He Yi Sheng Xiao Mo

Gotta say, FL hair and clothes awful although haven't completed yet. Why must she wear wigs? Did actress have hair issue? I got excited when she went to hair salon but now just shorter wig...ugh. And her horrendous clothes, c'mon. Storyline back and forth between their college year to present, spirited, lively FL in her college years, although cringy and annoyingly loud and talkative but in present bowed head, no spirit, no clearing up of misunderstandings, no personality. I can't imagine writers thought process, let's make female lead weak as adult woman. ML pretty much same personality throughout. Guess I'll stay for entirety.

Mosheng gets a super short haircut but then reverts to her previo haircut in the scene where she and her friend plots how to lure Yicheng to the theatre. Yet another haircut shows up on the same timeframe, just even later in the evening, after the movies.

The Caucasian actors and actresses seem to have been picked without much consideration. Many speak unintelligible English. Perhaps Russian or other European languages? The accent is so thick it's unintelligible. And the worse offender is the landlord lady portrayed near the end, who spoke no English at all and yet Mosheng is replying in Chinese.

The younger boy that Mosheng was the guardian to was not friendly and spoke no Chinese. The older boy actor also lacked acting skills and seemed out of it.

Sometimes the background music is so loud it's more like foreground music and makes it next to impossible to know what was being said.

Not all of the Chinese actors spoke clear English. The worse offender was Yin Hui, whose deep voice and accent contributed to my frustration. Netflix didn't seem to bother trying to provide subtitles for the supposedly English lines. Which increases my frustration.

Poor sound quality while shooting outside which included a bad buzz.

Miserable cheap wigs for the main actress.

Way too much product placement of a scary looking alcohol brand named RIO that comes in hideous bright colors.

The people who played the English speaking roles didn't even speak good English & were mostly foreigners.

The plot was cheesy & over the top. The male roles were overly bossy & macho.

Not much to like with this series.

I am a fan of both the FL and the ML, normally. However, I don't understand why the writers thought the best way to depict their relationship, even from the beginning, was for it to be so abusive. I was uncomfortable watching the ML speak to the FL throughout the series. Several times I thought to stop watching altogether.

Horrible, horrible English speaking. I couldn't understand them at all. Not sure what to think about it all. I was shocked to see this had nominations and awards.

There are so many things wrong with this drama that I can't believe it was popular back in the day. The 1st problem is the FL's wig. For some reason the director thought she should wear a bad wig for most of the show and then halfway through double down to a smaller worse one?! Then the ML is the most unlikeable guy ever. He's either cold or down right mean to the FL for most of the show. It makes no sense that she would have put up with him in college and still want him as an adult. He breaks up with HER in college but let's all their friends believe she abandoned him and doesn't clarify later. He also never lets her talk and bulldozes over her when he talks. He never gives her the reason for their abrupt break up and we're supposed to believe that she should have "read between the lines" and not left after it?! I had to stop watching--I couldn't buy into their happily ever after.