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Joseph Zeng stuck playing an absurdly unlikable ML. A total jerk.
Things I liked: The overall premise is cute. The production values are pretty good - music & sound especially. The FL character (played by Liang Je) is competent and determined and, after being portrayed as very unpleasant in the beginning (for some pretty good reasons) grows steadily into someone you can have empathy for and root for. A lot of her emotions feel very realistic in this show. The side couple is cute and endearing and easy to root for.
Things I didn't like: Flat out, the WORST part of this show is the ML character (played by Joseph Zeng). And this is not the actors fault. The character is clearly written to be a jerk and that's how Zeng portrays him. Now, he starts out as an okay, pleasant-enough character. But for some bizarre reason, during most of episodes 12-16 he acts like a complete jerk, gaslighting the FL and trying to manipulate her to act in ways SHE WOULD NEVER ACT and getting annoyed at her over it. He even admits that she would never behave in the way he wants her to yet continues to keep playing mind games trying to get her to act that way. This whole stretch of time confuses the FL and makes her extremely sad. Yes it finally ends when he 'admits defeat' and just confesses. But WTF? Defeat? Did the character think this was some sort of contest? He was the only one playing this stupid game and the FL is the one getting hurt.
Then, just when it seems he has returned to the likable character from early on, the final two episodes show up and he once again becomes a completely unlikable jerk. Without giving too many details, the FL is forced by the ML's father to take part in a (stupid) scheme and told not to tell the ML. This leads to him getting upset for about 5 minutes, though the completely understands that it was his Dad's real fault and that she was not really at fault and she felt terrible the whole several days that she didn't tell him. So how does he deal with it? HE PUNISHES HER FOR A WHOLE MONTH of still MORE MIND GAMES.
This was beyond belief to watch. How could any serious writer think that this sort of behavior is at all acceptable? The final two episodes are nothing but stretched-out filler all to accommodate this second round of stupid mind-games played by the ML. And the show basically gives tacit approval for the behavior of the ML, whitewashing it all away.
I'm so disappointed by this show. It was great for the first 11 episodes and pretty nice from the end of 16 through episode 21. The rest was utter garbage.
Things I didn't like: Flat out, the WORST part of this show is the ML character (played by Joseph Zeng). And this is not the actors fault. The character is clearly written to be a jerk and that's how Zeng portrays him. Now, he starts out as an okay, pleasant-enough character. But for some bizarre reason, during most of episodes 12-16 he acts like a complete jerk, gaslighting the FL and trying to manipulate her to act in ways SHE WOULD NEVER ACT and getting annoyed at her over it. He even admits that she would never behave in the way he wants her to yet continues to keep playing mind games trying to get her to act that way. This whole stretch of time confuses the FL and makes her extremely sad. Yes it finally ends when he 'admits defeat' and just confesses. But WTF? Defeat? Did the character think this was some sort of contest? He was the only one playing this stupid game and the FL is the one getting hurt.
Then, just when it seems he has returned to the likable character from early on, the final two episodes show up and he once again becomes a completely unlikable jerk. Without giving too many details, the FL is forced by the ML's father to take part in a (stupid) scheme and told not to tell the ML. This leads to him getting upset for about 5 minutes, though the completely understands that it was his Dad's real fault and that she was not really at fault and she felt terrible the whole several days that she didn't tell him. So how does he deal with it? HE PUNISHES HER FOR A WHOLE MONTH of still MORE MIND GAMES.
This was beyond belief to watch. How could any serious writer think that this sort of behavior is at all acceptable? The final two episodes are nothing but stretched-out filler all to accommodate this second round of stupid mind-games played by the ML. And the show basically gives tacit approval for the behavior of the ML, whitewashing it all away.
I'm so disappointed by this show. It was great for the first 11 episodes and pretty nice from the end of 16 through episode 21. The rest was utter garbage.
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