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Storyline seems to be a combo/ copy of movies "My Fault" and "Fast and Furious" "

This storyline is not very original as it appears to be a copy from the very popular drama "My Fault" in which, mother father divorced, mother married a rich guy and takes her teenage daughter to live with her and the rich stepfather also has a son same age as stepsister. Bad boy step brother is heavily into illegal car racing, young, parties, fighting etc. Hot stepsister and hot stepbrother fall in love, (not blood relatives either) heavy love scenes, parties. fight club scenes. Even the stepsister' s father figure is the same, a burned out race car driver who taught his daughter how to race, pretty much the same storyline.
And the rest of this story is from "Fast and Furious" major competition and lots of car races, etc. So..,at least 80% of the story is cut and pasted from above movies.
I also found the story development pretty slow and boring in some places. I give it a 8 based on the perfect casting, great chemistry between ML and FL. I loved most of the wardrobe and styles of both male and female characters except the FL wedding dress in the end that was pretty ugly. Great job production crew and all the actors. Loved the music

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Disappointed

I was very happy to have found a good C drama with a wonderful/talented cast, exciting storyline and beautiful music and scenery. Until.....halfway through the series, it all went downhill. Way too many plots and schemes and bad guys after bad guys, bad plots, after bad plots, it became way, way too much and too confusing. Even the FL lead became unlikeable and cold/ aligning with the enemy for no reason. I honestly didn't think that the ML and FL had any chemistry to begin with and the writers have chosen to write off the little chemistry there might have been to make the FL cold and unlikable. Ending was rushed and ignored all the rest of the characters' futures or follow up stories in lieu of an ambiguous end for the lead characters. I would not watch this again, way too depressing and complicated for no reason....unless......they would make a follow up part 2 with all the couples development, coronation of new emperor, ML /FL character growth and an overall happier storyline.

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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.

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Exhausting, sad, chaotic, confusing storyline

First of all: Let me pay my respect and tribute to Alan Yu (Yu Meng Long) as it was wonderful to see him in this drama which sadly, probably was his last performance/appearance. I have been devastated by the tragic end of such beautiful, young, talented, very much beloved actor/individual. Rest in peace Alan❤️

As for the show, I watched this show mainly because I am a big fan of Bai Lu and Joseph Zeng. Having seen pretty much all of Bai Lu C dramas, I must say her character in this drama is not my favorite. Bai Lu is a very talented, beautiful young actress and her forte is her unique facial expressions that bring the likeability to each and all characters she plays. So her being cast in this drama as a cold, unhappy, angry, frozen faced FL is just not impressive or even likeable most of the time. This drama is good if you like stabbings, beatings, blood, killings, hate, grudge, revenge over and over with very, very little lukewarm romance thrown in a few times here and there
For me, the storyline was very confusing like someone just cut and pasted the scenes together without rhime and rhythm. The ML gets stabbed over and over at least 15 times and then walks away as the story cuts to another scene like nothing happened. There is complete chaos as the scenes simply don't fit together and even though, eventually there are explanations in later scenes, some of which makes no sense at all, and by then, I was sooo exhausted by the chaos and long winded dialogs that I stopped caring and fast forwarded a lot just to end the misery.

Good stuff: beautiful visuals, gorgeous scenery and set designs along with absolutely gorgeous outfits. I also loved the music and the special effects, fights and spells. The casting was also perfect with many beautiful, talented actors. You can tell that this show was created by a lot of talented people. Thank you all for the great entertainment.

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It's like watching paint dry or grass grow

I only watched this C drama because of Leo Wu. Handsome, very talented young actor who pretty much carried the whole show., dragging the FL along. Unfortunately, the FL had not much to add to the quality of the story with her very bland, one dimensional acting skills. Her face was pretty much emotionless throughout the story with artificial shyness, hesitancy, behaving like a highschool girl who has never seen a boy in her life, which later turned into her cold shoulder behavior for no reason at all. Unfortunately, she has never gone through any positive character development throughout the story. There is absolutely no reason to believe that the ML has fallen deeply in love on a first glance with a mediocre looking, bland personality, forced shyness type of girl. Why? Totally unrealistic. I don't mind slow burning love stories but this movie wins the cake on no action, no conversations, bland, awkward moments and on top of being the slowest most boring movie I have recently had the missfortune to watch. The 6 point for acting is purely given for Leo Wu. Maybe if he had a different, more compatible FL to work with who had charisma and a captivating personality, it would have been a huge upgrade to the quality of the production. Also, adding some interesting, (or any) intelligent, flirty conversations might have helped the awkward, silences and situations between the ML and FL characters. I will not be watching this show again. Thanks for the effort production team!

