Exactly, i was a bit dissapointed for the fact that there was very few bts especially the MC. This is one of the…
Youku really sucks at promotion. I have not seen even one interview of the main leads together. They've only had livestreams with multiple cast members. They should realise that people are going crazy about their chemistry and would wish to see them interact even off screen. Dumb Youku. :(
But I can't understand what they're saying. Actually, I am a little salty about the fact that we didn't get to see a lot of their off screen interactions.
It will finish airing all the subbed episodes next week. The slow burn that lasts through the entire series is…
Aaah yeah, I do remember. I think if you view it in the same way as Reply 1988, as story of 5-6 friends and the trials and tribulations of their youth, then maybe it'd be more palatable to you. But the thing is, the lead actors have such brilliant chemistry, that you can't help but be invested in their story (at least I was) and focus more on it. Maybe you'll fare better once you marathon through all the episodes once it finishes airing. This drama also introduced me to some amazing actors, I was particularly impressed by Shiyi and Letao. Hu Yi Xuan, who olays Xiaoju, is anyway my favorite chinese actress ever. Overall, the cast is the strongest I've seen in chinese youth dramas, acting wise.
Yes, those are the parts I feel inadequate too - the last 2 or 3 episodes.
True, how can he still be this immature at 27 , i just don't understand lol. In contrast, they've shown Xiaoju to be professional, calm, efficient and an all rounded mature personality. It is only when LSY gets back into the picture again that her emotions go haywire and we see the flarings of her younger personality of losing her temper and just being all over the place. I love these characters anyway, I like their strengths and flaws but I wish they had not done LSY this disservice of showing him to be the same immature and prickly person even as a grown up.
Lazy writing indeed lets just squeeze everything in ep 35&36 and make it a happy ending lmao such cliche plot
Plus the physical separation did not help. At no point was she physically away from CL in those 27 episodes. But in case of LSY, the separation also made for a lot of losses between them.
Lazy writing indeed lets just squeeze everything in ep 35&36 and make it a happy ending lmao such cliche plot
PUTTING IT HERE AGAIN FOR YOUR REFERENCE THIS WAS MY RESPONSE TO MOOC's POST. What you said makes a lot of sense and i do agree, it's a rushed ending. However, I am just raising this since you made the comparison between her chasing the ML vs SML. Not trying to change your opinion, but here are my 2 cents from what I understood: 1) there are a lot of ups and downs when she is chasing the SML, many a times she has hope because she knows, for some reason or the other, the SML and SFL couldn't get together in the beginning. 2) throughout it all, she has a stable friendship with CL so she is on good terms with him which justifies her actions, especially when she knows that SFL already has a bf. Even then, she poses and helps him mostly as a friend, none of her actions towards him in the beginning are that of a person with crush. Even her letters have a friendly and sentimental tone rather than that of a love letter. It is only later, when she gives him the movie ticket that there is some overture from her side. Also, she does raise this issue with Tao, what if CL and her can't be friends anymore if she confesses. That had always been her biggest worry, losing her best friends, be it CL or shiyi. 3) Now, when it comes to her feelings for ML, firstly the misunderstanding and him leaving without any explanation is a big dent in their otherwise extremely close friendship. Also, before she is always running into CL who continues to be kind to her, so it's no wonder she continues to chase him (although as i said, she doesn't chase him as a lover, more as a friend. She gives up on CL when he proposes to Lin You and is together with him.) 4) Similarly, she gives up on LSY after all their horrendous misunderstandings with the phone call and picture with Shen Duo. So I would say it is pretty consistent with her character development. She was always insecure and hesitant when it came to matters of her own heart and love. From early on, we see how naive she is when it comes to romantic relationships (like introducing CL and LY, inviting her to study with them, not realising LSY care for her is that of more than a friend etc) 5) The biggest problem I feel, and the reason she did not make any overture towards LSY or chase him, is how he behaved and made her believe when he came back. Like there was literally no need for him to make her believe he has a gf. I don't know why the writers took that decision because it makes the ML look kind of immature even at 27. A lot of their problems could've been solved if that decision was not taken by the writers. I think Xiaoju still took it pretty well, in stride. If it were me and my best friend (who proposed to have feelings for me) just up and left without any explanation and broke all communication for 5 years, and then suddenly turn up in front of me, acting all cold and haughty, I would've smacked him lol. So yeah, Xiaoju and Shiyi both are flawed characters. They've been written that way since the beginning. The idea of Xiaoju chasing him when he makes her believe he has a gf, especially now that she has grown up and is not as naive anymore, has become guarded because of her failures at love, it just doesn't make sense to me.
