monstersnroses

omg 💀💀💀 that's hilarious

Honestly Zhi Xin could make it look like he had organic chemistry with a paper bag.

But yeah this is literal trash, it's just that Zhi Xin is SO HOTTTT in it. That, and some very beautiful direction and camerawork, is literally all this drama has going for it.

"And the Worst FL of the Year Award goes to..."

One of my fav things about the last eps, is they replay some scenes from some of the latter episodes to kind of re-tell it from the ML's POV. So you get the montage of flashbacks. And in the flashback montage, is the scene with the FL and the bowl of rice. Because it wasn't bad enough the first time, they have to play it twice lolllll.

I think I was too nice to that FL in the review I left, but to be fair I haven't seen her in anything else, so I didn't want to get too judgy about it. But dang. What a power combo of bad bangs, bad clothes and bad acting. The cringe is so overpowering.

aaaaaaaaaaaaahahahha WOT

lolll every episode is worse than the one before, I had the EXACT same problem, by ep 17 I was like "I just don't know if I can go on", the drama is like TRYING to make you quit watching it. I did finally finish and it took all my strength to keep going to the end.

But that's really quite an achievement because I have seen Niel Diamond's The Jazz Singer like 5 times, and that movie is like a see-eye-A torture technique, to tie someone to a chair, prop their eyelids open, and make them watch The Jazz Singer over and over.

Something so bad it makes ME unable to finish without digging deep into my soul, should get some kind of award "Worst Drama Lifetime Achievement Award" or somethin.

tyssm, i'm glad you liked it! 🩷

ITS DARK. It's just wrapped up in sea shells and a light blue blazer to throw you off.

excellent performance in ILWLY! Love his calm, shameless brand of sexy.

lolll!

ughh every time i don't wait for all eps to drop, i just kick myself for it later.

lol average my ass

I thought it was creative, I liked it. I liked how they handled the conclusion of Qi Min's relationship, because the viewer who gets hooked by that couple has all these unresolved leftover feelings about it, and that gives you like a little after dinner mint that wraps it all up nicely.

I moved on to "between shows" shows. Watched Turbulent Love, caught up with a few Ryan Ren dramas I missed when they came out, and now watching In Love With Loving You. When that dilraba/chen drama has more eps dropped, I'll see if i can get into that one.

my aunt only watches k-dramas, and i keep trying to get her into c-dramas and she can't last more than like 3 eps on anything i give her, but i asked her to watch POJ and she binged all the eps in 3 days and loved it, and compared it to CLOY, which I agree with. The vibe is totally different than cloy, but just like cloy, it's addictive, well-rounded, engaging and fun. You will know within like 1-3 eps if you like it or not. It really grabs you and sucks you in.

ty <3

omg i was so stoked to notice Tian Yu had a new drama out, because he freakin blew me away with that performance in Fated Hearts. I'm so dissappointed to hear people aint liking him in this role here. Then I skipped around in the drama to check it out and Noooooo spank you, the subject matter is WAY too heavy to mix into a "romance" drama.

I also hope he lands a good role soon that plays to his strengths, because damn he can really act.

granted I havent watched EVERY single dilraba drama ever, but the ones I have seen, her kiss scenes are so chaste... I hope Arthur shows her whats up, and doesn't give dilraba any room to screw up the kiss scenes. She's so picky about who she has true chemistry with.

I'm gonna try picking this back up again soon and starting over from the beginning to give this drama a fair shot. So I have a question for people following closely:

I watched the first 5 eps, and I'm having trouble understanding the creative direction of the show overall, like it's "flavor". So what are some other dramas that are similar in style and tone. Is this comparable to When Destiny Brings the Demon? Or Tiger And Rose? Or Shen Li? The use of color, drama vs humorous moments, how the plot unfolds... it feels confused to me so far, so maybe I'm not going into it with the right frame of mind.

Sometimes I like her and sometimes I really don't but I've noticed personally that I think she just gets miscast a lot for parts. It's not that she's that bad of an actress. For example, imagine her playing opposite Deng Kai as an evil power-couple. It would be awesome.

I watched 5 eps of this one, and dropped because I need to slam like 10 eps in a row to decide for sure if I can find this one fun, so I'll pick it back up later this week to give it a second shot. And although I'm not really feelin it on this one so far.... Dilraba is actually the one doing the heavy lifting in this show, she is well cast here. The things I find "wrong" with the show so far have nothing to do with her.

I think if you're ever in the mood to give her another shot to impress you, this might be a good one to try.