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Silly, childish, boring

I love Rom Coms, but not this one. Let's see ...a very good looking, savvy, highly disciplined, brilliant CEO suddenly has a brain freeze and offers a ludicrous amount of money to buy a company just so a plain looking, (he just met) secretary would come to work for him. Seriously? Since he supposedly has a memory loss but finds the secretary "familiar" he falls in love with someone he just met and stars pursuing her. The secretary seems to have prior dating history with him but she keeps playing hard to get. So scene after scene, the ML keeps pursuing and pursuing, the FL keeps refusing, playing hard to get, and this goes on and on and on and on...it 's extremely boring. In the maintime, scenes are filled in with 5 extremely annoying, never actually seen working co workers who gossip continuously nonstop and that's all they do. And let's not forget the Intern a very, very annoying young girl aggressively pursuing, stalking chasing a happless young doctor. How many times do we have to keep seeing this character? Nothing interesting or intelligent or even somewhat entertaining storyline here. The whole thing is flat. I also wished that even though it's not a big budget production but they should at least had a professional hair dresser as the FL hair was a terrible mess throughout the whole drama. Her hairdo was out of fashion and made her look unattractive and older
Overall, you will need to dial down on your intelligence and muster up lots of patience if you want to watch this program. 0 rewatch value for me.

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Tepid

I was eagerly waiting for this sequel to Flourished Peony which I loved, loved. And now, I am pretty disappointed as instead of any character or love story development, the characters are the same, instead of any romantic development, it's just bad guys causing trouble over and over and episodes after episodes. In fact, the FL lead' s character and appearance has become very, very harsh and unlikable. I just finished episode 12 and can only hope that the remainder of the show will become more interesting and softer/romantic. Please don't disappoint your fans who/whom have eagerly been waiting for this sequel. So far, not really great.

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Great beginning of 2026 with this wonderful C Drama

This is a wonderful very creative C Drama. The storyline is very entertaining and enjoyable. The casting is superb with all the talented actors leads and supporting. Chen Xing Xu is one of my favorite actors he is not only extremely handsome and talented but he also has a huge screen presence. He is absolutely perfect for his role as Qin Xiao Yi. I also love the very talented Lu Yu Xiao and her character as Hu Xiu. The FL/ML has wonderful chemistry throughout the show. Finally an intelligent show without the usual whiney, baby talking FL that is so typical in many C Dramas. Thank you casting agents for sparing us. Overall it's a fantastic production that definitely deserves the highest mark. Thank you production team for this wonderful series. A must rewatch!

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Wonderful story, one of the best C dramas of 2025

I really loved this C drama series. For starters, I simply don't understand the many comments and preoccupation of some people with the age gap between the FL and ML in real life and as the main leading characters in this drama. So, if you are one of the "age police" and believe that love between two people should adhere to age restrictions, then this drama is definitely NOT for you, so please keep your low score negativity to yourself instead of bringing the show's ratings down. Also, speed, fast action lovers, this story is not for you either. It's a wonderful, slowly developing drama of love and complex human emotions between two people. I love both leading characters and their chemistry throughout the show. Finally an intelligent show with superb, talented actors and an interesting storyline. The only small issue I have with this and most other 2025 C dramas is the portrayal of women in current modern society, namely how young women seems to have adopted the "career first above everything else" mentality that is truly detrimental to society and establishing families. So, the last episode of this drama was a bit disappointing but not unexpected where the FL choose her career and became anti marriage even though the ML lead very clearly stated how important marriage and having a family was to him. So the FL seemed not to understand that she really didn't have eternity on her side if she wanted to have a family with this man she completely loved. I suppose, her denial of the existence of a "biological clock" for women eventually wanting to have families is the sign of our times in the career oriented, hussle culture of today. Thanking the whole crew and production team for this wonderful series.