Lazy writing indeed lets just squeeze everything in ep 35&36 and make it a happy ending lmao such cliche plot
You're right. I have written a very lengthy and spoiler filled response to this, basically explaining what I understood from it, in my reply to the user @mooc. You can read it if you're interested and I would love to know what you think of my interpretation.
This won’t change your opinion. Most people are stubborn with their opinion and I do too so I understand. This…
What you said makes a lot of sense and i do agree, it's a rushed ending. However, I am just raising this since you made the comparison between her chasing the ML vs SML. Not trying to change your opinion, but here are my 2 cents from what I understood: 1) there are a lot of ups and downs when she is chasing the SML, many a times she has hope because she knows, for some reason or the other, the SML and SFL couldn't get together in the beginning. 2) throughout it all, she has a stable friendship with CL so she is on good terms with him which justifies her actions, especially when she knows that SFL already has a bf. Even then, she poses and helps him mostly as a friend, none of her actions towards him in the beginning are that of a person with crush. Even her letters have a friendly and sentimental tone rather than that of a love letter. It is only later, when she gives him the movie ticket that there is some overture from her side. Also, she does raise this issue with Tao, what if CL and her can't be friends anymore if she confesses. That had always been her biggest worry, losing her best friends, be it CL or shiyi. 3) Now, when it comes to her feelings for ML, firstly the misunderstanding and him leaving without any explanation is a big dent in their otherwise extremely close friendship. Also, before she is always running into CL who continues to be kind to her, so it's no wonder she continues to chase him (although as i said, she doesn't chase him as a lover, more as a friend. She gives up on CL when he proposes to Lin You and is together with him.) 4) Similarly, she gives up on LSY after all their horrendous misunderstandings with the phone call and picture with Shen Duo. So I would say it is pretty consistent with her character development. She was always insecure and hesitant when it came to matters of her own heart and love. From early on, we see how naive she is when it comes to romantic relationships (like introducing CL and LY, inviting her to study with them, not realising LSY care for her is that of more than a friend etc) 5) The biggest problem I feel, and the reason she did not make any overture towards LSY or chase him, is how he behaved and made her believe when he came back. Like there was literally no need for him to make her believe he has a gf. I don't know why the writers took that decision because it makes the ML look kind of immature even at 27. A lot of their problems could've been solved if that decision was not taken by the writers. I think Xiaoju still took it pretty well, in stride. If it were me and my best friend (who proposed to have feelings for me) just up and left without any explanation and broke all communication for 5 years, and then suddenly turn up in front of me, acting all cold and haughty, I would've smacked him lol. So yeah, Xiaoju and Shiyi both are flawed characters. They've been written that way since the beginning. The idea of Xiaoju chasing him when he makes her believe he has a gf, especially now that she has grown up and is not as naive anymore, has become guarded because of her failures at love, it just doesn't make sense to me.
I would have liked this drama if the ML and FL did not end up together and ended up with some one else.They had…
Oh man, i would be heartbroken if they didn't end up together. No other eventuality is acceptable to me, especially for these characters. I think I have set my expectations taking their age and inexperience into consideration. When I remember how I was during my early 20s , I can empathise with them. Many misunderstandings have occured in my life too because of assumptions and expectations so I was able to relate with a lot of foolish and immature decisions they both took. What i can't explain, even to myself, is why Shiyi decided to do what he did when he came back in the latter episodes. Like there was literally no need to do what he did, how is he still so immature at 27, I don't understand *facepalm*
Lsy has been missing from xxj life for 5 years without any news. When he came back he gave xxj the impression…
Both LSY and XXJ are frustrating characters some time....there have been those instances throughout the drama so I want to say that it's consistent with their character development but ugh... Some of their decisions are indeed frustrating. Especially Shiyi's decisions towards the end.
I kind of feel they have some amount of physical intimacy too. I mean, they have a lot of skinship between them that the FL doesn't have with any of her other friends. In the beginning we see that the ML gets very flustered when the FL gets too close (like their kind of fight/hug and rhe side hug she gives him once) but later there's such a smooth transition into hugs and things like that. So i also got a lot of physical chemistry from them even though they were just supposes to be friends. The FL for example, can't keep her hands off him. She's always holding his arms (even when there is no real need to do so lol) or his clothes. She sits on his lap accidentally and doesn't find it uncomfortable, in fact in one of the later episodes, she continues to sit on his lap even when he's not holding her there, she doesn't even think of getting up. I think this is a very subtle type of characterisation and storytelling.
I really wanna like this drama, it was really interesting at first and I was invested in the characters but I…
It will finish airing all the subbed episodes next week. The slow burn that lasts through the entire series is not everyone's cup of tea, you're right.
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But I can't understand what they're saying. Actually, I am a little salty about the fact that we didn't get to see a lot of their off screen interactions.
