Waste of time. Inconsistent character development. Immature FL. What a fake doctor the ML is!

1) Story
Apart from the beginning of the story that the FL has to cope with her father's illness which leads to the meeting of ML and FL, after that since her father goes back home onward, there's nothing in the story at all.

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2) Character
The FL starts from being rational and strong to a very immature, pretentious person. Her head was clear, her character was cool, but then after going out with the ML, she starts to be irrationally clingy. She wants her time with the ML despite knowing he's busy with his work. The ML puts her as his priority but she's still upset with him because he still has to do his job after staying with her!?! She starts to be afraid of dark places. At one point, she also starts to be extremely afraid of the walking glass floor over an area of low bushes at a tourist place -- moreover, it's also her idea to go there. In the scene, there're other people but no one scares like her. The pathway isn't even high. Thus, the whole scene portrays the FL as a fake, pretentious girl who just wants her boyfriend's attention.

The FL's friend group is also her bad influence leading her from normal to be a jealous, seeking-attention, never-has-enough girlfriend. No one is interesting as a person in the group. They're ignorant, shallow people, esp. her bestie.

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3) Acting
Xiao Zhan can't act at all in this series. All the moves are extremely stiff and awkward. All the love scenes are goosebumpy and cheesy. I wonder if he ever had a girlfriend before. My gosh... his acting is beyond imaginary bad.

By the way, the FL can't play cello. The promotion teaser tries to show the story about a cellist, but there's almost no scene about playing music at all.

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4) There're other weird details along the way, but let me accumulate just some of them here:

4.1 The ML is the kind of doctor that is going to do surgery on a cancer patient without telling the patient he has cancer. The patient's family plans with the doctor to keep the illness secret from the patient even though there's no problem with the patient's consciousness. What - The - Hell ??? This is considered medical malpractice. It's not only immoral but also illegal. The patient has the right to his own body. Before the surgery, the patient still has to sign the informed consent document that states his illness as well as the risk of surgery. How is a doctor going to hide this information from the patient? How is this realistic? How could this series show the ML is a good doctor while he doesn't even know the basic procedure of being professional in his own profession?

4.2 The ML wants to distract FL from practicing cello as her wrist's tendon inflames by asking her to sort a file of 100 apartments' information on the computer. Is this the solution of a supposedly top-tier doctor for someone to rest their wrist? Using the mouse is another cause of carpal tunnel/wrist pain. It's a basic knowledge that would bear in all doctors' minds but not this ML...

4.3 What a super awkward scene in ep.6 when the FL tells her dad after arguing with him that she would go to the restroom then rushes out of the room but stops right at the outside of the glass door crying. They also have a glass wall there, so her dad or anyone can see her from the inside. What is the point in making the excuse of going to the restroom then? Then the ML follows the FL out instantly. He tries to console the FL and ends up kind of forcing the FL into his embrace. Not to say how awkward and unnatural he slowly and unconfidently pulls the FL closer. It's too slow it becomes awkward. The time interval is too long for the FL to act surprised naturally, but she still acts surprised which is so pretentious. This whole process bears to the FL's father's eyes who is sitting at the other side of the glass wall. It's so clear the ML has some ulterior motive kind of feelings for the FL from the gesture of this hug, but the father doesn't have any reaction about his daughter being hugged by a guy before his eyes at all - not even a blink of surprise. How realistic.

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Main idea is great, but no closure for story conflicts. Plus, FL's character design is terrible.

I almost dropped this drama after watching ep13-14 and again at ep16.

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(1) Character Design
The FL is getting to be more absurd after her mom opposes her relationship with the ML. She contradicts herself when quarreling with the ML due to the writer doesn't know how to create proper progress to make a story reach its peak. Thus, he/she just throws an unrealistic, extreme scenario into the plot to force FL to act in a certain way for the story to go on the path that the writer wants even though originally it doesn't develop in that way.

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(2) Main Idea and Plot
The main idea about the ML is a songwriter who is also blind is a great idea. The production team has done a proper and beautiful job to raise the issue and awareness about blind people. But! the plot also raises questions about the writer's idea in story conflicts toward the end. There're quite a few conflicts being open in succession even though the drama has entered its last 1/5 portion of the whole story. They don't see they have time to manage these new conflicts during the last stretch at all. And in the end, they don't close these conflicts. They just left them without care. These are unnecessary conflicts, interesting but meaningless, obstacular and way too underdone. They don't need these things at all esp. if they don't want to give closure to what they open. I don't know why they make these points up if they just want to mention things without doing anything about them. These infuriating points are:
- point about Cheng Yin
- point about A Beautiful Mind
- point about unexpected PTSD
- point about stomachache (?? what the hell is this stomachache at the end I still don't know the cause of it, and what the heck it's there when it utterly looks like there's nothing about it.)