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Misleading Title, there is NO Romance only a full cast of unlikeable characters

My bad ..I usually check out viewers' comments before spending my precious time watching a C/drama series. Unfortunately, not this time as I was too excited to watch Wallace Chung in his new role....big mistake!
I don't know how did they convince Wallace Chung to play in this awful/trainwreck of a production. I wish he didn't play that unlikeable, gutless Mama's boy without a spine character. I have been wondering if this story was written and directed by AI as there was not even one character that was likeable or humanly relatable. The writers and director seem to have forgotten the very basics of good story telling, ie. To capture/hook your audience, an interesting storyline beginning is a must. Secondly, creating likeable characters (couples with great chemistry in romance movies) to get the viewers become emotionally invested, empathize and follow the characters throughout until the end. In this drama, I honestly couldn't find any likeable character, be as the main leads or supporting characters.
1. Vicious/Vile Mom and her whole family
2. ML /Spineless, gutless Momma's boy with very poor judgement in all areas of his life ( not likeable)
3. FL /soft whispering doormat cold as an iceberg with no feelings or sincere empathy to anyone but herself
4. "Best friend"/ vicious, jealous, parasite living off his brother too lazy to work and no skills
5. Brother of best friend- he may get 1 point for likeability for being kind and helpful but totally clueless
6. Father of FL - What father abandons his daughter and disappears for 10 years without a word when she needs him the most?
7. "Fiance" of the ML/ A calculating woman using his kid to marry a man who clearly doesn't love her, red flag ignored, i.e. there is absolutely no physical touch of any kind between the two.. don't matter to her
8. Kid/ good little actor but his character is not really likeable as he comes across as an entitled/ spoiled nosy kid that all adults around him should worship and obey
SO BASICALLY, there is not even one character that the viewer could like and truly feel for and emphasize with.
Not to mention the huge holes in the storyline, i.e. ML was frantically searching for the FL by knocking on random doors in France, when he knew very well which exact ballet institute the FL applied to and the ballet circle being small, it would have been easy to find. OR, how did MIL get away with possessing the child, where were the hospital staff, nurses, doctors, social services that is required to sign over custody not to mention if the child didn't make it, by law, this has to be disclosed to the mother. Did the FL even ask for the funeral arrangements of her baby? Huge inconsistencies. OVERALL, this is a very upsetting series, characters with robot like cold emotions, and lack of it, negligent attitudes, this is perfect as an example of an AI written, AI directed story without the nuisance of the display of real human emotions.
Waste of time, I wish I have read the reviews beforehand.

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Great story/writing but not so great adaptation

I truly wanted to love this drama but I got bored quite quickly and skipped through lots of the boring blah, blah, blah conversations. It's probably just me but I felt that there was absolutely no chemistry between the leads, even when FL tried to play cutesy, her acting felt totally fake. The screen writers also made the mistake of keeping the FL lying act, schemes way too prolonged (23 episodes ) so by the time the truth was revealed, nobody cared anymore as viewers got bored already. I also had a bit of an issue with almost all of the actors/actresses looked exactly the same and it was hard to figure out who was whom, (example the FL and the Princess and some of the dancers looked almost identical) same with many of the male characters, very similar faces, age etc.
ML has a beautiful , very distinctive face/features and shows lots of emotions on his face throughout the show. On the other hand, the FL has a very average, non distinctive looking face that barely shows any emotions throughout the drama. Their "romance" looks fake and cold, lacks real emotional connection between the two actors. The Vibe/Chemistry was definitely off between the ML and FL characters
Overall, I found the storyline very interesting but the adoption not so much as up until past 23 episodes, it was pretty boring with the never ending poisoned then healed, injured and healed, more injury and healing over and over again plus the same schemes, same villains, same FL lying over and over..... Besides boredom, it became pretty exhausting to watch and I had to use my fast forward quite a lot
Good stuff: I absolutely loved, loved the spirit animals ( the dragon and the cat) and their friendship was especially heartwarming, good actors. Visually, it was probably one of the best fantasy dramas I have seen. Fantastic scenery, dream world, wonderful special effects . Loved the music and the beautiful costumes. You can tell that great efforts, lots of creativity and hard work went into this production. Excellent job team!! Thank you for the dreamy beautiful world, experience.

