The Ideal City

理想之城 ‧ Drama ‧ 2021
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Xperiaa1
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Jun 25, 2025
40 of 40 episodes seen
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Overall 5.5
Story 5.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 7.0
Rewatch Value 2.0
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Good start but too many inconsistency

At the start of the story, in his first apprerance Xia Min the ML is found persuading his uncle to get TK independent and that goal drove him to scheme big until episode 30+ but at the end, which I feel very rushed and broken, Xia Min's mind game result is to support the director of Yinghai and works for him, saying that he was too narrow-minded before. The ending is promoring a public company who is owned by each employee which is a nice concept but the comapny itself was about to be bankrupt and they don't give any solution to that problem, suddenly at the end it's pictured as a company that's making alot of profit and will continue to do so.

FL lead is pictured as a rare talent in cost analysis who is also straightforward and plays no politic. But within such a short time she also develops management skills and brilliant ideas that made the director of Yinghai promote her to be vice director of finance.
However, I'm very disappointed by her turning on her word so quickly just by promise of "big responsibility" from the director, no wonder Wang Yang very angry with the director and her.

This drama really has alot of inconsistency of characters, except for Wang Ming Yu who's a consistent jerk, but despite that the drama didn't give us any scene on his punishment as he still sits on the board til the end..

Too many questions unanswered by the end of the drama.
How's XiaMin going to explain to his uncle about not delivering his promise to get TK independent?

Maria has played such a bully to Hong Mei, i thought she would also rise in her career but instead she was seen to host the director in her house.. That's huge disappointment really. But I'm guessing the message is not everone needs promotion and she's better to stay simple mind and settle with a good suitor?
And Maria at the end was a character with "meat and blood" who chose to do right despite potentially offering her future boss which is out of character.

Overall the drama does show alot of unexpected turn of events but they are really out of sync and quite random and with no explanation so not a good one.

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