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(3) Acting
The second leads can't act.

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(4) Small Details
Apart from the above, there're some small points that show the director isn't meticulous, for example:
- the FL licks her lips in an important romantic, slow-motion scene (ep22). This absolutely should be a retake.
- there's a dialogue saying the mother can feel a 5-week-old baby in her womb kicking her. That baby has a size of bean sprout, also said the mother in the dialogue -_-
- a young girl who takes a supporting role doesn't grow up at all as time in the story passes, but the ML says the girl gets a lot higher -_- They should just cut that sentence out from the dialogue. Why emphasize your own loophole when you don't have to at all??

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Strong plot. Archaic artistic taste. Problem with ML's acting skill.

(1) Story [+]

I'm very impressed with the plot. The plot is superb and very well presented. They set the knots all the way from the beginning to end which makes the viewers surprised all the way through. All the unexpected plots are conveyed at the right time. Their rhythm to reveal and resolve each knot is very well done.

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(2) Character Design [~]

Great design for the FL and ML's characters. Most of the characters in the drama, even the supporting roles, are properly designed. The only problem I have is the design for the 2nd ML. I think it's about the acting skill of the actor who plays this role, too. The drive of the 2nd ML to love the 2nd FL is not convincing at all. With a shallow design that only aims to force the character into feeling love without a proper background to solidify the conviction combining with the not-up-to-the-standard acting skill of the actor, it makes this character to have a pretty vague existence.

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(3) Acting [~]

The best acting skill in the whole drama is the FL. I would say she's the one who carries the whole drama project to not sink. In the drama, she plays as an actress who performs very well. This kind of role is frightening for the one who takes it for sure as the viewers will have a question in their mind all the time while watching that whether the actor/actress really portrays the role up to the level that the role claims to be. There's some scene that the FL has to perform a difficult scene and I wonder myself in which way that she would play it out. I feel that the scene is truly a difficult one, adding up that the story has to emphasize to the real viewers that the scene is extremely difficult before letting the FL rolls things out. I feel for the FL here that this is surely super challenging for her. What if she didn't nail it... the conviction in her character would be dropped a lot. But the FL made it properly. I cried a bit there though fully knowing it would come out something that way. Gotta praise her.

The ML, on contrary, has a very low acting skill to take a leading role. He overreacts at times, underreacts other times. His acting is unnatural and unbalanced to the FL. The way he tries to be the ML apparently makes him look just like make-believe. He tries to be calmly cool in the ML style, but it's unnatural and makes him look underperformed, emotion-dropped, unbalanced. His energy incompatibility makes him be like an air pocket in his scene.

The role of 2nd ML isn't up to par either, but I don't think we can solely blame the acting skill here as I said on the above topic that the character design of this role is originally not strong/good enough.

For the supporting roles, I'm quite satisfied with almost all of them - the ML's friend, female director, FL's company CEO, FL's gay manager and acting teacher. They did a great job.

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(4) Artistic Taste - Clothing & Music [-]

Damn... this is a story of a top-class actress who grows up abroad, but her fashion design is terribly, terribly horrible. Her costume is 很土 - very outdated and unfashionable. Her clothing materials are of low quality. I don't know it's this bad because this drama is a low-budget project or the costume head isn't up to his/her job description.

The music is very archaic, outdated, old-fashioned. No taste in music either.

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Dragging. Forced subplot. Unnatural dialogue.

40 episodes is truly too long. It's dragging in general and forced plot would pop up from time to time. The last straw for me would be at ep27 with an irrational scene that shows how unprofessional job the writer team has done.

A sister/friend of ML has died suddenly, which has a big impact on ML. ML decides to leave home without telling anyone for a while to stay alone at a little village in the mountain. His family is very worried while FL has an idea where he would be, so she follows him and meets him when he bungee jumps and almost dies.... There're quite a few weird things here. Let me point them out one by one...

1. At the bungee jump spot, there's only ML without any staff, but that place is fully equiped for bungee jumping. ML's legs are properly roped. - How come no staff? Where the equipments come from then? Who helps him tie his legs?

