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Yes, I was really defending the show and thought it deserved at least an 8 or low 8 and though it was such a happy comfort drama!!

It has been so long since I have felt this much WTF over a drama. I know these kinds of endings are practically an epidemic in Asian dramas (too soon?). But SERIOUSLY, WTF. This is NOT Snowy Nights or Kill Me Love Me where a SE would not be unexpected. This was a lovely and fun, light drama with wonderful characters that was set up for a happy ending!! It was bad enough what they did to the ML, but the fact that she set the whole thing up, and the missed connection in Suman, and how she ended up with the same problem as him -- all of it was just so egregious. For those watching, stopping around 31 (?) or whenever they finished selling all of Xixi's grapes is probably a happy place to stop.

UGH, it was really great and so much fun for almost the entire drama. Until they decided to just blow everything up to smithereens.

So....would I be a masochist if I decided to watch this anyway, despite having been fully warned by all the comments? 🤪

I kind of still wanted to watch this despite the comments, since everyone seemed to love how it started at least and I figured I could deal with the rest? But man, this sounds super frustrating and the absolute worst.

All the kids in this show are awesome. I especially love the kid that plays a young Xing Zhizhi, the little girl, and the FLs annoying brother, who is an absolute chaotic riot. 🤣

I only have a few episodes left and have been enjoying this. The characters are flawed and have some baggage (a lot of past trauma), but they are all immensely likable. It deals with adult issues and shows how complicated relationships can be.

So they just did a flashback to five years earlier and that kid he visits hasn't changed one bit, which even by C-drama logic standards, is still kind of ridiculous. This makes me think he must be a figment of his imagination and is the dead patient he lost on the operating table/the reason why he stopped being a surgeon?

I'm just here to say, I actually usually understand MDL ratings, even when I disagree, even the controversial ones, but I don't understand why this one is so low (7.7 as of this writing). I'm not asking for something outrageous, but I think it deserves to be at least an 8 or low 8.

But then, seeing some of the wild comments here, I guess I can see why people are being unreasonably harsh. Though if viewers are so hot and bothered, they can always stop watching.

I think it's good that they are showing the challenges of dating a celebrity, and while the FL can be a bit frustrating, I think they've done a good job portraying her insecurities and why she's so prickly, and her growth from that. It's also an interesting glimpse into the world of C-entertainment, how contracts/agencies/casting all work, etc.

Thanks for the info!

I am only a few episodes in, but everytime the SML appears, I just want to wipe that annoying smug look off his face ... a castration would not be excessive either. 😬

Yes, nepotism, connections and sex are definitely factors as well in some cases (even via agencies) -- not to say those are the only ways to become successful, obviously. The lucky ones make it through a combination of talent and luck. But for better or worse, a lot of agencies have unilateral control over the careers of their talent and breaking those contracts is very difficult without a lawsuit and money.

That's not really true. A lot of actors/actresses in expensive full-length dramas have accents. That's where voice actors might come in (though voice actors are used for other reasons too). Sometimes they are dubbed over especially in costume dramas, sometimes they just use their own voice (modern). Dylan Wang Hedi is a major example - his accent is extremely noticeable, though he has been working on it. I think Xu Kai also has an accent. Most Taiwanese and HK actors have accents, but many still appear in mainland China productions. There was a period where China even got K-actors onto their dramas (Park Min Young, Ji Chang Wook, Lee Jong Suk, etc.). Some full-length actors don't have a regional accent, but can't enunciate their words and also need to be dubbed over, but still get cast in big productions. There are many reasons why some actors are promoted/given certain roles and others are not, including a lot of agency politics involved. But I don't think accent is a major factor.

What does one do when one like both ML and 2ML? 😜🤣 (Hardships, I know, lol)
Zheng Yecheng has come a long way since Love O2O though and his acting is very strong here.

Curious, does Fan Zhixin (Chong Lin) have a lot of screen time or his own romantic storyline here?

He did start with those numbers though. There was a whole scene with the prosecutor going through a list of birthdays and anniversaries etc.

The Audiophile friends were only very close in high school, but because of that incident, the group splintered and most of them basically didn't talk to each other for 20 years and were no longer close, so it's not surprising at all the number remained a mystery for so long. (And we'll ignore the fact that password security 101 is to never use obvious numbers like birthdays anyway, lol)

I'm not saying the show was flawless. There were many things I found annoying. But the crypto password wasn't among them.

The wife got a much kinder ending then she deserved. But it was probably their way to stay connected with what was left of their friend who died.

I also felt like the prosecutor got off too easily. Given everything he did, he should have suffered a lot more with the knowledge that he failed.

(Also, he only had 10 tries anyway to try various combinations. He would never guess those numbers)

I guess we'll agree to disagree. I am sure the prosecutor tried the wife's birthday in combination with his *own* number. But even his own number was wrong, so how would he know? And nobody knew about the Friendship Day except the four of them - two of them had even forgotten about the date until they saw the old video, and the insurance friend only remembered because it's the same birthday as his mother's. Otherwise he wouldn't remember either. None of the others would know about the date or think anything significant about a random summer day where the three of them went to visit Jun Seo (dead guy) at the beach. To be clear, the Friendship Day is not the 1882 number that was in the text messages.

BE was great!

What I mean is, they entered the wife's birthday as the first four digits -- those would not be the numbers Tae Jin entered. Then they entered the Audiophile Friendship Day as the second set of 4 digits -- and they only figured those numbers out at the beach.