High budget production with a sub-Borderline story line
Before the release of the drama, the trailer was on point, captured most of the drama's essence has a intriguing bad boy-good girl couple with a romance that tested the boundaries of brother-sister relationship vs man-woman.However when the drama was released I realised the plot was not really what I expected, it focused more on the leads chemistry scenes, there was no solid foundation to build up their relationship, no deep reasoning for them to fall in love, no character developement or development to their relatioship. It feels like their romance happened just because its the plot and bam they just indulged in each other's lust. Once they got together there were so many lovey-dovey scenes and little storyline between the two. It feels like each time they got together was just to kiss or hug, even one kiss scene lined up after another in a different place, and then the next scene you see Mumu suddenly dancing to some song at some festival and Jin Zhao sitting with some girl with his hands over the randoms girl's shoulders. The scenes are literally so disconnected and all over the place. albeit being very well shot with the pretty colours in the background.
Perhaps because I've only watch up to ep 16, which is already about half way into the drama, I feel the storyline up to this point is quite non-existent, just Mumu going to find Jin Zhao, them reuniting, Mumu settling down in Thailand meanwhile guessing what Jin Zhao is up to, which up to this point there isn't much revealed as well. I don't know what these 16 episodes have contributed to the whole story, it feels like it could be condensed into just 6-8 episodes instead.
The scenes where Mumu cried were unconvincing as well, in my opinion the story is not troubling enough to resonate with a cry. I get that they got separated at their childhood but is this reason alone enough to cause such a yearning for each other? Perhaps the plot could thicken to add more tension in their family relationships like Mumu having a bad relationship with her mom and step father, how they would trouble her in other ways and her only good memory was when she had her brother around.
Also, the whole set up feels very staged, especially their clothes, like who goes to school wearing which pretty cute short skirts and dresses and a tiny little bag? And why is Jin Zhao always sweating?
Although I love the whole production's music, cinematography, actors and acting, It feels like a good production go to waste because of the story line. While watching this drama I felt a similar vibe to another drama "Forbidden Flower' which carried the same type of tension and chemistry between the leads, also a bad boy-young girl relationship, lots of lust, and just a bam, romance without any deep plot or development story. I checked and indeed they were written by the same screenwritter T.T
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Ridiculously funny and out of the world morbidness
This is probably the only drama where I find the ML character quite displeasing, there is zero relationship development between the ML and FL from the first episode all the way until when the ML found out about the filter. I don’t feel like the FL has very strong feelings towards the ML either all through out before the truth was found out. Everything was all about trying the hide, lie and role play to coverup another lie. Unlike other fake identity dramas where there is still a relationship development like the ML will recognise some habits of the FL in their fake skin and all, it isnt the case for this, it feels like there is a huge gap between ML and FL whether they are in the real or fake self. I actually prefer the characters of the side couple and their story, they make more sense and give a cute vibe between them.However the plot is so ridiculous and out of the ordinary, extremely absurd that I got to finish watching this drama to see how else they can make my mind be blown away by its absurdity…..
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