A Beautiful Lie

Waste of time

The story started out fine but as the episodes progressed you find out that the ML issues goes much deeper and you know that at the end something terrible is going to happen. Watching the ML personality going from happy to an depressed state was hard to watch. The FL character was all over the place with her constant childish behavior was at time too much. The secondary couple and third couple was fun to watch. That being said the ending was just awful, 36 episodes and the audience got dooped at the end. The writers should have least give the audience closure by producing a body at the end.

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As the title says

actually i don't understand why people don't find this worth watching maybe they can't connect to the story or didn't felt the way the actors show this story, but for me its very much relatable when you go through out something and it has an impact almost control all of your mind and nerves then you can't help but hallucinate this story explains the feeling of terrific incident and the how much can impact of that incident affect any person's life if it gets worse then you can't focus can't feel emotional attachments
and the ending i find it abrupt but there is a possibility that Qing Fei is emotionally unstable and had hallucination of XZZ that she finally mets him in last because at the very different angle you can see hints that she can't accept that XZZ had already left and wanted to wait for his return as Xing Zhe Zhu said to Qing Fei, she can't always lie to herself and has to accept that XZZ already left so there is a possibility that Qing Fei had an illusion at last that Xing Zhe Zhe already returned to her and that's why the title called A BEAUTIFUL LIE anyways for me its emotional and really good :)

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Not nearly as bad as some people say.

The story isn't as convoluted as people were saying.

I will say one thing, though. China has no idea how to portray mental illness. The ML has bouts of PTSD from a traumatic situation where he watched a child and his mother die and the writers are like "Oh, he has some weird hallucination thing. NO IDEA WHAT'S CAUSING IT! HERE TAKE ALL THESE PILLS AND STAY AWAY FROM THE FL FOR A BUNCH OF EPISODES TO CURE IT."

It's just convoluted and messed up that this is their take on mental health. If you can overcome that significant writing hurdle, then the show isn't all that bad. Pretty typical Chinese misunderstandings/relationship drama.

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What happened in this drama like whatttt?

Overall this drama was going on good pace but after 20 episode the write became phsyco like what man what you did is it so easy to break up is it easy to move on from the love is it easy???
I am so pissed where ml goooo like wtf was the ending i am so confused they make a traumatic ending what happened in the last 2 episodes

it started out kind of predictable and I enjoyed the FL and ML first off but all of the off on off on between them got a bit tedious after a while. FL maintained a good acting style but the ML seemed to get faded out and by ep35 literally was gone. I enjoyed Zhan Yu Xi in South Wind Knows but the story line in this let her down. the other female lead and supporting actresses were all good as well....males were a bit wooden. The story line was quote disjointed, we never saw anything about the dance troop from when FL decided to save it from them winning the top awards???? also the annoying little brother, he added no value to any of the story lines at all. As I said the last 2 episodes seem to have just been a closeout as quickly as possible..with no story to it really other than at least 30 mins of dream sequences.

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This could have been better

There were parts of this that I really enjoyed. Then there were other parts that were so inane. It was a mixed up mess in places, particularly at the end.

Good: FL did not seem to fit the character, but grew on my. 2nd FL and both ML were really good as well as the other two couples.
Little brother was perfectly annoying as he should have been.
Sets were good and disaster sequence was also well done.
Chen was a great character and the actor was really on point with the reactions and emotions.
The little girl and her guardians were a delight. Auntie bickering in that voice. She is one of my favorite character actors.
Xiaojia character and sequences were very well done. Took me a couple of episodes to figure him out.

Bad: ongoing hallucination device became overdone and just irritating.
The music became irritating in the last half. It wasn't bad music, but using theme songs as plot devices is poor directing.
On and off and on and off. Romances were too melodramatic too often. The third couple were more straightforward until late and that was a new irritation the director/writer did not need.
The ending was an unfair, convoluted, without reason mess.

My main complaint is the story used mental health and the difficulties dealing with and the PTSD, though not named, was treated fairly well. It is a journey to overcome PTSD. One journey I've taken myself. Then in the last two episodes a sudden event? It cheapened the whole story line. And for no reason. I realize this is a book adaptation, but disappointing isnt a strong enough word. And the final scene, is it real or is it not? That was unfair to audiences. The last two episodes were just tacky and we got to see the bratty brother in trouble but not the baby?

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