Kind of funny to me how reviews on here are built on the popularity of the actors. Obviously, the actors in this drama are not pop idols, otherwise the rating would be way higher. This drama was made by the same writing/directing team as "The Confidence", and likewise has two of the same main leads. Actually, the production team was so set on being recognized as being the same team, that they blatantly declared this fact at every available opportunity. The team makes the ML go to a random store and he plays around with his necklace from "The Confidence", then, if all that wasn't enough, they make a secondary character actually watch "The Confidence" in one scene. Still not enough "The Confidence" reference for you? They make the FL go to the same store and look at the same knight armour as the ML had next to his desk in "The Confidence". We get it. This is "The Confidence" team, you've made that clear to us.

The acting in this drama is fantastic. Both the script and storyline are excellent too, which are the most important elements. All the characters were interesting and necessary for the plot. There wasn't a single character that annoyed the heck out of me. All the characters made sense. The bereaved FL had her entire world collapse on her in the first episode, which is why she was so distrustful, cold, distant, and traumatised. Why do so many people expect a traumatized FL to be anything but emotionally numb is beyond me. If you choose to watch a drama where the FL goes through serious trauma within the first episode, does it really make sense to expect her to have a colourful palate of facial expressions?! Just a personal pet peeve of mine on here.

The FL is able to move on in life firstly through the help of her savvy friend Su Wen, and secondly, because she finds out that the man she was grieving as her husband never really existed in the first place. She knew him for over a decade, and it turned out she hardly knew him at all. That sure helps in moving on during bereavement. It gave her a reason to move on with her life, and a logical reason for the ML to make a move towards her, even though he didn't need to forcefully kiss her in this drama, like he did in "The Confidence". The truth is, the writers wanted to keep you guessing if the ML's character was good or bad, so they let you see him in both lights and had side characters build doubt in our minds, well into the later episodes. I need to mention the acting of the SFL Su Wen here as well. She was an excellent contrasting support character to our FL, and the actress that played her was superb.

Peng Guan Ying is a wonderful character actor inside the body of a ML. He has wonderful range and can turn into any character he wants, and he was, as always, wonderful in this drama. Just like in "The Confidence", the plot here was held together by an unrealistic..... idea, if you will. In "The Confidence" this idea was that a human can have their entire face copy\pasted onto another human's completely different bone structure and come out of it looking like Peng Guan Ying. In "The Unexpected Falling", this outlandish idea is that a person cannot look up a famous lawyer's face and see a picture of them. I get that Chinese internet is censored, but not a single picture of a famous lawyer on the internet? Doesn't seem likely. The FL never goes to the ML's law firm? She just expects him to follow her around? This was explained away by giving the FL a naive character, and it worked up to a point, but she is understandably mistrustful at the same time, so.... I just feel like this was a lot to expect of the audience to look past.

When it comes to a drama with a lot of side plots and characters, I usually lose interest in at least some, if not most of the side stories, but not so in this one! Even the side stories held my interest, which didn't happen in "The Confidence", so I think this drama overshadows "The Confidence" by far. I agree with the review that talked about the director needing to learn more about editing, absolutely, too many unnecessary shots, but I also understand the political constraints of the Chinese media, wherein writers and directors are literally forced to write a certain number of episodes and to fill those episodes with content means something has to suffer the cost of that. As a result, I never watch a Chinese drama expecting some form of perfection, because it isn't possible under dictatorship. Art under dictatorship will never be perfect simply because it can't be. For that reason, I do lower my expectations in my judgement, but the writing and acting here was really great regardless. This is a great ensemble mystery thriller series that doesn't disappoint.

9 beige raincoats out of 10.