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Watched it already, you can check my list :)

Yeah, Gao Qi Qiang is a much more realistic and interesting character. But even when it comes to the cops, An Xin's colleagues are all way more realistic, most people would find Li Xiang more relatable for example. Either way irl, stubborn and inflexible people like An Xin is a huge pain in the ass tbh, like they would make a terrible person to be around with regardless of his "virtue." Like imagine having a dad or husband like him, it would be a misfortune, even supervillain like Xu Jiang would be a better dad because at least he would do anything for his son.

An Xin also does straight up idiotic things, that are not even related to administering justice or doing the right thing, like for example when he jump down without rope during the exercise to risk his life for what reason? Ended up shooting the hostage it was so dumb. It's like he's way too arrogant and want to show off as a hero or something, it's really annoying af.

An Xin character is so unrealistic. Way too suicidal and lack self-interest. Dude's basically had a silver spoon handed to him on a platter from early on, he could've easily just cruise through life, backed by his powerful dad and father in law, date and marry his pretty gf, and have a genius mob boss in the underworld as connection. Could've just play it safe and make money easily with his connection and enjoy an easy life at the top of Jinghai food chain pyramid really from early on. But nooo, dude's an idiot and is only alive for so long due to plot armor, irl he would've died an early tragic death without ever achieving anything.

Also Meng Yu would've been dead if the "bad guys" didn't save her. So An Xin is not only useless but also an ingrate. I sympathize more with the family-oriented villains like Gao Qiqiang, Yang Jian, Chen Jinmo, etc. All they wanted is to give the best things for their family. Yang Jian is especially relatable, he was good cop who risk his life to protect the people, but what did he get? Then he look at all those crooked bureaucrats who sit safely behind their desk while accumulating wealth, it's so unfair, how do you expect him to refuse taking bribes, man got his mom and wife and kid to take care of.

But the biggest moral of the story is how gentlemanly Chinese men are depicted in the drama. All the women (Meng Yu, Gao Qilan, Huang Yao, all the unnamed wives of Jiang Tian and all the convicted CPC members) basically end up unscathed because they were protected/purposely kept in the dark, while at the same time benefiting from the dirty money and perks that men around them accumulate. And all these men are seemingly willing to die for their wives and daughters, damn, even An Xin wanna give his savings to former gf who marry another man. Main villain Gao Qiqiang, the top dog in the city, plays house with an old widow who came with a spoilt brat and the daughter of a man he killed, yet still goes crazy over them, like I mean, it's hard not to pity this man.

An Xin is just the usual unrealistic protagonist character. He's one of those unrealistic fictional character created for the sake of propaganda, someone who put the interest of the "party"/country above everything else. His behavior choices just goes against common sense and human nature, which should logically prioritize more important things like personal safety, personal benefit/money, love, etc. Then again if fictional characters act rationally there would really be no drama: imagine if he does the logical thing eg. accepted Meng Yu's invitation to move to Beijing with her from the beginning, live a normal safe stable life and settle down like everyone else, there would be no story to tell.

But yeah, I really hate his character, terrible boyfriend, terrible husband. He would make a good conscript for the front line or a good bodyguard, but I would not want a family member like that.

From the first episode I notice it has a lot of same actors with my favorite cdrama "in the name of the people" so I know it's gonna be good.

It's super weird that people don't age in 21 years of time skip though. The kids age, make sense. The old men are understandable if they look the same. However, Gao Qilan and Meng Yu not aging in 21 years is disturbing. The bigger issue is that these women during the 2000 arc are supposed to be under 20, yet somehow look like 30 yrs old, while in the 2021 arc, they're supposed to be nearing 40, yet still look like 30 yrs old and not aged one bit, it's unrealistic. 20+ years time skip is too much, writers should stop doing too big gap of time skip for live action dramas.

> For the you g once I guess they like him because its like having an idol that has loyalty to one woman is like having him for them selves.

Really good point and idk why others prefer these other "idols" who would kiss every random women. Would they prefer to marry all these players and fkboys who are the best kissers who have kissed hundreds of women (and most likely go further than that) as well irl?

Those like Allen are way more likely to be a more respectable person irl.

Well, a lot of viewers are hating on these no kisses dramas and actors but for me I thought these actors who stop kissing everyone on the set once they got married are pretty cool and respectable. It's also nice to know that the company/industry are still willing to hire these people so they don't lose their job opportunity just because they don't wanna kiss every random people.

Good investigation historical drama, but too much sad/depressing moments and tragedy throughout the drama. The Imperial Coroner is still the best for the genre imo.

