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Such a waste of too many episodes
The only reason I watched this drama was my curiosity on the main leads. Yu Zheng and Xiao Su. At first the story was okay for me but there were times that they could have just avoided misunderstanding really. It was frustrating. No ROMANCE at all.I particularly disliked their Love - Hate-Love tropes. They were actually not meant for each other. No chemistry but the script writers made them so distant instead of building a story of closeness and loving relationship. What a waste. I did not have any fluttering swoon worthy moments to enjoy with their scenes. I was hoping to see some ROMANTIC kissing scenes from them.
So I gave this drama a 1.5 rewatch value.
Now the other supporting characters were so annoying, very draggy and stupid dumb most of the time, IMO. I blame the story line to be poor on this.
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Great start but turned to meh
If you ask me whether this drama is worth the watch, I'll say yes but stop at Ep 6 because the love between Xioasu and Zhenrong was the only thing that's really good in this drama. The chance encounter, the crushing on stage, the bittersweet parting was executed perfectly. You can maybe extend it up to Ep 10, to have a sense of letting go and expectation of a new love. To go on further will just be torture in boredom because there were only two or three touching scenes when they try to remember Zhenrong.The synopsis was misleading. There was no one night stand shown in the drama, just a drunken girl who was so wasted that that Yuzheng judged her as 'not a good girl'. If there was in the novel then the ML is a real jerk for taking advantage of a drunk girl. Yuzheng did not forbid the couple's relationship but only warned Zhenrong about the possibility that Xiaosu may not be as good as she seemed. Yuzheng also did not love her from the start but only after Zhenrong's death. The premise of 'Will Xiaosu ever forget Zhenrong and accept Yuzheng's love?' which drew me in to watch this was so misleading. If only they stuck with that, this could have been a very different drama, probably a better one. Xiaosu was never that conflicted, she never closed herself off to love. During the brink of their new love, it was Yuzheng who backed off because of his business issues. The right question is 'Are Yuzheng's feelings strong enough to change his prejudice against love?'
The way the characters navigate their relationship are reactive, repetitive, and inconsistent. The reasons for breakups were weak and sometimes incomprehensible. I was particularly annoyed with the one CP, the money focused Siqi and the wishy washy Qin Fei, the FL's best friend and the ML's assistant. Then most of the episodes focused on the business problems of the ML.
It's really too bad because they've managed to setup this great love that will be hard to replace but forgot that is was supposed to be the main backbone of the drama. So my advice is save yourself the time and only watch the first 6 episodes.
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generally, it's a good watch
basically, I like melodramas that make me cry, and so far it has done its job of making me cry. But same with the other reviews, one of the disappointing things is why they had to kill of Zhang Yun Long/Zhen Rong (one of my celebrity crushes, btw), who's supposed to be one of the main casts but had died at I think it was ep.7 (I literally bawled at his death, omg). I know that has been the plot of the drama ever since, but just feels surreal that it happened too fast.Then, I really couldn't point out when exactly YuZheng fell in love, maybe it was at the bar when she cried and threw up in his car, but it just happened suddenly again. And also, I expected them to be a little apologetic towards Zhen Rong that they fell for each other, since it's kinda against "Bro Code" even if he's dead. But no mention of Zhen Rong after they had gotten together... which I felt weird about. I know it's not bad to fall in love, but I was just looking for that hesitation to be more emotional, hehe. Also felt weird that Zhen Rong was kinda easily replaced by Shang Guan as his best friend.
At the start, I was hoping she won't fall hard for Shawn, but with his efforts, I also fell for Shawn's character. It made me think deeply, who was the better boyfriend between Zhen Rong and YuZheng. Zhen Rong really made me flutter during the less than 10 episodes he was on.
Story was all good until they had issues with their "busy schedules", which I didn't buy. To think that they've crossed all odds together, then they won't have time for each other with his business revenge plot and her fear/insecurity of being in a higher social class, it was just too unjustified issue to cause misunderstandings. But they overcame it, so I'm fine with that.
But one thing I really liked about this story is that I don't recall any character of being a total bad person. If correct, all antagonists in the story all were given chances to lead better lives, so I felt good about that.
