Ranking women by their looks (or 'ranking' them by any physical criteria) doesn't feel very wise or very healthy. By all means have a list of favourites but ranking 'beauty' is asinine.
Apart from the main leads and the kid, almost all the remaining characters are just awful. And every interaction betwen them leads to them becoming worse and worse :)
There are clever ambiguous endings and cop-out ambiguous endings . This is definitely the latter - it could have been better if the creative team had had more courage.
I still gave it a 10 though because despite its flaws, it was excellent.
The second male lead is a walking green flag. Usually arrogant, red-flag male leads are my catnip but I do think the FL would be better off with Mr Xie.
Is there anything-fucking-worse than ‘we might be siblings’ trope. Ugh.
Thank you for answering! I completely understand the narrative conceit behind this but more creative, less hackneyed, situations would have created a similar division rather than the fake sibling trope.
Loved this! Inhaled it in one sitting. The only reason I didn’t rate it a 10 was because it featured the ‘worst trope ever TM’ and made me skip some scenes.
Really enjoyed the main couple but my affection for the series was tempered by the ‘NoT LiKE othEr GirLs’ stuff. You don’t have to look hard to realise this doesn’t actually do woman any kind of service.
Apart from the main leads and the kid, almost all the remaining characters are just awful. And every interaction betwen them leads to them becoming worse and worse :)
I still gave it a 10 though because despite its flaws, it was excellent.
Looking at you in particular, borderline abusive male lead…