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If you don't like it, why force yourself? People have different tastes.
I happen to love this drama. It is definitely not perfect, but for me, the pros outweigh the cons.
What I hated: Xie Xiao is very hard to take. (btw - He gets worse, before he gets better. It is around episode 33 that he mellows and you see less of him.) The Yang Yue/Shangguan Xi storyline gets a thumbs down from me. Their stuff is too repetitive. They are clearly used as filler. Even their storyline's villian fell flat, imo. I think Xie Xiao and Yang Yue were both supposed to come off as funny, but do not quite make it.
What I loved: Allen Ren and Seven Tan do an amazing job portraying their characters and the Lu Yi/Jin Xia love story is so great. I have not liked a leading man character this much, since Jiang Zi Shu (It Started With A Kiss). Han Dong did an amazing job as Yan Shi fan. By far, my favorite villain ever. I am someone that really likes campy comedy, to keep an otherwise serious storyline from getting too heavy. This drama has and interesting mix of serious characters, comedy relief characters, and some that are a little of both. Several side characters's actors did a great job in their roles as well. That underwater scene was so bad, that is became funny. Also really loved how the adoption story is written and acted. (one of my hobbies relates to helping adoptees use dna and genealogy to find their birth parents, and from what I know, I believe they treated that twist with respect and gave a true representation of how the involved parties would feel and respond)... and did I mention the romantic story line between Lu Yi and Jin Xia is so great!
- if you do not like the comedy, beyond about ep 35, the story becomes more serious.

Also still obsessed. love Seven Tan in pretty much everything. Love the Lu Yi character so much! Allen Ren as Lu Yi, might be my new favorite male lead. At the very least, he is tied with my previous favorite (It Started with a Kiss Joe Cheng as Jiang Zi Shu)Currently reading AwkwarDerp's translation of the book, on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Syublush/ - so far, it is super fun and there are lots of differences, but it will be a long while before the whole thing is translated... In the book, it is up to the part that Lu Yi has told her to go to the victim's house and wait til the rooster crows 3 times. I am dying to know if the umbrella scene was the same as in the drama or different.

Really enjoying seeing Liu Lin again. Had to think a minute before remembering where I had seen her before (The Story of Ming Lan)

I'm on episode 8 and so far, do not have a strong opinion about him. I have watched probably all of the versions of this drama... I remember liking that character, in all of the others, especially in the Korean version played by Choi Jin Hyuk.

Loving that they paired this actor and actress together again!

I added my summaries here on MDL. Scroll to the top of this page and click on the Episode Guide tab.

Just watched it. So amazing, but warning: it will make you cry buckets full. I swear, I need to stop watching So Ji Sub movies. It really is well done, well acted, good story... Loved the "hanbok woman" Cameo!

Yay. I can't wait to be able to read it all! I wonder if it is too much to hope that the next one will be made into a drama too, and that the same actress and actor will play the lead roles again.

tell me more! Is anything about their after married life translated into English?

Edit: 6/25 - I have been going back through the index of scenes with the lead couple, to correct any errors. I have spotted a few. - I often watched and made notes for 3 episodes at a time, then typed them in to them into the computers. I could not always read my own handwriting. lol.
.... And as an extra resource: An index of every scene that involves both Lu Yi and Jin Xia, with times. Each scene has a short description to help those looking for a particular scene. To find this, go to the episode Summary in the Episode guide, then scroll down to look for a post with the heading " Want to find the Special Scene?"
It is my first time writing summaries and the guide to help find the lead couple's scenes. I hope someone finds these useful. I would love to hear some feed back.

It's also on Viki

Agree that separately, both characters deliver. The problem is that, I believe they used it for filler. Rather than mess with the main couple's story, they allowed the Yang Yue and Shangguan Xi to progress too quickly and then later, became repetitive. They played out the same conversations (essentially) twice. They fell together twice. They had the same "big boss" fight (essentially) twice. I 100% think they could have put a little more effort in, let them develop a friendship, before Yang Yue became so smitten, it could have been saved. It might have changed the dynamic, but another possibility would have been for him to be attracted to her, but have a preexisting crush on Jin Xia that he had to get over, before he started stalking Shangguan Xi. Or maybe a previous broken engagement, of his own... that would have been a bond and a reason he didn't move forward, so soon, but still allow them to have some on screen time together. I would have much rather seen them eating and drinking together with no real point, than to see her be kidnapped over and over by the same guy and with essentially the same type of escapes.

wow. You stopped on ep 20? what? Imo, some of the best episodes are 21, 22, 23, 24, 25... for reasons. Xie Xiao is definitely annoying and The Shanguan/Da Yang story line just never seemed to connect with me. I admit to fast forwarding through some of Shanguan and Da Yang's story, but still think the main couple is so worth the watch. I normally get impatient when it takes a long time to make progress in the relationship, but this one developed so gradually, they really do give you a little something in each episode showing the relationship getting closer.
Right now, I am on my 3rd watch. I have decided to may a table of contents, that will list the times of every scene the lead couple are both on screen. If you are not rooting for this couple after the 12 minute mark in episode 21... I don't even know what to say. When I saw that scene, I knew Lu Yi was my all time favorite type of leading man.

This is the best chemistry I have seen Ireine Song have with a male lead. I have only watched the both seasons of EverNight and Flavor is Yours. Enjoying this drama, so far.

I am so happy to find a daily drama to watch again, with lots of episodes. I have started to watch weekday afternoons with a cup of green tea, to relax.
I have kind of an obscure question. In ep. 14, the father is at home listening to a radio? broadcast or a cassette? of calisthenics to do. I have seen some old dramas, where whole households or whole communities gather to do these exercises while music(an anthem?) is playing and someone is speaking and counting down the exercises to do. Does anyone know what these are called and know where I can see a video with these and with everything translated into English?

Is there a chart somewhere that shows how everyone is related to each other for this drama? I am just starting it now, and not sure who a couple people are.

Thank you. I was just about to ask where to watch this. I saw it as it aired and wanted to re-watch, but couldn't find it. - Youtube says it is not available to my country (I am in the USA). It looks like I will be able to watch it on On demand Korea though. )

I re-watched this over the last couple days. I miss this old romcom formula, that made me fall in love with Kdramas. fun sweet adorable touching... Just makes me smile.

I am up to ep 10(I think). I am waiting for subs... I think it may take longer than 12 ep. though. I peeked ahead, and there is a baby. I am wondering if the baby is the daughter mentioned in the synopsis. If so, maybe closer to ep 20 before we get into the meat of the story???