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Ikr? Like, he had texted her saying he was coming, he knew she would be waiting for him, even if he did not want to talk about the death of his father at that moment, he could have just said something like "change of plans, something urgent happened over here and I cannot return today anymore".
I would expect him to text a complete stranger, imagine the woman he loved. It does not make any sense that he just ghosted her like that.

It was painfully obvious that they did that just for the sake of dragging the plot and to me that is something that just made an average drama into a below average drama. Realistically speaking no one would have acted the way the male lead did. It is not like he was too overwhelmed and forgot to text her that day. He did not even text her explaining what was going on and why he said he was returning and then just didn’t.

Mostly her brother, he is kind of useless. The father has other reasons for being like that but yeah, at first he sounded like a male chauvinist that did not give a damn about his daughter. So no wonder you found him annoying.

It will get better. The tables will turn soon after that and it becomes light hearted again with some serious moments here and there but mostly light hearted. I just finished watching the last episode.

Slow at times and with more characters taking screen time than I would have liked BUT it was a very nice drama.

Many characters were unique and not cliché at all like Hao Jia and Yuan Ying. The sisterhood was great. The relationship between the main leads took its’ time to develop but the amount of love, respect, trust and cooperation between them was amazing. The character development is great here too. And I could say a lot more but I want to keep it short.

I would say it is not really the type of drama you should binge-watch. I watched it as it was airing and it took a while for me to really start to enjoy it. There are many characters so the first 15 episodes or so can feel a bit slow with all the introductions and backstory. But if you watch it slowly, you will probably start to enjoy it like I did.

Well, it has been 4 years, I give up. I will just remove it from my on-hold list. It has been there for way too long.

Let me know if this ever gets fully subbed.

I would not mind if it was a little bit longer. I have found that for most kdramas that become draggy when they are 16 episodes long, 12 is usually the right amount of episodes. Not too short but not long enough for the writers to mess up.

With 12 episodes we could have a little more background story and some more romantic moments between the main leads. We knew very little about some of the supporting characters and even less about Yu Na’s mother. Maybe 12 is asking for too much, but at least 8? 4 episodes was really short.

I don’t even know what to say about this one. As someone who has been watching dramas for over a decade, I might have been more forgiving if I had watched it 10 years ago. But since I am watching it now, after I have watched literally thousands of dramas, I cannot think of one reason as to why I watched this other than just for the sake of finishing it.

The acting is ok but nothing remarkable, the romance is bland and full of misunderstandings and illogical decisions. I mean, you have a phone, just text the person explaining what is going on. One text message would have been enough. The working part was also boring. I did not really care for the supporting characters. The ending was bland like the rest of the drama.

P.S. - What are the chances of hearing someone is drowning, running there, even the rescue people are already there by that time so it must have been at least 10 minutes since the person started drowning and somehow not only is the person alive but still conscious and struggling in the water? That is scientifically impossible. And the editing of that scene with the fake water and bad cgi, ugh, I have watched dramas from over 10 years ago that had more believable drowning scenes.

Sorry, just had to get this one out of my chest. The whole drowning thing was just ridiculous both logically and visually speaking.

Anyway, I am sure there are people out there who think this is a great drama, but to me it was a complete waste of time. The only drama with Victoria Song that I liked was Find Yourself. All the other dramas she played the female lead were pretty bad. I don’t think she is an awful actress like some people (she is not a great one either) but she definitely isn’t very good at choosing scripts.

I was wondering how the writers would be able to keep my interest on the main couple when the drama is about a show the FL is producing where the ML "dates" someone else. It went as I thought, it did not work.

The first few episodes were ok but once they started focusing more on the show, I slowly forgot about the main leads. In fact, I started to be more interested in the chef and the webtoon artist and their interactions, which is very rare for me, to care more about the supporting characters than the main leads. Sadly, they were just a small part of the drama.

I have watched slow burns before that I really liked and I thought the main characters had chemistry, but they just did not focus enough on the romance part, it felt like their chemistry was kind of wasted.

The thing with slow burns is that there must be something to keep me watching like subplots that are interesting enough, characters I like, ... but that was not the case here. I felt no connection to the characters and the things happening on the side were not able to grab my attention.

The drama just did not live up to the expectations it made me build when I first started watching.

I liked the first 10 or 15 episodes but then started to slowly lose interest. The pace was slow, too many characters that seemed completely unnecesary, the romance development was not satisfying and the male lead’s secret identity was not interesting enough.

Slowly it became kind of boring and I just wanted to get to the last episode to know who was who and what was what. But guess what they did...they left a lot of lose ends and the last episode managed to be one of the worst of the entire drama.

Was disappointed because this had everything to be a super interesting mistery/romance drama but it was not great in either of the genres.

Yup, I know. That is why I said it was a red flag. Once I see MGTV, I run. They don’t bother properly translating the dramas they air.

The main plot was good and made me cry almost every episode. But the other characters, the second couple and Jae Min classmates, I really did not care about....and they stole so much screen time too, what a shame.

It did not help that the actress playing the second female lead was nowhere on the same level of all other actors, even the ones that only appeared a few times here and there. With a different actress I might have given a chance to the second couple, but I ended up skipping all of their scenes.

The actors playing the main couple did a great job, I felt all the pain with them. Ouch, my eyes hurt from all the crying. T T

P.S. - Someone in the comments recommended reading chapter 60 of the webtoon. It might make you feel just a little better after all the heartbreak.

I have been there, I know your pain. Good luck enduring the subs, may you be able to reach the end of the drama without giving up. ^^'

MGTV? Yeah, red flag. I do not even need to watch to know the subs will be really bad.

I watched it after all the episodes were out and subbed. But I agree. They are already short, so why take so long to release the episodes?

So, how is Mu Zi Li going to explain to everyone coming back alive? And what about the family on the other universe where suddently there is no Mu Zi Li anymore?

This really was like a winter night, one where suddenly you are left without electricity, your phone ran out of batery and you cannot fall asleep because you are not sleepy at all...a very boring winter night.

Honestly tho, I had no expectations when I started watching. They could have gone with the thriller/mistery theme and I would have loved it, they could have gone with the super romantic full on chemistry and I would have liked it too, if they went for the moving maybe even tragic theme, I would have cried my heart out.

Yet, for me, this was missing everything. The characters were not interesting, the plot had a weird pace, almost like they wanted to make a 40 episode drama but then remembered it was only supposed to be 24, the whole parallel world thing was so put aside that it did not even feel important at all, even the female lead’s hairstyle and her constant lack of emotion bothered me.

To make it worse, and like some people are saying, they did not address the big elephant in the room. They ended it in a way that was not only bland (like the rest of the drama) but also lacked logic.

If I described this drama as food (cook here so I like to use this kind of comparisons), this was a soup. A soup that the cook forgot to add salt to so it was nothing more than water with a bunch of stuff floating around.

I also watched The Rational Life but it does not seem to be the one I specifically remember. I will eventually come across it again.

It has similar themes but I don’t think it was that one.

I did watch that drama but I think it was a more recent one.