Flawed but enjoyable and worth watching.
Not going to be remembered as one of the classics, but still this was an overall an enjoyable series to watch. You do need to tough it out to get past some silliness in the first half-dozen episodes. But then it gets pretty good from there.
First the negatives: The plot bogs down here or there - especially early in the series - with some outright silliness that is grit-your-teeth cringy. Especially the FL's behavior in the first few episodes. She's a mid-20s mature woman who acts like a silly teenager. And the ML's character is very flat and stereotypical almost throughout the whole series.
But overall the positives outweighed these negatives for me. The overall plot is good with some will paced 'reveals' of important backstory elements as you go. The series has a good pacing of action scenes without focusing too much on that and the choreography for the fights is pretty good. The scenery and cinematography are very good. Lots of great visual candy in this series with some nice sets. And while the FL's character is annoying early on, she shows a lot of growth throughout and ultimately, imho, it is her character that carries the series over the last half as she almost single-handedly has to generate all the chemistry between her and the ML, whose character is simply written to be too flat and mysterious to the point of being barely interesting. You care about their relationship, but primarily because of the FL and actor Xuan Lu's ability to share herself with the audience. I don't blame Gao Wei Guang - he's a very good actor and I think he does the best he can with the material. It's just the way his character is written is fairly stereotypical and limited.
First the negatives: The plot bogs down here or there - especially early in the series - with some outright silliness that is grit-your-teeth cringy. Especially the FL's behavior in the first few episodes. She's a mid-20s mature woman who acts like a silly teenager. And the ML's character is very flat and stereotypical almost throughout the whole series.
But overall the positives outweighed these negatives for me. The overall plot is good with some will paced 'reveals' of important backstory elements as you go. The series has a good pacing of action scenes without focusing too much on that and the choreography for the fights is pretty good. The scenery and cinematography are very good. Lots of great visual candy in this series with some nice sets. And while the FL's character is annoying early on, she shows a lot of growth throughout and ultimately, imho, it is her character that carries the series over the last half as she almost single-handedly has to generate all the chemistry between her and the ML, whose character is simply written to be too flat and mysterious to the point of being barely interesting. You care about their relationship, but primarily because of the FL and actor Xuan Lu's ability to share herself with the audience. I don't blame Gao Wei Guang - he's a very good actor and I think he does the best he can with the material. It's just the way his character is written is fairly stereotypical and limited.
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