Arwen

Dont worry, I get it, a lot of people obviously liked it 😅 There's a saying in my country: a hundred people - a hundred minds.
It just wasnt for me

If I couldn't even finish it, that's obviously showing what I think about the drama. You dont need to watch it all to rate it.
There is a reason why you have the option to mark a drama as "dropped" and still leave a rating for it.

The only thing I liked about it was OST, and I liked it enough for 2.5 stars.

I've tried.... but after the first three episodes I was already annoyed with most things about this show, and then skimmed the next 10 episodes just to see if it gets any better... and gave up.

The writing is terrible. The "mister very big shot" male lead falls for FL after she shows exactly two characteristics - submissiveness and childishness.

Her first actual employment, first job, first project, she's suddenly so good at her job that even the biggest shots at this supposedly biggest marketing company get stunned and fall short.

There is a scene where ML is at home with his mother, she comes up to him saying "arent you hot in that turtleneck", all the while wearing a turtleneck herself!

Honestly, I understand there are differences in taste etc. I've watched some dramas I know majority didnt like, and some that I didnt like but do see how someone else could.
But there are currently I'd say 3 dramas for which I will never understand how they got so popular: King the land, Moon lovers, and this one.

She drinks juice with both hands! Everything she does is like watching a 7 yearold do it. She's acting more childishly than the FL from Speed and love, and I have no idea how I managed to finish that one. And that worries me thinking how this is supposed to turn into a "physically" driven show.

She's constantly making terrible choices, like she was about to get into a random dude's car in an area she just moved to, because she couldnt catch a cab. Are there no uber equivalents in Beijing?

And then constantly saying thank you, i've learned from you... Learned what? How to manipulate and yell at everyone?
Not to mention Luke is supposed to be a big shot at a big company, but then this newbie with ZERO experience is suddenly more skilled than him or his colleague.

Oh well, let's give it another chance and see if I can finish it, at least just so I can complain about it xD

Well thats comforting... :'/
I'll give it a couple more episodes just to kill time, but I feel I'll just end up rage watching

On episode 3 and I cant stand some of the writing here...
The FL acting like she's 15 in every situation is infuriating.

A random Kitty comes to the filming site, introduces herself and suddenly becomes the boss to a project she never participated in, without anyone even checking here creds.

And then some scenes... FL gets lost when a "villager" is taking her somewhere, she runs away and instead of going back the same way, following a ROAD, she goes astray, comes across a sign which says "forbidden road, landslide danger" and decides - Yup, thats where I'm going!

So many things I already hate about the show, I really hope soon it will be better, because with all the rage around it, I expected a lot more.

Now that you mention it, I think my favourite info about Fu Yixiao is how she wore red to attract more attention to herself instead of the prince (of Zhennan). Thats some next level support

An avid user and drama watcher for years, but only created the acc a few months back to keep track of everything

I loved how the story evolved here a lot more than POJ, mostly because POJ was a little difficult to follow (what happened 15 years ago, who are actually the bad guys, etc). But POJ had far better fighting scenes, cinematography in general, and female lead (not that Fu Yixiao was bad, just not as entertaining as Changyu slaughtering pigs xD).

Now I'm looking for something new to watch. Started Blossom but not sure if I would like it :/

"So bored by something so pretty" - so accurate and it just goes to show a good (looking) actor cannot save a boring plot

It was a no-conflict show, there was nothing pushing the story. The one thing that was supposed to be a major turning point for the plot was resolved within half an episode, every bad guy suddenly in jail, every good guy suddenly successful.

While I do enjoy romance, 29 episodes of "yearning" are a bit much even for me.

Is it terrible that at one point when they were in the cabin in the woods, I wished for him to actually turn out to be the murderer? I just needed a little twist to spice it up...

Completely agree on the finale! At first I thought everything's resolved and there's one more full hour episode left, is this gonna be just a drag between the two leads?
Then I got excited seeing they went with the Se-na's father case.
Then disappointed again when it turned out to be just a drag between the two leads.