2. ML carries his traveling backpack while bungee jumping......??!

3. Then he jumps, and the rope is tied for the distance that ML would dip into the lake below, but it isn't a dip. The rope never bounces and everyone concerning to the business leaves ML head stays in the water for as long as he stops breathing eventhough the rope is still tightly tied to his legs. No one drags him up. No rescue team preparing at the lake, either. FL is the one who jumps into the lake and drags him to the bank and gives him CPR. - Wow... really?? No staff around to the point that no one makes any kind of moves when his head stays in the water that long?? And what the hell with the rope not bouncing?? This is so anti-science.

4. There's surely some error along the bungee process. The ML says himself that he has thought thoroughly before bungee jumping, but this still happened which almost made him die. So, he doesn't intend to commit suicide, there's some error, but no one around to take responsibility at all? Like... there's not only staff but no people at all. Not even a crowd to poke their noses. And then, the bungee jumping accident has just passed. No one cares that it happened even the ML and FL....

For the acting.... Zhao Lu Si's acting here is quite unnatural, esp. the last scene when she has the last conversation with ML's father - both her acting and the dialogue are unnatural and awkward. Though the dialouge is awkward, the acting of ML's father is passable, which emphasizes how lacking Zhao Lu Si's acting is when the plot and dialogue given to her are also lacking. (She's normally done her proper jobs when delivering proper plot and dialogues.)

Luo Yi Zhou's acting is surprisingly passable. It's passable on averge, but if considering this is one of his first acting jobs (it's his first series), he's done quite a good job.

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Trying to be artsy but fail

Too long. I start to lose my patience after 3 minutes - after that is to endure. I still watch it til the end. The message is weak. Starts from nowhere - leads to nowhere - no direction. The script makes it even worse by trying to not directly convey what they want to say, by trying to send the message in the form of raising open-end questions but eventually there's still no actual meaning to dig in. The way they try to communicate via cinematography is superficial by using grandiose landscape to allure the audience into the beautiful scenes when there's nothing to represent. Clearly see the attempt to be artsy but completely fails for me. Just another wannabe kind of work.

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Worst dialogue. Super lagging. Go nowhere.

Dialogue here is the worst, full of unnecessity and leads nowhere. The story is super lagging and the dialogue is the huge part to blame. Really, you can just watch the preview at the end of each episode, then skip as much as you want in the next, and at whatever point you stop to have a glimpse you wouldn't feel like you miss anything. I pretty like the leads so I really tried to watch it, but still it's such a waste of time and I couldn't tolerate to not pressing the skip button.

This is an example of a series being ruined by its dialogue. The demolishing level of the dialogue is very impactful it effects the rhythm of the whole story and finally overturns the positive score on other aspects.

Tip on watching this series:
In ep1, hop-watching from point to point, then watch the preview at the end of each episode, and back to watch it point to point again in ep7. That's all. It ends at ep7 - a happy ending. There's nothing crucial in ep8, you don't have to watch it. Out of all 8 episodes, the most portion of content I watch and don't feel regretful to my time is in ep7.

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Irresponsible limping ending. Have to watch the special ep to complete the story.

This review will have 2 parts - the one before I watch the special episode and the one after.

(1) Review before watching the special episode:- score 6

Plunging score due to the politic of the producer team that orders a new edit to drag the story longer after it appears to be unexpectedly favored by the audience in spite of low-budget production and this edit makes the ending episode messiest possible. It's coming good all along with the logic in itself. The casting is great, love both the FL and ML so much. But the ending episode is crazy. It's irrational and super confusing coming to an end that is out of its character. It ends just like there's suddenly a big log falling from the sky to block the road and that word END appears with nothing as a possible explanation about where the hell that log comes from or why it includes in the story. Heard that the actors/actresses were as much stupefied by the new ending. Also heard that the domestic viewers got to see another ending version that comes as another special episode later, but the international viewer like myself could only watch that real, terrible ending. So let me swear once, Damn.

Feel pity for the film production team. What a shame a good work becomes a ruin.

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(2) Review after watching the special episode:- score 6.5

This special episode makes the official ending become a joke. A special episode is supposed to be a supplement that the viewers can either watch or not without affecting their perception of the official story. This one isn't. It completely changes the story. The audience has to watch it to actually finish the drama. It should be the real last episode. Or else, if they want to make a new story like this, it should come in the form of another season or a movie version. They're supposed to make it official not special!

