I created an account just to rate this drama, and if I could give it a 20, I would.
Last year, after watching Hidden Love, I learned that Sang Yan had his own story, so I frantically searched for the novel and read it. From the very beginning, Wen Yi Fan took my whole heart.I'm relatively new to cdramas, so I'd only watched Zhang Rounan in two previous dramas and I just thought she was really cute, and Baijingting was completely new to me. Then this dropped, and from the first episode, I just knew I would love it. And I wasn’t wrong. 45 minutes went by so fast, and I take that as the sign of truly enjoying a drama.
BJT brought Sang Yan to life: confident, devoted, handsome, and understanding. And let’s talk about ZRN, this girl showed her caliber. She was born to play WFY. ZRN, aside from being obviously GORGEOUS, was cute, elegant, shy, reserved. She embodied WYF perfectly: resilient, timid, vulnerable, yet strong.
I understand those who didn’t agree with the major deviation from the novel, but I don’t think it made the drama any less. You get to see WFY’s reasoning and it was valid, coming from her trauma. The last 4 episodes are truly a treat.
For me, everything was perfect: acting - both ZRN and BJT went above and beyond, with those eyes, those tears, those smiles, those kisses; chemistry - nothing to add, you can feel it since their first encounter; script - so many lines from the novel were kept and elevated, it's magical seeing something you read brought to life so perfectly; OST - every single song is sooo good, I have added the playlist on Spotify and listened to it while working lol; visuals - actors, camera work, color palette, scenography, just incredible; flow - good story flow, relevant events to their relationship, there is a little bit of scenes from the 2nd leads that you could skip but it didn't become that annoying to me; the slow burn - no too slow, even if some people disagree, no too fast, the perfect pace for them… you name it. I’ll be rewatching this soon.
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