littleberry09

But as long as you have lots of hot sex, what's not to like? /S 😂

In reality, this relationship wouldn't last long. They didn't even seem like they talked to each other or had a strong enough foundation to last long. Their 6 years together were as shaky as it was. Also cringing at people liking this standard of relationship and type of man!

You really see the difference of Flora with Luke, Vs Flora with her friends and family. She is capable of being joyful and having a personality. Yet it looked like that side of her always slipped away when she is with Luke, she seemed more uncertain when she is with him. Not the kind of relationship that is reccomended at all. You should always want someone who makes you feel like yourself

And maybe not mature enough IMO. If viewers have to complain about anything, sex and nudity are an odd choice unless they are 15 or something. People had sex and went nude since the beginning of time, including East Asians. Please stop being so judgemental about it.

You fully covered everything I thought about the drama. They were a meaningless couple, with only sex being their strongest point.

You mentioned the proposal, which just brought to mind that he listed the things he did wrong to clear her misunderstandings DURING the proposal. I would have thought it cringe if I had enough energy to care for them by that point 😂

And Anna bothers to communicate with Christian unlike Flora who never opened her mouth to Luke.

But also the important thing here, men like Christian and Luke would not be romanticised if they did not look as they did and did not come with the wealthy CEO tag. I said this in my review too, but even young naive women like Anna and Flora would never have looked twice at these men without those factors. Even the audience who 'love' material like this would be the first to be against it

I think the ML's stand out more to me though because it's just bad. Whereas FL has good make up and it suits her even if it's a lot.

The ML is wearing more make up than the FL and it's distracting in the first episode. Not even an expert of make up here, but it's so obviously caked onto him. Soo much white foundation, he looks like a vampire 😂

But he should have communicated all of this to Flora. He never told her if she wanted to stay in the job in this scenario. As she ended up leaving anyway. If he had asked her she might have still left her job anyway, and he didn't need to leave for the US.

Also if she ended up feeling guilt he had to move to the US branch for her, it would have just led to more complications between them. It was already bad as it was.

They will change it if The First Frost is anything to go by. If it's based on a different couple, it won't be a sequal to this drama. It won't be a series that they need the same cast. Jing Boran also won't just come back to be a supporting cast.

The overall story - the plot. They were basically just doing their jobs and the story doesn't tie into the main lead's lives until Ep 7 and 8.

Especially when his brutal words are more impactful than his actions (which we viewers largely see, not Flora). Also if that's what he says he would do then it's not unreasonable for Flora to believe his words over supposed actions he may/may not do.

You think him being verbally abusive is him being "honest?" LOL no, normally no one would tolerate the shit he has been saying. He has been rude and condensing to her throughout the relationship. He has no filter and just hurts her over and over. She gets upset, potentially wants to break up, he says sorry and she forgives him. Rinse and repeat. An endless cycle of both of them being completely useless in this 'situationship' (calling it this is probably most accurate since even Flora doesn't know what it is really)

Yes 😂😂😂

No she hasn't done any soul searching, or she would have broken it off years ago, perhaps at the very start. Or atleast left the job when she had gathered enough minimal experience. Her problem largely lies in that she is insecure and unconfident in their relationship to consider him a boyfriend. He holds enormous amounts of power over her, including the fact he could fire her or move her to a different branch. In a way what she said to her colleague was true, she is still unable to differentiate Luke as her boss Vs her boyfriend.

I don't think you understand what ppl are talking about then lol. BOTH of them are red flags, neither of them are blameless. You can still have issue with her having a dating profile and not communicating, whilst also finding him the red flag for being so emotionally and verbally abusive. Comments that always pick on the FL and give him a free pass for being her 'victim' just reek of misogyny, and as if you don't understand the drama 😬🙄

I agree. Maybe she didn't know how to regard him as her boyfriend if she didn't know what he wanted for their relationship in the future? She didn't want to just be a temporary GF - she gave him her vision of being married and having the dog and a baby. Unfortunately this was said at the wrong time after a bunch of miscommunication between them already. He lashes out with cruel words when he is insecure and jealous. The irony is that he was thinking about things like marriage and baby, but never communicated that to her in those 4 years. Soo bad all around.

Re. Li Shan Academy, their downfall had to do with rejecting the Empresses quest for power and their objective of getting ahold of the late Emperor's edict. Remember that Ye Li's mother got the edict? She would have passed it on to her father/Ye Li's grandfather who was in charge of Li Shan Academy. They were on the side of the late Prince Ding who was ML's brother, they could have saved him - but everything went wrong as Ye Li's father's side stole the edict instead which led to the late Prince Ding's execution, and the Emperess getting her son on the throne.

I had the same issue with you, being stuck between 8.5 and 9. But I was less generous than you and went for 8.5. Where it was good it was REALLY good, particularly everything to do with her mental health and depression. But then the plot is weak when it's not centered on the lead's, especially the last few episodes.

I'm on the last episode. I think it's really good for a short Netflix drama. It just gets to the point, and you get exactly what you see here from the poster/synopsis/genres.

I would generally agree - but truth is it doesn't need to be romantic to be part of the romance genre. Wuthering Heights (the classic) is not particularly romantic, but it's still a romance 😬

On Calenders it says they could drop Ep 21-24 at once on Tuesday 9th. But they also said that before about previous episodes, and ended up changing it to 1 Ep per day. So we can't be sure yet