Yozakura

I so enjoyed every bit of this drama. It was so well done and kept me invested from start to finish for a modern drama. If you have seen my profile or reviews on the few modern dramas I have reviewed that I've loved it is very hard for me to get into them. I get so bored easily with them, but I didn't with this one not even when they go into their jobs cause their jobs are very important to the story.

Zhao Lusi: Showed just what an incredible actress she is. This was such a mature and different role for her to play and she blew it out of the water. Really loved watching her all the way through this. I've been such a huge fan of hers for a while now and she still doesn't disappoint. If you don't like her previous roles that she has done definitely give this a go cause this is such a different role for her to play. Her crying and emotional scenes still hit so hard and though she doesn't have many in this her funny scenes still make you laugh.

William Chan: I also really enjoyed his acting in this drama. I had only seen one of his dramas before this and I enjoyed him in that role to. He was great to watch with Zhao Lusi and with out her that I didn't find any of his scenes boring, but I didn't really find any of this drama boring I thought it was so well done all the way through it.

Spoilers may start here:

Xu Yan: The FL character who this is mostly about is a girl who has never felt loved by her parents, and the only person in her life that she has is her grandmother. So she decides that she really wants to give her grandmother a better life and make sure she is taken care of. She is a very hardworking ambitious girl, but you can also see that she can be calculative and also very manipulative. She approaches the ML Hao Ming knowing the kind of life he can give her and her grandmother. You could call her a bit of a gold digger. She fakes her family background and even hires fake parents to marry him. So none of her actual family are at her wedding (which I agreed with her not wanting her real parents there but not inviting her grandmother I did find a mistake on her part). She even finds ways to get in good with his mother who was so against her in the beginning, and I actually thought his mother could actually tell she was lying she just couldn't prove it. Through all this though you could really see that she was falling in love with Hao Ming and his family, but lies always have a way of catching up with you.

Hao Ming: The ML character who you don't really get to see to much into cause this drama is done in the FL's point of view. He comes off at first as such a great guy at first and so in love with Xu Yan, and would give her anything she wants. You later find out just how ambitious and manipulative he is to. He knew all about Xu Yan marrying him for his money which is why you see him constantly buying her expensive gifts and giving her money anytime she needs it. He was perfectly fine with her lie and her doing this until she throws up that he is lying. Xu Yan finds out that he has a son that he never told her about and her calling him out on his lies you can see Hao Ming go into defensive mode at this moment.

The story behind this drama shows exactly what happens when you build your relationship on lies. It doesn't work and you end up with two people that don't really know how to trust each other or know what to believe from the other. Hao Ming thought Xu Yan was just after money so when she tried to tell him she loved him he didn't believe her at all he figured he had her all figured out. It wasn't until when he actually starts thinking back about everything she did for him that he realized he screwed up. The same thing happens with Xu Yan when Hao Ming tries to win her back she doesn't know what to believe anymore. Both of these characters make mistakes but in the end they both learn from them and realize they both do really love the other. It is such a beautiful story to watch and for me I can understand both these characters and the choices they made. So I don't really think one is better than the other.

Fang Lei: I have to mention this character just because of how aggravating she was. You will not like her character at all she shows what a serious obsessive person is really like and how delusional they are. The ML was never romantically involved with her, but with the way she acts you would think he was.

I can understand why some wouldn't want to watch this drama just because how the main characters start out, but you can see from the start of this just how much they really love each other. Did they make mistakes yes, but the fact is they learned from them and came back to each other. I loved this drama and have to say it is a much watch if you can get through it.