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The Blossoming Love chinese drama review
Dropped 16/40
The Blossoming Love
2 people found this review helpful
by td1392
Mar 26, 2025
16 of 40 episodes seen
Dropped 5
Overall 1.0
Story 1.0
Acting/Cast 1.0
Music 1.0
Rewatch Value 1.0

Personal top 3 worst (most frustrating and self-righteous) love dramas

I'll keep it short. If I could give this drama 0, I would. The most frustrating, self-righteous, and quite hypocritical writing and the most forced main couple I have seen so far. Right up there with Alchemy of Souls and K2. Quite boring ML, absolute zero char development (along with a bad actor - like if you're gonna play the god almighty you better bring your A game otherwise you're just a self-righteous stuck up arrogant prick) and FL lead that goes from cute, interesting and fiery to a psychotic stalker in a span of an episode. Pretty much FL is borderline stalking and physically harassing ML for several episodes and he's literally physically & violently pushing her away, to the point where it gets really distasteful - have some self-respect girl. And then he just falls in love. Why? Don't ask, just plot armor that's why. If it was the other way around people would call him pervert, rapist and creep. Those same people who are calling SML a "creep" later in the series. Make it make sense.

I'm quite allergic to this childhood love bullshit enough as it is. But here it's done so idiotically that from now on I don't even want to hear about it. "He saved my life when I was little and now I owe him my life" - and ofc that means I'm automatically in love with him?! (facepalm) . Who thought that that lames excuse of a reason in a 3 sec flashback would justify bout 8 eps worth of that distasteful behavior? But biggest problem was SML, because he steals the scene every time he comes on screen. And I'm not talking, oh look how beautiful he is (although that to:)), but like the fusion of a really intriguing character and a great actor is amazing. But hey no here's this bland, boy-scout ML that makes FL act all psychotic ?!? I mean we don't need a good reason, she has to because he's the ML duuh. And when they finally make an interesting choice to do a reversal of that stupid reason and start playing with the idea of consistency vs reality, they in a span of 2 min (ofc again without any explanation) not only go back to their stupid ways but double down. So when the fact that he saved her life was useful for her to act all psychotic, she wore it lake a badge of honor and of course it was because she was loyal and it was the only guiding principle, unshakable no one could question it. And she was a character of principles! But when it no longer served the purpose, oh all of a sudden she's a free spirit and goes with the flow. No rules whatsoever. Not to mention the stupidity of not clearing up this misunderstanding in the first place. Are you like 3 years old? You don't know how to talk to people? Here let me fix is for you:
a)Hey I'm the girl that you saved 10 years ago in the Bright Moon Villa, I looked a bit different.
b)I wasn't there 10 years ago/don't remember.
a)To herself: Maybe that wasn't him. I need to investigate. I'm not 10 years old pubescent teenager anymore, I am an adult now. Goes to investigate ... but I guess that's too common sense.

Then the writes go and try to use characters meta-talk to explain away the all the shitty choices. "Love will make you do stupid stuff". No your bad writing will make characters do stupid shit and you know it. If you have some weird fetishes go and write for a docu-drama show about stalkers, or a trashy-reality tv.

Then around ep 16 they finally bring out the big guns - the forced amnesia trope. I just couldn't take it anymore. Might as well watch an episode of Kardashians.

So If you are looking beyond idol worshiping, childhood love, trashy romance and SML syndrome and if you have any self-respect this is definitely not for you.
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