This is a drama with a lot of elements. It's about the leads, their lives, careers, the people in their lives, and their various psychological issues. The romance is only one part of the story, which I was fine with because, in the first place, I came here to see more of Allen Ren after watching Under the Power.
Minor spoilers below.
I didn't realize at first that this drama was 40 eps long until I was a few episodes in (I didn't see how many videos were in the playlist on YT) and to be honest, because I was in a hurry to finish I skipped just about every scene that didn't have the ML in it or was dragged on for too long with silence. Besides Chenchen's story, the billionaire that kept protecting the FL, I ignored just about every other secondary character (besides the ML's bro, I wanted to see if anything happened to him, but even though it was narrated that he was left with nothing, technically, he'll be earning massive royalties from ML's script since he owns copyright. I hope he'll still be miserable, and the ML is obviously amazing enough to make more good scripts in the future, so he'll be successful no matter what.)
It's a very chill drama, I would even call it slice of life, so it's slow, but it made up for it with the ML's scripts. The transition from friendship to love between the leads was so subtle if you blinked you would miss it, but I did like watching them just be comfortable around each other. As for the scripts, I love them! It was like seeing 4 Allen Ren shows in one; with the fluffy screenwriter Shanshan, the badass cop Luo Cheng, a teen bad boy, and a racecar driver. Since I just wanted to see more of Ren Jialun in the first place, I loved seeing him playing all these different characters.
I can see why some people were confused about the ending, but I'll just ignore that last minute and imagine they overcome the FL's mental illness, and as she goes back to work, ML also goes back to his career, and the two build a life together. I actually felt bad for Yuan Yuan, too, even though she indulged the bro too much and just ignored his abuse of the ML for too long. For me, both she and the ML were victims, because I know even if she'd told ML about everything he wouldn't have cared since he overcompensated the people in his life a little too much because of abandonment issues. If it wasn't an outright betrayal like what Jia Zhen did at the end, copyrighting his work without his consent and causing trouble for him and the company, I really think he would have forgiven it all because he didn't think he was exploited, since he genuinely didn't seem to care about the money as long as he had enough to live on. So I hope the both of them at least remained friends, because while he has other people around him she didn't seem to have anyone else besides the two of them.
The only regret I really have is not seeing a proper conclusion to Luo Cheng's story with the singer Gu Anan. It was the best part of this for me, it could have been its own drama.
Minor spoilers below.
I didn't realize at first that this drama was 40 eps long until I was a few episodes in (I didn't see how many videos were in the playlist on YT) and to be honest, because I was in a hurry to finish I skipped just about every scene that didn't have the ML in it or was dragged on for too long with silence. Besides Chenchen's story, the billionaire that kept protecting the FL, I ignored just about every other secondary character (besides the ML's bro, I wanted to see if anything happened to him, but even though it was narrated that he was left with nothing, technically, he'll be earning massive royalties from ML's script since he owns copyright. I hope he'll still be miserable, and the ML is obviously amazing enough to make more good scripts in the future, so he'll be successful no matter what.)
It's a very chill drama, I would even call it slice of life, so it's slow, but it made up for it with the ML's scripts. The transition from friendship to love between the leads was so subtle if you blinked you would miss it, but I did like watching them just be comfortable around each other. As for the scripts, I love them! It was like seeing 4 Allen Ren shows in one; with the fluffy screenwriter Shanshan, the badass cop Luo Cheng, a teen bad boy, and a racecar driver. Since I just wanted to see more of Ren Jialun in the first place, I loved seeing him playing all these different characters.
I can see why some people were confused about the ending, but I'll just ignore that last minute and imagine they overcome the FL's mental illness, and as she goes back to work, ML also goes back to his career, and the two build a life together. I actually felt bad for Yuan Yuan, too, even though she indulged the bro too much and just ignored his abuse of the ML for too long. For me, both she and the ML were victims, because I know even if she'd told ML about everything he wouldn't have cared since he overcompensated the people in his life a little too much because of abandonment issues. If it wasn't an outright betrayal like what Jia Zhen did at the end, copyrighting his work without his consent and causing trouble for him and the company, I really think he would have forgiven it all because he didn't think he was exploited, since he genuinely didn't seem to care about the money as long as he had enough to live on. So I hope the both of them at least remained friends, because while he has other people around him she didn't seem to have anyone else besides the two of them.
The only regret I really have is not seeing a proper conclusion to Luo Cheng's story with the singer Gu Anan. It was the best part of this for me, it could have been its own drama.
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