Bijou

Typical ordinary revenge plot, the story's ingenious plot structure is like a nested maze. Lack of romance and its fine since Hu Dong Qing and Liu Xiao Xu didn't have any chemistry. The kiss was too dry. Their acting is excellent, but the tension just doesn't appear in scene.

While the opening is indeed generic, some scenes are meticulously designed. For example, the fact that the FL was raised by her father's killer is itself a part of her childhood scheme. Furthermore, the fact that her adoptive father uses drugs to control her is far more sophisticated than using her mother's ashes, her sick grandmother, or her vegetative grandmother like usual Chinese short drama.

The plot is relatively simple, the pace is fast, and overall it's just average. I watched it because of Liu Xiao Xu.