There was little chemistry between them, they looked more like friends, which in part might be because Allen Ren is married and they tried to keep the romantic scenes tamed but I have seen Allen Ren in other dramas and he had more chemistry with other actresses. His character here was also one of the least interesting ones I have watched him play.

I really do not know how to explain but although I went in thinking this would be my cup of tea and although I liked some episodes and subplots, I mostly found myself bored and wanting to skip scenes. I usually lose interest in dramas when they split screentime between a lot of characters or add a lot of subplots, which they did here. The main leads spent entire episodes without even interacting with each other and in some episodes they were not even the main leads, other characters were the focus.

To sum it up, I am not saying this is a bad drama, just that it was not for me.

That ending is only acceptable if they are working on a second season, otherwise it will be one of the worst short drama endings I have watched, it is just too abrupt and underwhelming to be called an ending.

Aside from the possibility of this being true, I have always hated Mango for the auto-translated subs when they could hire human translators. That alone already says a lot about the company.

Since there are no comments yet I will be the first to say something about it.

It is a low budget short drama that gives you a dated feeling, like it was filmed 10 years ago. The plot is meh and so is the acting.

I guess if you have nothing else to watch...go ahead. But if you have other things on your list you can safely skip this one.

I really liked this one back in 2017, even watched it twice that same year, but now re-watching it almost 10 years later (2026), I cannot ignore stuff that I was a bit too forgiving of back then.

If we start backwards, the ending is just underwhelming, I kinda remember it feeling that way back then too but since I liked the drama so much I kind of brushed it over as "at least..."

I hate how they made Ma Rin so dumb, I mean, I get the always being drunk because of her childhood and Korean drinking culture, but she does stuff like crossing (running into) the street without looking....she is an adult, even little kids know not to do that. She also tries to change stuff with the little info (and honestly, intelligence) she has and ends up making things worse.

Also, I know they had to drag the plot to reach 16 episodes, but so many things could have been solved if they just COMMUNICATED. The ML has everything going for him, he KNOWS the future, yet because he does not share anything with anyone, what he does by himself makes little difference in changing the future because people around him, out of lack of information, will still act the same way he originally saw them acting.

Maybe I should stop re-watching dramas I really liked 10-15 years ago, the flaws that I ignored back then are now too much for me to ignore. ^^'

Hard to start this without thinking of Rise of Ning, specially with this pairing...that is unless you never watched RN, then you can go in without any bias.

I do go directly to fansubs when possible, I was part of one when I was in highschool but I no longer use twitter, now X and rarely go on Discord so out of convenience I end up watching dramas wherever I can find them easily and kisskh is one of those places. For jdramas particularly, I usually watch on fansub sites.

The leads do not end together, the FL becomes a nun instead, yeah, that level of dumb.

I cannot believe I wasted my precious time and hours of sleep watching this. Do they think just because they casted Fang Jin and added a bunch of steamy scenes that that is enough to make it a good short drama?

It was one of the worst short dramas I have watched. The plot felt off the entire time and the ending was ridiculous. Do not waste your time, you can safely skip this one.

Dumb ending I would say.

Yeah, I have liked most Allen Ren dramas even tho a lot of them have a tragic or open ending but this one has not been my cup of tea. I like dramas with less characters that have a backstory compared to dramas full of supporting characters that we know little about.

Not sure about this one. I have watched 5 episodes and found myself skipping more scenes than usual. So far I have found it to have way too many supporting characters, a lot of them introduced all at once. In 5 episodes the main leads have barely interacted too, not sure if this is temporary or if most of the drama will be like this.

I will keep watching but for now I am not feeling it. Hopefully it will get better since it is the only "historical" cdrama I am currently watching. Not many interesting cdramas to watch right now. Sigh

So I can be fair, I will not compare it to season 1. It has been many years so I do not remember all details anyway to make a proper comparison.

I gave it a chance and the first few episodes were ok, I was not sold but I kept watching. Somewhere along the way I was just watching to finish it.

Although the actress they chose for the FL is young, I think she is very talented and does look similar to Zhao Li Ying, which makes sense since she portrayed Chu Qiao's younger version in the 1st season. With more experience, I believe she will be a great actress a few years from now.

My problem is that I could not feel any chemistry between her and the actor playing the ML, which might have been due to the age gap, not sure, but it just felt like a big brother and his younger sister, she had more chemistry with the SML and even with him it was not great.

The whole vibe of the drama is completely different from other Chinese historical dramas I have watched, not that is necessarily bad, but it reminded me of western medieval series and movies, which is not what I am looking for in a Chinese drama, it just was not my cup of tea.

Worst of all, I could not connect to the characters at all. Everything felt so flat to me, romantic scenes did not make me smile, deaths did not make me sad or angry, if anything the fight scenes were decent but that is not enough to make a drama interesting. When the ending came my only thought was: meh, I guess I am done, let's mark it as completed. I was neither happy nor disappointed at the ending, I felt nothing.

I just read your review and you also made a good point. Yes, it would probably backfire but the fact that no one even thought about trying it makes no sense. There were quite a few flaws in the writing.

A lot of people are also creating several accounts to give low ratings and leave hateful comments. I was just told to shut up and was called a b**** a few hours ago because a user, with an account created today, did not agree with my opinion. 10 years on MDL and it was a first for me to have someone be THAT rude just because I expressed my opinion.