THIS WAS MY RESPONSE TO MOOC's POST. What you said makes a lot of sense and i do agree, it's a rushed ending. However, I am just raising this since you made the comparison between her chasing the ML vs SML. Not trying to change your opinion, but here are my 2 cents from what I understood:
1) there are a lot of ups and downs when she is chasing the SML, many a times she has hope because she knows, for some reason or the other, the SML and SFL couldn't get together in the beginning.
2) throughout it all, she has a stable friendship with CL so she is on good terms with him which justifies her actions, especially when she knows that SFL already has a bf. Even then, she poses and helps him mostly as a friend, none of her actions towards him in the beginning are that of a person with crush. Even her letters have a friendly and sentimental tone rather than that of a love letter. It is only later, when she gives him the movie ticket that there is some overture from her side. Also, she does raise this issue with Tao, what if CL and her can't be friends anymore if she confesses. That had always been her biggest worry, losing her best friends, be it CL or shiyi.
3) Now, when it comes to her feelings for ML, firstly the misunderstanding and him leaving without any explanation is a big dent in their otherwise extremely close friendship. Also, before she is always running into CL who continues to be kind to her, so it's no wonder she continues to chase him (although as i said, she doesn't chase him as a lover, more as a friend. She gives up on CL when he proposes to Lin You and is together with him.)
4) Similarly, she gives up on LSY after all their horrendous misunderstandings with the phone call and picture with Shen Duo.
So I would say it is pretty consistent with her character development. She was always insecure and hesitant when it came to matters of her own heart and love. From early on, we see how naive she is when it comes to romantic relationships (like introducing CL and LY, inviting her to study with them, not realising LSY care for her is that of more than a friend etc)
5) The biggest problem I feel, and the reason she did not make any overture towards LSY or chase him, is how he behaved and made her believe when he came back. Like there was literally no need for him to make her believe he has a gf. I don't know why the writers took that decision because it makes the ML look kind of immature even at 27. A lot of their problems could've been solved if that decision was not taken by the writers. I think Xiaoju still took it pretty well, in stride. If it were me and my best friend (who proposed to have feelings for me) just up and left without any explanation and broke all communication for 5 years, and then suddenly turn up in front of me, acting all cold and haughty, I would've smacked him lol.
So yeah, Xiaoju and Shiyi both are flawed characters. They've been written that way since the beginning. The idea of Xiaoju chasing him when he makes her believe he has a gf, especially now that she has grown up and is not as naive anymore, has become guarded because of her failures at love, it just doesn't make sense to me.
1) there are a lot of ups and downs when she is chasing the SML, many a times she has hope because she knows, for some reason or the other, the SML and SFL couldn't get together in the beginning.
2) throughout it all, she has a stable friendship with CL so she is on good terms with him which justifies her actions, especially when she knows that SFL already has a bf. Even then, she poses and helps him mostly as a friend, none of her actions towards him in the beginning are that of a person with crush. Even her letters have a friendly and sentimental tone rather than that of a love letter. It is only later, when she gives him the movie ticket that there is some overture from her side. Also, she does raise this issue with Tao, what if CL and her can't be friends anymore if she confesses. That had always been her biggest worry, losing her best friends, be it CL or shiyi.
3) Now, when it comes to her feelings for ML, firstly the misunderstanding and him leaving without any explanation is a big dent in their otherwise extremely close friendship. Also, before she is always running into CL who continues to be kind to her, so it's no wonder she continues to chase him (although as i said, she doesn't chase him as a lover, more as a friend. She gives up on CL when he proposes to Lin You and is together with him.)
4) Similarly, she gives up on LSY after all their horrendous misunderstandings with the phone call and picture with Shen Duo.
So I would say it is pretty consistent with her character development. She was always insecure and hesitant when it came to matters of her own heart and love. From early on, we see how naive she is when it comes to romantic relationships (like introducing CL and LY, inviting her to study with them, not realising LSY care for her is that of more than a friend etc)
5) The biggest problem I feel, and the reason she did not make any overture towards LSY or chase him, is how he behaved and made her believe when he came back. Like there was literally no need for him to make her believe he has a gf. I don't know why the writers took that decision because it makes the ML look kind of immature even at 27. A lot of their problems could've been solved if that decision was not taken by the writers. I think Xiaoju still took it pretty well, in stride. If it were me and my best friend (who proposed to have feelings for me) just up and left without any explanation and broke all communication for 5 years, and then suddenly turn up in front of me, acting all cold and haughty, I would've smacked him lol.
So yeah, Xiaoju and Shiyi both are flawed characters. They've been written that way since the beginning. The idea of Xiaoju chasing him when he makes her believe he has a gf, especially now that she has grown up and is not as naive anymore, has become guarded because of her failures at love, it just doesn't make sense to me.