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She's in 'The Best Thing', and plays a much more mature, grounded character, and nailed it. The writing here was questionable but she's quite capable.

I found it quite interesting. Often in modern CN romance dramas, the adjacent plots are a mess. But the Billiard plot here was in sync with the romance. Side characters didn't steal much screentime with nonsensical plots. But if you are not into billiard stuff then I get it. Also, this drama is a gem for us introverted fellas lol

When the dude finally got over his insecurities and got some sense knocked into him, it was cute that the fl didn't outright accept it, and made him work for it a bit, in a good way. Probably one of the strongest nicest kindest and emotionally stable female leads ever, in drama land.

There are plenty of lighthearted romance shows, the problem is 'memorable stories'. It is not easy to write a story without proper conflicts, and make something straightforward enjoyable. For every 'Amidst a snowstorm of love (strong adjacent plot to romance)', there's 'love me love my voice (weak adjacent plot to romance, also lousy acting from one of the leads)'.

You shouldn't have. It's an average series but her character development is the focal point, and how she becomes stronger, what are the things that finally wake her up etc. It happens late, but it does.

Yes she is, but also in the show, she admits all her flaws. She acknowledges that she is flawed, works on them, comes out on top. Although redeeming the mother was unnecessary.

The drama redeemed the mother, unlike in the darker source material. As far as I know, Xu cuts her out. A person like that doing a 180, very rare so it felt jaded. And Song saving her, so cheesy. Why did they do it ? Filial piety ? Censors ? The First Frost, Yifan cuts her trash mother out in the show, so it's not censor.

Decent show but Yang Yang is a lousy actor. Also too lanky to be a firefighter.

I guess, them both being in a crappy family jail, the foster brother developed an unhealthy infatuation, as they could find solace in each other. "2 caterpillars stuck in a cave". By the end, when they got out of their shell and the family dynamic improved, his infatuation perished with it. Weird shit, but understandable.

Redeeming thing is, the dude was just possessive and over protective. He did not harm Xu in any way.

I am a sucker for sci fi and high fantasy so I didn't have a problem with it. Pretty good show. Only the ending for me is meh

It is understandable. Within 16 episodes they crammed in time travel, parallel universe and the concept of reality warping. So a bit messy, is expected.

Happy ending, just underwhelming,,and doesn't make much sense.

The show is pretty good. The ratings tanked mostly because of the nonsensical reality warping, and the rushed head scratching ending.

acting skills

Well yea it is perspective, I don't disagree. It's moreso that your standards are different for it compared to the mainstream audience.

This is not esport drama bro. It's a romance with massive Honor of Kings advert and Chinese space program propaganda. I don't have any issues with the latter. The esport phase goes away after like 10 episodes. The VFX is regarding the space exploration.

It's sad when people think of chemistry as 'sexual tension'. Chemistry is how two people get along with each other, matching real life emotions as close as possible. It can be love, hate, admiration, friendship, brotherhood, sisterhood, respect and many other things. The relationship between the leads evolves (the drama is the female lead POV) from hatred/fear to extreme caution to curiosity to admiration to confusion to attraction and when they enter the romance phase, it's burning hot. Each step of the way, they matched each other toe to toe conveying all those states of mind.

Whether China needs it or not, my eyes need it. Also, other modern cdramas have great visual effects. This one sucked donkey balls.

Nothing wrong with propaganda but it has to be done in style, like Top Gun Maverick. The special effects in this drama is just..yikes. And cdramas have the best special effects in Asia.

fair enough. Well, they did have chemistry in wwwsk, but I didn't feel like it was love, more like, a positive partnership.