The way I see it, the rating is just the site trend. In here, we have certain rating buffs/de-buffs, as I'd call it, and I can easily cite examples such as Vertical micro-dramas, which have around a -1.5 rating de-buff, where even the best ones that should rate at 9's get downgraded to 7.5's, also Jdramas and Lakorns have the same problem. Meanwhile, in this case, there's a rating buff, where if there's an OP Female Lead being the boss, the drama can get +0.5 to +1 rating automatically.
So to me the melodrama tag is 90% used on our main couple specifically, and that's why I can't give this more than a 7/10. Then after the main couple has to suffer to the very last episode, they basically get the same ending as the 2nd couple? What a joke. And what are the consequences for the 'villain'/2nd lead? Just some life lesson of course why not, while the main couple is mentally and physically grinded by the writers to tug on the melodrama tag. I'm fine with melodramas, but if I knew how unbalanced the plot was I wouldn't even watch it.
I can't get over the mentality of the two FML from the get-go, and it bothers me that if we were to switch genders the characters would 100% get hate for it, yet here it's supposedly "empowering".
Go ahead and picture these two ML's talking about a girl, "Dude I never enjoy it with my girlfriend, she doesn't do it right and uses too much teeth when it's her DUTY to satisfy me!", to which his friend goes, "What?! And you just took that for 10 years?! Just drop that B**** and get another one that knows what she's doing!", oh and of course our ML didn't tell his girl he didn't like it on the contrary, he faked and when asked told her he loves it so guess what, she kept doing it that way. Yeah... such Leads would get canceled ASAP, and that's what double standards look like.
But don't get me wrong, I'm all for characters starting out bad just to have to grow and improve themself, which is how it proceeds and our 30-year-old FML finally receives the sexual education that 15-year-olds get in the west ( which is probably a comment on Korean education tbh ), and she can finally speak her mind and go for things that she wants, that is until the writers just give our FML the perfect boyfriend that just does it for her and there it goes, she is back at having no accountability for her own BODY but hey, at least now she can speak out (?) a bit.
Kinda sad about the double standards, but overall thanks to the production and acting this is a solid 6/10 to me.
Quite sure it`s just an ugly MDL trend, where any short series ( up to 10 or 15 min per ep) gets this type of rating, before it even airs enough ep`s to judge something.
Can someone spoil the rest of the series and how it ends for me? I watched up until episode 26 where the FL starts…
After that FL and SFL discover they are actually sisters and find their father that has Alzheimer’s, who dies at home after he's left alone slips and falls. Then there's our SCP Chen Ji and Tang Shi love arc where they get married and only then, in the last 7eps, our FL really starts to forget things and actually cause problems.
FL receives her early Alzheimer’s diagnosis and decides to hide that from everyone, ML finds her meds and after looking into it also decides to hide from everyone, while looking for alternative treatments for her, even going so far as being a test subject himself.
As FL's memory deteriorate she accidentally burns ML's furniture warehouse and that is too much for her, so she asks her step brother Lou Rui to take her away after only leaving her engagement ring and a letter that thanks ML for his love.
Lou Rui after taking her to Switzerland tries to use her memory loss and tells FL he is her boyfriend, which was sickening imho, going so far as to pretend being our ML Xiang Yu Qiu and trying to marry her, before ML finally finds her and stops everything.
Finally we have our FL and ML back together and he takes care of her, the end.
There's romance, but in our leads case it's just very ambiguous to the point that they are not bf/gf or go on dates/have skinship. Something that the synopsis fails to mention is that Wu Yue is actually poor, so he doesn't think he deserves Xiao Man, so while she is waiting for him to confess his feelings, they are left with just "good feelings" for each other for 40 eps.
FL has a crush on ML from ep 1, yet they don't actually date in 40 episodes. At the last min of the last ep there's something that symbolizes a love confession, but that's it.
In here, we have certain rating buffs/de-buffs, as I'd call it, and I can easily cite examples such as Vertical micro-dramas, which have around a -1.5 rating de-buff, where even the best ones that should rate at 9's get downgraded to 7.5's, also Jdramas and Lakorns have the same problem.
Meanwhile, in this case, there's a rating buff, where if there's an OP Female Lead being the boss, the drama can get +0.5 to +1 rating automatically.
I'm fine with melodramas, but if I knew how unbalanced the plot was I wouldn't even watch it.
Go ahead and picture these two ML's talking about a girl, "Dude I never enjoy it with my girlfriend, she doesn't do it right and uses too much teeth when it's her DUTY to satisfy me!", to which his friend goes, "What?! And you just took that for 10 years?! Just drop that B**** and get another one that knows what she's doing!", oh and of course our ML didn't tell his girl he didn't like it on the contrary, he faked and when asked told her he loves it so guess what, she kept doing it that way.
Yeah... such Leads would get canceled ASAP, and that's what double standards look like.
But don't get me wrong, I'm all for characters starting out bad just to have to grow and improve themself, which is how it proceeds and our 30-year-old FML finally receives the sexual education that 15-year-olds get in the west ( which is probably a comment on Korean education tbh ), and she can finally speak her mind and go for things that she wants, that is until the writers just give our FML the perfect boyfriend that just does it for her and there it goes, she is back at having no accountability for her own BODY but hey, at least now she can speak out (?) a bit.
Kinda sad about the double standards, but overall thanks to the production and acting this is a solid 6/10 to me.
FL receives her early Alzheimer’s diagnosis and decides to hide that from everyone, ML finds
her meds and after looking into it also decides to hide from everyone, while looking for alternative treatments for her, even going so far as being a test subject himself.
As FL's memory deteriorate she accidentally burns ML's furniture warehouse and that is too much for her, so she asks her step brother Lou Rui to take her away after only leaving her engagement ring and a letter that thanks ML for his love.
Lou Rui after taking her to Switzerland tries to use her memory loss and tells FL he is her boyfriend, which was sickening imho, going so far as to pretend being our ML Xiang Yu Qiu and trying to marry her, before ML finally finds her and stops everything.
Finally we have our FL and ML back together and he takes care of her, the end.