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The initial story premise is very good and Kelly Yu as the quirky FL is great, but the rest of this production is a wreck. The ML character is just awful. I won't necessarily blame the actor because maybe he was directed to portray Jiang QingLiu this way and certainly a lot of it is in the script, but the ML character is just not a likable male lead. First off, he's just plain incredibly stupid and gullible through most of the show. He's also mostly incredibly emotionally detached and seems to be sleepwalking through most of this. He is absurdly incapable of actually doing anything right to completion, either as the FL has to finish or fix everything he does again and again. Worst of all he is way too often oblivious to the suffering his wife is going through. The story has a good overall plot with potentially interesting villains but the editing and delivery are very choppy along the way so the story often jumps from event to event in seemingly nonsensical ways. And the final two episodes are just awful - especially the last one which leans so heavily on the Noble Idiocy trope for absolutely no good reason. You have to resist the urge to punch the screen and well, probably could just skip most of the last couple of episodes other than the victory over the bad guys and then a brief happy moment reunited with the baby in the final episode. Just stop watching at that point.