Huan Meng Qing Yuan (2023)

Cliche, yet not so

I started to watch it because it is a very quick drama and it seems to be light.
I kept watching because the ML and FL made a great couple, with lots of chemistry. I love the kisses scenes. Be biggest issue seems to be the insecurities of the FL about the love of the ML. (Well he had a strange 3 years long term contract relationship to show his love, yet he needed more time). By the end. It is not the real issue.
So when I was getting all happy with the end...

Spoiler
a very unexpected plot twist. I mean, it was fine written, but I didn't like it at all.
Life is hard the way it is. I don't need to see it like that on TV. Why should he be like dead?

So if you expect a very happy ending, you will not gonna find here.

It is nice, quick, great couple, beautiful kisses scenes, just the plot twist that I didn't appreciate.
I want another ending

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Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse... it did!

The amnesia storyline is usually boring anyway, but in this drama, it was done and then done to death. Still, I persisted. In her own way, the FL's character was somewhat endearing despite her silliness. The ML's character was appealing, and he certainly was easy on the eyes. Their chemistry was just so-so. Still I persisted.

Then came the twist at the end, and hope sprung. Maybe we didn't waste the episodes after all and endured the crappy editing and choppy story-telling. And then came the biggest disappointment of all. That ending! The crappiest, most unsatisfying end to a drama as I have ever seen. It was pointlessly cruel and left me totally stunned. I searched for alternate ending; some explanation; a season 2 perhaps. But nothing.

I try to give a drama a decent rating because I believe the actors deserve credit for the roles they are given and strive to play. That is the only reason this drama got any rating at all. I hope never to encounter anything this writer does - and certainly won't watch it.

Absolutely NO rewatch value, and if you're looking for something to watch, stay clear of this one.

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