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Rising with the Wind chinese drama review
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Rising with the Wind
2 people found this review helpful
by wumei1640
Mar 23, 2025
40 of 40 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 5.0
Story 6.0
Acting/Cast 7.0
Music 5.5
Rewatch Value 1.0
This review may contain spoilers

My least favorite Gong Jun’s role

And I watched all of his shows.
ML is just unlikable and flat. I don’t know who made a choice for Xu Si to be portrayed like this but he’s constantly scheming behind Jiang Hu’s back. Kissing her while she’s drunk. Refusing to tell her if they slept together or not. Kissing her despite her protests.

I don’t know. I’m guessing most people here love the power imbalance and men getting away with stalkish and obsessive behavior because they are hot, but that isn’t the case for me. There’s enough of shitty men irl to be subjected to them in my dramas. No matter how they look.

The whole drama with the shoe business isn’t interesting. And I refuse to believe anyone would ever watch a livestream of ugly shoe painting.

I started rooting for Jiang Hu to succeed. And the slapping scene was the most satisfying in the whole show.

I liked ZCX’s acting most of the time, JH was charming after she had to change her life. I liked her scenes with 2ML. They probably would’ve made way better couple.

Other than that, Jiang Hu always looks repulsed when Xu Si made a move on her, aside from episode one. Understandable to be honest, but it was hard to buy them being in any kind of loving relationship. Death of Boss was completely unnecessary and a cheap emotional blow when FL was already down. Xu Si getting over his dog trauma instantly and fantasizing about new puppy being his and JH’s child when they weren’t even together was stupid, but again, his character was never deep to begin with. Like introducing his fear of fire once and dropping the topic to never touch it again. XS getting away with everything by ditching his brand new puppy for months, leaving China so we can be told by other characters how sorry he was, without him actually putting any effort. Terrible and irresponsible until the very end, so I guess at least he was a consistent character.

I just hope that after the credits, Jiang Hu takes the dog from him and sends him on his way like he deserves. Respect yourself, girl 🫡
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