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Love story in slow mo

I was excited to watch this show given the high ratings. Overall, I really liked the storyline and the actors were all very good and professional. Not to mention the two ML being really, really hot. I also liked Zao Jin Mai the FL as she is cute and very talented. However, somehow I felt that the chemistry between the FL and ML were a bit off, especially in the last episode, the airport scene was really cringeworthy with ML/FL acting truly awkward towards each other plus all their "colleagues" weirdly standing around and watching them in silence. What was that? I was also not fan of the boring family scenes at the end as the whole thing looked pretty fake and the leads looked somewhat uncomfortable acting as Mom and Dad probably because being at a young age they are not that experienced with the kiddie, family type of situation.
yet. That's just my observation. Otherwise I really enjoyed the show and thank the whole crew for their fantastic job.

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It's a No Brainer, Literally, you don't need to use your brain to watch this.

The word comes to mind is ridiculous. I was able to finally finish this drama; although, had to fast forward a lot. Continue to watch this reminds me how one can't look away from a train wreck. The story makes no sense at all as throughout the whole show, EVERYBODY, I mean everybody, even two countries are after Fan Xian trying to kill him, even his own father (the Emperor). This could have been easily done when Fan Xian was a child, but ..NO... let's wait until he grows up, let's create stupid, complicated plots to chase him, try to kill him whichever way, whomever by. Also, the ML goes from a simple country bumpkin to a genius poet and a level 9 martial artist in a matter of a year or less so all the powerful people want to willingly give over all powers to him... Seriously? And what's with the Salsa and other modern music in the fight scenes? Unhinged scene Episode 45, martial art fight between the Saintness and ML with modern music and dance, rose petals falling in the background at the Empress' birthday party... Oh and let's not forget Episode 35 big fighting scene with EVERYBODY fighting, enemies, friends, whatever and whomever, just everyone for no reason, what a chaos! And where is the romance or Joy of Life in all of this? Lots of boring Court talk, blah, blah, blah. I give 8 as the acting crew was excellent and I truly loved the music, scenery and costumes. It's kind of like a Chinese Harry Potter movie, entertaining once you turn off your brain. I just have to watch trainwreck NO 2.

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Too much and too long conflict between FL&ML to be enjoyable plus the highly unlikeable FL

I am not impressed with this series. I felt the chemistry was way off between the FL and ML, or to be precise, there was none. The FL actress' lack of emotional depth and flat, mostly sour faced expression and bland performance has totally ruined the supposed love and chemistry between the lead characters. And to save the lack of chemistry Chen Fei Yu has been over acting, way above what a normal love relationship would look like in real life. Hence, this whole "love affair" is far from believable, i.e. a gorgeous, smart, talented, kind, from a privileged background ML falls head over heels for a very plain looking, no personality or talent, stubborn, cold, hateful and mean, materialistic, playing hard to get poor girl. Seriously? Totally unrealistic . All the supposed love scenes look like the actors are just reading off the script, no warmth, or any kind of chemistry. Maybe if they cast a more likeable actress as the FL, at least the romance would have been more believable. Perfect example of wrong casting ruinning a perfectly good story. The second FL / ML romance and chemistry was much better and more believable. And what's with all these career obsessed, hard core aggressive young female characters lacking any feminity or compassion and warmth? I hope young women in real life are not taken in by the b.s. of "career above everything else" as the highly competitive "Profit above integrity" business motto actually doesn't care much about young people or their dreams, profit is the only king.

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Underwhelming

Easy watch, pretty bland. Storyline is not bad and the potential was there to make it into an exciting romance, story but they missed and the story flatlined. I didn't feel much chemistry between neither the first couple ML/FL nor the second couple ML/FL. Actually the second couple was a bit more interesting and funny, however on the romance part, there were visible signs of avoidance of kissing by the actors and you could tell that there was absolutely no physical attraction between the characters. First couple also seemed to lack real chemistry and in fact they were more awkward with each other than anything else. Maybe a better pairing of actors would have made the "love" story more believable. And the final 3 episodes..OMG ..I have never seen a more boring, mundane ending of a supposed double couple romance story. Pretty disappointing.

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