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Like Most in This Show, this Drama Is Largely Saved by Fugui
This show can be separated into 4 broad arcs:1-13, the arc focusing on Fugui and Qingtong
14-18, the arc focusing on Fei and Hongye
19-30, the filler + fluff arc in which Cheng Yi gets 3 mins an ep on average and the plot jumps the shark. assassinating the characters of everyone getting screentime as they oscillate in personality by episode and scene, bravely and nobly sacrificing their “in character” points on the alter of “for the lolz” or “making what the writer wants to happen happen”. (I won’t say getting the plot from A to B because there was none in this arc.)
31-36, the wrap up arc, in which plot resumes and we get back to being in character again. albeit a rush towards the finish line.
1-13 are epic, 14-17 are decent, and 31-36 at least make sense and wrap it up neatly. The middle? Total mess. Fugui is the only one who stays in character from start to end. Worth watching for CY and his fight scenes, he’s amazing here, super handsome, and his performance is easily the best, but anyone hoping for a solid plot the whole way through or romance between the leads would be better lowering their expectations or stopping at ep13. Watch without minding too much overlong separation arcs or that that good guys are sparing bad guys for the nth time and locking them up without monitoring them for the nth time only to have the bad guy break out and cause trouble for the nth time and it’s not a bad ride. Songs are good and CY’s fight scenes are epic. 🔥 Overall good, just not the masterpiece of depth and growth and romance that it promised to be at ep12.
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