As for the content, although this special episode leads to an ending that is more sensible than the official one, it's very very dragging. I don't understand a few points of the new storyline at the beginning of the episode even. It doesn't make sense but guessable why they put it that way (for the sake of the FL's brother's happy ending). It comes with the price of the leads' storyline to appear irrational, though.

This special episode is about 30 minutes but still too long for its content. I still consider they did a bad job at the ending for this drama.

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Try to be wise but not enough.

Though there're many aspects of this series that I give low grades, I don't think it's worth my time to scrutinize all of them here as it'll be too much, so I'll just talk a bit only about one point out of the aspect that annoys me the most which is the story. To make this genre works, outsmarting the viewers is the most important. This story already tried to do so, but it was still not wise enough, not thorough enough, not good enough. I'm not satisfied that I foresaw the answers to 3 games plus the overall plot while the characters struggled too much to find them and even intended to overlook some of them so that they could show that they had to struggle. There're a lot more to criticize about the story, but it's too messy to clarify it in a short time and I don't consider this series worth that much of my time.

I think I should also mention that I came to watch this series after watching Squid Game. They both are in the same genre broadcasting one year apart, so it's difficult to not compare them while watching. Squid Game is smarter, more unexpectant, more succinct. There's much clearer of the system design of the story's circumstance thus more convincing. The editing is more skilled. The production as a whole brings a new taste to its own genre. It's more surprising and exciting to watch. Though I'm not that satisfied with the acting of Squid Game esp. in the early episodes, when comparing to this one, Squid Game is still more impressive.

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Strong start but dragging toward the end. Also, no chemistry between the leads.

(1) Trivial - but still crucial [~]

Sorry I cannot not talk about this, lol.
The product placement in this drama is so ridiculous. It's both obvious and awkward. It's especially awkward when they let the ML says the advertisement scripts as all those scripts are clearly advertising, which is so much out of the character of the ML.

This isn't good for the overall atmosphere of the drama, but can't say it's not good for the consumers. At least the viewers are not psychologically deceived to absorb the product perception. Every viewer surely consciously awares when they put the advertisement in.

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(2) Story/Plotline [-]

The plotline is interesting. In the beginning, they present to the viewers quite a few plotlines that make the story multi-layered and interesting. The thing is they can't resolve their own plots when they need to make an ending to it.

The other components around the major plots lead the story off the topic from time to time. They also have problems with weighing and distributing the proportion of the main/important plots and the surrounding plots (esp. during toward the end).

Toward the end, it's actually both dragging and rushed.

- The overall storyline is dragging. I started to not have the motivation to keep on going when I reached around 3/4 of the drama and was stuck for a long time after watching ep.33. I almost dropped it, but still felt it'd be a pity with just 3 episodes left. When I reached the end, I didn't feel anything much anymore. I'd feel quite the same no matter the end was a happy or sad ending.

- For the rushed parts, it's the main conflict resolving part. For me, those conflicts are (1) the male lead's heart (2) the antagonist's crime. Both of these conflicts were resolved in the most cursory way. How dare and casual the writer +director develop plot (1) to the point that is most interesting and then intentionally throw it onto the floor instead of reasonably unchain it. They develop this plotline in the way of setting a promise to give a kind of answer to it. They are able to not develop the plot in this direction, so there wouldn't be that kind of promise, but they did it. And then they just trashed it with just an irresponsible sentence. This isn't about what the answer is. The answer can be positive or negative, that doesn't matter, but the process of having the answer is important. The only positive excuse for this shitty resolution would be the involved actor of this plot had an emergency reason to drop this drama project, so the production team needed to cut things out this way.

For plot (2), they make a lot of loopholes. The antagonist has always been smart and calm. Toward the end, they still show the antagonist as a confident person but at the same time makes a few important unreasonable decisions. It's out of his character. I can only see that the production team can't find a good way to put him down, so here comes the easy, casual, passing resolvement.

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(3) Acting [-]

The score drops due to the female lead. She plays herself in every drama she's in. I see her having affairs with each male lead she plays with because she is always the same person. This is the life in the parallel universe of the FL in Put Your Head On My Shoulder as well as of the FL in My Little Happiness. Those are the top two dramas of this FL that I like and made me follow her to this Miss Crow (though I didn't finish Put Your Head On My Shoulder properly as I skimmed toward the end).

