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This project had nice opportunities and didn't use any of them; it started promising but lost its way in the middle and ended in an absurdly weak note.

I could say that the failure is the main couple's fault and call it a day, but surprisingly, they weren't the culprits. Although I'm yet to be blown away by any of Xu Kai's work, his portrait was one of the highlights here: crazy eyes, questionable actions, and a lot of lust for the FL. He and Zhou Ye had a lot of chemistry, and with a better script, they could've challenged other good couples we had this year.

Zhou Ye is the main character here, but she can't do much beyond the first episodes; she delivers naivety in a sweet way, and it's surprising how cunning she can be, but after a while the revenge doesn't land well enough, and it feels like QingYuan is beating a dead horse until the last episode.

There are some buzzy scenes, and they can fool you into thinking this will go somewhere; it doesn't. The FL run laps around 'her family' with an accidental mistake here and there for all 30 episodes, but the ending is very "what the hell, sure" for both the revenge and the romance, so it's double meh.

In the end, there are lots of other shows with the same premise and better execution.