Easy watch, and after a disaster of a show with A listers (Eat Run Love) it was extremely refreshing to come binge this much lower budget but high energy minidrama from the Republican era. I quite enjoy cdramas from this era, and they killed it in costume, set and script. Thankfully its short, because I don’t think the overall plot was worthy of being dragged out any. The chemistry between leads is fire, and although there are questionable moments that seem to be brushed over as OK because plot dictates- the actors did an amazing job.
So many minidramas try to do what thos show succeeded as, but they fail miserably. Good job folks, cringey at times, humorous and enjoyable.
oh geez what happened? Arthur Chen needs a better agent. This script was absolutely horrendous. The FL is horrible, and is justified in walking away from him only once, and you will know it when you see it. The world revolves around her the entire rest of the series. In her self righteous poverty, or later in her self righteous hate. ML is running after her the entire show trying to make her moody face happy. Script, Director or actress, probably a combo of them all-did no favors. The script is extremely trashy. Plot holes everywhere you look. Using cancer to trick ML - abhorrent.
Disney+ wake up to the facts and lets get this show on the road. The cyberbullies shouldn’t win dumb fights. These actors are crucified in social media over lies because idiots believe the first things regardless of evidence and truth. There are enough of us in this world who have IQ to see thru witch hunts and money grabs and its all coming to light. Stand by your actors.
Oh for goodness sakes MDL why list the allegations without following it up with updates of how the ones who made up tge crap are admitting they lied and ge is countering all of this with multiple lawsuits. Please don’t feed into the nonsense by not reporting the rest of the story on this actors bio. Shame on you.
What a horrible watch. Writers and Director combination has to be the core reason, unless you are just casting people who can’t act. The FL role here is written so depressingly. She acts like a miffed sour puss the entire show, can probably count on one hand the moments where she is not pouting. Her friend is the same. The selfishness is on another level too, and the lines for the ML at times is also questionable. I mean are you actively trying to make us despise the leads?
Glad it’s over. The only redeeming quality is that Timmy’s wardrobe was fire. 🔥
This was an easy drama to watch. Nice core cast of characters- especially our main 3. The family compound was healthy and uplifting for the most part. They tried to have angsty parents but it would never last too long thank goodness.
The writing of the romance plots was almost there, but then it was missing something. I think that having short conflicts with others made it a little unrealistic. Sometimes you can just show tension, instead of telling with obnoxious characters or dialogue which really just leaves us with weird tension thats not quite threatening enough to the relationships.
Clearly people are bothered by QiQi. It got a but silly in the comments but oh well. Ending is unsatisfying if I am honest, they tried to wrap things up but they really didn’t. Timing and editing perhaps.
Overall its a bit of a choppy effort at a slice of life for multiple characters but it lacked development in a sense of styling and maturity. Everyone just looked the same and didn’t even seem to have growth in character in some way.
But its nice, draggy in parts, but worth a watch once.
So glad someone said this outloud. I’m dumbfounded on anyone rating this higher than 3! Its a giant commercial with a weird plot and terrible acting. I couldn’t even finish!!
OK hear me out. I’m gonna give it a 9 for fun, crazy, cheesy, romance and chemistry. But I’m removing 4 because the level of toxicity and plot holes in this show are off the charts. The bad guys just disappear or getaway with it. The ML is beyond rough at times. The delulu girls have dumb reasons. The gpa could have easily vouched for FL. The pathological liar that she is was the biggest turn off. She lied so much and that caused her fathers death yet she blamed everything on the fact he wanted nothing to do with his “wife” who quite frankly she made no effort to connect with. She plays a victim card all the way thru. He saves her life or virtue literally a billion times, and she still is rude. Guys if you come across a woman like this, run for your lives. A bit of smarter writing could have made for a better show even with all the funny table jumping, beam me up scotty out of nowhere, cringy lines. 4/10
This is anything but a 9.0 (on viki) rating. It has every single trope known to man. Unrealistic 20 somethings CEOs of all the gaming companies. They seem to have the ability to beam themselves instantly to places in seconds. FL has zero logic at the first sign of trouble. Everyone seems extremely immature and silly. This is the worst example of what real love is about. You always hope with these shows it might get better. Stuck it through albeit with a fair amount of skipping for my own sanity, yeah at best this thing is a 6 and it’ll be forgotten soon.
