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From a rich spoiled kid to letting go of past regrets to becoming a new energy business boss
This is a good show. It really is. Despite my initial frustrations at the FL. Nie Xiguang’s lack of awareness and archetypal spoiled rich kid. the second half of the show was extremely good except for the last episode. This is the reason why I gave it a 7.5 because I feel giving it an 8 endorses this as a must watch but I can’t say that because of how they handled the last episode but I will get to that.
Our ML. Yin Lusen is a Doctor who has a car accident which ruins his left hand so he can’t operate anymore and goes into business with the backing of his powerful and influential family, even though, as his mothers son, he doesn’t have any inheritance rights. The FL is a college student also from a very influential and powerful family.
My initial frustration is the set up for the show where we see the spoiled rich kid female lead going into the workplace where she’s working alongside the ML yet she shows him no respect is constantly defensive and the atmosphere is pretty hostile if not a little toxic.
It turns out he’s always been in love with her and because her father’s first love’s daughter has been using her name for clout he misunderstands that his accident was caused because she wanted to see him and he was a little resentful to her because she never visited him in hospital but it turns out it was all a misunderstanding due to that wicked stepdaughter trope.
Anyway, one of my other really frustrating points about this show and I don’t know if this was by design but it feel again like another status quo propaganda piece from China. If you’re rich and powerful then anybody beneath you is not worthy of you. That was the impression you got from the 2ML, even though the FL had been pursuing him and he did like her, he could never tell her because he didn’t think he was worthy of her because he was from a poor family.
What was interesting after she started dating the FL and there was a big confrontation with the 2ML she said something that really disturbed me.
After he was too late in confessing to her and became a bit obsessed and mad, she made the point that she would’ve chosen the ML anyway because they were always going to be together. I don’t know if this was intentional, but it really reinforced that trope of status and power only belong together and if you’re below that you can just forget about it.
Anyway, we see the FL going from this very spoiled shielded up bringing little girl, with a stunning lack of self-awareness into this slow burn growth arc, becoming a powerful business woman with clear goals and ability. Our ML went back into medicine and became a leading figure in his field.
The main problem why I had to deduct points is because of the last episode. The time jumps just got totally out of hand.
It’s like the writers forgot that this was set around 2012 2013 and they needed to catch up so they just decided to throw it all into the last episode.
Firstly, we jumped two years to their wedding and we watched that for 30 seconds and I thought, okay, that’s fine.
Then incredibly, we jumped 10 years to 2025 and I thought, okay that’s fine, I guess, because the technology that they were trying to develop was in its infancy so they needed to catch up to modern times and I thought, fair enough. Just about. We watched that for about a minute.
Then inexplicably, we jumped another three years to 2028.
I’m not really sure why they did that because all these people now are near their 40s but of course, haven’t aged a day since 2012,
The other thing that slightly bothered me was the FL was in Saudi Arabia signing a big deal for this new energy business and when she came back I got the impression she’s been away for quite awhile because when they were talking to their little daughter, she wasn’t aware of her academic development, which is a bit troubling.
Also this last episode plodded along and it was just the two of them reminiscing about the good old days.
They made a bit of a mess of it so I can only give it a 7.5 as it is good but it is definitely not a must watch.
Our ML. Yin Lusen is a Doctor who has a car accident which ruins his left hand so he can’t operate anymore and goes into business with the backing of his powerful and influential family, even though, as his mothers son, he doesn’t have any inheritance rights. The FL is a college student also from a very influential and powerful family.
My initial frustration is the set up for the show where we see the spoiled rich kid female lead going into the workplace where she’s working alongside the ML yet she shows him no respect is constantly defensive and the atmosphere is pretty hostile if not a little toxic.
It turns out he’s always been in love with her and because her father’s first love’s daughter has been using her name for clout he misunderstands that his accident was caused because she wanted to see him and he was a little resentful to her because she never visited him in hospital but it turns out it was all a misunderstanding due to that wicked stepdaughter trope.
Anyway, one of my other really frustrating points about this show and I don’t know if this was by design but it feel again like another status quo propaganda piece from China. If you’re rich and powerful then anybody beneath you is not worthy of you. That was the impression you got from the 2ML, even though the FL had been pursuing him and he did like her, he could never tell her because he didn’t think he was worthy of her because he was from a poor family.
What was interesting after she started dating the FL and there was a big confrontation with the 2ML she said something that really disturbed me.
After he was too late in confessing to her and became a bit obsessed and mad, she made the point that she would’ve chosen the ML anyway because they were always going to be together. I don’t know if this was intentional, but it really reinforced that trope of status and power only belong together and if you’re below that you can just forget about it.
Anyway, we see the FL going from this very spoiled shielded up bringing little girl, with a stunning lack of self-awareness into this slow burn growth arc, becoming a powerful business woman with clear goals and ability. Our ML went back into medicine and became a leading figure in his field.
The main problem why I had to deduct points is because of the last episode. The time jumps just got totally out of hand.
It’s like the writers forgot that this was set around 2012 2013 and they needed to catch up so they just decided to throw it all into the last episode.
Firstly, we jumped two years to their wedding and we watched that for 30 seconds and I thought, okay, that’s fine.
Then incredibly, we jumped 10 years to 2025 and I thought, okay that’s fine, I guess, because the technology that they were trying to develop was in its infancy so they needed to catch up to modern times and I thought, fair enough. Just about. We watched that for about a minute.
Then inexplicably, we jumped another three years to 2028.
I’m not really sure why they did that because all these people now are near their 40s but of course, haven’t aged a day since 2012,
The other thing that slightly bothered me was the FL was in Saudi Arabia signing a big deal for this new energy business and when she came back I got the impression she’s been away for quite awhile because when they were talking to their little daughter, she wasn’t aware of her academic development, which is a bit troubling.
Also this last episode plodded along and it was just the two of them reminiscing about the good old days.
They made a bit of a mess of it so I can only give it a 7.5 as it is good but it is definitely not a must watch.
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