Avranville

I watch loads of C-dramas and so I want to be fair in this review. I was excited to start Love's Ambition firstly because of Zhao Lu Si (I adore her previous work) and because of the 8.4 rating on MDL. Unfortunately, after only 5 episodes I have never been so bored by a C-drama in my life. Love's Ambition has criminally slow pacing, uninspiringly dull conflicts, a dull, uninteresting male lead, a lack of plot twists, and a female lead exuding Cyborg-vibes while posing like a frail weed with an eerie smile across her face as she takes dished-out insults like a champ! None of these elements is compelling! Now I'm struggling to start episode 6 but don't think I can honestly continue.
I love narrative styles that create quiet emotional conflicts and build long-term character growth with subtle shifts - rather than the more dramatic turns, sharper stakes and huge emotional pay-offs we usually get in K-dramas, but Love's Ambition's pacing and story-telling narrative structure is just dead in the water. And I'm talking as someone who absolutely adores loads of C-dramas like "Go Ahead", "Find Yourself", "The Rational Life", "Amidst a Snowstorm of Love" and "Nothing but You" just to name a few. If the first 5 episodes have left me unimpressed, i doubt anything is going to suddenly pick up after episode 6, so I'll bow out now and choose to be wrong on this one -- or right.