Coral Cie

It's way past time S Korean scriptwriters start to treat us audience as intelligent, logical folks. Logical premise of female lead having just 3 months left and absolutely doing nothing DESPERATE about her condition irked me throughout the show. Knowing she's type A control freak, shouldn't she be spending a little more time and effort trying to save herself? Her half hearted efforts might be what some audience deem as 'one dimensional performance'. Sometimes her hallucinations seem to come in a very timely manner to push the plot along. Should the plot not revolve around the condition instead? Which goes to my point about the ML. Should he not have done something more desperate, such as to cry and beg and pull back through FL when she wanted to leave? Maybe a tight slap across her face might help his case along. Instead, he totally let her string him along, with zero attempt to feel guilty about not telling her parents her terminal illness through the episodes. With her strong health and so many ups and downs going on, I feel that the scriptwriters should just say that she had like 6 months to 1 year left, because the claim that she had 3 months was just... Unconvincing. It almost felt that everyone, including the characters and audience, just KNEW that she would live lololol. Most importantly, I don't get how a happy couple would turn into complete strangers in less than 3 years. He was basically TERRIFIED of her. I thought they would have known how each other dealt with issues and the problems with the family conglomerate. Perhaps more insight into how the miscarriage caused them to drift apart instead of just showing them closing up. It seems to me the FL basically married him and neglected him completely and let the sharks eat him up. Is this logical, when the show had claimed how much she loved him? And how he loved her? I don't really empathise with them. At the last quarter of the show, they were still not addressing the need to have complete trust in each other. I mean, she likely would have ~1 month left? Time would be extra precious by then. But they were both walking on eggshells and pretending things were fancy and well. One instance is where the FL's condition caused her to mistake the bad guy as the ML. Because she was afraid of letting him know that her condition had worsened, she basically left with the bad guy...? And the show still continued to include fluffy moments. I mean... Can we show some respect to patients who are terminally ill? I don't get the hype. The storyline had a lot of potential to develop into a tearjerker.

This drama deserves 5 stars for the 5 reasons: 1. Extremely impressive CG effects of this era. I know in years we'll look back and be able to pick up 'defects' like how we look back at shows made 5 years ago, but WOW! The manhwa scene between the male lead and second male lead in the painting is so memorable! For this point alone, the effort deserves 5 stars! 2. Great balance between funny and sad moments with a largely logical storyline. I was laughing at the beginning and crying at the end. 3. Super talented and handsome male lead and convincing female lead! The chemistry between them is sweet! Plus I love it that Esther Yu did the voice dubbing for her character. If you observe carefully, the pitch and tone used for different parts of her life change! 4. Not draggy at most parts! There are only 36 episodes and I feel that it is just nice! Without adding spoilers, I only wished the ending can be prolonged. 5. Great character development not only for the main leads, but all the side leads. Spoiler alert-the love between Chidi and her disciple is so touching! Bonus: great costumes too! Highly recommend y'all watch this show!

A casual watch, don't have high expectations of the logic of the plot. The story started well with an intriguing beginning but its ending was bad. From Eudoria showing up randomly at Enola's room to Mycroft swinging from being an absolute control freak to capture and lock her up, to being completely blasé when she escaped. The writers weretrying to show Enola being more intelligent than Sherlock, so how could an intelligent person bring Tewksbury with no backup plan? I was so angry that she almost died and almost caused the death of Tewksbury too. Thankfully he was more intelligent than her. I would think that an intelligent detective who was trained by her mother to play chess would at least have the planned a few steps ahead. She was just reckless. I should also point out that it irked me that Enola and Tweksbury were wanted and were running away from their respective pasts but they blatantly wandered around London without any attempt to disguise themselves. It was almost as if they wanted to be caught. It wouldn't hurt to add on some special wardrobe like a huge hat and wear around constantly. Disliked the character deviation flaws greatly, and I would recommend to have low expectations of this detective show to avoid disappointments. Great CG and costume and actors. 3 stars at most.

I always felt that Zhao Lusi has the potential to try a different genre of acting- and she has finally done it! I've followed her career for quite some time and she has mainly taken up ditsy roles. When playing Bai Feng Xi, she hid her bubbly self beneath a more serious and boyish persona and it was refreshing! Nothing much to say about Yang Yang. As usual he was professional and delivered the character well. *Spoiler alert* I appreciate how Feng Qi Wu graciously gave up 2nd Prince and became friends with Bai Feng Xi. It was such a relief that it went against conventional trajectories about females who don't get loved. I deducted one star because- 1. I don't understand how a gullible teacher could raise such an intelligent student. Bai Feng Xi has great wu gong, logical thinking, isn't easily fooled, but her teacher is the complete opposite. I suppose his repeated stumbles are the catalysts to help push the story along, but the glaring and unexplained gap just haunts me. 2. The rapid changing of frames bothered and distracted me- the editor could cut and paste 10 clips into 10 seconds. Before I even had time to appreciate the characters' expressions, I was brought to another angle (and it's a bad move because it's obvious they used a single camera technique). 3. Storyline was very confusing. Sometimes the characters' actions could not reflect the motives. Some other characters (especially Bai Feng Xi's teacher's daughter) were irritating. They could have been better developed but I suppose there were budget and time limitations. Overall, story was quite pleasant! Would recommend a watch but repeat factor is missing. (Would give a 3.9 stars but Google review doesn't allow)