There's not much chemistry between the FL and ML either. I feel nothing from both the FL and ML's acting in their love scenes. This is another reason why there's not much motivation to drive me to finish it. The second FL and ML even have more chemistry than the main couple in my opinion.

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(4) Production [+]

High production done properly. No complaint.

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(5) Music [+]

This is what should be praised the most for this drama. Most of the songs are pretty good. It's above Chinese dramas' average. It's obvious they put their heart and effort into composing these songs for the drama. In the beginning episodes, the new songs come out again and again and most of them are good to the point that can stop me from fast-forwarding the scenes that can be fast-forwarded. I don't remember being stopped from fast-forwarding to listen to the soundtracks in Chinese dramas before.

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Great Concept. Great Storyline. But Lame and Convenient Ending.

Great concept. Great storyline. Some reckless details but very few. However, the ending is very lame and feels like cheating.

Just before the ending, the ML can suddenly touch anything in the past just to clear the game—this is cheating #1. Then, his son can bring anything from the past at the age of 5, when he doesn't even understand the concept of the past. He doesn't know what a 'year' is, so we can't even talk about how he understands '18 years ago', but the FL can persuade him to bring the ML back from 18 years ago...? And they don't make it realized about his method for bringing things back from the past either, so it feels more like magic than a superpower. They make it too convenient without rationality. So that's cheating #2.

P.S. I usually give music scores an average of 5 because I don't consider myself an expert in that field. If the music isn’t exceptionally good or bad, I might not notice it, so I try to be fair. But this series has put the wrong music in the wrong places and at the wrong times quite often. For example, when the ML goes back to meet the FL in the past for the first time. It happens under a serious atmosphere, but a light, funny music suddenly starts at that point -_- The music sounds out of place and doesn’t match the mood of the scenes. It's noticeably off.

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So far, the Chinese mini-series I've given the highest score

I binge-watched 8 Chinese mini-series over the past couple of days, and this one stood out as the best among them all. The only other one I found passable was "Confess Your Love," which I rated 1 points lower than this one. I also watched two other mini-series featuring either one or both of the main leads from this show, and they were both very disappointing.

The biggest issue I found with these mini-series is their lack of logical coherence, which greatly disturbed and hindered my ability to appreciate their work. It's quite frustrating when you're forced to pay attention to characters, who behave stupidly and irrationally, that aren't worth investing your energy in, don't you think?

Regarding this mini-series, it's the most logically structured among the 8 I watched. However, it veered into illogical territory towards the end, which led me to deduct 0.5-1 point from the overall score. It felt like they introduced these nonsensical elements for the sake of convenience. It's as if they had a specific ending in mind but struggled to develop the storyline to reach that conclusion, resulting in them fabricating illogical scenarios to meet their predetermined ending. This, I consider, is irresponsibility from the production team.

Nevertheless, this mini-series only exhibited these issues towards the ending (about 1-2 episodes before the end), whereas many others in this genre scatter illogical elements throughout when they run out of ideas to maintain a logical storyline. Overall, this mini-series ranked at the top of my list among the 8 I watched.

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P.S. The list of my 8 binge-watched shows is as follows:

Passable:
1. The Deliberations of Love
2. Confess Your Love (2023)

So bad:
1. My Villain Husband
2. A Tale of Love and Loyalty
3. My Cat-astrophic Lover
4. My Fake Wife

Dropped:
1. The West Wind Is Strong
2. The Everlasting Love

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Cute but super dragging.

Long story spanning from high school to working life - same style as A Love So Beautiful, but it is not as plot-driven. At least, the story is rational. ML+FL are not silly. In the story, there's nothing heart-wrenching, nothing much in it, so it's quite dragging to the point of almost boring. I actually had to increase speed and skim since ep12. Personally I think they can finish the whole story within 15 episodes instead of 25.

Anyway, the production quality is good and ML+FL's characters+acting are cute. These were the points that kept me watching until the end or else I'd drop at around ep15-17.

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Wow.. finally a proper movie from China. The overall exceeds my expectation.

