Reversed Destiny (2024)

Once tight, now just a memory

In this film, Mo Xingxing, Mi Sha, and Lu Li are supposed to be a trio of best friends. But honestly, the only real and wholesome friendship is between Mo Xingxing and Mi Sha. Their bond is super sweet, worth to watch!

Things start falling apart when Mi Sha secretly catches feelings for Lu Li and gets jealous seeing how much he cares about Mo Xingxing when she’s sick. Meanwhile, Mo Xingxing is this girl who’s really poor—like, eating actual garbage-level food. On top of that, she struggles with bulimia and anorexia, and doesn’t get any love from her family. So when someone like Lu Li shows her so much kindness, of course she starts to fall for him.

But here’s the thing... Lu Li’s only being nice to her out of guilt, since Mo Xingxing’s mom dead from saving his life. Deep down, he’s actually into Mi Sha. At first, I thought Lu Li was this selfless, caring guy, but then the ending totally threw me off. He ends up snapping at Mo Xingxing, saying he’s sick of pretending and can’t even be honest about his own feelings because he’s been “serving” her all this time. Like… seriously??? That’s your problem. Mo Xingxing never asked you to do all that. That scene made me so mad.

And don’t even get me started on Mi Sha. I disliked how she acted when she got jealous—like, she literally skipped visiting Mo Xingxing when she was sick, even though she had arrived, just because she saw Mo Xingxing got "affection" from Lu Li. Instead, she went off alone, brought a ton of food, and just started tearing open the packaging and taking tiny bites out of everything. It felt so wasteful. She’s rich, yeah, but that whole scene came off as, “Look, I can afford all this food and eat whatever I want—unlike Mo Xingxing who’s so poor she can barely eat proper food.” It was such a low-key flex in the worst way. She did it on her own, so it wasn’t really a problem—but it definitely says a lot about her character.

And then… the last straw was when Mo Xingxing got mad at Mi Sha for transferring schools without telling her, and Mi Sha got mad because Mo Xingxing never opened up about her illness. Then all the problems were never solved. All of them were bad at communicating. After that, Mi Sha just dipped—left everyone behind—and the story jumps back to the present, where she’s all grown up and reminiscing.

Honestly, I feel like the storyline was kinda messy and could’ve been handled better. But their friendship before all the miscommunication and emotional mess? Super cute and heartwarming. Also, the cinematography was pretty decent—lots of scenes that are totally screenshot-worthy.

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