littleberry09

it's hard to believe Tan Song Yun was in her early 30s in her drama. she was playing a 16 year old in the fast half and she really looked that age 😭

sad he doesn't realise he always had Dad Li but he didn't realise until years later on in the story. Li treated Ziqui as his own child, equal to Jian Jian but Ziqui had so many insecurities 😔

I think it's one of those dramas where largely people who are new to Kdramas or new to this kind of genre find it amazing. I had the same experience as you, it felt like it took forever to finish especially the 2nd half. I have watched other Kdramas with similar themes (with demons, e.g: Doom to Your Service) and I found this drama to be majorly lacking in comparison. the first episode itself had potential but I think they bungled it badly. There was TOO much going on. ML being a demon, the past lives, the serial killer....why would you put a human serial killer in a drama for demons? It ruined it for me

it's weird I never realised all the parents had their real life names for their characters in the show - so cool 😄

I think they gave the example of her trying to explain to him before when he bad to choose his University. He chose the Uni local to them so he could still be with her, eventhough she advised him to go for a better one further away. She already knows he won't listen but will do anything to just be with her

Might be unpopular opinion, but eventhough what Cen Jin by making him leave for the US was cruel, I think it was the RIGHT decision. If it wasn't for their relationship he would have definitely gone to the US. ML was emotionally co-dependent in the past timeline, he would only think of their relationship and give up other opportunities in his life. I can totally understand FL's perspective, as this would become suffocating for her and toxic for them both.

Dramas do not fully depict how lives go in their country at all, that's the point - they are fiction and the drama makers can do it how they like. I don't think women in China all go to work looking like immaculate models, neither do I think they wear what she does everywhere. Dramas show lots of things that are often silly and unrealistic, you don't need to believe every single thing is real. For example many Asian countries including China's and Korea's dramas like to have their actors sleeping in their day clothes during the night scenes. Of course it's not like people from those countries actually go to bed without pyjamas.

I agree, I think it held more suspense this way because you want to know what happened between them that they drifted apart and only came back 6 years later. If you find out quite early episodes itself it would be easy to loose interest later on.

to be fair their age difference in real life (19 years) does not come across on screen at all. She looks amazing and younger than 42 years old, as if she could actually be 30-35 which is her age range in the show. They are 10 years apart in the story so it's fine 🤷🏽‍♀️

if you could tell they were nearly 20 years apart and she looked old enough to be his mother, then yes it would be a problem.

tbf we don't know if women's outfits are really like that in Chinese corporate workplaces or if their outfits are just unrealistically glamourized by the dramas. Also remember - they would usually be wearing branded things to advertise.

tbf we don't know if it actually happens in corporate work places in China or if dramas just glamourize all their FL's outfits for work. Remember, they are usually always wearing branded a

but at the same time was he deciding his University based on what's best for his future or to stay with FL? I think she was right as an older more mature person watching a younger person make a big mistake. He was very obsessed with her even when he was in school.

I really like it, acting and chemistry is to adore 😍 but at the same time I can see why people have a few issues with it. I'm still half way through but I feel like I'll end up giving it an 8.5 or 9. Just a few little things that bother me not to give it a 10.

I agree I found it really weird that she was just normal with the other girl after that. they just made an excuse to her saying "well all women would come for your man anyway, better learn to accept it" and she does 🙈😪

I'm binging it currently and passed that bit where he said sorry to her after the incident where he covered up for his friend who wasn't in the dorm. She leaves him all night and then doesn't pick him up from school for the weekend. I want to like her and she is likeable most the time. But it's so irresponsible for her to leave a 19 year old who is new to the city and who's education/wellbeing she is responsible for. And then HE was the one to say sorry. I felt like I must have missed something or didn't get it.

1 drama a year is pretty average from a lot of actors though. Not all of them do 2-3 dramas per year forever. So her next drama after City Builders might be in 2027.

I agree that the drama has some problematic tropes like Shan Shan forgiving easily and Feng Teng being quite controlling. In today's era that would be all red flagged. But Idk why, I watched it last year and still liked it (problematic 2FL and all lol). I thought she was also harder on Feng Teng than she was on the other girl, she didn't get back with Feng Teng for a while.

that would be a good idea! Reply 1988 and Reply 1994 felt nostalgic and historic to me as a Gen Z adult now. But 2005 is still too recent, we need to get older 😂 as you said another decade later maybe watching a drama where people have those old flip phones and wear low rise jeans will truly feel historic lol

I feel like 2000's would be too recent so it's good they ended it in the 90's for now. it's meant to have that nostalgia to it

actually there have been videos released where he shows up, that's probably what the 'surprise' is so he's not on the official reunion poster. just like teenage Jinjoo is also returning based on teasers, but she isn't on the poster.