Personally I don’t think the ratings are high enough for this. Hidden Love it is not, but I got a similar vibe…
I didn’t care too much about the anime/comic plot, even tho I know its probably the whole point. Just skipped those parts, and enjoyed the boarding lol
Personally I don’t think the ratings are high enough for this. Hidden Love it is not, but I got a similar vibe from the production styling of this show. The slower pace, the music, the camera shots. The two main leads pulled off the chemistry even though Esther can be real hard to take as a cutesy almost 30 yo, but its who she is and we know that. The scenery is stunning and it was fun to see them include northern culture thats not usually in the average cdrama. Snowboarding is a fun sport, and they shot that part of the story well. The side characters were all fun, though I don’t think it ever gets explained whether her bestie is just obnoxious or she has sone kind of issue with Yan. Would have loved for that sub plot to be padded out. Typical judgy parentals - wish they’d give that trope a rest in 2025. Can ai just acknowledge that while I have no problem with a uber rich FL wearing a different outfit every day on the entire story - assuming these are all Esthers, because the clothing budget must have been extortionate lol- but can we realistically have her travel with the 10 suitcases that would require because theres no way you’re convincing any of us all that fit in one bag 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Also, while I enjoyed all the relationship development- I am so tired of ridiculous break up tropes that have no weight to them. There’s a few that happen here and it’s like watching teenagers with no brains make decisions. Since when are you going to sort your life out better by splitting up? Unless you have space issues, I’m pretty sure you can sort your career and still date or have a simple joint conversation to discuss resolution. It was skippable. Mature adults usually have conversations. I mean at least give us something valid, even the typical no dating rule for training would have been more believable than that!!!!!
HEA - mostly sweet drama, lots of romance, kisses are ok, don’t think Esther moves her mouth once but thats ok ML pulls it off like usual in a cdrama. 🤣
Was looking forward to this and waited to binge. Disappointed in the lack of romance for a show tagged with that label. It was at times funny and sweet and other times downright annoying filled with plot holes. They didn’t sell me on the Quiznos lol, I’m sure they enjoyed their one bites of a sandwich and the predictable “hmmmmm” selling lol in these shows.
Evil Chairwoman did fantastic in her role, but not believable that a school chairwoman had that much reach to manipulate a whole system, that then eventually prosecuted her, so thats a bit daft. You’re telling me one Director of NIS also had that much pull? I mean theres zero explanation why any of her henchman were doing scumbag things for her.
OK ending but those last handful of episodes were rushed.
So many minidramas try to do what thos show succeeded as, but they fail miserably. Good job folks, cringey at times, humorous and enjoyable.
Do better.
Glad it’s over. The only redeeming quality is that Timmy’s wardrobe was fire. 🔥
The writing of the romance plots was almost there, but then it was missing something. I think that having short conflicts with others made it a little unrealistic. Sometimes you can just show tension, instead of telling with obnoxious characters or dialogue which really just leaves us with weird tension thats not quite threatening enough to the relationships.
Clearly people are bothered by QiQi. It got a but silly in the comments but oh well. Ending is unsatisfying if I am honest, they tried to wrap things up but they really didn’t. Timing and editing perhaps.
Overall its a bit of a choppy effort at a slice of life for multiple characters but it lacked development in a sense of styling and maturity. Everyone just looked the same and didn’t even seem to have growth in character in some way.
But its nice, draggy in parts, but worth a watch once.
Also, while I enjoyed all the relationship development- I am so tired of ridiculous break up tropes that have no weight to them. There’s a few that happen here and it’s like watching teenagers with no brains make decisions. Since when are you going to sort your life out better by splitting up? Unless you have space issues, I’m pretty sure you can sort your career and still date or have a simple joint conversation to discuss resolution. It was skippable. Mature adults usually have conversations. I mean at least give us something valid, even the typical no dating rule for training would have been more believable than that!!!!!
HEA - mostly sweet drama, lots of romance, kisses are ok, don’t think Esther moves her mouth once but thats ok ML pulls it off like usual in a cdrama. 🤣
Worth a watch.
Evil Chairwoman did fantastic in her role, but not believable that a school chairwoman had that much reach to manipulate a whole system, that then eventually prosecuted her, so thats a bit daft. You’re telling me one Director of NIS also had that much pull? I mean theres zero explanation why any of her henchman were doing scumbag things for her.
OK ending but those last handful of episodes were rushed.