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The best drama I've watched
I've watched more than a hundred dramas and this is one of the best! If there's a score more than 10 stars I would definitely score this higher. Love both the main leads who have a good head over their shoulders. Story is flawlessly written and coudn't find any fault with it. No typical cold guy syndrome or hate turned to love cliche story. Everything just flowed smoothly into place. All the bad characters got what they deserved. Villains killing each other was an ingenius idea. Hope there will be more dramas like this.Was this review helpful to you?
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Worth watching
I watched this mainly because of Johnny Huang; he has a lot of good dramas. True enough, I wasn't disappointed watching this but rated it a low re-watch value because there's no point in rewatching when I already know who the villains will be. At first I didn't even think there would be hidden villains at all!What I liked:
1) Loved the main lead's character - smart, good fighter, upright, warmhearted without being a pushover
2) Raises awareness for the harmful effects of drugs and human trafficking
3) The surprising twists in the story
What I didn't like:
1) There is always this one character in dramas that talk too much, is silly and loud and he is present here
2) A loophole with villains wearing body armor but the police are not? Also, they don't have guns to protect themselves with.
3) The main lead's family being the family of a police officer do not care about their safety at all and act carelessly. They would all be dead and used to threaten the main lead in reality.
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Worth watching
It's a bit similar to The Tale of Rose, albeit a faster-paced one. The speed with which she changes boyfriends is faster too and is quite disturbing. But at least in the end, she did make the right choice and maybe learned from her mistakes. Inspiring drama especially for young women.Was this review helpful to you?
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Overhyped
I thought Elvis Hans was the main lead at first and watched this because of him but after a few episodes, it was turning out that Ding Yi was the main lead. If he had not taken on the side job pretending to be Joseph Lee, there wouldn't be any story. His decision to earn money on the side deceiving other people led to all his misfortune and also dragged people around him into it. I've got to say that he is a really good actor but his character's stupidity and stubborness was so annoying that I couldn't watch it any further. People who like intense thrillers keeping them on the edge of their seats would like this, but I'm not one of them so dropped it.Was this review helpful to you?
Educational but boring
It was off to a good start and I thought JCT would be playing a really savvy and smart IT white hat guy, but turns out he's not. A cybersecurity expert who keeps getting duped and his partner kid who divulges info to an online unknown "friend" contradict the main plot. The only thing I liked about it were the safety tips at the end of each episode.Was this review helpful to you?
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Dropped after 5-1/2 episodes
After watching The Love You Give Me, which made me like the Wang-Wang chemistry, I decided to watch this too. Same as TLYGM, it's a cliche romantic comedy but with the same old tired storyline of a contract marriage. I have to give it to the writers at how creative they were to come up with ways to get the two main leads to agree to a contract marriage. It was quite pleasant until episode 6 where I couldn't stand the female lead's lack of intelligence and even more her friend, Xiyao's, dumb antics. They were urgently in need of money and trying to return the bridal gifts, but they impulsively buy a Balenciaga blouse instead??? Ugh, where did the brains go? So there, dropped it.Was this review helpful to you?
Dropped if
Tried to really watch it because they said this version is the best one and also I love Liu Yi Fei and Huang Xiao Ming, but I just couldn't stand HXM's noisy character. As for the story, I couldn't grasp what the main plot really is.Was this review helpful to you?
Didn't like it
Because of all the great reviews, I was really excited to watch this. I'm also a Hu Ge fan and couldn't wait to watch him again. I hated the first episode. I think there's something wrong with the English subtitles; they weren't accurately translated. Also, the way they talked, I think Shanghainese style, it was annoying to me. They were also talking too fast, and all that jargon was boring. I still gave it a chance and watched until the 3rd episode. Second and third episodes were better than the first, but still I found it boring. I didn't want to waste time something I wasn't enjoying just for the sake of watching it so I decided to drop it.Was this review helpful to you?
Droppex it
I wanted to give it a chance because of some good reviews but really couldn't stand it anymore after watching 5 episodes.There's nothing much with regards to story. It's pretty slow too. Female lead is too dumb and noisy. Male lead can't really act and always has the same frowning expression. Sorry to his fans but I don't find him handsome at all.
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Dropped it
I'm sorry but even with the great reviews, I just couldn't stand the typical obsessive second leads - the creepy stalker cousin and the obsessive girl shamelessly chasing after the creep right at the start. Would've been great without those two. Aren't we all tired of this same scenario?Was this review helpful to you?
Dropped it
9 minutes per episode? Is this a movie or a drama? What a confusing first episode. No background story to begin with or anything. What a mess of a writing. Started with showing the ending and I was expecting a flashback to begin the whole drama but it wasn't really an explanation, I don't even know what to call it.Was this review helpful to you?