1. Acting [+]

My gosh... all the actors/actresses are so good here. High praise for ML & FL. Their acting are so authentic. It's so hard to find good acting from Chinese actors/actresses, but there's a bunch here. I truly dislike the mother and look down on that kind of teacher. It's ridiculous to have this kind of adults to be responsible for children. I don't know if this is a compliment, but the image they draw for adults in this movie makes me look down on the way Chinese society treats their young people and its educational attitude as a whole. They can really make me disgust how egoistic and problematic the adults are to the younger generation. The adults act like what they do are rightful in spite of the opposite. For the leads' part, they both are so young but can handle their roles real well. Wu Lei really nails it. His acting is detailed, which I think is also the result of having competent director that can guide the acting direction for his actors. The FL's role seems to be more level through the story, but her acting is much believable. Nothing looks awkward at all. I feel along with her all the way through, esp. in that scene on her birthday night - it was so embarrassing and I totally feel her. I'm 100% embarrassed together with her.

2. Story [+]

First, they have messages they want to communicate, which are strong and substantial. Second, the subplots are very well weaved into one story. They did so well with the peak, turns and twists, which means there're so many points in the story that provoke my perception no matter it's thoughts, surprise or new happening, and all of them are harmonious in the whole picture. Lastly, the script that is made up to be this film can really make me laugh out loud and scream (due to embarrassment, lol) - the emotions they want to convey have successfully conveyed in each scene.

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I still deduct some points on the score as I think the extreme characters like the mother and teacher are designed to be surreal. I consider it as cheating for an easier way out by distorting the rule to their own benefit.

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P.S. While watching, I was thinking until the end that if the ML's ex-crush was a guy, his subplot would be perfect. Anyway, considering this film is from China where being gay is a taboo, I could foresee my wish/speculation wouldn't be portrayed :P

P.S.2 I just realized one day after watching that the FL here is the same one in Love Story In London. Wha... I gave 1 score for Love Story In London, so I'm glad to see she can actually make it far beyond that. It's great to see her true potential with a proper project that can let her properly challenge herself and shine. Her role in Love Story In London was uninteresting and had nothing to deliver at all.

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I hate this series so much - hate it the same way each time Na Heedo saying she hate Park Yijin.

Well wrap-up. It's so hurtful. This pain almost suppressed the positive score I had for this series, but because of the way they wrap up with recollection scenes to remind the viewers what their messages are - and those messages are so strong I just can't deny it. In this way, they kind of console me to not let the anguish bury the valuable points we've gained from watching the series. The original plot is complex and well built, the characters are interesting and well created, the dialogues are well written. The FL's acting is superb. I don't feel much chemistry between the leads though, and still hate the ending so much. I think maybe because I've been through only ordinary kind of love, never this kind that so intensely intertwines with life to the core. So when I see this kind of love that two people went through so much before being together falls apart, their break-up just doesn't make sense to me.

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Impressive story & acting but disappointed on how they unfold last ep.

My gosh... it's been all really really good and then dropped a lot in the last episode. A lot of loopholes appeared right in the last episode. A lot of previous knots couldn't solve well in the last episode. I wanted to give a lower score for this drama because of this last ep, but the process coming through till this last point has been really impressive, so I can't help but add a little more points than what it actually deserves.

The cast is great. Love the acting of all the main characters.

The story is heart-warming and tearfully touching during the last 2 ep.

P.S.1
Though how disappointing the last ep was, I still think they did it neater than what they did in Someday or One Day. Someday or One Day's last ep was a lot messier. The story's crucial rules and logic were annihilated. Lots of contradiction there.

P.S.2
I want to leave a note on a few points I really don't like in the last ep below but it's a bit of a spoiler, so beware to proceed on.

1. How the hell the FL traveled back through time right in front of the ML??

2. How the ML had a new identity to completely fit in the present world??

3. If the storyline in the past would change as much as the real ML's identity changed while his love interest was the girl in the next class who transferred during high school, the whole story in the previous 23 ep would totally be ruined. Lots of loopholes become apparent just by this irresponsible, reckless, unthoughtful story unfolding. As to how messy the end has become, it makes shown that the writer desperately wrote all the knots to make the story interesting but he went too far to finally tightly trap himself without a way out. This eventually ruined the world he tried hard to create in the first place. It's very disappointing and annoying how they couldn't think the story through to unfold it properly.

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P.S.3 is added after I had a constructive discussion with another viewer on the comment section :)
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P.S.3
What is important in 'every' show is the logic of its own universe. This show finally contradicts itself = it ruins its own rules = it ruins its own world.

A time-traveling story is especially hard to unfold. Most of the time they fail because of the rules and logic they set up themselves. It doesn't surprise me that this show also fails at the end when it tries to unfold as it's expectable. The only time-traveling show that impresses me is Dark, the German series of 3 seasons in total.

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