Should I watch this drama. Is it good or torturous drama.
Hm, I wouldn't say it's torturous, to be honest. It has too much going on for it to be a proper slow burn. There's 2 main plots (the revenge arc and the romance arc), and a bazillion other subplots. You don't really get to have much time to stew over one angst, as you'd be busy with another story arc, personally. I do recommend it, I think the last episode is the weakest. But overall, it's an entertaining watch if you're interested in it. ^^
Man, where do I begin with this LOL. I mean, it wasn't a bad show by any means, it just doesn't feel like it was wrapped up well.
The most interesting characters here are all so underdeveloped. Hell, even JHC is incredibly flat. He is a character that only benefits from other people's efforts, and does nothing of substance of his own.
(I will mention first that I don't think there was anything bad about how JHC and NY's romance progressed. I understand that just getting together makes no sense because at the end of the day, they were both dealing with incredibly messy divorce related affairs. To just suddenly leap back into each other's arms would have been terrible. I like that they reacquaint as friends first, and then something more. They get close on their own terms, no one elses. And I love that for them.)
TJY had a PTSD story arc that is yeeted out of the window in favor of being JHC's skivvy, Jian Minmin had an interesting history that never gets touched upon outside of ONE rant, and Ning Shu, oh god, Ning Shu is easily their most interesting character, they just don't handle him correctly whatsoever.
What Ning Shu does by the way, isn't anything worse than questionable. He has an incredible silver tongue apparently. Because any idea he gives people (even when he cautions them of the side effects), they just do it. He suggests that ZLX takes out a loan to settle a debt? The man does it. He asks Cai if he wants to do the loan? The guy does it. He asks Chen to plant faulty invoices in her company? SHE FREAKIN DOES IT.
Does ZLX, Cai and Chen ALL not have lawyers to check the legitimacy of these things? He tells them that these are all shady venues, they don't check for themselves??? How cheap are their ears? How is their huge mess ups his fault particularly? One can imagine that if any of these people had the intelligence of adults, none of these 'problems' would even be problems. They're very weak story plots.
The plot twist they have set up for Ning Shu is so out of character, they must have forgotten that he was an antagonist and needed something major to get him in trouble. But they had no regard for character development, pacing and progression. I wish they wrote him to be a little slimier, a little less sympathetic of who he was hurting, a little less easy to set off. Ning Shu has so much untapped potential, and it just feels like the writers had no idea how to handle someone like him. I wish I could delete that last episode from my brain, LOL
I mean, it wasn't a bad show by any means, it just doesn't feel like it was wrapped up well.
The most interesting characters here are all so underdeveloped. Hell, even JHC is incredibly flat. He is a character that only benefits from other people's efforts, and does nothing of substance of his own.
(I will mention first that I don't think there was anything bad about how JHC and NY's romance progressed. I understand that just getting together makes no sense because at the end of the day, they were both dealing with incredibly messy divorce related affairs. To just suddenly leap back into each other's arms would have been terrible. I like that they reacquaint as friends first, and then something more. They get close on their own terms, no one elses. And I love that for them.)
TJY had a PTSD story arc that is yeeted out of the window in favor of being JHC's skivvy, Jian Minmin had an interesting history that never gets touched upon outside of ONE rant, and Ning Shu, oh god, Ning Shu is easily their most interesting character, they just don't handle him correctly whatsoever.
What Ning Shu does by the way, isn't anything worse than questionable. He has an incredible silver tongue apparently. Because any idea he gives people (even when he cautions them of the side effects), they just do it. He suggests that ZLX takes out a loan to settle a debt? The man does it. He asks Cai if he wants to do the loan? The guy does it. He asks Chen to plant faulty invoices in her company? SHE FREAKIN DOES IT.
Does ZLX, Cai and Chen ALL not have lawyers to check the legitimacy of these things? He tells them that these are all shady venues, they don't check for themselves??? How cheap are their ears? How is their huge mess ups his fault particularly? One can imagine that if any of these people had the intelligence of adults, none of these 'problems' would even be problems. They're very weak story plots.
The plot twist they have set up for Ning Shu is so out of character, they must have forgotten that he was an antagonist and needed something major to get him in trouble. But they had no regard for character development, pacing and progression. I wish they wrote him to be a little slimier, a little less sympathetic of who he was hurting, a little less easy to set off. Ning Shu has so much untapped potential, and it just feels like the writers had no idea how to handle someone like him. I wish I could delete that last episode from my brain, LOL