Minalapinou

Perfect exemple of a drama that starts strong with good writing but fizzles out in its final act, diminished by unfulfilled promises and a bad last stretch full of copouts and bloodshed. On the casting front, Qiao Xin is a delight as clever and resourceful Qui Yan, but I'm not going to pretend that the show is not carried by Jeremy Tsui, his charisma, and his dashing looks. He is smoking hot in a classic type of prideful male lead who is burning for his lady in secret. Sadly the romance that was at first riveting was done dirty, Yuan Lang is a lame rival, the heroïne's sister Min was treated like garbage by the script, and no, after a slow-burn in costume you don't put your heroïne on the road to roam the world in search of inspiration (she had so many dangerous adventures, was it not enough ??) like we're in some modern RomCom with a last minute flight to study whatever abroad, that left me speechless. Truly sad because I was otherwise a big fan of the first act. Also, not enough kisses !