Chinese govt love Chinese government corruption stories they even fund some of em, if I remember right it started with "in the name of the people" which became popular in China when it airs. It's part of Xi's advertising his anti-corruption campaign drive, one of the main reason for Xi's high approval rating is the fact that the public liked this anti-corruption thing (especially the part where some of the supposedly untouchable high ranking CCP cadres actually got caught and punished for corruption, previously before Xi's reign, there was no such precedent). As a result, these "dramas" where Chinese govt stamp out corruption is very popular domestically.

Actually China is one of the few countries that is not shy to admit that the corruption within their government is a serious issue, many other corrupt countries actually "censors" such things, for example Thailand.

It's pretty dumb tbh. Like they all know that Chen guy is a scumbag, makes no sense for the leads to try so hard to save him from the explosion. For the sake of justice they should've just let that Chen guy die and then there will be no further complication and good people don't have to suffer. If I know for sure it is a justified revenge kill, I would take the side of justice over the inflexible law.

ML decision making actually made no sense, he tried to save the life of Chen villain for what, upheld law? But then immediately contradict himself by choosing friendship over law which resulted in even more disaster.

> And whether the crying/pouting thing is done in a sneaky way or not - it's still emotional manipulation - she is intentionally using this emotion to get what she wants and that's not ok

Many children do that all the time, like crying/pouting when things don't go their way, idk if you can call that emotional manipulation. It's just one of those learned behavior that humans learn since young, like when even a baby would realize that crying could get her that pacifier, it's positive reinforcement whenever someone cries and get rewarded for it, so they keep doing it.

Fictions are not supposed to represent reality, it's more of an idealized fantasy. Look at US police dramas, they are depicted so righteous and heroic there, while in reality it's just police brutality left and right.

Fan Wei acting is superb. You should watch her in other dramas where she plays "good" character, she's likable there.

ML is an adult while FL is only 2 years old and in the beginning behaved like a kid as well... literally grooming. He even read a book on how to tame her. If this doesn't have the "interspecies" tag it would be so disturbing.

Probably 9 out of 10 people who watch these dramas are females. It's pretty obvious from the comments on this site, like dramas with reverse harem where a bunch of pretty boys are chasing FL no one complains, but if it's the other way around all these "self-insert FL" watchers all complain.

The contrast can be seen in fictions where the majority of audience is male. There, MCs with harem full of female characters chasing the ML is a common trope. Or the usual male fantasy where a beauty is interested in an "ordinary" average guy.

In the end it's all about catering to the demography, romance serial dramas (and romance novels where many of these are based on) have always been targeted at females, while the Chinese 2d world (video games, manhua, anime) are mainly targeted at males and will always contain more works that are catered for that demography.

One of the funniest unrealistic cliche that is obviously targeted for female audience is the young handsome CEO falls in love with some ordinary poor girl plot. But in reality, we know these ceos are mostly old ugly bastard who would be in a relationship with multiple women.

I like how it's considered normal for female idol fans (like FL and SFL) to put a bunch of pictures of their idols in their bedroom. If it's the opposite, like males putting female idol pics in their bedroom he would be deemed a creepy pervert.

Speaking of which, money is also the reason why ML has a young stepmom and a young aunt that comes with it who became his babysitter lol. Imagine if ML dad is poor, ML is like screwed and hopeless realistically speaking. Oh, and his dad would probably be a single widower.

SML and SFL band disbanded also because of money, with the members realizing that "making money is more important than fulfilling your dream."

SFL mom is also another character who's only contribution is... asking her daughter for money.

In the end FL also forsake her dream and her radio show that her dad liked died, seemingly end up as an obedient housewife.

This show is actually pretty interesting because there is a lot of portrayal of ugly realities. It's a pretty depressing show throughout, blindness, autism (both ML and the boy), even FL got mental disorder near the end, death on dad and best friend, etc. The drama doesn't even have villains at all, but so many sadness and tragedy. It shows that life is hard, even when there's no evil people around.

The male actor is 46 years old. The female actress is 25. It is 20+ yo gap, she's young enough to be his daughter. Regardless of the plot, maybe they should cast people with closer age gap...

1. Watch minute 38 in the last episode, that mental illusion said goodbye, hence it is presumed that FL is cured.

2. Just a scare, turns out the baby is fine, ML said so after FL wakes up.

3. The usual timeskip in some cdramas, kid suddenly grow up in the ending.

4. Old self is his original "normal" self before he turned "cold and antisocial" due to trauma after he witnessed his mom's death.

I really hated the ML in the first 16 ep, then started liking him after becoming the bossy ceo, and by the final 3 episode he becomes relatable. I like the character growth, he started as a helpless loser and becoming a successful man in control in the end.