Ni shi wo de ming zhong zhu ding

The story line was cute. It shows how love can grow between two people and how misunderstandings can become a hurdle that needs to be dealt with properly. I personally felt the story dragged a bit, but overall I recommend this because it's cute, dramatic, and romantic.

The story with its twists seemed to keep its footing until Ep. 21-22. Then it started to feel like "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks". This could have easily been 28-30-episode series. The content would have been tighter, and the editing wouldn't have felt sloppy. By the time you get to the last episodes, you just want it to be over. The resolutions feel rushed where it's more of an OK at the end instead of HOORAY. I wanted to give it a solid 8 or 8.5 by how the first few episodes were going. But due to at least 7 episodes feeling like 'fluff', that could easily be removed with the same outcome, made the story drag and lose its charm. I have to stick with 7.

Love this show. Amazing chemistry between Xing Zhaolin and Jiang Jie. It started as an innocent meeting of two people with opposite backgrounds, and as fate would have it, brought them together. This show offers - break ups, heartaches, friendship, family ties, tradition, love, honor, compassion, humility and charity. So many misunderstandings. This show proved that communication is the key to a healthy relationship. The story can dragged on too long but they have merit as background stories. With the English sub-title, I have to rewatch this show twice to fully understand and appreciate it. Soundtrack is amazing as well.

It's ok. It has alot of similarity as to the korean drama "Fated to love by you" The male lead script is good so as his character in the drama but thr female lead, you get tired of her script pretty fast, she says sorry for everything & anything. It's too exaggerated. Then at the later stage when she gain confidence, the drama begins to become draggy as her hesitation to accepts the male lead apology or admits that she loves him, becomes boring. She says the same thing again & again though he tries numerous times & ways to prove his love.

Suddenly she becomes egocentric, she only thinks about herself & not others, nor his pain too!

Her bestfriend who is always by her side, the grandma who loves her, the auntie who accepts her, the younger cousin too. Almost 6 episodes are all about her pain.

In the beginning you sympathise her & feel her pain but later you get fed-up of her & her pain.

It's an OK romantic drama.

(To the Brady Bunch theme music)

🎶Here's the story ⛴ of a lovely lady ⛴ who is tirelessly working at her job ⛴ At the office they don't bother much with Thank-yous ⛴ they only holler more ⛴ Until one day the bespectacled young lady ⛴ She decided to sail out on her first cruise ⛴ So did our young handsome bossman Mr. Wang.

But out at sea, they both lost their only la-oves ⛴ (and in misery they partied and married)

Twas a mistake. (Just look at those awful specs!) ⛴ Twas a mistake (Divorce will set this straight!) ⛴ O, the big mistake is sudden pregnancy. ⛴

And that's the way they became the Wa-ang Bunch!🎶

Xin is a plain, subservient girl in big ugly round glasses that she's always pushing up when she's not putting a sticky note on something. Her employer is a high level law firm with high level corporate clients. She's given the run-around at work and constantly barked at, yelled at, and abused when she makes a mistake. She's never thanked when she does things right - which is most of the time. She's thoroughly and completely unappreciated. YAMD is the story of how she earns the appreciation and respect of her boss. She earns his love, too. Despite the ugly work situation, Xin works hard and never complains. She also says "sorry" way too often and never stands up for herself.

Xin doesn't know that destiny is marching towards her... eh, 🚢 sailing for her, that is.

Those who don't consider themselves at least 7/10 on the romance scale, shouldn't expect to like this. Don't expect to even finish it. YAMD is a sweet, but melodramatic romance in 36 eps of 45 minutes each. (It's more like one long movie with the episodes drifting away, sometimes in the middle of a scene, and then the next one drifts back into the frame at the same point. It's typical of Cdramas. Just coast with it.) They manage to float as many good elements as poor ones, so in that way, YAMD manages to be good. Maybe it's on the "good" list by way of a sticky note, but it made it.

There's lots of bad elements to dissect, but first the better half. As a romance, YAMD has plenty of positives. Xin treats herself to a cruise. Yi is planning on becoming engaged to Anna on that same cruise. Skipping from A to D, a mix of misunderstandings and alcohol leads to a one night stand, pregnancy, and the family forcing these 2 into marriage. They, the family, all fall in love with Xin, she's so darling. It takes Yi more time and a trip across the globe, but he'll come around too. They both actually have lots of growing up to do. All Xin's subservience, apologies, and sacrifice were a misguided attempt to use weakness to get people to like her. {Forget that! It doesn't work. Apologizing for everything, particularly things one didn't have a hand in or situations one isn't responsible for, is a weird backdoor way of arrogantly injecting ourselves into situations. It's self absorption. The worst thing about it is that it doesn't work. It never brings a person respect, dignity, or true friends.} Yi will eventually see that he didn't have real love with Anna. He was there to fill the gaps for her, but they were never going to be a team. She was just a pretty possession that he would never truly possess. Yi realized he needed true warmth and an equal teammate.

