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A Thought inspiring story with confusing execution
To be honest, despite of the low ratings, I watched this C Drama because of my favorite actor Liu Xue Yi. He is a very talented and likeable actor not to mention crazy handsome. My other favorite is Yao Chi an upcoming young talent who besides being a natural talent, is drop dead gorgeous. All the other actor were also great and very professional. Music and costumes were also good
Now for the storyline:
1. The concept is great, thought provoking and relevant. I think, most of us had a thought at one point in time about "what if" we made a different choice in life. Hence, this concept is truly relevant in everyday life.
2. However, the execution of the storyline was quite a mess and confusing as scenes were jumping back and forth in time and place and many times it took awhile before one was able to catch up and understand what was going on.
3. For me the whole thing was way too stressful with the constant ongoing arguments toxic relationships, especially the FL's mother in law, very unlikeable character, controlling, selfish, pretty dumb and coarse in general. 80% of the couples' problems were created by this vile woman.
4. Both FL/ML characters were or became unlikeable, ML Spineless, gutless, weak Momma's boy who's priority was totally messed up and his constant empty promises along with constant apologies made his character unappealing. FL completely weak doormat suddenly, (after moving to Shanghai) becomes this harsh, cold career woman who is completely inflexible, unforgiving and selfish. Her character in both timelines are not very likeable and hard to relate to.
5. It's hard to watch how all the surrounding people, friends, family, coworkers' opinions and unsolicited advice can in fact have a negative effect and ruin someone's relationship. Unfortunately, that's pretty close/true to life.
The ending was ok but due to the overall negative, argumentative, stressful melodrama vibe of the series, I would definitely not watch it again.
Now for the storyline:
1. The concept is great, thought provoking and relevant. I think, most of us had a thought at one point in time about "what if" we made a different choice in life. Hence, this concept is truly relevant in everyday life.
2. However, the execution of the storyline was quite a mess and confusing as scenes were jumping back and forth in time and place and many times it took awhile before one was able to catch up and understand what was going on.
3. For me the whole thing was way too stressful with the constant ongoing arguments toxic relationships, especially the FL's mother in law, very unlikeable character, controlling, selfish, pretty dumb and coarse in general. 80% of the couples' problems were created by this vile woman.
4. Both FL/ML characters were or became unlikeable, ML Spineless, gutless, weak Momma's boy who's priority was totally messed up and his constant empty promises along with constant apologies made his character unappealing. FL completely weak doormat suddenly, (after moving to Shanghai) becomes this harsh, cold career woman who is completely inflexible, unforgiving and selfish. Her character in both timelines are not very likeable and hard to relate to.
5. It's hard to watch how all the surrounding people, friends, family, coworkers' opinions and unsolicited advice can in fact have a negative effect and ruin someone's relationship. Unfortunately, that's pretty close/true to life.
The ending was ok but due to the overall negative, argumentative, stressful melodrama vibe of the series, I would definitely not watch it again.
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