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The One Night Stand
Until I read the chapter summaries from the book I came to realize the premise of the entire series. If the script writers would have started with the scene of the FL laying in the street with rain pouring down and how the ML picks her up and brings her to a hotel to sober her up but gets seduced by her. Their passionate one night stand only to have her disappear the next morning............. the rest of the series would've have a clearer understanding why the events that later happened.......... happened.The ansgst and drama that formed between them would have been clearly understood years later when they meet again and they have to deal with each other and how they learn to intermingle into each others lives.
It should be noted that the Series changed the books outcome, the book had the Love / Hate become more Hate in the end where as in the series the Hate /Love became Love.
As is the case with most of these melodramas the ending is with them kissing and looking to the heavens, however it should have been taken further especially after everything they had gone through to get there.
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Storyline not smooth in later part of the series
What started out as a beautiful love story seemed to have fallen into the hands of an unprofessional editor that censored or rather chopped the story in the 2nd half of drama especially near the ending.This fact was confirmed when I checked the history of this show. What started out as a 45 episode drama was reduced and censored to 41. That's a lot of airtime deleted 4x40mins = 160 mins deleted.
No wonder there were many gaps in the storyline and it didn't flow as smoothly as the beginning episodes. What actually happened?
The ending shown in WeTV seems to be different from the short clips that were posted in YouTube. Is there a different version of this drama?
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Plot holes abound
The acting of the two main leads was the only reason I watched all episodes. The show begins great and I had high hopes but it quickly became a struggle to watch.The plot appeared good but just meandered off in silly directions with no real sense. The supporting female lead and best friend of the main role annoyed me and was just a horrible person. I really did not like how the characters dis horrible acts but it was just ignored by the main cast. Overall I do not recommend as you will be sadly disappointed.Was this review helpful to you?
Worth to watch.
The drama literally drained my tears. Every episode make me so emotional. I love collaboration of ML and FL. The acting is amazing. I love to see the subtle changes of ML and FL faces. Sometimes, cute and lovely. Sometimes, pain. The ML carried his emotion well throughout his stone face. You can almost feel his pain.But the ending is abit rushed. On the few last episode, FL annoyed me abit. I no longer understand why they kept fighting. It felt silly and unnecessary.
Anyway, i love it (minus the last episode) and would rewatch it again. But maybe not the few last episode
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Love it !
I am actually not a fan of drama movie especially with long episodes but I enjoy this movie very much from start to end. Each actors played their role very well. The drawbacks might be the make up, hairstyle , costumes of Xiaosu in some parts of her role which made her looks very different, she looks pale and older, not that attractive. Eg. the scene in the bar when Yuzhen was drunk. May be the make up artist was not there when this part of show was taken. Other than this, this movie is worth to watch , I would recommend it and I might watch it again.Was this review helpful to you?
Beginning was good but later terrible
Usually with romance movies that gets better towards the end, but this is not the case here. This movie was really strange because the female lead was with shao zhen ring, the doctor was a better couple than the one she ended up with. Episode 20-30 was good and the main female lead was doing ok with lei yu zheng. Then episode 30-40 the main characters weren't even talking to one another. He had a mission of trying to find out who put him in jail. The story gets super messy but there was zero romance going on for the majority of the half of the movie. There seems to be zero chemistry between the main leads at the end. This is a very disappointing story in general. And it's way too long and dragged out from episode 30 to 40. I will skip all those episodes and just see episode 41. Even then it's very disappointing!!Was this review helpful to you?
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"The past belongs to the past"
I stumbled upon this story on YouTube, but it was hard to follow the episode order. So, I found the complete series on Rakuten.Like a drug, I watched the entire 41-episode series in just six days. In short: a compelling plot, a great cast, and a wonderful soundtrack.
She is a journalist and he is a doctor; they fall in love, but she leaves him because of her "mother-in-law-to-be." Overcome with sadness, he agrees to move away to work as a doctor elsewhere and dies in an accident. His friend—who is also his cousin—is furious with her for having left him; he gives her a hard time but having promised him to protect her—he ends up saving her on several occasions. That is how they grow closer, and he begins to fall in love with her (he smiles just thinking about her).
This plot surprise me a lot. You think the ultimate couple is the one formed by the journalist and the doctor, but things change.
