JamieDylan24

I always end up disliking dramas whenever they include a character travelling into a novel, so I was a little hesitant to start this show. But since it has Liu Yuning I couldn't forget about it. So I started watching it and initially fell in love with the story.

I starts out really funny and I was into it from the get-go. You follow Song Xiao Yu as she's preparing herself to play a character in an upcoming drama. She's attending the first meeting where they go over certain plotpoints of the drama and meeting the actor's needs. It's a first big role for Xiao Yu and she's excited to play the part until she actually reads the script at home. At that point she discovers how much of a disaster the script is. Her character is a doozy and dies in the end. Xiao Yu wishes she could rewrite the whole thing and make it better.
Which lands her into the story ans Song Yi Meng, the female lead who is destined to fall in love with Nan Heng the male lead and die at his hands. She's desperate to change her destiny and will stop at nothing to stay far away from those who want to eventually kill her.
But the scriptwriter has a different ending in mind and he will stop at nothing to bring Nan Heng and Song Yi Meng together. Even if that means forcing Nan Heng to protect Yi Meng with his life whenever she faces death.

At the start of the drama the story has a lot of humor. We watch Yi Meng go through many deaths after which time resets and she lands right back at the start. Her confidence and go-get-them attitude made me laugh multiple times and I loved watching her go through ups and downs while trying to make her way through the set plotlines. But after she met Nan Heng I started to get annoyed by her.
She turned into this narrowminded and shallow fool who couldn't see beyond her own selfish needs and never wanted to listen to anything Nan Heng had to say. I do understand some of her choices since Nan Heng was obviously hostile in the beginning but when he started to open up and warm up to her she still turned a blind eye and just wanted to get back at him by planning his assassination. The poor man gave his life and bled for her each time she did something truly stupid but we never saw her grow. After everything they went through together she still refused to believe or trust Nan Heng and stick to her own needs.
That's why I did not see the chemistry between the two main leads. I didn't understand why Nan Heng was so in love with her. I did see it a little between Yi Meng and Li Sixteen (Nan Heng's alter ego) and I guess that's why he fell in love but having Nan Heng fight for her hand in marriage the way he did, knowing that all she did was planning for his death was just stupid.

Somewhere in the middle point (around episode 20) the drama also took a turn for the worst. The story became a mess and it was hard to keep up. When I saw then that the drama had 20 more episodes I got a little disheartened. I hoped it would become better again but sadly it ended as a big fail for me. The episodes 30 - 40 were unnecessary and I skipped most of the scenes, just wanting to get to the end and watch what would happen. They spend the last three episodes going back and forth in time, telling scenes from different angles, changing certain choices and ending up with and ending that really did not satisfy me.

I'm glad they added another ending after the credits which made it a little better but it still didn't really do it for me.