Xing Zhao Lin (The Eternal Love series, Lucky's First Love) portrays Wang Xi "Yi", the rich kid who's working hard and doesn't have a head for nonsense. Liang Jie (The Day of Becoming You, and also The Eternal Love series) is Chen Jia *Xin". She's authoritative, pre-possed, and coy in Handsome Siblings-8.7. Here she's sweet, shy, awkward and endearing. This gurl has range. Jinna Fu (Shining for One Thing) is Yi's ex, Shi Anna. {She's the beautiful bad girl in Dance of the Phoenix, a show that I watched a while back and rated a 6.3. About Dance of the Phoenix: I got behind on reviews and pulled up my notes to complete writing about it and got sucked back into watching it again. I think I may have underrated it. It's one of those shows where the beginning is great and then it loses its way. Now, I'm trying to pin down when it loses its way. I'm currently on episode 27 out of 40 and it's still really good.} Li Jiu Lin (Decreed by Fate) rounds out the leads as Dylan / Di Lun. Director Ding Ying Zhou also brought us The Autumn Ballad & The Love You Give Me.

YAMD mostly takes place in gorgeous Shanghai, and is Chinese in origin. 🇨🇳 produces elevated and stunning programming, and also kicks out shows that are less polished, a little klunky, and of lower budgets. This was particularly true of their modern-day romances produced prior to 2018, though YAMDis a 2020 production. They've come a long way since then. Even some of these weaker shows are worth the effort, as they are relaxing and have a prozac effect. This keeps fans watching despite shortcomings that appear to arise from, at times, near elementary school level filmmaking, or a lack of authenticity regarding what is being portrayed. The hospital scene would be a good example: Medical emergency! A protag gets hit by a car and sustains widespread internal bleeding! They must rush to save her life! We cut to the hospital - the patient is lying on a stretcher with no IVs or telemetry; nobody's in a rush, nobody's working on her, the doc is calm, the surroundings are everyday business as usual... It's hopelessly bizarre. Yet one actor did a great job sobbing while crying for help, like a jewel in a mud puddle.

As cute as the story is at times, one can't help but notice that many scenes aren't fluid. The actors may seem a little stiff or detached, as if they didn't practice the scene enough. Perhaps it's the director's failure to draw human feeling out of the actors, as at other times, they do a great job. So, it's off and on again. Many 🇨🇳 sets are sterile, though in YAMD they did a much better job with contemporary sets. The backgrounds and settings in YAMD are quite pleasant. Much of the filming is pretty. Most of the interiors are also attractive, though some have that model-home feel. The editing is dull; the furthest thing from crisp. It creates a choppy feel at times, like a tiny electric jolt that interrupts the flow. Modern day 🇨🇳 features that take place in the city feel slightly off due to over-staging: There's hardly a speck of dust anywhere, and while Shanghai's cityscape is stunning, there's hardly any traffic - human or automotive - going on. They go to an amusement park. Everything is pretty quiet: Nobody's there! We get no explanation.

YAMD is overly sentimental. That's also common for 🇨🇳modern-day offerings, but the trade off is nuggets of elevated dialogue and words of wisdom that, if heeded, we Westerners would find beneficial. The biggest drag on YAMD is the last 10 or so episodes that aimlessly drift with no purpose, containing too much back-&-forth along with wearisome melodrama. If they didn't have enough content, they should have made the show 10 episodes shorter. YAMD is sloppy. Logic took some long coffee breaks in the show's run. There's some real head scratches. There's scads of missed opportunities. Some scenes were set up to be brilliant, but they never crossed the finish line, letting things fade away instead of delivering a KO punch. Finally, Anna gets pretty annoying.

The makeover? We will get it. When Xin finally ditches the specs, she's amazing. In all, YAMD will pass the time warmly for romance junkies who aren't in the mood to overthink anything. There are better romances out there if your time is limited and, Xin, you don't get out for many breaks or vacations.

QUOTE🗣

There is no "if" in this world.

Age 13+ (unintended 1 night stand that leads to pregnancy. )

👁📺again? Not likely.