In any case, I expected the reason for her breakup with the doctor to be more serious—for instance, that the "mother-in-law" had gotten pregnant by her father, making them half-siblings, rather than it just being because she had been abandoned and harbored resentment toward her father (?!)—that way, the sudden and painful split from this poor, lovestruck doctor would have been more plausible.
Episodes 14 and 15 really got on my nerves because of the journalist friend—what an idiot, always just wanting money from her boyfriend, and he’s a fool for not dumping her and finding someone better! (That’s why the rating dropped from a 9 to an 8.)
It’s absolutely insane, the pressure parents put on their kids to get married! And that obligation to toast and drink until you puke is just appalling.
In Episode 19, that couple—her friends—are infuriating. She’s obsessed with the house and is materialistic to the core, while he bends over backwards and gets himself buried in debt for her... what fools! An insufferable couple.
The main pair, on the other hand, are wonderful: she’s now an independent architect, and he’s her serving knight. He’s sharp in business, kind and warm-hearted with family and acquaintances (the islanders), and attentive to her without making a show of it (visiting the island to celebrate her birthday, drumming up clients for her, dropping off a snack without making his presence known, picking her up from the police station with a lawyer in tow, keeping watch at the hospital, paying the restaurant bill...). He has eyes only for her and, after a while, subtly hints at his feelings—never pressuring her, but looking for signs of reciprocation, like when he asks her to come to the airport as he leaves for a business trip; it’s almost a test to see if she cares about him, too.
But it turns out that being too efficient and righteous doesn't spare him from the malice of social climbers and opportunists who get him arrested. It’s all the fault of the assistant (the male half of the couple of friends), who let a secret slip. What an idiot!
Episode 20 features romantic moments between the two. Now it’s her turn to investigate and clear his name. Unfortunately, he ends up sentenced to eight months in prison.
Episode 25: I couldn't wait for him to get out after those eight months and for them to reunite. The truth is, the experience has deeply changed him; he’s also been hurt by his father, who no longer recognizes him due to illness. He feels abandoned. Not to mention that he feels unworthy of her, believing he’s a nobody without his job.
Ep. 27: He acts like a jerk toward her, treating her badly to push her away while he investigates who framed him.
Ep. 28: It’s so sad; this poor guy first lost his best friend, then went to jail; after getting out, his father died; then he discovered from a diary that his estranged mother had passed away; he’s unemployed and has pushed away the woman he loves... *sigh*.
Note: He sets off in an orange car to visit his mother's grave but arrives in a black Lincoln (?!).
His cellmate is a good guy; he helps him figure out who sent him to prison. His relationship with her, however, isn't going well (she doesn't like his circle of friends and feels like a fish out of water).
Poor "Uncle's" daughter. She lost her son because of her husband; she’s unhappy and ignored by everyone—she’s lost weight, is depressed, and even attempted suicide. Thinking back to how bold she was at the start of the series, she’s really in a bad way now.
Just a small point: is there nothing else besides whisky?
Ep. 34: If he keeps trying to protect her by pushing her away, he’s only making her suffer for nothing—and he’ll lose her. She’s already a saint for having waited eight months and never stopped believing in him. Fingers crossed that things work out and they end up together. They are such a BEAUTIFUL couple.
Ep. 39: A joint wedding for these two couples? No thanks.
Her turning him down and making him wait makes perfect sense.
Ep. 40: He resigns and goes to work as her assistant and contrary to what I would have thought, she still doesn't accept him.
Ep. 41: Finally together, after so much heartache.
Perseverance has paid off. The island was a blessing, a sanctuary, and a crucial place for their reflection.
Even a few days after finishing the series, I find myself thinking about it.
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Emotional Damage
Whew, what an emotional roller coaster. Tears in Heaven gave me everything and then ripped me apart, and then continued to put me through it. Gah this drama was so emotional. The actors and actress did such an amazing job with their parts. I was really swept away with this one. Everything Xiao Su went thought I felt. She really pulled me in. I absolutely loved it. It was recommended to me as a "Hurt you so good" drama. I definitely recommend it and I will be rewatching. I also found a new favorite actor to obsess over. My List forever grows.Was this review helpful to you?
