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As of now it is quite a lot of "youthfulness" :P . They are still kids in school doing what the kids do. Friendships , family dynamics, bickering, fighting etc etc

thanks! i guessed as much but they should have shown this the way they show FL's flashback scenes. Hers is very smooth. You get time to feel while his it is hardly a few secs of his top shot. There is no proper flow. I hope it is intentional and they will show everything in detail what happened to him over the years when the outburst happens.

Usually its the SFL/"the other girl" who will be the nosy irritating person but here it is the friend of the SFL who is so nosy in ML's business. What is he getting out of all this. He is like a neighbourhood aunty who wants to gossip for entertainment :P

JQX should start explaining what happened with the letter. how did it reach that other guy. (Even we do not know. ) Then Apologise. Not randomly come to Yingtao asking for a fresh start. I am not getting his intention here. He wants her in his life but also does everything half hearted. What was that water bottle thing? What did he expect. If he was jealous he is more childish than when he was a kid.

Why is it feels like scenes of Jiang Qiao Xi are so vague. I did not get when his mom tore his letters ? Were it the letters he had written over the years or her letters or it is current timeline? It came so quickly out of nowhere where he says he has not forgotten anything and then his mom throwing his letters. I read that 40 epi was a rumour but the way some scenes are shown I wonder if there was so scenes being edited out or am I being dumb unable to understand. Someone please clarify what just happened there!

I guess you are looking for a perfect ML and a perfect FL in a story. If that is the case may be this is not for you. This is too early to judge the ML here. They are kids. He is trying what he thinks is right as he has been in a strict suffocated environment. He does not want to drag FL there. It might not be wise to insult her but they are all young. At the moment he did what came to him. If he actually does not learn and goes on like this than I would be right with you and curse the ML. Character arc is. what is important in stories like this

It is really a second episode and in both the scenes where he was cold to her they showed why he did it. His mother is literally watching him like a hawk eye. And the FL was pissed off at the guy. When did she beg ML. She actually told him outright that he was rude and it is not acceptable. Nowadays loving someone and trying to help them in their tough times when they can't give back as much has become weakness. I get that for far too long we had this asshole MLs in dramaland who were red flags so I get it but lets not jump the gun in just 2-3 episode!!

Haha! She is super super cute and she did good acting. Perfect casting

Same here. I had such silly fears in my childhood. I had fear of something happening to parents too!

Agree 💯

I so agree with you! i dropped First Frost because i found Sang Yan just living for the FL with no other personality. I could not even get to understand why he was interested in her in the first place. We get to see only moments where he does things to her from their school days but why? She should have done something other than dance to touch his heart! But no we have no idea what he thinks. , why is he in so much love with her that whatever he does in life is for her. nothing! This drama shows how to show the bonding and the relationship growth the right way. Anyways I am ranting too much about a different show. Point is this show is much more nuanced than TFF

I totally second that. Sang Yan is just there simping for FL all the time. We know about him only from the novel readers or from HL reference. Otherwise we know nothing about him except he loves FL. Why does he love FL so much? Again no idea. Did they show one real dialogue between them when they were school kids before he decided okay he loves her? no . That is still fine. Lets say they did bond and taht timeline is not important but give us something now other than SY side eyeing FL all the time!

I am sorry but there is a reason a novel became popular and when it is adapted it is bound to cause comparison and if the drama does changes that changes characteristics of main leads or brings in random scenes it is bound to cause complains. that doesnt mean audience who love it can brush off such criticism as hate! you are loving it , great but others might have some insights on what was not good

Haha but ML has grown up in a comfortable love filled environment . So he can be sort of a guy who is chill and as per Hidden Love he was the anchor for his friend when he was going through a lot. He is also a typical sibling protective when needed but mostly exists to trouble kinda (ML of Hidden love ). That kind of guys do exist even my surroundings who might act like they don’t care but they do in their own way. They are not typical cold CEO types but just silent chill people .Problem is you don’t get to know all that of Smag Yan in this drama . Since they only show his obsession with FL with no proper conversation or their bonding shown it looks like he is just a typical stalker with no life without FL. They say You have to read novel or get it from Hidden Love etc. but if we have to resort to the novel why does this drama exists ?

You are so right . Initially I loved the feel of C and K dramas because they are so fairy like then you start noticing how most just caters to fantasy of girls . But some dramas like L&P did have a more realistic MLs. ML had a goal (he was a jerk at one point as well no denying ) . FL was stifled by her mother but she learns what she likes in college and both go through a journey . Heck even Hidden Love which hardly has much story shows ML working hard while FL although rich perseveres to be good at what she loves. Here ML is just a caricature . From the moment we get to see him in high school to now only thing we have seen is him side eying FL . Ughh

Exactly my thoughts. They are not showing anything else about ML at all and they dont atleast till episode 12 I have watched. My biggest gripe for the show has been isntead of showing some random charactes show me SY's life outside of FL. Ughh. BJT is such a good actor and they wasted his character by just showing him eyeing FL or trying to get her attention all the time. Her friends and his friends we get to know more than him.
I guess I am too old for the target audience.

I am so disappointed I can’t tell you. If only they removed random characters and just showed something about ML would have been great. Anyways seeing the comment section writers know exactly what they are doing. We are in the minority.

Hate is a strong word but even I am disappointed about unnecessary random scenes of flasher and the actor/intern scenes added just to promote that actor . Instead I wanted to see more of SY outside FLs perspective . Also it just added on to FLs “save me “ trope. I was cheering on how she answered back to her roommate but then comes the scene where some random beggar scene with some equally creepy guy so called saving her . Like in the novel if thy had showed that she actually went to repot about that beggar would have shown how FL cracks her day to day job instead of highlighting machoism of random character. The whole scene ended with praising that actor instead of FL going on with her work in the midst of all that has been happening in her life ! Ughh

CDrama audineces will be mostly women . This kind of tropes need not be so common in society ( I am sure creepy men exist around the world but i am talking about it being a cliche in C Drama )but can bring out that fantasy of this perfect ML . And what’s a easiest way to showcase that ? An annoying jerk SML . SML irritates FL , Ml saves her from him or gets jealous of him and does swooning things for FL to get her attention. Just that this is such a easy way of weaving story it became cliche . You can see the comment section here itself how everyone is swooning over ML . TBH I didnt get to see his personality at all. It is just him being doing things for FL non stop and now being jealous of SML or him saving FL from SML etc. but everyone is loving it . I and
Only very few others are complaining about lack of depth being shown for ML . In India as well , someone decided to focus on just daily household drama of housewives in a large joint family and we ended up with trashy regressive shows which most of the Indian youth cannot watch and make fun of. Most of the things they show in these serials does not happen ( borderline ridiculous these days ) is not part of a common society but it did get accepted among the drama realm and became a cliche due to audiences loving it .

IMO it is just lazy writing. Writers do not know how to weave in a story without such pointless characters. Considering that novel did not require such creepiness to become famous i would say this is just some random cliche thing added by all drama writers to bring out so called "swooning" jealousy scenes from the hot ML !