I totally get why dramas like "The Brightest Star in the Sky" have to be 44 episodes long. There's enough going on to warrant that, and most of it is actually good, fun, fluffy stuff. Unfortunately, "Sunshine of My Life" has barely enough plot to fill 24 episodes so to stretch it to 45 is just ridiculous. It's marketed as somewhat cute and fluffy. It is not that. There is nothing cute apart from maybe 10 minutes per episode because of all the nasty, bitchy, manipulative people surrounding the main couple. When they snatch time alone, then they're cute, but that doesn't happen nearly enough.

I skimmed episodes 17-44 because I just couldn't take it anymore. Bad news bears, the annoying second FL who wants the ML is in the show all the way up until the end. She's got some nasty talons and he should have given her her walking papers long ago. The annoying and stalkerish second ML also puts in a regular appearance, although halfway through the series he's distracted with family matters and that whole dramatic side plot that nobody needed. To say nothing of the FL's bitchy rival who just WILL NOT STOP. Oh, and his mother and her archaic ideas. God, I hated her. My constant reaction to her was "Lady, just shut up." I did like his dad, though, since he's played by Wang Jin Song and I also know him as Z. Tao's dad in "The Brightest Star in the Sky." This role is much nicer than in TBSITK.

All this show taught me is that nasty people are everywhere and they constantly keep turning up like bad pennies.

If the series had just focused on the FL/ML relationship, dealt with the jealous rivals quickly, and maybe done more with his cousin and her brother, then I would have probably loved it. As it is, skimming gave me just enough information to let me know what was going on and to keep me from screaming at the screen. In the end, my favorite character ended up being the chauffeur played by Li Xin Zhe. You know it's bad when that happens. I don't know what the creators were thinking.