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Cheating girlfriend in an excruciatingly boring story
Chinese drama makers usually portray female cheating in positive light and male cheating in negatively. And usually the male characters are presented as feminized versions of the ideal woman or one-dimensional villains, who suddenly get religion and in tears, beg the cheating women for forgiveness (or change their ways)
This is one such story. And it crawls. Excruciatingly! This show is not worth watching.
The LF (played by Sun Yi) has a 10 year relationship with her rich boyfriend and they live separately. Seriously???? What does the word relationship mean in Chinese context? Does it mean the two never got together in 10 years of "relationship"?
She is getting tired of him, so instead of breaking up with him, she starts an affair with the veterinarian LM. For a few episodes she two-times her original boyfriend while lying to him, and meeting the vet on the sly.
There is not much romance or even good performances. The cheating LF is portrayed by the director/story writers as a neo-feminist who is justified in cheating even though there was no context provided to audience. And the original boyfriend was portrayed as a devious and evil man whom no decent woman would ever want.
Actually, the original boyfriend (played by Zhang Wan Yi) was a very decent man who would be considered a huge catch for most normal girls in China, Korea and pretty much anywhere in the world. He is rich, successful in business and wants to marry his girlfriend (instead of just having "relationship"), wants to help her parents in their business. A man like that would have girls lining up on the Great Wall. But the story writers and director considered him to be the anti-thesis of a good man and turned him into a unidimensional caricature of a bad man. The performance by this actor was easily the worst in the entire show.
The LM (played by Zhang Wan Yi) is the typical androgynous, effeminate man that Chinese Dramas (and K-dramas) are infested with but loved obsessively by Chinese girls and teens. His performance is nothing to write home about, but his nonchalant, stoic demeanor came across perfectly for a man who wants to seduce a woman who is already taken. If only this character had been played with an older more manly actor, the show might have been saved.
The LF was pretty but unimpressive. There was little to know chemistry with the two men she was two timing. But here relationship with her bestie did turn out be the highlight of her performance. Less said the better
This is one such story. And it crawls. Excruciatingly! This show is not worth watching.
The LF (played by Sun Yi) has a 10 year relationship with her rich boyfriend and they live separately. Seriously???? What does the word relationship mean in Chinese context? Does it mean the two never got together in 10 years of "relationship"?
She is getting tired of him, so instead of breaking up with him, she starts an affair with the veterinarian LM. For a few episodes she two-times her original boyfriend while lying to him, and meeting the vet on the sly.
There is not much romance or even good performances. The cheating LF is portrayed by the director/story writers as a neo-feminist who is justified in cheating even though there was no context provided to audience. And the original boyfriend was portrayed as a devious and evil man whom no decent woman would ever want.
Actually, the original boyfriend (played by Zhang Wan Yi) was a very decent man who would be considered a huge catch for most normal girls in China, Korea and pretty much anywhere in the world. He is rich, successful in business and wants to marry his girlfriend (instead of just having "relationship"), wants to help her parents in their business. A man like that would have girls lining up on the Great Wall. But the story writers and director considered him to be the anti-thesis of a good man and turned him into a unidimensional caricature of a bad man. The performance by this actor was easily the worst in the entire show.
The LM (played by Zhang Wan Yi) is the typical androgynous, effeminate man that Chinese Dramas (and K-dramas) are infested with but loved obsessively by Chinese girls and teens. His performance is nothing to write home about, but his nonchalant, stoic demeanor came across perfectly for a man who wants to seduce a woman who is already taken. If only this character had been played with an older more manly actor, the show might have been saved.
The LF was pretty but unimpressive. There was little to know chemistry with the two men she was two timing. But here relationship with her bestie did turn out be the highlight of her performance. Less said the better
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